by ChipopLeMoral
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- Pretty sick demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFNQoekyGAs
at 6:20 he's showing how placing different objects on the resonators changes their tone.
I want this so bad.
- $1149.99, in case you are wondering: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1946617-REG/korg_phas...
- Years ago I used to make things like this, I discovered sites like 120 years of Electronic Music[0] and the Experimental Musical Instruments Journal[1] which my local library bizarrely had and went to town. Spent a lot of time digging through the local surplus shop that was a goldmine for cheap stuff for such things. The last project I started in on was a tuning fork organ, made my own tuning forks and coils and pickups to drive them, had big dreams with it but only ended up making about an octave worth, which I had great fun with. Most of these random instruments I controlled with my old Arp Odyssey which I even added CV outs for the LFO/Envelopes so I could modulate them and ran the output into the filter input, fun times.
I might buy this, not really my interest these days but it really looks like great fun.
[0] https://120years.net
[1] https://barthopkin.com/experimental-musical-instruments-back...
- I keep telling myself to stop lusting over gear and just start making music, but…
EDIT: Saw that it’s pretty much a fixed-key device, which makes it much less appealing. Still pretty damn cool, though.
by zgniatacz
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- Cheap Eurorack ersatz version
https://gieskes.nl/eurorack/?file=4-relay-module
?
- Reminds me of the original Korg Wavedrum from the 90s, which was by far the best e-drum ever, you can lightly scratch it or hit it with a strong stick, endless tone and amplitude possibilities.
by kazinator
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- So this is a synth in which a bank of oscillators use physically vibrating elements. From there, things proceed conventionally?
It reminds me of systems in the "Sustainiac" family for generating unlimited sustain in an electric guitar, at any volume. There is a powered circuit which drives feedback into the string through a coil ("reverse pickup"). Typically the reverse pickup is in the neck position. So effectively the vibrating string becomes part of an oscillator circuit.
We can imagine a harp like instrument (or koto) with multiple steel strings, oscillating under a Sustainiac-like pickup feeedback system, and used as the basis for synthesis.
It looks as if the reeds in the Korg instrument might work similarly.
This video is nice because it talks about the feel of the Sustainiac: how it "kicks in" and you feel the vibration swell just when you fret a note with your left hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsbdvkIua8o
This one does a good job of demoing the three way harmonic switch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZwPPGsxY6g
You can sustain the fundamental, or have it go to the octave harmonic, or even a higher harmonic above that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsbdvkIua8o
by b00ty4breakfast
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- I'm not being dismissive when I say there isn't anything super innovative, within the individual components that make up this synth, but this is conceptually an electric tine piano with sound processing circuitry.
That's sick,and I want it. I also want a zither-style stringed version and one with bells
- They must be more proud about the look of it than how it sounds because I can't find any sound demo on the page. Plenty of pictures though. I am gonna make a Photoshop alternative and on the product page I am only gonna have a lot of sounds of me farting.
by jimmyjazz14
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- Seems like the bars are just there to produce the (almost) sine wave oscillation part of the synth which is neat I guess but it just seems like a gimmick if I am being totally honest. I still respect them trying new ideas though.
- My son and I are both fascinated by synthesizers and what they can do. I bought this:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Nts1Mk2--korg-nutekt...
For us to build and play with, and we have a ball with it. This phase8 would be a ton of fun as well.
- Is there a demo ? i couldn't find it on the page
- It’s interesting comparing the enthusiasm I see in this thread compared to the more jaded responses I’ve seen in r/synthesizers
I think it looks cool and fun. Wish my workflow and time could accommodate it right now but they can’t. I’m really curious to hear what people who spend time with it are able to do.
- Maybe i'm not fully grasping how it works, but i don't really see the acoustic part, aren't the resonators just turning the steel vibrations into an electric signal via coils in the same way an electric guitar works? basically what's the advantage of this vs plugin an electric guitar as a signal input to an analog synth?
- They have visible pickups, which presumably have a permanent magnet core.
But how are the resonators getting 'plucked'? Is it the same electromagnet as the pickup or a separate one? I can't imagine those two modes would work well. (i.e. dumping current across the coil would make the magnet want to escape)
Perhaps there's a field coil instead of a permanent magnet?
- Physical hardware is fun, sounds better (when analog or acoustic) but I can't go back after a long time with a streamlined VST-based workflow. For playing without a computer, I simply use romplers for the convenience. So, while I have a gut desire for this gear, I won't ever actually buy it...
by asdhtjkujh
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- Glad to see this has finally been released after years of R&D :) can't wait to see what Takahashi-san and team cook up next.
In principle, Korg Berlin looks like a great model for satellite incubator within an established organization. Would absolutely love to work there.
- Wow, this is really innovative. It really takes "physical modeling" synths to another, more literal level. Would love to have been a fly on the wall when the idea was proposed.
This + an Ekdahl Moisturizer would be an interesting pairing.
- cool, but doesn't sound that great when you close your eyes and just listen. Other synths beat this hands down especially at > $1000, and can easily bring in the physical world already, including live workflows. The issue is when we get into the physical analogue world, craftsmanship, materials, shape, often age, and of course the varied kinetic interactions with the sound solicitor, bring depth and richness which no little electrically-excited xylophone will ever get anywhere close to.
- Looks really neat. I wish I had one, I am curious but it just sounds like an FM to me. In the demos I hear very decayed percussive FM sounds or mellow bell like FM sounds.
- If Kraftwerk were still doing their thing this would be right up their alley. But they probably got their own special gear.
- Looks cool but kinda seems like a baby of Intellijel plonk and rings with a different physical interaction.
by wendgeabos
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- This needs to be mashed up with the Daxophone. Like, can I clamp pieces of wood into it and bow them?
by jihadjihad
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- I guess I am left wondering why the person in the photo is playing it with a pencil and a truffle.
by techblueberry
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- And here I told myself I wasn't going to buy anymore synthesizers.
- I'll wait for the Bad Gear review, thanks.
by jamesjolliffe
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- Sounds really cool to listen to someone talk _about_ this synth.
Sounds pretty meh listening to the synth itself in any demos I've seen so far.
Still an awesome product and piece of tech art.
Myself, I can't imagine buying this synth for anything other than putting on a shelf to look at and talk about.
by hackomorespacko
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