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Korg | i3

Description

At Summer NAMM 1993 Korg unveiled the i3 Interactive Music Workstation. Considered its most advanced instruments to date since it's first foray in 1985 with the SAS2-0 The 61 key i3 unit greatly improved arranging/songwriting time and workload.

The i3 makes a great compositional tool by providing onboard built in styles and patterns for creating melodies and drum sequences using Korg's AI2 synthesis found in many of their synthesizer of the early 1990's.

The unit also provided two built in sequencers. A 16 track standard MIDI sequencer with an additional 10 track sequencer called a "backing sequencer" which recorded the performance by the player and could be played back with all tweaking recorded. 

The instrument provided 32 voices with all 384 programs user editable which could be saved into 64 ram patches and 2 user drum instruments. An onboard DD floppy drive provided storage 

General MIDI (GM for short) was standard in most synths including the i3 and it could play back SMF files.
BrandKorg
Modeli3
DeviceSynth
TypeKeys
Engine TypeDigital
EngineAI2
Voices (max)32
Multitimbral1
Oscillators2
LFO2
Engine DetailedROM Sample Wavetable
Filter (VCF)2 VDF non resonant filters
Envelope (VCA)1 VDA digital envelopes
FX2 Multi effect processors
Memory384 ROM, 64 RAM
Drums2 user drums
Recording2 sequencers- 1 SMF GM compatible 16 track MIDI sequencer 1 backing sequencer 10 MIDI tracks
Keys61
Key typeKeys
VelocityY
AftertouchChannel
Audio2x stereo out
MidiI-O-T
Produced:1993 - 1995
Legend: Obvious Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator DCO Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO Low Frequency Oscillator Sub Sub Oscillator
VCF Voltage Controlled Filter VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. Aftertouch Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

Manuals, patches etc.

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