Korg i3 Music Workstation Keyboard
Product Information
The KORG i3 is a full-featured Workstation featuring 61 full-size, velocity-sensing keys. The keyboard response is adjustable using the three touch-curves; a fourth setting provides a fixed output level. OCTAVE buttons shift the pitch of the keyboard up or down by two octaves, in octave increments. The professional joystick allows real-time articulation of pitch bend, vibrato, and brilliance during performance; an additional two-band EQ (Low and High) provides a final adjustment to the overall tone.
All front panel buttons and controls are conveniently grouped together by function, and the custom backlit LCD delivers valuable visual feedback regarding the instrument’s current settings. A rotary data-wheel encoder can quickly edit the value of the onscreen parameters. The black-out finish, rubberized touch surface, and perforated end panels reflect the distinctive upscale design
The i3 is endowed with decades of KORG sound design expertise. Inside you’ll find nearly 800 instrument sounds created with critical precision by master programmers and musicians. This includes a complete GM2 sound set, providing flawless General MIDI compatibility. Add to that another 59 custom Drum Kits, and you’re talking some serious sound.
The operation of the i3 distinguishes between the Sound Set, that is the sounds played in real time on the keyboard; and the Style Performance Set, that is the sounds and parts generated by the i3 to augment your performance. Calling up one of the 200 Sound Sets from memory can place up to four sounds on the keyboard at once; three layered across the upper keys, and one split to the lower keys.
The high-fidelity PCM sound engine provides a generous 64 voices of polyphony. Two stereo effect processors – each with 173 variations – add motion, depth, and expression to each of these real-time sounds. Press the convenient Grand Piano button to instantly recall the prime piano sound of the i3 in any mode, at any time.
Specifications
- Keyboard
- 61 keys
Touch control: Soft (light), medium (standard), hard (heavier), fixed
- Sound generator
- Stereo PCM sound generator
- Maximum polyphony
- 64 voices
- Sounds
- 790 sounds, 59 drum kits (including a GM-compatible sound set)
- Sound sets
- 200
- Style performance
- 270 styles × 4 set
- Effects
- Accompaniment part
- 2 stereo digital multi-effects
- Keyboard part
- 2 stereo digital multi-effects
- 173 variations
- Styles
- 270 styles
Style control: 2 intros, 4 variations, 2 fills, 1 break, 2 endings, synchro start, tap tempo
- Audio player
- Supported formats: MP3 (44.1 kHz, 16-bit), WAV (44.1 kHz, 16-bit)
- Sequencer
- Record
- Supports real-time recording
16 tracks, 999 songs maximum
Data storage capacity: 100,000 notes (999 songs)
- Playback
- Supports song play (playing the keyboard while playing back a song)
- Supported formats
- Playback: SMF (Standard MIDI File) format 0 or 1
Recording: Original format (a function is available to convert and output to SMF0)
- Demo songs
- 3 (songs + sound introduction)
- Scales
- 11 types (including user scale)
- Connectors
- FOOT CONTROLLER jack
- 6.3 mm phone jack (half-damper not supported)
- AUDIO IN jack
- 3.5 mm stereo mini-phone jack
- OUTPUT L/MONO, R jacks
- 6.3 mm TS phone jack (unbalanced)
- Headphones jack
- 3.5 mm stereo mini-phone jack
- USB TO DEVICE port
- USB Type A port (for connecting a USB flash drive)
- USB TO HOST port
- USB Type B port (for connecting to a computer)
- MIDI OUT connector
- For connecting to MIDI tone generators and other devices
- MIDI
- Supports MIDI OUT, USB MIDI
- Display
- Customizable LCD with backlighting
- Power supply
- Power adapter: AC adapter
Batteries: AA batteries (alkaline or nickel-metal hydride) × 6
(sold separately)
- Battery life
- Approx. 8 hr. (when using alkaline batteries)
- Power consumption
- 6W
- Dimensions (W × D × H)
- 1,037 × 296 × 80 mm/40.83” × 11.65” × 3.15”
- Weight
- 4 kg/8.82 lbs. (excluding batteries)
- Included items
- AC adapter
- Accessories (sold separately)
- PS-1 pedal switch, PS-3 pedal switch, DS-1H damper pedal, EXP-2 foot controller
