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I've made up my mind, and have been reading enough reviews. I'm buying it today. Sure, it's more a toy than "my first synth", but what the heck...I can take this in to bed and knobble around with it...ehm I'm also familiar with the small keys since I have a old Yamaha Portasound FM Synth with the same style, though the FM is not touch sensitive. The modding should be endless with the program that follows, but the pre-saved sounds should be terrible. |
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(LEGOWELT is also using one live it seems on ) |
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If you haven't made your purchase yet, I would warn you against it, and instead look at the excelent sounding alesis micron |
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(I sold mine. I thought it sounded 'cheap'. Poor filters and such.) |
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Sure the presets are crap, but I own his big brother MS2000(same oscillators) and you can get some cool sounds from that. Have fun! Tweak knobs! Drop some killer bass! Do the robot! (I also have his granpa VC10 sitting in my home!) |
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I know....the micron...*sigh* But it's more expensive, doesn't look nearly as interesting, and needs extra microphone to use the vocoder. Which one do you think i could get the best pad sound out from? |
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First of all, the microKorg's a very good synth, but nowhere near as good as the Micron, so see if you can get the Micron instead. As I remember, they're about the same price anyway!!! The microKorg's microphone is crap anyway. I always end up using my dynamic instead. I saw a Micron in a clearance for £150. If I had £150, I would have picked it up straight away even though I already have the Ion. |
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The micron. It should only be about $100 more. I really wish I had spent the extra $100 when I bought the microkorg, because I ended up loosing $250 off of the price I paid when I sold it. |
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I don't want to sound like a hater. The microkorg is better than a couple other things I have, and a lot better than a lot of the affordable gear out there. But it was my first synthesizer, and I felt a bit burnt after getting to know it and realizing most of its sonic potential. Its not that I didn't get to know it well enough. I learnt it inside and out, it just only made one or two sounds that I really liked, and I could get those from my SH32. |
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honestly, you'd be much better off buying the better synth (the micron) and picking out whatever microphone suits you best... it's a win/win situation if you buy the micron. |
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Danish prices: Alesis: £440 MicroKORG: £275 Sucks... And I've bought a Fender Jazz Bass 24 which i'm getting money back from because it sucked...and that's £550, but I have to save some money for my electrical-bill |
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high power bill too? thats something I always have to fork out a lot of cash for as well. If I were you, I'd wait until next month and buy the alesis rather than buy the microkorg now. |
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naaah fuck it...I'm buying the Microkorg...i'm gonna' effect it up with my SP404 anyway, so it's moslty down to what I like to have on my desk/liveset...I like the looks, the cheap ass compact features and the fact that I have to tweak to the max to get anything out of it...just my kinda' instrument |
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congs innit |
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Are you SURE that's not the ION instead of the MICRON??? |
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no..im sure...we Danes have 20% sales taxes, and everything is expensive, but we earn enough for it so.. i HAVE thought of importing overseas or something, but the chance at custom sales tax and stuff, scares me away |
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GET THE MICRON It seriously sounds fucking fantastic. Huuuge rubbery squeaky phlegmy analoggy basses and leads. |
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yeah...but i'm such a cheapass...and £440 is a fucking lot against MK's £275 |
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WAIT A MINUTE!!! just found MS2000R at £220 used...If I combine that with my M-Audio Ozone, I should have a good pack... Whattayouthink? |
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never used the MS2000 except for one time in a music store for like 5 seconds years ago, before I knew anything about synths. Seems like an ok price if you're alright with just using the ozone as a controller. |
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"the fact that I have to tweak to the max to get anything out of it...just my kinda' instrument" Thats an admirable approach considering you're really going to have to work to get the quality sounds out of it... but what happens when you've squeezed everything out of it that you can? Wouldn't you rather have a synth that is going to produce some awesome sounds for a while with very little effort on your part, and then can be pushed to the max once those initial sounds grow old? |
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two words for that solution: effect pedal |
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what kind of effect pedal are we talking here? Yeah, you might extend the life of a synth for a while with one of those huge multi-fx pedals (though generally I don't like the sound of the actual effects on those big units that try to do it all). If you're planning on using just a delay pedal or something, well, trust me that will get old pretty fast too. |
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at least it looked nice eh? |
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but it seems like you know what it is you're looking for, for your setup, so I wont try to change your mind anymore, I just don't like to see people throw down a lot of money and not really be happy in the end. |
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the SP-404 sampler...it has loads of effects including vinyl-sim ...I also have a Bass-synth pedal and some other shit |
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You have an SP-404? How is it? Cygnus was asking that question a while back. I don't think he got an answer from anybody. |
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It's nice...I have the 1GB CF card for it too, so it's pretty awsome. Downsides are just that you have to have a ground connecteion to make noiseless recordings when the AC is on. With batteries it's clear as a whistle. The effects are great...you can run anything trough that in realtime, so that is really a bonus |
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at least... |
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cool come play with my mircokorg on ninjam.com, tell me when you wanna jam :) i got drums as well, and microkorg :) |
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