Today i saw a keyboard with VACUUM TUBE in it.

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It was something called the Korg Triton Extreme and when i got a glimse inside i saw Vacuum Tubes. What is there function? Anyone have a Korg Triton Extreme as well?

― The Startrekman (Startrekman), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

I never know the answers to your questions but your threads always make me smile. Plus, I learn stuff!

Vacuum tubes are almost invariably used as amplifiers, if that helps. Same as a tube amp for guitar.

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

pre-amp?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

here we go:

Adding power to TRITON Extreme's internal sounds is a 12AU7 dual-triode vacuum tube -- a first for a keyboard instrument. Korg's Valve Force circuitry can be used as an insert effect, or applied to the final outputs for added warmth, fullness, and power. External sources can also be sampled through the Valve Force circuitry for a distinctive 'tube' quality. A new Ultra Boost feature pumps up the bottom end of the sound without muddying it.

(from Google)

― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

that sounds neat.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:56 (twenty years ago)

I WANT

― bell labs (bell_labs), Sunday, 24 September 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

korg puts that in the electribe EMX-1 and ESX-1 as well. it's not that exciting, really.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 24 September 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

this to thread

― DougD (DougD), Sunday, 24 September 2006 08:51 (twenty years ago)

"Adding power to TRITON Extreme's internal sounds is a 12AU7 dual-triode vacuum tube -- a first for a keyboard instrument."

how is this different from what you would find in a tube organ?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:00 (twenty years ago)

What about an keyboard you can blow air into to make the sounds?

http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/polho/kkuvat/nettijuhlat/slides/Vuosijuhlat%20189tn.jpg

http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/polho/kkuvat/nettijuhlat/slides/Vuosijuhlat%20196tn.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:40 (twenty years ago)

Aka melodica.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 September 2006 10:41 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrophone

winner. in the "most insanely dangerous sounding instrument" stakes, at least (although the theory behind it sounds much worse when you're using it to describe a keyboard than when using it to describe a car).

― Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux (Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux), Sunday, 24 September 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

tuomas's last known photo, lurking in the doorway

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Sunday, 24 September 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

replace it with a NOS mullard for extra smoothness and warmth

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

A mullard sounds like shorthand for 'mullet retard'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

They've been putting tubes in the Korg boxes (the Electribe etc) for years now:

ihttp://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM03/Content/Korg/PR/Electribe-MX-lg.jpg

I always assumed it was for the distortion effect. But regardless, VALVE FORCE is pretty funny.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 25 September 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, try this instead:

http://www1.mipa-award.de/2004/winnerpics/korg-electribe-mx.jpg

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 25 September 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Startrekman, where do you live?

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Your posts also make me smile.

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 25 September 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

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