Check our Korg MS20 Mini review, featuring a deep dive through some of the features, sounds, pros and cons of the Korg MS20 Mini.

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Beginning with a quick overview and discussion about the unit, followed by a quick tour of the main features and a minimal to no talking sound demo of the presets to finish and let you come to your own conclusions!

TIMESTAMPS:

Intro Discussion 0:08
Front Panel & Function Overview 04:35
Sound Demo 12:36
Outro 18:20
 
Writeup & Overview

The KORG MS20 Mini is a faithful recreating of it’s bigger and older ancestor, The Korg MS20 at 86% of the original size!

This Monophonic Unit features a fully Analogue Signal path and a truly ergonomic, tactile and direct synthesizer experience.

Some changes from the original MS20 unit include the changing of the ¼ inch jacks to miniplugs, the size of all the knobs etc and the introduction of a USB input to share MIDI messages back and forth with the unit and a DAW/Computer. (The unit also still features a MIDI IN.)

1. CLASSIC FILTERED SOUND

As demonstrated in the video, the KORG MS20 really can create some wonderful, weird and very unique melodic sounds to suit a myriad of different arrangements and compositions.

A lot of the sound is down to it’s wonderful filters which can be combined to create sounds very quickly and intuitively and trigger inspiration on the fly.

This Sound Design at the source also has the added benefit of Mixing itself as the sound slots in very naturally to even the densest of Mixes!

2. VERSATILE MONOPHONIC ANALOGUE TOOL

The MS20 can stand on its own as a powerful composition tool, as demonstrated in the video, and can also easily play well with others.

It’s great for supporting and reinforcing other instrument lines such as Bass and Melody lines or adding some other crazy filter sweeps or retro SFX in the background of an arrangement.

3. THE BAD?

It was very difficult to find the bad in this synthesizer for this review. For what it does, the price point and the sound, it really is hard to beat!

More than being a bad point, for a lot of users welcome additions would perhaps be a digital patch/memory recall, a revised/simplified patch bay and perhaps some more waveforms or even polyphony. But this is just mainly wishful thinking.

In Conclusion

Using just the front panel, even a beginner can start sculpting unique and powerful sounds and have a ton of fun while doing it!

If you’re looking for a great composition tool, this will be a great addition to your setup.

If you’re looking for a very precise and complex waveform manipulation with various synced modulation options for Film/Media etc, then maybe this isn’t the Synth for you due to its lack of recall and syncing of the front panel and it’s features to a DAW. (Excluding MIDI and CV Note and Gate On/Off Messages.)

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However, I have had this unit for over 5 years and it is most definitely a staple in my studio.

It’s stable and study, has a great sound and due to its relative simplicity, layout and great price point, it’s a no brainer for someone looking to expand their setup. In short, it’s a real unique unit which has proven itself on countless records and generations of music.

I highly recommend and be sure to at least try it out for yourself!

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