Korg Triton

The LCD Touch & View Display is fantastic. It grants easy access to
all functions & the response is much faster than trinity's.

All you need in one keyboard. Easy to move - easy to use.

Really fantastic & agressive. Maybe the pianos are a little bit false

No known problems

No need for now.

Go to buy one. Do I have to say something more?

So easy an idiot could use it. I was able to play this immediately and figure things out in a heartbeat. The manual is weak but then again most are.

Expansion slots at only 2 is weak. Effects are awesome and MOSS rocks!

Sounds are incredible. They give you a starting point and you can tweak them very easy if you like.

Have been playing the same one since day one of its release and it still performs perfectly.

If you know how to get a hold or korg they are very good. The process for a begiiner could be frustrating if you need to talk to them.

I'll make this short and sweet, I work at a music store and play all the different boards out there. The bottom line is this.... For the money and quality you can not and will not do better than the triton. Forget about Roland, Kurzweil, Yamaha and all others this is the best value out there now.

Great user interface, upgradable OS, well organized structure and hierarcy of menus.

Best global features I've ever had on a board (well, I have to say I just worked with an excellent but old dated Sy 77). I hope to install as soon as possible the MOSS board and/or a PCM expansion.

Great atmospherics, pads, motions synths, fx, strings, drums. Very bad piano (even the SY 77 piano is more realistic). Fantastic double and programmable arpeggiator. Very good sampler. Excellent effects: Vocoder is terrific if properly used.

Can't say about that.

Idem.

Very good workstation and maybe the best by now. I use it for electronica and ambient and it's wonderfully fitted for this.
If it were just a little bit less expensive, it would be the best value on the market.

I give it a 7 because-everything is easy as pie on this maching exept the msb-lsb. To change banks and patches from my pc.

I have grown bored with most of the sounds. I worked in a music store for a while and got sick of most of the sounds. I primarily use it as a sampler.

As new synths go, I think that the Triton is the best thing out there. You can create just about anything you could ever think of from this box. If the sound is not stock, and you cannot create it, you can sample it, or add the moss and you have great analog sound. This keyboard almost makes it too easy. It was definatly worth the price the consumer pays. I was lucky to go to training on this piece just as it came out in '99 and I found that it was too easy. Easy to keymap, make templates, easy storage-and the touch screen is much better than the Trinity. The only thing I don't like about it is that I do not use the onboard sequencer that often and I had a problem with changing banks from my computer. Otherwise, it is one of the best modern synths on the market today.

Some Preset sound very poor
To many Asian sounds.

I really don't know what to say. I was shocked that such machine
Can?t keep songs in memory. What happen if my son suddenly will press
On/Off power button?

where is the accoustic pianos

no comments

Korg USA website is bad

i expected a lot more

It's pretty easy, I've owned a Trinity for awhile, so I can pretty much navigate around it pretty well. The presets are awesome, I agree that the pianos are thin, but the sampler will help fix that. I havent really taken a look at the manuals, again, it's pretty much the same as the Trinity as far as the interface goes. But deeper into this board, there is a world of difference..........

The polyphony isnt where it should be for a keyboard of this caliber, can we have 128 please??? The affects are great, I have to take a look though and tweak the rotary speaker. Expansion slots are few to say the least two?? Come on.....Roland has 4, and that is not enough to me. Too bad the MOSS board has only 6 voices, I havent played on it yet, but I hear it is great for only 6 voices. The sequencer is basically the same as the Trinity's, a little easier, I havent messed with it much......

DAMN!!!!! Sounds are really really great, and I love the ability to tweak them with the knobs, and in the arpeggiator you can program drum beats that are just slamming. I especially like the BrassReed sections and the organs...the knob/drawbar effect was a smart idea. With added polyphony (still could be more) it handles the Trinity easily.

I dunno, just had it one day!!

I have never had to call Korg, I've had an X5D, have a Trinity and now a Triton, but I have never had to call in the past.

If it was lost, I'd cry, cause I dont have insurance on it yet.....but after I got insurance, I'd replace it in a heart beat.

Presets are very good, but I just got it and have'nt had time to edit any. The manual is massive but probably not very helpful. I have to experiment like I did on the O1WPRO.Again I am very pleased with what I have heard thus far.

I love the keyboard action compared to roland etc. The effects are very good and I can add memory and boards to expand the keyboard. I have not tried the sequencer yet (just got it in the mail) but I am sure it will be fine..

