My gf really likes the look of this and she generally is not really interested in any of my ‘boxes with buttons’. 
I do have an OG Minilogue and I think it’s a modern classic. Can get so much mileage out of it and it’s an ideal ‘fits in the mix’ synth. On top of that it’s just fun to play.
As a proud owner of the Roland Ax Edge keytar…
F#c% Korg for releasing this… the last thing I need is another effin synth, but yet here we go again… GASSIN myself up .
AND ITS A BASS EDITION!!! damn them… AND POLYPHONY… double damn them.
Black and RED… uhhh… yamete kudasai…
I have Grandmother and a Prophet 6… I doubt I even need another bass synth.
Minilogue Bass 798€ on Thomann and others Italian stores… WTF??
I kinda like the black case with the red keys. But the dragon tattoo is so damn ugly, I think. So this is exactly OG Minilogue only with new patches focused on bass?
Basically we are talking about aesthetics and nothing more, if they had believed in it more they would have made a keytar-logue
Hi there! I have been viewing some videos today. I don’t use keyboard so I would be more interested in the module version. I understand both Minilogue & Minilogue XD have builtin sequencers, is it easy (Elektron way) to use or is it a pain?
You can record notes and knob movements over a 16 step sequence. I certainly wouldn’t compare it to an Elektron sequencer. You’ll want to sequence these with something else. My band mate has the xd and I think it’s pretty great. It has a fairly wide sound palette with the user OSC options while staying very straight forward (WYSIWYG).
i thought the sync in jack would just advance one step in the sequencer every pulse (similar to a juno or sh101) so i was disappointed when i found out it tries to figure out the bpm from the pulses similar to midi clock… so sending it irregular clocks doesn’t really work, kinda bummed out about that…
also the arp doesn’t quantize your playing like most other arps do, so changing chords throws the timing off unless your timing is rock solid. both these issues could easily be solved by a firmware update but korg doesnt seem to care at this point.
Maybe it seems a silly question, but looking what another user said I need to ask: When you say record you mean “live”? Or you can setup a pattern just using sequencer without playing?
I believe both. I can only remember doing “live” knob adjustments. Any note stuff we used it for was only when he first got it; 16 steps is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too short.
Ouch
You mean you can’t build a pattern of, let’s say, 64 steps?
16 steps is the limit and you only have very limited control over these steps. If I recall correctly, you can highlight individual steps and mute them, maybe remove the recorded automation. But it’s more of a quick and dirty bonus gimmick and in no way comparable to an Elektron sequencer. That being said, live record notes and automation of (I think up to 4) parameters is pretty straightforward and can help you get an idea going. Maybe it’s best to read the manual or watch a Youtube video about the sequencer if you’re not sure.
As has been mentioned, the overall sound of XD and standard Minilogue is pretty good if not mind blowing. The effects are excellent imo, probably the best built in effects I‘ve encountered on a synth (way better than sequential, for example). XD has less controls over the second envelope, only two knobs instead of ADSR. The module is also surprisingly big for a simple four voice synth, but that’s highly subjective of course.
Thanks for the info
My idea would be midi syncing (tempo & program changes) this with a Elektron M:S for the rhythm / drums sounds, so I can’t imagine how I could make that work with that 16 steps limitation
I guess I need to search for some other machine then
There are work-arounds, as there always are.
I found this this video just the other day—it explains how to build longer sequences on the Minilogue using the “arp” function (basically turning each step into its own sequence up to 16 notes long):
That can get you a 256-note sequence, but it also makes it into more or less a monophonic machine, since you’re stuck in ARP mode.
But again, there are work-arounds for that work-around, for instance using delay to stack notes.
Like a lot of the recent Korg offerings, it’s a deceptively deep instrument, but you have to think in a kind of lateral way sometimes if you want to avoid some of its shortcomings. And be willing to lose time to experimentation.
(Much like Elektron instrument, now that I think about it.)
Re-re-re-discovering the Korg Minilogue, again. Some thoughts:
The Resonance of the Filter is horrible. It cuts away all the low-end and makes the sound thin. Typical Minilogue, perfect to make these thin resonant howling sounds!
The thin sound is even more pronounced when using the Triangle oscillators. I love the sound of the triangle waves!
The Delay is horribly noisy. Once you engage the delay the sound instantly becomes Lo-Fi. I love it to make atmospheric ambient Lo-Fi sounds (Hi-Pass cutoff is very handy here too). The delay adds 100% Minilogue charachter.
The Sequencer, with only 16 steps, is horribly basic. Yet if you play with the division & gate length, you can indeed program 4 notes per step, making it a 64 note (or x4 repeated = 256) step sequencer. Because of this weird limitation & work around, I tend to come up with sequences I would otherwise never make!
Only 4 voices. To circumvent this, Korg made these 8 voice modes. And when making a patch, changing the voice mode totally changes how you view/listen to your patch. Love it.
Octave switches are great fun to just flick about when a sequence is playing, the other switches are too (Velocity, Waves, …)
4 Modulation lanes + 1 (free running) LFO & OSC shapes make for a lot more modulation/sound sculpting than meets the eye.
The general sound is lovely analog. Meaning: it’s wonky, noisy & alive. You almost hear the oscillators fall apart in tuning & beating. The Envelopes also behave wonky and unpredictable. Nice!
Conclusions:
!!! Yey synthesisers !!!
So well put!
care to elaborate on the sequencer 4 note per step trick please?
You can play a chord (or even arp) on each step. Not sure it that’s what he/she means. But that’s my understanding. I have a Minilogue XD.
I never used this kind of approach other than motion sequencing on my Minilogue XD. But since I got my SQ-64, I ended up bunch of this kind of results. I realized this is really crazy! I had a lot of happy accidents last week and I quickly recorded them to use in the future.
Might mean this:
Voice mode: Arp
Voice mode depth: Manual 1
Then you can play the four notes per step in, in order, and they will play back in the order you entered them. 64 steps achieved. You can set the sequencer division setting to a slower division (like quarter instead of 16th note), as well as lowering the tempo setting, to slow things down if necessary.