The New miniKORG 700FS Synthesizer (Overview & Demo)

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

The cave performance....what an absolutely beautiful way to demo this new instrument, uh, er, old. I mean, well, you know. It just sounds great!

[@marceldesmith9958]

This channel really goes above and beyond to make great content for such a niche subject. The cave performance was unexpected and wonderful. Awesome stuff and I hope that korg releases a low cost version of this one similar to the 2600 M or ms20 mini.

[@greenman2601]

Honestly, it really does.

[@9877joseph]

Me too!

[@ErraticFaith]

You won't be getting anything low cost in the analogue realm for at least 5 years post pandemic cool off. Since the damage to production and electronics is immense and the shortage means things like this aren't in any sort of priority at all.

[@symbiat0]

This was on my GAS list since it was announced but the price kept me away. Then all of a sudden it was down to $1500 at Sweetwater over Thanksgiving. I suspected it might become discontinued and the price was great so I pulled the trigger. No regrets, it’s a wonderful and beautiful instrument.

[@slowbro1337]

That cave performance was very captivating

[@lo-firobotboy7112]

I traded a two Speak-n-spells for a KORG 700 a few years ago. I'm very glad I did. This little synth is very expressive and really fun to play. It's also a beautifully designed instrument.

[@tonye9045]

Wasn’t expecting the ending Sam! That was epic. Looks like a great machine too.

[@davidm3569]

A classic.......reborn. I can still remember seeing one on the top of an organ in the window of the local music shop. I was in my early teens and stood there in awe.......dreaming of being able to play it.......but never did. My first synth was ( and still have today ) was a used Moog Satellite which had preset switches underneath the keys. This Korg now is a thing of beauty, it still for me retains the wonder of that first encounter. A real 'hands on' piece of art, it's gleaming metal controls and the promise of endless sound possibilities. The boy in me is still in awe................... The icing on the cake, a magical, wonderful concert performance set amongst the vast cavern that reminded me of the old synth masters of long ago.

[@chriseisert1349]

I was going to say the exact same thing as a few others mentioned. Was super cool to get a little musical treat at the end. Becoming a big fan of this channel. They are like full made episodes here with full on script (very witty at that) story driven direction, a rabbit whole of synth history etc. A nifty passionate production indeed.

[@pauldoyley8354]

Sam, great seeing the progression on this channel, and your production team is doing an awesome job. Always love the background and history on the equipment. Nice treat to hear an original from you. Must have been amazing playing in that cavern!

[@donnelson8524]

:-o That cave performance! I used to run planetarium shows and this was exactly the sort of music that we sought: otherworldly, yet still organic and beautiful. Reminds me of early JMJ, who back in the 70s remembered that music made with new technology could (and should!) still sound >musical< and not just beep-boop. Lovely composition, beautifully recorded and produced. Bravo.

[@ldifalco2010]

I remember seeing Gino Vannelli in Philadelphia in 1976. Before the poly synths came out, Gino had four keyboard players including his brother Joe playing single line string sounds on the multiple miniKorg to create a full string section. Gino never gets the credit he deserves for the bands early synth work.

[@RobertAdachi]

So beautiful. I've come to love my own 700FS even more. Thank you for your talent and lots of energy you have put into creating the movie.

[@kinnectar820]

Really loving the cave performance! What an amazing idea to show off this beautiful synth.

[@Jason75913]

I wouldn't do that, not with the likely high humidity of the place, that's asking for trouble. Electronics don't like high humidity.

[@freestate6200]

Syntaur Rocks!

[@kevinbatchelor9566]

Beautiful demonstration!

[@jeunedyap]

I guess that’s just what I needed

[@thismeanswarbasse]

I've always loved the design of the minikorg. This ones on the someday list for sure.

[@stevepeglar2783]

Love my original Minikorg! Also, Greg Hawkes still owns several Minikorgs.....I actually sold him one in 2006 and personally delivered it to him in Boston (I'd bought it in the late 90's in a rural Texas pawnshop! :-)) He's a great guy! Anyway, I've seen him play the one I sold him on a few televised performances since then. So glad that Korg reissued this classic!

[@CrisBlyth]

YEAH !!!!!!! I see your 'concentration whilst remaining calm' look going on there !

[@Dcyde86]

that whole thing with the "ancient" history of the "new" KORG and the performance in the cave in comparison ,gave me chills . Well played Sam ,literally! Probably by far the best synth presentation lately. Love from Athens, Greece

[@kimtae858]

Amazing as usual! A passionate history lesson with a wonderful performance. I haven't seen those caves since I was a little kid so that was an additional treat.

[@textnotepro]

Excellent. Love that korg really thought about this reissue and made improvements but kept the character of the original. They should be delighted with the way you have covered the product in your video. Impressive performance in the 2nd half.

[@jppagetoo]

Nice to see Korg put this out. Cool synth.

