This page is read from MIDI Instrument Definitions, a Python library used in the author's other projects, in which every number is traced to a document its maker published. Its source is on GitHub.

Korg minilogue MIDI implementation

The MIDI implementation of the Korg minilogue: what it answers to, and the 41 controls it offers, on firmware 2.01.

At a glance

Firmware: This page describes firmware 2.01.
MIDI channel: Any one of 1 to 16.
MIDI mode: 3: omni off, poly.
Voices: 4, or 1 or 2 as set on the instrument.
Note range: 0 to 127: C-1 to G9, counting middle C as C4.
Velocity: Sent and received. Release velocity is ignored.
Aftertouch: None, sent or answered.
Pitch bend: How far it bends is not recorded, and the range can be changed.
Program change: Received and sent, with 200 presets.
MIDI clock: Sent and received.
Start and stop: Sent and received.
Control change: 41 controls, in the tables below.
NRPN: None.
System exclusive: Supported.

Controls

In the order the definition gives them, by group. Under each control is the name a program calls it by, once pymidiinstrumentdefs.load("korg/minilogue") has loaded them.

VCO 1

Control	CC	Values
VCO 1 PITCH `vco_1_pitch`	34	0-127
VCO 1 SHAPE `vco_1_shape`	36	0-127
VCO 1 OCTAVE `vco_1_octave`	48	0-31 `ft_16`, 32-63 `ft_8`, 64-95 `ft_4`, 96-127 `ft_2`
VCO 1 WAVE `vco_1_wave`	50	0-42 `sqr`, 43-85 `tri`, 86-127 `saw`

VCO 2

Control	CC	Values
VCO 2 PITCH `vco_2_pitch`	35	0-127
VCO 2 SHAPE `vco_2_shape`	37	0-127
VCO 2 OCTAVE `vco_2_octave`	49	0-31 `ft_16`, 32-63 `ft_8`, 64-95 `ft_4`, 96-127 `ft_2`
VCO 2 WAVE `vco_2_wave`	51	0-42 `sqr`, 43-85 `tri`, 86-127 `saw`

VCO 2 MODULATION

Control	CC	Values
VCO 2 CROSS MOD DEPTH `cross_mod_depth`	41	0-127
VCO 2 PITCH EG INT `pitch_eg_int`	42	0-127
SYNC `sync`	80	0-63 `off`, 64-127 `on`
RING `ring`	81	0-63 `off`, 64-127 `on`

MIXER

Control	CC	Values
VCO 1 LEVEL `vco_1_level`	39	0-127
VCO 2 LEVEL `vco_2_level`	40	0-127
NOISE LEVEL `noise_level`	33	0-127

FILTER

Control	CC	Values
CUTOFF `cutoff`	43	0-127
RESONANCE `resonance`	44	0-127
CUTOFF EG INT `cutoff_eg_int`	45	0-127
CUTOFF VELOCITY `cutoff_velocity`	82	0-42 `pct_0`, 43-85 `pct_50`, 86-127 `pct_100`
CUTOFF KEYBOARD TRACK `cutoff_keyboard_track`	83	0-42 `pct_0`, 43-85 `pct_50`, 86-127 `pct_100`
CUTOFF TYPE `cutoff_type`	84	0-63 `pole_2`, 64-127 `pole_4`

AMP EG

Control	CC	Values
AMP EG ATTACK `amp_eg_attack`	16	0-127
AMP EG DECAY `amp_eg_decay`	17	0-127
AMP EG SUSTAIN `amp_eg_sustain`	18	0-127
AMP EG RELEASE `amp_eg_release`	19	0-127

EG

Control	CC	Values
EG ATTACK `eg_attack`	20	0-127
EG DECAY `eg_decay`	21	0-127
EG SUSTAIN `eg_sustain`	22	0-127
EG RELEASE `eg_release`	23	0-127

LFO

Control	CC	Values
LFO RATE `lfo_rate`	24	0-127
LFO INT `lfo_int`	26	0-127
LFO TARGET `lfo_target`	56	0-42 `cutoff`, 43-85 `shape`, 86-127 `pitch`
LFO EG `lfo_eg`	57	0-42 `off`, 43-85 `rate`, 86-127 `int`
LFO WAVE `lfo_wave`	58	0-42 `sqr`, 43-85 `tri`, 86-127 `saw`

DELAY

Control	CC	Values
DELAY HI PASS CUTOFF `delay_hi_pass_cutoff`	29	0-127
DELAY TIME `delay_time`	30	0-127
DELAY FEEDBACK `delay_feedback`	31	0-127
DELAY OUTPUT ROUTING `delay_output_routing`	88	0-42 `bypass`, 43-85 `post_hpf`, 86-127 `pre_hpf`

