Korg MS-20

"2013 vs. 1978 ... FIGHT!!! #KorgMS20"

Mix engineer Tommaso Colliva on recording Drones : "There are fewer keyboards on Drones than on previous albums, and the ones we did use are the usual suspects, like the Buchla 200e, ARP 2600, Korg MS20, Prophet 5 and Moog Voyager."

"But I have been pulling a few vintage bits of kit off of the shelves too. Things like an old [Roland] Juno-106 and a Korg MS20. All you need is one sound and you're off on your journey. Who knows where you'll end up."

This article goes over the gear Disclosure uses during their production.

At 0:34 in this video there is ms20 in Steves studio.

When asked how to imitate Sam Halliday's guitar sound in Two Door Cinema Club's track "This Is The Life", Sam responds "Think we put it through a korg ms20"

In this email from Mat Zo from February 2017 detailing his studio gear, he lists the Korg MS-20 as one of the hardware synthesizers that he uses.

A Korg MS-20 can be seen in this photo of Josh Klinghoffer in his studio.

"Chromed out MS20"

Daft Punk is one of the artists listed on this website to be users of the Korg MS-20 : http://www.vintagesynth.com/korg/ms20.php And the sound of the ms20 is easily recognisable on their first album... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCup-lRJ0WI

In this page, he use for Carl Cox Collective - My Life In Music.

"I’m not much of a sound designer. I know what I want and know how to get to that on my laptop, but the MS-20 I love because of the unique sounds it has. But you really do have to take a day just to come up with something different."

A Korg MS-20 analog synth can be seen in this picture Andrew Bayer posted on Facebook

Flume posted a studio pic of his MS-20

In this video from *Audeze*, at 5:06 you can see a blurry, yet obvious MS-20.

An Korg MS-20 Synthesizer can be spotted in The Bakery.

Set your synthesizer on the dining room table, open the manual, and just mess around. When you take recording your performance out of the question, your more free to learn and experiment.

I’ve got a couple of synths – a DSI Mopho X4, the Korg MS-20 reissue, all the Volcas as well.

In this photo, the MS-20 is the keyboard in the upper right above the MPC60. This was used in some live performances and in the studio. The positions of the knobs are indicative of the MS-20.

The MS-20 is visible in Mathew Jonson's studio tour [feature](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8s_xtDv4D0) for Fact Magazine at 0:37.

It can be seen infront of picture 2.

Used on stage in 2016 tour

In the picture you find in the link you can see Aaron Jerome using a Korg MS20 during a performance at Leeds Festival 2014.

"What's REALLY expensive is that other guy over there, which I don't even really use, um, that thing is a Korg MS-20, and it's not the MS-20 Mikro or Micro that Korg released last year, which is the same thing but with MIDI mapping and all that stuff. No, that thing is from 1978, so it's older than me by like seven years. It's a great, great machine, 100% analog sound, it doesn't even have MIDI[...] what it does is, there's this system control called CV, and what it does is basically it translates the MIDI signal into actual electricity and if you patch it right you can actually play the synthesizer..."

In a photo from Chocolate Puma's Facebook dated to 2003, one can see the MS-20 resting on top of a rack towards the left of the shot. It is directly beneath the left-most light.

The right part of this keyboard can be seen peeking on the left hand side of the screen at around 0:18.

In the documentary "Meet Squarepusher" from The Creators Project, previously unseen footage of Tom Jenkinson's studio from various periods (such as his 1995, 2000 and more recent setups) are revealed. If the video gets paused precisely in the 3:05 mark, there's a synth in the background that strongly resembles the MS-20. And since the MS-20 Mini was only released in 2013, it can only be the original one.

You can see Alexander from pegboard nerds in his studio with an original Korg MS20

This analog synthesizer can be seen at 50:00 into this video.

It’s mostly analog and stuff, but I don’t try to be an audio elitist or anything. I’ve sampled Youtube in the past (the contemporary cultural equivalence of sampling worn out vinyl?) and record all my synths and drum machines through a mediocre sound card most of the time. I got some old Roland stuff, a Korg MS-20, some newer analog, and this eurorack modular I acquired the parts for over a year ago.

"Look what just arrived to my studio. Hello, lover."

Next to the MS-10.

