Don't be deceived by its looks (Korg MicroKorg)

Member Name: MGEEK

Product:	Korg MicroKorg
Date:	05/09/08 (91 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: vocoder, looks cute

Disadvantages: complex, hard to get a decent tone out of it, lots of bands use them

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 are only so many times you can use that effect before the novelty wears off- such an instrument must rest on its inbuilt tones, and this machine simply doesn't deliver.

If you want something that looks cool and sounds decent- buy a casio keyboard and spice it up with some cheap guitar pedals. It would at least sound more unique than the generic, synth by numbers sounds this delivers.

Summary: Not unique enough