Bad Gear - Akai Miniak - The Copy/Paste Synth

Become a Patron and get access to music clips from the show, additional content, Bad Gear samples and even more AudioPilz madness Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Akai Miniak. Why is this 2010 virtual analog synth so suspiciously similar to the Alesis Micron and Alesis Ion and still so different. Is it just an Akai MPK 49 with some added synthesizer sounds? Thanks to Tom from Synth Anatomy for lending me his Miniak: Chapters: 00:00 Intro tune 01:20 Overview Akai Miniak 01:54 User Interface 02:22 Presets 03:03 Oscillators (Waveforms, Waveshaping, Sync, FM, RingMod, Noise) 03:39 Filters 03:51 Envelopes, LFOs, S/H Generator 04:01 Tracking Generator, Mod Matrix 04:17 Drive, FX 04:33 Signal Flow, Mixers, Analog Drift, Unison, Portamento 04:55 More UI, Multitimbrality 05:13 Sequencers, Arpeggiator, Phrase Recorder, Groovebox & Drum Machine Functionality 05:45 What else??? (Rear Panel, Pricing, Thanks) 06:00 Hate 06:28 Jam 1 07:15 Jam 2 08:10 Finale (Drum and Bass) 08:37 Verdict 09:46 Patreon Vocoder Shoutout