KVR Audio

Daags · Post by **Daags** » Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:30 pm

some nice stuff there .... factory or custom presets ?

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:08 am

Still waiting for mine >_<

When I picked it up it was saying delivery by end of January, but now on the site it's saying expected March. I'm really hoping that's for new customers and I got one of the last ones in the January batch.

Sequent · Post by **Sequent** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:21 am

@Aiynzahev, some nice sounds there. So... is your first impression that it was a good purchase? Bad purchase? So-so? Have you experienced any of the clicking issues that the one youtube poster was demonstrating? Thanks for sharing!!!

stillshaded · Post by **stillshaded** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 1:42 am

Aiynzahev wrote:I got a few sounds recorded if anyone's interested in more demos. Not spent a huge amount of time with it yet

http://soundcloud.com/aiyn-zahev/korg-m ... muck-about

wow... how can you stand those clicky envelopes?

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:55 am

Aiynzahev wrote:I got a few sounds recorded if anyone's interested in more demos. Not spent a huge amount of time with it yet

http://soundcloud.com/aiyn-zahev/korg-m ... muck-about

Nice sounds!

So far I'm actually finding the Minilogue sounds I've heard more interesting than what I've heard out of the OB-6

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:57 am

If they release a module version that can be hooked up to the keyboard, that would be 8 voices for under $1000... quite intriguing

lalo · Post by **lalo** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:02 am

Aiynzahev wrote:I got a few sounds recorded if anyone's interested in more demos. Not spent a huge amount of time with it yet

http://soundcloud.com/aiyn-zahev/korg-m ... muck-about

Thanks man! good stuff here!
Could you please link Minilogue to your DAW and send to it a slow full filter sweep (from min to max) at medium/hi resonance via MIDI CC. Say a 4 bars long sweep at 60 bpm?
Then can you post the audio here?
many thanks!

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:04 am

Haha. Started reading this from page one and dropped off after the A vs VA debate. Quite humorous. Have had my minilogue for two weeks now. Have had a Mother 32 for about three and a half weeks and have a second Mother 32 on order and will (gulp) probably get a 3rd too. Bottom line for me is that this is an amazing time to be a fan of cool little analog synths if on a budget. Absolutely love both minilogue and Mother 32. Mother 32 perfectly integrates with my existing modular and Minilogue is just really fun to play with easy controls, instant visual feedback with the little oscilloscope. My son played with minilogue for a few hours and said "I want one". Amazing - he has never had an interest in my hardware synths and runs his own VA's in Ableton, but he really liked this thing.

It sounds great. A lot of bang for the buck at $499. Different beast entirely than Mother 32, but that's another great bang for the buck, particularly if you already have equipment with cv/gate ability. Love em both, but that two, three, or four tier Mother 32 is starting to get into crazy options patching and increasing filters, lfo's, oscillators, etc. Just patching in and out of my modular and then also driving minibrute by cv/gate starts getting insane options on modulations. Add ability of all three now (minibrute, minilogue, mother 32) to route audio in and use as additional oscillator source, makes them really attractive to play together.

Now where is that KARP 2600 we all want.....

It seems a few folks are concentrating on some audible clicking from fast envelopes, so thought I'd give my take on it with my sample of the minilogue - no more clicky than really fast envelope on my modular or on the brute. Has been a zero issue thing for me. I suppose if you really try to get it or concentrate your ears to trying to hear it, you might find it on some settings, but not an issue to me. I saw the youtube videos (two from the same guy with one minilogue and then gonna compare it to his jupiter 8 - sheesh. $10,000 synth vs $499 synth) but have not experienced same issues as in the videos. It does click on fast attack, zero release, short decay, zero sustain, but not anymore than my other synths and it can be used rythmically if you want. Its a fricken $499 poly true analog. Enough about clicky envelopes already.

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:29 am

I think Tatsuya Takahashi is going to be one to watch closely in the future.

We might see some really cool designs at crazy good prices. He's even venturing into fm, which is great too.

