KORG DW-8000 Synthesizer 1985 | HQ DEMO

[DesecratedProduction]

The sounds reminds me on the 'nightmare on elm street' soundtracks.

[audiotrax2000]

Wow! What a great sounding keyboard. I had totally forgot about these. I think the DW could give the Jupiter 8 a close run at a fraction of the price on the used market. Very nicely done vid.

[irishmusico]

This was my very first synth.Got my first keyboard gig because I could play Jump by Van Halen.Great to hear it again.Thank you.

[douro20]

I wish the data slider worked right on mine.

[petertheallblack]

how much could i sell mine 4?

[gjc82071]

As a kid, I had (still) the poly 800. My mom bought it for me brand new. After seeing the DW-8000 in some keyboard mag, I wanted it (& a Yamaha DX-7) sooo bad. A musician friend of my mom's talked me out of buying 1. He told me about some new technology called "sampling" & keyboards with "sampled" sounds/waveforms, etc. Thanks to my grandparents, I ended up with Roland D-10. I wish NOW, that I had got the DW-8000. In the mid-90's, traded the D-10 for a Juno-1.

[LumaMagic]

between 2:28 and 3:41 the dw sounds very scary... °O°

is this korg's first "digital" synthesizer?

[douro20]

@LumaMagic

No, but you're close- the DW6000 was the first.

[toolbass24]

such a great synth!

[TR0jAX]

i have one to sell, i am located in Berlin.

[morlokkk]

@TR0jAX Was willst du denn für deinen haben?

[skipmendler]

the combination of the arpeggiator & the delay can do some really neat things

[midihooker]

1:26 arhhgg..some old synthpop song but cant remember!! any idea???

[blauwolfenduro]

haha ,the oscis of the dw6000 sound better than the 8000...

[TR0jAX]

I have one to sell in good condition, i am located in Berlin.

[kool44]

@TR0jAX wieviel willste?

[TheHevquip]

These are awesome and it hasn't failed me once in over a decade.

[sharethehouse]

yes! picking up this for 200 bucks 2moro. excited!

[jpirard]

I had one for years. biggest mistake was selling it!

[seventysevener]

What's the setting starting around 0:50? I just got a DW-8000 because of this video!

[CoolColJ]

very nice filter

[Montin83]

Well, this is a GOOD synth. True synth. I have Dw-8000 and Dw-6000.

[typeanoise]

5:54-6:40 :)

[WhenDinosaursWereDjs]

1:03 sounds like final fantasy 7 :)

[VisualK3i94]

CAn i ask you something, I have a dw-8000 but i dont know how to plug it in to my pc, can u please tel me how

[duneharv]

A very nice demo! I´m thinking of getting theexpansion-mod too for my DW-8000.

Is it worth the money?

Next to the Roland Juno-106, this is my favorite instrument and even though we´ve been a team since 1993, It still manages to satisfy me. ;-)

Keep up the good work!

[javiceres]

I like to watch this vid from time to time, it's like a trip to past place that never existed... dark and warm...

[odog65]

um drool :)

[Alterstateresearcher]

Strings and pads off this machine are very impressive. If I had the money, id pick one asap.

[Psychlist1972]

I miss my 8000

[mRfinGerpRinTpiano]

does the "PIANO" patch of this synth sounds good??

[davedagreat69]

@mRfinGerpRinTpiano I seriously doubt it. If my DW ever did have a "Piano" sound on it I'm sure I would have wiped it long ago. It does ok E.Piano patches but that would be missing the whole point and strength of this synth. I love the bass sounds, pads and twinkly analogue sounds it produces along with killer lead sounds. It can even do a passable CS80 Vangelis impersonation, look it up here on YouTube. ;)

[lvrsnvy]

man...now i dont know which one to get..somebody help me!! its down to buying ether juno alpha 2 or korg dw-8000 or a korg poly-61 and maybe a korg poly 800 lol

[maccagrabme]

@lvrsnvy Depends what you want to do musically. I think the Poly 800 is the weakest sounding out of those although it has a nice character. I own all bar the Poly 61 and am quite happy but they sound completely different. The DW8000 seems far more advanced on the sound possibilities. I prefer the pads on the Alpha though and think its better suited to dance music. Be aware that the Korgs need to save and load sounds to tape which is a pain.

