This video, via Reverb, offers a behind-the-scenes tour of Korg Berlin with CEO Tatsuya ‘Tats’ Takahashi.
Takahashi is probably best known for his work as Chief Engineer of Analog Synthesizers at Korg, Takahashi helped create the Monotrons, Volcas, Korg’s ARP and MS-20 reissues, the Minilogue and more.
For the last four years, though, Takahashi has been leading Korg Berlin, which they have described as a sort of ‘engineering playground’ for electronic instrument design.
Korg Berlin has previewed a new acoustic synthesizer, the Phase8, that they say they expect to debut next year.
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I guess he has been a bit too long in Berlin, as I doubt the success of these new semi-eletronic Kalimbas.
Yeah it sounds like a Kalimba but in reality it works more like a Rhodes piano
He lives! The man who helped usher in Korg’s amazing analogue renaissance.
The man has real design chops, really into this romantic era design ethos that’s been occurring over the last half decade or so.