Of course, if you got the cash, Dave and Tom made something that looks really special....

Daags · Post by **Daags** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:39 am

Wormhelmet wrote:Haha. Started reading this from page one and dropped off after the A vs VA debate.

oh ya, I managed to successfully expunge that whole A vs VA side-topic from my memory ... funny that the same dweebs (and troll) returned for the inane clicking thing, mostly on the strength of some other dweebs youtube vid. Did not being able to see the patch settings matter to them ? No, of course not. Why let pertinent facts stand in the way of a good dweeb circle jerk

But I digress. I'm wondering about your Mother 32's, I know you only have one so far, but with multiples on the horizon - how are you plannin to use the two or three built-in step sequencers at your disposal ? I'm assuming you can patch their output to any ole cv input you like, yes ?

olikana · Post by **olikana** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:42 am

Wormhelmet wrote: I saw the youtube videos (two from the same guy with one minilogue and then gonna compare it to his jupiter 8 - sheesh. $10,000 synth vs $499 synth) but have not experienced same issues as in the videos. It does click on fast attack, zero release, short decay, zero sustain, but not anymore than my other synths and it can be used rythmically if you want. Its a fricken $499 poly true analog. Enough about clicky envelopes already.

good then. cos in sawaveanalog's 1st video the clicking was there even when attack and release were well up (at 30% or something).
in any case in all the musical examples, like in Aiynzahev example, those clicks are sounding sweet. for percussive rythms plucks zaps and blips might be even desirable. they really pop out...punchy as hell....no need for VCA compression. you get it included in the synth

the only thing that still does not sound good is the delay ....the white noise that enters in the background is too invasive.....but the delay is really an extra feature . and the highpass included in the delay will be of use.

Daags · Post by **Daags** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:46 am

olikana wrote:cos in sawaveanalog's 1st video the clicking was there even when attack and release were well up (at 30% or something).

You have no idea what the patch settings were, other than to take his vague descriptions at face value. All we know for sure about his patch was that it was insane - the kind of patch no one would ever conceivably attempt to make music with.

ere2learn · Post by **ere2learn** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:56 am

Any stock in Europe yet?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:11 pm

Not before March.

Wormhelmet · Post by **Wormhelmet** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:51 pm

Daags wrote:
Wormhelmet wrote:Haha. Started reading this from page one and dropped off after the A vs VA debate.
oh ya, I managed to successfully expunge that whole A vs VA side-topic from my memory ... funny that the same dweebs (and troll) returned for the inane clicking thing, mostly on the strength of some other dweebs youtube vid. Did not being able to see the patch settings matter to them ? No, of course not. Why let pertinent facts stand in the way of a good dweeb circle jerk

But I digress. I'm wondering about your Mother 32's, I know you only have one so far, but with multiples on the horizon - how are you plannin to use the two or three built-in step sequencers at your disposal ? I'm assuming you can patch their output to any ole cv input you like, yes ?

Yeah. Pretty flexible routing on the Mother. Right now have just one so KB and gate out go to multiples on my modular, then from there go to two oscillators on modular and one set of cv/gate out to my minibrute.

The two oscillators on my modular I usually flip between sending them through one of the three filters on the modular (ladder, SEM, polivoks) and back into external in on the Mother, or just send straight out to Mother and use Mother's ladder filter. Entirely possible to mix and match lfo's, adsr's, filters, osc, etc with any eurorack gear or even go through minibrute steiner filter and adsr.

I do have some midi in going from mv8800 to both minilogue and Mother 32. Easy to set midi channel Rx on either device. Can turn off sync on my mv too and still send clock. Can also run sequencer of Mother with blank sequence and it automatically transposes to notes sent from external sequencer, then tempo control on Mother can be used to set clock divisions.

They did a nice design on the Mother 32. Really want 2nd soon, but know there will be a third. Really cool to have patch points away from knobs too. My modular gets pretty tangled with complex patches.

Korg Minilogue