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Audio Demos
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Compatible Sound ROMs
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Parts & Components
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Modifications
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Owner Registry
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System Components
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Korg
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Specifications
- LFO
- Multiple LFO options, waveforms and combinations of LFO with other effects
- Dates
- Introduced in 1999. Current Hardware iteration/redesign (“KP3”) released in 2006, VST Software version released in November 2022.
- Price
- ~$400
- Filter
- Multiple
- Effects
- 150
- Keyboard
- none - XY-pad
- Oscillator
- User Samples; PCM for preset synth voices
- Audio sample
- 4 sample slots with unlimited overdub/resampling
- Manufacturer
- Korg
- Storagememory
- 4 Memory Slots and read/write to SD card (2GB Max)
- Synthesis type
- Several preset synth and drum voices; granular synthesis
- External control
- Supports multiple configurations as a MIDI Controller for external hardware. MIDI configurations (e.g. X-Y pad configuration) can be stored as Program Files on SD media.
- Left-hand control
- FX Release; FX parameter ‘Hold’
- Velocity expression
- no
- Aftertouchexpression
- no