Korg have released a new synth called ‘Multi/Poly‘, and it appears to be a way different thing than the name suggests: it’s not a new version of their venerable Mono/Poly (which had been reimagined in software more than once, and eventually had been cloned-n-reintroduced by Behringer).

MusicRadar states that it doesn’t feel nor sound like a Mono/Poly, but it’s a capable instrument on its own.

From the look of it, multi/poly seems to be a yet another sibling to Raspberry Pi-based family of synths: Wavestate, Opsix and Modwave. Korg had definitely struck gold with them, both in regard to sound and form-factor.

Multi/Poly is a digital, analogue-modelling synth that has four oscillators on board, which makes a reference to Mono/Poly. On the other hand, it carries dozens of the same wavetables as utilized in Modwave. So yeah, it’s definitely the fourth of a kind: a wave-sequencing/advanced vector synth – check, an FM-synth – check; a wavetable synth – check; now they are joined by an analogue modelling/wavetable hybrid.

I wonder what will be a wild card eventually?