The Korg Mini MS20 is real!

People have hassled synthesiser companies for ages to recreate some of their classic analog gear. Korg has finally taken the bait and announced a fully functional, fully analog replica of their legendary MS20 synthesiser.



The Micro MS20 is smaller than the original but it looks perfect. If the pricing on this little machine is right then it could be a phenomenal hit. I need one of these!

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New Gear! Korg Monotron.

My Korg Monotron came through the post earlier! I’ve been messing around with it for hours now, it couples up nicely with my Microkorg and mini KP. I haven't got around to hooking it up with anything else yet but it is a completely amazing little bit of kit.

Add a little bit of delay and this thing sings! It’s good for dub sirens, beeps, bleeps and making tones of noise. It also has a very powerful analog low pass filter (12 dB/oct) which is brilliant for processing external audio.

It’s fully analog too! The oscillator and the filter are based on the legendary korg MS20 synthesizer. For such a little box (It's just a little bit bigger than my iPhone) It has an amazingly aggressive sound. Crank up the peak control and the filter screams (Just like the MS20) and the oscillator itself has quite a big range.

The only thing that I can see it lacks is MIDI support. The ribbon control is frustrating to use but I suppose I can't complain because at £50 this is an awesome piece of gear.

I’ll be recording some demo tracks with the monotron and hopefully a huge sample pack for all of you music tech people out there.

I'll post more on the monotron soon.

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