Korg T3
By
Lenti Lenko, in Keyboards & MIDI
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General Comments
I have it insured for it's origional value so if it got stolen, I would buy another one out of the trading post as I have so many disks with songs done in it's sequencer as well as my own sounds. I have been playing organ since 1980, piano since 1988 and I got into synthes and MIDI in 1987 after I got up and played a couple of brackets with a band at the wedding reception (the keyboardist had a Roland JP 8 and a DX 7) That day changed my life forever!!!! My first synthe I had access too was a Korg Poly 61 which was at my school- I programmed the {censored} out of that synthe. I have had a special place in my heart for Korg gear ever since (although Roland stuff is OK as well if a bit harder to get to grips with initially). The T3 was the first synth I ever bought and it was many only piece of MIDI gear for 5 years. I gigged with it, did studio work with it and basically milked everything I possibly could from it- even today I marvel at some of the sequences I did with it- because I knew the limitations imposed upon me at the time! When the O1WFD came out a year after I brought it, I though of selling the T3 and getting that board. I decided not too because upon playing an O1WFD in the shop and spending the best part of a day deciding which way to go, I felt that sonically the T3 still had the edge, some of the drum samples were better and the piano shat all over the O1W's piano! Whilst the O1WFD had a better sequencer and more polyphony and the effects had some real time control, I felt that the T3 still sounded better. Not only that but some of the guys in the shops actually said that I would be a fool to sell my T3 to get the new board- so I kept it. I have bought heaps of gear over the last 5 years- I co-run a MIDI based studio using LOGIC AUDIO 4 on a PC and a Triton, TR Rack, Wavestation SR and AD, 2 Roland JV 1080's with 7 expansion boards, Roland MDC 1 Dance module, Korg Z1 and DW 8000 and I WILL NEVER EVER,EVER GET RID OF MY T3!!!!!!!!!! It is my favourite board of all time because I know my way around it the best. THE KORG T3 IS KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!