Korg i3 Music Workstation Keyboard – 61 Key – Matte Silve
i3 Music Workstation – Inspiring, Intuitive, and Instant
With the i3 Music Workstation, your musical ideas can be quickly and easily transformed into complete, ready-to-play productions.
- Streamline your creative process by grouping sounds, beats, and parts together by Sound and Style Performance Set.
- Tailor your sound for any performance with on-board effects and EQ.
- Record, save and play both MIDI and audio files within the sequencer – even while you play along.
- Using battery power, the KORG i3 Music Workstation can run wherever you run; a convenient auto-power off function preserves battery life.
- Self-contained, simple to use, and fun to play, the i3 is the ideal synth for the budding composer, energetic performer or the inspired up-and-coming producer.
Self-contained, simple to use, and fun to play.
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Form Follows FunctionThe KORG i3 is a full-featured Workstation featuring 61 full-size, velocity-sensing keys. The keyboard response is adjustable using the three touch-curves; a fourth setting provides a fixed output level. OCTAVE buttons shift the pitch of the keyboard up or down by two octaves, in octave increments. The professional joystick allows real-time articulation of pitch bend, vibrato, and brilliance during performance; an additional two-band EQ (Low and High) provides a final adjustment to the overall tone. All front panel buttons and controls are conveniently grouped together by function, and the custom backlit LCD delivers valuable visual feedback regarding the instrument’s current settings. A rotary data-wheel encoder can quickly edit the value of the onscreen parameters. The black-out finish, rubberized touch surface, and perforated end panels reflect the distinctive upscale design. | It all Starts with the SoundThe i3 is endowed with decades of KORG sound design expertise. Inside you’ll find nearly 800 instrument sounds created with critical precision by master programmers and musicians. Add 59 custom Drum Kits, and you’re talking some serious sound. Calling up one of the 200 Sound Performance Sets from memory can place up to four sounds on the keyboard at once; three layered across the upper keys, and one split to the lower keys. Reset the split point instantly with the touch of a button and the press of a key. The high-fidelity PCM sound engine provides a generous 64 voices of polyphony. Two stereo effect processors – each with 173 variations – add motion, depth, and expression to each of these real-time sounds. Press the convenient Grand Piano button to instantly recall the prime piano sound of the i3 in any mode, at any time. | Start CreatingThe KORG i3 is the Workstation that can help you create performances from your ideas. By selecting a Style Performance Set, it can enhance any performance by adding in the missing parts – a drum beat, a bass line, some percussion hits, and any other backing parts you may wish to add, from a tight funk brass section to some serious guitar strumming, from a string quartet to a grinding old blues organ. You can actually have up to eight parts making up your backing track. Each of the 270 Styles contains four related Performance Set options; each one recalls a different set of backing sounds, just as each Sound Set offers four related options for the real-time keyboard parts you play yourself. Active backing parts will follow your chord changes and voice leading to create a personalized track to match your performance. If you need just a little more spark for your creative fire, the eight Chord Buttons can suggest and provide ready-made chords to keep your momentum moving forward. |
Alone, On Stage, In the Studio
The KORG i3 Music Workstation features plenty of connections and performance options. The i3 can be powered by either an AC adaptor (included) or optional alkaline batteries. Two separate 6.5mm outputs (Left/Mono and Right) are provided for audio monitoring, in addition to an 3.5mm stereo headphone output. An 3.5mm audio input is provided, and a 6.5mm jack for a foot controller. The foot switch function or expression pedal is defined by the settings of the i3.
Save It. Share It.
Compose it. Play it. Record it. Share it with the world – or just your closest friends.
Style Performance Set settings, Sound Set settings, Tempo, Effect settings, etc. can be saved into a single Set List location for instant recall. Once recorded, your finished project can be exported as a MIDI data file. What really makes the i3 unique is the Performance Recording mode, where an entire performance generated and played on the i3 can be captured and recorded as audio data and exported as an audio .WAV (44.1 kHz) file.
- The sequencer has a track-by-track linear 16-track recorder which can be edited.
- Your finished project can be exported as a MIDI data file
- An entire performance generated and played on the i3, can be captured and recorded as audio data, then exported as an audio .WAV (44.1 kHz) file
- Two USB ports are provided: The “DEVICE USB” port can save and load user data and songs to and from a USB flash drive. The “HOST USB” port connects the i3 to a computer.
- A MIDI output jack transmits note and timing data from the i3 to other MIDI equipped instruments, or audio gear.
| Weight: | 5.77 kg |
| Dimensions: | 103.7 x 29.6 x 8 cm; 5.77 Kilograms |
| Model: | I3-MS |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Batteries Included: | 6 AA batteries required. |
| Colour: | Silver |
It is ok but pricey for its price,but wish for more sound selections.
Me gusto el diseo y sus sonidos Aun no he terminado de revisar sus funciones
I generally liked this keyboard and for working in studio it would be great . I needed a more powerful keyboard for Stage work so eventually settled on Korg PA 300 . It has More spec and it comes with music stand . The i3 does not . Korg is a great make I’ve used them for years . Never let me down .
Amazing value when Korg offers the $100 rebate. Use the i3 as a MIDI controller or a VERY capable lightweight gigging keyboard. NOT a synth, but a blast to sketch out track ideas on. Don’t sleep on the on-board sound set…extremely usable!
Sintetizador de calidad y funcionando segn lo esperado. El envo lleg en perfecto estado y unos das antes de lo esperado.
Big bang for the buck..I will be learning how to record my favorite songs..sounds are great…various rhythms are up to date..choices are unlimited…fits into my lifestyle wonderfully….
