Don't understand all the negative comments. A big, wealthy corporation is funding a crazy and lovely reseach & development side project - that's what ALL corporations should do! And this is what all corporations _used to do_ before the bean-counters started running the show. How do you think most of your "classic synths" came into existence? Precisely by giving talented people the space to create something. Perhaps this won't become a classic, but then it might lead to something else, just like the countless failed experiments you never heard of that lead to classic synths. A little less cynicism would do us all some good. Kudos to Korg for funding this. I'm happy this exists.

2010s we had the genius of Tatsuki. 2020s is the era of Tatsuya!

Korg hit the nail on the head hiring this guy Remember how korg was before this guy? Remarketing the microkorg over and over

Every time I hear anything about Korg Berlin my days gets substantially better. 16 minutes there was a little like heaven. Super excited about the randomise feature on the sequencer 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Always loved Korg for doing crazy things and packaging them as usable products.

So cool, looks like an amazing place to work and be creative.

Awesome. Thank you for the reissues, really keeps the fire of analog alive. Very interested in what you are doing in Berlin. Cheers!

that was absolutely amazing to watch, thank you so much

Thank you Korg! We needed this!

Thank you for opening my eyes to this! Very exciting!

Korg should keep letting these geniuses do what they wanna do in Berlin, and the future of synthesis will be bright

What a gr8 guy Tats is.....I remember his volca demo's, which has led me to acquiring four of them. I immediately liked this new instrument when they demonstrated the first prototype. Looking forward to getting my own. Even a 4 or 5 octave version with weighted keys would be amazing, if the 88key proves too difficult.

Fantastic video!

Thanks for sharing!

Korg really priming us for this new instrument to be $$$$. That said, it is beautiful and inspiring.

So cool and so nice to see there are still places where creativity can evolve and bring out new stuff! Love korg for this and Tats is an amazing dude!

It's fantastic to see new ideas, building on old ideas, pushing the range of sounds and expressivity.

Highly articulate. Creative, tean player, musician-engineer. One of a kind.

Danke für diese evidente Info, Jungs🎉

Cool .. I like the Customization .. Be interesting when it comes out !!

very excited for this project! reminds me of the weird gadgets Korg was releasing in the early 00's. That chrome/gray skin is superb!

Very nice insight !

Amazing look into the shop / the engineer!

Been waiting for some actual products since they announced Kork Berlin. Come on, Tats! Get this stuff to market!

Id like to see Korg get into VR. They are the company to do it. They are always pushing boundaries.

AMAZING VIDEO!!

This is pretty cool man. I been enjoying my Prologue 16 of late. It's a pad machine. That's what I use it for mainly. In conjunction with the Model D which is the backbone of everything I do. And that's it. Just those two synths. I like the way the Prologue mixes. It is easy to slot it into any production. Minimum effort. Usually just works with only minimum treatment needed sometimes. Cool to see Korg doing other things though.

Tatsuya is the real deal

For the first time in almost 20 years I'm excited, finally there is a new real electronic instrument, not a Raspberry Pi like computer digital synth with knobs and a screen that does the same as a Reaktor or Max VST.

Can imagine the pneuma of creative and genius residing there, that lets them brew unique stuff out of from

it seems a bit weird to get back into this electromechanical stuff in the 21st century again, but if it works! that’s why stringed Instruments, especially the guitar, are still so popular, because you you have such an immediate access to all kinds of of sound parameters right with your fingers. with electronic instruments you have to go great lengths, to approach anything similarity profound.

Acoustic tone generator synth !!! -its gonna be a blast !!! wow for shure !!

this would be the coolest place to work

This would make for an amazing scanned synthesis or modal synthesizer.. hope they will spin off a few prototypes in that direction.. would be the next evolution of oscillators and being able to interact with its nodal points in real time / audio rate would be quite fun

Looks beautiful and it probably would become and amazing kalimba of some sort, I can’t seem to grasp the musical utility of the sound pallet, since I have literally a luthier next to my home that build stuff like this from guayacan wood and the material seems to be more powerful amplifying the resonance of the body

I will buy one for sure.

Very interesting 👍

Brilliant

I want one of those acoustic grooveboxes!

Korg has succedeed in making analog synths, old and new, there's proof of that success, they're not going to be focusing in just making analog synths imo (as some people want), this is part of a new stage. Maybe for some people this is just a crazy engineering project, but this is how companies innovate, this could turn up into a great product or a flop or.. the start for a new type of instrument that could change at how we look at electronic instruments. You need to let people do things, either if it's failing or succeding at something. I think it's quite common in this industry

Tats... a hint.... it starts with E, ends with E and have a number 3.... still waiting!

nice instrument

i really really wanna work there

Nice space

All i and very many people want to see is the continuation of the Korg Kronos. More powerful with more hands on controllers.

EpilogueXD 16. Flagship synth. I want it now.

