{"id":152799,"date":"2026-04-02T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152799"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:31:43","slug":"the-past-present-future-of-korg-synthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/04\/02\/the-past-present-future-of-korg-synthesis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past, Present &#038; Future Of Korg Synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Korg Conference: Innovation in Electronic Music Instruments | Live at smem\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p8qsbAmGEQQ?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>This video captures a presentation by Korg Berlin&#8217;s <strong>Tatsuya Takahashi<\/strong> and <strong>Iarla Scaife<\/strong> on the past, present and future of <strong>Korg<\/strong> synthesis. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Berlin-based Korg team came to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@smemmusic\">SMEM<\/a> (Swiss Museum and Center for Electronic Music Instruments) in Fribourg for a conference to discuss the past, present, and future of Korg synthesis.<\/p>\n<p>The session dives deep what makes Korg unique, from their analog heritage to the acoustic synthesis of their <strong>phase8<\/strong> synthesizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The session dives deep what makes Korg unique, from their analog heritage, to the acoustic synthesis of the Phase8 synthesizer.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/04\/02\/the-past-present-future-of-korg-synthesis\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Past, Present &#038; Future Of Korg Synthesis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152800,"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":[12,23766,25],"tags":[271,359,35719,31155],"class_list":["post-152799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keyboard-synthesizers","category-modular-synthesizers-electronic-music-gear","category-synthesizers","tag-history-of-electronic-music","tag-korg","tag-korg-phase8","tag-tatsuya-takahashi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/korg-synthesis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152799","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152802,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152799\/revisions\/152802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}