Who here owns a MICRON synth?

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'Cause I'm tempted to get one one and take it on tour instead of my old laptop + midi controller. I fudged around with one for 5 minutes at a local music store, messing with the presets, and thought "What a nice sounding, cheesy looking little synth". Needless to say, subsequent reading of reviews re: the Micron tells me that it is an incredibly versatile and deep machine that can do analog and digital sounds better than many synths at twice the size and $$.

With a bit of patch editing, can it do gritty, almost 8-bit sounds? I use Reaktor and the ARP Oddity in my band setup but would rather keep the laptop/controller home and lug around something that's as tiny as the Micron if the sounds are right. Anyone know if this is worth the $400?

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I've heard people sing this synth's praises for awhile now.
Never really did it form me personaly.

There are a ton of threads on the ion and micron here:
http://www.vintagesynth.org/phpBB2/index.php

― ryansf (ryansf), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

I've heard people sing this synth's praises for awhile now.
Never really did it for me personaly.

There are a ton of threads on the ion and micron here:
http://www.vintagesynth.org/phpBB2/index.php

― ryansf (ryansf), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

whoops

― ryansf (ryansf), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

i'm getting an alesis ion this week which has much the same innards as the smaller micron. but i'm not an expert in this kinda stuff - this is my first midi capable digital synth - i've stuck with my 70s arp odyssey instead.

― phil turnbull (philT), Monday, 29 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

I bought a Micron at the beginning of the bunch and am really enjoying it. I haven't gotten that in depth with the features and such due to lack of time, but I can definetely tell you it's worth it. Try ebay to get it $75 cheaper or so. I got mine with an Alesis effects box too for about $50 cheaper than the retail price.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

bunch=month

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

I"d never heard of this.

http://www.alesis.com/products/micron/

The Emergency (Melbourne have on though) looks cool for live.
better than the Korg Micorkorg if the keys are full sized? are they?

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

I've had an Ion, which is like the micron, stripped of its sequencer and echo unit, but in a bigger case, w/loads of knobs & switches on the panel & 2 extra audio outs. The actual synthesis part is identical. I've found it to be one of the most inspiring synthesisers I've ever owned or used, the sound of the thing is kind of immediately appealing, yet the depth of programmability is incredible. It's one of the best musical things I've ever bought.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

500 MIPS (million instructions per second) EQUALS a very powerfull little synth. Not enough knobs and there are issue with the sensivtiety of the know, but apart from that, it is awsome..

The newest OS give the sequencer 16 bar loops, for as many parts as the 8 voice poloyphony alows..

Great sound (there an analod drift function that immitates old analog detuning) the are 3 fat wave shapeable occiators per voice, and the mod matrics has 12 slot and a track generator.. Also S&H can use any of the mod sources as a source.

Keyboard action is pretty good, and the overall built quality is very good.

I love it...

Alsis MICRON is was better sounding and functionally better equipted than the microKORG. (I own one) So thats a fact.. thought the Microkorg is not bad by any means, just not as good as the more up to date Micron.

― radar23, Thursday, 20 October 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

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