Sounds great indeed but I feel pain without enough knobs to use 
I have tried to record it, not sure if it carries across - had to use headphones as the family is asleep, so the lowest C at the beginning is below my current audio rangeâŚ
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Hahaha now I will!
Hooray, I got a shiny new toy⌠for all of your amusement and entertainment: the unboxing video.
cause who doesnt want to see a grown man be excited like a little boy on xmasdayâŚ
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Iâm quite enjoying watching this while drinking a beer, being a grown man myself.
However, I think you should have lighted the candle behind you for that special mood, you know.
Can the Monologue somehow send its microtuning to something else via midi out?
The Monologue 's tunings can be dumped as SysEx files, but something else (software) would have to convert them to the format of the other instrument.
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had the Monologue for a while. Tried out the Minilogue in the Music Store recently because i simply needed another Poly for my setup. Monologue has a bit more power, sounds beefier. As for the Minilogue: I compared Minilogue and System-1 and i went for the System-1 because it simply sounds better, more organic. That fu**in surprised me; a digital Synth sounds better than a real analog?! In that case - yeah, it does! Dont think the Minilogue is the best thing that Korg did. But the Monologue - for what it is - is really good if you only need a Monosynth. Its price is also fair i think.
[edit] do you see the line above @Prints post? 28 Days Later ⌠reminds me of a movie i once saw 
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I ordered one of these because I was looking for a compact midi keyboard. Itâs handy that using its audio in, a desktop synth being controlled by it with only a line out can be used as an audio source in order to listen to it with a pair of headphones through the Monologue. The desktop synthâs waveforms would also appear in the Monologueâs oscilloscope.
Has anyone tried this yet? Iâm curious how much the Monologue colors a sound source going through its audio in with the filter wide open; and resonance, oscillator levels, & drive all the way down.
I finally broke down and got a Monologue this weekend. The local synth shop had all the colors in and was having an âopen mixerâ event and between sets, everyone was playing with the Monologue and I think the shop ended up selling all of them!
Although after I had purchased mine the shop broke out their one in-stock Minilogue for a couple of customers to check out and I almost reneged on my purchase in favor of the Minilogue. I thought it sounded great.
But for me, so far, the Monologue is pretty much what I wanted it to be - a more manageable Monotribe. Much of what I like on the Monotribe but with a richer sequencer and patch memory. (Monotribe is still fun and tiny and I think could make great sample fodder for Octatrack though).
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Does the monologue come with the little drum section like the monotribe?
itâd be cool if they released a desktop version of the monologue aka without the keyboard. id like that.
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No unfortunately but it is a great synth.
I really hope Korg do a proper drum synth.
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No drums. But it can generate beats through creative use of âmotion controlâ (which now can act more like p-locks with per step editing). And the Monologue has the âsync in/outâ ports for connecting any Korg Sync capable things like Volcas, Monotribe, Pocket Operators, and modular clocks (and you can configure the sync ports to receive and send sync signals preferred by volcas or preferred by Eurorack).
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NICE!!! Definitely on my wish list. Iâm big fan of the Monotribe. The raw primitive sounds of that box are right up my lane.
Yeah I forgot! You can get some great rhythmic sounds from it with the crazy sequencer.
Itâs one of those synths that makes you think, âhang on, I can get everything I need to dump in a sampler for complete tracks and albumsâ.
Good fun, and the function to set the sound to the front controls is brilliant. My brother has one and when I was round his place we just used to twist the knobs and flick the switches before turning it on, switch on the wysiwyg and bingo, a nutty sound to jump off fromâŚ
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Question to the monologue owners: can you sequence other gears with it? Using its internal sequencer?
Iâm definitely going to want to figure out how to change presets with an external sequencer as a way to chain patterns built into the Monologue smoothly to break free of incessantly monotonous 16-step loops. Has anyone else tried this yet? Looking at the manual, I see that itâs capable of âProgram Change,â what would be the CC number for using this? It says âTrue Number,â but Iâm not sure what that means. Wouldnât the âTrue Numberâ of the preset coincide with some of the CC numbers referenced for the other parameters?
Nevermind, I think I figured out what I needed. Iâve never used another sequencer for program changes before, and didnât realize that most sequencers have a specific program change parameter that doesnât need a Cc value assigned to it.
I donât own one but yes you can indeed use the sequencer on external gear, extremely valuable!
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