Korg Triton

latest

64 note,Plenty of effects that can be used super quick.
expantion cards to add more pcm sounds 16meg added
sequencer in great.

Dont trade the trinity .I am not happy with the pianos at all
They sound cheap. I use a trinity pro and a Tr-rack .
Im glad i didnt sell either one to get my Trinton . I assumed the Triton would have the same if not better sounds then the trinity
NOT!!. Thats ok , I got one hell of a sampler on this triton
I will force myself to love the triton

so far so good

Korg on line sucks , These people need to get there heads out of there ____. ROland web site is 10 times better for archiving sounds , old manuals or ? I dont like there telephone techs at korg, They Think everyone that call for help has never look at there sticken manuals. There not much help.

Im 37 year keyboardist , Started out 25 years ago playing . My set up consists of TRinity pro , Trinton , Tr-rack . I feel the search is over . IM set for life . Ha ha. I hope $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I just got my silver machine versin 1.06 (updating soon).the overall quality
kicks butt. it sounds great.Just let me say here,i read complaints about the
unusual low ended presets,the machine was made to manipulate, hence the wonderful
fx section.so you have the options of adding desied highs to presets and later
to the master fx....win either way.
Editing is very easy, due to the mini television screen it has....it's absoluty great
for musicians who play often on darken stages.
The manual appears to be in some kind o hyroglphic script...enough said on that...

62-poly..great stuff and to actually think i was buying a kurzweil
k2vx....hm what was it thinking??....effects are logically laid out,
it's a sinche for first timmers....they sound great.The routing system
is well laid out as well,i love the options.
Great expandability, even though they're behind Roland in this repect
at least the amountof available cards to buy as well as the hardware
limitation of only two, but no doubt they sounds great too!!
The seq.is well done,not as seriously endowed in comparission to VST,
opcode..etc. the keyboard action is superb, not perfect, but good.....

output/modulation

As regardiung the sounds, the A001 piano isn't as bad as some would
have it, not a steinway but it is decent for ensemble work only...no
Elton John solos nothing!
I always say,bell and whistles don't make good synths,it's the sounds.
The pad and motion synths were hot. the bass, guitars, and some mallets
are also super...........this apperegio function is good for lazy
people like myself. The strums of guitars, the run of synths, and the
bleeps and bops with this class for having overall,the soudns are
great, the motion synths especially

no prbs yet

fair the

Over all, the triton hasn't blown my socks off yet.
It's good for studio work only i would say,performance wise, even
though there's performance features.
would i buy it again?...........yup

I USE 1.06 VERSION SOFTWARE,THE EDITIOBN IS VERY EASY,MANUAL....AS USUALLY..VERY POOR

POLYPHONY ,NOT BAD,EFECTES ARE GREAT BUT LESS INSER EFECTS THAN IN A TRYNITY SENSITIVE KEYS,ITS OK.SEQUENCER Y NEVER USED THAT KIND I USED A COMPUTER BASED SEQUENCERS.ARPEGIOS ARE QUITE INTERESTING

SOUNDS ARE AWFULL THAT PIANOS ARE "CANNED" ALL SOUNDS ARE POOR OR TOO FAT YOU HAVE TO EQ A LOT I CAN NOT WORK WITH THIS KIND OF PIANOS..ARE LIKE ELECTRIC"CHEAP TOYS " I DONT LIKE THEM.TRYNITY SOUNDS BETTER

WELL FOR ME MOST IMOORTANT IS THE CAPABILITIE OF MAKING GOOD SOUNDS..BUT TRITON HAS A SMALL ENGINE TO DO IT.IT CAN HAVE GOOD EFECTS OR OTHER CAPABILITIES SUCH ARPEGIOS..ETC...BUT NO SOUNDS

USUALLY KORG HAS A GOOD SUPPORT

NO I DIDNT BUY IT AGAIN.I P`LAYED TWO MONTHS AGO AND ITS A SHAME!!I THOUGHT WAS BETTER VERSION OF TRINITY BUT ..IT IS WORST IT LOOKS LIKE MORA AN 01/W THAN A TRINNITY..I CAN NOT MAKE MY CREATIONS ON IT....THE SOUNDS ARE SO ...CHEAP TOY....

