Korg Minilogue

[Redmerkurii]

If you need a white pointy stripe on your knobs just get yourself a white paint pen and fill in the pointer groove on the existing knobs. Wipe away any excess from outside of the groove and your good to go. I did this with a Korg nanokontrol a few years back. It's a cheap and effective solution.

You can always scrub it out later with a toothbrush if you think it looks a bit crap.

Literally cleaning your knob(s). Badoomtsshh

[NEOREV]

I was tempted to pick up these guys...
https://www.jrrshop.com/korg-minilogue- ... m-knob-kit

But the 3+ week wait time held me back. Plus $70 seems quite steep for just knobs, but then again cheaper than the plastic DJ Tools knobs posted earlier. They do look good though.

[NEOREV]

Finally received my Minilogue and I am loving it! Straight out the box, immediate fun. No messing around, just fun creating sounds. Well done, Korg.

Picked up the MS-20 Mini and Dreadbox Erebus as well to go with my Moog Sub 37. Having some analog fun with these boys.

And Erebus and Minilogue are quite nice together.

[NEOREV]

Korg needs to make a 12 voice Minilogue with bigger keybed. I'm sure they could pull it in at $1000 or less as a worthy challenger to the Behringer Deep Mind 12. I'd keep both the 4 voice original and pick up the 12 voice version.

[BONES]

I bought one a few weeks ago but I regret getting carried away with the moment. It is nowhere near as good as even my simple VSTi and it is not a lot of fun to play with, thanks to the disconnect between the sound you hear and the position of the knobs. It is impossible, for example, to see the settings for any preset, they remain a complete mystery. It's lack of effects also puts it at a huge disadvantage, as does the pathetic polyphony.

Sure, it sounds OK but it's nothing special. The oscillators are good but the filter isn't even close to any decent softsynth. The design and build are both excellent but the reality of using it is mostly disappointment. I wanted it to replace my Ultranova but I can't see any way that it could, it's just not good enough.

[david.beholder]

I was tempted to pick up these guys...
https://www.jrrshop.com/korg-minilogue- ... m-knob-kit

But the 3+ week wait time held me back. Plus $70 seems quite steep for just knobs, but then again cheaper than the plastic DJ Tools knobs posted earlier. They do look good though.

Watch carefully over Alibaba they're usually 10 times cheaper over there.

[BONES]

Korg needs to make a 12 voice Minilogue with bigger keybed. I'm sure they could pull it in at $1000 or less as a worthy challenger to the Behringer Deep Mind 12. I'd keep both the 4 voice original and pick up the 12 voice version.

I'd rather see it with some effects added to the end of the signal path. A nice overdrive/distortion and chorus/flanger would be great.

[IncarnateX]

I bought one a few weeks ago but I regret getting carried away with the moment. It is nowhere near as good as even my simple VSTi and it is not a lot of fun to play with, thanks to the disconnect between the sound you hear and the position of the knobs. It is impossible, for example, to see the settings for any preset, they remain a complete mystery. It's lack of effects also puts it at a huge disadvantage, as does the pathetic polyphony.

Sure, it sounds OK but it's nothing special. The oscillators are good but the filter isn't even close to any decent softsynth. The design and build are both excellent but the reality of using it is mostly disappointment. I wanted it to replace my Ultranova but I can't see any way that it could, it's just not good enough.

YOU bought an analog synth? If someone just told me that, I'd call him a liar.

As far as I get it, you are digital to the bones, so to speak. No wonder it isn't for you

I really like the idea of Novakill usings Novas may it be Ultra, Mini or Super. Name fits the concept and their sound is futuristic, which is your game.

[BONES]

It's just that I don't care whether it is analogue or digital, as long as it sounds good. I was seduced by the beautiful build, the huge array of controls on the front panel (which definitely beats a single knob and a screen with endless parameters to navigate through), the compact size and low price. It's actually the analogue limitations that ruin it.

Realistically, I'd need to get a small effects unit to use it on stage, which is what I bought it for, and that complicates my live set-up considerably. Maybe I can play it into my Surface Book and use effects in Orion before sending it back out again. I'm still working on how to integrate it because I'd like to if I can. It is a nice synth and it does make some good noises, even if it is far more limited than Wasp or my little killerz.

[stillshaded]

Bones I feel like you bought a jumbo acoustic guitar and are disappointed that it's not a electric shred guitar.

True that the sound is neither better or worse than a softsynth.. But if you're after the particular characteristics of an analog synth, nothing is going to beat an analog synth.

So, I would say if you don't care about analog, stick to softsynths. Sounds easy enough to me. Personally I hear a pretty significant difference, but the things that I look for in a sound maybe totally different than you.

[NEOREV]

Still loving mines!

Having fun using the sequencer to record four layers of parameter changes with its motion control function. The SonicLab episode taught some neat tricks to use the sequencer for motion control without recording notes. With the four layers of parameter changes recorded, you can get some crazy sounds.

[AnX]

It's just that I don't care whether it is analogue or digital, as long as it sounds good. I was seduced by the beautiful build, the huge array of controls on the front panel (which definitely beats a single knob and a screen with endless parameters to navigate through), the compact size and low price. It's actually the analogue limitations that ruin it.

