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"Korg Sound Make Up Museum" (in Japanese).^ " Korg Mourns the Passing of Chairman Tsutomu Katoh Archived at the Wayback Machine", Keyboard Magazine, March 15, 2011.^ Gordon Reid, " 40 Years of Korg Gear", Sound On Sound, Oct 2002.^ Dave Hunter, " 50 Years of Vox ", Vintage Guitar, June 2010.^ a b c Julian Colbeck, Keyfax Omnibus Edition, MixBooks, 1996, p.Korg was the exclusive distributor of Marshall Amplification product in the US for decades. In 1992, Korg acquired Vox, then primarily a manufacturer of guitar amplifiers.
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Korg has since diversified into digital effects, tuners, recording equipment, electronic hand percussion, and software instruments. In 1993, after 5 successful years under Yamaha's control, Kato had sufficient funds to repurchase most of the Yamaha shares.ĭeals and Acquisitions until Present Times
In 1989, Korg recruited the design team from Sequential Circuits as they were relieved of their duties by then-Sequential owner Yamaha.
The takeover of the company was amicable, with Kato drawing up the terms, and the two companies continued to independently develop their product lines and compete in the marketplace. In 1987, shortly before the release of the M1 Music Workstation, Yamaha acquired a controlling interest in Korg. Yamaha Corporation has always been a major partner of Korg, supplying them with circuitry and mechanical parts. The M1 is still to this day regarded as the perfect workstation. The M1 workstation, released in 1988, sold over 250,000 units, making it the bestselling synthesizer ever at that time. Korg was the first company to feature effects on a synthesizer, and the first to use a "sample + synthesis" sound design. The "key transpose" function was Kato's idea after a singer at his club needed her accompaniment played in a lower key, which the accompanist wasn't able to do. Korg is credited with a number of innovations. In 1970 the firm name changed again to Keio Giken Kogyo Inc.
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Keio sold the organ under the name KORG, created by using the first letter of each founder's name plus "RG" from their planned emphasis on products targeted for the organ market (emphasizing the letters R and G in the word "organ"). Impressed with Mieda's enthusiasm, Kato asked him to build a prototype, and 18 months later Mieda returned with a programmable organ. In 1967, Kato was approached by Fumio Mieda, an engineer seeking to build keyboards. Buoyed by the success of the DA-20, Keio released a solid-state version of the Rhythm machine, the Donca matic DE-20, in 1966. The name "Donca" was an onomatopoeic reference to the sound the rhythm machine made. The company's first product was an electro-mechanical rhythm device, the Disc Rotary Electric Auto Rhythm machine, Donca Matic DA-20, released in 1963. Dissatisfied with the rhythm machine, Osanai convinced Kato to finance his efforts to build a better one. Osanai, a Tokyo University graduate and noted accordionist, regularly performed at Kato's club accompanied by a Wurlitzer Sideman rhythm machine. Before founding the company, Kato ran a nightclub. It later became Keio Electronic Laboratories ( 京王技術研究所) because its offices were located near the Keio train line in Tokyo and Keio can be formed by combining the first letters of Kato and Osanai. Korg was founded in 1962 in Tokyo by Tsutomu Kato and Tadashi Osanai as Keio Gijutsu Kenkyujo Ltd. Tuning of Sébastien Érard harp using Korg OT-120 Wide 8 Octave Orchestral Digital Tuner