Software Ver. 1.0
Workstation/Sampler.
Ok, about the overall sounds: TRITON is a dark sounding instrument, it's not bright like Roland or Yamaha. The presets will sound very good if you have a high end audio monitors, but when you play the same from ordinary speakers, like most people do when they listen to music, TRITON sounds dull. And you can confirm this by the fact that most of the preset sounds have heavy use of EQ, without that EQ TRITON sounds have too much low frequencies, that disappear in ordinary speakers. Although you can make it sound a little brighter, it's time consuming to change all presets.
Editing patches is pretty easy, you have lot of control on the sound, but not as much as I have seen on other synths. For example, can use two waveforms to make a patch, but they share one pitch envelope. So if I wanted to create a patch with one sound going up and other going down and finally meet or harmonize each other, I couldn't do that in TRITON. However, there are still lot of things you can play with to change patch.
The thing I like about TRITON is that, the presets are user writeable, so if you don't like it, change it and it will stay like that.

There are two manuals, one is User guide and other parameter guide. they are both great, the labeling of topics match with the screens on screen.

The touch screen is great, but use your nails instead of finger tips if you want to avoid multiple touches for the same thing.

62 notes. I wished for more.
Keyboard action is great, but it's kind of noisy when you strike the key hard, there is a little rumble sound from the keyboard body.
it's expandable, you can add more sound boards. the ones that are out now, aren't too impressive. I heard they are coming out with two more, dance and hip hop pretty soon. and a third one in plan, orchestral. I would like to see an Ethnic/Indian baord.
Sampling memory can expanded from 16 to 64MB.

OK, MIDI capabilities.
If you are looking for a good master keyboard for your midi modules, please DO NOT consider TRITON.
reasons:
1. The on-board sequencer DOES NOT RECORD OR SEND SYSTEM EXLUSIVE DATA. so if you wanted to store the modules settings in the sequence for a song, you couldn't with TRITON. However, you can use TRITON as a midi data filer. But then you will have as many files as number of modules for each song.
2. You can set only very basic track properties. Patch, volume, pan, transpose, and some more.. they are all on different tabs.

Sequencer:
It has a decent sequencer, an onboard arpegiator, and pattern recording. memory is 200,000 notes, i wish it wasn't volatile. the sequencer is not as smart as one on the Roland XP-80/60. The realtime loop recording could be better. Once you are in record mode, you cannot change tracks. You will need to stop and select a different track. sometimes it breaks your beat and your idea is gone!!!

Sampler:
very nice sampler, easy to use, 16MB memory exp to 64 MB

Effects:
This is where TRITON beats all other workstations.
Very nice useful effects, 5 stereo insert effects BUSSES. TWO master effects, and one master three band EQ. I love it.

As I said earlier, TRITON sounds need some mastering work. You can't just select presets and get a nice mix out. You need lot EQing to bring the istruments at the front. Kicks are too low, snares are too thin. You will need to bring kicks toword middle and also add some low mids to snares.

The useful sounds are few in numbers than other SE and synth sounds.
I think TRITON is a wanna-be-techno-synth.
Few useful pianos, flutes. Strings are OK. Drums are great. Guitars are good. Synths are great. SE amazing.

Only two kind of filters. Low pass, and high pass. And filters are funny. they don't sound the way they should. If you are using the knobs to change cutoff, it's strange.

Effects help a lot to create sounds. Without those effects. TRITON sounds plain. No color at all.

Lots of dynamics.

Overall, I was expecting a better overall sounding synth with this much hype.

I hope so.

