The company had even built the MS20iC USB Controller for the plug-in version in the Legacy Collection. It dominates the wish-lists of enthusiasts the world over, and Korg had already recreated it in software within the OASYS and the Kronos. But should the company design a new instrument, or dredge up a design from the past? Ultimately, I suspect that - having come this far - the decision to remake the MS20 was unavoidable. If true, Korg clearly feel that the experiment had been a success because Fumio Mieda (the designer of the original MS20) and Hiroaki Nishijima (Korg's current chief engineer) recently went on record to say that 'the next step should be a fully-fledged analogue synthesizer”. Many people have speculated that the release of Korg's Monotrons and Monotribe had, at least in part, been experiments to see whether the unending hype surrounding monophonic analogue synthesizers could be translated into sales. On the other hand, I'm already sitting next to an MS20 Mini, which Korg describe as 'the classic MS20 recreated”. Well, I haven't been to the moon (or back) yet, although there are still eight months to go, so who knows what may happen. I remember one writer confidently stating that, 'the chance of Korg bringing out an MS20 in 2013 is about the same as you and I being able to travel to the moon and back in 2013”. Look back at contributions to the various synthesizer forums in early January and you'll see how vehemently the leaked news of the MS20 Mini was derided. How does Korg's reborn MS20 compare to its illustrious ancestor? For the best part of 20 years, musicians have been asking certain Japanese manufacturers for recreations of their classic synths, and finally one of them has been brave enough to do it.

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