A popular duophonic/monophonic classic from Korg. It's got 2 analog oscillators that can be used for one fat monophonic sound or 2 VCO's per voice for a fat duophonic sound. Flexible design with 2 voltage controlled filters and even a ring modulator. The Maxi-Korg is a great source of early Korg sound that rivals competitors like the OSCar and Roland SH-synths. No MIDI, no memory, but good bass and screechin' leads! It has no CV input either, though it can be modified to accept externnal control from the less standard Hz/V protocol (also used by Yamaha).

Most people usually understand it best as two separate MiniKorgs inside one keyboard with all the controls to both. Most people will stack both voices as the triggering can be tricky as duophonic. It has the very effective ability to delay one voice before it triggers when played mono. It has been used by Kitaro, Vangelis and Soft Cell.

ludar

April 2, 2011 @ 4:51 pm

hi, planning to do audio-in mod to my 800dv, has anyone tried that?

numbloc

March 21, 2011 @ 10:50 am

I own a Univox MaxiKorg (exactly the same synthesiser, but branded by Univox), and used it awhile back, with a looping pedal by Line6, to create a couple of short tracks on the fly. If you're interested in checking them out, here's the link: http://www.myspace.com/numbloc
All of the sounds were created with just this one awesome synth, "overdubbed" onto the pedal...

Pepe

December 10, 2010 @ 1:49 pm

Simple Minds did use the Korg 770, a very similar sounding synth. The 770 was the main synth on their first record, "Life In A Day".

(I don't really know, if they used it on "Real To Real" and "Empires Of Dance" as well, because they already had a Minimoog in this time. And on "Sons And Fascination", the Roland Jupiter-4 is the dominating synth.)

Nick

December 8, 2010 @ 12:48 pm

Isn't this the synth used by Mick McNeil on a lot of Early Simple Minds stuff - "I Travel", "Celebrate, etc

Chris

June 3, 2010 @ 7:23 pm

Univox had a version of this in their lineup, alongside their guitars and basses...

Man, those guys certainly had amateur/semi-pro bands in the 70s covered, didn't they?

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