Perhaps it's not the most beautiful synth out there. The black case with nothing but buttons screams "1990" and "DIGITAL" like MC Hammer's baggie pants. Don't look at the specs: 4 Mb of sample ROM would make anyone laugh these days. Forget about internal sequencing: it doesn't have a sequencer. But if you look closely there's also a joystick up there, to the left. This joystick introduced you to the world of Vector Synthesis, which allowed you to mutate your sounds amongst 255 different waveforms.
In order to make it more awesome, Korg hired Dave Smith to design this synthesizer, and Jan Hammer used it for a couple of tunes. The fact that they couldn't get Chuck Norris at the moment avoided this synth from becoming the most awesome synth ever.
Now, the good thing is that you don't have to chase these around ebay. Korg has made it into an emulation that is included in their Korg Legacy package.
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