Karma by Korg
Equipment Reviews
by EXW Staff
February 27, 2002
Seven Years in the Making
At Korg we're always dreaming up innovative ways to make our keyboards more
expressive, more powerful, more musical, and when we first learned about a brand
new technology called KARMA, we knew we'd found one. Seven years after
assembling a global team of skilled engineers, programmers and musicians, the
Karma Music Workstation brings new music-making possibilities to life.
To start, its synth and effects engines are identical to Triton's - so you know how
great it sounds. It's also compatible with Triton sound data and supports the
same user-installable PCM and MOSS expansion options so your sound palette
can grow. Plus, the Karma Music Workstation provides the same feature-packed
16-track sequencer that has made the Korg Triton the leader in music
workstations. So what makes this new keyboard so special?
It's KARMA, our revolutionary technology that generates amazing phrases,
grooves and other musical effects that can be altered and randomized in
real-time. With a bank of knobs and switches, you control elements like rhythmic
complexity, harmony, melodic repeat, phrasing, panning...even the synth's sound
and effects.
KARMA gives you the power to play impossible, interweaving cascades of notes,
techno arpeggios and effects, dense rhythmic and melodic textures,
natural-sounding glissandos, intricate fingerpicking and guitar strumming,
swooping portamento and pitch bend moves to name but a few. The only limiting
factor is your imagination.
EXW REVIEW: An awesome worskstation from Korg. They continue to be the leader in keyboards for the contemproray church. That is a bias opinion of course.
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