I’m not going a penny above $420.69

“The price itself is not a concern for anybody that makes money from their music.”

Most professional musicians live on the edge financially.

Most synths are sold to hobbyists, many who are passionate about their music but never make a dime from their music and don’t do it for the money. Most hobbyists with day jobs don’t buy niche use products.

idk I’d prolly buy it for $574.50

The price itself is not a concern for anybody that makes money from their music.

It’s more a matter of the utility vs cost. This is not a bread and butter synth that you could use for baseline and pads, it’s for niche use cases.

So I’d think about this more along the lines of synths like the Dewanatron and SOMA pipe – unique and interesting instruments that fill a niche, but that are never going to be mainstream.

FWIW – the build and price look reasonable for a niche instrument like this. That’s just what it costs to make a decent musical instrument in low volumes.

This is never going to be a mainstream synth, it’s really a niche product. Higher cost goes with low volume.

They could cut this price in half, and it wouldn’t double sales. This niche ’boutique’ products are always going to cost more, because they can’t make them in volume.

This seems like it will be huge with soundtrack composers and maybe something ambient artists would be interested in, but more of an expensive novelty for people working in other genres.

$1149? At that price, does Korg expect this to sell? Will they make these to order?

I cannot imagine the Price not dropping. Surely some will buy it as is but in general
and for the times, i understand they put a lot of trial and error into it cause this is basically in the making for eons now but 1+ K is a bit much

Wow thank you korg. This looks awesome