Korg X3

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X3 by Korg
Synthesis type: Digital Sample-based Subtractive
Polyphony: 32
Timbrality: 16
Keyboard: 61-key Velocity Sensitive, Aftertouch
Left hand control: Pitch + Modulation
Onboard effects: 2
Produced: 1993

The Korg X3 is a synthesizer produced by Korg in 1993. The X3 features 200 Programs, 200 Combinations, 32-voice polyphony, a 32,000 note, 16-track sequencer with 100 patterns and 10 songs and a double-sided, double-density 3.5 inch floppy disk drive for song and other data storage types.

Many of its samples come from the T3 Series and 01/W Series Synthesizers. The X3 features 339 samples compressed into 6 megs of ROM and Korg beefed this synth up in areas where previous Korg synths had been weak (For example, Organs and Strings).

The X3 lacked several key piano samples than had become popular in the M1 and 01/W series, replacing them with different samples altogether, and (arguably) not as good sounding as before. They eventually brought back some of these classis Korg sounds (like the M1 Piano) in the X5D and future Korg synths.

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