Korg X3

X3
Manufacturer	Korg
Dates	1993
Technical specifications
Polyphony	32
Timbrality	16
Synthesis type	Digital Sample-based Subtractive
Effects	2
Input/output
Keyboard	61-key Velocity Sensitive, Aftertouch
Left-hand control	Pitch + Modulation

The Korg X3 is a music workstation produced by Korg in 1993. The X3 features 200 programs, 200 combinations, 32-voice polyphony, a 32,000 note, 16-track sequencer with 100 patterns and 10 songs and a double-sided, double-density 3.5-inch floppy disk drive for song and other data storage types. Korg also released the X2 (76-key) with 8 Mbyte ROM (6Mbyte X3 + 2Mbyte new piano) in 1994 along with a rackmount version dubbed the X3R, which also had a floppy disk drive.

Many of its samples come from the T3 Series and 01/W Series synthesizers. The X3 features 339 samples compressed into 6 megs of ROM, and Korg beefed up this model in areas where previous models had been weak (organs and strings, for example).

The X3 lacked several key piano samples that had become popular in the M1 and 01/W series, replacing them with different samples altogether which were (arguably) not as good-sounding as before. They eventually brought back some of the classic Korg sounds (like the M1 piano) in the X5D and future Korg products.

Further reading

• "Korg X3R". Future Music. April 1995. ISSN 0967-0378. OCLC 1032779031.
• "Quality Control". Music Technology. No. 83. September 1993. p. 53. ISSN 0957-6606. OCLC 24835173.

External links

• Korg official site