Korg Minilogue

[david.beholder]

i can't believe it's paraphonic... that sucks.

why? it sounds great in that demo

[D-Fusion]

Wonder if we will see a drum box too since it has audio in and sidechain

[bronxsound]

good move from korg to release it and put up for sale before namm.

[tehlord]

I do think the polyphonic descritption is slightly misleading, although it still offers more features and sound for the money than anybody could have hoped for.

Arturia Brute sales will now be zero.

[EvilDragon]

I don't think it's paraphonic...

[tehlord]

It is. 4 voice = one oscillator per voice. You can't use both oscillators and still have 4 voice poly.

[EvilDragon]

Sooo, how does it have an 8 oscillator unison then? Or am I reading something wrongly.

[eXode]

It is. 4 voice = one oscillator per voice. You can't use both oscillators and still have 4 voice poly.

Where did you get that idea?

[tehlord]

Sooo, how does it have an 8 oscillator unison then? Or am I reading something wrongly.

4 oscillator unison from the Sweetwater video, or so I understand it.

It is. 4 voice = one oscillator per voice. You can't use both oscillators and still have 4 voice poly.

Where did you get that idea?

Same video ^^^

[eXode]

It is. 4 voice = one oscillator per voice. You can't use both oscillators and still have 4 voice poly.

Where did you get that idea?

Same video ^^^

But you can clearly see him tweaking the two oscillators in 4-voice poly mode, starts at 3:14 in the Sweetwater video.

[EvilDragon]

Exactly.

[tehlord]

It is. 4 voice = one oscillator per voice. You can't use both oscillators and still have 4 voice poly.

Where did you get that idea?

Same video ^^^

But you can clearly see him tweaking the two oscillators in 4-voice poly mode, starts at 3:14 in the Sweetwater video.

True, but you don't see him playing more than one note.

Later on he describes duo mode as having two sets of oscillator pairs (still 4 osc's in total). Seems redundant if you have 4 note poly with 2 osc's on each note, surely?

Exactly.

It has 8 voice modes, not 8 voices.

As far as I can tell.


Here's hoping I'm wrong and both of you are right.

[EvilDragon]

Later on he describes duo mode as having two sets of oscillator pairs (still 4 osc's in total). Seems redundant if you have 4 note poly with 2 osc's on each note, surely?

Not redundant. In duophonic mode you can do interesting stuff with ringmod depending on which notes you play. So even if it has 8 oscillators, for proper duophony only 4 would ever be necessary.

[eXode]

True, but you don't see him playing more than one note.

Later on he describes duo mode as having two sets of oscillator pairs (still 4 osc's in total). Seems redundant if you have 4 note poly with 2 osc's on each note, surely?

I think someone is confusing oscillators with voices. Duo is like just for doubling up to get a fatter sound (like unison). The voice modes show's the actual voice configuration not the oscillators. There's nothing in either the demos or the info supplied by Korg that suggest that there's only 4 oscillators.

[whyterabbyt]

It is. 4 voice = one oscillator per voice. You can't use both oscillators and still have 4 voice poly.

So, what you're claiming is that two-note polyphony and paraphony are the same thing?

Because they're not.

Its also not the case that a synth that's able to do 4 voices with one oscillator per voice doesnt count as polyphonic just it'd be limited to 2 voices with two oscillators per voice.

polyphony
pəˈlɪf(ə)ni/
nounMusic
noun: polyphony

the ability of an electronic keyboard or synthesizer to play a number of notes simultaneously.

The commonly accepted meaning of paraphonic is that it can play multiple notes but shares a common VCF (and/or VCA). Paraphony, however, has nothing to do with the number of notes that can be played.

And, I suspect like ED, I cant actually see anything to indicate that it is paraphonic by the commonly accepted definition, where did Shy pull that from?