{"id":148917,"date":"2025-05-19T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=148917"},"modified":"2025-05-20T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:09:04","slug":"tatsuya-takahashi-on-the-new-phase-8-synthesizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/05\/19\/tatsuya-takahashi-on-the-new-phase-8-synthesizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatsuya Takahashi On The New Phase 8 Synthesizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phase 8 Acoustic Synthesizer by Korg Berlin at Superbooth25 | Interview with Tats | Audio Examples\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLBbfmDFtDQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this video, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCI0s4bZCPPoRLSqowQUCTGg\">Christian Halten<\/a>, <strong>Tatsuya &#8216;Tats&#8217; Takahashi<\/strong> discusses Korg&#8217;s unique <strong>phase8<\/strong> synthesizer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takahashi<\/strong> discusses Korg Berlin&#8217;s journey in creating the phase8, goals for the project and his interest in tactile interaction with electronic instruments. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The phase8 is an eight-voice electro-acoustic instrument, with envelope control, sequencing, waveshaping and audio modulation. It generates sound using eight independent electro-mechanical voices, where the sound is generated using electronically controlled metal resonators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing and Availability:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Korg<\/strong> expects for the <strong>phase8<\/strong> to be available starting in Q1 of 2026, priced under 1000 Euro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korg Berlin&#8217;s Tatsuya &#8216;Tats&#8217; Takahashi discusses Korg Berlin&#8217;s journey in creating the phase8, goals for the project and his interest in tactile interaction with electronic instruments.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/05\/19\/tatsuya-takahashi-on-the-new-phase-8-synthesizer\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tatsuya Takahashi On The New Phase 8 Synthesizer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[27412,30401,359,34805,1337,35364,30615,31155],"class_list":["post-148917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-acoustic-synthesis","tag-electro-acoustic-instruments","tag-korg","tag-korg-berlin","tag-strange-musical-instruments","tag-superbooth-2025","tag-synthesizers","tag-tatsuya-takahashi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tats-phase-8-synthesizers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148917"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148956,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148917\/revisions\/148956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}