Realistically, I'd need to get a small effects unit to use it on stage, which is what I bought it for, and that complicates my live set-up considerably. Maybe I can play it into my Surface Book and use effects in Orion before sending it back out again. I'm still working on how to integrate it because I'd like to if I can. It is a nice synth and it does make some good noises, even if it is far more limited than Wasp or my little killerz.

So you didnt demo either of them extensively first to determine sound quality?

Someone of your experience should know better. Now youre stuck with two whimsies, when all you really needed was a controller to play your soft synths....

[IncarnateX]

It's just that I don't care whether it is analogue or digital, as long as it sounds good.

Okay, just that thread history could have fooled me to believe you would decline it pr. principle.

Realistically, I'd need to get a small effects unit to use it on stage, which is what I bought it for, and that complicates my live set-up considerably. Maybe I can play it into my Surface Book and use effects in Orion before sending it back out again. I'm still working on how to integrate it because I'd like to if I can.[/b] or my little killerz.

Can you avoid too much latency if you route it through PC? Otherwise I use guitar pedals since minilogue has one mono output only and that works fine. Second hand Guitar multieffect come cheap now a days, so thats a possibility.

I have also tried sending it through my MP909 effect unit and that worked fine too. Guess you can send it through the Ultranova? Don't know how many oscs it would take up, though. Maybe they can be coupled this way?

Hope it finds a way to ya and vice versa. I love mine.

[D-Fusion]

I bought one a few weeks ago but I regret getting carried away with the moment. It is nowhere near as good as even my simple VSTi and it is not a lot of fun to play with, thanks to the disconnect between the sound you hear and the position of the knobs. It is impossible, for example, to see the settings for any preset, they remain a complete mystery. It's lack of effects also puts it at a huge disadvantage, as does the pathetic polyphony.

Sure, it sounds OK but it's nothing special. The oscillators are good but the filter isn't even close to any decent softsynth. The design and build are both excellent but the reality of using it is mostly disappointment. I wanted it to replace my Ultranova but I can't see any way that it could, it's just not good enough.

I Agree 100% The Filter destroyed my interest in it.
I did give it a very good test run for over a week in hope that i would find it worth keeping but i gave up.

[BONES]

I was ready to return mine until someone showed me how to get the sound from the front panel controls. That makes it a lot easier to play around with so I have managed to find a few good, usable sounds in recent days.

But if you're after the particular characteristics of an analog synth, nothing is going to beat an analog synth.

What "particular characteristics"? Going out of tune all the time? The thought that there is anything only an analogue synth can do is just rubbish. It's a synth, they all do the same stuff. My whole point is that there is no magic to this thing, just because it's analogue.

Personally I hear a pretty significant difference, but the things that I look for in a sound maybe totally different than you.

Then give us some audio examples, musical ones, because I could bombard you all day with audio examples of what even an average V/A can do that this thing can't.

With the four layers of parameter changes recorded, you can get some crazy sounds.

I can record 100 layers of parameter changes in my sequencer and all that stuff is pure digital on the Minilogue anyway.

So you didnt demo either of them extensively first to determine sound quality?
Someone of your experience should know better. Now youre stuck with two whimsies, when all you really needed was a controller to play your soft synths....

It's not the first time and it certainly won't be the last. And it's not like I hate them and can't find any use at all for them. Quite the opposite, actually, the JP-08 is proving itself more and more useful as I dig into it but probably not for what I originally hoped to get from it. With my Ultranova refusing to talk to my Surface Book, the Minilogue may end up saving the day for us so I am not going to write it off, either.

And I did do my due diligence before I spent my money. I read a lot of reviews and spent an hour or so in the shop playing around with the Minilogue before I decided to buy it. The real problem was that the Ultranova had been sitting in storage since our last gig two years ago, so I'd kind of forgotten how good it was. For example, when you compare the strings on each, which is what I mostly play live, I'd forgotten that I had layered a nice, ethereal filter sweep on the Ultranova that I just can't replicate on the Minilogue, although DUAL mode will let me do something close on the JP.

Of course, the main reason for buying anything at all was to get me off my arse and back into music, which it has definitely done.

I use guitar pedals since minilogue has one mono output only and that works fine. Second hand Guitar multieffect come cheap now a days, so thats a possibility.
I have also tried sending it through my MP909 effect unit and that worked fine too. Guess you can send it through the Ultranova? Don't know how many oscs it would take up, though. Maybe they can be coupled this way?

Yeah but that complicates my set-up when I have spent the last 35 years trying to make it simpler. It has been something of an obsession. What I might end up doing is using something like Yamaha's AG06 mixer. It has a built in USB audio interface and some on-board effects. It might even be able to handle my vocal effects. My bandmate has new drum pads that makes their own sounds so we are going to have to find some way to get that into our mix anyway. A tiny mixer might fix everything and $200 is eminently affordable. If I play everything on the hardware synths, I won't need to connect them to the PC at all. So things are still evolving.