Didn't welcome my suggestion of thinking about the sysex record capability in sequencer. he said "we don't have and we don't plan to do this". not even payed attention to how useful this feature is...

If it's stolen, I will get a TR-Rack and GM-EQUINOX.
I have it for about a month, I have Roland JV-1010, and the expereince is not pleasant to control JV-1010 from TRITON.
I love TRITON for effects, sampling capabilities, and large memory sequncer. Also love the way it looks. There are very few it to compare with. YAMAHA EX-5, GEM EQUNIOX. Both had less effects, so I went with TRITON.

If you are thinking of getting TRITON, think twice if TRITON is not the only one synth you will be using. If you are planning to include TRITON as a master keyboard, you are on the wrong track.

version 1.0.2 in my 61 key loanerstill waitin on my pro. presets are cool,,editing is so-so haven't gotten deep into editing yet....Manual?why just push screen and go

polyphony is fine keyboard action is smooth since I'm not a piano player..built in effects are awesome and easy to use just wish triton had RESAMPLING!!! sEQUENCER IS EASY TO USE I just don't like when you save a song(pattern) when you load it back up...it resets resolution to HI(default)loop has to be reset again.

strings are awesome brass is great drums awesome bass a plus

sure so far

never had to

will buy it again.
It is nice to have this board I can compose without turning my computer on..

I just had a chance to hear that thing as a trinity user I felt like doing it. The Trinity is very similar to this one, definitely. Most of the things are the same except for that sampler thinng which is a good thing to have on that board. Also the polyphony has been increased which is incredibly important. Overall it's not bad, if you're a Trinity user I really doubt if you should trade your Trinity, most of the things are the same, the sounds I mean, it has more "TOYS" to play with.

At last, better polyphony!!! For god's sake, how long???? the keyboard is the same as the Trinity so it feels great. I am little dissapointed about those effects although they're Stereo right now which weren't there on the Trinity. But, it has 5 INS and 2 Masters effects. the expandability has finally been fixed like I want it to be. the Ribbon controller is smoother but less sensitive. I still prefer my Trinity's at that aspect. the sequencer doesn't care about me as I don't need so I won't mention it. The touch screen is smaller I think but it doesn't really matter. Overall, Not bad Guys, at least Korg cares about users Unlike Roland.

Hm.... well, as simple as that. More toys to play with then you have better texture sounds. As a trinity user you won't find new programs here at all. the drums are the same, another snare and bass maybe but that's it. they added the TR-909 crashes unlike Trinity but who cares? get the PBS-TRI with the dance waves expansion and you've got it all. it will fit to ANY style. those who say that it doesn't sound for Trance is Bullshit. you can make it sound like Trance machine, Use your Imagination. the reaction is great from the keyboard. The acoustic piano is well, sucks as hell!!!!!!!!!! what the hell were they thinking about??? the PSR sounds better!!! come on guys, last effort, at least a good piano... no can do. Too bad. Trinity people, hear me, KEEP your trinities and expand them NOW before the expansions won't be available.

I didn't really had the chance to gig with it so I can't tell.

Sorry, I can't tell anything. I will tell you this: Trinity is NOT too different so if you bought it not long ago like me then don't trade it for Triton, it's not worth it. Just because it looks better and more programmable it doesn't mean you need it urgent.

I am playing keyboards all my life. I was definitely dissapointed from many aspects about this thing. I expected a Monster and instead I got a toy. This isn't a serious keyboard players' dream, get real! It it definitely a concept of Kurzweil's keyboards. Just the added polyphony and a larger seq and etc.. whatever! I wish it had a NORMAL acoustic piano sound. Even my Trinity's piano is better! come on guys! I will end this review in a few words:
Trinity should stay with you if you already bought it. It's like the X3 and N364, same deal guys. Same sounds More features. the X has a medium piano, the N has a very BAD piano. Just keep yout Trinity, it will definitely serve you for years to come. even till the next millenium.