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Korg Inc. (株式会社コルグ, Kabushiki-gaisha Korugu), founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories, is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronicmusical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners. Under the Vox brand name, they also manufacture guitar amplifiers and electric guitars.

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Korg was founded in 1962 in Tokyo by Tsutomu Kato and Tadashi Osanai as Keio Gijutsu Kenkyujo Ltd..^[1][2] It later became Keio Electronic Laboratories (京王技術研究所) because its offices were located near the Keio train line in Tokyo and Keio can be formed by combining the first letters of Kato and Osanai. Before founding the company, Kato ran a nightclub. Osanai, a Tokyo University graduate and noted accordionist, regularly performed at Kato's club accompanied by a Wurlitzer Sideman rhythm machine. Dissatisfied with the rhythm machine, Osanai convinced Kato to finance his efforts to build a better one.^[3][4]

The company's first product was an electro-mechanical rhythm device, the Disc Rotary Electric Auto Rhythm machine, Donca Matic DA-20, released in 1963.^[2] The name 'Donca' was an onomatopoeic reference to the sound the rhythm machine made. Buoyed by the success of the DA-20, Keio released a solid-state version of the Rhythm machine, the Donca matic DE-20, in 1966.

In 1967, Kato was approached by Fumio Mieda, an engineer seeking to build keyboards. Impressed with Mieda's enthusiasm, Kato asked him to build a prototype, and 18 months later Mieda returned with a programmable organ. Keio sold the organ under the name KORG, created by using the first letter of each founder's name plus 'RG' from their planned emphasis on products targeted for the organ market (emphasizing the letters R and G in the word 'organ').^[3]

Keio's organ products were successful throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Concerned about competition from other organ manufacturers, Kato decided to use the organ technology to build a keyboard for the then-niche synthesizer market. Keio's first synthesizer, the Korg miniKORG, was released in 1973.

During the 1970s, Korg's synthesizer line was divided into instruments for the hobbyist, and large expensive patchable instruments such as the PS series. In the early '80s, Korg branched into digital pianos.

Korg is credited with a number of innovations. The 'key transpose' function was Kato's idea after a singer at his club needed her accompaniment played in a lower key, which the accompanist wasn't able to do. Korg was the first company to feature effects on a synthesizer, and the first to use a 'sample + synthesis' sound design. The M1 workstation, released in 1988, sold over 250,000 units, making it the bestselling synthesizer ever at that time.^[3]

In 1989, Korg recruited the design team from Sequential Circuits as they were relieved of their duties by then-Sequential owner Yamaha. Yamaha Corporation has always been a major partner of Korg, supplying them with circuitry and mechanical parts. In 1987, shortly before the release of the M1 Music Workstation, Yamaha acquired a controlling interest in Korg. The takeover of the company was amicable, with Kato drawing up the terms, and the two companies continued to independently develop their product lines and compete in the marketplace. After 5 successful years, Kato had sufficient funds to repurchase most of the Yamaha share in 1993.

Korg has since diversified into digital effects, tuners, recording equipment, electronic hand percussion, and software instruments.^[5][6] In 1992, Korg acquired Vox, then primarily a manufacturer of guitar amplifiers.^[7] Korg was the exclusive distributor of Marshall Amplification product in the US for decades. This arrangement ended in 2010.^[8]

Download solitude standing suzanne vega rar file. Kato died of cancer on March 15, 2011.^[9]

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References[edit]

1. ^'L'Histoire de Korg'. Musicarius [le blog].
2. ^ ^ab'The History Of Korg: Part 1'. www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
3. ^ ^abcJulian Colbeck, Keyfax Omnibus Edition, MixBooks, 1996, p. 52. ISBN978-0-918371-08-9
4. ^File:MiniKORG700S (1974).jpg
5. ^'The History Of Korg: Part 2'. www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
6. ^'The History Of Korg: Part 3'. www.soundonsound.com. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
7. ^Dave Hunter, '50 Years of Vox^{[permanent dead link]}' , Vintage Guitar, June 2010
8. ^Gordon Reid, '40 Years of Korg Gear' , Sound On Sound, Oct 2002
9. ^'Korg Mourns the Passing of Chairman Tsutomu KatohArchived 2011-09-09 at the Wayback Machine', Keyboard Magazine, March 15, 2011

External links[edit]

• 'Korg Sound Make Up Museum' (in Japanese). Korg.
• Korg home page (US / UK / Australia / Japan)
• korgaseries.org - A decade old online resource hosting photos, product info, effects, mailing list and manuals for Korg's A1, A2 and A3 effects processors.
• Audio interview with Mitch Colby - EVP / CMO of Korg USA^{[permanent dead link]}
• NAMM Oral History Interview Tsutomu Katoh discusses his favorite of his many musical products, the tuner. October 16, 2006.

If you own a Korg keyboard or synthesizer, you have likely noticed a button or feature indicated by the word 'Transpose.' This refers to the process of adjusting the pitch of the keys either up or down. But where the 'Octave Shift' feature switches the keys to the next octave (for example, from C2 to C3), the 'Transpose' feature simply adjusts the keys one note at a time, so that 'C' becomes 'C#,' and C#' becomes 'D,' for example.

Locate the'Transpose' button. Though some keyboards feature the transposing feature on a digital menu, others do not (particularly older models that feature it as a button directly on the device). If no 'Transpose' buttons appear on your keyboard, proceed to step 3.

Click the 'Transpose' button to activate the transposing feature, and use the appropriate dial to adjust the key either upward or downward. On many Korg keyboards, the dial will appear with the word 'Value,' while other keyboards designate another nearby knob for this function. For example, to make adjustments on the Korg SV-1, you would use the 'Treble EQ' dial. Other models, like the PS60, contain two 'Transpose' buttons ('Up' and 'Down') that you can press to automatically change the key in either direction without a need for a knob. Consult your manual if you do not know which dial to use on your particular model.

Locate the 'Transpose' feature on the LCD menu. If you do not see a 'Transpose' button on your keyboard, it most likely exists as a digital feature. Korg features the 'Transpose' function as part of its 'Global' menu, so you will want to start there. For example, the 'microKORG,' the 'Trinity' series and the 'M' series all use the 'Global' function for transposing keys. If your keyboard uses an LCD screen, Step up 2 movie in hindi free download.

Click the 'Global' button on your keyboard (or turn the Mode/Select knob to 'Global,' if applicable), then click 'Edit' and locate the 'Transpose' feature on the LCD screen. Use the 'Value' dial or other navigation buttons to move between the options on the screen. If using a microKORG, just turn the knob that appears above the words 'Master Transpose.'

Raise the 'Transpose' value to a higher number to raise your key, or select a lower number to lower your key. For example, '+1' changes 'C' to 'C#,' while '+2' changes 'C' to 'D.' On the other hand, '-1' changes 'C' to 'B.'

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