Korg Radias: Crazy-looking new analog-ish synth

This is the Korg Radias, a new analog-style synth from Korg. While Roland are stuck in retro hell, Korg seem to have got some crazy new product designers in. The Radias is supposedly the first spin off from the Oasys technology. It looks to me like a replacement for the long-in-the-tooth MS2000. Do you think it's a rackmount that somehow screws into that keyboard? There's also a RadiasR version which is just the rack. (via IT Review)

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

Comments:

Oooh that looks fun.

# posted by

Doktor Future : 7:42 pm

Price point???

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:48 pm

looks REALLY cool...of course it probably sounds like the MS2000 and microkorg...even though its oaysis.

# posted by

Anonymous : 9:41 pm

In the NAMM pics the module is aligned to the left with a blank platform to the right - nice place for a laptop, mouse mat or some smallish hardware piece. Nice...

# posted by

Anonymous : 12:16 am

What's the price?

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:45 am

the panel layout looks almost exactly like the ms2000. i *just* got an ms2000b. damnit.

# posted by

Anonymous : 2:57 pm

I went to a talk by Brian Eno the other day where he revealed he has been designing a synth with Korg for the last Five Years using some kind of wacky programming interface that operates in a similar way to Photoshop Filters. I don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere before, but I thought it was quite interesting.

L-c

# posted by

Anonymous : 4:00 pm

theres more info on it here

http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=RDKB&category_id=1

and is it me or does the "radias" vocoder voice sound like its saying "lazyarse"? hmmm....

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:11 am

$1700... for $800 they would have me thinking about about... now they are too close to real analog Moog Rack or PEK teritory.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:42 am

i played it today at namm - it is pretty sweet and rich. it really reminded me a an analog synth and it's cool that you can make it flat or tilt up the the controls for the studio.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:35 am

Any official news on price/release date?

# posted by

Anonymous : 10:14 am

its amazing. You'll love it.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:06 pm

Very nice ,listened to all the demos
and watched the videos on it just beats the Virus Ti price by £500 UK
But what would you go for ?

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:50 am

I've made a couple of demo videos of the Radias, and took some pictures.

Here's the link:

http://www.robotgigante.cl/radias.htm

It's a nice walk through the presets, since i'm still learning the use of the machine.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:53 am