The KingKorg is a full-sized, 61-key analog modeling synth that’s designed for live performance. It offers a clear layout, it’s highly tweakable and it’s even got a streamlined sexiness that’s somewhere between the retro-knobbiness of vintage analogs and the minimalism of early digital synths.With today’s electronics, it’s easy to add more and more features to keyboards. This can lead to keyboards that are powerful, but also sometimes leads to synths that are complicated and not that fun to play.WIth the KingKorg, Korg’s designers have gone the other direction, avoiding featuritus and instead, they’ve made tough decisions about what features belong in the keyboard. That meant leaving some features out – features that some buyers may want. But the result of this discipline is a keyboard that’s powerful, but also immediate and fun to play.Key features of the KingKorg include:Full-sized, 61-key semi-weighted keyboardThree oscillators per voice, with choice of 127 oscillator typesChoice of 18 filter typesThree master effect sections, each with six effect typesCV/GATE OUT jack that you can use to control a Korg Monotribe or MS-20Support for librarian software that lets you manage programsVacuum-tube driver circuitVocoder (but bring your own mic)After spending some time with the KingKorg synthesizer, we found a lot to like. While it is a analog modeling synthesizer, the Korg KingKorg is a digital synthesizer designed for vintage analog keyboard fans.Like most classic synths, there’s no wading through deep menus on the KingKorg. Just turn the keyboard on and start playing.The KingKorg presets features a wide range of classic synth and keyboard sounds, ranging from old-school Moog and Mellotron, to acid-style bass, digital synth and some basic stage keyboard sounds. The collection of presets seems to have been picked with vintage synth fans in mind. There’s a wide variety of vintage synth sounds, string synth patches, Mellotron sounds, classic Minimoog leads, Rhodes sounds and even vocoder patches.