Historical Assessment
The DW-8000 in itself cannot be seen as a huge milestone or breakthrough product, but the hybrid architecture of samples partnered with subtractive synthesis was to become an important motif in Korg keyboards during the latter half of the 1980s. Other manufacturers were soon arriving with instruments using similar ingredients of samples and effects, though still using traditional subtractive synthesis with better technology. The Korg DW-8000 was not multitimbral and would therefore not fare well in the market that only two years later would produce both the Roland D-50 and MT-32 which used samples of real attack transients to create increased realism, whilst the MT32 also brought multitimbral facilities with relatively high quality effects. Korg themselves took longer to find the winning combination, but by the end of the decade had achieved considerable success with their M1 workstation that included a few old DWGS samples.
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