Korg PS-3300 reissue

[jaypodesta]

Didn’t expect to wake up to a full-size Korg PS-3300 reissue. Dread to think how much it will be https://www.korg.co.uk/blogs/updates/ps-3300

[Arpangel]

Theres so much good stuff at the moment, wouldn’t mind one of these, but as usual, they’re probably all accounted for and I'll have to join a list, same old b******s.

[Folderol]

Well, no doubt it will be very nice for some people, but it would be completely unusable for me
Serious information overload!

[Arpangel]

but it would be completely unusable for me
Serious information overload!

And that's coming from a Linux man?

[Folderol]

but it would be completely unusable for me
Serious information overload!

And that's coming from a Linux man?

But of course! A nice simple setup that doesn't have acres of unwanted crud or annoying popups, and has remained essentially unchanged since I installed it 10 years ago when I bought the machine (apart from security updates)

[tea for two]

I remeber when I went inside a booth where there was I think a Buchla 200e.
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/buchla-200e-part-1 2005 review by Gordon Reid.
Just me and the Buchla 200e. I was befuddled.
Even though Don designed with different colours different size dials I think to help those Dyslexic, Dyspraxic, still it was overload for me.
Lots of folk find them a relative doddle.

Korg PS-3300 just looking at the photo makes my eyes go

[Arpangel]

I remeber when I went inside a booth where there was I think a Buchla 200e.
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/buchla-200e-part-1 2005 review by Gordon Reid.
Just me and the Buchla 200e. I was befuddled.
Even though Don designed with different colours different size dials I think to help those Dyslexic, Dyspraxic, still it was overload for me.
Lots of folk find them a relative doddle.

Korg PS-3300 just looking at the photo makes my eyes go

How to approach a Buchla?
Don’t try and understand it, the whole philosophy is to just experiment and see what happens, this is not a synth who's forte is to deliver predictable results, the only thing that's predictable about it is it’s unpredictability.
Just stick patch cords in and listen, that's about it.
I had an Easel and a small 200e for awhile, got some SamoModular cases, much cheaper than Buchla, started to fill them and got cold feet, the cost of Buchla modules is eye watering, one module will get you a whole case full of Eurorack.
I stopped and sold it, couldn’t justify it.
Wish I had it now, as always, when I listen to what I did with it, very unique sound, and definitely not just for beeps and boops, got some beautiful lead sounds out of it.

[tea for two]

I dig the Easel. I dig Don's designs. I wouldn't mind a Buchla Easel. After VCS3, Easel is my favourite Synth design.
Dials too many befuddle me. I get on with Sliders on Synths which the Easel has. Because of Sliders Arp2500 2600 is fine for me.

[jaypodesta]

Theres so much good stuff at the moment, wouldn’t mind one of these, but as usual, they’re probably all accounted for and I'll have to join a list, same old b******s.

That and limited run or editions. Made me take stock of what I already have and has put me right off buying anything. Saved a packet though and using what I have has helped me focus.

[nathanscribe]

Back to the days when premium synths cost as much as a house, eh?

[Arpangel]

I dig the Easel. I dig Don's designs. I wouldn't mind a Buchla Easel. After VCS3, Easel is my favourite Synth design.
Dials too many befuddle me. I get on with Sliders on Synths which the Easel has. Because of Sliders Arp2500 2600 is fine for me.

I prefer sliders too, don’t know why, they are just friendlier for some reason, and make things easier to see.
Also Don Buchla used strange terminology, which didn’t help, but that was his logic.
Yes, classic designs, like you’ve got to have a VCS3, a Buchla, ARP, when polysynth's came along I really hated them, they were like glorified organs to me, had no interest in them whatsoever, they seemed to go against the spirit if synthesis.
I walked into Chase Musicians in about 1978/79, they had all sorts of new polysynth's on display, I ignored them and drooled over the huge ARP2500 they had sitting on a shelf.

That and limited run or editions. Made me take stock of what I already have and has put me right off buying anything. Saved a packet though and using what I have has helped me focus.

How true is that, yes, save money and concentrate on what you’ve got.