The Korg MS-20 can be seen on this Instagram image taken by Tycho.

At the [2:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVeNwl2MSpI&t=326s) mark of this video the Korg MS-20 is briefly shown in this mini documentary

In this video at 7:30 there is ms-20 in his studio.

At 2:03, James Ford of [Simian Mobile Disco](http://equipboard.com/band/simian-mobile-disco) talks about his Korg MS-20, saying "It's an old synthesizer, it's pretty basic but good work-horse synth. We just like it because we know our way around it really quick, so we can easily get things out of it."

In this Facebook photo shared by Okereke, his setup is visible, with Korg MS20 located at the right of the photo.

Rob from Autechre said in a Sound on Sound article, "a couple of months ago we bought the Kenton Pro4, and our old Korg MS20."

Keyboard Magazine - Junkie XL Studio 2013 Korg MS-20

The London project studio houses a few of the vintage synths that Youth has collected over the years, including a Korg MS20.

As the show drew to its close, ‘Pocket Calculator’ not only featured a reset rhythmical template but also footage of Herr Bartos showing off his synth inventory. The eagle eyed would have spotted with a Stylophone, Korg MS20, Minimoog rack mount, Farfisa Professional piano , ARP Odyssey and that iconic elektronisches schlagzeug unit.

"Basically everything we’ve used we practically still have here. So it’s a list too long to go into. There is a wall alone that is the orginal setup of Skinny Puppy, based around a pair of Roland TR-808’s, Roland TR-909 with trigs going to many differnat devices including Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland System 100m, ElectroComp Eml 101, Korg SQ-10, Korg MS-20, Korg MS-10, ARP 2500 and ARP 2600."

"I got a patch bay and also route my emu through a valve compressor or through my korg ms 20 or through a virus or through some distortion pedals"

The Gear Blog for Arcade Fire's ACL taping includes this photo of Will Butler's synth setup, and a caption that read, "Far stage left was synth world including a Korg MS-20, a Dave Smith Prophet ’08, and a Moog Rogue…"

Towards the bottom of this page, there is a photo of Goldrich playing a Korg MS 20.

The Korg MS-20 can be seen at 0:11 in King Britt's studio equipment.

Listed in Chris Walla's Hall of Justice Recording Studio equipment list.

At 1:11 the Korg MS-20 is visible on the right among various other Synthesizers.

Is seen fingering it lazily at 1:59.

The Korg MS-20 can be seen in the right foreground of this photo of Vince Clarke's studio.

Korg MS-20 is included in the list of synths at Daniel Miller's home studio.

The Korg MS-20 can be seen throughout The xx's video for "I Dare You". At 4:02, part of the distinctive front panel is focused on, showing the oscillators and the mixer, and the back panel with the Korg logo can be seen at 4:39.

St. Lucia mentioned the synths he used to record previous records.

In this video at 1.03 there is a ms-20 in his studio.

This picture of Baauer in his studio taken by Nest HQ shows a Korg MS-20 to the left of his head.

if you look closely you can see a Korg MS-20 behind him

"I'm kinda stoked to befriend my new studio companion during #LiveFeedFriday tomorrow. #Korg #MS20" Taken from James Egbert's Instagram.

"I also used a bunch of different modules as well as the René. I've got lots of Intellijel modules, and I put a lot of parts through the Korgasmatron for shaping and stereo filtering or phasing effects. I also use both my Prophets, the 5 and the 8, just because they're the best pad machines out there. They're so rich. I use the [Roland] Juno and the [Korg] MS20s a lot"

Karma Kid posts an Instagram pic of his Korg MS-20 Mini Semi-modular Analog Synthesizer. Pic is timestamped December 2013. He says, "Latest edition to the family! Thanks Santa"

Featured in some tour of his studio.

At his home studio (dubbed “50” for the street address where he lives), Price would often access his bank of vintage synths — including a Moog Polymoog, Korg MS-20, Roland SH-09 and a rare Rhodes Chroma — to add textures to a demo track or to supplement the Clavia Nord Lead 3 that Flowers uses as his main synth.

"One of the great classic Japanese synthesizers from the late 70's and early 80s."

The MS-20 can be seen as one of the voices Jamie is using to play all of his monosynths as a polysynth in this video.

