MINILOGUE xd FIRST LOOK - A MINILOGUE FANBOYS PERSPECTIVE

[@BoBeats]

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[@atozee1500]

"We are the Korg. Lower your shields and surrender your wallets. Resistance is futile."

[@electrorganix]

great comment ato, cheers :)

[@waxwaine]

Hey! Behringer Deepmind on the sight... RUN!!!

[@davidlogan8905]

Haha! They clearly assimilated Roland and added their technological distinctiveness to their own.

[@gunterkeegan670]

I LowQtis of Korg; you will be assimilated.

[@kasunchanaka1475]

😂🤣😂 just bought one and I saw this. So true!

[@bt4308]

Pressing Shift+Play disregards patch program and sets it to play whatever is set on the panel. Now you will never accidentally lose a patch

[@zoned7609]

like the 'panel' button on the microfreak! very handy

[@RuptureRapture]

Sounds huge. Was going to get a Minilogue but went for the XD when it was announced. Seems like they are different enough to have both rather than just an upgrade on the original. Seems like the digital Osc opens up a huge range of sounds. Hyped for mine to arrive now.

[@benjwgarner]

That's how KORG's business model works. They left out features from the XD that the original has to try to get you to buy both. Same issue with the Prologue. Everything that they make is intentionally crippled in some way so that you can't buy just one, even on the high end, that does everything. Yamaha does the same thing. It doesn't make me want to buy both, it makes me want to buy neither. Hopefully someone like Behringer comes along and eats their lunch; it would serve them right.

[@kierenmoore3236]

@@benjwgarner Right?! Why couldn’t the XD have a 4-pole filter … I’m so annoyed, I think I’ll just buy neither/something else! 😏 lol

[@dwho18]

Really appreciate that this first look was relatively "raw"! Not sure I would have the courage to post a video where I totally forgot to save the patch 😅 but that's a large part of what makes your content so enjoyable and relatable. Cheers Bo, hope you have lots and lots of fun with your new synth, can't wait to get my own.

[@ORACLEBALL]

I think this will be my next synth, been eyeing up these Korgs for a while. Sounds great!

[@samueln.3828]

I love how innovative you are, you can make up something cool sounding to play right away, and still show the abilities of the synth very well! Informative and a fun video to listen to, great job!

[@DopamineOverload]

I love how you geek out about this stuff, Bo. One of the main reasons I got so hooked on your channel. That, and your calming voice. You're just all about it. I haven't been musically inspired in a long time, but you're reigniting my synth obsession, about 20 years after the initial fact. Thanks. :)

[@mulph7738]

Samma här

[@Kkidzz]

So glad bass/bottom end doesn’t drop out while increasing resonance. Bo, would love to see you make some percussive/rhythmic sequences using the Digital OSC(noise) and S&H LFO. THX!!

[@rickr.mortis4821]

I just ordered this today and I can't wait till it arrives in 5 days. The reverb is absolutely out of this world fantastic. It looks like 5 nights of no sleep. LOL

[@rbrookes]

Just wish they did it in the original aluminium as the black scratches and is a fingerprint magnet

[@synthury1858]

Hi Bo ! Thank you for this first test. Love your channel. Preordered mine in January. Should arrive by the end of March. Quite excited to play with this unit.

[@TenMilL]

ROFL Whoopsie whoopsie, lol...oops for real, 🤣🤣🤣 That was a really cool fluty sound too. You were jammin away on it too. That was groovy, hell, all of it is fabulous.

[@TenMilL]

P.S.-Yes I would like to see more XD@BoBeats!

[@PaladinGunn]

That really looks like a whole different beast than the original, on pratically everything. Feels like an incredible bangs for bucks ratio.

[@kramhoogness]

Dude! You're repping Michigan in the intro! Love the Detroit shirt! Great video too. You are super creative with this synth right out of the box. Nice job!

[@goodboid]

Bob Eats, you really need a "Shek out" t-shirt merch

[@darkcity7060]

It's the Swedish curse. Ask one of us to say "just jump Jenny".

[@paaftube]

Haha yes! "Shek out my vidjoh!" Would by one for sure.

[@jaredforney2372]

I think this video just sold me on this synth for my first. Thanks for showing the whole process end to end for sound creation; seems really approachable!

[@JesusGreenBL]

I'm currently looking for my first hardware synth, and this has been tempting me so much despite being way over my original budget. I'm sitting at 4:00 in the video and saying to myself "Okay this sounds amazing, and has all the features you want.. but maybe you should just get something cheaper like the MS-101. Plus, the MS-101 can do that lovely 303 bass." ...and then 4:35 happens. Damn it. Now I'm seriously reconsidering said budget.

