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Not over-endowed with intelligence the chunky DSS1 had just 256k of memory. Paul Nagle speaks up in defence of a dinosaur.

In the mid-'80s, Korg released their first sampling Grand, the SG1, a digital stage piano that doubled as a MIDI master controller keyboard. 10 years on, they've revisited the concept with the heavyweight SGproX. Paul Farrer considers whether a decade has made all the difference...

Korg's mission to bring musicians the benefits of physical modelling synthesis at an affordable price continues; you can now have a polyphonic, multitimbral Prophecy for well under twice the price of the original. The synth is called the Z1, and Gordon Reid is the man with the exclusive technical preview...

Gordon Reid checks out the street cred of Korg's latest synth and is surprised by what he finds.