Not sure if it really came across in this vid but when you get those Traveler sliders just right, these things have ROOM SHAKING BASS the likes of which very few synths classic or modern can match. Seriously!! I have the Mini700FS and an original Mini700S and the bass was always nuts even back in '74. Great vid. Great synth. MIDI, inputs, spring reverb! Worth the price for me...
My first synth was a korg 770. Everything about this is very similar, but what makes it really appealing is the midi input and arp which my old synth does not have. The best it could do was assign LFO to note trigger, but that could not sync to anything else. I have a 90 minute cassette somewhere of my old drones I made using the effect. I have zero need for more synths, but it holds a lot of sentimental value as a classic design I am very familiar with. This newer one seems to have a sharper attack that is found in newer analogs. The old 770 is slightly mushy on the attack. The poly800 is similar. The huge selling point for the 770 was its manual which provided an easy overview on what waves are found in what sounds and how to use the various sections in the synth. I think it may even have had some sample patch settings for common instrument types. If this one has a similar manual it seems like a great starter synth due to the simplicity of its architecture. The price on this is what will make it or break it.
Gotta hand it to Korg, they led the analog charge with the minilogue and led the vintage reissue charge with the ms20 mini. This is even better. Yamaha and Roland should definitely take notes. They probably don't have anyone on payroll right now that can design/build analog circuits, but they can always hire and I'm sure they keep good documentation of the old hardware.
Over 1K and... mini keys with no velocity sensitivity? Um.. No thanks. It seems like much of this sale is about the looks. Will probably satisfy some rich guy's GAS fine. Now, if they made it say 2 octaves but full size keys + velocity sensitivity + Kaoss Pad (or additional spring-less joystick), - that would open up an additional market niche for sure. Portability with next to zero expressiveness (and lack of MIDI OUT to add insult to injury) is a tough sell especially for that price.
Maybe try one, the sound on the 700fs is one of the most organic sounds from a synth I’ve heard in years! The reissue is a ball tearer, nothing to do with looks if your chasing a vibey, alive sounding synth
Cool little box! The mini korg suits well to let this attenuator shine - set the basic tone and make it always sound better by pushing it over the edge.. thanks!
Awesome! Nice review, as always, thank you. Loving this synth, I'll need one, unfortunately. That is written now. Still in my Drumlogue honeymoon phase though. O yeah, and also can't afford a 700Sm currently. I hadn't even heard of it's bigger brother that you mention, the 700Fs. Interesting
If anyone wants to see this synth being played in all of it's beauty, there is an amazing musician named HEYMUN that streams using one of these on Twitch.
Thanks! I use MOscilloscope and MAnalyzer by a company called Melda - they’re free with some limitations in the MFreeFXBundle. Occasionally I’ll use scopes by VCV
Beautiful, if i was a keyboard player i would want one. As the average "sound design" tinkerer of course not. At that price. I mean its a vintage remake, like those 50s guitar amps and guitars.
I have a 700s and 700fs so i love it but we all know this is way to expensive… you can buy a FS for the money atm. Now do a 800dv, I know it s on the list, Korg 😄
i understand that before there were no saving presets on previous versions, but idea to give only 14 slots is really strange nowadays. but maybe i dont understand technical magic beside changing presets which limits it, but if it controlled by computer changing presets why they wouldnt let have some bigger number of them?
Having decided to sell most of my mono synths e.g odyssey because an arp 2600 with sync is more versatile, my prodigy because the Behringer model D is better & more compact, & swapped my pro one for a prophet 5 etc, I have nevertheless always wanted a minikorg 700s & this seems even better.
Honestly, I'd rather there be more feature limited but unique sounding synths on the market. Too many options put me in a state of option paralysis. I'd rather turn it on and know what I can expect to create.
Initially when Korg released the 700FS, the first few production/demo units had the triangle wave wrong and didn’t sound like the original 700S. Glad that when I received my unit, it sounded to like the original 700S
Preach brother preach, they made shit like the moss engine, now they make bullshit like this, like all the other legacy companies... but they don't have to...it's just the hardware market now I guess...you want innovation invest in older hardware while it's still cheap
@@inthefade I respect that. For me, they could've done something around ms-20 voice and filter. Or make it more crazy with FM synthesis. This product seems very boring to me
Cheers Ziv, it is beautiful from outside but to your knowledge is the circuitry inside through hole like the original vintage 700 or is it just surface mount like all Behringers etc ?
