Korg Monologue BK

Juste Magique

Juste magique comme machine et pour le prix aussi.

Pas besoin de le critiquer pour ci ou là, pour le prix il fait très bien son affaire. Tout le monde n'est pas riche pour claquer dans des machines de fous. Pour mon application c'est le top.

First synth

An amazing first synth

The filter choice could be consider a con but also a pro

Great first synth at greater price!

This little Korg Monologue is the perfect first synth. It has all the basic features a good synth needs and the sounds are just awesome! It would be nice to have some reverb in it but ofcourse you just connect a nice reverb pedal to it and have a blast!

Excellent for intro into synth. Will be using for recording and live. Already linked to a korg volca bass and the sounds are endless. Could spend hours messing with this thing. Amazing for the price.

Awesome

Really good synth

been waiting for it about years

Legendary

For its cost and quality, this synth is beast

Truly Unique

If you are a human being, you should buy this, it's that good!

Good product for this budget

It's simple: you get what you pay for. It's a budget synth, but it does what you expect it should do. No complaints at all. Small and simple.

A fun little synth

There's a lot to like about the Monologue - it's packed with features (preset memory and a sequencer are great on a synth at this price but custom tuning in particular is amazing), the interface is well thought out and fun to use and, although it's cheap, the construction feels solid enough. It has a pretty wide range between smooth and driven and will handle bass, lead and acid-like sequences very well. The only let down for me is the sound. There's a sort of heavyness about it, not in the sense of "fat", but in the sense that makes it difficult to fit in a mix without having to cut with EQ a fair bit. For a fair comparison, the Korg Monotribe sounds absolutely fantastic and if they'd just reproduced that circuitry with the advanced features of the Monologue (second oscillator, better sequencer, MIDI, microtuning etc) I think they'd have made an absolute classic. If you can stretch a bit further you might want to look into the Minilogue xd which sounds pretty different to this (much nicer filter especially) and is absolutely brilliant for both poly and mono timbres. If you look through the other reviews you'll see plenty of Monologue users who are happy with the sound so my experience is by no means universal, but if you've tried other Korgs like the MS-20 or Monotribe, bear in mind this has quite a different character.

Great little synth for both beginners and the more experienced

I had to return the original as there was a constant background noise. The replacement has the same noise but I decided to stick with it. The noise doesn't come through when playing, only in silent bits. The lack of a full adsr envelope and more extensive lfo routing may cause frustration after a while. But overall it's a great little synth that also runs on batteries so can be taken anywhere to be creative as soon as inspiration strikes.