[@toddtrillo7445]

That was just awesome , I can only imagine how cool that would be to play in a cave , another fantastic vid , thanks guys

[@saladdays180s9]

The Cars Simple and awesome lead lines letting the sonics of the synth ring put. The Cars early works were sublime.

[@theleastsignificantbit4794]

The performance in Natural Bridge Caverns is amazing! Well played!

[@jscan]

Terrific stuff Sam! Love this channel and all that Syntaur does! I was working in one of the leading second hand musical instrument chains in the early 80's and remember we had a MiniKorg 700 we'd taken in trade - I think it was marked at $79 and we ended up selling it for 59.. "if I knew then, what I know now.." Around the same time we has a CS-80 nobody wanted for $200 ugghh

[@cranstjs]

Me too! I owned one that I bought in the 70s for around $300 or so. I sold it in the mid 80s for a few hundred. Who knew they would ridiculously jack up the price to more than $2k, which is insane. I have a free DAW version of it that's fine.

[@epicon6]

8:50 I immediately got The Lost Boys vibe from the cave :) Awesome!

[@cyrrustvirus]

only one word needed: Mindblowing

[@homelessballoon]

What an excellent presentation! I’m a fan! 😀

[@nathans1978]

Fantastic filming and keyboard. Love the cavern!

[@liantrosretrospectiva4134]

great video! this kind of stuff makes KZbin worth the money they ask to remove adds. subscribed!

[@NathanEllery]

Sam caves in and goes underground. Very sweet indeed. Watched it 3x. I could hear Vangelis - spiral? These old synths don't do too much for me until someone plays in context and then woh! Just what I needed.

[@mickeythompson9537]

I think that review of the miniKORG was just what I needed.

[@PorchBass]

What a rocking fun intro tune. Great work.

[@TheInart]

Wow amazing review and so beautiful contentent music and scenary! Also it seems you are playing inside Caves of frasassi. Was you there? Absolutely amazing.

[@4estral]

Great performance. Brings back memories of discovering Kitaro a long long time ago.

[@Phil-1]

That cavern performance is above & beyond for a synth demo!

[@Fluxwithit]

Sam, every one of these videos are a true gem. Thanks for this

[@thejra-gon6991]

That...was.. FANTASTIC! I love how you used natural reverb for the real exhibition of what that Korg can do, it gorgeous, never stop playing!

[@DarkSideofSynth]

Amazing synth and performance

[@tymiklic6463]

knokin it out of the park guys...just fantastic...its a wonderful immediate little goer isnt it? even the ensoniq got a look in...cool.. really appreciate the effort the syntaur team put in to these vids...thanx Ty from s.oz

[@klaassiersma4892]

Wow, this is the one i have been waiting for.

[@davidreidy5750]

Caves and synths are perfect for each other, subscribed.

[@1Live2Love3Thrive]

That walk! 100 points for the walk demo!

[@joshuareavis4401]

Where have people like you guys been my entire life!! I have always felt like alone in my synth journey, you guys show me how wrong I was! Incredible work, keep it up!

[@johnny.storm-wolf]

Great video and excellent, special original performance. Sometimes we forget as musicians that simplicity is key to great music. This is what the people in the 70s did!

[@ganormand]

Loved seeing and hearing the TS

[@Syntaur]

Still my go-to board for doing any songwriting and sequencing!

[@ganormand]

@@Syntaur I was cleaning my music room-found a bunch of OLD Syntaur stuff I got from you. Brought back memories. WIll make inventory, and see if you want any of it. sold all my Ensoniqs-But have something very unique: an original music stand for the TS12.

[@indiefilmcomposer]

Excellent video best out there to actually this in a musical context and the history 🎸

[@bikegarrett]

Beautiful recording at the end great performance love that man

[@garycitro1674]

Great video! The performance at the end is marvelous! I hope the beginning stays up a long time as well. Rick Beato did a "what makes this song great" analysis of one of the songs by The Cars, and it I don't think I demonetized, it got taken down with a copyright violation strike and he couldn't even get it back up again.

[@johnnygri99]

Love this channel. You guys are the best.

[@JulianMakes]

Awesome rundown and beautiful sounds at the end!

[@midnightsocean2689]

Lol minikorg, now comes with all analog cave reverb (hand rails included). What a cute little synth! I don’t know what kind of demand there is for it these days though. Maybe people are getting tired of too complicated and too many options? It’s a great synth for getting back to the basics I guess. I should look if anyone’s done a direct head to head between the old and new model. Fantastic tune. I love your idea performing it there. So cool.

[@wetwork6553]

Now THIS is content creation!! Brilliant and absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Subscribed!

[@PeterJDeVault]

The cave session was awesome. Thank you.

[@stevecoscia]

This is really good, Sam. Nicely done.

[@stevekennedy8424]

Great Video, awesome performance and idea at the end

[@Digiphex]

That was just what I needed.