Voice mode

Control	CC	Values
VOICE MODE DEPTH `voice_mode_depth`	27	0-127

Without a group

Control	CC	Values
Bank Select (MSB) `bank_select_msb`	0	0
Bank Select (LSB) `bank_select_lsb`	32	0-1

Where these facts come from

Source documents

minilogue/MIDI Implementation, Revision 1.10, dated 10 July 2016, its MIDI implementation, read on 4 October 2026 (the file read).
minilogue/Owner's Manual (English), E 5, dated 4 August 2025, its user manual, read on 4 October 2026 (the file read).
Downloads | minilogue | KORG (USA), its download page, read on 4 October 2026.

How they were read

MIDI implementation (plain text, no pages at all): section 1-1 for what the instrument transmits, 2-1 for what it recognises, their footnotes for what a stepped control's values mean, and 1-2 and 2-2 for the real-time messages. The owner's manual (64pp) for the specifications at p. 62, the voice modes at pp. 24-25, the MIDI and clock settings at pp. 46-47, the slider's bend ranges at p. 35, the program count at p. 8, the panel sections at p. 4, and its MIDI Implementation Chart at p. 63, which is the second printing of all of this.

THE TWO PRINTINGS AGREE ON EVERY NUMBER AND DISAGREE ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING ELSE. Expand the chart's ranges - "34-37", "39, 40, 33", "16-23" and the rest - and you get the implementation's 41 controller numbers with nothing added and nothing missing, including the same gaps at 25, 28 and 38. That is the part a definition rests on, and it is confirmed twice.

The names are not confirmed twice. The chart abbreviates seven of them, and two of its abbreviations are misleading: it prints "82, 83" against "VELOCITY KEY TRACK, KEYBOARD TRACK" (manual p. 63), which reads as a parameter called velocity key track and another called keyboard track, where the implementation has CUTOFF VELOCITY and CUTOFF KEYBOARD TRACK; and "84, 88" against "FILTER TYPE, DELAY OUTPUT ROUTING" (manual p. 63) where the implementation has CUTOFF TYPE. The implementation's names are the ones below, because they are the fuller and because the chart's are a grid's shorthand.

AND THE OLDER DOCUMENT IS OUT OF DATE ABOUT HOW ITS OWN MESSAGES ARE SWITCHED ON. The implementation says every message it lists depends on one master switch each way - "This message is transmitted when the 'Enable Tx MIDI' is set to 'On'" (midi_impl) and "This message is recognized when the 'Enable Rx MIDI' is set to 'On'" (midi_impl). No such setting exists on this instrument. The manual's global settings have six separate ones - MIDI Rx CC, MIDI Tx CC, MIDI Rx Prog Chg, MIDI Tx Prog Chg, MIDI Rx Pitch Bend, MIDI Tx Pitch Bend (p. 47) - and the chart's footnotes name those. So a document can be exactly right about its numbers and wrong about its conditions, and the numbers being confirmed says nothing about the rest of it.

THE THREE PLACES THE TWO PRINTINGS NAME DIFFERENT CHANNEL MODE MESSAGES. The implementation's receiving table has CC 120 All Sound Off, 122 Local Sw and 123 All Note Off, and no 121; the chart's control change block has "120, 121" against "All sound off, Reset all Controllers" (manual p. 63) and moves Local On/Off and All Notes Off into its Aux Messages row. The word "Reset" appears nowhere in the implementation. None of the five is a control here, so nothing rests on it.

The chart also contradicts itself: its Aux Messages row says All Notes Off is received as "O 123-127" (manual p. 63), which claims 124 to 127 - Omni and Mono and Poly mode - while its own Mode row is marked X received, and the implementation lists only 123. And its footnote on transport reads "When the Global setting is 'En Rx Transport=On', the minilogue will transmit signals" (manual p. 63), where the manual's own page says that setting governs what is received (p. 47). Both are left as printed.

NOT RECORDED:

what the eight voice modes are worth as note counts beyond the four the maker states in those words;
whether a received note-off velocity does anything, beyond the chart saying it does not;
and Song Position Pointer, which the chart marks received and the implementation never mentions - the two cannot both be right and nothing here settles it.

WHAT THE PANEL HAS AND MIDI DOES NOT REACH, which is unusually clear here because the manual lists the slider's destinations (p. 35): PORTAMENTO has no controller number at all, nor does the master volume, the tempo, the octave switch, the slider itself, the sequencer, or the choice of voice mode - only its depth knob. The successor adds a portamento controller; this instrument has none.