When Korg's US trademark for "monotribe" was discovered in the lead up to Musikmesse, it was pretty obvious that we were about to meet a device that incorporated elements of the wonderful monotron ...

Yesterday, Korg released a firmware update to their ribbon controller synth, the Monotribe. The firmware is just an audio file that needs to be played to the sync input of the box. [gravitronic] ...

This little synthesizer and drum kit is made by Korg and features a tiny keyboard, full sequencer, and analog sound circuitry. Sadly, it doesn’t support MIDI but instead uses something called pulse ...