The Korg Monologue is a monophonic analog synthesizer from Korg . Engineered in collaboration with electronic music artist Richard D. James ( Aphex Twin ), it was released in January 2017 and has two VCOs , 25 keys, and a sequencer.
11-470: The Monologue was designed by Korg's then Chief Engineer of Analog Synthesizers, Tatsuya Takahashi , his last design before switching to another position within the company. It is a trimmed-down, single-voice version of the Korg Minilogue with various characteristics of its own, such as the addition of microtuning, a more aggressive sound due to an added drive knob, fuller low-end frequencies due to
22-478: A Korg35 MS-20 style filter chip, and an E-E keyboard to make transposition easier for guitarists and bassists. The Korg Monologue was the last Korg synthesizer that Tatsuya Takahashi worked on directly. He later went on to be an advisor for Korg and currently holds a full-time position at Yadastar GmbH . According to Richard D. James ( Aphex Twin ), the Korg Monologue is as of 2017 the only synthesizer on
33-494: A master's degree in electrical and information sciences from the University of Cambridge . To obtain the degree, Takahashi completed a four-year-long course that culminated in a project on "the distortion behaviour of transistor differential pairs". A year after leaving university, Takahashi contacted Korg for a job and was granted an interview. He brought one of his inventions—a synthesiser inspired by Christian Marclay —to
44-703: The Minilogue and Monotron , as well as the Volca series. After leaving Korg, Takahashi worked with Red Bull Music Academy on several projects before returning to lead Korg's German R&D branch, Korg Berlin. Takahashi was born in Japan, near Tokyo, and grew up in London. He began soldering at the age of 11, and his first synthesiser project was a square wave oscillator . During his time in secondary school, Takahashi taught himself electrical engineering. He holds
55-422: The company, but move from Tokyo to Cologne. Takahashi collaborated with Ryoji Ikeda in 2017 for his project, A [For 100 Cars] . For this project, Takahashi created 100 synthesisers designed to output sine waves at different frequencies associated with the musical note A . In 2018, Takahashi worked with Red Bull Music Academy to create a video game based around synthesisers, named Tats . The game gives
66-552: The instrument's presets, sounds and scales. This article relating to electronic musical instruments is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tatsuya Takahashi (engineer) Tatsuya Takahashi (born 1983 or 1984) is a Japanese engineer and synthesiser designer. Born in Japan, he studied at the University of Cambridge before joining the Japanese music technology company, Korg . Takahashi has produced several synthesisers with Korg, including
77-645: The interview and was offered a position at the company. Takahashi worked at Korg from 2006 to 2014 and eventually became the company's chief engineer. As Korg's chief engineer, Takahashi was responsible for the creation of the Minilogue , Monologue , Monotribe and Volca synthesisers, as well the reissue of the ARP Odyssey and the MS-20 Mini. On 16 February 2017, Takahashi announced that he would be leaving his job as Korg's chief engineer. Using Facebook, he stated that he would remain in an advisory role to
88-609: The list compared Takahashi to the likes of Robert Moog and Don Buchla , who were early pioneers of the synthesiser. Takahashi is a proponent of what he calls the "democratisation of synthesis". He believes that analogue synthesisers should be available to the general public, not just musicians or engineers. This is reflected in the affordable price and mass-production of the analogue synthesisers he produced at Korg. This philosophy has been replicated by other synthesiser manufacturers, such as Roland and Yamaha . A (For 100 Cars) Too Many Requests If you report this error to
99-400: The market to have full microtuning editing. In his interview of Tatsuya Takahashi for Warp Records, Takahashi commented: "It was completely because of you that we included microtuning. If you hadn't insisted on it, I definitely wouldn't have discovered how powerful it was." Takahashi originally felt that microtuning was a "really niche thing" that would not be needed in a mass market synth, but
110-497: The player a minute to replicate a sound played using an online synthesiser. Takahashi returned to work for Korg in 2019, when he joined the company's newly formed German branch. He serves as the CEO of Korg Berlin, which is focused on research and development . In 2016, Reverb.com put Takahashi on a list of three people they believed are "modern gear visionaries". Alongside Gerhard Behles of Ableton and Cliff Chase of Fractal Audio,
121-521: Was soon convinced. "If you try shifting the tuning while running a sequence (in a monophonic synthesizer), you can hear that it gives it another dimension even if it's subtle. To me, it feels like casting light on a rough surface and seeing different patterns as you move the light." To make Monologue more accessible, the keyboard was built to cover the E–E range of notes, like a guitar or bass. Korg worked with Richard D. James as an artist advisor to collaborate on
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