Bad Gear - Akai Miniak - The Copy/Paste Synth

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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Akai Miniak. Why is this 2010 virtual analog synth so suspiciously similar to the Alesis Micron and Alesis Ion and still so different. Is it just an Akai MPK 49 with some added synthesizer sounds?

Thanks to Tom from Synth Anatomy for lending me his Miniak:
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:20 Overview Akai Miniak
01:54 User Interface
02:22 Presets
03:03 Oscillators (Waveforms, Waveshaping, Sync, FM, RingMod, Noise)
03:39 Filters
03:51 Envelopes, LFOs, S/H Generator
04:01 Tracking Generator, Mod Matrix
04:17 Drive, FX
04:33 Signal Flow, Mixers, Analog Drift, Unison, Portamento
04:55 More UI, Multitimbrality
05:13 Sequencers, Arpeggiator, Phrase Recorder, Groovebox & Drum Machine Functionality
05:45 What else??? (Rear Panel, Pricing, Thanks)
06:00 Hate
06:28 Jam 1
07:15 Jam 2
08:10 Finale (Drum and Bass)
08:37 Verdict
09:46 Patreon Vocoder Shoutout