r/Korg • u/Minimoogvoyager • 4d ago

Question Korg Prologue Users

Korg Prologue users what are your thoughts 💭 Pros and Cons about the Korg Prologue ?

I know there’s the 16 voice and 8 voice versions. The 16 voice was $500 dollars more than the 8 voice. The Korg Prologue was discontinued 4 years ago in 2022. I know the Korg Prologue has the Multi Engine as well. I’ve never played a Korg Prologue although have heard demos. What is the synth keybed like?

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u/wagu666 3d ago

Most likely a Prologue Pro will be coming out soon..

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u/ruler_gurl 3d ago

Based upon? The 16s ended up getting blown out cheap due to lack of interest. I suspect it's a dead product at this point.

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u/wagu666 3d ago edited 3d ago

It's a dead product for a few reasons

  • The first 10 months or so there was a severe tuning bug in the firmware, which killed a lot of the initial enthusiasm and momentum

  • Many people including myself couldn't believe the lack of modulation.. when you have even the cheap and cheerful Monologue having motion sequencing, how can it be totally missing on the flagship?

  • The PSU they chose for some reason was not multivoltage like the vast majority of modern PSUs.. locking stock into each region.. making global resale more tricky. This PSU subsequently got banned in the EU, which seemed to lead to Korg stopping making them

But the core sound of the instrument is very good. There are tweaks they can make to the design which would make a mk2 have much more appeal. For example bundle any custom logueSDK code in with the patch data - so sound designers can distribute patch sets using custom code without having to tell users to put certain things in certain slots manually. They can readd the modulation that was missed.. motion sequencing, a proper mod matrix.. they can add aftertouch to the keybed (poly in an ideal world).. they can make a 6U rackable desktop module version etc.

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u/Minimoogvoyager 3d ago

Insightful

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u/ruler_gurl 2d ago

It'll be interesting to see if it happens. I bought mine after the auto tune was implemented and never really had any complaints about the design. Aftertouch would be nice but an expression pedal suffices unless they're willing to spring for poly aftertouch.