It truly is an update to the venerable old Korg Mono/Poly at a fraction of the price. At first I was skeptical of another Behringer clone, but after living with this little monster in my studio for a few weeks I’m really impressed.
BEHRINGER MONOPOLY MOD
Combine these mod wheels with the Effects button and you’ve got a whole lot of real-time performance control for a very expressive instrument.Ĭonclusion. The Bend and MG 1 mod wheels can each be assigned to the VCF, Pitch, VCO 1/Slave VCO sources. It’s one of the features that makes the MonoPoly a wonderfully expressive lead synth. This allows you to alter the sound of your current settings at the press of a button, for extra edginess and rasp. The Effects button doesn’t access your typical reverb and delay audio effects, but rather it gives you instant access to hard sync and FM sound-shaping parameters. But you can also turn MG 2 all the way down so that it’s so slow you can manually cause the arpeggiator to play a different VCO with each note you play on the keyboard – a really neat effect. The Arpeggiator’s speed is determined by Frequency MG 2.
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For example in Unison it acts like a typical arpeggiator, but in Poly mode it cycles through the VCOs. There’s also a nifty onboard Arpeggiator that will produce different effects, depending on the playback mode. There are four distinct ways to take advantage of these independent VCOs: Poly, Unison/Share, Unison (include Detune), and Chord Memory. The ability to set each of the VCOs to its own waveshape and octave opens up a wealth of amazing synthesis possibilities. The filter is self-oscillating – a wicked sounding filter!
BEHRINGER MONOPOLY GENERATOR
There’s Keyboard Tracking and a Filter Envelope Generator intensity control that goes from negative to positive values. It’s a 24dB per octave lowpass filter with Cutoff and Resonance. MG 2 is a Triangle waveshape, MG 1 can be either Triangle, Reverse Sawtooth, Sawtooth, or Pulse (square wave).Īll four VCOs run through the same filter, which is typical paraphonic operation. The PW can be controlled manually with the Width PW knob, and the PWM can be controlled by either the VCF EG, MG 1 or MG 2. Each oscillator features Triangle, Reverse Sawtooth, PWM, or PW waveshapes.
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The MonoPoly is a paraphonic synth with four independent oscillators. Here’s where you need to watch the video so you can take a listen. The main power switch is a rocker type, located on the front panel. There’s a plastic cable catch next to the power port to help secure the cable so it doesn’t yank out in the middle of an excited performance. The MonoPoly is USB Class-Compliant, and it showed right up as a MIDI device on my Mac for full MIDI sequencing control.
BEHRINGER MONOPOLY FULL SIZE
There are also full size MIDI In, Out, and Thru ports, as well as a Type B USB MIDI port. On the back panel we have all the connections you could possibly want: the main mono Output (which has three levels that can be selected on the front panel: High, Low, Off), Headphones, CV In/Out, Trig In/Out, Trigger Polarity switchable between Ground and 15 V, Frequency control of the VCO, Filter control of the VCF, Portamento on/off, and Arpeggiator Sync Input that will respond to 2, 24, and 48 PPQ. I absolutely love this addition to the original design. You can tilt the front panel flat like the original, or at three levels for very comfortable access to its controls, no matter its position in your rig. The knobs and switches on this feel wonderfully solid.