Korg PS-3300 is back
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Korg PS-3300 is back
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Re: Korg PS-3300 is back
#2Title could really use the synth-model (as it is on the site).. how about: One of the rarest and most coveted synthesizers in history, PS-3300, is back (it's still click-baity.. but then it just be PS-3300 - A legend, reborn)
Re: Korg PS-3300 is back
#3Title could really use the synth-model (as it is on the site).. how about: One of the rarest and most coveted synthesizers in history, PS-3300, is back (it's still click-baity.. but then it just be PS-3300 - A legend, reborn )
Good point. The full title was too long so I edited it down. Hopefully this is clearer.
Re: Korg PS-3300 is back
#4Nice, but I guess it's pretty expensive.
Re: Korg PS-3300 is back
#5Nice, but I guess it's pretty expensive.
Likely around £11,000 I heard.
That gives me the same feeling as a concert grand piano or installed pipe organ. I'll never get to own one or probably even touch one but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use.
Luckily cheap software and hardware synths can give us all a taste of what they're like.
This Korg seems more like something for museums or professional studios.
Re: Korg PS-3300 is back
#6Nice, but I guess it's pretty expensive.
Likely around £11,000 I heard. That gives me the same feeling as a concert grand piano or installed pipe organ. I'll never get to own one or probably even touch one but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use. Luckily cheap software and hardware synths can give us all a taste of what they're like. This Korg seems more like something for museums or professional studios.
> but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use
The irony is that a professional musician in most cases has less budget to buy those expensive things than someone working e.g. as a teacher or clerc.
Re: Korg PS-3300 is back
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likely around £11,000 I heard. That gives me the same feeling as a concert grand piano or installed pipe organ. I'll never get to own one or probably even touch one but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use. Luckily cheap software and hardware synths can give us all a taste of what they're like. This Korg seems more like something for museums or professional studios.
> but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use The irony is that a professional musician in most cases has less budget to buy those expensive things than someone working e.g. as a teacher or clerc.
Very true especially in this day and age. I think by “professional” I mean someone already successful rather than an up and comer.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use The irony is that a professional musician in most cases has less budget to buy those expensive things than someone working e.g. as a teacher or clerc.
Very true especially in this day and age. I think by “professional” I mean someone already successful rather than an up and comer.
Yes. If we assume only 5-10% of musicians with a decent, self-supporting living from composing/playing/performing alone (most others work somewhere in the “music-sector”, e.g. as teacher or as clerc of a record label or collecting society), only 0.5–2.5% have a stable middle-class income from artistic music alone, and roughly 0.01–0.3% have a upper-class income from artistic music alone and can afford to spend 11k£ for such a synthesizer.
Re: Korg PS-3300 is back
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very true especially in this day and age. I think by “professional” I mean someone already successful rather than an up and comer.
Yes. If we assume only 5-10% of musicians with a decent, self-supporting living from composing/playing/performing alone (most others work somewhere in the “music-sector”, e.g. as teacher or as clerc of a record label or collecting society), only 0.5–2.5% have a stable middle-class income from artistic music alone, and roughly 0.01–0.3% have a upper-class income from artistic music alone and can afford to spend 11k£ f…
In someways this isn’t that unlike the past.
I saw that Pete Townsend has donated his synths to a school in West London.
That includes a Yamaha GX-1 and an EMS modular. That’s some of the rarest (and largest) synths ever made and would have cost the equivalent of hundreds of thousands at that time.
Not too many muscle in the 1970s would have been able to buy a GX-1.
Re: Korg PS-3300 is back
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Likely around £11,000 I heard. That gives me the same feeling as a concert grand piano or installed pipe organ. I'll never get to own one or probably even touch one but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use. Luckily cheap software and hardware synths can give us all a taste of what they're like. This Korg seems more like something for museums or professional studios.
> but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use The irony is that a professional musician in most cases has less budget to buy those expensive things than someone working e.g. as a teacher or clerc.
Musicians who landed a successful sync licensing deal, have that kind of money. Likewise producers who got points on something that took off.
Anyway, $11,000 for a musical instrument is not that much for a musical instrument even when it is a lot of hamburgers for a given musician.