The Korg M50 is the latest music workstation from Korg. It's not really a pro class workstation like the M3 released last year, but it does keep many of the same features and has the same synth architecture.
At first glance the M50 has a remarkable resemblance to the M3 workstation, this is because of it's large touch screen interface and tab navigation system. If you're familiar with the Triton Workstation series then you'll easily be able to find your way around the M50. You may also notice that the M50 gets a lot of its design cues from the M1, with its backlit round buttons. Also the X/Y axis joystick look very similar to those workstations of the past.
With the looks and sounds comes a price that is easy to get use to. The M50 retails for only $1000. For this budget you know Korg is going to leave out some of the goodies. You might miss the Karma feature found on the Karma, M3, and Oasys Workstations. Also there's no sampling feature. Korg probably realizes a lot of the entry level workstation uses are also using DAW software with their boards so the M50 actually hit's a great price point.
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ReplyDeleteI noticed the Korg KARMA can run about $500 more than the Korg M50. Are the extra features in the KARMA able to justify the higher cost? This is coming from a person that the only musical talent I have is to adjust the sound in my car radio.