Mother-32 VS Minilogue XD | Battle of the Analog Synths 

The XD is a MONSTER of a synth in terms of straight-to-the-point polyphonic patches. It's up there with the best synths I ever owned.

It’s always a good day see Shine’s new video! I want both synths now lol. Congrats on your live show!

As usual, great content ! Just in the right time as I am looking at Korg minilogue XD hehe

Keep at it man! You’ve got the video quality and charisma to be a big synth youtuber :)

I have Both & they are NOT Compareable !!!! Completely Different setups and synths 😳🤔🤯

Thanks for this comparison. A really useful contrast, and good overview of the different systems IMHO.

Nice review. It's also worth mentioning how synths feel. Having once owned a Minilogue XD, I can say that the knobs/encoders are some of the best ever-smooth as silk with the perfect amount of resistance as they are turned. The build quality is fantastic (especially for the money....extra especially for used).

Oh hey, good to see you're back! Hope everything's fine, mate! Great video, btw!!!

That's funny, the Minilogue XD-m was my first synth, and the Mother 32 was my second. I bought a second Mother 32, and the two together are an order of magnitude more useful than a single one. However, I make more modern sounding music, and I find the Minilogue XD fits that sound profile significantly better. The Mother 32s sound inherently vintage and extremely so, which is wonderful when that's what I want to reach for, but it absolutely can NOT sound "modern" and may be difficult to incorporate into your music making process if you're still mostly in the box, as there's a lot of EQing to be done on "vintage" synths to bring them up to a modern sound. One thing I will say about the Moogs, is their sound profile fits AMAZINGLY in a live setting alongside other instruments. The Minilogue XD sounds a bit to clean a lot of the time, but the inherently chaotic sound of a completely analog synthesizer works beautifully alongside guitars and real drums. Also, the effects on the Minilogue XD is extremely useful even in a DAW setting. Being able to recall your patches with the effects is super useful, as stuff like flangers, chorus, and other modulation effects can be absolutely integral to a sound and part of the sound design process. Nice video :)

Your videos are REALLY well made. Keep it up. I have a mother 32 btw. Still scratching the surface

very helpful and concise video, thank you!

These were very arbitrary arguments. And it's OK - everyone is different. However: pesets have been available on analogue driven syths for years - that's what having a hybrid gives you; and if one's desk leaves no space for anything else after placing a device the width of two and half Volcas on it, then clearly it's not a instrument issue. The standard for synthesizer interconnection is MIDI, not Eurorack analogue VC. It means the minilogue XD can connect to or receive from nearly all other synthesizers made after 1983, whereas Mother-32 can't - it can only receive MIDI-in. Accusing a synth of not having a patch bay is like faulting a violin for not playing bass notes.

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Great video. please note, when you comment the minilogue sounds thinner, @3:04 you have the Minilogue about 6dB lower (eyeballing the graphs) in output power than the Mother 32, at least as shown by the graphs. 3dB is half power. I'd argue that if the levels were the same the minilogue might sound better than it does at the lower volume.

I wonder why the Minilogue sounds thinner and if it can be tweaked somehow to sound similar. I can only see more harmonics (bands) in the spectrum analyzer view. Could it be the only difference? Would simply adding more resonance help?

Can't agree that Korg sounds thin. You can't test synths like this (Yes, I own Minilogue XD and Moog Minitaur)

And the winner is the Crave!

The Moog sub sequent 37 has been out since 2014 and has like 128 savable patch bays. 2:07

The synth is not big at all compared to a standard keyboard synth. Looks rather small to me. Smaller than many synths. You must have a tiny desk.

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For the price of the XD I got 2 Craves and a Roland Boutique SE-02 ;)

Man, at least play the synths you're comparing. After all, we're here for the sound of what this, or that, can do for our music.

Not enough sound examples. 👎

"You can save presets on this synth, which is virtually unheard of in the analog synthesizer world." What? No. There's quite a long list of monophonic and polyphonic analog synthesizers made in 2023 which are capable of saving presets.

Indeed your comparison was wrong, no sense. You should have been comparing MONOLOGUE to Mother-32 . They truly are comparable . Sorry but

I couldn't really enjoy this review because you talk so much over the sound of the synths.

The Minilogue XD is hands down the better synth!