The sounds of Karma are not all new, but they are the best, when you play with a Wurlitzer sound for instant, it's the best Wurli sound you can find. the sounds are impressive, and Karma is so flexible you can change the sounds to even better! If your style is Electronica, don't forget Karma. I mainly compose Electronica music, in Schulze/Tangerine Dream fashion, And Karma is great for this. Also, if you are into Jazz-Fusion and Prog-Rock, Karma will be your main axe. It's a Triton with a not-of-this-earth control system. It's great for live cause everything is in control. And it's a killer system for the studio. I will have my Karma for the rest of my life, and I'm planning to buy another one soon, because I need to use 4 expansion boards at once.

It's not very strong, and you have to take care of it. After all it's a musical instrument.

The price is realy good. I'm sure if it weren't a Korg I couldn't buy one.

The burgundy color of Karma is realy sexy. I changed my home studio curtains and bedroom sheets to match to Karma's color. It's very beautiful. There is no other synth as beautiful as this one. I don't know this color is Mr. Kai's idea or Korg people...anyway, I admire that.

Electronica, New Age, Fusion

instant feel good factor, fairly steep learning curve, but when you start tinkering, it comes to life even more.

Korg, I mean c'mon.

I got my Karma at a excellent price, I shopped around and was thrilled when I got it home, even now after two months I have not touched any other keyboard in my collection, It's a true beast that beggars belief.

I have emailed Stephen Kay (Creator of KARMA) and I can honestly say this guy is a genuine enthusiastic and approachable person. His replies were prompt and worth listening to. A true visionary.

Never mind Deep Blue..........here is Deep Red!

Jazz Funk

Very, very beautiful sound that is so indefinately moldable it consistantly amazes me. The pads are more delicious than any other synth I've heard. Building sound layers with the Karma is totally amazing. It has helped me with my music greatly with it's moldable sound rhythms and real time filter fx controls. The presets are brilliant, and very inspiring to build your own. Recording and live sounds are very, very nice.

This is a 10 + full of very useful features. The Karma real time 'analog' style molding is truly delightful. One of the best features is the four trigger pads you can program chords into. For someone who can't bust out crazy chord changes, you can use the pads to freak it with. Only suggesion would be to make these pads velocity sensitive.

Theonly bad thing is the keys feel a bit light duty. Plus one of my pads is getting worn in too much, and doens't fire as well as the others, I just have to press a bit harder there.

definately worth the price.

n/a

Supa sexy, delicious looks.

Electronic, downtempo, Hip Hop

Sounds are captivating, organic and full -- competes with any other synth in its price-range.

The amount the user can alter the sounds is amazing, and it's sequencer is easy to handle. The ability to save to internal memory would be nice, but it doesn't take but a second to load a disk. The Karma function more than makes up for any "frills" that may be absent.

Korg could have spent more money on the buttons and key-quality, but then again, it probably wouldn't have been affordable with premium features.

It's easily worth it's asking price -- it's the first synth that lets you arrange, compose and most important of all -- play -- loops as an actual performer through an instrument interface. This thing beats the daylight out of soft-synth hardware controllers because it's simple yet as complex as you want to make it at the same time.

This thing makes you feel like an electronic performer and will make any forward thinking musician excited about playing live again - forget knob twiddling and basement programming on your laptop. This is an instrument and will offer those willing to take a chance more rewards than I can list. It's so much fun, and sounds so good, you can feel yourself growing as a musican just by playing it.

Live Electronica

For the sounds theKarma offers, I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in making dance/electronica music. I personally highly enjoy working with the sounds from the classic pianos expansion board, which is sold seperately.

The most intersting feature to me is definitely the GE effects that could be made with the tweak of the buttons on the left panel. Awesome arppegiator!

Having to constantly tap the buttons when editing tracks below the interface makes me worry they might come off at any minute, especially when you hear the loose squeaky sound.

Hobbyist

Chinese

Sounds are awesome and better than I expected.

Great

Sounds are superb but will take awhile to learn completely and that is the fun of it. Don't have to worry about getting bored for a long time.

With proper care it should last a longggggggg time.

The KARMA LAB website and forum will give all the support you need thanks to Steve Kay And all the other users.

The color fits the name "KARMA" GREAT!

30+ years musical experience.

Rock, Southern Rock, Country, Believe it are not some classical of my own

It sounds good when playing the combinations and programs. When you turn off the effects and try to record you see how thin the sounds really are.

It has nice features and functions. It allows you to create music that you normally wouldn't create.

The keys are cheap...

It's a good tool to have to use with other synths and sound modules but I wouldn't use it as one of my main synths. Take your money and buy something with better sounds.

I never received a response to any of my e-mails.

The sounds are thin, the keys are cheap, the color is awful

Hip Hop

DRUMS: 10! awesome other sound are nice (not the best) I give an 8

Expansion ROMs very useful. I wish it had more slots! (4 or 5 in total instead of 2)..GE so inspiring!

Not so easy to understand and to use...for in depth using you should need the Karma-lab software. GE a bit copmlicated but powerful

The only thing I had problems with my whole keyboard+joystick so I need to ship it to tech assistance 3 times! (cheap components for keyboard,I think)

Stephen Kay itself answered to me quickly! he was so kind and helped me a lot

Electronica,Techno,Elektro,Acid