[Wonks]

I'm disappointed they didn't at least go with the look of the big multi-pin keyboard connector, even if it did now just have a serial connector hidden inside it. One of the things I really like about the look of those early synths.

[Arpangel]

I'm disappointed they didn't at least go with the look of the big multi-pin keyboard connector, even if it did now just have a serial connector hidden inside it. One of the things I really like about the look of those early synths.

Glad someone else has these concerns, it's a bit like not getting the VU meter right on the Berry VCS3.

[The Elf]

I'm sure it will sell in its limited numbers, and good luck to Korg, but...

[Arpangel]

I'm sure it will sell in its limited numbers, and good luck to Korg, but...

Be very interesting to see, how many go to pro musicians that actually want to use them for doing stuff, they cant do with anything else.
I'm guessing wealthy collectors, nothing wrong with that, and Korg aren’t going to make large numbers of something that specialised, with a relatively small market.

[Wonks]

The other limited reissues sold out immediately and then went on the market for silly money.

[muzines]

I’d guess this is going to be somewhere around £12k - £15K…

I wonder how many they are going to make? 50? 100…?

(I’d still prefer a Jupiter 8 though…)

[The Elf]

I'm sure it will sell in its limited numbers, and good luck to Korg, but...

Be very interesting to see, how many go to pro musicians that actually want to use them for doing stuff, they cant do with anything else.

What does it do that can't be done by anything else?

[BigRedX]

What does it do that can't be done by anything else?

And that's the thing. Unless the sound is an iconic one on a best-selling recording (and maybe not even then), it's lamest always replaceable.

When I was playing in my synth pop/rock band in the 80s when we bought new synths we usually had to also sell the one that was being replaced in order to be able to afford it. I went from using an EDP Wasp and Korg MS20 to a Casio CZ5000 as my live performance instrument, something with a very different sound generation mechanism and architecture. I didn't bother trying to replicate the sounds of my old synths, I simply created new ones with the new synth that had the same feel in the context of the song.

[tea for two]

I was in KMR Audio today, purveyors of high end gear API's Avalon's Chandler's Neve's so forth.
One of the staff and I had a little giggle because we both were saying all this high end gear is not much kop if the music is pants.
My turd Synth lines would sound thru PS-3300 as polished turd.

[Scramble]

Save yourself £15 grand:
https://cherryaudio.com/products/ps-3300

[N i g e l]

well exactly.

If it was worth having at £15k there would be a Berry equivilent.

[Arpangel]

I was in KMR Audio today, purveyors of high end gear API's Avalon's Chandler's Neve's so forth.
One of the staff and I had a little giggle because we both were saying all this high end gear is not much kop if the music is pants.
My turd Synth lines would sound thru PS-3300 as polished turd.

This has got nothing to do with music, it's all about stuff, and wanting to surround yourself with it, it also shows the world youre capable of owning it, basic insecurities at play.

[MarkOne]

I'm in the 'but why?' camp

I'm sure they'll all sell, but if I really needed the sort of sounds it can make, then there are plug-ins (that no listener would ever know - or care - that was being used) and to be honest my only two remaining actual hardware synths have been plugged in and used maybe twice in the last year.

It's like the way people spend thousands on 'reliced' guitars, when there are perfectly good ones in pristine condition.

There are interesting things going on in synth land, particularly in the controller capability space (Osmose, Hydrasynth, etc) - But this isn't one of them.

In the meantime if I even had that kind of money to spend it would probably go towards a newer more green car.

[tea for two]

I was in KMR Audio today, purveyors of high end gear API's Avalon's Chandler's Neve's so forth.
One of the staff and I had a little giggle because we both were saying all this high end gear is not much kop if the music is pants.
My turd Synth lines would sound thru PS-3300 as polished turd.

This has got nothing to do with music, it's all about stuff, and wanting to surround yourself with it, it also shows the world youre capable of owning it, basic insecurities at play.

The gear I Iiked most in KMR was this Terry.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bHRo0m ... p=drivesdk
Looking at the number of dials easy to tell it's a mastering EQ.
Thing I liked which I said to one of the staff, there's no numbers have to rely on ear.

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I feel expensive gear can make us rely more on expensive gear, when instead we should be relying on ourself more : our musical abilities, skills, honing our craft.