KORG MICROXLPLUS MICROKORGXL WITH EXPANDED PCM

KORG MICROXLPLUS MICROKORGXL WITH EXPANDED PCM

The MicroKorg XL+ made by Korg is a professionally designed synthesizer/vocoder enclosed in a compact but rugged enclosure housing and comes featuring a thirty-seven, velocity sensitive "Natural Touch" mini-keys. It is built for combining analog modeling that comes along with a vocoder for providing the user with a wide range of styles and sounds. Initially featuring 128 programs, the sound banks are possible to be further expanded with the use of the downloadable and free editor software.

For band use the keyboard comes including the piano sound from Korg's SGproX classic stage piano, as well as its hard-edged, grand-type electric piano. Other sounds including the M1 and the VOX organ sounds, vintage tape-type string and flute machines, and more. All of the sounds are possible to be played full-range either by using the onboard octave switch, or by connecting a MIDI-capable, full-sized keyboard.

A sound selector is built for allowing the choosing sounds with the use of two large dials, "music genre" and "instrument category." This arrangement is further enhanced by letting the user leave one of the dials fixed and use the other for making the program changes during a song (music genre fixed), or use it for selecting vocoder variations (instrument category fixed).

The MMT (Multiple Modeling Technology) engine is created for providing two oscillators for sound generation. Oscillator 1 features seven oscillator algorithms including formant waveforms such as human voice, and PCM/DWGS waveforms for vintage keyboard and strings. It also allows for the use of techniques such as cross modulation, unison, and VPM (Variable Phase Modulation). And by taking advantage of modulation (sync or ring) with Oscillator 2, it's easy to create complex sounds.

The vocoder comes consisting of a 16-band filter bank that is simulating the sounds of the past, and also allowing for filter frequency shifting (Format Shift) at the same time, or adjusting the level and pan of each band to dramatically change the overall character of a sound. A gooseneck microphone is included. Two master effects utilize the effect engine from the company's Kaoss Pad series, with a total of seventeen types including delay and echo, a ring modulator and grain shifter. Time based effects can be synchronized to MIDI clock.