I didn't open it... why does it matter BTW? There are plenty of reasons not to like Behringers but I personally don't believe surface mount is one of them. What am I missing? Unless you mean discrete components (not that that's necessarily a recipe for good or bad sound IMHO)
@@loopopwell it matters, because if the premium price is for being authentic only to the look and not the circuitry than what is the point taking this and not a whatever behringer, the vintage gears sound as they sound because of the circuitry not the “ wood sides “ i believe ? There is a video of yourself OBJECTIVELY showing this, when you compared the real Roland tb303 with DinSync and Behringer etc and the only one that sounded like the real 303 was the DinSync that was a replica through-hole while Behringer was yes the same circuitry topology but Sourface Mount Circuitry and was not the same sound but OK for the price. My point is not about personal taste but to understand when they clame to bring back vintage gears and ask premium price, do they mean just the case and wood sides like the original or also the inside circuitry that generates “ the real authenticity “ (SMT is cheap to build tho) 😏
There is literally no reason to push for through-hole components here. If you want vintage NOS parts then forget $1300, that's gonna run into more like $13,000. Those parts are OBSCENELY expensive en masse. SMD components offer literally identical nominal performance and with far higher and precise tolerance.
@@loopop though hole only makes sense for certain parts do to those parts have certain characteristics. Old carbon resistors and certain caps, trouble those parts are not stable and can cause variations. Thus why certain people look for them. By the ways capacitor choice can be a big deal in certain analog gear due to a factor of frequency characteristic, in other words they change depending on what frequency is going though. It is why when you get old audio gear repaired you might want to be sure the use certain right parts. I have seen so many "don't use this place" reviews because someone replaced old caps with new electrolytes
I'll stick to my Hydrasynth and Bass Station 2, thank you. KORG has gone insane with their pricing, resulting in my boycott of this company. Some Moog monosynths are cheaper than this! Crikey.
I always wanted to get the the 700FS but it was too big and expensive for what it is, even though it sounds so good. This is a great solution. I'll get it.
One of my favourites from back in the day. Wish I kept it but it had some issues. Wouldn’t be interested in this mini version. I like the big chunky original.
I love playing piano because I can express myself with how hard I hit the keys, but then I love synthesizers that have no velocity... Each has their place. Before the invention of the piano-foete instruments with keys didn't have velocity and a lot of great classical music was made with them. Harpsichord is the obvious example. It is just a matter of taste and what you want to do with a particular composition.
@@inthefade yes but as long as technology exists (and is not pre 80s period) then why not to have it, its an parameter that can help the sound expression without using other hand
@@waxwaine velocity its a very "handy" expression, is much appropriate to our own human nature, we touch things gently or harder, again that was a basic thing to add, I didn't asked to have a rocket, also as long as you added aftertouch why not also velocity, it is a feature of the keyboard as well, right? imagine velocity for cutoff, or resonance, or to other great analog parameter that it has
It was designed about half a century ago. Quite literally looks nothing like a synth "designed by AI". Also AI designs are stolen directly from things humans have made. Everything AI makes was original something made by people
good job on Korg for this one, looks very well done! super classy
Not sure if it really came across in this vid but when you get those Traveler sliders just right, these things have ROOM SHAKING BASS the likes of which very few synths classic or modern can match. Seriously!! I have the Mini700FS and an original Mini700S and the bass was always nuts even back in '74. Great vid. Great synth. MIDI, inputs, spring reverb! Worth the price for me...
My first synth was a korg 770. Everything about this is very similar, but what makes it really appealing is the midi input and arp which my old synth does not have. The best it could do was assign LFO to note trigger, but that could not sync to anything else. I have a 90 minute cassette somewhere of my old drones I made using the effect.
I have zero need for more synths, but it holds a lot of sentimental value as a classic design I am very familiar with.
This newer one seems to have a sharper attack that is found in newer analogs. The old 770 is slightly mushy on the attack. The poly800 is similar.
The huge selling point for the 770 was its manual which provided an easy overview on what waves are found in what sounds and how to use the various sections in the synth. I think it may even have had some sample patch settings for common instrument types. If this one has a similar manual it seems like a great starter synth due to the simplicity of its architecture.