[@CowmanFriend]

I ended up getting an MS-1 and the XD lol

[@kmontzka]

Was waiting to see what a fellow fanboy would say about it. I imagine I will make the same delighted sounds and faces when I try it out for the first time. Need to fill up the OG minilogue with patches first. And congrats on the ‘instant keyboard skills’! 😉

[@Steviewunderbar]

Great video, this is the type of review I want to see

[@BoBeats]

You can find my original Minilogue patches here: bit.ly/storebobeats

[@DarraghRedmond]

nice

[@isawtheghost]

WHat are your thoughts on the XD vs the Minilogue OG? I'm wanting to see some comparisons between the two soundwise, less than featurewise

[@GangiFilms]

Is this really that much different for korg minilogue?

[@copesounds]

Do original Minologue patches work on the XD?

[@ryedergrenier3561]

At 4:35 i started to cry

[@steventaylor3789]

I think that’s the most excited I’ve ever seen you 😬 Sounds good! More sound creation, some workflow from scratch building into a groove with some other kit would be interesting to see. There’s something about the capabilities of this synth which combines with the form factor to just make sense. It really feels like an evolution of the Minilogue. A good thing as it would probably have been easy to go too far with new features that didn’t really add anything. Really a great synth for those just starting out as well as anyone wanting a complete package. It deserves to be hugely popular.

[@SorchaSublime]

would love to see a semimodular version of this. even if it added money to the price tag it would add so much value to the synth

[@youknowwhoiam6484]

This is the kind of synth that crosses all genres. With the motion sequence you can create moog dfam sounds❤

[@kazer4]

This is gonna be my first synth for sure sounds lush asf

[@PodOfHeat]

I played one of these in a music shop for about an hour the other day. Everything, literally every little spund that came out of it sounded exquisite!

[@dariakalmykova8469]

Maaaaan! Gosh the minilogue is awesome!!! Than XD is no way!!!!!❤❤❤ thanks x your video

[@trev-sb2bk]

what a nice synth

[@floydartx]

One Synth to Rule them all! Was waiting for this :3 Great video ^^

[@TheFreeRadikal]

Great demo, I have the original Minilogue and was hoping the XD would have audio in so I could input the Minilogue through it, ah well, no cake for me

[@keybeardist]

It really sounds great but I still think I would miss the 4 pole filter option from the original.

[@BoBeats]

Yeah, I think it doesn’t really kill the og minilogue. It is just so different

[@thomasstran]

I think you could have restored that patch. Press Shift + Play to load the panel state. The sound will then match the knobs and switches positions. See the manual page 47.

[@BoBeats]

thanks Thomas :) was a bit too caught up in the action

[@thomasstran]

@@BoBeats Yes, of course :-) Oh, forgot to mention - great video as always! Greetings from Norway!

[@gordonbennett7931]

@@BoBeats Hi, love the demo. I've heard that you can chain different 16 step sequences is this true?

[@sidneymorris2254]

He likes the knobs! Great video 👍

[@kevink9365]

Surprisingly good effects.

[@matthewdeakin9939]

I think I’ve found my next purchase 😍

[@SebastianBastiS]

I bought it yesterday ❤️

[@bigsby19]

Sebastian How does it stand up after having it for 5 months now?

[@fredrikuppsall1043]

The G.A.S is real with this one !

[@elissitdesign]

Fredrik Uppsäll seriously!

[@bbbbbbb51]

It really seems like the little additions they made added such a wide variety in new sounds and ways to use new sounds on the xd. I loved my minilogue and this catches my ear again!

[@floatinganarchychannel3204]

Dont know why it sounds to me in some patched that is like a mic room recording with muddy low end and muffled hi end except when you add a aggressive res.

[@positronicreflex.]

Just subscribed, great presentation and also this is my first synth, ordered it a while back just waiting on it!

[@rars0n]

That thing looks gorgeous in black. I'm so glad they got rid of that cheap slider. That's one thing I really dislike about my Monologue. Every time I touch it, I wish I hadn't because it feels like I'm going to break it. To be honest, the Minilogue when I demoed it a few years ago didn't impress me that much. It sounded good but I didn't like it enough for the price. Hearing the first few minutes of this, though, it makes me want to throw my Monologue in the trash and pick one of these up (I have several monosynths and the Korg is probably the first one to go if I were to get rid of one). I'd love to have the sounds and polyphony of this, but I'll have to wait to see if the price ever drops, or maybe pick up one used. Seems like a very nice improvement over the original. Great demo! Thanks!

