Remark from a keyboard player … for me it makes a big difference to play a tune with one hand and to perform sound modulation with the second hand on the same instrument live … well … not working only on the wheels and joysticks, but on the various knobs and sliders of the particular synth. There are so many tones to express myself. And … with some keyboards around, I also can quickly change on the fly from one to the other. I couldn’t be happy with one master-keyboard only.
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better to buy the KingKorg second hand 
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Aha, well that makes sense! I’m just a knob twiddler 
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So you have two hands free for sound mangling … all the better … 
Prologue bad? You slagging off a product before even knowing the full specs… IMO the digital side is the most interesting thing about it, and not much has yet been disclosed about it.
That video was pretty - pretty boring
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More vids (I’ll add em all here as I find em, as to not needlessly up the postcount)
This shows abit more of the UI… Several reverb and delay algos on board
Also liking the power supply on this one - no wall warts!
Expression and sustain pedal jacks
MIDI In & Out
volca sync in/outs
Some patches
A GAK presentation vid
A sweetwater vid
Here’s a better rez pic of the front panel
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I can‘t listen to most of these demos and a lot of analog polysynth demos in general. I can’t stand these cheesy 80s analog pad and keyboard sounds. They seem to be thing most people ask for in the synth market… hundreds of videos covering the stranger things soundtrack… puuuh, that‘s clearly not my favoured music era.
Maybe that‘s why I like the often said „cold“ sound of a4 and monomachine so much.
Sorry for being of topic, tried to watch the demos 
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Well, Korg is aiming for the kind of market that wants to sound like everyone else.
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I was hoping Korg would use their nanotubes in it and give it sampling as well as a beefed up monologue sequencer but then again they aren’t basing these synth off of my imagination.
That´s a nice good looking synth with rather basic features, but great for bread and butter stuff.
Still i don´t need this, Prophet 6 and Novation Peak give me plenty of polyphonic goodness…
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yeah I do not want to judge the synth only the demos and the sounds I hear very often created with analog polys.
But that’s my personal taste of course. I generally seem to prefer digital pad sounds. And I prefer analog pads when played only with two to three notes. Otherwise they sound too thick to me, I like it more gentle. That’s why 4 voices are easily sufficient for me in a polysynth 
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Demo have a role in there… it’s not necessarily the Synth in itself. We all know the rule “When you receive a synth delete the factory first… and work man !”
From my point of view, Music brand for the most have so bad demo and factory generally speaking. If i were in such a company, i would pay half sound-designer and half actual musicians and not only music charts genre… but i would cover more the music history of all genre…
i would make a series of video to demonstrate what’s makes the synth different or original compared to the others… in few sound-design movies to demonstrate those design choice and innovations. For instance they should have done few on the User wave design to demonstrate what they bring on the table…
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most people seem to want to hear the classic sounds. I want to hear the weird sounds 
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Probably why I liked the Monologue demos and eventually bought one. None of the cheesy stuff in those videos.
I did enjoy that sweetwater vid though. I like the ”global timbre” of this thing. But the upcoming API/SDK for the digitals will be the final bit to know…
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Also no compressor on the 49 model
most likely 
I’m fine with more analog synths if they bring something new, but often I cannot hear enough distinctiveness to definitively tell them apart timbrally - at least with Elektron the per step multiple modulation options afforded by parameter locks offer a precise way to inject interest and variation, a few companies have followed suit to some degrees but no one seems to be innovating much. IMH
I think for “classic” synths we are more than covered now, no?
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Yes and i would say if they can bring us more innovations… it would also allow artists and music to come out a little off the beaten path at least in some area on those tracks
And i can’t stay away from the computer because of this. innovations seem to comes from plugins lately… (Granular, Spectral, vector oscillators, and all sort of effects …)
Like Cinema vs Tv shows
can’t agree more
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