New Korg MicroX owner and simple review

Greeting guys I am new here, just because my new Korg MicroX arrived yesterday

Actually I am a guitar player and a drummer, but now want to get some more 'sound of music', that's why I want to pick a synthesizer. As following I just put some simple bullets about my impression of this product, hope this helps!

• It IS powerful, powerful enough to generate loads loads of sounds

• Yes the hard case is kind of ridiculous... why light orange?! but it's okay...

• As some owners said, the build of this Kord instrument feels a bit cheap.. plastic... but I think this is why it is not so heavy...

• The Screen is not too bad, provides lots of infomation, although it is small...

• The operation is not complicated. Well designed interface.

• I agree with that MicroX is more suitable for electric music, instead of real-instrument-simulation.

• Dual Polyphonic Arpeggiator is very, very handful, even for such a begginer as me.

• The keys are full-sized, which is good

• 25-key is ok for electric music, but no good for a professional pianist (certainly!)

• As a portable synth, there is no battery bay!

• I don't think it has sequencer and sampler functions.

I just played with it last night, and there are still lots of things i have to learn. But as for now, I am really love this instrument because i really care about the size however the full pack of sounds really impressed me.

But I have question:

Is MicroX a Rompler?

Compared with microkorg, it is said that MicroX is a xxxx rompler. Yes the multisample part in MicroX indicates it is a rompler, but how about two oscillators inside it? MicroX has many settings to modify the sound/samples anyway...

By the way, which color do you perfer? black or white? I am asking because the white version is a bit more expensive, and some sites said the white ones are 'limited edition'.

Finally thank you for your viewing my first thread! any comment is welcomed!

Im going to say it does indeed have real oscilators onboard. Which is a surpising plus.

I want one myself and played one last night at sam ash. I was on a synth patch and turned the first knob in the set of four or so on the left. Thinking I had turned the cut off, it was actually pulsewidth control, much to my surprise. As far as I know, you can't control pulse width on a recorded sample of sound.

Most romplers give you faux oscilators, which are just recorded saw waves and such.

But given this as well, I'm really anxious to buy one myself.

Oscillators come in many shapes and sizes; the name can be used as a catch-all to say "part of the engine that generates sound". Fine. But there's a VCO, a DCO, a static wavetable (found in the Korg DW and curiously enough in the Yamaha FM synths), a "dynamic" wavetable such as in the Waldorf synths, and a sample-playback "oscillator" - which is not really an oscillator in the classical sense as it can play back an attack once and then loop a certain portion; while a "static" wavetable just loops a portion and that's it. The Micro-X has the Triton Le/TR based engine, which plays back samples, and them's the breaks. So, it's "real" in the sense that it's indeed a part that generates sound, but it can't be compared to a conventional oscillator as you find 'm in (virtual) analogs.

On the Micro-X?

There are tricks to work around it, from crossfading from a 50% pulse wave to a 20% pulse wave, or obscure mathematical stuff like you can do on the MC-505 (and related Roland synths which support "structures").

I do have to say that I'm liking this thing a little less now that I've had it home for a few days. It really does offer a lot for such a small package but I'm just not sure I like the sounds that much. The percussive & organ sounds are good but the pianos are so-so and the brass & strings are very plastic. The synth sounds are excellent for what they are but I'm starting to think they're just a little too polished for my style.

I've come up with some decent patches on my own but without the usual VA tricks available you have to lean on the effects a lot more to get somewhere. I've still got a few weeks to return it so I'll keep exploring but I might just be one of those people that doesn't like the Korg sound. The Radias went back eventually for the same reason.

I just read through the manual. It must have been detune that I was playing with and not pulse width. Apparently you can detune the two oscilators, each oscilator can be made up of two multisamples each, making it a 4 "voice" or layer rompler, which seems to be the norm. You can also set a crossfade sort of curve based on velocity between the two multisamples in one oscilator.

Thank you for your replies, now I am really working on this little monster

Well some ppl said this is good for electronic music but some said this is a powerful simulator for all kinds of musical instrument... It doesn't matter, as long as you can create some great music from it.

I will keep learning and make some songs.