Cobalt8 Vs Minilogue Xd

Make a 4 octaves please (4) no 3 .

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My opinioni Is Korg very great sound

Digital synthesis has come a long way since the 80'es Yamahas and Casios. I think both the Korg and the Modal deserve their place in their respective setups. I'm not sure any of them are right for me in person, but I see great quality in both of them.

The modal has a premium fatar keybed. But the Korg ones are ok, even if they’re small.

The Cobalt now has filter drive added and free running oscillators that definitely close the gap.

Minilogue vs Deepmind 6: who wins?

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I play bass guitar and would love to learn keyboards. These two synths are the ones I'm looking mainly at but wanted to ask about the key sizes. Would it be better to go for the full-size keys of the Cobalt8 or if as I am, starting from scratch, would the Xd keys be fine. I mainly want to play bass on the keyboard but be able to create so synthy Bass dance music (just for myself). Hope you understand what I'm trying to say here lol.

Thank you for the compassion and comparisons. You put me over the top for the Cobalt. Especially with the Colbat getting software V2 updates which were massive improvements. I remember voice stealing 30 years ago and am quite surprised people don't mind it, they should be dumbfounded about it. I was considering the XD but the Colbalt fits better for my composing, and I need those extra voices and LFO's. The Cobalt App is also excellent. I am not doing repetitive EDM where voices stealing would get lost in the mass of drums and bass anyway. Thanks again

To my ears Minilogue XD sound much better, but it ruined it with only 4 voice polyphony. :(

Modal filters are crap, Minilog gives you real deep bas.(5.50)

I like the Cobalt 8 but I like the Korg effects... The full size keys on the Cobalt 8 are nice looking to me... Still going to wait and save my money as I have a decent midi controller and lots of soft synths in my DAWs... So going to shop around more going to look at the Argon 8 right now... 🎹☮🔥

I owned a Korg Prologue for a year. It spent more time being broken or out of tune than functional. I will never own a Korg again

thanks for the comparison... what about hardware? i mean.... keys, knobs, weight, etc

Light stick out 😂, best comparison bro 🙏

Two very different beast's in both sound and interface. I bet they compliment each other well. I got a Cobalt8x for the extended keybed and a DM12. The korg mini-keys, short keyboard and limited poly were deal breakers for me. Nice video. Subscribed.🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧

Korg!

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despite the limit of 4 voices, the Minilogue XD excites me much more. The multiFx sounds really good, gives really interesting and always exciting sounds. Thanks for this great comparison

I’m a synth knoob. Thought I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, but it turns out it’s pretty obvious!. I like the Minilogue sound 100 times better.

I want a Monologue XD. Original Monologue, but add the effects, full adsr knobs, and a latch button.

...Minilouge Xd ... why Minikeys and no Aftertouch ... there are people out there who really do 'live music' ... and if you got to play 3 keyboards at quite the same time you are more than thankful for 'aftertouch' when you also have 4 pedals to control things like sustain, expression and more ... just my 2 cents ...

I just sold my xd. It had a few good sounds, but honestly I found running it in monophonic mode was its strength. It's almost a caricature of what is expected of analog synths, and as not much of a keyboard player I even found the polyphony to be limiting. I feel the oscillators are better on the cobalt, even though digital, which I never really expected. I'm noticing as I get older and more experienced, it's the oscillators that make the synth more than the filters(imho).

I need 5 octaves, full size keys, and aftertouch, so for the comparison would have to be with the deepmind. Build quality is important because I gig. Both these synths sound lovely.

To me the Minilogue XD is korgs worst sounding analog synth, it´s sounds flat and digital. Their Radius or a Microkorg XL sounds A LOT better and they are 100% digital. common Korg you could do better. I bought the Uno Pro and it kicks ass :-) Just my opinion!

A wise meme once said “why not both?”

