Well they did go adult size with the Prologue.
Yes, I expected someone would say that. At first, I was excited about them, but the Prologues now seem like cheap Prophet Rev2s. Sure, they have some obvious additional features, but also a pitiful paucity of modulation. On the Sweetwater Specs page, they don't even mention modulation! Nor have I been impressed with their general tone. Nor is there a module version. And I've also read about serious tuning problems. I quickly crossed the Prologues off my list.
Besides, isn't the digital oscillator still under development?
Modulation sources and destinations are always a huge consideration for me and Korg do really fall short on that with all the latest instruments. I still shake my head when I look at the AD envelope on the Monologue and the "you may choose from one of the following three destinations" switch and say to myself "Korg, what were you thinking? This is a Volca with keys!"
The digital oscillator for the Mini/Prologue is fully functional as far as I've read, with various companies selling "pro-designed" oscillators created with the SDK for it. It'd be a bit like hara-kiri to announce an updated Minilogue featuring the multi-engine digital oscillator with it still not working properly (a year after release at that).
I saw the Minilogue XD last weekend. Looks really cool, though I can’t understand why they removed full ADSR from the filter EG.
That indeed is a bummer, as is the loss of the cutoff envelope if you want an envelope for the pitch. And the removal of the 24dB mode for the filter tends to give it less scope for creating aggressive emphasis in a patch. Oh well, at least they added a sequencer that can act as a parameter animator and some CV inputs which can be assigned to pretty much any parameter on the synth (a little win there if you have a few external CV sources).
All this Korg talk, but I have to say, after listening to the Model:Samples demo again and reading a bit on the Elektron site, I think I might have finally found a replacement for my dead RY30. I'll wait to see who else releases a new drum machine before I start the funds drive though. Likely nobody but maybe, just maybe Yamaha might do something they haven't done in over a decade? I really doubt Akai will.
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