Vintage Synth Explorer

Korg • DW-6000

Korg's first digitally controlled analog synth hybrid; 8 sampled digital waveforms, analog resonant filter with separate VCF and VCA ADBSSR envelopes. Parameters can be altered in real time via a single programmable slider. 6 voice polyphony in two modes, or one monophonic mode with all six voices stacked. 12 digital oscillators (2 per voice) with 8 simple to complex waveforms, 1 de-tunable and with programmable interval. 64 presets that can be reprogrammed by the user.

Awesome fat basses, lovely warm sounding, pulsing strings, and hard, nasal leads. Some wonderful swirling effects can be found. Imagine a Poly 800 with 8 waveforms instead of 2, and you get the picture.

Due to reliance on sampled waveforms, it does not sit well through distortion, and some waveforms do not go well in a mix when used as a pad. Overall, an exceptional and underrated bass and lead machine with some nice pad sounds to boot.

The DW-6000 was quickly surpassed by the DW-8000: it expanded it to 8 notes polyphony, 16 sampled waveforms, a velocity sensitive keyboard with programmable aftertouch, auto-bend, a simple arpeggiator and a digital delay unit.

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frank

Posted 126 days ago

bought mine for £100 in 2004 as impulse buy. love the vcf helicopter noises and great for 80 's electro bass and leads. 6 stage envelope was a pain to begin with but at least it still works, unlike my jx 8p

Aek0z

Posted 155 days ago

Was my first keyboard and is still apart of my live setup. It does have it's limitations in sounds by itself, I have this running through a bunch of pedals. It's a great beginners keyboard and is real easy to learn. This thing has taken quite a beating and still works great.

MartinL

Posted 220 days ago

I play this Digital synthetiser DW6000.
I use for chords or Solo .
But i build sound too...It's a good synthetiser like add...
Sorry for my bad english ! bye !

Mitch

Posted 271 days ago

This was one of my first synths. personally I hate the sound of it now but sometimes I can get some good sounds out of it. Oh yeah and my BIOS battery is dead....so yeah every time I turn it off....all my settings goes away.....boooo-urns....

Ray

Posted 309 days ago

This synth is expandable. Check out this cool mod:

Korg DW6000 256 Waveforms Mod:
Boost the waveform count by increasing the size of the wave ROMs.
http://71.18.227.106/dw6000.shtml

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