MicroKORG

featuring high-quality DSP analog modelling. The keyboard is built in such a way that it is essentially a Korg MS-2000 with programmable step arpeggiator (MS-2000 has only six simple patterns), a less advanced vocoder, lack of motion sequencing, lack of an XLR microphone input, and in a smaller case with fewer real-time control knobs. The microKORG has been a popular success, being used by a diverse range of musicians such as Devo, who currently have one as part of their live setup, Jean Michel Jarre, The Killers, Chromeo, Crystal Castles, Digitalism, Enter Shikari, Editors, Kings of Leon, Soulwax, LCD Soundsystem, Goose, Mates of State, The Neptunes, Future Islands, The Mae Shi, Polysics and Royksopp among many others. Liam Howlett of The Prodigy used a microKORG extensively on the band's 2004 album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. In an interview for Korg's official website in late 2004, Howlett said that "The microKORG is wicked. You've only got to put it on big speakers to hear the depth it's got. It's got so much power for a little keyboard." From the same source, in January 2004, Torbjorn Brundtland of Royksopp stated that "of course we use the microKorg, which is a really powerful instrument. It has the same quality of abstract effects that the MS20 has." The microKORG was released in 2002, and is still in production as of 2008.