Dave's Korg RK-100

MY RATING:

CHANCES OF SELLING:
SOLD

(NO SOUND SAMPLE - MIDI controller only)

Look at this delightful hunk of rhinocerous excrement! I rang in New Years' 1997 by playing songs (of course including "Jump"!) on it at a bowling alley in Bristol, CT.
It's had no velocity or touch sensitivity at all, so many sounds played on this MIDI controller, including some of my favorite leads, sounded muffled (given a MIDI volume range of 0-127, the RK-100's output level was around 70). But it was easy to play and carry; it ran on a 9V battery and wasn't too heavy. There were eight buttons for switching patches, which was perfect for the base-8 program patches of the Roland JD-800 I connected it to. There was also an octave up/down button and almost-useable pitch bender wheel.
It functioned OK and was reliable enough at gigs, although the sight of a keytar onstage was rather startling in the 1990s. I had fun with it, though. I painted colorful stars all over it. I loved it at the time, despite its relatively poor technical aspects.
This unit was sold in 2008 in order to purchase a Roland Axis-1, which eventually became the AXISTRON!

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