Vintage Synth Explorer

Korg • Trident

The Trident is a 3 instrument ensemble type of synthesizer - String, Brass and Synth. Each section has its own unique VCO voice architecture, VCF filter types, and LFO capabilities. It features 8 voices of polyphony and 2 of the instruments can be played while in Split Keyboard mode. A unique effect included is a flanger that can self-oscillate! Flanger controls include Speed, Feedback, Intensity and Manual. It had limited 16 (mkI) or 32 (mkII) patches of memory and there is no way of externally controlling the Trident with MIDI or CV/Gate without modifications. But it sounds very nice and warm and analog. It has been used by Rick Wakeman and Joe Zawinul.

The mkII version had doubled the memory to 32 patches, an independent envelope generator for the VCF filter section and more. The specifications below are for the mkII since it is the more popular and common of the two.

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Art Cool

Posted 65 days ago

Hi Pepe, thank you for your tip regarding the Trident, i will pass the info to whom is repairing it !!

Pepe

Posted 78 days ago

Hello, Art Cool! If your "distortion" occurs when the filter is closed and disappears the more you open it, you may have the same problem with your Trident like me a year ago! The problem was a broken IC that controls the filter section.

Art Cool

Posted 95 days ago

I own one mkI too, which by the way have one problem in the poly synth section, some heavy distortion etc... i took it to repair by i friend of me..lets see...here it goes the trident mkI serv. manual :http://www.synthfool.com/docs/Korg/Korg_Trident_Service_man ual/

aidan

Posted 96 days ago

Hey there... i own a trident Mk1 and have just had the psu refurbished... worked like a dream until i moved it from studio to home. it now has a weird problem that one of the synth section voices is mute... can anyone give me advice with a) a solution, b) where to get a workshop manual - I am in cape town South Africa

cheers

aidan

El Bandus

Posted 216 days ago

Keith Emerson used a Trident and a Polysix in early 80's. He was an official Promoter of Korg-products.

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