[@hellah216]

Cant decide, this or the System-1 next, this video might have solved that.. Thanks!!!!!

[@pellikan64]

I want one! The sounds are amazing. As a person who is just starting out with synths I found it educational watching you create a sound from scratch. It's hard to know how to get from a boring beep to a lush appreciated soundscape. I'd like to see some more of that kind of info. Minor criticism, please try to arrange your lighting so it doesn't glare onto the small display screen on the right. Thanks!

[@ciaofabiociao]

Hi Bo! And thanks for all these preset videos. I would like to ask you for advice, given that you also reviewed the Minifreak: the Minilogue XD has an analogue "base" with a third digital oscillator, the sounds seem full and "real" to me, the interface is immediate, the design is classic and awesome, but I struggle with the presets, they sounds good but are very standard, nothing goes "out of the box". I find that the Minifreak on the other is slightly less convincing as a "pure sounds" (if you play a wave without any effects), it seems a little less profound/vibrating to me, but it has really beautiful presets, complex and pleasant, they're very interesting even without having to process them in DAW with other effects. Minifreak is "ready made", Minilogue is a "classic". Which one would you recommend for those who move between electronic / IDM / ambient / glitch (let's say from Floating Points to Max Cooper)? Thank you very much.

[@HotStrange]

This video was the one that finally made the decision for me. Loving my XD!

[@saaz_from_mars]

Great video ! Thanks a lot 👍🎶🎹

[@justindrakecroft]

Anyone know if original minilogue patches can be loaded on the xd? I would expect so, but just want to be sure.

[@BoBeats]

it cant from what i know

[@justindrakecroft]

Thanks for the reply Bo!

[@MrLarsDF]

Shoot! 😉😀You just spent 5000 of my danish kroner😀. That synthesizer is just fantastisk! Great demo Bo. And dont forget to save our patches😚...

[@MR-jd1yo]

nice vid Bo! sounds great!

[@scheetmcborsten7977]

This is the epic analogue synth I've been waiting for.

[@SferaMusicLive]

Sounds awesome. Great video Bo.

[@Neurotypique]

Wow that 303 patch

[@JonMurray]

GOD DAMN IT BO!!! NOW I NEED A MINILOGUE XD!!! Great video as always dude! Time to go shopping haha!

[@strangeoscillator1327]

Nice video Bo, thanx for that first look ! The XD is a BIG little synth, not the original Minilogue killer but a winner for sure ! Hope an in depth review soon...

[@EduardoLopez-re2sp]

I’ve been waiting for this vid, Bo

[@jupiterdrake9965]

Instant keyboard skills when you buy the minilogue xd 😂😂😂 sounds great though. 4rllll.

[@djalexia]

Keegan Drake Norris mmhmm yes for a minute it does then... I got it get to grow on me or... back to Moog

[@kierenmoore3236]

The XD’s sounds remind me more of my VA synth … does the OG Minilogue sound more ‘vintage analog’, or not? Is it the difference in 4-pole (an option on the OG) v 2-pole (XD) filter I’m hearing, perhaps?

[@drum4life42]

Love your videos. Just picked one of these up and I'm having trouble with the depth knob on the delay and other effects. Seems to just go to 100% at times. Would you know what's going on? I tried to figure out how to set the knob to a different mode but can't figure it out. Thanks.

[@bond4177]

I will be buying this. Perfect compliment to the MatrixBrute!

[@BoBeats]

definitely!

[@metaspherz]

Delay and reverb at the same time...whoa! I was wondering too if it had that capability like my Deepmind-12. I'm really liking this little synth more and more although I've been recommending people to get the Deepmind-6 instead for the same price, full size keyboard and more voices. If I had to choose between the two it'd be difficult or I'd get both if my pockets were deep enough.

[@djsjdh-hoahdi]

metaspherz wanted to get the deepmind but the oscillators on this gotta be way less limiting than the deepmind

[@el_camino_real]

hi, I have a problem, when I want to start preset from scratch and press shift play, key trig on / off pops up.Also trying shift and first seq button and also nothing. Please help. greetings

[@GrahndDorkus]

Can it change patch externally? From OT or digitakt? My SH-01a could but not my D-05

[@srottenhook]

So in my case if I use 2 TRS L/R cables between Minilogue XD and Motu M4= Correct? Wrong? Should I use two TS instead?

[@dani538]

Can’t wait to get mine!

[@EchoKraft]

Hi Bo Did you sell your Minilogue?

