With NAMM this month - news, announcements, hype and excitement has been brewing all month and will no doubt continue to as we then have to wait most of the year to see releases of a lot of the products announced. I've started to gather content for the magazine pre-NAMM and with the information overload from all the NAMM content I'll be deliberately leaving anything NAMM related for the February issue so I've had chance to digest it all. Fortunately we have had some news before NAMM so here it is!
Korg dropped a bombshell recently and
although it’s not modular it’s certainly
exciting! Korg’s new release the Minilogue
is a 4 voice analogue (yep, analogue!)
polyphonic synthesizer with 2 oscillators
per voice (8 in total), waveshaping, sync,
ring mod, FM, different low pass filter
slopes, two envelopes and loads more. It’s the first analogue poly synth from Korg since the DCO based Poly-800 mk2 in 1985 and what seems ridiculous is the price. It’s $499 US or around £439 UK at the minute and as you’d expect that’s had plenty of positive responses and no doubt sales but also some negatives as well, with people criticising the potential quality at the price. I think they could have sold it for more and stuck to under $1000 and still sold loads. But obviously I’m happy to pay as little as possible! The unit looks stunning with a gently curved sand blasted (nicely textured) aluminium front and wooden back. Everything transmits midi in out, there’s loads of digital control and clever things going on so let the videos do the talking and click HERE to head to a whole load of videos covering the Minilogue.