Korg Prologue

[Daags]

Either way, I would not mind having it
Some of the sounds on their site are nice, the Logue Pad for instance.

i haven't had a chance to really delve deeply into the feature set or even demos ... but my initial impression puts me in agreement with those expressing disappointment about the price.

[Elektronisch]

Either way, I would not mind having it
Some of the sounds on their site are nice, the Logue Pad for instance.

Fluffy your opinion is very biased because of your own needs. What most of us (wich is just few of us) is saying about the price is from global perspective in comparison with Prophet Rev 2, Deepmind12

I wouldnt mind having this also, i actually think this is one of the more interesting analog synths released in the past years because it offers some very cool features like user shapes and patch morphing but even with those features when something like 2nd lfo is missing,i cannot justify when for same price there is Rev2 and cheaper Deepmind12 and if you make your spectrum of synths even wider, you can add System 8 wich sounds as good as analog

[aMUSEd]

Maybe there are more LFO's in the modulation effects.
One would indeed be a bit limited, doesn't even seem to have a sine wave. The target selector is also a bit limited.
Maybe there is some deep edit mode under the hood

No there isnt, here are the specs:

http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthes ... ations.php

Oh dear that seems a bit of a Korg Pro lapse

[EvilDragon]

REV-2 and DeeppMind both have cheaper DCO design, and integrated circuits. Korg's design is discrete and has 32 VCOs. These things cost money.

[fluffy_little_something]

It would probably cost 3k to 4k if it were made in Japan instead of China. I think only the keybed is made in Japan.

[Doc Brown]

One lfo?

I wouldn't totally rule it out but one lfo is very limiting.

[fmr]

REV-2 and DeeppMind both have cheaper DCO design, and integrated circuits. Korg's design is discrete and has 32 VCOs. These things cost money.

It's funny that people complain about the absence of "real" analog synths, but when someone launches one, they complain about the price

There's a reason why these cost so much - they are much more expensive to build than digital synths (Roland System-8). Now, let's see what Behringer comes up when they launch the OB-Xa clone.

[Elektronisch]

REV-2 and DeeppMind both have cheaper DCO design, and integrated circuits. Korg's design is discrete and has 32 VCOs. These things cost money.

It's funny that people complain about the absence of "real" analog synths, but when someone launches one, they complain about the price

There's a reason why these cost so much - they are much more expensive to build than digital synths (Roland System-8). Now, let's see what Behringer comes up when they launch the OB-Xa clone.

Fair enough, tho to me DCO is still analog And if VCOs are so expensive shouldnt Minilogue cost nearly 1k ?

[EvilDragon]

Minilogue is 4 voices with 2 VCOs per voice (so, . Prologue has a 16 voice variant with 32 VCOs total, for slightly less than 4 times the price. It scales correctly.

[david.beholder]

Well it's a FLOP.

I've been patiently waiting for Prologue announcement. But at the moment I saw specs I felt disappointment there are only 1 LFO, only 2 envs, no mod matrix, limited routing, no sequencer, no nothing. Wake up Korg it's 2018 not 1979.

It's not a flagship or synth good for sound design.
Thanks god we've got choice on market: Peak, DM12 or P8Rev2.

[david.beholder]

Korg's design is discrete and has 32 VCOs. These things cost money.

Please don't turn this board into yet another Gearslutz and don't spread urban myths. VCO design cost few times more than DCO and it's like $5 instead of $2, may be $7 considering pitch adjustment system not like 100 times.

On Korg scale board with 8 vcos 4 filters delay and contorlling electroincs of korg minilogue cost around $100. That's exactly why they are able to retail for $500.

[In The Mix]

It sounds stunning!

[eXode]

Otoh the Prophet 6 has only 6 voices vs Prologue 8, similar features, and costs almost the double!

[transmetropolitan]

Korg's design is discrete and has 32 VCOs. These things cost money.

Please don't turn this board into yet another Gearslutz and don't spread urban myths. VCO design cost few times more than DCO and it's like $5 instead of $2, may be $7 considering pitch adjustment system not like 100 times.

On Korg scale board with 8 vcos 4 filters delay and contorlling electroincs of korg minilogue cost around $100. That's exactly why they are able to retail for $500.

It's a completely false premise that there is a linear relationship between component cost and production cost/sale price as you are suggesting here.

[fmr]

Korg's design is discrete and has 32 VCOs. These things cost money.

Please don't turn this board into yet another Gearslutz and don't spread urban myths. VCO design cost few times more than DCO and it's like $5 instead of $2, may be $7 considering pitch adjustment system not like 100 times.

On Korg scale board with 8 vcos 4 filters delay and contorlling electroincs of korg minilogue cost around $100. That's exactly why they are able to retail for $500.

I'll be eagerly waiting for your 16 voice analog polysynth at $500 (oh, and while you're at it, please include the Xpander/Matrix-12 filter). I'll even pay you an extra $100 for that and a modulation matrix.