I'm well aware that many digital analog hybrids go for around the same price and sound warmer and more "analog", but please also take into account that I don't want to deal with dying internal batteries, dying voice chips, and maintenance bills.

The microkorg has one of the best streamlined editing matrix's I've ever used and in my opinion its only rivaled by the esq-1 and sq-80 in this regard. Sound wise Korg has produced a fun easy to use little synth thats great for both bass and a variety of digital noises; not to mention the inclusion of a great sounding vox. Seriously how many god damn trolls are there on sonicstate, I've yet to read an objective and honest review that spoke negatively of a VA.

i saw metric perform using this keyboard and i know for a fact that other bands like royksopp and the album leaf use it

there are some great sounds and features that you wouldn't expect from a mini keyboard like this

it might be a little bit limited as a primary instrument but as a secondary keyboard it is great

i have had mine for almost 4 years and i still love playing it

Don't buy it

The keys is not a real problem , people complaining for nothing.

The matrix - style editing is pretty common , for these kind of portable synths.

The presets are from nonsense to mediocre.

The amount of feature is really very impressive, it can do FM, sync , vocoder , etc.

The bigest minus for me is is the lack of Timbres and polyphony . At the same price but with no keyboard a Waldorf MicroQ can do 25 polyphony and 16 timbres , MicroKorg can do only 2 timbres and 4 polyphony. Very very low . As a result this synth is a BIG NO for pads and acoustical or complex sounds and sound effects. But in simple sounds it really excels. The sound quality is very good it just does not have the horsepower for an all around synth .

Another big plus is that it can run on batteries and that it is very very light 3Kg. In portability MicroKorg is truely amazing.

Sadly the horsepower is very low , goodbye MicroKorg. I hope the next guy appreciate you more than me.