I got the monotron duo and played with it for 8 hours today. Awesome. Now I'm watching this video and running the audio through my monotron, and using the VCF filter to tweak the sounds, then making the same sounds myself on my monotron. Its so fun, great starter instrument for electro-based music hobby.
As a teenager I used to cycle to music shops and no doubt annoy the staff by playing on synths I couldn't afford. Fast forward nearly 40 years and I get so much pleasure just from closing the filter on the Duo I don't need anything else. Try plugging one into Guitar Rig and that's an afternoon gone. I have the Arturia Jupiter 8 but get more genuine thrills from the Monotron.
@@themadsamplistSorry to comment on such an old thread, but if I bought the monotron duo for an 8 year old boy, do you think he'd have fun with it, on it's own without any other equipment? I don't know a lot about electronics like this, but it looked fun and I'd like him to get interested in electronic music.
Pretty much if you turn off pitch quantization with the red button, although the oscillator is not a saw but more of a square, and you can't automate the filter or pitch by an LFO. Also, the range of the ribbon keyboard is fixed to 16 semitones and can't be adjusted.
On the Monotron Duo, how do the major and minor scales work? Do these shift the notes closer together, ie. so they no longer correspond to the notes on the keyboard, or do they just deactivate the notes from a major or minor scale? And *which* major and minor scales do you end up with? Is it C major and C minor?
I used to have a korg duo use the line in its lots of fun. But for a few more pounds you can get a pocket opperator, that as a step sequencer and effects. Just saying the choice is yours.
GMD AleksaTheGreat Yes you can, just like plugging in a guitar into your audio interface. These units in their stock mode have no way of being controlled by a DAW with MIDI or CV, you'll be recording these in realtime or sampling parts to use in say in the Sampler or Simpler from Ableton. Unless you get fancy with a soldering iron as many others have online in modding these things.
I'd love to see this as part of someones actual rig. Do people use this for anything other than goofing around? I ask this in honesty. I think it's cool, but worth the investment? I'm not sure.
Why doesnt this guy from Korg know the difference between a sawtooth and a triangle LFO? Seems really strange! But the Monotrons sound good, the really shitty thing is that you have to mod them before you can use them like a real Synth. Its easy to mod the Monotron, but the Duo is not that easy, and this thing would seriousely be nice when controlled with CV and Gate.