Mini MS-20 by Korg...

ellaguru · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:21 pm

it's officially out!

nice review
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/01/korg-ms-20-mini-analog-classic-reissued-599-first-hands-on-impressions-sounds-1978-manual-pics/

official demo by Korg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA-owDEGpac

Demo by Create Digital Music
https://soundcloud.com/cdm/korg-ms-20-mini-exclusive

considerations:
i have an original MS-20
i got no fear of the keys dimensions.
what impress me it's THE SOUND.
then, if the sound is near to Korg demo, well, i just don't like it at all!!!
if, instead, the sound is near to CDM demo, that's really cool!!

melodious · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:35 pm

The sound! :shock:

How much does this cost?

ellaguru · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:43 pm

i read somewhere it will costs between 600/800 usd....

anyway nothing official.....

ps
sadly, this is roland "response" to korg (mini ms20), moog (Sub Phatty) and elektron (Analog 4) on namm 2013...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fKK1iuS-F84#! .....
....damn.....shame....

melodious · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:54 pm

Wow I was expecting more from Roland

.

blavatsky · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:35 pm **Posts:** 708

I hate that roland has quit innovating/keeping up like korg/arturia/etc

but

at the end of the day, they'll sell a shit ton of those mediocre romplers/workstations to crappy cover bands, lackluster church musicians, and lame-as-ever burned out home musicians and make their money.

And korg will sell the MS20 to the diehard synth/old school keyboard market in small but respectable numbers, while roland is ducktales-diving into their pool of gold bullion from their boring as shit keyboard regurgitations.

Its like making some badass car ressurected - Acura NSX, Nissan Skyline, BMW whatever..the world rubs their chin and nods in approval then gets in their ford fusion/nissan altima/chevy shitbox and goes home to watch basic cable and go to sleep

<end rant>

ellaguru · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:07 pm

let's hope that Roland, seeing this Korg/Arturia (i forget the minibrute also!)/Elektron analog reviving strategy follows the bandwagon and do some new/old synth back to life (juno, jupiter, tb303 etc)...

melodious · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2013 1:41 am

ellaguru wrote:

let's hope that Roland, seeing this Korg/Arturia (i forget the minibrute also!)/Elektron analog reviving strategy follows the bandwagon and do some new/old synth back to life (juno, jupiter, tb303 etc)...

I think we can all agree on that.

ellaguru · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2013 1:43 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h6lTdHZQJ4k
damn!....maybe it's the video, but....it sounds almost the same as the original....

Euclid Ov Oåklånd · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 4:55 am

I just checked this out, has anyone actually used one here. If so what are your impressions?. I'm seriously thinking of buying this since I sold my microkorg, plus I would kick my self later for passing on real analog.

ellaguru · **Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:26 pm

i relisten better some demos and my impressions are changed.
now it seems to me that the mini ms20 sounds more like a monotron...
i think it's a cool machine, but i'll wait to try one personally.

korakios · **Posted:** Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:40 am

blavatsky wrote:

I hate that roland has quit innovating/keeping up like korg/arturia/etc

but

at the end of the day, they'll sell a shit ton of those mediocre romplers/workstations to crappy cover bands, lackluster church musicians, and lame-as-ever burned out home musicians and make their money.....

Nope, Korg has KingKorg :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItKQ8ydMTIc

blavatsky · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:35 pm **Posts:** 708

king korg is a VA synth w/ a tube overdrive stage, a far cry from a roland rompler.
Korg knows how to play both sides.

Euclid Ov Oåklånd · **Posted:** Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:13 pm

Okay, so I'm getting the impression that I should pass on this. I own the korg monotron delay, it's fantastic for the price and I already get sounds out of that which I'm happy with.

korakios · **Posted:** Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:12 pm

blavatsky wrote:

king korg is a VA synth w/ a tube overdrive stage, a far cry from a roland rompler.
Korg knows how to play both sides.

Ooops, missed the specs.By the layout it seemed more like a preset-and-play on-stage than going deeply onto programming sounds.Roland still has v-synths and (new)jupiters but too expensive...
As far for the ms-20 it looks very interesting and more flexible than minibrute.

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