Korg MS20 Vintage

Original Vintage Korg MS20 For Sale - In exceptional condition.

Meticulously overhauled by perfectionists, and working perfectly. Disassembled, cleaned inside and out, fully serviced by vintage synth specialists with decades of experience, systematically tested by perfectionists over a long period and fully functional. Few sellers invest the time, love and money we do in the preparation of our gear, and this is justifiably reflected our prices.

Videos of this particular MS20 can be seen in action here:

The MS-20 is a great monosynth but also has patchpoints like you'd find on a modular synth - for great added flexibility in sound creation and communication with other electronic musical equipment, old and new. Its external signal processor lets you process external signals through it in a way that most similar synthesizers don't allow and also lets you play the MS20 from other audio signals / instruments - voice, guitar, etc. This section includes a frequency to voltage converter, envelope follower and other features usually found on modular systems. It's also possible to cross patch this with other old synthesizers to create hybrid sounds.The MS20 has a nice raw and nasty sound to it - nothing else sounds like it, thanks to its TWO FILTERS - high pass resonant and low pass resonant - which make this thing really SCREAM. It can sound similar to Moog and ARP but definitely has a distinctive tone of its own - we consider this the rock and roll lead synth mainly because we can get very nice distorted sounds out of it which remind us of distorted lead guitar. This synth is perfect for all techno genres, rock, industrial, house music and other styles. There are very good reasons this synth is a favorite of many, including Vince Clarke, Aphex Twin, Air, Autechre, William Orbit, Youth and many, many other influential musicians from 1978 to 2001! Great for wet synth basses, ripping leads and weird noises!

Features include:

VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR 1
Scale (course Pitch)
Wave form = triangle, saw, square/pulse, noise
pulse width
VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR 2
Scale (course Pitch)
Wave form = triangle, saw, square/pulse, RING MODULATION
fine pitch
VCO MIXER
vco 1 level
vco 2 level
VOLTAGE CONTROLLED HIGHPASS FILTER
Cutoff frequency
Peak (resonance)
VOLTAGE CONTROLLED LOWPASS FILTER
Cutoff frequency
Peak (resonance)
VOLTAGE CONTROLLED AMPLIFIER - VCA
Portamento
master tune
FREQUENCY MODULATION
MG/T EXT
Eg1 /ext
HIGHPASS AND LOWPASS FILTER MODULATION:
MG or Total Ext
EG2 or Ext
MODULATION GENERATOR
Wave form shape
Frequency
ENVELOPE GENERATOR 1
delay time
Attack time
Release time
ENVELOPE GENERATOR 2
Hold time
Attack time
Decay time
Sustain level
Release time
PATCH POINT PANEL
total modulation in
osc freq in
ext signal to filter in
hpf CV in
lpf CV in
vca initial gain cv in
signal out
headphones
modulation generator (LFO) tri out
modulation generator (LFO) square out
EG1 out
EG1 inverted out
EG2 reverse out
EG1 trigger in
vco 2 cv in
vco 1 + 2 cv in
kbd cv out
trigger in
trig out
sample and hold
in
clock
out
VCA
audio in
control in
out
noise generator
white
pink
mod wheel out
trigger button out
EXTERNAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR
signal in
out
bandpass filter out
freq to voltage out
envelope out
trigger out
signal level
low cut freq
hi cut freq
cv adjust
threshold level
3 octaves
volume / power knob