Korg announce new synth, set to bring analogue polyphony down to an affordable price point.
The Minilogue, set to be unveiled at next week’s NAMM trade show, is an all-new four-voice analogue polysynth with 41 dedicated controls on the front panel allowing hands-on access to almost all features without accessing menus. The synth architecture is relatively simple: two voltage-controlled oscillators per voice (which can be played in true four-voice polyphonic mode, plus mono, unison and various other settings), switchable two-pole or four-pole filters, two envelope generators, an LFO, sync, cross modulation, ring modulation, built-in delay, sequencer and arpeggiator. There’s also a neat oscilloscope on the small OLED, allowing you to visualise changes to the sound in real time. The synth’s circuits are entirely new, as opposed to being based on classic Korg designs.
In our NAMM preview, we predicted that affordable analogue polysynths would be a major story at this year’s show. Korg is the first company to show its hand and the results are impressive. Best of all, it’s priced at just $499, which we’d expect to equate to somewhere around €500 in Europe and £400 in the UK.
The Minilogue will be available from January 21st, priced at $599.
Check out Sweetwater’s video demo below.
12.01 AM
It really sounds like garbage.
04.07 PM
Where is your article on the democratisation of synthesis? Korg link to it, but I ant find the piece anywhere