Did you need very good piano skills to play a micro korg synthesizer?
It's very good, and I have a microkorg, but remember, it's virtual analog, which means it doesn't sound as good as a Moog or something, and doesn't, unlike some higher end virtual and of course real analog synths, have resonant feedback. I recommend for around the same price the David Smith Instruments Mopho module coupled with a cheap MIDI keyboard controller, which you may already have. (I would have gotten that if I'd known about it when I got the microkorg.) It's real analog, and is essentially one voice of the DSI Prophet '08, a new version of a famous analog synth, the Prophet 5 with a bit of Oberheim ob-x mixed in. On the other hand, the microkorg is not a bad synthesizer, and instead of one voice it has four key polyphony, allowing you to do simple pads, so if you want pads, you might want the microkorg, or perhaps for a bit more the DSI tetra which also has four voices (half a prophet '08, but if you can afford a prophet '08 you wouldn't be asking about a microkorg. :-) ) Check out on video sites some samples of the microkorg and the mopho and make your decision...
How do i use my Korg micro sampler?
i play guitar and pianos and i recently bought this sampling keyboard cause it was cheap and ive never had one before but i have no idea how to work and the manual just isnt making sense to me at all so if any could help me out with a helpful website or mabey some basic terms and advise i know just get me start?. thankyou!!
Does anyone know how to get the sound from the korg micro to flstudios?
I need the korg sounds on fl studios.I'm tired of fl synths and I want the korg presets to go on the piano roll.if that is not possible are there and free recording programs that do not require LAME that I can down load that if I record the korgs sounds it will not sound horrible and have a lot of pickup in the recording?please answer thankyou
Is the Korg Micro Korg a good synthesizer?
It's very good, and I have a microkorg, but remember, it's virtual analog, which means it doesn't sound as good as a Moog or something, and doesn't, unlike some higher end virtual and of course real analog synths, have resonant feedback. I recommend for around the same price the David Smith Instruments Mopho module coupled with a cheap MIDI keyboard controller, which you may already have. (I would have gotten that if I'd known about it when I got the microkorg.) It's real analog, and is essentially one voice of the DSI Prophet '08, a new version of a famous analog synth, the Prophet 5 with a bit of Oberheim ob-x mixed in. On the other hand, the microkorg is not a bad synthesizer, and instead of one voice it has four key polyphony, allowing you to do simple pads, so if you want pads, you might want the microkorg, or perhaps for a bit more the DSI tetra which also has four voices (half a prophet '08, but if you can afford a prophet '08 you wouldn't be asking about a microkorg. :-) ) Check out on video sites some samples of the microkorg and the mopho and make your decision...
Is a korg microkorg any good?
Yes, it gets astounding reviews: http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dkorg%2520microkorg%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=7357-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
I don't know whether to get a Novation XioSynth 25 or a Korg MicroKorg. I play rock/experimental music. Help!
The MicroKORG. I have it, it's amazing. Though you get more electronica patches, but you can deisng your own. The arrpeggio on it works on a 16 step system you can program, and it has a vocoder, just don't waste your money on the inverted key model it's overpriced. The XioSynth is more of a MIDI Controller/Synth combo. If you want a MIDI controller you can get much cheaper and just use sounds on your computer. If you're looking for clean sounding patches consider the Nord Electro, it's the best at piano sounds and organ sounds. Though it's a lot more expensive. But you probably need a $2000+ workstation for what you're looking for. Personally, I'd just run get Reason 4.0 and a MIDI controller and run that for what you're doing.
How would I learn to play a Micro Korg?
The basics might be helpful if you've never played an instrument before, but I wouldn't call it necessary. Small synths like the MicroKorg are great for simple melodies or bass parts. It also has a programmable arpeggiator and built-in vocoder, so it's definitely a fun toy. I'm mainly a guitarist, but I also use an Alesis Micron on some songs.
Thanks for ATA.It looks l'île you're halfway there: if you can record midi notes onto a midi track by playing the MK, then it means the MK can transmit information to Live correctly.Presumably, you've got the MK MIDI OUT connected to the MIDI IN of your interface. And Live able to pick up this data from the interface, and record it as midi data.Now if you want to hear those notes back, you want to make sure that you had the MIDI OUT of your interface going into the MIDI IN of the korg. This means notes on the live tracked will be played out, as in sent out over midi, and then received by the Korg, that will play them.Now bear in mind all you are recording is midi data, that is, note information. No actual audio signal goes over those wires. So it will be the MK that plays the sounds - don't expect them to come out of Live.So you'll need to make sure the MK is on, and its audio output connected to something ( you can use headphones to check)You might need to make sure that the track in ableton is set to output to the midi out of your interface. It will also be set-up to send information out on a particular channel (1-16) - you want to make sure the microkorg is set up to listen to incoming midi data on the same channel.I'm assuming this is what you are trying to achieve. If you just want to use the MK as a controller for live, you just need to send it's midi out to the computer's in -but then you need to make sure the track that's receiving this midi data has a virtual instrument of some kind, so there's actually something that will play the notes back.
The microkorg is great fun and very useful, but if you really want a controller you'd get more out of something that is more geared towards being a control surface for other synths rather than having a different primary purpose.Also wouldn't you really want a controller with full sized keys? If you want a virtual analog synth to play with then you could consider it, but if that's your budget and you want a good controller then go for something dedicated. If you have a bit more money to spend and want something to do both jobs then look at the R3 which is really a cut down Radias but has big keys.