KORG Minilogue

monologue - mono synth sibling to the minilogue

http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/monologue/

etc.

Every time I see this thread my stupid brain sees "Kylie Minogue".

wtf.

APHEX

Yeah, microtonal scales make even more sense on a poly synth.

did some googling and realised moog sub 37 can do microtonal and custom tunings. 

now i'm just hoping there's an easy way for people to pull the tunings from the synth, so i can get the chance to dump them in my synth and play with them :^) 

Yeah it can, can't say I have tried making custom ones though. Used some of the more typical alternative tunings.

They are going to sell a fuck tonne of these. 

Fuck I was just thinking I might sell my regular Minilogue and now this. I bet the regular Minilogue's are going to drop in value

2 different things though, mono and 4 voice poly. Both can work well together in a low budget setup.

hmmm... buy back microbrute from friend for $200 or minilogue for $300. how big is the thing?

I didn't notice that it was soo much different than the Minilogue, seems like more of an Answer to a Microbrute. It also seems like the footprint is much smaller than the Minilogue. 

I wonder if the scales can be added to the minilogue via firmware?  I love the idea of these custom scales, but the actual sounds I've heard from the monologue demo were just OK. 

Jaypers, seems like a Monotribe on steroids - hope they release it as a module later down the line so it can be the true brother of the 'tribe

better sell mine soon enough, never thought they'd loose their price too much till this...

  On 11/1/2016 at 4:57 PM, juiceciuj said:

hmmm... buy back microbrute from friend for $200 or minilogue for $300. how big is the thing?

Microbrute is better if you are getting into modular probably. But otherwise this thing blows it out of the water.

definitely not interested in modular. also just realized how nice it is (duh) to have patch recall. 

On a simple  synth like this Presets are the worst idea. It should have 100 init patches you can save you own sounds in. That way people will learn simple synthesis and then maybe get a thirst to learn more and be more creative with their sound selection.

I was initially not very impressed but this seems like a pretty decent synth with good modern features, especially the custom tunings and audio rate LFOs (perhaps with a future firmware update the LFO speed could be keytracked for FM?). If I ever get the desire to replace the microbrute that I sold a few months ago I'll go for one of these for sure.

Plus it's probably the cutest synth on the market at the moment.. They've really nailed it with the multiple colour options right off the bat. If they remake the minilogue with custom tunings and new colours I'll be all over it!

  On 11/1/2016 at 9:38 PM, Chesney said:

On a simple  synth like this Presets are the worst idea. It should have 100 init patches you can save you own sounds in. That way people will learn simple synthesis and then maybe get a thirst to learn more and be more creative with their sound selection.

True in a way, but from my experience, there are a lot of people out there who are new to synths and don't have a trial and error approach to learning an instrument; these people would probably benefit from some presets to play around with. 

It'd be nice if the factory presets could be overwritten—the wording made it seem like only the 20 user presets were writable.

  On 11/1/2016 at 7:55 AM, bitroast said:

 

ugh. microtonal ?? really makes me wish / hope / assume they're gonna do a minilogue v2

you can do microtonal stuff on a lot of synths if there is a keytrack knob under the osc section or a respectable mod matrix. for instance, it's easy to do on a ms2000 and a tempest.

keytrack/notenumber/etc --(+or-100%)--> pitch/oscfreq 

minibrute killer tbh

BEAUTIFUL

Korg has done it again, what in the shit.....

  On 11/1/2016 at 6:41 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Every time I see this thread my stupid brain sees "Kylie Minogue".

 

wtf.

  On 11/2/2016 at 1:56 AM, modey said:

minibrute killer tbh

I was just thinking about selling my Minibrute so I can jump on the preorder bandwagon. Ever since I picked up an MS-20 Mini from a friend it's been mostly collecting dust anyway.

I found this interview with Tatsuya Takahashi (creator of the Minilogue) a very interesting read, guy seems to be very into what he's doing

https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/long-read/the-democratisation-of-synthesis-korg-designers-on-the-making-of-the-minilogue/

They really hit the promo perfectly with this, I can hear you all salivating over it even when it's still just a standard mono synth. It's just that you're hearing it in a fashion that you like to hear so it's instantly more appealing.

Imagine if afx worked on the timbre wolf tuning? Akai missed out. Akai Dan canned that synth before it had chance.

yeah one would think they really should be able to add audio rate lfo and micro tuning to the minilogue. i wonder if hackers might be up for it if korg refuses to do it officially. i wonder how similar the computers are in each.