2025 NAMM Show: Korg Intros multi/poly native Synthesizer

At the 2025 NAMM Show, scheduled for January 21–25 in Anaheim, California, Korg will debut multi/poly native, a fully-compatible software counterpart to their recently introduced hardware multi/poly synthesizer.

multi/poly native is available in VST3, AAX, and standalone formats, on both macOS and Windows, as well as AU on macOS.

You can exchange sounds between hardware and software, and access an increasing number of third-party libraries. It also lets you record and produce in your DAW with multi/poly native, and then play the same sounds live using the multi/poly hardware. You can also do sound design using the hardware’s hands-on interface, and then share them with a computer-based collaborator.

The multi/poly is the first instrument to use KORG’s “next-generation” analog modeling technology. It’s like a polyphonic modular system in a compact, hands-on package.

It goes far beyond traditional analog synthesis, letting you create “mash-ups” with East-coast, West-coast, and wavetable oscillators and a wide selection of modeled filters. Virtual voice cards produce organic timbral variation.

And the multi/poly offers Kaoss Physics, Motion Sequencing 2.0, deep modulation options, and more.

KORG multi/poly native Demo Sounds:

Special Hardware/Software Crossgrade Offer

Owners of the hardware multi/poly are eligible for a crossgrade license to multi/poly native at the special price of US $49.99, via a coupon code tied to the multi/poly hardware’s unique ID.

Using the hardware and software versions together, you can have the best of both worlds: a physical instrument that responds to your touch, and complete DAW integration.

Pricing and Availability:

Korg multi/poly native will be available soon, priced at $199 USD, or $49.99 for hardware multi/poly owners.

10 thoughts on “2025 NAMM Show: Korg Intros multi/poly native Synthesizer

  1. Sounds delicious but, at $199 it is rather expensiveish…
    At this stage it will be available for hardware owners only and Korg doesn’t offer any discounts for existing users of their software 🙁

      1. Since Black Friday and Christmas are only two days out of the year, we can SELDOM get their VSTs for cheap. Context is everything. Also we’ll have to wait another ten months from now, January. It does pay to be patient but, as a patient person, it can be very dry.

        1. Korg had a summer sale in July last year, offering 50% off the software versions. It’s likely they will repeat. I will definitely consider this instrument for $99, and it’s not as if any of us are having an urgent synth crisis that requires us to buy the new shiny thing immediately.

  2. Ah yes, the one soft synth for which I abandoned the idea of owning some all-rounder digital hardware . Especially since I had to get myself aportable 17″ / 4K touch monitor; that’ll have enough control options to not miss the real knobs I suspect (and I suspect the depth of this synth to be a slog in hardware anyway, with ample of menu needs). The price is steep, but I don’t need now. Or maybe even this year. It’ll be around for much less at some point.

    1. If anything, the modwave, wavestate and this one make way more sense as plugins than in hardware, because of the poor build quality of keybed and the display for ants. Also, it’s 200 bucks and for what it does, it’s a steal. It’s probably not, if you are just collecting synths to show your friends, how much you can stack up at the wall, without using it. But then again, who buys synths to make music anymore, right?

  3. Seems a bit mean to charge hardware owners for the plugin, discount or no. I would have thought a version which would only work after detecting the hardware via USB would be possible.

  4. I’ve been considering a better VA and this might be it. The Wavestate native is one of my prizes, so I’m going to dig into this thing ‘s voice. I’m not a purist; I tend to like a little acoustic material in a synth, flagship-style. OTOH, this has a wavetable feel in places, so it might blur those lines, for the better. If Roland released the GAIA 2 as a plug-in, I’d be weighing it against the Multipoly.

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