Product Review - Keyboard Synthesizers

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Published in SOS March 2012

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Self-contained keyboard synths have an immediacy that is seldom matched by synth modules or software instruments. There’s a great variety of them available at the moment, but how do you know which one is right for you? Here’s a selection of the models we’ve looked at over the last couple of years, with links to the SOS reviews, to help you decide.
Arturia MiniBrute £429$549
Arturia MiniBrute
Arturia MiniBrute
Newly launched at the recent NAMM show, the MiniBrute is a genuine all-analogue monophonic synthesizer with an appropriately approachable set of controls. The MiniBrute can process external audio signals, and even doubles up as a MIDI controller, and you can read our exclusive review of it on page 22 of this very issue.
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Korg Kronos £3000$4350
Korg Kronos
Korg Kronos
The Kronos is Korg’s most advanced keyboard workstation to date, featuring over 30GB of samples stored on its solid-state disk drive, endowing it with highly realistic acoustic instrument sounds, in addition to extremely powerful physical modelling and virtual analogue synthesis engines. With its built-in drum kits and comprehensive sequencing abilities, there’s not an awful lot it can’t do! It’s not for the short of arm and deep of pocket, however.
Review: www.soundonsound.com/sos/may11/articles/korg-kronos.htm
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Arturia MiniBrute £429$549
Korg Kronos £3000$4350
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