Tats has a nice British accent

What an amazing place, I wished I worked there!

So that’s why we stopped getting new volcas…. Ah ha

Niceeeeeeeeeee ✅

at this point they should be designing like an arturia polybrute 16 or something like that for 2000 usd less, with extensive modulation matrix, 4 parts multi timbral, digital FX, one wavetable oscillator, etc

I want one, looks inceedible. Is it stuck as an 8 step seqeuncer? Can it save sequences, will it be able to connect with midi in to make longer sequences?

I can’t stop thinking that Tats somehow tricked Korg into financing his 5 year glorified kalimba project so he can basically hang out in Berlin and have fun along the way ;) well played mister!

Am I tripping or is the music a cover of Doll’s Polyphony from the Akira soundtrack? Ace if so

Does the Commercial Unit comes with a stick too?

“Er war Superstar, er war populär Er war so exaltiert, cause er hatte flair Er war ein Virtuose, war ein Rockidol Und alles rief: "Come and rock me Amadeus" Falco

Like👏👏

As much as I love all of this, I don’t think the resonator unit has a broad enough appeal

The office is beautiful and the instrument looks nice. I am all for creativity and developping new instruments. But I just dont get that this thing is the result of all Korg Berlins work. It is just a Kalimba with a sequencer. There is no tonal variation in the sounds this thing is producing, which could make it interesting. This is just so clearly a case of the emperor that has no clothes that I am kind of questioning my own sanity watching this but I think I am sane, this is a good looking Kalimba without any change to what a kalimba sounds like. But there seems to be a burning desire of people that makes them want to like anything that is somehow new. But i doubt that a lot of people will buy it so it would be much more honest to call it out for what it is. A not very good idea and a failed passion project.

Best job ever, talk much and say nothing .

Hey! Please make a midi controller with 2 or more XY-Pads. But make the size of the 10x10 cm or larger.

It’s cool. But a bit confused why so much is being done for this when you have the new kinglets that is sooooooo limited at a high price ?

who designed the electribe 2

Anyone else was hoping to spot a prototype of an Electribe 3 laying around somewhere?

Please release some new affordable exciting synths

自分が制作しているヒーリングミュージックに合いそう。販売価格は幾らかな？

Uli Behringer watched this video 3000 times and is taking notes, by December he is going to release the clone.

PR exercise?

where are the grownups? Looks Korg want to have a place where their customers are..to be connected to the 'young cool people"

I'd buy this iteration right now and never look back !!!! Tats is our Moog /Buchla/Arp/ Smith... etc. Korg you better continue to fund him because he is your/ our musical future! additionally I'd be totally ok with euro rack versions of the monotrons/ monotribe/ minilogue and the volcas! I think that would be huge!?!?!

Here's hoping for a sub 200usd pricetag. Probably gonna be around 499, though.

Where can you get the book mentioned at around 1:39 it looks cool!

Nice Datron 😛

As much as I love this it’s been a pattern of lots and lots of talk about the machine but barely any raw sound. I know it’s in development but still. Six minutes in and they are talking about “ wow we have a book of our custom shelf designs”. “ it’s free” what?

It'd be cool if Korg stopped releasing little plastic toys and went back to creating solid gear that they were known for. Too many companies holding onto that former glory forgetting what made them popular to begin with. Not as bad as Akai did with InMusic but really, what's the last amazing thing Korg dropped that wasn't a re-release of something that's already been done 40 years ago?

This is beautiful engineering, but I am not sure it will have much of an impact on music. An old dictum about dogs and engineers comes to mind. I may be wrong though. Only when these things are put in the hands of musicians will we know.

Making something because you can - without asking who it is for/whether you should - is something you only do on a multinational’s salary, and with their resources … … … Who is this Phase synth for? Yoga studios? Cyber-monks? Seriously ?! … … … It’s not like ‘vibrating tines’ is a new sound/timbre … … … Seems they just want to corner some imagined niche, rather than competing where the action is (Prologue was their best shot at that?!) … … … I’m worried for Korg. 😏

Give us 5 new Volcas, weird stuff like the Drum and Modular. Not interested in an expensive electronic Kalimba.

Little toys ! Real is Moog *

yep, thats gonna tank.

"welcome to korg berlin", first shot is of a mini moog... hipsters can't do anything right ❤

Still sounds bad. Jeeezzz. What a waste of resources.

What a dork

cult vibes all around

who should buy this terrible sounding marimba with an amp? 🤷🏼‍♂️ a 2 years Berlin office - a diversionary tactic for their current overpriced recycling devices?

Wish you guys would stop dropping acid and work on a proper analog synth that stays in tune.

Korg is wasting the vast amount of money on this guy and Korg Berlin. He has spent a year on improving this ridiculous electric kalinba and no progress at all.

Watching second time but this guy has an inflated ego but not much creativity Spending more than two years and just coming up with this Kalimba disguised as an analog synth? It is a piece of garbage.