"What does it do this time?" asked the guys from Korg. The door was opened, and an even pastier‑faced individual peeked out, blinked in the light, and said "We've designed something else". Then, one day, there was another timorous knock from inside. Every day somebody from Korg would shove some food and water through a hole in the door. "Now get back inside and design something else". "Well, it's sort of a wavetable synthesizer, with vector synthesis, and wave sequencing". ![]() "What does it do?" asked the guys from Korg. ![]() When the door was opened, a pasty‑faced individual peeked out, blinked in the light, and said, "We've designed something. Locks were unlocked and bolts were drawn. Then, one day, there was a timorous knock from inside. Locks were locked, bolts were bolted, and most people forgot that they had ever existed. The company immediately bundled them out of sight, locked them in a room full of computers and said "design something for us". ![]() In 1987, the former Sequential Circuits design team (responsible for classics such as the Prophet 5 and Prophet VS) began working for Korg. Unsurprisingly, SOS staff have been dying to review one ever since it was unveiled at this year's Frankfurt Musik Messe. It's not a new synth - it's seven! Korg's amazing new Prophecy offers analogue and FM synthesis, and physical modelling, and still costs under £1000.
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