Korg i30 Interactive Music Workstation

Korg i30 Interactive Music Workstation

You'd have a hard time finding a nicer one

This is my first experience with the i30 and it is easily one of the most under rated keyboard that Korg has ever made. What a REALLY neat keyboard!! From what we can tell everything is working correctly and cosmetically it is about average with just the normal scuffs and scratches you should expect on a used keyboard. 

The Korg I30 Music Workstation is a versatile high quality synthesiser with a graphical touch sensitive screen for setting up backings, choosing styles and sounds, setting up performances, loading and saving data on disk, setting up MIDI parameters etc.

Performances are a combination of right hand primary keyboard, right hand sub keyboard and left hand voices combined with various settings such as their relative volume, keyboard split position etc.

The Korg I30 Interactive Music Workstation can be used in many ways...

It can simply be played live using a range of built-in sounds and/or sounds that the user creates.

It also has a large selection of built-in accompaniments that can be played fully fingered or just using one or two fingers, and mix and match is possible (sometimes fingering the chord, sometimes using just one finger, without having to switch modes - the I30 figures it out). Each accompaniment has 4 variations, 2 fill-ins, intro and ending sequences. The user can also create their own custom accompaniments that will then be stored in memory.

It has a multi-track sequencer which can be programmed to play orchestral or band parts with or without the user playing along. The sequence can be pre-loaded with a MIDI file and then worked on further to perfect intonation, choice of instrumentation, etc. Often the best way to do this is to use a software tool like Band-in-a-Box running on a PC and generate a fairly sophisticated backing exporting it as a MIDI file, copy it onto floppy disk, then read it into the Korg I30 for further and final processing. The I30 also has a built-in recorder to record tracks or complete performances, and it has MIDI IN/OUT/THRU sockets too.

User-created information (such as sounds, automated backings, sequence programming) can be accommodated into the internal memory of the I30 and/or on disk; it uses 3.5in 2HD floppy disks. The I30 can be fitted with an internal hard drive option but this one does not come with that option fitted.

Foot pedals can be attached and used for volume and for other functions - the switched pedals can be programmed as to what they do. There are also two switches on the panel which are also user-programmable.

It is important to remember that when buying a used keyboard it may not operate or look exactly like a new one. Used keyboards develop wear over time that can cause such items as function buttons, knobs, sliders etc. to fail to operate as smoothly or easily as when they were new. Our technician does check these items and if they are deemed unusable they are replaced but some function buttons may require more pressure or manipulation to make the appropriate changes. Cosmetically your used keyboard may have scuffs, scratches, cracks to plastic pieces, discolored keys or other visual impairments that might not show up in the photos. We try to mention any obvious visual imperfections but may not consider them serious enough to post in the listing.