Korg M50 Review

isten to the M50

The new Korg M50 digital piano keyboard features a plethora of new and exciting features including multiple split keyboard, layered keyboard to name just a few.

The M50 workstation is based on native features found on the M3 which come both in 61 and 73 note versions. Most notably the M50 comes in what is called semi-weighted touch response keyboard.

It promises to provide much faster and unequivocal response to the slightest touch. The 88 key version of the M50 sports a fully weighted graded hammer action for the piano performer that would rather have nothing less than the purest of piano key action.

The keyboard features a display screen with a menu system that is very intuitive and easy to understand making for quick to find instruments and other sound banks.

All the buttons on the keyboard itself feels very solid and sports a four-way joystick when moved in the north and south direction act as the pitch bender and East-West direction for other effects such as tremolo.

In the rhythm section the keyboard features a mind numbing volume of drum patterns in the hundreds and over a thousand arpeggio patterns.

In terms of sounds, the keyboard features over 600 preloaded samples, preloaded combinations, 32 preloaded drum kits and a three band equalizer.

And of course no workstation would be complete without the quintessential sequencer which is standard fare for the M50.

When compared to the Korg M3 digital piano keyboard there is a noticeable difference in the sound dynamics. In particular it would appear that the high notes are very clear and crisp and resonates very well in the low notes.

The dynamics of the keyboard are exceptional and true to Korg’s form. Some of the samples included in this keyboard are genuinely very good particularly for the acoustic and electric bass.

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