The price on this is what will make it or break it.
Korg 770 is a far way better synth by itself sounds better and way more possibilities. (Owner of 700, 700s, 770)
Very cool! I can afford one now! Thanks loopop!
Gotta hand it to Korg, they led the analog charge with the minilogue and led the vintage reissue charge with the ms20 mini. This is even better. Yamaha and Roland should definitely take notes. They probably don't have anyone on payroll right now that can design/build analog circuits, but they can always hire and I'm sure they keep good documentation of the old hardware.
To be fair they started the analog reawakening with the Monotribe, and then the Volcas.
@@leftmono1016 Good call, and the Monotrons... Not sure if it's mentioned in the video, but the Volca Bass even had this 700s filter circuit
I didn’t realise it was a baby version until you took it out of the case!
I think the reverb on the smaller one sounds better. Sounds less springy than the big one. In a good way
I love the reverb on the big one, I love that it sounds like an old metallic tank, bringing very interesting and alive tones 🙂
Hopefully this is a sign of things to come. A shift to Korg of old and away from their recent VST with button iterations.
Great for early Human Luegue covers. 😀
Thanks for the great review!
Excellent! Hope it’s priced well
lol it’s not
Over 1K and... mini keys with no velocity sensitivity? Um.. No thanks. It seems like much of this sale is about the looks. Will probably satisfy some rich guy's GAS fine. Now, if they made it say 2 octaves but full size keys + velocity sensitivity + Kaoss Pad (or additional spring-less joystick), - that would open up an additional market niche for sure. Portability with next to zero expressiveness (and lack of MIDI OUT to add insult to injury) is a tough sell especially for that price.
Maybe try one, the sound on the 700fs is one of the most organic sounds from a synth I’ve heard in years! The reissue is a ball tearer, nothing to do with looks if your chasing a vibey, alive sounding synth
Rich like Trent reznor😂😂
£1200.... nostalgia can go fish at that price
Second hand 700 FS for 650 sounds better 😂
I do not know if it sounds any special, but... the aesthetics. I would probably buy this to just put it nicely on the shelf :)
I have the full size one. It sounds fantastic and unlike anything else. It is special for sure.
Cool little box! The mini korg suits well to let this attenuator shine - set the basic tone and make it always sound better by pushing it over the edge.. thanks!
Respect to korg for putting this out
thats actually really pretty. sounds good too
i had one of these sweet babies for awhile. Such a cool little quirky machine. I may need to get my hands on the rerelease!
Great Demo! Cool reissue, hope its priced right
No MIDI out is hard to understand...and no velocity .. ..wtf Korg ?
Whoa!!! So wild!
Sounds very cool.
This will do well, just based on the aesthetics. Sounds nice too
It will sit nicely in front of ARP2600m and them playing together can be phunn!
I have FS reissue. Limited options but what it does it does well. Great video.
Ahh I love that they made it smaller.
Awesome! Nice review, as always, thank you. Loving this synth, I'll need one, unfortunately. That is written now. Still in my Drumlogue honeymoon phase though. O yeah, and also can't afford a 700Sm currently. I hadn't even heard of it's bigger brother that you mention, the 700Fs. Interesting
Great review and sounds !
Where can we get this wonderful PLUS 3 box ?
Thanks.
Thanks! At many retailers or directly from Endorphin.es on their site
Awesome
woow this is soo cool. Would Love to get my Hands on one..
Korg out here chasing ghosts of the past and taking my money
If anyone wants to see this synth being played in all of it's beauty, there is an amazing musician named HEYMUN that streams using one of these on Twitch.
@ 21:00 "does not ticks all the right boxes?" did this become a bad gear video?
FINALLY! A new synth with some character. Most synths play it safe and sound the same, these days. This is a nice bit o spice.
You are being sarcastic, right?
My matriarch can do anything this can do and more
@ yes and no. My moog grandmother does a lot of this.
sounds the same as any analog synth to me
New?!
My minikorg 700 is my favorite synth! It’s alive!!
Retromania! Sounds good though :) thank you lou
Great vid. What is the graphic app on the ipad during the démos ?
Thanks! I use MOscilloscope and MAnalyzer by a company called Melda - they’re free with some limitations in the MFreeFXBundle. Occasionally I’ll use scopes by VCV
I think you’re mistaking the virtual video overlays for a tablet. Those are just screen caps of PC or Mac plugins.
