Korg • DS-8

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The DS-8 is Korg's contender among synths like the Roland D-50 and Yamaha DX7. It is a digital FM synthesizer with 4-operators per voice, 8 voices of polyphony and 8 parts multitimbrality. It's good for percussive, strange effect noises and such because its sound (similar to the DX7) is so unique. It has some digital effects such as chorus, flange, delay and analog-like controls for modulators, envelopes and the LFO. A joystick provides control of modulation and pitch bending. It also has a performance section for quick edits on the fly using (3) real-time sliders to control timbre, EG1 and EG2. A nice alternative to the common DX-7.


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Artur
Posted 9 days ago
I love this thing. I bought it really cheap, got lazy to program, almost sold, but while I was writing its specifications into Ebay, i found myself surprised about what it cold do, so I gave up selling it and put myself to work, getting totally awesome sounds out of it. Portamento, Aftertouch, Internal effects, it's loaded of features, and it's so rare! It's a subtractive analog like synth: you work like on analog, control real-time like analog, but the sounds are FM. It's a DX7 with only 4 operators, but with real time controls and onboard effects (excellent effects, by the way). I'll never think about selling mine again! Get yours before anyone knows how good it is, but remember: SIT WITH THIS THING AND PROGRAM YOUR OWN PATCHES!
Pepe
Posted 66 days ago
1500$? Ha, that's a good one! I got mine in mint condition for 58 Euros (~80$) a few months ago. Had only to be cleaned and needed a new backup battery. Everything above 150 $ is expensive and NOT worth it. The synth is nice,though. Typical 4 OP FM sound, very much like the DX27 I once owned (they use the same Yamaha chip) and I like the DS-8 a lot more for it is very easy to program and the Timbre-slider is very effective. But if it really was worth 1500$... someone out there who wants to trade mine for a mint Mono/Poly or MS-20? :oD
exkeyboardplaya504
Posted 67 days ago
Message to Megasynth: whats the name and location of your store. Are you on Ebay or your own website.
MegaSynth
Posted 67 days ago
Some guy brought a mint condition DS-8 into my shop today. It came with a great Korg patch library, one of the best sounds being the square wave. It's from 1986 and I'm pricing it at $1500. It's worth every penny.
themagickreport
Posted 113 days ago
this thing is amazing. got it for sixty bucks in a pawn shop in connecticut and melted part of the memory block with a soldering gun and now it makes sounds that technically dont exist...
if your into the strange and weird nothing better than early experimental digital synthesis
true fm also, not like yamahas phase modulation synthesis they passed off as FM somehow.
 

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