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.

  • MS

    You can even load micron or Ion program patches!  This is an awesome synth when coupled with an MAudio Uno and Hypersynth editor!  You can really get close to many analog synths due to the modulation matrix and filters.  Vocoder is ehh, though.

  • Ben Zimmerman

    The XR20 is more like a minimal RS7000 to me. I love the blue lights.