Korg Monotron

It's a toy, but if you can sync and control it, it could be useful

  On 6/8/2010 at 1:57 PM, ieafs said:

yeah what a waste though - for an extra 20 euro they couldve given it like a basic small 2 octave kiddie keyboard and you'd at least be able to use it functionally like that...

i think they're trying some shit out. if it sells, we'll get monotron II with a keyboard + cv/gate next year for 100 euro. would you have preferred a next-gen radias?

  On 6/8/2010 at 2:34 PM, blicero said:

my bet is that they intentionally made this for modders.

this

  On 6/8/2010 at 4:04 PM, BCM said:

blah blah mopho sux

i wasn't particularly zazzed by the mopho myself... but, poly evolver? prophet 08? yesplz.

watched a video of dave smith talking about prophet 08 design, and i very much got the impression that the guy is 100% with it. mopho is a cheapout compromise cooked up with marketing to pay for the cool shit.

MIDI mod apparently

http://beatnic.jp/monotron/midi-if.html

Monotron co-designer Takahashi-san rinses it the fuck out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDHBB_6hxEI

we should be sad cunts and do a petition

something like... HEY KORG, please do a full polyphony korg ms2000 with real analogue filters and oscillators (including noise)... and digital chiptune style noise...

  On 6/30/2010 at 2:57 AM, chunky said:

we should be sad cunts and do a petition

something like... HEY KORG, please do a full polyphony korg ms2000 with real analogue filters and oscillators (including noise)... and digital chiptune style noise...

/signed

can't wait to buy this and have it next to my stylophone, roland sh 201, korg ds-10, dsi mopho (gotta hev that anlog umph get me?), copy of reason 5, behringer mixer, kaossilator and ipod touch running touchOSC.

think you forgot the microkorg...

The Korg Monotron is designed to deliver the classic analog sound inexpensively. It is built in a limited control set but at the same time it also provide a consumer styel quality. The monotron fits in your pocket and it is ready to play any time at any place. You can filter any external source using the audio.

  On 6/30/2010 at 5:28 AM, jafferinc said:

The monotron fits in your pocket and it is ready to play any time at any place.

!

  On 6/30/2010 at 4:42 AM, Retape said:

can't wait to buy this and have it next to my stylophone, roland sh 201, korg ds-10, dsi mopho (gotta hev that anlog umph get me?), copy of reason 5, behringer mixer, kaossilator and ipod touch running touchOSC.

^ paid $$$$ for MS20

  noise said:

think you forgot the microkorg...

lol

I am cool because my synthesizers are older than me.

my vst's are so old they run on steam.

but seriusly, people should stop bitching about lack of midi/cv, it's a fun little thing and it costs less than a shitty distortion pedal.

  On 6/30/2010 at 4:42 AM, Retape said:

can't wait to buy this and have it next to my stylophone, roland sh 201, korg ds-10, dsi mopho (gotta hev that anlog umph get me?), copy of reason 5, behringer mixer, kaossilator and ipod touch running touchOSC.

get me. haha

fuck me for owning half that shit

  On 6/30/2010 at 2:54 PM, Gocab said:

my vst's are so old they run on steam.

 

but seriusly, people should stop bitching about lack of midi/cv, it's a fun little thing and it costs less than a shitty distortion pedal.

plus won.

daisy chain monotrons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17V2KeIMvhs

(lucky pierre monotron seems to be getting the most action)

  On 6/30/2010 at 8:14 PM, slightlydrybeans said:

  On 6/30/2010 at 2:54 PM, Gocab said:

my vst's are so old they run on steam.

 

but seriusly, people should stop bitching about lack of midi/cv, it's a fun little thing and it costs less than a shitty distortion pedal.

 

plus won.

well. it would be nice if they stuck a little expansion port on there for an a la carte midi or cv port for like another $20 or something. how hard could that be? then I could have a sequenceable analog synth. instead I have a fun toy that I can sample but it's not quite the same.

I'l still buy though. does anyone know when its supposed to actually come out?

Youtube Monotron mods and you will see people have already found a tonne of ways to sequence them. They definitely sound a LOT better with accurate pitch control happening.

I got one last week and I was impressed. The filter sounded a LOT better than a filter in a AAA battery powered toy has any right to. It definitely has more body and grunt than the filters on my "proper" Roland synths.

The LFO is an inverted sawtooth which is good for kick drums and lasers and sirens, but shit for Blade Runner filter sweeps.

Using the LFO depth you can blend in fast modulations to add nice textures.

With the aux in you can still use the LFO to sweep the filter over the external audio and you can still trigger the VCO and play along. 606 + Monotron aux in = fun. Filter "tremolo" in cymbals sounds great.

There's a millions mods you can do to it and it's only a matter of time before people start selling kits.

Mod #1 would be swapping out the op-amp in the output cos the one it ships with is hissy as hell.

Here's a dumb demo I made. You wouldnt make a whole track with one IRL, but you would definitely want to put stuff thru the filter a lot. I'm just trying to show the range of sounds it can do.

Dumb monotron demo

Accurate pitch control (midi) and a quiet output would make it something I would probably use on every track. Waiting for the midi mod kits...

page not found :(

  On 7/12/2010 at 3:44 PM, iamabe said:

page not found :(

it's working for me, maybe try another browser or something?

hey AW liked the demo, nice one. Don't believe you used the 606 on it though? Would love to hear a sample of that through the monotron

the demo is just monotron

i've heard reports of mediafire links being flaky - let me know if you hit those file not founds

wheres the link to the cv gate mod

The only one I was able to find was this Japanese page. Google autotranslate is only slightly useful, sadly.

lucky i can speak japanese then innit :D

gonna order one tonight