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The Korg Minilogue is a SUPER fun & intuitive analog synth for everyone from beginners to seasoned synthesits. I've been programming synths for 20 years and this was just as fun as the first synth I ever used. Its analog sound is wonderful and thick. Almost everything has a knob or switch for control and, for the patches I was making, I never went into the menus for further editing beyond naming patches and setting sequencer settings. The shape control of the oscillators gives a lot of variation to your standard waveforms and the sync/ring-mod, cross modulation, & pitch envelope of oscillator two really open up the sonic possibilities. I very much enjoy the dedicated switch for velocity modulation of the filter cutoff and I like that there are only two modulation depths beyond none. My favorite feature of the Minilogue is the envelope modulation of either the rate or the intensity of the LFO. This really gives a sense of motion to what is already a sense of motion from the LFO. My only complaint is that the LFO doesn't go fast enough for analog-FM style tones. It's not nearly as fast as the LFO on the Monologue but that's more of an observation that a full drawback. I really enjoyed the different voice modes of this synth, really finding mono, which introduces a variable level sub, and chord, which creates various fixed chords, to be the most useful beyond the standard poly mode. This is by far the best poly synth I have ever found for someone who is interested in learning analog synthesis. The knobs and switches along with the actual layout of them makes programming make sense and a joy to use. The Minilogue does have mini-keys but the mini keys Korg has been using for their new synths are really great. Much better than the microKORG. With the Minilogue, Korg really show us that there will always be room for one more analog synth.

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I'll keep this long story short. I've spent a total of about 8 hours with it so far and I mind myself spending all my time easily creating patches that have the richness, depth, texture, feel, and animation within the tones that exceeds my other analogs like the moogs and Dave Smith's, as great as they are. For $500, it's a no brainer, if there's just one analog synth you can get, you'll be very happy with this one for a long time. It has many novel features, but I only will give it a three star since it's not multi-timbral and my Tetra is. That should have been relatively cheap and easy to add, why they didn't???

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I'm a retired executive from Sony GmbH in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia and as of lately produce film and television in North America. I have played lots of instruments and synthesizers and have spent decades engineering some of the most amazing top hits on the planet. I don't play a synthesizer for a living but when I do I'm very picky. I bought this after my experience with the microkorg for playing around on weekends and lo and behold this is one of the most amazing low price synthesizers I've seen during my lifetime. I spent one weekend going over every gold and platinum production I've worked on in the last 20 years and playing just a few notes with just a few settings was able to add at a minimum 6 unique, creative, amazing, and marketable tracks on every song I've ever produced within the matter of a few hours. made the songs as unique as they were when I first created them... This keyboard is amazing and from my limited experience it has been recently as amazing as my experience with the microkorg the MS 10 and later the ms-20 put together with any Korg step sequencer I have ever purchased has multiplied this amazing amount of satisfaction to the power of everything Korg has done to this date. For the Layman - just too soon - this synthesizer is the s***

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This the first synth I've ever purchased and I'm so happy I did! There's a bit of a learning curve but there are many tutorials on YouTube that made it fairly simple for a noob like me to adapt. I'm someone that knew nothing about synths before I purchased this little guy and now I can easy come up with patches on the fly. I'm a huge fan of Future Islands, LCD Soundsystem, Liars and Tame Impala and it's almost too easy to come up with tones in the range of these bands. The only down side I found is that it doesn't come with any classic piano, Wurlitzer, or organ presets but if you fiddle enough with the nobs you'll be able to nail something close. get the polished gray finish if you can!

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