@@AdamsOlympiaindeed they’re not physically there
Uhĥh, this exists??? So dope man
lokks like new on search
Look/sounds fun!
Every day I love my PLUS3 more.
Yesss!
For that price heck no….. sorry korg.
I have an FS and wouldn't trade it for anything. Glad to see them make a mini version. Nothing else sounds like the traveler synths.
Does a remake of an old synth prohibit making some alterations? Like adding velocity, other controls?
I don’t think there are laws about this :) but they added quite a few things as I mention in the video
Beautiful, if i was a keyboard player i would want one. As the average "sound design" tinkerer of course not. At that price. I mean its a vintage remake, like those 50s guitar amps and guitars.
I have a 700s and 700fs so i love it but we all know this is way to expensive… you can buy a FS for the money atm. Now do a 800dv, I know it s on the list, Korg 😄
So id this coming out? when?
Wonder when somene will show how to do warm leatherette
my first was a synth was a ms20
i understand that before there were no saving presets on previous versions, but idea to give only 14 slots is really strange nowadays. but maybe i dont understand technical magic beside changing presets which limits it, but if it controlled by computer changing presets why they wouldnt let have some bigger number of them?
Ready for nammm
It's not for me (especially as I've seen the price) but it looks utterly awesome!
Having decided to sell most of my mono synths e.g odyssey because an arp 2600 with sync is more versatile, my prodigy because the Behringer model D is better & more compact, & swapped my pro one for a prophet 5 etc, I have nevertheless always wanted a minikorg 700s & this seems even better.
Inmho, a Jarreish type of synth
I'm a little surprised they didn't add anything at all from the full-size. I suppose instead they just took away... on size and price.
I would have expected that a mini key version would be less than $1000, like the MS-20.
Still a bit pricey for my taste. I guess I'll wait for the Behr versioon ;)
It has exactly that Korg Sound that I don’t like. Beautiful machine thou.
close to buying a Plus 3.... just don't know how useful it would be with a 4-elektron device setup
It depends which ones - they need a sustain or expression jack (unless you want to risk a feedback loop!)
If it doesn't tick all the boxes, it can't be bad gear!
Was there a price?
We'll know the price when it hits stores (in a month or so) - I think it will be around $1,300 but don't hold me to it...
Man I hate being broke
700
After the rush
@@Tripwelleverday Exactly what I was thinking... no way that I would pay $1300 😮 !!!
I like it. Everybody needs to stop making cool gear. I'm running out of space.
Funky Kraftwerk synth
1:25 i would like korg to send me free synths. i would like that so much that i would say good things about them so they would keep sending.
I didn’t grok that this was a scaled down replica for a minute or two and I was wondering why your hands were so big. Yes, it’s past my bedtime.
Korg Kronos 3 announced!!!!!!!!! Finally bringing it back
Honestly, I'd rather there be more feature limited but unique sounding synths on the market. Too many options put me in a state of option paralysis. I'd rather turn it on and know what I can expect to create.
Initially when Korg released the 700FS, the first few production/demo units had the triangle wave wrong and didn’t sound like the original 700S. Glad that when I received my unit, it sounded to like the original 700S
Well. This is weird and interesting.
What's the price? Can't find any information on a miniKORG 700Sm on Google
Saw it for 1600 euro's
@@robarth-meltedcheesehomest4012 Sounds like the price of a 700FS, surely the Sm is cheaper?
Listed for 1400 at Thomann.
I can’t understand their pricing they are such a big company they could easily compete with Behringer!
No prizes for what Korg is going to showcase at NAMM 2025 then 😜
Premium prize. About 1400 €, already listed at Thomann.
not for me...
Wow they stopped making the full size allready thats a shame 😢, if i was to choose it would be full size
I have the plugin 😂
Seriously, a company like korg can make some interesting things but this is just... why?
Preach brother preach, they made shit like the moss engine, now they make bullshit like this, like all the other legacy companies... but they don't have to...it's just the hardware market now I guess...you want innovation invest in older hardware while it's still cheap
Does it not sound good?
Maybe it isn't to your taste, but to the people that it is, it is basically perfect...
To each their own, right?
@@inthefade I respect that. For me, they could've done something around ms-20 voice and filter. Or make it more crazy with FM synthesis. This product seems very boring to me
Hi.
