The Korg Kronos is a keyboard I’ve not looked at, but again is certainly up there in terms of flexibility and is, again, more of a workstation. This workstation philosophy is actually something Montage steers clear of, but both keyboards do share a similar sound mantra.
The Roland FA-06 was one that I looked at 18 months ago now, and is something of a pinnacle of workstation synthesis. There are, however, still some big digital synths around from the likes of Roland and Korg. 16? One for each part in a performance? That would have been magnificent.Īlternatives As the world goes analogue and retro mad, the number of synths that Montage competes with goes down.
Four is good, eight would have been excellent. You can route via your computer’s USB, but having good, old-fashioned outs to go into a good, old-fashioned mixer (another old-school studio item making a comeback) would have been the icing on the Montage cake. This is a synth with so much power and so much in the way of sonic capabilities, I’d want to let the world know with as many ways to connect to that outside world as possible. The biggest for me is probably a lack of outputs. So are there any drawbacks? Well, yes, but in the grand scheme of things, let’s call them niggles.
So, by now, you’ll be clear that we have a synth that does pretty much everything you’ll want it to and a stack more if you need it. The synth can therefore sync to any band member – yes, even your drummer… These could be drums or vocals which it can then sync to Montage’s internal arpeggiator. Montage’s Envelope Follower analyses the analogue inputs to measure the tempo of an external signal.
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