Comments on: Akai MINIAK review

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:34:00 +0000

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.

By: Samwise

Samwise — Sat, 07 May 2011 10:41:00 +0000

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

By: Buf

Buf — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:45:50 +0000

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!!!

By: Bunny

Bunny — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:56:42 +0000

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.

By: RupertBrown

RupertBrown — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:16:28 +0000

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!

By: perceptual chaos

perceptual chaos — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:31:44 +0000

nice one!

By: Da71d

Da71d — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:36:08 +0000

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 ?

By: RupertBrown

RupertBrown — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:55:47 +0000

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

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By: AGM

AGM — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:35:28 +0000

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.