Korg Monologue BK Reviews

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.

Modern Classic

This is surely a modern acid classic. it sounds good and it fits well in the mix. lovely bass lines and leads.

I love this machine.

This was my first synthesizer, and I own it a while now. It is excellent if you are looking for a fun, in-expensive piece of hardware to create funky Bass lines, Acid tones and if you want to get a feel for creating your own patches.

It is a perfect machine for sound designing, creating stabs and stings for any sort of mediated content. I have had loads of fun playing with this machine and would recommend to anyone beginning in synthesis.

A nice piece of kit!

The monologue is can produce some wicked analogue synth sounds. 2 vco's for extra fatness, tune up or down an octave and it's a thick lush pad sound. The lowpass filter and highpass resonance are good and it can smooth the bass to soulful or squelch it up to 303 style. The oscilloscope provides visual updates of the waveform and really what's really great for getting to know whats under the hood of sound synthesis. The patch memory and real-time recording of all the encoders along the 16 step chain-able sequencer made this a fun, battery operated, portable, analogue groove machine!

Versatile Analogue Synth

I use the monologue in a synth/drum machine setup and use it for both leads and bass (and with a little delay and reverb it does awesome mono-pads).

When I bought the monologue it was ¤300. I may be salty over the fact that it drop in price a few months later but it is definitely more than worth ¤250.

It's a good synth and you get a lot of features. There is some menu-diving for more advanced controls, but everything you really need is easily accessible from the surface controls.

The filter is supreme, it's really grown on me

The oscilloscope is neat.

It is well designed. The presents are obviously mad and some are totally usable, some less so (unless you're trying to copy Richard D. James).

The sound is powerful, the sequencer is too (very particular character to it).

It has an audio in, can sync to clock and midi, and it has usb (though I've never used this yet).

I think if you do you research you'll find it's a beastly piece of gear for the current price.

I find with the addition of simple FX the sound easily transforms into something awe-inspiring.

Great product and service

For an entry-level analogue synth, the Korg Monologue is very impressive... it's beautifully made and endless fun to explore its potential.

Great synth!

The monologue is a great monophonic synthesizer with lots of neat functions such as its microtonal capabilities and sequencing.

Overall a great synth for anyone looking for a cheap but powerful synth. Good for beginners to learn synthesis on.

Nice price, Nice sounds!

I've been using vst's for a while but I decided I needed a hardware synth in a decent price range and went for the Monologue after watching a few videos reviews. I wasn't dissapointed at all! I really like the vintage-meets-modern design, It feels sturdy without being too heavy and it's pretty easy to use for someone who's not an expert in synthesizers! I use it with guitar pedals to get even bigger sound and it works really well!