It's amazing that the Triton completly made this synth vanish so fast in its dust, yet - it is still a better sounding synth allround. Really only lacking a sampler, argegiator and higher polyphony. It's odd how they rebranded the synthesis method from Access to "HI" when they sound so close. IF you load in the additional Dance PCM library into the Trinity.. it's 90% stock triton sounds. Bet you didnt know that!

This was the first "Modular" Keyboard that came out, and the first with a touchscreen as well.

You have the ability to have a 4 track hard disk recorder, ADAT, Realtime FX (a TON), flashrom/AKAI import and Physical Modelling (Z1 or prophecy)... in the day way the latest workstaiton was the O1/Wfd. It came out of nowhere and freaked people out. Basically the child of the Korg OASys Prototype synth.

As with everything Korg Does, they add 10 amazing ideas and then add 1 stupid thing on top. Such as: The Hardrive partitioning was soo weird - consisting of a DOS partition and a korg audio partition that was incompatible with everything - making backup difficult.

O - and the biggest peave, "it's sparkling *LOCKED* 48k sample freq" .. this has caused the biggest digital sync nightmare ever for me. I am not a post facility.. im not pulling down my sample rates.. Why not 44.1?!?! Dumb! Heh - porbably the only reason to have a *gulps* SBlive! - considering it's locked at 48! ;)

Also, really managing sampled Flashrom data and internal patches was a nightmare when you wanted to moved things around.

Other than that, its a beautful peice. I mainly use it for weird pads and stuff these days with the onslaught of sampled acoustic libraries.. but it's a great controller.

Check out pics at http://www.neilaudio.com/jerker/jerker.html

If you can find a fully loaded version.. its sitll a DEEP machine.. and very enjoyable to work on.

Presets aren't bad at all; I still use some of them although I've edited them considerably. I've supplemented these with patches from Pro-Rec, together with sounds from the Internet and my own creations, and have transformed my Trinity into a strong dance-production synth. I like the FX although would appreciate a little more flexibility. Don't use the sequencer at all (except when I was starting out); when I did use it, I didn't find it particularly user-friendly.

Overall, however, a great synth.

I play in a band and I'm yet to work out a way of easily selecting my favourite sounds without endless scrolling or remembering banks and patch numbers... Is there a quick and easy way to program some performance patches or quick keys?