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Korg • Mono/Poly

A cool analog monophonic/polyphonic from Korg. It has 4 VCO's which can be shared in 4-voice Polyphonic mode, or linked in Unison for a versatile monophonic lead. Each VCO has its own level, tune, and waveform type control. Waveforms include sine, sawtooth, Pulse Width, and Pulse Width Modulation. It has a great VCF filter section as well as 2 envelope generators (one for the oscillators and one for the filter). There are also 2 individual LFO's which can be used to modulate the Pulse Width, envelope and Arpeggiator independently.

A very flexible and fun synth. Other cool tricks up its sleeve include chord memory and an effects mode in which oscillators have a variety of ways to be synced. The built-in arpeggiator and sequencer can run all 4 VCO's at a time or cycle through each voice per note! There's also portamento, CV/Gate, VCF and VCO mod inputs, white noise generator, and the pitch/mod wheels can be assigned to control LFO, pitch or the filter. Its sound quality is a little thin, but nice and very Korg. This synth is used by Hardfloor, Tangerine Dream, The Orb, 808 State, Juno Reactor, Megaton Matt Haines, Freddy Fresh, and the Chemical Brothers.

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Platform-1.co.uk

Posted 312 days ago

Monster synth, mine still works fine. I have removed the keyboard and reboxed it with a midi retro fit. Before you all go mad, the original case and keyboard can be refitted to restore it to its former glory (although I did fix an iEC socket inplace of the trailing mains cable). Great sound, quite fat!

planetplayer

Posted 312 days ago

Tried it in early 1980's. Very nice sounds and looks. I wouldn't say it was thin sounding, but the MS-20 sounded thicker.

Sascha Beselt

Posted 336 days ago

Does anyone know where I can get parts such as knobs for this synth, the MonoPoly????

Please write to mandatory@web.de

Rock on

brian.only

Posted 357 days ago

Totally underrated, much slept on synth. Is dead easy to program and has some very cool routing options. Not many other synths out there like this one besides the Vermona. Can do some very interesting things w/ the arpeggiator in Poly mode and can even create drum pattern sounds w/ the filter. I also like the # keys, I dont understand why people make 25 key keybeds, not enough keys- 44 is a great compromise!

lf0

Posted 438 days ago

This synth features in the book analogue preservation here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j89E lwmpw0Y

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