K2, MS-20 clone by Behringer, MK1 - Sexy Synthy Superstar?
- David Seaward
- Oct 23, 2024
- 1 min read
The legendary classic now available for $150ish - is it Super Sexy Synthy Stardom?
If you’re using this properly, you will feel things. The high-pass & low-pass resonant filters awake my senses like none I’ve ever used before.
It's imbued with gratuitous knobbage and a semi-modular panel that begs for experimentation.
The K2 must be played by an external MIDI keyboard/sequencer, but beyond note-playing your hands will be constantly on this thing because bottom-line: sound sculpting is all tactile and no menu-diving.
The sonorous tones emitted are extremely smooth OR devilishly aggressive! Synth reviews always state whether the resonant filter is capable of self-oscillation – the answer here is more than ‘yes’, self-oscillation on the K2 offers myriad variations of resonant scream, well beyond what other analog synths offer. The K2 offers bother the MS-10 MK1 & MS-20 MKII VCF circuitry, a tasty, if the only, superiority it enjoys over Korg’s MS-20 mini (unlike most Behringer reincarnations of vitnage synth classics, the original manufacturer – Korg – also offers a reissue.
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