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Korg MICROKORGuXL+ Mini Keyboard Analog SynthesizerKey Features 37 Velocity Sensitive Mini Keys 16 Channel Vocoder 8 Voice Polyphony (4 Voice with Vocoder) 2 Part Multi Timbral Gooseneck Microphone Effects Arpeggiator 128 Onboard Sounds MIDI I O Adapter or Battery Powered The MicroKorg XL+ from Korg is a synthesizer vocoder housed in a compact but rugged enclosure and features thirty seven, velocity sensitive "Natural Touch" mini keys. Combining analog modeling with a vocoder provides the user with a
Key Features
- 37 Velocity Sensitive Mini Keys
- 16 Channel Vocoder
- 8 Voice Polyphony (4 Voice with Vocoder)
- 2-Part Multi-Timbral
- Gooseneck Microphone
- Effects
- Arpeggiator
- 128 Onboard Sounds
- MIDI I/O
- Adapter or Battery Powered
The MicroKorg XL+ from Korg is a synthesizer/vocoder housed in a compact but rugged enclosure and features thirty-seven, velocity sensitive "Natural Touch" mini-keys. Combining analog modeling with a vocoder provides the user with a wide range of styles and sounds. Initially featuring 128 programs, the sound banks can be further expanded using the downloadable and free editor software.
For band use the keyboard includes the piano sound from Korg's SGproX classic stage piano, as well as its hard-edged, grand-type electric piano. Other sounds include the M1 and the VOX organ sounds, vintage tape-type string and flute machines, and more. All of the sounds can be played full-range either by using the onboard octave switch, or by connecting a MIDI-capable, full-sized keyboard.
A sound selector allows for choosing sounds using two large dials, "music genre" and "instrument category." This arrangement is further enhanced by letting the user leave one of the dials fixed and use the other to make program changes during a song (music genre fixed), or use it to select vocoder variations (instrument category fixed).
The MMT (Multiple Modeling Technology) engine provides two oscillators for sound generation. Oscillator 1 features seven oscillator algorithms including formant waveforms such as human voice, and PCM/DWGS waveforms for vintage keyboard and strings. It also allows for the use of techniques such as cross modulation, unison, and VPM (Variable Phase Modulation). And by taking advantage of modulation (sync or ring) with Oscillator 2, it's easy to create complex sounds.
The vocoder consists of a 16-band filter bank that simulates the sounds of the past, while also allowing for filter frequency shifting (Format Shift), or adjusting the level and pan of each band to dramatically change the overall character of a sound. A gooseneck microphone is included. Two master effects utilize the effect engine from the company's Kaoss Pad series, with a total of seventeen types including delay and echo, a ring modulator and grain shifter. Time based effects can be synchronized to MIDI clock.
- Vintage sounds, including the Korg SGproX piano, M1 and VOX organs, and "Tape" instruments
- Program genre selector allows for choosing sounds using two large dials marked "music genre" and "instrument category"
- Dial usage can be set to make one dial fixed, while using the other to make program changes during a song (music genre fixed), or to select vocoder variations (instrument category fixed)
- 128 onboard sounds, plus 640 additional sounds included with the downloadable editor/librarian software for Mac and Windows
- Features MMT, Korg's analog modeling technology
- Vocoder with gooseneck microphone
- Two master effects utilize the Kaoss effects engine with a total of seventeen effect types including delay and echo as well as ring modulator and grain shifter
- Effects such as delay can be synchronized to MIDI clock to provide a wide range of time-based effects during a live performance
- "Natural Touch" mini-keyboard, designed with an emphasis on playability
- The proportion of the waterfall-type keys has been adjusted to make chords easier to play, with the touch refined for greater ease when playing rapid phrases or a glissando
- Battery powered operation is supported for increased portability
- Connecting the keyboard to a computer via USB allows for using the downloadable editor/librarian software for easy parameter editing and access to additional sounds
Korg MicroKorg XL+ Specs
| Synthesis Method | MMT (Multiple Modeling Technology) 2 oscillators + noise generator structure |
| Keyboard | 37 velocity sensitive keys ("Natural Touch" mini-keyboard) |
| Polyphony | 8 voice maximum (4 voices when using Vocoder) |
| Multitimbral | 2-part when using Layer, Split, or Multi modes |
| Programs | 128 (A/B banks x 8 genres x 8 category) |
