100 completely new presets with focus on Bass sounds
The minilogue Bass from Korg is a four-voice polyphonic analogue synthesizer with two oscillators, a resonant Lowpass filter, step sequencer and flexible voice modes. The instrument convinces with powerful and fat synthesizer sounds, easy handling and great performance features. Even if the minilogue Bass seems rather puristic at first glance, with VCO modulations, motion sequencer and a great sounding analogue filter, the synthesizer is extremely flexible in terms of sound. A great feature for synthesizer beginners is the dynamic display of the waveforms in the oscilloscope display. The minilogue Bass is a limited special edition that differs visually from the silver minilogue. The exterior presents itself in elegant black with swirl pattern, the keyboard is black-red inverted and the wooden back is coloured red. In addition, there are 100 completely new presets that were created with a focus on bass sounds.
The analogue sound generation for fat synthesizer sounds
Two analogue oscillators provide the sound material with which the Korg minilogue Bass can produce powerful leads, wacky effect sounds and punchy basses. Each oscillator can be switched in octaves and provides three basic waveforms: Sawtooth, Triangle and Square. But the oscillators can do much more than just classic waveforms, as these can be continuously changed via SHAPE - so each waveform delivers a wide range of basic sounds. For synth strings, brass sounds, stabs and deepe Chords the Korg minilogue is well suited.
Even more flexibility through VCO modulation
You wouldn't expect so much flexibility from the simple design of the minilogue Bass, but with VCO modulation you can get a lot of classic, but also pretty wacky sounds out of the synthesizer. The simplest application is the LFO modulation of the SHAPE parameter to automate the waveform change. The result is beautiful floating sounds - great for rich, four-voice pad sounds.
The analogue filter section of the minilogue Bass.
This can be heard immediately in the fine and well-tuned basic sound of the Korg minilogue Bass. The oscillator waves pass through an analogue lowpass filter, which can be used with either 12 dB or 24 dB slope (2/4 poles). This allows the small synth to master two important sound characteristics at once: fluffy pads are classically tuned with 12 dB, while deep synth basses work better with 24 dB slope. Otherwise the resonant filter of the minilogue is very straight and classic: Modulation via LFO and/or ADSR envelope. If you miss Sample&Hold with the LFO, you can help yourself with the motion sequencer, which can of course also be applied to the cutoff parameter, and control the filter frequency via sequencer steps.
A synthesizer for beginners
Due to its clear structure, the Korg minilogue Bass is especially suitable for beginners who want to dive into the world of analogue sounds. Very informative when editing sounds are also the oscilloscope display, on which the waveforms can be read dynamically. As a beginner, you can easily understand the connections between sound generation (oscillators) and sound processing (filters, envelopes...) as well as the versatile waveshaping functions (shape, sync, ring and cross modulation).
Integrated analogue delay
Designed as a true analogue delay, the effect section of the Korg minilogue Bass allows for very lively sounds. Much like you would expect from a true analogue delay, the effect produces the familiar pitch effects when you change the Delay-Zeit. It even hisses a bit and produces really gnarly feedback effects reminiscent of retro sci-fi effects of the 60s. A nice side feature of the delay section: A highpass filter can be used in the feedback path of the delay or switched in front of the input of the delay.
Sync, Ring Modulation, Cross Modulation
For lead sounds with bite, switch on the oscillator sync function or add the ring modulator to create metallic sound spectra - noisy sounds, gongs and bells can be realized quickly. Cross-modulation also opens up a wide field of experimentation, with both oscillators modulating each other. Above a certain intensity, the tuning of the oscillators behaves chaotically. Inharmonic sound spectra are created here, which can be used excellently for film music-like atmospheres and bizarre sound progressions.
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