I've been wanting to get this thing for awhile now, and now that I have it, and as an aspiring electronic musician it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. This is my first hardware synth, I've had it for a couple days now and I can't stop playing with it. Although I do plan on making songs with it as the lead once I get an audio interface, just tweaking the sounds and making beats is a blast.
I found it extremely easy to use and figure out, since I've had experience with software synths and I've watched a lot of videos on the microKORG. So if you have some basic synthesizer/sound design knowledge you should have no trouble figuring this thing out just by playing around with it. The only thing I've had to refer to the manual for so far is how to turn off the write protection so I could save my own sounds, which was no trouble at all.
The microKORG has 128 preset sounds (including vocoder), all of which can be tweaked in just about any way you can think of. They range from standard trance/techno sounds to huge bass sounds to ambient and experimental stuff, pretty much anything a (starting) electronic producer might want. With 128 presets and tons of settings to tweak, there's always new stuff to come up with. Before when I only used software synths I usually ran out of ideas for songs and beats, but I can mess around on this thing for a couple minutes and ideas just pop into my head.
As for the hardware itself, the microKORG is built very nicely, it doesn't feel at all cheap. The microphone for the vocoder is alright, although it can be a bit wobbly and it will give feedback if you have it too loud. So if you plan on really using the vocoder a lot (I don't), you might wanna consider a better microphone.
Overall, this is probably the best entry-level synthesizer out there, for every reason. Although I absolutely recommend it, I recommend it for people who have basic knowledge of synthesizers. If you have no idea how a synthesizer works and you never used a software synth, I would recommend learning about synthesizers and how they work before buying a hardware synth. Even $400 is a big investment. So I definitely recommend this, as long as you're confident that it's going to do what you think it's going to do. As long as you know what you're getting into, this is a great purchase.
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Here's my view on the product:My first piece of equipment of the kind. Was very excited to get it, watched all videos on Youtube and did a lot of research...Was very pleased with the sounds.Not a 5 star because of the "cheap" feel of the plastic keys and thought was a little overpriced.The price for this should be $299 max due to the finish. I guess we are so used to Apple products and the perfection of those that everything else looks cheap if not made to the ultimate standards.The style is amazing though...Also the Vocoder is not the best thing in the world, but fun for a first.
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Reviewed in Canada on August 5, 2024
Sounds fantastic right out of the box, having some legendary presets that you might recognize in many popular songs.
The build quality is great and it seems reliable for hard work, the knobs, buttons, and keys, are sensitive and yet sturdy, the portability is fantastic.
The software and the matrix might present a challenge for some, but it only makes you go deep into honing your sound design fundamentals.
I have yet to check software compatibility and importing presets on it, as it has only MIDI inputs, this might be challenging, but nothing feels better than taming a piece of gear like this.
I'm very happy with this purchase, and hope to make the most out of it, I can't recommend it enough.
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