I'm not sure who this is for, clearly not me. 1200 for a mono with no velocity. Filter sounds nice but not 1200 nice
Cheers Ziv, it is beautiful from outside but to your knowledge is the circuitry inside through hole like the original vintage 700 or is it just surface mount like all Behringers etc ?
I didn't open it... why does it matter BTW? There are plenty of reasons not to like Behringers but I personally don't believe surface mount is one of them. What am I missing? Unless you mean discrete components (not that that's necessarily a recipe for good or bad sound IMHO)
@@loopopwell it matters, because if the premium price is for being authentic only to the look and not the circuitry than what is the point taking this and not a whatever behringer, the vintage gears sound as they sound because of the circuitry not the “ wood sides “ i believe ? There is a video of yourself OBJECTIVELY showing this, when you compared the real Roland tb303 with DinSync and Behringer etc and the only one that sounded like the real 303 was the DinSync that was a replica through-hole while Behringer was yes the same circuitry topology but Sourface Mount Circuitry and was not the same sound but OK for the price.
My point is not about personal taste but to understand when they clame to bring back vintage gears and ask premium price, do they mean just the case and wood sides like the original or also the inside circuitry that generates “ the real authenticity “ (SMT is cheap to build tho) 😏
There is literally no reason to push for through-hole components here. If you want vintage NOS parts then forget $1300, that's gonna run into more like $13,000. Those parts are OBSCENELY expensive en masse.
SMD components offer literally identical nominal performance and with far higher and precise tolerance.
@@loopop though hole only makes sense for certain parts do to those parts have certain characteristics. Old carbon resistors and certain caps, trouble those parts are not stable and can cause variations. Thus why certain people look for them.
By the ways capacitor choice can be a big deal in certain analog gear due to a factor of frequency characteristic, in other words they change depending on what frequency is going though. It is why when you get old audio gear repaired you might want to be sure the use certain right parts. I have seen so many "don't use this place" reviews because someone replaced old caps with new electrolytes
Only 14 memory slots? A hundred bucks per sound😆
wonder if all warm leatherette sounds?
I'll stick to my Hydrasynth and Bass Station 2, thank you. KORG has gone insane with their pricing, resulting in my boycott of this company. Some Moog monosynths are cheaper than this! Crikey.
want to hear something interesting listen to minnova demos compared to any microkorg. I have one and the asm and bass station 2
I always wanted to get the the 700FS but it was too big and expensive for what it is, even though it sounds so good. This is a great solution. I'll get it.
I do like these player/performance centric synths. Some of us don’t need ultimate flexibility.
mmmmmm beefy
It looks good but i can never get used to the small keys.
Omg
Compared to a Minilogue XD it seems over priced and underwhelming.
One of my favourites from back in the day. Wish I kept it but it had some issues. Wouldn’t be interested in this mini version. I like the big chunky original.
no velocity, bye bye
I love playing piano because I can express myself with how hard I hit the keys, but then I love synthesizers that have no velocity...
Each has their place.
Before the invention of the piano-foete instruments with keys didn't have velocity and a lot of great classical music was made with them. Harpsichord is the obvious example.
It is just a matter of taste and what you want to do with a particular composition.
Lol, stick to piano's then 😀
@@inthefade yes but as long as technology exists (and is not pre 80s period) then why not to have it, its an parameter that can help the sound expression without using other hand
@plutostube What about non aftertouch synths? Technology exists, but you don't have aftertouch on every excellent synth put there
@@waxwaine velocity its a very "handy" expression, is much appropriate to our own human nature, we touch things gently or harder, again that was a basic thing to add, I didn't asked to have a rocket, also as long as you added aftertouch why not also velocity, it is a feature of the keyboard as well, right? imagine velocity for cutoff, or resonance, or to other great analog parameter that it has
Being quirky should never come to mind with name convention. Call things by common parlance please Korg.
This looks like it was generated by AI
It’s literally the same design as the original, predating AI
designed in 1973
Since it looks just like the 1974 one, it means Korg had access to AI back then!
It was designed about half a century ago. Quite literally looks nothing like a synth "designed by AI". Also AI designs are stolen directly from things humans have made. Everything AI makes was original something made by people
Yes, It was designed by AL at Korg back in 1974 and now re-released.