[@1980VINZ]

Wooooow...... That was so cool... Sounds of my childhood... And this magical place...what a dream of reverb!! What a pleasure, thanks for the sharing !!! Big salut from France 🇫🇷 ViNZ.

[@biggrime]

Can you imagine being there live? Wow

[@davidrhodes6413]

Excellent production as always. chiiled tune & great filming of a lovely location. Really nice of them to let you film there.

[@reallyordinary]

This definitely went somewhere I wasn't expecting.

[@harmonicres]

Superb video demo of this little spoken of synth. Expressive check! Unique ease of use check! Japanese check! Ability to stand against the onslaught of modern software synths major check!!!

[@brianseay3539]

So simplistic yet huge on sound

[@fjfrancois]

Another beauty that I can’t afford, nice video guys, love it.

[@atuanoiniin]

What a great video!! That jam at the end was absolutely beautiful!!!

[@joecantdance494]

Wow... That piece at the end was magical

[@synthartist69]

OMG.....this video is the best one ever by Sam..love this guy....and this synth!!!

[@sevak1631]

That performance and the filming was amazing!

[@kingtrance307]

You nailed that Cars lead! Brought back memories… 👍

[@KirklandWilliamsWorkout3000]

The only review that sounded good with this synth 🎹💯👌🏾

[@piktormusic2538]

Wow! What a grand and highly musical demonstration! Clearly a cut above. Congratulations! You make some very lovely choices in using how you use this “simple” synth.

[@whitelightenergydads]

this makes me want to listen to kitaro

[@mobtek]

Always awesome

[@hanspecans]

The 700s will always be the Kitaro sound to me. Beautiful cave performance!

[@santiagogonzalez5822]

That performance was AMAZING! Congratulations for it. Where could I get the song?

[@FursAndMasksMusic]

Midway thru this I had to check it wasn't the official Korg demo. Mad production value. Two minutes later he's in a friggin cave playing a gig 🤯

[@heatherperkins9737]

Mini Korg was my very first synth. I loved that thing.

[@PWMaarten]

The MiniKorg 700 is my favorite sounding synth!

[@Sam_Utah]

WOW! Great demo and music. I have had a dozen 700's and 700s/K2 over the years and recently acquired the FS and I am blown away. I used to sell them because of frustration with the lack of modern feature and VIOLA! Modern feature set. Expensive but way worth it. Thank you for this. Sub.

[@mikegeary8056]

Those updates are perfect. That’s a rad synth if your a player.

[@mylittlestudio]

The end is absolutely brilliant !! What a location❤️❤️ Excellent review and Kitaro’s ending is peacefull. Love

[@Someone-tj1sf]

Oh wow...I love your Channel and your Cave-Sounds! It remembers me to the early Jan Hammer Songs. Especially: "Dont you know that I live you"

[@jeffjunk]

Beautiful!

[@stevenspicer1620]

Sam, loved the video. You've got some mad skills.

[@Nathanaelsun22]

What an excellent adventure video, what a wonderful suprise performance in the caves, marvelous absolute Beauty Divined.... thanks my friend...

[@Eric_In_SF]

That song really weirds me out. Just flashes you back to a different era. Hauntingly nostalgic.

[@expandingknowledge8269]

Captivating content, Love this synth!

[@nx01craig]

Awesome! My first (working*) synth was a Univox K2 MiniKorg! I loved that synth! (*1st was a PAiA 2700 kit I had to build myself, but it never worked properly)

[@JeffPalmer83]

Wow! Amazing video and beautiful performance. Thanks!

[@tombutcher1774]

Great video Sam and team!

[@Unibabble]

Holy crap I had one of the original mini-korgs. What a blast from the past... It did sound pretty good, but I replaced it with a minimoog eventually. You could balance the register and waveform selectors between settings for more sounds too.

[@ltpstan]

Interesting! I didnt know this. I'll see if I can do it on the 800DV..

[@renemunkthalund3581]

Your production value is through the roof by now! Sadly the YT algo doesn't reward videos with surprise gems not screamed out on the title. Break out the cave performance and post it with a screaming title…

[@timwendt1935]

Amazing performance! Love the MiniKorg 700FS.

[@rishpanjeet7479]

I have a K2 and it’s very, very, very fun.

[@tonyaalanizmusic]

Awesome Video and a really amazing tune.

[@AkosJanca]

Dear Sam, thank you. Very professional and inspiring work, as usual. And +1 for Ensoniq! Regards from Budapest.

[@Kung_Fu_Jesus]

Out goes the Pro 3 in comes the 700FS. Great job with this demo. Lovely playing too, thanks for your talent and devotion to putting this together.

[@eleven9286]

Syntaur needs way more subs.

[@Nervejam]

I actually owned a miniKorg. Real rough with dodgy keys. It was great.