KORG MICROKORG - World's Best Selling Synth Now In Your DAW
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2023
- Demo and review of KORG MICROKORG, part of KORG COLLECTION 4. Korg's fantastic little MICROKORG VIRTUAL ANALOG synthesizer is now available as a software plugin instrument in VST format, so you can play it standalone on your PC or load it into your DAW for music production.
The software version improves on the original hardware in many ways, that we'll describe in the video. Walkthrough of the user interface and the many features, plus lots of playing of the sounds and presets!
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The Korg M1 was the world's best selling synth actually. I've never seen it disputed anywhere.
From Wikipedia "The Korg M1 was released in 1988 and manufactured until 1995, selling an estimated 250,000 units"
Wikipedia "The microKORG was released in 2002 and is still in production as of 2022, with an estimated 100,000 units sold"
MicroKORG is DSP-based synthesizer, the M1 is sample-based synthesizer (ROMpler like), so this is where numbers can be interpreted differently.
Had one it's excellent,I have the Radias kB bought when they first came out and still have it ,the only hardware I have now
Although everything you said is true. The distinction comes in if you add "in production" - that's what the correct claim should be "the best selling synth currently in production". They've been stamping it for 20 years 😀
And even then Wikipedia is really bad on this. The M1 sold way beyond 320000 units. If you look at the variations of the Microkorg, the T1/T2/T3 are every bit as much a M1 as the variations of MicroKorg are MicroKorg as they all have the same engine en exterior design language. If you include the T's, the M1 sold over 400000.
I've heard the VA engine on the Microkorg goes back to the analog part of the Korg Prophecy (1995) and Korg Z1 (1997). So the idea here is that the VA was spun off to become the Korg MS2000 (1999), which then was miniaturised and became the Microkorg. If true that would make the underlying Microkorg engine almost 30 years old!
I have the Korg collection and is one of my favorites. They are VERY impressive. Great video, thanks!
I just dusted of mine. It still works. Great. I actually went over all the presets. I think I am going to record some of them and put them in a sampler. I've been looking for some good sounds and my synth was collecting dust.
Great demo! I giggled with joy at the "Love Action" reference at 3:23. Strong agree regarding the need for "hover and scroll" parameter adjustment. This is one of my biggest gripes with Korg Collection software.
On a tangent: I have my fingers crossed in hopes that Korg do what they did with the Triton Extreme and put out a microKORG XL/XL+ plugin. I'd love to use my MKXL patch libraries without carrying around yet another keyboard. (I already have 2 large keyboards and a laptop at gigs; I don't have the real estate for my baby!)
Nice Demonstration, Blancmange and Depeche Mode ... video is really great. Great Sounds. Funny being able to change the look into black or red keys .
wow! that's what I'm waiting for!
This synth is the goto for a lot of Talkbox users, I almost got one a few years ago. But I ended up making a workflow using VSTs, which admittedly added some difficulty to the recording process, but offered a lot of flexibility in the sounds I could use.
interesting with the talkbox usage, i can see why
Hell yes ! It is so good I confirm🎉
Using MS2000 very happy from it. Strong sound's
Niiiice. I bought a MicroKorg XL years ago and it’s not a patch on this, which is probably why I’ve hardly used it. Good demo
the xl is the fancy one, not sure if the vst covers those sounds...
Loving the Blancmange at the beginning!
Used a microkorg when in a band in mid 2000s and it really did feel very defining of the sound of the band, without just being the Somebody Told Me sound.
Pretty intrigued by this. Always felt I didn't take advantage enough of what was under the hood and didn't get into the editing much.
Thanks for the vid!
so glad someone recognised the rather obscure tune!
@@WoodyPianoShack I am definitely better at recognising the synthpop than the dance music, but it all sounds great. Glad that the technology is in a place where we can explore all those sounds mostly reserved for big studio budgets!
Living on the Ceiling by Blancmange?
@@mart3600 Yep.
I really like your Keyboard controller and the big screen! 🎹🖥😃
two of those screens!
