Korg unveils ten new products at NAMM, here are the first three. MINI Kaoss Pad does the same like the bigger ones, but - what a shocking news - it is smaller. And works on batteries, and has 100 effect programs. The big workstation synth is M3 - the name recalls the old M3R module which was the small and rack-mountable version of the M1 synth - but this one is positioned higher. Basicly it is a cut-down version of Oasys, transformed into the affordable category. It has 120 of polyphony which is performed by the heart of Oasys (HD-1 chip). It works from a massive 256 megabyte ROM set, and a 64 megabyte of sampling RAM (expandable up to 320 megabyte). You can order M3 in three different versions: with a keyboard of 61, 76 or 88 keys.

Downside is R3, a small synth plus vocoder, based on the Radias-technology. more to come later.