[Desmaad]

This can mimic a CS-80 pretty well.

[blondeeagles]

i really like your demos- they are the best on youtube!

[lucullusxerxes]

6:56 - I don't think I could get a Model 500 - Sonic Sunset sound out of my un-modded DW-8000. nice.

[jimlbw71]

Those were sooooooo spendy when they first came out. Now it's spendy again lol. please sell that too me. i need it :-)

[sebreli]

Thanks a lot to show this sinth. Thanks again

[tubedazze]

Amazing!! This synth is so warm sounding!!

[douro20]

I wish mine worked better.

This is a wavetable instrument, with 16 different digitally sampled waveforms. It has two analog filters per voice and a digital delay. Korg was ahead of their time with their use of digitally sampled waveforms.

[ArashMad]

@douro20

they are not samples

[BromusTbg]

it would be nice to hear few of these sounds coming out of my dw-8000.. they're really impressive! would you share your bank? oh, btw, is it difficult to make 'delay in' modification?

[Tenerifeirishman]

This was the first synth I owned.A great keyboard.I think it was the first one with a digital delay.I had great times in bands with that keyboard.

[stable17]

Great vintage synth,perfect sounds.Alphaville sounds niceeee

[TheSwillMan]

I have to ask-- are these patches all by you, presets, or both? Some of them, like at 1:41 and 3:42 are amazing.

[AnalogAudio1]

@TheSwillMan  The first one was a preset, the second was programmed by me.

[typeanoise]

A great synthesizer. It's a hybrid of digital/analog! Analog filters! I bought one about 2 weeks ago and dove pretty deep in it. You can get a lot of classic sounds out of it for sure!

[Biospark85]

I love this synth! It's a pretty good poly-synth, but it just has this balls-out aggression in unison.

[javiceres]

OMG, this machine is just great, and the programer is just brilliant !!

[Tischhupe]

I own a DW myself and it was my first synthesizer in the 80's. Sold it many years ago and got it back to my 40 birthday from my friends. Big surprise! I have build in the Musitronics expansion, which makes the DW duo phonic, s/h for LFO, layer sounds, keyboard split and more.

Regarding the mod of your DW: could you post me a email from the previous owner? He could give us DW lovers a short tut about the mods, maybe.

[AnalogAudio1]

@Tischhupe I bought the DW from the wife of the previous owner and picked it up in Germany. I don't have a email address.

[gjc82071]

@Tischhupe I got a new Poly 800 on my 13th birthday. I remember wanting a DW-8000 soooo bad after that, but some older musician friends of my parents said that new fangled "sampler/sampling" (whatever that meant?) synths were the future. So I got a Roland D-10. (which I eventually traded for a Roland Alpha Juno-1) BTW, I also bought a SEIL DK-80 (With SEIL ?-? drum machine). I had 2 DK-80's, brand new. They didn't work! Had to return them. No cash exchange, ended up with a Casio something.

[Tischhupe]

@gjc82071 Funny, because the DW was sample based.

OK, it were re-sampled waveforms. But non the less various spectre which other synths doesn't provide then. It was the perfect companion for the DX7.

Siel had always a not so good reputation in terms of quality.

[gjc82071]

No. The DW 8000 is still essentially a "synth". I should have been more clear. By sample based I meant like, The Roland D-10, 20, 50, Korg DSS 1, M1, etc. Keyboards with "sampled" acoustic instruments/drums, etc. A musician friend of my mom's said that was the way to go. About SEIL! Grrr! Bought a NEW DK-80, took it home, plugged it in. Nothing. Took it back, got another, worked for like. 5 minutes. Got it from a little music shop. The guy wouldn't give $ refund & I got a Casio ?-?

[abadox666]

Great demo of a great synth. It really is underrated. I always preferred the 8000's strings to that of my Juno *blasphemous I know*

[maccagrabme]

What I like about it is that it can do a bit of everything. It also has some eerie as hell sound capabilities that are far more sophisticated than the Poly 800, Alpha Juno or earlier junos. If it was as fat sounding as a Juno it would be very close to a Jupiter in my opinion.

