Akai MINIAK review

May 2010

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Akai MINIAK review

The MINIAK is Akai professionals new virtual analog performance synthesizer. It looks great and has a few tricks up it sleeve but is it a winner?

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  • 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.

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  • RupertBrown

    Thats what I suspected but didn't know for sure. Thats really funny its printed in the manual though. Thanks for the confirmation!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/B5NESHECYBP33HQSPOBPZTCK3M 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 ?

  • perceptual chaos

    nice one!

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Buf

    This Synth caught my Eye at a local music outlet, W/ medium knowledge of Keyboards/effect units ect…This synth is very hands on!! easy to use, Had sounds I Love within minutes….I'm looking forward to buying this unit very soon!!!

  • Samwise

    Would it be possible to do like a synth/vocoder split?

  • Anonymous

    Good question, I THINK so but I dont have it anymore to check for you. If your going to buy I would recomend reading the manual first.