I am new to synths and I wanted to say thank you for this series. I am learning a bunch no only about this one; which I plan to buy, but synths in general.
I've owned this synth for awhile and am watching these videos to help me finally utilize all it's features. There was some really fun sounds in this video I want to go try to recreate and play with.
I love Monologue. love the fact that's different than its bigger brother poly, filter and lfo. what I wanted to see being implemented, is lfo note tracking (for "tuned" or "musical" FM). I don't thing it's that hard to implement in the digital control. by the way, great videos as always Marc! keep them coming :)
I bought a monologue 6 months ago as my 1st synth, and your videos have been invaluable. Thanks Marc! As a minor suggestion, if u do any future vids on mono or minilogue, consider painting pointer notch with paint pen...i did it to mine...very easy, and now I can see levels on knobs.
Maybe not the place to be commenting this, but I still don’t understand Ring Modulation. It seems to be the last bastion of subtractive synthesis that eludes me!!
just came back to listen to this 'lfo' again and got carried away with the demo review! nice one 'gainsay' for pointing out the true potential of this little monologue with the bigger sounding picture of abilities ; -)
I love your video series, big thanks! I still have a challenge understanding "gate" on this unit. I am a newer student and welcome your or anyones further or alternate explanation of it.
I am very grateful for your videos, thank you! One tiny feedback: the knob positions can be difficult to see, a tiny sticker / white chalk where the top groove is would make a world of difference.
I had planned to get a silver marker to fill in the indicator on my 'logue products, but I didn't do it before shooting, unfortunately! Thank you for your input!
I don't know if this is the right place to ask or not, but how much does the pitch knob on vco2 go? Like, can you tune it to the fifth of vco1? And how do we activate glide/portamento mode during live play? And btw great vid as always.
If the waves are the same frequency, shouldn’t a sync not have any effect given that the waves will be restarting st the same time? Is there accuracy allignment issues with the monologue?
There are accuracy alignment issues with the Monologue for sure... it's called ANALOG! :D If you started with two perfectly stable oscillators that were set to exactly the same frequency with exactly the same waveshape, there would be no difference between both oscillators running and both oscillators synced. But the moment you introduce any variation in pitch or waveshape, the activation of sync is going to make a difference. Two analog oscillators are never phase-locked... they're usually running with their own phase that is the result of variations in tuning and waveshape. So, when you turn sync on, it forces them to be the same, and you hear a distinct difference.
I love this video series. It introduced me to your other stuff as well. Thanks for spending the time and effort to put these together! Quick question... I don't need another mono synth right now, but I do need a good sounding poly synth for pads, chords, etc as background form techno/atmo type stuff. Have an Analog Rytm and a DSI evolver. Is the Minilogue pretty close to this in terms of workflow, etc? If the Minilogue is essentially a poly version of this, I think I'm sold on it.
I love these new synths from Korg (actually I love all synths from Korg, from the monotron to the MS-50 expansion), but both in the Miniogue and the Monologue they missed a lot by not having an option to direct the Env Modulation and the LFO to more settings (for example by having options like "Pitch", "Cutoff" and "Destination", and Destination could be selected from a menu... preferably one menu for each modulation source). This alone puts me off from buying the *logues and sticking to my MicroKorg (sorry Mark: it's VA, I know, but it still sounds and feels more analogue than most of the new analogue stuff). Nevertheless, very interesting use of the synth capabilities. Thank you for this demo series. Cheers!
I'm not sure! I tend to avoid using the term "subtractive," because so many synthesizers with filters also have multiple oscillators and filter self-oscillation, which is actually additive.
These videos are great! I have a question or maybe a request.. I don't know that much about the science behind it, but when I plugged the output of my Monologue into it's Audio In I got some different sounds. Is this a worthwhile exercise or am I just having frequencies fight eachother?
