MS-20 sharing and discussion thread

[mexicadian]

Those are some fun looking cables lol

[jambbb]

@smbols

Ippei Tambata’s MS-20 patches

these are incredible, thanks for sharing!

[Claude]

Ok, after many months I got ahold of a MIDI DIN cable and, using an Alesis Micron’s MIDI out, it plays as it should. It does seem to be something with the keybed. As my previous visual inspection yielded no findings, this should suffice for my very occasional use. An Arturia keystep would work as a bandaid and probably cost the same as a service visit (and shipping).

To summarize:

Keybed AND keyboard cv and gate out suddenly dead. Unit responds to CV/gate from SQ-1 as usual. Confirmed that MIDI works.

Probably should tear it down and look the insides over again, but too tempted to get my delay and reverb pedals and bliss out.

[rknLA]

Has anyone here with a vintage model MS-20 tried to compare them (sonically, functionally) to the new FS models? Similar to this kind of assessment:

@wolfgangschaltung

I witnessed the following shortcomings of the Korg MS-20 Mini I tried in a music store in 2015 compared to my original MS-20:

• The CV INPUT jack of the MOD VCA was not normalized
• The MOD VCA distorts sensitive CV input signals, so much that the keyboard CV is no longer usable for chromatic playing of the oscillators once it passed thru the MOD VCA
• The sustain level of EG2 does not equal 0 volt. On the original MS-20 the EG2 sustain level is always 0 volt, so that all other EG2 levels are moved relatively to 0 volt when you move the sustain level.