Really nice comparison! I own the Cobalt8 and dig it as my poly synth! And although it’s sounds great it’s just not quite as fat as my Arp Odyssey but honestly Cobalt8 does enough tricks to make it a welcome addition to any synth arsenal

The Cobalt to me sounds more controlled and compressed. The Minilogue is more of a raw synth. Both are great, hard to pick just one.

Ever poly-chained the Cobalt?

Don’t like the blue one. The black ones tone has edge and bite. The cobalt is just ………….. to niiice.

If the XD had 8 voices or the Prologue had the motion sequencer, they’d be the 2 best synths to come out in a very long time. They’re still very close to it as they are.

So, I went and let this video running in the background, in a minimised window, while I was at work and only switched back to look anytime a sound grabbed me by the ears... and time and time again it was the XD! That came as a surprise, since what interested me originally was the Cobalt 8. Maybe it was the preset quality, maybe it was pure chance... but it looks like my ears pretty much were telling me something!

I'm deciding between buying a minilogue XD and a Prologue 8, I love the minilogue but I have an issue with there only being 4 voices.
I'm torn because i'm sure i'm going to delve deeper into synths overtime, so i'd much rather spend more to get more features/a better synth overall.
Does anyone have any opinion on whether the prologue is worth buying it over the XD? Thanks a lot!

Xd all day every day.

I owned the Minilogue XD briefly (during a particularly nasty bout of GAS) and it was excellent but something just didn't click with me for some reason. Sold it and went 100% synth free for a period and picked up the Uno Synth Pro Desktop a few weeks ago and found the Cobalt 8M for an absolute bargain on eBay (new) so was kind of hard to turn it down. It arrives tomorrow. Can't wait to see what I can do with that and the Uno Pro. Best of both worlds I think 😎. Nice overview, thanks!

✅ Cobalt vs Opsix? Which is more... Cyberpunk? 😳

WHOA this is the first time I've seen YOU on video! lol

Starsky, do you like or have played the Access Virus TI2? Btw, I like this Cobolt. It's like a Porsche looking synth. Sexy

Thanks for the Video! Nice Sounds and Synths 🎹🎼

Hello ;) @ All. First, my English is not the Best, sorry for that. I am Hardware Newbee for Synth. I own a Wavestate, but i cant handle it so good. I love the Sound from Cobalt8, Argon8 and Minilogue XD. Is it possible, to make Sounds with the Wavestate like the Cobalt8 when i learn so handle the Wavestate? I have 2 Weeks to get my Money back for Wavestate. Should i stay with the Wavestate or should i buy another? I make Dark Ambient Minimal Expermantal Music. My Setup: Microfreak, Skulpt, MC-707, TR-8s and NI S61 Mk1.

I have nobody i can ask in my Life about Synths. No Musicstore in Range.

Greetz and stay Healthy 🎼🎹👍

P.s. My Setup i buy in the last 2 Weeks. Only with the Wavestate my Brain burning^^

Now my GAS got even worse. Thanks for the video!

I think pretty much two off the best synthesizers available for this price.. !

Hello from Tallinn. I'm not very good at English, but I ask you to help me with the choice of the "first" instrument. A few months later, I return to synthesis again. I have an experience of using such synthesizers as monologue, jd-xi, but cobalt 8 and minilogue xd are new experiences for me, and I cannot choose my first instrument. How much harder it is to program cobalt 8 and use it from minilogue. thank you

Similar sounding but the Korg has the VCO's which sound so present and punchy. I have the Korgs XD's polychained for 8VCO's. Unbeatable in that mode. However both Cobalt the Korg XD's are probably good to have. Small, compact and sound great. May need to pick up the Cobalt 8m to compliment.

I hated the xd bought the cobalt just now

I demoed the XD, the Wavestate and the Opsix. To my ears, the XD is sounds the better. I still like the XDsound over the Cobalt's, which is better than the Opsix.
The after sound quality, the Wavestate offers endless possibilities and the Opsix, just sounds thin to me.
I only heard the Cobalt in this comparison, though.
I bought the XD and the Wavestate.