Korg Minilogue

[Daags]

i think it is an inevitability that larger voice count analogs will come from Korg ... you only need to look at their re-entry in to the analog domain, it's been considered steps each time...from the monotrons to the monotribe to the volcas, ms20's, and now minilogue ... the trajectory is clear.

[pdxindy]

i think it is an inevitability that larger voice count analogs will come from Korg ... you only need to look at their re-entry in to the analog domain, it's been considered steps each time...from the monotrons to the monotribe to the volcas, ms20's, and now minilogue ... the trajectory is clear.

Maybe Korg will finally give us the next Andromeda!

[deastman]

i think it is an inevitability that larger voice count analogs will come from Korg ... you only need to look at their re-entry in to the analog domain, it's been considered steps each time...from the monotrons to the monotribe to the volcas, ms20's, and now minilogue ... the trajectory is clear.

Maybe Korg will finally give us the next Andromeda!

Right, because that was such a successful venture for Alesis.

[pdxindy]

i think it is an inevitability that larger voice count analogs will come from Korg ... you only need to look at their re-entry in to the analog domain, it's been considered steps each time...from the monotrons to the monotribe to the volcas, ms20's, and now minilogue ... the trajectory is clear.

Maybe Korg will finally give us the next Andromeda!

Right, because that was such a successful venture for Alesis.

bad timing... but analog has made a big resurgence and the times are different

[deastman]

i think it is an inevitability that larger voice count analogs will come from Korg ... you only need to look at their re-entry in to the analog domain, it's been considered steps each time...from the monotrons to the monotribe to the volcas, ms20's, and now minilogue ... the trajectory is clear.

Maybe Korg will finally give us the next Andromeda!

Right, because that was such a successful venture for Alesis.

bad timing... but analog has made a big resurgence and the times are different

True... I suppose it didn't originally cost any more than a high end DSI synth, not considering inflation.

[AnX]

Interesting vid

[Sequent]

That was indeed very interesting. Thank you SO much for finding that.

Makes me appreciate the synth even more. I'm impressed that Korg used quality components and didn't skimp on plastic shafts for the pots. Also good to know that the slider thingy is nice and solid (and that what I heard on mine was just the spring).

Bottom line: the more I play with this instrument and the more I find out about it, the more I like it.

Also.. I kind of expect that people like Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim know what they're doing. They've been doing this for so long. What's really great is to see a young up and coming designer really do his homework and engineered something that is so good and so affordable. They truly have hit one out of the park on this one!

[Scotty]

I'd be happy with 4 voice rack version that is $75 bucks cheaper. I don't need the keys and space is an issue... polyphony is fine at 4 voices.

[JCJR]

Yeah, either 4 or 8 voice in a rack would be fine by me.

[db3]

Korg's new generation of analogue seems to efficiently meld modern ARM CPUs with analogue audio circuits. When you combine that with the scale of their manufacturing capability, you can't help wonder if a new golden age of affordable analogue is upon is.

[Wormhelmet]

Wouldn't mind seeing a reissue PS-3300, even if in mini form factor. They could do it.

[duncanm]

Korg's new generation of analogue seems to efficiently meld modern ARM CPUs with analogue audio circuits. When you combine that with the scale of their manufacturing capability, you can't help wonder if a new golden age of affordable analogue is upon is.

At least I know who snapped up athethe raspberry pi zero's now.

[IncarnateX]

Has this vid been up yet? Some iOS control of minilogue.



Waiting for this synth is killing me. Can't work, can't play, can't sleep.
Life isn't fullfilled until it arrives.

[JCJR]

Korg's new generation of analogue seems to efficiently meld modern ARM CPUs with analogue audio circuits. When you combine that with the scale of their manufacturing capability, you can't help wonder if a new golden age of affordable analogue is upon is.

Many classic old hybrid analog synths, prophet, memorymoog, etc, were controlled by 8 bit, 8 MHz Z80 doing about everything. With one DAC and a massive network of multiplexed simple sample-and-hold circuits sending voltages to EG's, VCO's, LFO's and Filters. Fine expert assembly language programming . Amazing that it worked at all.

Some later poly analog synths bumped up to faster 16 bit processors, but still very slow by modern standards.

When I saw one cpu per voice on that minilogue, was first wondering what they need all the power for? The DSI P12 has lots of rather strong DSP chips, but in that case the chips are generating audio waveforms and such.

Maybe the ARM chips are so cheap, its a case of "why not one per voice"? Maybe faster control voltage updating, and saving the expense of huge trees of multiplexed sample and hold circuits as in the old poly analogs?

[whyterabbyt]

When I saw one cpu per voice on that minilogue, was first wondering what they need all the power for?

It does mean it scales up easily... the voices are fully self-contained.