23 thoughts on “Korg Prologue In-Depth Demo”

  1. > bi-timbral
    just like the king korg? not enough. my jupiter-80 is 4-part multitimbral and sounds way better (from what i´ve known so far).

    1. Your Jupiter-80 is a rompler with the price tag near USD 3000, i.e. twice the price of Prologue. Prologue is a different story. Analog synths never have the same multitimbrality, their advantage is not there. Last thing, I guess there are many people who will generate better sounds with Prologue than you will get with Jupiter-80 (just my personal thought).

      1. Kind of an illogical comparison .. I had a Jupiter 8 for ten years and now have a Jupiter 80. The 80 will do choirs, pianos, violins, horns, sampled stuff I could never do with my 8. Apples vs Oranges. Also the Jupiter 80 was retailing for 2400.00 before Roland discontinued it .. not 3k.

  3. Solid demos! I’ve owned more Korgs than anything else, so I’m a long-time loyalist. The thing that’s missing, for me, is a synth between this one and a Kronos. I like my softsynths and I don’t need organ modeling in hardware, but there kind of needs to be a synth between a full Kronos and a plastic-y Kross. Korg is good at smart left turns. I’ll bet they could take Yamaha’s basic MODX model and come up with a strong Kronos, Jr. I think the Montage gets it right by having only a minimal sequencer for import and playback duties. More than that and you’re in iPad or desktop territory anyway. Gimme a Korg Kali with 8 engines, no seq., a Kaoss pad and purple racing flames on the sides.

    1. They’re not so much demos as instruction videos. Who watches all these videos? I’ll admit to reading more than my fair share of synth manuals, is this the modern day equivalent?

    1. >> The Krome is Korg’s Kronos Jr.

      Sort of, but its more a starter workstation than the half-a-Kronos that would feel like a proper trickle-down. The Krome has a nice engine, but the keys feel like an 80s Casio toy. Ugh. I don’t expect a grand piano action, but I want a little more than something I’d only want to play from a better controller. I understand that there is a lot of money to be made from EDM/avant-garde-minded players who use keys as triggers rather than their main connection with the instrument. I just wish the situation was a smidge better. Its hard to imagine that designers this good can’t make their keys match their sounds. Too bad the world doesn’t revolve around my whims, huh?

  12. The Prologue has some fundamental problems, like the way the digital oscillator aliases horribly if you turn up the phase modulation for example. Then the analogue oscillator tuning problem which is horrible and further accentuated by the fact that the digital oscillator is of course spot on, so the analogue oscillators beat really badly against the digital one at the high frequencies in particular.

  13. Aliasing is like caviar, to the uninspired it is boring nasty fish eggs. To those with finer appreciation, it is a delightful and creative tool to enjoy.

  14. Not even close…..but ok. Agree to disagree. You don’t always want it but it has its uses. Would be nice to be able to turn it on and off.

    For reference, I mostly listen to electronic music from the year range 1979-1994

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