| Oscillators | Oscillator 1 Waveform - 8 types (Sawtooth, Pulse, Triangle, Sine, Formant, Noise, DWGS, Audio In) Modulation - Waveform, Cross, Unison, VPM Oscillator 2 Waveform - 4 types (Sawtooth, Pulse, Triangle, Sine) Modulation - Ring, Sync, Ring+Sync Waveshape Type - Drive, Decimator, HardClip, OctSaw, MultiTri, MultiSin, SubOSCSaw, SubOSCSqu, SubOSCTri, SubOSCSin, LevelBoost, |
| Filters | Multimode Filters Filter 1 -24 dB/octave low-pass -12 dB/octave low-pass -12 dB/octave band-pass -12 dB/octave high-pass Thru Filter 2 Low-pass, high-pass, band-pass (switchable) |
| Effects | Timber 2-band EQ Master Effects 2 units, 17 effect algorithms |
| Vocoder | 16-channel with formant shift and formant hold and adjustable level and pan for each channel |
| Arpeggiator | 6 types (Up, Down, Alt1, Alt2, Random, Trigger, Individual step on/off) |
| Controllers | Pitch Bend wheel Modulation wheel |
| Inputs | 1 x XLR Microphone, balanced (top panel) 1 x 1/4" TS phone, unbalanced with mic/line switch (rear panel) |
| Outputs | 2 x 1/4" TS phone L/MONO, R (unbalanced) |
| Headphones | 1 x 1/4" TRS phone |
| Other Connectors | 2 x 5-pin DIN MIDI I/O 1 x USB Type B |
| Display | Custom LCD |
| Power Requirements | 9V DC external power supply (included) 6 x AA batteries (optional) |
| Battery Life | Approximately 4 hours with alkaline batteries |
| System Requirements | For Librarian/Editor Software Mac Intel or PowerPC processor OS X version 10.5 or later (Intel only) Available USB port PC Computer that satisfies the following operating system requirements Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Vista SP2 (32- and 64-bit), Windows 7 SP1 (32- and 64-bit) Available USB port |
| Dimensions | 21.9 x 9.1 x 2.9" (556 x 231 x 73 mm) |
| Weight | 4.4 lb (2 kg) without batteries and microphone |
Packaging Info
| Package Weight | 7.05 lb |
| Box Dimensions (LxWxH) | 25.2 x 14.8 x 10.2" |
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★★★★★ 5
A letter of Gratitude to Irv Yalom for Creatures of a Day.
Format: Hardcover
Dear Irv Yalom,
This letter is a declaration of gratitude for your newly published book, Creatures of a Day, and the artful legacy you’ve bestowed upon the field of psychotherapy. In the era of fast technology and mass production, your attention to relationship and the handcrafted nature of therapy is a life line. In all of your 50 years as a psychotherapist, you didn’t sell out for clinical blueprints and formulaic approaches. Instead, you opted to stay true to what you knew--the here and now, the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and your own internal thoughts and experiences as essential elements for your work with clients. Creatures of a Day waves a flag and asks us to take notice. It invites us back into the mystery of our work and reminds us to celebrate our humanness. Your masterful story telling allows us to see you and your clients in action, mistakes and vulnerabilities included, and shares pivotal moments that will provoke thoughtful learning for generations of therapists. So thank you for this.
You show us your mistakes
You see, your books (especially Love’s Executioner and Creatures of a Day) let us into your thoughts and experiences. We get to hear you talk to yourself and occasionally grapple with doubt. We get to know your own vulnerabilities and how they influence your therapeutic relationships. This is such a rare view. And I am hungry for it. There are too few books, too few videos, and fewer workshops or trainings that offer this kind of perspective for therapists. We don’t get to see masters make mistakes. We don’t get to hear supervisors or consultants narrate their doubts. So, I consider your book an invitation to write about my own similar encounters in my work. And to continue to make this kind of conversation central to my trainings and retreats for therapists. Thank you for the inspiration and the permission.
You offer central themes and an individualized perspective
As a collection of psychotherapy tales, I think of Creatures of a Day as a series. Like a series of paintings that are created around central themes, your tales invite us to look at the existential themes of aging, death, and connectedness. And, just like a painting series, each reader will take with them a message that is individualized and of unique importance to him/her. In this way, you are truly exhibiting your art as a writer and a psychotherapist. In Creatures of a Day, two patients read the same book and take from it a very different, but beautifully applicable, message. A nurse perceives the angry words she hissed to her dying patient completely opposite of the way in which they were received by the woman she was treating. And a case that you filed away as a blunder turns out to have been a life changer that is only revealed about a decade or so later. This is a reminder to me that while we can’t predict how our art is received, we can in fact commit to creating and collaborating in the very best way we can.
