HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
It’s Korg’s 40^th anniversary, but YOU get the presents! Simply purchase any new Triton Le by December 31, 2003, and we’ll send you a $140 rebate! If you purchase a Triton Classic or Triton Rack, we’ll send you the rebate PLUS our new Concert Grand Piano expansion board and a SCSI interface absolutely free. If you purchase a Triton Studio, we’ll send you the rebate plus a free CD-RW burner and a CD-ROM of all new loops, samples and software! For more information, see your local Korg dealer or visit korg.com.

Bob is incorporating a new twist into his live shows——there’s no drummer or bassist in his band! All drum and bass parts are courtesy of his Korg Karma Music Workstation, with Rob Swift (of the turntable group the X-ecutioners) providing additional "drum beats" and scratches on his turntables. Bob recently used this new setup in Japan, and comments, "I’ve performed my song "Westchester Lady" thousands of times with every different kind of instrumentation——trio, big band, quintet, you name it. I thought it would be fun to try something new and perform it without a drummer by using some patches on the Karma as drum loops, just to mix things up a bit. So all the drum parts in that song are played on the Karma live. On other songs, where there is no Karma drum part, I just keep playing and Rob Swift fills in and starts playing those parts, doing a scratch-type thing. Another interesting thing about "Westchester Lady" is that I used Karma bass patches too, and as I play different notes, the bass pattern automatically changes with me." He concludes, "When Rob Swift was playing something, I also used the tap tempo feature to easily find the tempo and start a loop. That was very powerful."