Akai MINIAK review

May 2010

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• Bunny
  The Miniak is a Micron the same way a Saab 9-2x is a Subaru WRX. Different skin, exact same internals. Same preset patch names and everything. Not that that's a bad thing, but just FYI.
• perceptual chaos
  nice one!
  
  
• Da71d
  Geared at live use ... agreed .
  However an E-MU XMIDI 1X1 Tab ($30. cable no lup in the line converter )and one of the many free Micron editors available for windows and mac and it's got serious studio power too !
  
  One omission I have to note that I think is a major selling point for this synth ... 16 different filter types including ARP , 303 18db , Jupiter 8 , combs , and SEM emulations to go along with the now obligatory "moog" 24db LP .
  As far as the ION /MIcron / Miniak deal ... who cares if it's the same engine if that engine is good ?
• RupertBrown
  Hey this is GREAT advice using the cable and Micron editor would help the experience big time.
  
  Also there is a good choice of filters the reason they weren't mentioned is I am trying to keep episodes under 10mins at the moment (Main because of attention spans and the 10 min limit on YouTube videos).
  
  And I agree: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
  By any other name would smell as sweet."
  
  Thanks for your input, these are great points!
• AGM
  Micron DNA? It IS a Micron. They refer to it as the Micron in a few typos in the manual. The XR20 is also a re-packaged Alesis drum machine.
• RupertBrown
  Thats what I suspected but didn't know for sure. Thats really funny its printed in the manual though. Thanks for the confirmation!