Korg SV-2S 73 contains more than ten times the sample data available in previous SV models. It features 72 excellent sounds and provides 64 memory locations to store edited favorites for instant access during your performance. Using the SV-2 Editor software, users can now create their own split and layered programs and save them in one of the Favorites locations. In fact, a single favorite can access up to three timbres at once: a piano/bass split with a string layer, for example. Although user splits must be created using the SV-2 Editor, the split point on the keyboard can be adjusted directly from the front panel. In addition, the SV-2 now has 128-voice polyphony, allowing for more effective sound layers or sustained chords.

The variety of instruments on the new SV-2 ranges from classic electro-mechanical, transistor-based, and tape-based keyboards to the most analog and digital sounds, all reproduced with impressive realism. These sounds defined decades of popular music. The electric pianos now include almost all American reed and tine models, a great Japanese electric piano, as well as a rare German electric piano. And then we have all those clavinet sounds, created using a wide range of settings. Electronic pianos: There are analog, digital, VPM, FM, and sampled versions, including the ever-popular KORG M1 piano. Organs: Choose from classic tone-wheel organs; VOX Combo, Italian transistor organs, or American pipe organs; and now church and cathedral organs. Strings: Choose from a 1970s analog string unit, tape machine strings, or a warm orchestral section. In addition, the SV-2 contains vibraphones and other mallet instruments, brass and choir sounds, guitar and bass sounds, and even lead synthesizers and pads that are ideal for creating layers or useful splits.

The SV-2 features six independent studio-quality signal processors, notably the KORG Valve Reactor. This Valve Reactor circuit provides the warmth or saturation that only a genuine 12AX7A tube can provide. Just like the sounds themselves, all effect models are faithful to the originals and are designed to match the performance, limitations, and behavior of the chosen effect. The effect processors include:

3-BAND EQUALIZER (Bass, Mid, and Treble)
PRE FX (Red Compressor, Treble Boost, U-Vibe, Vibrato, Tremolo, VOX Wah)
AMPLIFIER MODELING (Clean, Twin, Tweed, AC30, Boutique, Organ, plus seven types of Acoustic Cabinet Simulation and Noise Reduction)
MODULATION FX MODULATION FX (Classic Chorus, Black Chorus, Orange Phaser, Small Phaser, MX Flanger, Rotary)
REVERB/DELAY (Room, Plate, Hall, Spring, Tape Echo, and Stereo Delay)
LIMITER AND (Stereo Limiter, Stereo Mastering Limiter)

In the S versions of the new SV-2, Korg has worked with the Italian designers at K-ARRAY to create a speaker system that delivers 15 watts of power and features two 2.5" speakers, as well as a 3" passive radiator; additionally, the S versions are finished in an exclusive warm ivory color.