[simon12332]

there is always that dude who thinks whatever product is the greatest haha. But, yes, this does look nice, and i am thinking of getting one.

[ilovenanako2008]

@AnalogAudio1 i'm a programmer and composer and this is my thinking about the DW 8000.

[sauermusicDE]

AWESOME demo! Thanks for uploading. As far as I know the DW misses some typical synth features (such as sync, ring modulation, cross modulation) but it's still a wonderful sounding machine.

[oddboxTopper]

Beautiful video demonstrating some of the versatility of the DW8000. A highly underrated synthesizer in my opinion. Thanks for posting this...

[louxien]

hi! I bought a DW 8000 two days ago (for

$ 250) and I noticed that someone has installed behind

an additional output jack..I saw in the clip you were fumbling in the same position

OK, but what is?

[AnalogAudio1]

@louxien it is a knob for the volume before the delay. It is also for volume control of the external inputs, which are installed.

[louxien]

Ok, thank you. DW 8000 is a nice synth, specially in monophonic mode with all eight voices stacked... 16 oscillators for a solid bass sound.

[alphajuno1]

Hello, could you please explain what are the mods on your synth ? sometimes I saw you twicking added pots..

Is it possible to send me in sysex or just the value labels for the last patch ?( the moog bass .. )

[AnalogAudio1]

@alphajuno1 HI, on the back side there are signal inputs - for processing external sounds with the delay.

I sold this synth - I don't have patches anymore. To programm this bass is quite easy.

[alphajuno1]

Ok, thank you.

Do you remember how you did mod that cool synth ?

[AnalogAudio1]

@alphajuno1 I did not mod it. The previous owner modded it.

[sternrekorder]

Ich möchte meinen DW-8000 verkaufen, wegen einer Neuanschaffung...aber irgendwie sitz ich seitdem ich dieses Video das erste Mal sah wieder davor und programmiere fleißig Sounds ;-) Vielen Dank :-)

Mal ne andere Frage: Was sind das für Mods, der Kippschalter und der/die Potis auf der Rückseite? Gehört das zuim Delay?

[AnalogAudio1]

Hi, danke für die Blumen... die Erweiterung ist dazu da, externe Signale durch das Delay zu schicken. Ein Transpose Regler ist noch drin.

Gruß,

Chris

[holmesnobu]

Is there anyway i could get the patch starting at 1:05? It sounds amazing!

[BrontoScorpioMusic]

A very cheap way to get great sounds! Great video!

[AnalogAudio1]

thanks... :-)

[AlainHubert]

At 7:00 the video effect makes it look like a Jupiter 8 !

Thanks for posting this, I had a EX8000 for many years, and foolishly sold it. Now, after listening to this, I want a DW8000.

[Mikemaniax]

I used to own one of these. With enough tweaking, I was able to make it sound close to either a Hammond, a Farfisa, or a Hohner Pianet. Unfortunately I had to sell it because I needed the money. I miss it though.

[RobinStrower]

Tolles Video, stellt prima die Möglichkeiten des Korg DW-8000 dar und den tollen Sound den er hat.

5 *

Robin :o)

[retrosound72]

Der DW8000 / EX-8000 ist sicherlich einer der am meisten unterschätzen Synthesizer überhaupt und deshalb noch günstig zu bekommen.

Der Klang ist genial und geht sehr in Richtung Prophet VS ist aber weniger hart. Der Sound bei 2:50 ist einer meiner Favoriten überhaupt und auch auf der Synthesizer von Gestern CD von M. Becker zu finden. Schönes Demo!

[AnalogAudio1]

Danke...

[AnalogX1]

When I worked at Thoroughbred Music in the late 80's, I hated these keyboards. I detested the look, and the sound didn't appeal to me. Listening to it now, 20+ years later, it sounds much better than it did to me then. Good job, AnalogAudio1 !

[AnalogAudio1]

Thanks! Well, a Prophet-5 looks better I must agree... but it sounds great.

[RudyZombe]

The first chord you played (at the start of the clip), reminds me the start of the song When your heart is weak by Cock Robin (1985), I mean similar patch . Nice demo!