Korg N5EX

# Korg N5EX

> Per-synth cheat sheet. Patch sheets, project usage.

## Basic Specs

- **Type:** Sample-based synthesizer / workstation (AI² synthesis)
- **Era:** 1997 (N5EX is the expanded version of the N5)
- **Form factor:** 76-key keyboard
- **Polyphony:** 64 voices
- **Effects:** 2 multi-effect units (89 effect types), plus reverb, chorus, and a third "master" effect
- **Multitimbral:** 16 parts

## Strengths (in this studio)

- Late-90s Korg rompler character — pads, pianos, organs, drums
- Useful as a general-purpose MIDI controller with on-board sounds
- 76-key range suits splits and layered performances

## Project Patches

*(Fill in as the N5EX gets used.)*

## Notes & Tricks

*(Add tips as you discover them.)*


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