[@junglsmor]

hey nice vid. i have a question. listen to the song yabba dabba doo by don blackman. theres an overdriven synth Bass in that song. could i achieve a similar sound with this synth? i know it has overdrive but i cant really find a vid that shows how overdriven you can get

[@robhoyt188]

I was all set to make a new synth purchase this weekend...now...I am rethinking it. Thanks Bo! Haha

[@westside9098]

7:12 sorta sounds like the start of daft punk's aerodynamic

[@really-quitestrange7743]

7:44 sounds a bit like Pacman

[@argi0774]

How would you use it for making music? Create a sound, record it and use it on the computer?

[@geephlips]

I have no idea why Korg left out two of my favorite features on the OGML. Why did Korg make the second EG an AD instead of an ADSR?And why leave leave out the EG2 LFO mod switch? The only upgrade for me is the third osc and the improved sequencer. I have effects pedals. I liked the original filter.

[@BoBeats]

Yeah its not necessarily an og Minilogue killer

[@vjspectron]

No audio-in is a brutal omission.

[@HomeCinemaJunkie]

The effects sound really good! I'm waiting for the "Prologue XD", hopefully it will arrive someday...

[@lucaeri4537]

Thank you, for all great tutorial but I've a big issue: If I turn off Local SW and using minilogue XD Sound track in Logic, the sequencer don't work properly: it generates only a short noisy sound, and the joystick goes out of control, if I use it. Instead, if I use minilogue minilogue XD midi out with lLocal SW on, my minilogue work properly (no problem with sequencere and joystic), but midi track doesn't send signal to minilogue if I want listen what ?ve just recorded in MIDI track. Could you help me? I'm going crazy. Thank's PS I use MAC, with Catalina, without any Korg drivers, as Korg recommends

[@Lacuna888]

Hey I looked at a couple of your vids, which are very informative. I'm pretty new to synths and so maybe this is gonna be a silly question. I decided to get myself the Korg minilogue XD. I have a pair of KRK studiomonitors at home that I wanna hook the minilogue XD up to. Now, the KRK monitors have only a balanced TRS 1/4 inch input (and not an TS input). And If I am right, I have to put an unbalanced TS 1/4 inch jack cable in the Minlogue XD output. Can I put the TS jack of that cable in the balanced TRS input of my KRK speakers ? It would be great if you could help me out with this. I'm scared that i might damage something if I put an TS jack cable in an TRS balanced input of the speakers.

[@4130aykut]

does it have the same sounds and specs like the minilogue?

[@2587Lucky]

After much deliberation, sold me on the xd with this one! 🌪

[@godders7594]

Hi Bo and everybody, I have heard a lot of people say that the original Minilogue was more biased towards metallic sounds, can anyone advise me if this updated XD version covers warm sounds equally as well, also is the XD a logical step up from my Arturia Minibrute, thanks in anticipation. Gaz

[@BoBeats]

Its still a harsher synth than say a sub 37, but i think its less metallic than the og minilogue

[@final_mile_music9713]

It’s a wonderful synth. I got my white one last week to go with my Rev2 and SE-02. 😊

[@alexanderfrowen1978]

Hello Bo, I'm a long time watcher, first time "commenter" really enjoyed the vid and patches/demo, I have the minilouge and love it, but this defiantly had me thinking about the xd! I'd really like to see a video of them both together not so much of a side by side comparison than have them both synced up together with the mkI run through the xd and the fx section and or just layered together, I think the xd has quite a different flavour with just the filter re-design and is enough to make them a really strong combo? Thanks, A

[@alexanderfrowen1978]

Really? that's disappointing

[@soundethersinfo135]

I dreamt of Bobeats and the Minilogue. Bo was a man living in the sea depths with his Minilogue, making amazing unheard sounds with it. I was diving in the clear water and met him, he offered me the sounds of his synth, but I had to find a way to bring them safe to the surface. The only way was to pour the sounds in a paper coffee filter and clean them from all the sea plants and dirt that way. Then I could finally play Bobeats Minilogue's sounds on earth and anyone was amazed and admired. I told anybody the story of Bobeats living in the sea depths and making sounds, but nobody would believe such a man could really exist at all. So, I went to visit him underwater (and he was so happy of this) with a lot of folk, showing people Bobeats exists and make sounds for real, down there in the clear sea water. So, the question is: am I looking at too many Bobeats videos? ;-)

[@BoBeats]

You just need more ☕️☕️☕️✌️♥️😬

[@disomniatijuana2363]

How can you see the settings for every patch?