A Korg MS-20 can be spotted in this video.

Here's a short instagram video of G Jones in his homestudio and his friend, the MS-20

You can see the Korg on this picture in his studio from 2001-2005

Although he uses software synths, Laurent Garnier favours the hardware variety, particularly where lots of knobs and sliders are available. Vintage keyboards in his The Kub studio include Roland Juno 106 and Jupiter 8 and Korg MS20 analogues, plus the under-rated Yamaha DX100 FM synth (bottom right), while Garnier also uses the Kurzweil K2000 workstation (top right).

William Orbit (about the gear he used for the recording session of Madonna's Ray of Light album) : “How did I know you would ask me that? Oh, it’s all in a pile there if you wanna look at it . It’s not a ton of gear. Most of it is pretty retro; a Korg MS-20, a [Roland] Juno-106, a [Roland] JD-800. Much of the album was done on a Juno-106. You can get so much out of that synth. Also a significant amount of it was done on the MS-20 – the more spiky sounds. A few things that people think are guitar are actually the MS-20. And then there were a few more bits and pieces: a few modules, a Yamaha DX7, a Novation Bass Statlon, a [Roland] JP-8000, a lot of Roland stuff. I’ve always liked Roland stuff. ”

Korg MS-20 rigged up to Logic, being used in the studio.

Timo Mass got a **"Korg MS20**" beside many other synths, he listed up.

In [this interview](http://whenthesunhitsblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/interview-zia-mccabe-of-dandy-warhols.html), when asked what the most important gear was to creating her iconic sound, Zia chose her vintage Korg MS-20. " [...] I play all my bass parts on [it] and plenty of other sick ass sounds." She names the Korg MS-20 her "most important piece of gear."

Knudsen got this Korg MS-20 in 2015.

In this Instagram photo posted by Greenwald, he used the Korg MS-20 modular synth.

In this Instagram photo, Hot Mouth shows us one of his synthesizers, in this case a Korg MS-20 and captions the picture "I bet it loves to get fingered that slut"

I bought this one recently from Danny Wolfers (aka Legowelt) ’cause I thought my son Yani needed it. The very simple FM interface makes it an irresistible toy, even for grown-ups.? The MS-20 acts as a stand. The old ones are perfect for that!

In this rig photo by Sudol, the Korg MS-20 is visible from the left.

At 6:13 in this video, Ski Beatz says "I did the bass line with my MS-20." The MS-20 can be seen to the right of him at 6:18.

In this video from Drews most recent TIME MACHINES tour you can see his Korg on the desk. The original TIME MACHINES album featured this synth wired to an ARP 2600 and a Synton Fenix, all provided by drew. I have no documentation of those 2 but it was well reported on the coil fb group in 2017. As the live show is similar to the record, you can assume the ARP is on the desk as well.

The MS-20 is another one of my favourite synths of all time, and I’ve had it for about 20 years. I only use this synth for very special, specific purposes, and it’s a key part of my sound.

In this photo taken from an [xlr8r article](http://www.xlr8r.com/gear/2013/06/in-the-studio-jon-hopkins/), you can see John Hopkins MS-20, and states, "The MS-20 is all over this album. The lead single, 'Open Eye Signal', is only that, basically."

Dupieux’s commercial, which advertised Levi’s Sta-Prest jeans, was memorable for a yellow sock puppet named Flat Eric*, whose main shtick was personifying the squelches and wobbles of a Korg MS-20 synthesizer.

Korg MS-20 in the video

Mars 2016 / March 2016 – 3:32 : Saycet is using the KORG MS-20 (according to the size of the cable inserts, it seems to an original one [6.35 Jack patch cables], not the MS-20 Mini [3.5 Jack patch cables])

At 3:35 Alessandro says, "Lately we're going through the MS-20 to give it a more dirty sound."

42:03 into this video a Korg MS-20 is visible in Matador's home studio above the Roland SH-101.

Will Gregory modulated Allison Goldfrapp's live vocal through the MS-20's external input.

The item can be seen 3:18 into this video.

Paul Humphreys can be seen using a Korg MS-20 in OMD's music video for Enola Gay.

