But the areas that typically take the most abuse on a keyboard – the faceplate and back – are made of very rugged materials. And the Minilogue’s base is made of heavy plastic, too. Other keyboards in the sub-$500 price range typically feature primarily plastic construction. The Korg Minilogue offers impressive build quality for its $500 price. But it delivers traditional analog synth sound, combined with the flexibility and power of modern control, at an impressive price. The Minilogue does not compete with the power of high-end analog synths, of the past or the present.
It also includes a step sequencer that sequences voice parameters, in addition to notes. It offers a total of eight voice allocation modes that give you exceptional flexibility. A Delay section includes a single high-pass filter & a vintage-style delay. The Minilogue also offers two filter types, per voice, with 4-pole and 2-pole cutoffs. Another unique feature is the Shape knob on the oscillators, which let you fine tune the shape and sound of the oscillators’ waves. The most obvious of these unique features is that the OLED display boots up to be an oscilloscope, showing you the shape of a cycle of the sound you are playing. The Korg Minilogue is a four-voice polyphonic analog synth that features a traditional two oscillator + Noise, VCF, Dual ADSR, VCA architecture.īut while Korg’s recent analog synths have duplicated the architecture and styling of vintage synths, the Minilogue goes in a different direction, offering a variety of features that are either unusual or unavailable in the world of classic analog synths: Read our Korg Minilogue synthesizer review to find out! That changed this week, with the official introduction of the Korg Minilogue Polyphonic Analogue Synthesizer – a $500, fully-programmable four-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer, complete with a 16-step polyphonic note and motion sequencer, arpeggiator, and delay.Ĭan a $500 analog polysynth deliver the goods? And there have been polyphonic analogs, like Dave Smith Instruments’ flagship instruments.īut the inexpensive polyphonic analog has been elusive. There have been inexpensive polysynths, like the Roland JD-Xi or the Novation Mininova. 
There have been inexpensive analogs, like the Arturia microBrute. And for years, Synthtopia readers have had to settle for two out of three.
For years, Synthtopia readers have been asking for an inexpensive polyphonic analog synth.
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