I still got mine but mostly use it to control my Talkbox .. might get this as a plug in to use through Logic instead as recording audio isn't always the best
I remember in the mid 00’s going to a Virgin megastore in Tottenham Court Road and saw the Microkorg and at first I never thought much of it, but when I tried a couple of patches I was in awe of it!
Such a great keyboard, it was affordable and easy to use. For such a small instrument it was incredible how powerful it was.
Listen to most dance/R&B/hip hop electronica from the mid-late 00’s and you’ll normally always hear a MicroKorg in the song!
no doubt, i seen a few touring pros using it too, even bass players using it for synth bass.
good! (Woody, looks like you have a use for autohotkey - the things that you wish the gui could do you could pretty easily script with AHK, like turning a mouse wheel spin into mouse click and drag, and turning cursor key presses into mouse clicks on a location on your screen)
oh wow, that;s a great tip, thanks. used it before in the past on my arcade cabinet running on pc!
@@WoodyPianoShack There is also Bome MIDI Translator Pro which is pretty much autohotkey but with MIDI included with the inputs/outputs
The UI looks great. Can you export the patches for hardware microkorg?
i was going to get the hardware but i am going to stick to the software version for the reasons woody has covered
A new Physical Microkorg sells for around £400 a used one usually priced at around £230, I'm not sure the benefits of easier DAW workflow integration is worth £125 which is the cost of this VST. £85 I think would of been a better price.
hi holla, you can get it for that in the various korg holiday sales, they normally offer 50% on software.
Wearing the mic i was waiting for you to sing using the vocoder... im still waiting lol 🙂
The red and black horrid skin is that of the Microkorg XL Plus Limited Edition. I believe the actual XL Plus is a different sound engine from the standard that is not a variation at all of the MS2000. I gave not got a standard microkorg but I do have
that black and red special edition and also an Ms2000 rack and they definitely do have a different sound. I think most would find the standard sound smoother and nicer than the XL Plus. I also have an original Electribe A which is supposedly the MS200 engine again but with two monophonic voices. To me that sounds different too but I would think its due to components used.
I have a real one but it’s so hard to program…will definitely check out the plug in as also there is no user memory for own preset
Do you know how I can get a demo..I could only find a buy now option on Korgs website
Great idea for a vst! probably going against the majority here, but really ended up hating my hardware version. Sounded ok but horrible unreliable keys, overall plastiky build quality , flaky control knobs plus (& as you mentioned ) some important limitations. This vst fixes all that it seems. Good move by Korg. Thanks for demoing Woody! (Korg are first rate at doing emulations of their older synth- fingers crossed for Radias VST one day 😊)
Woody you really need to check out Synapse Audio's DUNE 3 VST synth. 24 VA Oscs, 8 Filters (or 16 when in dual mode) out of a choice of 31 filters several of which are analog modeled. You can have Wavetables on 16 Oscs, single sample import on 8 Oscs , 3 OP FM on 16 oscs, 2 Arps, 2 FX racks, Filter FX, Sweet Unison and Spread with several mode choices and most important a very high quality core sound.
Agreed, it's a hell of a VST, by far a much better quality core sound.
when is it too many filters...:D thanks for the suggest, noted!
@@WoodyPianoShack Well you don't have to use them all. You can use a single filter on a single Osc if you wish. But it's nice to know there is so much more complexity at your fingertips if needed. 😄 If you try the DUNE 3 demo let me know and I'll send you some patches to check out.
Synapse audio Obsession is excellent it's a OBXA emulation.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I don't know about that one, haven't heard it.
I'm going to go watch some videos on it now though so thanks for bringing that one to my attention.
Thank you Woody!
And you KORG I know you reading comments! Fix your legacycell and update it to vst 3! and m1 began consume a lot of cpu fix that too. and also prophecy eats a lot of cpu fix it too. and what's wrong with your vst3 versions not being able to read presets through daw presets selector(like fruity wrapper in fl studio) while vst2 x64 is able?