"Previously, cheaper synths either had presets like Paul’s little Korg which restricted the number of sounds they could make, or they would have no memory like their Korg MS20. Synths like the latter were largely impractical for live use as a keyboard although Mal Holmes had the MS20 to generate fixed sounds for percussive effects triggered by his drum pads."

Martyn has an MS-20 in the background of this picture.

.."and in our live room we’ve got a Juno 6, original ARP Odyssey, an original MS-20, and a Sequential Circuits Six-Trak, and a drum kit."

“Against my better judgment, I take my TR-808, MS-20 and a bunch of other vintage bits and pieces on the road,” Ma says. From an interview with jagwar ma on an article from Relix. The Korg MS-20 can also be seen at 01:32 being played by Jono Ma in Jagwar Ma's music video for Uncertainty (link above).

Production period: 1978 - 1983 The Korg MS-20 is a patchable semi-modular monophonic synthesizer which Korg released in 1978 and which was in production until 1983. It was part of Korg's MS series of instruments, which also included the single oscillator MS-10, the keyboardless MS-50 module, the SQ-10 sequencer, and the VC-10 Vocoder. Additional devices included the MS-01 Foot Controller, MS-02 Interface, MS-03 Signal Processor, and MS-04 Modulation Pedal. Specifications: Type: Synth/ keyboard/ Synthesis Type: Analog Subtractive Polyphony: Max: 1 Typical in use: 1 Multi-timbral (number of parts): Oscillators per Voice : Min : 1 Max : 2 Controllers : Wheel /switch Keyboard : Number of Keys : 37 Can send on simultaneous MIDI channels Responds to : Sounds can be split by : Inputs and Outputs : Number of Audio Outs (excluding Phones) : 1 Number of Audio Ins : 1 - very good pitch tracker Number of MIDI Outs (excluding Thru) : Number of MIDI Ins : About: As we know Liam loves analog shit and this is one of his favourite pieces of equipment. Many other well known bands are using it too like The Chemical Brothers and Ladytron.

Korg MS-20 can be seen in this Instagram post

you can see it clearly in this picture on his facebook

At 6:28 in this video, Robert Babicz's vintage MS-20 can be seen.

In this picture he is showing us a disassembled MS-20.

According to this article, the MS-20 is one of the few pieces of gear Liam Howlett didn't get rid of after starting to use Reason.

The writing studio’s compactness leant itself nicely to Bayley’s process. Keeping his essentials within arm’s reach, he has guitars: Hofner 176, Fender Stratocaster, Selmer Classical, Fender Precision bass with flat-wound strings, Roland Jupiter-6, Korg MS-20, ARP 2600—which made it onto every song on the album—a vintage Neumann U 87 microphone, and a couple of API preamps. Recording happens into Pro Tools, with Ableton preferable for sequencing and programming. Keeping things simple allows Bayley to whiz around, patching in what he needs quickly.

in this photo this artist have an korg ms20

"This is a Korg MS-20, which I absolutely love, had that for years." At 3:41 in the video.

The Korg MS-20 can be seen in this picture

Studio Gear of Urban Cone

Featured in his set for the Sequences video, visible and played at 24:54

Live with Anastasia.

He shows the synth at 1:15 in this video.

Most Röyskopp fans already know this one. The MS-20 is used on a very large percentage of their songs. It appear throughout the whole video.

On the left side of the desk in the photo.

It can again be seen in this tweet.

Pictured on floor @ 2:10. Video interview from inside Soulwax's studio in Ghent, Belgium.

"It's one of those synths I love to use more, because I imagine u can do a lot with this thing."

Shown underneath Jason's SH101 in this Instagram post.

Visible especially in the latter part of this video!

This item can be seen in this Instagram picture, uploaded by the artists themselves.

"We use the Roland JP8, which is quite a versatile instrument and a Korg MS-20 mainly."

One of the best mono synths crazily used in this against the clock

What kind of equipment, analog or digital, was used in the making of ‘The Nest‘? I extracted pieces from unfinished songs that worked with the current theme, adding singing bowls, tape recordings and bowed string instruments played through effect pedals and processed digitally. I also used VST’s in Ableton Live and might have used my Korg ms-20 synthesizer too. I honestly don’t remember.