HOWEVER, with that out of the way, this instrument is ultra portable and incredibly intuitive to use. It reminds me of my old Yamaha PSR-510 in that regard, but the polyphony, the sound quality and the styles are much better. The portability alone along with the presence of a 5-pin MIDI out port makes this an excellent backup board for the gigging musicians, and it also sounds very good layered (with 2 or 3 layered voices), and could easily be used for the studio recordings. The ability to make very quick audio recordings to a flash drive makes it very handy for those of us with plenty of musical ideas who don’t want to go through the motions of getting our DAW/audio interface/Zoom portable recorder running every time we have an idea we want to record. The ability to turn on/off different voices using the independent buttons for each accompaniment track is also so much nicer in practice and much more preferable to menu diving on so many other instruments. There are also plenty of registration banks (from A-J) to record all your performance settings, and each bank has 5 slots, which makes up for 50 registration slots, total. The way how all sounds are organized in terms of styles and sound sets, and how easy they are to navigate through makes it a joy for those of us who want to play more and not get sidetracked into endlessly changing parameters and options, which I am so guilty of doing in general. Two big gripes I have is that there is no 5-pin MIDI In port and no arpeggiator on this keyboard. Also, the live control knobs that control much more than the EQ would have been nice, but I can live without it. Finally, the clincher in the decision to buy this was that Korg has included the entire software suite with it. Just the Reason lite edition along with the 3 Applied Acoustic Systems VST plugins (the strum studio, ultra analog and their electric piano VST) make the whole deal so much more inviting, but there is also other software included as a part of the bundle, including the software VST plugin for Korg’s legendary M1 synth. Overall, this is probably more of a higher end semi-pro unit geared towards serious keyboard students and weekend warriors. But, unlike some critical voices out there, I can easily see it in the professional recording studio just the same. I just wouldn’t use it all on its own, but that’s sort of my preference. It does make for a great songwriting tool if used all on its own, however.
Das Design ist top, die Bedienung nach dem Lesen der Anleitung einfach und logisch. Das Gewicht mag vorteilhaft sein, wenn man das i3 mitnehmen mchte oder auf dem Studiodesk aufstellen mchte.
Nur ins Produktionsstudio gehrt das i3 definitiv nicht hin. Leider. Obwohl sie als Music Workstation deklariert wird, ist die i3 alles andere. Es ist eher ein Heimkeyboard ohne Lautsprecher mit Aufnahmefunktion. Die Sounds und Styles stammen aus allen vorherigen Serien der i- und PA-Serie und sind fr diese Preisklasse top und in ppiger Auswahl vorhanden.
Bei der Programmierung des i3 scheinen die Entwickler entweder an Grenzen gestoen zu sein oder die Lust verloren zu haben. Grenzen daher, weil das i3 auf einfache Hardwaremodule (einfacher Einplatinen-Computer, Midimodul, Rompler-Mudul) mit Linux als Softwarebasis aufgebaut ist. Mir kommt es fast so vor, als htte man einen “fertigen Bausatz” aus der Handwareschmiede Guangzhou genommen und die Software dazu gebastelt.
Die Lustlosigkeit bemerkt man, wenn man durch die Styles, Set List undStyle Performance zappt. Je weiter man nach hinten kommt, desto weniger sind diese auf das i3 angepasst worden. Die Lautstrken der Tracks sind unterschiedlich, die Sounds schlecht abgemischt.
Fr Menschen, die in die Musikproduktion einsteigen mchten, bietet das i3 Sequenzer und Audiorecorder. An eine DAW kann man das i3 ber USB-Midi anschlieen. Allerdings gibt es hier auch wieder Grenzen. Das i3 bietet auch einen klassischen Midi-Out. Was fehlt: Midi-Filter und MMC. Zwei wichtige Funktionen, wenn man das i3 an einer DAW nutzen mchte, da sich das i3 nicht mit einer DAW synchronisieren lsst. Ich kann zwar die Midi-Clock bertragen, aber es ist unmglich DAW und i3 synchron zu starten.
Jetzt muss man, wenn man sein “Werk” als Midi-Datei aufzeichnen mchte erst im i3 Sequenzer aufzeichnen, auf USB Stick speichern und dann in seiner DAW importieren. Eine Funktion, die vielleicht 5 gekostet htte, aber ich denke hier hat man dann bei der Entwicklung aufgehrt.
Aufgehrt hat man auch an anderen Stellen. Das i3 hat eine schne Webseite zur Vorstellung bekommen. Software-Downloads wie fr andere Keyboards gibt es, aber hier wird an den meisten Stellen das i3 nicht Mal mehr erwhnt. Fr das ltere EK50 gibt es speziell angepasste Styles zu Download. Fr das i3 nicht. Wobei ich probiere diese ich auf dem i3 zu testen.
Ich habe brigens das Software-Update (1.5) vom April bereits installiert gehabt, als ich das Gert gekauft hatte. Schade, ich hatte gehofft, dass man hier nachgebessert hatte.
brigens sind die Styles (fast) alle mindestens 10 bis 27 Jahre alt. Teilweise stammen sie aus dem alten i3 und den Nachfolgern. Die einzigen neuen Styles (fr Recht aktuelle Songs) sind eigentlich nicht zu gebrauchen und live kaum spielbar.
Ich werde diese Rezension auch an Korg senden und hoffe auf Feedback. Dann gibt es auch ein Update.
Ich wollte eigentlich nur 3 Sterne geben, aber den 4. Stern gibt es fr die guten Sounds.