Um...you complete failed to mention that the MK is a multi layer synth - and now that it has additional voices, that's a huge upgrade from the original.
multilayer? how?
@@WoodyPianoShack Third square down, left side on GUI - "Layer A" & "Layer B" is a dead give away. The OG has this capability but rarely used (although great for single note pads ) because it would drop voice count to 2. Now it's actually really a new dimension of the synth and capable of big evolving pads.
Not to be a troll, but if you're "reviewing" a synth, spending some time knowing its basic capabilities would be a good idea. It at least gives the impression that you've spent some real time with a piece of gear.
Now emulate the Korg Microstation with all soundbanks and multitibrality. Would be great as a 16 part multitimbral sketch up synth.
i'd completely forgotten or overlooked that one, nice!
Brilliant video - P L E A S E, what is that first track you are playing before Blancmage ? Its driving me mad trying to remember!
hi dj, the very first track is also blancmange, different part of the song...
@@WoodyPianoShack Thank you!
which of them do you prefer? the hardware or vst?
for recording and studio, vst, the hardware for everything else!
I heard to playing hits I heard Trans X living on video 📹This plug has MIDI learn on it my Arturia controller worked. I heard the Blanmange as well living on the ceiling
there were quite a few 80s references in this one!
Nice Job
Living on Video is monstrously good!
@@renegadechic I just found the original vinyl 12" in a store near my house 🏠 a classic for sure.
@@timweinheimer1 oh nice! That one has to be a bit of a rarity!
That electric piano sound is pretty good, I can’t quite place it though. Thinking of a Wurlitzer / Clavinet style piano. Certainly not a Rhodes but one of the others. The trance Arp is nice too.
hi dyho, yeah prob wurli, many super sounds!
Nice work as usual... you forgot to play the banjo!
strategically placed....
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Good video. Thanks.
I played around and find the Microkorg not very inspiring. Other Korg plugins are much better.
Does anyone know if hardware MikroKorg has the same shitty fragile minikeys quality like MiniNova and JD-Xi?
i don't know for sure, i would say all mini keys in same mediocre quality level, with two exceptions, reface and jup-xm.
@@WoodyPianoShack This is true.
YES. Better than JD-Xi's and worse than MiniNova's. The microkorg XL and XL+ have slightly different feel, probably worse cos have shallower action. Having said that, once you start playing with the knobs and your mind gets busy listening, you kind of disregard the keys - it becomes more like a groove box. But if you are a piano player - yes, the keys are sh!t. 😀
@@mack_solo Worse than MiniNova? Well, then I don’t know how to understand your answer, because I know for sure that MiniNova keys are complete and absolute crap, no better than JD-Xi, and maybe worse. Maybe you mean playability and not durability lol. Well, in april I'll be jamming with two friends, one of them has a MiniNova and the other has a MicroKorg. I have a JD-XI so all the crappy mini keyboards will come together lol
@@Acrimonious_Snake Nothing beats personal experience - looks like you're all set for it 😀
Great review. But sounds DSP'd. There's still no substitute for analog. Sorry guys.
VAs are DSPs. VAs don’t sound like analogs, and I don’t think all of them intend to do that. But analog cannot do things VAs can do. I don’t think it is a competition, they are simply different product. I think VAs sound great as well anyway. Not sure if this really sound like the real Microkorg, I owned a Microkorg but I remember it sounded a bit different. Maybe I need to check more demos.
I never actually liked the Microkorg, i do have an MS2000BR which for me is much better
never actually played one, sadly
They the same internals and sound but yeah, better interface on the ms
I have the MK1 hardware version and the VST, well worth obtaining the ULTIMATE PATCHES (just Google ultimate patches microKORG)set vol1,2,3. They knock the stock sounds out of the park; there are some instantly recognisable patches from classic New Romantic, Cybertron, and retro Synthwave tracks.
The only problem is that I cannot get the send/receive mode to work from the VST to the microKORG hardware. I am able to send sysex from another app to the hardware, as yet not able to coax the VST to do the same, even though it is supposed to do it.