(c) Martin Stürtzer - Döppersberg. (equipment) Sequencer: Elektron Octatrack Elektron Analog Four Korg SQ-10 Synth: Korg MS-20 Waldorf Rocket Live recording, no overdubs. Thanks to Waldorf & Uni Wuppertal FB Musik for borrowing stuff.

At 4:16 in the official videoclip of Air 'La Femme d'Argent', J-B Dunckel uses a Korg MS-20 synthesizer.

The item is on the top in this picture.

In this photo posted by Paula on her facebook page, one can see a Korg MS-20 to the left.

The item can be seen 0:38 into this video, in the studio of Rone, in July 2015, just over the NORD Lead 4. To me, this is the Original KORG MS-20, not the MS-20 Mini because, as you can see on the picture below, the original MS-20 needs 6.35 jack cable http://www.polynominal.com/Korg-mini-ms-20/korg-ms20-vs-mini-ms20.jpg. And in the video we can see the the holes do not correspond to 3.5 jack cable inserts (3.5 jack patch cable are used for the MS-20 Mini).

Visible in a couple of shots, namely the beginning!

Here is the site of studio where Sir Michu works. He is using most of the instruments, and gear from the "Dane techniczne" list.

He shows it at 1:45

Richard Dorfmeister: “It’s basically the gear I’ve been collecting over the past 20 years. A little selection of the stuff includes the Korg MS-20 (pictured above), which is the most effective monosynth that was ever produced - lovely sound, especially in combination with FX."

(THIS IS INCORRECT I HAVE UPDATED IT) korg ms20 is visible from around 3:38 in the video

See last question

STUDIO SETUP 2014

Is Modular an area you'd like to explore? "I'm not getting into that. The closest thing I've got to modular, or semi-modular, is the Korg MS20 and the ARP 2600 - but that's how it's going to stay. Modular doesn't serve a big purpose for the music I'm making because it's not really blippy kind of stuff, but it's nice to have those machines and get some weird sequences out of them."

A Korg MS20 was used on Chris Carter's *The Space Between*, according to the liner notes.

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Phillip has an MS-20 in this performance.

Broadcast mention the MS-20 as one of their main synths here.

Tara was given an MS-20 as a gift in 2016!

https://www.gearnews.com/doom-making-music-hell/

The item can be seen 1:33 into this video.

"iamtimecop1983@jim_ree Hehe, i know. It has become an addiction... ???? I use the MS-20 a lot. I use it for basses and leads. It was my first mono and i was afraid i wouldn't use it, but i love it! The filter sounds crazy good imo!"

Eloy Fritsch use the Korg MS-20 to record the album Spiritual Energy.

WE SEE AN MS 20 AT 10:05

Explained in his Side View Interview

'I found an ms20 synth in the rubbish behind charring cross road in London, seriously. Everyone thinks this is a myth but it really happened, took it home. Plugged it in, got electrocuted and fell in love.' Interview with Ann Shenton here: http://www.connexionbizarre.net/all-numbers-great-andsmall-an-interview-with-ann-shenton/

His cat is sitting on it here.

"My first proper setup was out of my college dorm room. I had an Access Virus TI, Waldorf Microwave XTk, Waldorf Pulse, Korg MS20, and Dave Smith Evolver."

Mat talks about owning this synth in this video

Trevor Gray, Apollo 440 "The Korg Legacy is so much fun!! We've owned the original Korg MS-20 since the 70's and used it with our Korg SQ-10 analogue sequencer on loads of records and remixes. Nothing quite sounds like it! We also love the MS2000R which has a smoother sound and MIDI-accurate sequencing possibilities. But the Legacy got us to dig out the old Patches we'd written over 20 years ago! The sounds we've put in the MS-20_Apollo440 Bank includes some of these, as well as brand new sounds and edits of library patches. That's the point with this great new piece of kit - you can get your hands dirty really easy! Edit ready-made programs or start from scratch. The controller feels just like the original and going back to patch cords was so cool! We hope you enjoy these sounds - and if you haven't got a Legacy then what are you waiting for - just get one!"

The famous intro of "Ci Penserò Domani", a very well-known song by Pooh written by Roby, was "invented" with the innovative Korg synth. In this picture you can see it: it's the light brown keyboard behind Roby.

You can an MS-20 on this picture