You invite humanness and the art of relationship
I’d like to let you know that in addition to the invitation to write about my experience as a therapist, I welcome your permission to be human with my clients. And, with that comes a renewed dedication to knowing and experiencing what being human is for me. This means deepening my relationship with my art, continuing my work in therapy, and showing up with the same honesty and openness that you let us see in your book.
You make risk a good thing
You ask your patients to risk and use this in as a very important subject during the course of treatment. You take several risks in Creatures of a Day, and show us that risks are a vital part of being an authentic and real therapist. You show us that in your work you are just being honest and attending to your experience and the client’s experience. In fact it is more risky to be untruthful or hide than it is to show up and attend the the relationship.
You inspire me
I won’t stop practicing. You inspire me to continue to write about my own work. And in my own small way, carry your legacy forward.
Once again, thank you for your guidance, your influence, and your legacy.
Lisa Mitchell, MFT, ATR, LPC
www.innercanvas.com
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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
★★★★★ 5
Short book, big recommendation!
Format: Hardcover
Great book, smooth read that is not overly technical for those who aren't therapists themselves. Examines large existential questions in a digestible format with each chapter being a different real world story. Highly recommend.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Yalom as always, but fizzing out.
Format: Hardcover
When entering the field of psychology, I was first introduced to Yalom. As I look back on my early career, I realize that he has influenced my thinking more than I'd like to admit. His focus on relationships and death anxiety are central in this work, as they were in the past. You get a real sense of how he works and we are invited into the intimate and sacred corners of his office and his mind.
However, his depth - his use of metaphors and his robust explanations are declining. He is still a profound and articulate writer but I have noticed a drop off in his writing that began with the Spinoza Problem and continues here. Ironically, Yalom is fading, his writing abilities are dying - which makes his own wrestling with his mortality even more visceral to me as a reader.
I continue to be thankful for his insight and work.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2015
★★★★★ 5
Another great book by an exceptional writer and story teller.
Format: Hardcover
One day I was strolling through a bookstore and saw a novel by Irvin Yalom titled "Lying on the Couch". The fact that it was written by a psychiatrist with a private practice who was also a professor at Stanford University intrigued me. I wasn't expecting much from the book other than a light read but to my (delightful) surprise, the story had great depth and Dr. Yalom proved to be an excellent writer and story teller. So much so, that I have since read every book he's written. You don't have to be a student of therapy or a therapist to appreciate this book or any other by Dr. Yalom. His writing speaks to everyone and leaves everyone with a gift of personal insight. There are many good writers but only a few great ones. Dr. Yalom is among the greats. He is wise, humble, and deeply honest about his own struggles with the big questions in life. If you haven't met Dr. Yalom, I urge you to read any one of his books. You won't be disappointed!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2015
★★★★★ 5
Don't miss out!
Format: Kindle
Though I knew of Irvin Yalom's books, I somehow missed reading any of them before, during or after my licensure as a mental health professional. "Creatures of a Day" is my first Yalom book, but with certainty, I can say that it won't be my last. For if his previous books are half as good as this one... they'll all be worth reading.
Creatures of a Day contains ten "portraits" of clients and Yalom's work with them. Portraits is the right word since the descriptions are so vivid and compelling that one might actually feel they're in the room watching Yalom and the clients do the dance of therapy. The topics of death and meaning in life connect the stories as one might expect from a humanist/existentialist therapist. More than one of the stories were sadly sweet and brought tears to my eyes as I read... yet I could not put down the book and read it within just a few sessions.
As a therapist, who also eschews diagnosis and manualized treatments, seeing a master therapist at work was invaluable. And surprisingly, Yalom doesn't gloss over the "mistakes" he makes or focus only on his expertise. This book more than anything shows the power of moments that matter, the healing connection that can happen when one person fully meets another where they're at.
All therapists should read this book, but it shouldn't be limited to professionals. Everyone will relate to these stories and the people they depict so humanly well... Don't miss out on Yalom's work, especially "Creatures of a Day."
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Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2015