Guest bitroast Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 monologue - mono synth sibling to the minilogue http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/monologue/ etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Every time I see this thread my stupid brain sees "Kylie Minogue". wtf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bitroast Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 APHEX "Built-in programs provide 80 preset sounds and sequences made by creative artists around the world including legendary electronic artist Aphex Twin, plus 20 user locations for saving custom sounds. Microtuning lets you freely create scales. Music has long been restrained to equal-temperament scales, and today, very few machines support microtuning. The monologue has a set of factory tunings and well as 12 user slots and is compatible with MIDI Tuning Standard 3Byte messages. The power of microtonal music is evident in the work of Aphex Twin, who has come onboard as advisor for the implementation and also to offer scales, sounds and sequences as part of the factory presets. All players are encouraged not just to use these Aphex Twin-created scales, but also to create their own scales and explore their own world of frequencies." ugh. microtonal ?? really makes me wish / hope / assume they're gonna do a minilogue v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psn Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Yeah, microtonal scales make even more sense on a poly synth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bitroast Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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 :^) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chesney Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Yeah it can, can't say I have tried making custom ones though. Used some of the more typical alternative tunings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flacid Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 They are going to sell a fuck tonne of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digman Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chesney Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 2 different things though, mono and 4 voice poly. Both can work well together in a low budget setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juiceciuj Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 hmmm... buy back microbrute from friend for $200 or minilogue for $300. how big is the thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digman Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaggerMcGuirk Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRiP Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubba69 Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juiceciuj Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 definitely not interested in modular. also just realized how nice it is (duh) to have patch recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chesney Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheatheman Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endera3rd Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 minibrute killer tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peace 7 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 BEAUTIFUL Korg has done it again, what in the shit..... Every time I see this thread my stupid brain sees "Kylie Minogue". wtf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lada Laika Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chesney Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juiceciuj Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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