Korg Collection Triton $249

Amid a 90s revival, Korg release their pioneering late 90s workstation in software. But is the promise of on-trend sounds worth shelling out for?

There is a whiff of a 90s revival in the air. To some of us of a certain age, of course, that decade might not seem that far gone, but Calvin Harris’ recent track, Hypnagogic (I Can’t Wait), under his Love Generator moniker reminded us of everything we loved about that decade (and indeed, much of what we didn’t). And it does seem to be the latest in a line of throwbacks to the 90s, that could include this latest softsynth release, the Korg Collection: Korg Triton.

The original hardware Triton came out in the latter part of the 90s and variants of it were released well into the following decade. However its sound and format was largely honed from earlier Korg keyboards from the 90s such as the Trinity range, and you could even argue that it took its all-singing-all-dancing workstation ethos from the mighty M1, a keyboard that defined a lot of genres during the 90s and beyond.

Big synth, big price