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[kimu]

buy the one that sounds better to you!!
that's really the only way to choose a synth
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[Bassface78]

I have owned both and they are great synths. If the ms20 had an arpeggiator it would be nearly perfect to me/or a sequencer. I think if you want to play some nice sounds asap the minibrute is great. If you want to be able to do more than a few variations of a sound them get the ms20. My minibrute would freeze up when I would run the arpeggiator and the lfo at the same time so I am a little biased. Both are awesome in my book though.

[Redmond Barry]

I agree that is truly a matter of personal taste. I played an MS-20 mini alongside a Minibrute the other day. The Minibrute has tons of functionality but nothing about it's sound excited me. The MS-20 mini on the other hand, I had so much fun with I didn't want to stop. I think it's because the Minibrute has a very clean sound, even when it's screaming. I owned one for a while and ended up returning it. The MS-20 mini has a more rough and noisy sound that just fits with my tastes perfectly. The MS-20's semi-modular setup also fits with both my aesthetics and the way I like to do synthesis. A different person though could claim the exact opposite since the Minibrute's fixed architecture structure can do much of what goes on in the patch pay (not all of course) and faster. The point is you gotta try both and go with what your gut says. Even over build quality etc..

[channel0]

i agree it'sall about personal, but there will be other minibrutes in the months/years to come.
the ms20 goes back to the limitations of the past,
cool sound and the adventure in creating your own new sounds on it

i was choosing between the minibrute, the bass stationII and the ms-20 mini
and I chose by heart for the ms20.
never looked back
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Gear : Korg M-50; Kaossilator2, Kaossilator Pro+; The Monotron bros.; MS-20 mini,MS-20 Kit, MS-20M; Monotribe; Microkey61; the Volca bros; SQ-1.
non-korg : Novation Bass Station 2, Novation Ultranova, MFB Dominion 1
Controllers: Arturia Analog Exp the Laboratory61, Arturia BeatStep;Keith McMillen Qnexus, Korg NanoKontrol 2.
Tascam US-144 Mk II, Alesis iO4
System : Win 8.1/Ubuntu Linux; i5-3470 quad core cpu@3.2 Ghz; 8Gb Ram
DAW : Presonus Studio One Free, Cubase 5.1

[rbiondi]

We're using a MS-20 mini for some months and very happy with it. We were searching for a compact and flexible analog synth and the options were Arturia Mini Brute, ms-20 mini and even micro brute. The MS-20 was the winner for us. Now we will search for a compact FM/synth string machine. Any suggestion?

[mmarsh]