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Hi everyone!

I got a Sample 2 (which I really enjoy) and I'm looking to fill up a rack of 4. Now it's time for decisions and I seek your wisdom.

If you had to choose three out of all the Volcas (excluding Sample), which would you pick to cover the most ground?

On another note, the Volca Mix looks like a nice tool to manage the whole thing, but is it worth it or should I save this space on the rack for another instrument Volca?

I'm also planning on getting a Minilogue xd soon so that might also play into the equation...

Thanks!

I bought a used Korg Opsix and Korg Minilogue XD from different locations and they both arrived today. Both are desktop models (no keyboards). The Opsix arrived with a power adapter for another piece of gear (but it worked on the Opsix) and the Minilogue XD arrived with no power supply at all, but I found one in the garage.

Both units power up. I can hear audio on both of them if I play the built-in sequencers, or on the Opsix if I switch it into keyboard mode I can trigger sounds that way.

However, I have not been able to get either unit to play anything via MIDI. I've tried both USB MIDI and 5-pin DIN MIDI. I have reset both to the factory settings. I have confirmed that each unit is set to MIDI Channel 1 and I am sending MIDI on Channel 1.

If I swap the MIDI/USB/audio cables with other (Roland) synths in my rig, they play with no problems at all. So my cables and connections are good. It really feels like both synths are broken, but even though they're both used it seems so strange that they would both be broken in the exact same way, right?

So I am wondering- for any of you who have experience with the Opsix or the Minilogue XD, is there any trick to getting them to receive/respond to external MIDI?

EDIT: Two more things.

First: I'm using Cubase Pro 15 and the MIDI Interfaces I've tried are MOTU Midi Express and the MIDI out of my Focusrite 18i20 4th gen. I routinely use both to control other synths. I also tried USB MIDI. I am running Windows 11 and I do NOT have the Korg MIDI drivers installed. (While troubleshooting I read that Korg is urging people not to use them on Win 11. I have never installed them.)

Second: The Minilogue was doing this weird behavior that I don't understand yet, but I wonder if MIDI is sort of working but massively out of sync somehow? Because while I was trying to get the thing to play MIDI from my DAW a couple of times I would start playing a sequence, and hear nothing for maybe 20 seconds- but then the Minilogue would start to play notes that didn't appear to correspond to the MIDI. Certainly not the right timing (it started 20 seconds late after all), but like the note lengths didn't appear to correspond to what was actually playing out of the DAW. I will have to experiment more to see if the notes I hear on the synth have any relation to the sequence I'm playing, but it's almost like the Minilogue was actually playing received MIDI, but it was in super slow motion, as if its MIDI clock was way off?

I just started using reaper to send midi from the daw to my sq-1 sequencer. which in turn plays my Korg MS-20 Mini.

Reaper V7.71 Win64
Windows 11 home

Reaper recognizes the sequencer, with Ctrl and Midi out both set to enable and clock:

reaper midi output

When starting a midi track I can see the instructions go by. The sequencer comes to live, but starts playing its 16 hardware set notes instead of the ones from the midi track.

This is an old problem, I browsed and read a lot, but I can't find a solution for my problem.

Please advice!

Sincerely,

Ton

Hey

I have following problem: yesterday I downloaded some soundpacks by Ian Dixon on my Editor/Librarien and Module. I can choose the Performance on both, but there is no posibility to choose the multisamples from the Performances for themselves. Is this normal? I thought when I load a Performance I can without problem use the multisamples for editing or creating New Performances. The Samples are listed in my editor librarien but not on my Module. I cannot Pick them for creating New stuff. I downloaded the newest Version of the editor/librarien Software and the Module. I tried it with the NCM - RNDIS options. It did not work. Can someone help me please?

I’m new to synths and im looking to buy my first one some time soon and im hesitating between these too, im looking for an analog synth that i can make ambient-ish music and obviously within a decent price range…

i also considered the microkorg but i think like the minilogue more since everything has its own knob.

feel free to correct me or to tell me about other synths if you feel like it though.

I'm specifically referring to full-keyboard microtuning which allows me to play in different musical temperaments. Also would I be able to import .scl or other tuning files (or like MTS dump) for loading custom tunings like you can do on the Minilogue XD?

I haven't been able to find a proper answer to this question, any clarification would be appreciated!

I also want to confirm this for the Korg Modwave and Multi/Poly. Are these synths also microtunable? What about the Opsix?

I know the Minilogue XD can do this natively.

Thanks!

I bought a Minilogue XD that came without the joystick lever part–I've just been using the nub to do pitch bends, but I'm hoping to design and 3D print a replacement part that would be longer and bigger than the stock option, allowing me to do more precise pitch bends (longer lever = more control).

Here's my predicament. I don't want to have to order a replacement joystick just to measure the dimensions of it? Could someone with a Minilogue XD measure the joystick cap? Particularly the inside hole? Would be much appreciated!!! Thanks so much in advance.

Hi, I got a used NTS 1 that was working fine, but then the headphone jack came detached. It looks like it fell off with out a rough break. Does anyone know can I just solder it back on? I am not at all familiar with electronics, but I would love to fix this if possible. I appreciate any and all advice, thanks!

I am currently working on getting the factory sounds back onto an M1 that had a dead battery. I replaced the battery and there were no sounds at all as I expected since the memory got wiped. I don't have a fancy midi adapter only one of the cheap $10 midi adapters off of ebay. I tried using the factory preload library from korgs website and have been able to get one horribly out of tune sounding piano sound to play after transfering the M1preld.syx file I tried messing with the transfer speed/buffer on my laptop, but that did not seem to do anything.

I had read on some forums that using the cheapest midi for sale online could be part of the problem so I have been looking around to see if a slightly more expensive used one would get the job done. I was looking at either a Roland Edirol UM-1 or a roland Edirol UA-25.

I'm not 100% that the cheap adapter is to blame and it could be something to do with my settings in MIDI SysEx transfer utility or Bome SendSX. I have used the cheap ebay adapter in the past to restore the settings to a Roland D-50 and is the reason I have the thing in the first place, but don't mind buying a more expensive one if I need to.

My minilogue’s LFO does not affect anything no matter how high it’s turned up or down. The intensity doesn’t affect anything either. When I am playing a note, and I turn the knobs, the synth makes a weird sound. I’m really hoping it’s not hardware damage, but I got this synth years ago when I was in highschool and didn’t treat it as well as I should’ve then. Any ideas?

I just open-sourced a small Windows app that bridges BLE-MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services loopback, so any DAW (or Chrome Web MIDI site) sees the keyboard as a normal MIDI port.

I built it to scratch my own itch with a Roland FP-90X (which is what I've personally tested), but it's a generic BLE-MIDI client and should work with Korg's BLE-MIDI gear too (microKey Air, nanoKEY/nanoKONTROL Studio, etc.). I'd love to confirm that, so if you have one of those and have been fighting Korg's older WinMM driver on Windows 11, this might be a clean alternative.

It does the BLE side directly (no Korg driver needed) and exposes the keyboard through the WMS loopback. Single ~21 MB exe, no installer, MIT.

Site: https://mayerwin.github.io/Perfect-Bluetooth-MIDI-For-Windows/

Source: https://github.com/mayerwin/Perfect-Bluetooth-MIDI-For-Windows

If you give it a try, an issue or a quick reply with what worked / what didn't would be very helpful. Especially the device pairing flow and channel handling.