[@424Recording]

Great introduction, Bo! Looking forward to a comparison with the OG Mini 🤓

[@MathewStoneMusic]

such a nice sound - nice video

[@aqualungs77]

Wow that sounds amazing. I like this and the mininova, so I need both. I have a circuit and a am doing r&b, soul funk, rock ,blues, fusion... whatever. Which would be the better first synth since they are both very different. Analog vs digital, etc. Thanks Bo!

[@ridvankornaz]

great session! i own both, and both are great devices and worth to own them (btw also the monologue makes the minilogues a great combination)

[@chrisyuo6474]

Hi Bo, thanks for making this one, xd's sound is really amazing and deeper than I thought. Multi Engine is definitely the one we need to dig and see new possibilities of sound designs! Looking forward the another one!!! Nice Tuto videos as always!!

[@calderwood9641]

Did they add keyboard velocity or aftertouch to this one? I'm assuming if they didn't you could still hook up an external keyboard to get these features?

[@zaub9rer]

how did u manage to use both effects at the same time?

[@johnhorrobin8560]

I assume the dual outputs are only true stereo via the efx and not stereo purely dry.

[@dephrx6327]

can't figure out how to record audio on ableton with it I have a scarlet2i2

[@hanlim8061]

Would you upgrade? Or keep the previous minilogue? To me It sounds a bit more powerful then previous minilogue. But not that different to keep both. What would you do Bo!! Tell me what you think!!

[@BoBeats]

I dont know 😱

[@hanlim8061]

BoBeats haha ok

[@daikuone]

Can you simulate "polychaining" with the XD and the original Minilogue?

[@AslakSkarderud]

Anyone experienced that the synth makes little to no sound at all when you turn all three FX off? Updated to fw2.10 and the synth changed behavior. Worked fine before.

[@GarHoover]

I see that Detroit T-Shirt, it’s nice seeing you represent my hometown! Fantastic video, it’s seems like the wave shape for the digital oscillator behaves almost like a wavetable even on the sine wave! Have you tried adding your own waveforms yet?

[@BoBeats]

Yeah the digital oscillator is deep! Its like an FM oscillator. I have downloaded a few user oscillstors and will try them

[@sessshomaruuu]

Always a sucker for some good reverb.

[@SpacemanBandOfficial]

So can this do mono as well? I had read that tweaking the voice mode depth knob can get a sort of mono mode.

[@m.g.kroger]

Can effects parameters be modulated? I would like to hear "modulating pads and keyboard" sounds, to appreciate it's "evolving", modern side, as well as the effects long settings (reverb and delay decay and feedback). Thanks for posting this!!

[@morph224]

looks like you can only route the EG and LFO using the target switch next to them, so they can't modulate fx. You can modulate fx with midi CC and using the sequencer

[@m.g.kroger]

Harry Dowe Thank You!! :-)

[@hlg_theshepherd2873]

This thing is beautiful, wish I could afford one right now. Definately will be trying to get one.

[@NOLNV1]

I was told it uses the filter design from the Monologue, which I found quite harsh, how different do you feel it is?

[@BoBeats]

I havnt used the monologue much

[@goldphinga]

@@BoBeats its the prologue filter revoiced- i confirmed this with Korg :)

[@alexwray6530]

Some awesome improvements for sure! Looks like they still haven't addressed some sloppy issues that bug me about the minilogue. One is the voice mode, its always bugged me that the arpeggiator is in this section. It means you can't use unison or chord mode with the arp. Makes no sense. No Compare mode when saving and making patches. I can't tell you how many times I've over written patches because I can't compare or preview what patch I'm over writing. To avoid accidentally erasing a program in progress, I open up a global menu so I cant change the patch. Maybe a warning that I'm about to erase my patch before saving!? Come on Korg! These are novice errors on your part. Easily fixed with a little care and a solid firmware update.

[@BoBeats]

those are some good suggestions. especially the patch comparison. peak got such a great way of handling this

[@robsanchezaus]

BoBeats ok, so I’m tossing up this or a Peak Bo. So, no fence sitting here - if you could only have one, which one?

[@BoBeats]

If I personally could only keep one: Minilogue xd (because of emotional reasons) If I were to recommend it to someone else: Peak (it is just so darn good!)

[@robsanchezaus]

Thanks for that. Ok, so I’m gonna get both, then. Because eating and stuff is overrated. 😆

[@charliebrigden6930]

would a patch like the one around 11:30 be possible on a monologue ? or do i need something more meaty like a minilogue for that ?

[@liamgreer8019]

There is no delay or reverb on the monologue , and it’s monophonic, so when the lead starts coming into play like he does in this video, it wouldn’t work