The Korg M1 was the first music workstation, which opened up a lot of possibilities and made it a tough act to follow, but this all changed when the T3 arrived on the scene. The T3 not only features a 3.5" DS/HD floppy drive for storage, but has double the amount of memory available on the M1. This gave users 200 programs and a hundred combinations to work with. It has the same 8-track sequencer as the M1, with support for 50,000 events, and you still got those high-quality effects that made the M1 so famous. Korg also doubled the amount of sample ROM memory of the T3 in comparison to the M1. In addition, the T3 features much better sounding acoustic instruments along with a host of other samples that were not found in the sample ROM of a stock M1. This is also why there where M1EX synths released, which featured the extra T3 samples.