stellavista wrote:

Not proper poly unfortunately, just para. There are better 4-voice analogue synths in its bracket like the silver Korg thing.

Is that analogue? I thought it was a digital analogue hybrid thing?

If you're talking about the Minilogue, it's analogue. Though there is the newer Monologue X D which has an additional custom Digital Oscillator and some other tweaks.

Actively listening to more music has had me watching drum vids again, has me hankering to play again.

This is an inconvenient instrument to dabble in with minimal prep.

So now all I need is a new kit, room, and sound proofing.

Ffs.

Anyhoo, the amount of good teaching content on youtube is awesome.

https://youtu.be/z_9AHWGQg_c

Enjoyed this and feel like the lessons cover not just metal.

Korg are giving their Kaossilator for Android and iOS away for free so people can entertain themselves at home in isolation. It's usually 18€ and it's a fun little thing.
https://www.korg.com/uk/news/2020/0313/?fbclid=IwAR3AG1NGdU8bfdKIxGriMqpQ7fSF8T_Vc_dtBrFp7bNASFXF3xTQM0JG5-g

I enjoyed making the sounds go woooooo, thanks Kow

Bah, not on android.

ZMM wrote:

I've ordered a Korg Prologue 16, my first ever real analogue synth! It was nearly a whole month's pay but whatever I was looking at the Minilogue X D module and just thought, fuck it, might as well go all in and get this badboy. It will probably hold its value well, I hope! Anyone here have one?

Nice! Been eying up an X D module myself but that's a distant dream currently. Prologue looks awesome. 

Edit: hoping to pick up that little DIY Korg NTS synth that's basically the digital oscillator/FX from the X D and Prologue.

Vastik wrote:

ZMM wrote:

I've ordered a Korg Prologue 16, my first ever real analogue synth! It was nearly a whole month's pay but whatever I was looking at the Minilogue X D module and just thought, fuck it, might as well go all in and get this badboy. It will probably hold its value well, I hope! Anyone here have one?

Nice! Been eying up an X D module myself but that's a distant dream currently. Prologue looks awesome.  Edit: hoping to pick up that little DIY Korg NTS synth that's basically the digital oscillator/FX from the X D and Prologue.

Currently £450.99 at Juno: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/korg-minilogue-xd-4-voice-polyphonic-analogue/732457-01/

Why would you need midi for an analogue synth? Unless you're using it as a controller for audio software. If what you want to do is record the audio from the synth to the laptop, then you'll need to get a usb audio interface.

Kow wrote:

Why would you need midi for an analogue synth? Unless you're using it as a controller for audio software. If what you want to do is record the audio from the synth to the laptop, then you'll need to get a usb audio interface.

Do you mean an L and R audio to USB cable? I'm just looking to play the synth as an external midi instrument on Logic, but at the moment it's recognising it only as a keyboard, as it's connected via USB only. And yes Gurt I will definitely invest in something like that but I've done about as much investing as I can for one month :') so all I need now is a sub £20 cable so I can record some of my jams!?

I don't think you need another cable, unless you want to record the audio, in which case you need an audio interface such as the one I suggested, or something much cheaper that would also do the basic job of audio input into the computer.

What advantages does an audio interface have? This synth has an amazing array of reverb, delay options as well as the ability to make custom patches, I don't really want to alter the sounds that much other than maybe a bit of bitcrushing or extra reverb.

Thank you both for your help I'm very grateful. It only came with a quick start guide so I really should read this manual from top to toe, cheers for finding that!

What are you listening to the synth through at the moment?

Kow wrote:

What are you listening to the synth through at the moment?

Headphones

I did have a big message here but it didn't send

MIDI doesn't output any actual sounds, it's a set of instructions to be interpreted by a music making programme. for example "select instrument number 1, play frequency of 260Hz, for 3000 milliseconds" obviously it can become more complicated than that

You can use the synth keyboard (and probably a lot of it's knobs and sliders) to control a midi instrument inside your computer with more control and instinctiveness than a mouse and keyboard (yeah I know). You can also (probably) use a set of MIDI instructions on your computer to change the siund of your synth while yo are playing something, kinda like flipping your classic casio keyboard from, piano to bass mid song, but letting the computer control that according to what you've already programmed

The line output allows you to record the sounds you generate with the synth, or to play them live through an amplifier, sound desk, power whatever

There are plenty of decent USB interfaces - Roland, Muto, FocusRite and loads more. A friend just bought a Muto and swears by it. I've had a Roland for years and it's great. You'll want a small one likethe Roland Rubix 22 or 24, unless you're planning on recording multiple instruments at the same time with a band or something. I'm not familiar with that particular synth but I'd imagine there are two audio outputs on the back. For the best sound you'll want to connect them to the inputs of the usb interface. 

Line out usually will do headphones or something but I doubt it's up to decent quality audio. Midi doesn't carry audio, it only carries signals that tell the computer that a key has been presses, a knob turned etc but no actual sound. It's useful to connect so that your synth can sync with a DAW but you need to connect the audio too. I don't know what cables you'll need specifically but I would suppose they'll be standard audio cables. Take a photo of the connection and ask in a shop.