One thing that can be tricky to figure out on a new blog is, well, what to actually blog about! Given there are 1,000s of pieces of Hardware, and Software popping up all over the place. Well, whilst I try to figure that out, here’s one thing I can talk about - my odd little Korg Micro Preset!
At first touch, The Korg Micro Preset synthesizer offers the world a bizarre matrix of pre-set sounds, ranging from 1970’s Dr Who effects, through to rather curious synthesizer noises and acoustic sounds. At its heart, it’s a 32-note monophonic preset synthesizer with 6 push-button presets including voice, synth1, synth2, brass, string, and wood.
On the technical front, it’s single-oscillator design has only rudimentary decay/release envelope controls and no access to the guts of the sound generation stuff. And, no MIDI or other method of external control - of course. Although, the manual does claim the Micro Preset can be used as a guitar-synth!
