[sdiy] KORG to Remake ARP Odyssey

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 18 Feb 2014, at 10:40, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:

> On 2014-02-18 09:39 +0000, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> 
>> It's going to be SMT, but it'd be nice if it was cheap. I
>> doubt it. A new ARP Odyssey? People will pay whatever it
>> costs, and Korg know that.
> 
> That would also apply to the MS-20, wouldn't it ? Would you call
> the MS-20 mini cheap or not cheap ?

I'd say $600-$700 for a single synth voice with no programmability is expensive. Korg's own Volca Keys is only $150. Although it doesn't have patch programs, it can record knob-twiddling into the sequencer, which implies that it's a programmable synth.

I expect new, in-production synths to offer more features and be cheaper than their vintage equivalents. Otherwise, I might as well buy a Jupiter 8. But I won't, because if I had that kind of money, I could buy a Prophet 12 or even a Solaris for less.
By this logic, I can buy a SH101 for about $500-$600, so I'm thinking $300-$500 is the right sort of price for a modern monosynth, depending on features. The Arturia Microbrute is $300, the Basstation II, MiniNova, and Minibrute are all $500, so this doesn't seem unreasonable. There are other examples, I'm sure.

> If only Arturia and Korg made all that stuff rackable ! Well,
> there's always modulars…

Yeah, the Mini MS-20 might have made sense as a rack unit. No-one would miss a mini keyboard.

The Intellijel Atlantis is a nice rack/modular synth voice, but we're back to $600-$700 again…

T.