Audio and Video Illusion called the McGurk Effect
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It is true, music is best heard when your eyes are closed or if you can get really really close to the stage performer.
Everyone knows this because visual cues can at time be distracting. …

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Korg Monotron vs Korg MS-20
August 13, 2010 – 10:08 am | 2 Comments
Korg Monotron vs Korg MS-20

The Korg MS-20 is one of the more coveted vintage synths these days, and as such they fetch some pretty high prices. People like them not only because of their patchability and knob-laden instant-gratification …

Korg Monotron softsynth that you can put on your website
July 12, 2010 – 1:49 pm | 9 Comments
Korg Monotron softsynth that you can put on your website

OK, by now everyone must think I have a Korg Monotron fetish, but I guess you’d be right judging by all my posts about it.
In case you simply can’t afford to shell out the …

Korg Monotron contest winners
July 11, 2010 – 7:27 pm | 3 Comments
Korg Monotron contest winners

Two months ago, we decided to celebrate our birthday by giving away a free Korg Monotron to one lucky SynthGear Reader. For the contest, we asked for ideas for the site, logo ideas, products …

Korg Monotron Wii Nunchuck hack
May 19, 2010 – 10:49 am | One Comment
Korg Monotron Wii Nunchuck hack

We’re huge fans of the Korg Monotron here at Synthgear, and gadgeteers Denkitribe have hacked one to respond to a Wii Nunchuck.

The Nunchuck controller is rigged up to the Monotron using the WiiChuck adapter, which …

Korg Monotron Demo
April 29, 2010 – 5:19 pm | 3 Comments
Korg Monotron Demo

A few weeks ago, we reported on the new Korg Monotron synthesizer, a $67 synth from Korg with a touch-sensitive keyboard. The battery-powered synth is a full-featured analogue synth, with VCO, LFO and VCF …

KORG Monotron
March 24, 2010 – 4:02 pm | One Comment
KORG Monotron

I’ve seen a lot of boutique makers with low-cost synths and DIY kits for synths, but I haven’t seen a major manufacturer some out with something like this in a long time:

KORG showed off their …