Guitars are very good in my opinion the effects really make a big difference. velocity is excellent and the aftertouch does very well. I mainly use it in a church setting, but I have had oppoertunity to use many presets and be very expressive.I don't need a volume pedal to quiet it down, just play softer...

I have had a Korg O1WFD, aO1WPRO and Trinity before getting this keyboard. I have had no problems with them with the exception of loose solder outputs on the Trinity. I had it re-soldered and it works great...I have never had trouble with keys, program locks, or anything else VERY reliable equipment

N.A.

I bought the 61 key version with Moss Board, and keyboard/Piano upgrade and also the Studio Essentials board I would replace it if it were stolen or dropped (I carry a rider for my equipment on my homeowners insurance). I looked at Kurzweil, Alesis, Roland and many others before deciding to buy Triton. It may sound like I only buy Korg, but I also have a Yahama EX5R rack, and have owned other brands in the past.

Good

A lot of options.

All the sounds are great except brass and choir.
The guitar sounds are quite good for a synth,
The organ sounds are the best I'v heard in my life.
Piano is not bad - but not fantastic, drums are fine.
The effects are fine, get the job done.

I can depend on it, it's really good in this subject.

I live in Israel and the service here is excellent.

If it were lost or stolen I would buy the TRITON PRO X instead.
It really helps me to make my music better.

Easy to edit samples

I'm using software version 1.10 sent to me by a Korg sales rep. Theres has been a real problem that Korg has been unable to solve. The problen is the reliabilty of the playback of samples that I use in live performances. Three times I have had the samples come out at different pitch/speed....embarassing not to mention the fact that I spent ny hard earned dough on a unrealiable unit. Korg has no solution so beware.

Sales rep was quick to respond to problem but no solution

If you need a sampler dont buy this unit!

Software version is 1.1.1
Editing patches is easy but limited. The manual is nice but with large synth LCD i only needed it once

Polyphony is 62 plus 6 MOSS and in my opinion is very limited for this kind of synth (price !). 128 voices would be a more realistic number. The onboard sequencer is excellent though not so powerful as a software or a dedicated hardware unit. MOSS idea is nice with good polyphony for a lead synth part. Expansion via SCSI,MOSS,PCM boards is excellent but i would like to see more PCM boards. The effects as well as their external route is in one word EXCELLENT and it is the main reason i bought Triton. The keyboard feel is very good.

Sounds are very good except pianos that are useless. I have the extra EXB-PCM01 board witch has some nice pianos but not as realistic as Roland's extras or Yamaha's S80. I'm a rock ballad, cine-music song writer. I usually play soft rock,jazz,modern pop,soundtracks and i need realistic - acoustic organs as well as warm strings. I found Triton's sound very good, but static as the synth engine is far away from able to create new sounds. Roland's synthesis methode is my favorite (for S&S synths) but even Yamaha's witch is like Korg is better. Limited filtering,only two waves per sound,no ring modulator,limited envelope editing,nice LFOs.
The sampler idea in a sample playback synth is excellent and i think that is THE POINT that Korg bets. It is not as powerfull as EMUs or other dedicated unit but sounds perfect. It has no internal resampling, the samples cannot be exported, limited editing functions, no Flash RAM so you need the SCSI board to save anything more than 1.44 MB. These limitations and some bugs will be corected (i hope) in the future OS 2.0 version.

I don't know yet as i own it for a month only. It crashed twice due to OS bugs. I dislike the plastic cheap case and construction.

I did not call them until now

I have my own studio 20 years now. I have EMU e-synth keyboard,Proteus 2K,Audity, Roland XP-80, JV2080s, Yamaha S80,FS1Rs, etc. I bought Triton a month ago and here in Greece the price for a full unit (SCSI,MOSS,PCMs,RAM) is very high: 4.500 ECU. I had read many user reviews about it so i thought that Triton is the best synth around. Believe me IT IS NOT. If stolen then i will cry for my money not for it. I am a quality - realistic sound - synth engine fan and not a technostressed buyer who wants anything new with big lcd. Recently and after i bought Triton i listen a preview-demo version of new Roland XV-88. That is THE sound. I order one and im waiting for it early April. Until then i'm looking locally to sell Triton.
Do not ever listen user reviews. Even mine. Listen yourself. Thing what you really want from a synth and try to find this one you really want.