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Korg Monotron

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These look like fun and quite cheap. Potential xmas present for myself.

ANyone have one ?

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I have one. I probably haven't put it to real use but it's fun to mess around with. It gets old fast though, or at least it did for me
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its like a 21st century stylophone, pretty sweet. what do they go for? they look fun and do they have any output ports?
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They have an mp3 in and you can use it as a filter for music. Also headphone out
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also watching that reminds me why most house tunes are in the key of C
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robroe wrote:I dont need a capo. I have the other chords in my tonefingers
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Post by Justin J »

can't wait to see kids playing these at shows.
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Post by benecol »

I've got one, and it's great. Also, you can run a guitar through one for filtery fun. Although I have never done this because I keep forgetting to get the right cable.
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Post by 71Smallbox »

the Korg Monotribe looks kool too.
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Post by GreenKnee »

These are awesome! Hook it up to a loop pedal and you're away!
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Post by Doog »

The fact you can effect your guitar with it makes it doubly cool:

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Might actually get one of these, the ability to mount it to your guitar to allow for a quick synth flourish amidst rockin' is pretty appealing.
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I want to get one of these, patch it between the mouthpiece and speaker of a megaphone, mount the whole thing to a snowmobile helmet and go "busking" with it.
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Just bought one of these new for £19...19 quid for an analog synth this really is tomorrows world.
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Post by dezb1 »

Got mine a few days ago and it's a lot of fun, I put my guitar and my stylophone through the filter and it's champion... planning on doing a tune using only the monotron / stylophone to see how much mileage I can get out of them...
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Post by ekwatts »

How hard would it be to convert the filter into a guitar pedal?
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ekwatts wrote:How hard would it be to convert the filter into a guitar pedal?
Tangentially related, Frostwave have already done this. It's discontinued, probably expensive, etc.

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Would you want a rocker pedal to control the sweep or anything? If not, perhaps just rehousing the thing and wiring up some 1/4" jacks would be best.