Collin's Lab: Atari Punk Console. Goodies for KORG monotribe, monotron, from Japanese Overlays to MIDI Mods. Monotribe, in limited silver and gold.
Photo by Marsha Vdovin for CDM. It’s a beautiful thing when music hardware improves with age. And lately, that’s been what’s happening to Korg’s monotribe and monotron. Over the past few months, we’ve seen a major update from Korg for the monotribe that makes its sequencing functions easier and more useful. To save you the trouble of navigating the Korg Japan site – a difficulty for those of us who don’t speak Japanese – here on CDM, we’ve got a number of downloads for saving monotron patches, and the Japan-exclusive overlay for the monotribe update. Korg Monotribe Drum Mods Kit. Din Sync: How to modify a Korg Monotron.
So here's how to modify Korg's new Monotron analog ribbon synthesizer.
Perhaps this is the first document of Monotron mods in Europe since it still hasn't been released here. It's actually a very easy machine to modify because for whatever reason Korg decided to label all the interesting points on the bottom side of the PCB. This may well have been for testing units at the factory/service centers. Collin's Lab: Monotron Hacking. Monotron Hack with a Baby-8 Sequencer - CV and Gate. Casio SK1. * Casper Electronics.