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.

Liquidyzer

October 5, 2011 @ 7:41 pm

What a suprise & so cheap (for now) After having and dumping a lot of so called classic synths lately,this is such a suprise. Seems limited with only 8 waveshapes & weedy thin presets.Programming is easy yet tedious but you soon forget all that & get [beep] ed into creating space missions! Filter does a great job of making it sound warm & analog.Stick this in unison & you can create pretty hefty bass too! Disagree with others dw-8000 is picking up steam now, you can get this for almost 1/2 the price,wack it thru your daw, add reverb/delay & your almost there. If Pads are your thing, bargain!

%u0391udiphonic

August 30, 2011 @ 6:20 am

Just Perfect.... ill grab one just cause i love soft sounds/pads.Cheers!!

joemac58

August 28, 2011 @ 7:20 am

I had one of these when it first came out loved the full sound that it produced never had a chance to get into programing it at the time.

Peke

June 30, 2011 @ 2:55 am

Korg DW-6000 in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjwgR05ZoaE

Peke

March 7, 2011 @ 1:40 pm

Just got this. 200 euro(cheap price in europe). Damn, this is a good synth! like it a lot! Very good warm string sounds. Good lead sounds and effects! Bad piano sounds, but i dont mind, goz if i want to play piano, i play the real thing. This is a really good synth, and if you like DX7 or Juno, you would probably like this too. Love it !

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