Korg MicroKorg

The Microkorg has been used by some pretty damn good artists. To name a few we have Air, Beck, the Prodigy and also some bad artists such as the Killers. (only joking, they used to be good until they released Day & Age) So why did they choose this over the Microkorg XL which boasts a chipset based on the Korg Radias and a more sleek design... The Microkorg is the cheaper option of the two and has its sound engine based on the old MS-2000. This makes its sound capabilities great but possibly not as great as the XL which has its chipset based on the Radias (as the R3 does). In saying this the same sort of parameters are still ...  Read the complete review

The microKORG is one of the best selling synthesizers worldwide and has been used by several electronic bands such as Enter Shikari and Massive Attack. The box simply contains the tiny 2kg microKORG itself, the vocoder microphone, power supply and manual. Users may at first be surprised by exactly how small the product is if they haven't seen it in real life before. It has only 3 octaves, and the keys are reminiscent of those found on a toy keyboard. One thing is for sure; don't expect to be playing any Bach or Beethoven on this baby, as it is almost impossible to get any articulation or expression in the cheap, plastic, weightless keys. The preset sounds that ...  Read the complete review

The microkorg is great for either beginners or professionals. It features 37 keys and 127 programs that are user-rewritable, giving you a lot of variation. These sounds range from electric pianso, basses , guitars, bells, synth pads etc. The different sound sections include - Trance, Techno/House, Electronica, D'n'B/Breaks, HipHop/Vintage, Retro, S.E Hit, Vocoder. All of these sounds are great to the beginne to play with, but when you start to actually use this with a band is when it becomes hard to get the sound you actually want. It is possible but takes a lot of tweaking. The keys on this thing are quite small compared to ...  Read the complete review

I recently got the chance to use one of these in a studio- having lusted after one on paper several years back, but eventually buying an original analogue 'MS-10'. I'm really glad I went for the seventies synth. The microkorg falls somewhere between a casio keyboard and a digital synth- whilst it has been dressed up to look cute and analogue, it is actually a soul-less digital beast, with impenetrable controls, and an array of artifically reverbed sounds that just don't sound good to these ears. Of course- the thing that will first attract people to this, is the nifty inbuilt vocoder, and that IS a nice thing to find on such a keyboard, but there ...  Read the complete review

I have to say that im pretty dissapointed with the Microkorg. For the price i paid for it i was expecting something more. This aside it is very simple and easy to use. You dont have to have any prior knowledge of synthesizers and synthesis to use it. The sounds are in catagories based on their genre which is quite limiting and annoying to switch across sounds all the time. Also without the manual you dont know what sound you are listening so have to search through them all till you find something you like. Since i have bought it i havent really found much use for it. I know it has been used by lots of artists but i find it quite hard to get a good ...  Read the complete review