Awesome presentation...think you nailed some of the strongest aspects of this wonderful and deep engine (terribly underrated I should add). After many years, still use it in almost every track. Wonderful ambient feel btw...
Woah. I bought one of these years ago but never delved into it: recently I've been looking for a synth that gives that type of 'Phaser' sound that you have at the beginning - I had no idea (until, I saw your demo just now) that it was right under my nose all the time (!). Going to be doing a lot of recording with it this month. Great demo!
Fabulous demo! Top mysterious, ambient and spacey soundscapes. I own the similar Alesis Micron, but haven't been (and probably won't ever be) able to create something like this....
Great stuff as usual here. The bass emulation on this is very convincing and it hits low you can feel it (3osc sound) but many pads seem lifeless without sparkle ( limited frequency response to save CPU?) A good FX outboard is a must have
Hi, years ago i bought one new for under 300 €. The ION-Engine with a 3rd FX-Unit, a Step-Sequencer, 8 voices and also 8 timbres and built like a tank. It sounds so good, but its difficult to use. Still, it's an outstanding synth!
It isn't difficult to use, the x,y,z knobs are easy to assign. Display angle is poorly thought out but it is an excellent and very under-rated synth, far better than the Microkorg, 8- note polyphony too.
@@t55a2 yeah after hearing this I am very disappointed in my Korg r3. It can do a lot of things and edit fairly deep but I don't think could get sounds this crisp and multi textured out my r3.
@@itdies2dayyo I have both - Miniak and Korg R3 (and even have Microkorg XL) - these are different synthesizers and they have their pros and cons, but I am not disappointed with the Korg R3. The synthesis quality of R3 is quite good, it can create "fat" sounds, it has a very rich effects processor, a very good vocoder, it is quite easy to control from the front panel (R3 also has a good editor for PC from Korg), but it has only two-part multitimbrality, and only two 16-step sequencers...
Amazing sound-in such a little box. If you want to hear an Alesis Fusion-here it is, in a mini version. uncanny how much this sounds like my Fusions. but then, it is a Micron under the hood, which in turn is a Fusion/Ion under the hood. if I didn't already have 2 Fusion 8HD's!
Demo is superb! Did you record the parts (layers) into separate tracks and mix them in DAW? Or at every moment of this demo we hear all the sounds coming out of the Miniac at the same time (only transitions from one theme of the demo to another are mixed)?
Such an impressive soundscape. Well done and thanks for sharing.
This is simply amazing, good work!
Excellent patches. Best demo I've seen from this synth by far.
Awesome presentation...think you nailed some of the strongest aspects of this wonderful and deep engine (terribly underrated I should add). After many years, still use it in almost every track.
Wonderful ambient feel btw...
Excellent presentation.
Woah. I bought one of these years ago but never delved into it: recently I've been looking for a synth that gives that type of 'Phaser' sound that you have at the beginning - I had no idea (until, I saw your demo just now) that it was right under my nose all the time (!). Going to be doing a lot of recording with it this month. Great demo!
Please more demos!
wooww muy bueno
Fabulous demo! Top mysterious, ambient and spacey soundscapes. I own the similar Alesis Micron, but haven't been (and probably won't ever be) able to create something like this....
Great stuff as usual here. The bass emulation on this is very convincing and it hits low you can feel it (3osc sound) but many pads seem lifeless without sparkle ( limited frequency response to save CPU?) A good FX outboard is a must have
Very nice Panu, Ion engine in smaller package ;)
Hi, years ago i bought one new for under 300 €. The ION-Engine with a 3rd FX-Unit, a Step-Sequencer, 8 voices and also 8 timbres and built like a tank. It sounds so good, but its difficult to use. Still, it's an outstanding synth!
It isn't difficult to use, the x,y,z knobs are easy to assign. Display angle is poorly thought out but it is an excellent and very under-rated synth, far better than the Microkorg, 8- note polyphony too.
@@t55a2 yeah after hearing this I am very disappointed in my Korg r3. It can do a lot of things and edit fairly deep but I don't think could get sounds this crisp and multi textured out my r3.
@@itdies2dayyo I have both - Miniak and Korg R3 (and even have Microkorg XL) - these are different synthesizers and they have their pros and cons, but I am not disappointed with the Korg R3. The synthesis quality of R3 is quite good, it can create "fat" sounds, it has a very rich effects processor, a very good vocoder, it is quite easy to control from the front panel (R3 also has a good editor for PC from Korg), but it has only two-part multitimbrality, and only two 16-step sequencers...
Amazing sound-in such a little box. If you want to hear an Alesis Fusion-here it is, in a mini version. uncanny how much this sounds like my Fusions. but then, it is a Micron under the hood, which in turn is a Fusion/Ion under the hood. if I didn't already have 2 Fusion 8HD's!
Great vid and great sounds !
Are those all custom patches ?
Just edited presets
Demo is superb! Did you record the parts (layers) into separate tracks and mix them in DAW? Or at every moment of this demo we hear all the sounds coming out of the Miniac at the same time (only transitions from one theme of the demo to another are mixed)?
I played every track separately.
@@PanuMSavolainen Thanks!
Enjoyed that, all miniak ?
All the sounds from Miniak + additional reverb & delay
with enough sauce (fx) this synth can actually sound good...but it isn't easy, a very hard one dimensional plastic sound out of the box
Like every synth
Sorry my hand slipped and hit the thumbs down. Corrected, this is an amazing composition.