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Korg | MS-20 |
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Description | The MS-20 was one of Korg's first major successful portable analog monosynths and even today it is still a great little machine! The MS-20 is the big brother to the MS-10. It is an analog two-oscillator monophonic lead and bass synth with hard wired and patchable connections. The hard-wiring can be overridden however, using patch-cords. This type of hard-wired but patchable design was similar to the ARP 2600 of the late seventies. Of course the 2600 was much bigger and better. But the MS-20 offered a lot of flexible control and great sounds at a more affordable price. In addition to two analog oscillators, the MS-20 featured two resonant VCFs (filters), two VCAs, sample and hold, a noise generator, an assignable mod-wheel and lots of knobs! The VCF (filter) section is capable of high-pass, low-pass, notch and band-reject which is unique and different than your basic lowpass style filter. External sound sources can be routed through the filter section as well. There's also a Pitch-CV converter for triggering sounds from external sources. Feed the input stage of the MS-20s with drum sounds and other untrackable audio to get the synth to make a wide variety of crunch/squawp/screech noises by mistracking the filters, etc. As for its sounds, the MS-20 sounds great! The MS-20 is great for just about any type of analog synth sound you could want! Fat round bass sounds, percussive bass or sounds, noise effects, squiggly-bubbly sounds or sinuous-worm leads are all waiting to be unleashed from inside this classic beast. The MS-20 is not only a great sounding instrument, but a great learning-synth. It is fairly easy and intuitive to operate but in doing so you can learn and understand more about synthesis and signal-flow. |
| Brand | Korg |
| Model | MS-20 |
| Device | Synth |
| Type | Keys |
| Engine Type | Modular (Semi) |
| Engine | VCO |
| Voices (max) | 1 |
| Oscillators | 2 |
| LFO | 1 LFO w/ multiple waveforms |
| Noise | Y |
| Engine Detailed | 2 VCO with mixable white/pink noise generator |
| Filter (VCF) | 2 MultiMode VCFs: Lowpass, Highpass, Notch, BandReject; with ADSR |
| Envelope (VCA) | 2 VCAs: ADSR + Sample and Hold with an envelope follower |
| Keys | 37 |
| Key type | Keys |
| Velocity | No |
| Aftertouch | No |
| CV-gate | CV/GATE |
| Produced: | 1978 - 1983 |
| Legend: | Obvious | Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable | |
| VCO | Voltage Controlled Oscillator | DCO | Digital Controlled Oscillator |
| LFO | Low Frequency Oscillator | Sub | Sub Oscillator |
| VCF | Voltage Controlled Filter | VCA | Voltage Controlled Amplifier |
| Velocity | As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. | Aftertouch | Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel. |
| Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise. | |||
