KORG MICRO-PRESET Synthesizer M-500 SP - 1977 | HQ DEMO | Micropreset

The Korg Micro-Preset model M-500 is a simple monophonic synth with a single oscillator architecture which came out 1977. As a preset synth it's not very flexible - but it has a special, typical sound and some weird fx sounds! Also some good basses. The basic sound is very similar to the Minikorg 700.

The Micro-Preset M-500 has presets like flute, recorder, string, brass, human voice, oboe... and so on. It also has the synth registers SYNTHE 1 and SYNTHE 2 - these are synth voices and they are tweakable with ATTACK, DECAY and filter . There are saw and pulse waveforms, white and pink noise.

Unlike other preset synths the Micro-Preset has no aftertouch - but it has an other great feature: the presets are mixable! You can press more than two presets at once and sometimes you will get interesting results, like heard in the video. A bit like Korg Sigma.

The Korg Micro-Preset you see in the video is a later model. They came in a green/black color scheme and had a built in speaker. They were called M-500 SP.

I played the Micro-Preset with a Yamaha Pro R3 reverb and Roland DEP-5 for delay.

OMD used the Korg Micro-Preset a lot.

I also used it a lot, because it was my very first synth in 1990! Back then I wanted a Korg M1 or a Wavestation, but I could not afford something like that. So I bought the "second hand" monophonic M-500, which I got very cheap from a music store (80 D-Marks, = 40 euros), because nobody wanted it... indeed, they were happy to get rid of it. It was the only one "professional" synth (not a Casio or Yamaha toy), that I could afford - and I was happy!

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[yohanbox]

i can't see it at more than 240p :0

[AnalogAudio1]

@yohanbox HQ DEMO means, the audio is high quality, not the video resolution. The sound matters.

[felipesancho]

it's funny that everybody demands and buy synths way more advanced / complicated than this one, but at the end the sound they get is anyway very simple, nothing far from this. i've even heard monster modular synths makin less exciting sounds... 

[konked]

@felipesancho anyone for another vintage PHAT BASS Synth Sound ?

[FlyingHorseKnuckles]

@salvadory I never looked into getting it fixed. I suppose it could be. Mechanically, it is fine.

[salvadory]

@FlyingHorseKnuckles is it possible to repair???? i want to buy one of these but hesitant if they cannot be repaired-

[Ni5ei]

9'20" to 9'30" sounds like the bass preset of the Roland JP4

[FlyingHorseKnuckles]

Another great demo. I also own one of these, but sadly, I cannot get any sound out of it now. It has incredibly juicy bass sounds, and the traveller slider allows you to make wonderful resonant transitions. I remember aiming the speaker out our dorm window one night with "Flight of the Valkrie" booming while I made very lifelike chopper sounds on the Korg! It was "Apocolypse Now" all over Eicher/LaFevre halls at WMU in 1979! I felt like Tomita on this keyboard... ~Jon

[900GTi]

I accually want one

[oryjen1]

Yeah, really fat, plain, strong sounding little beast! 'v'got one, simple, intuitive, allways ready to jam!

[docfraktal]

I don't know this little monster, it's very very excellent, with nice bass sound !!

Great demo!

[dayuhanspace]

analog sounds way more better than

digital synths

[theforbiddentape]

@AnalogAudio1 The resolutions also affect the audio.