Programs within the current side/bank are accessed by eight numbered buttons just below, and using these buttons in conjunction with the Shift key allows you to access various housekeeping functions. Maybe simply numbering the banks from one to eight might have been preferable this is, after all, how the Microkorg's simple three-digit LED denotes the bank and program numbers. I'm not convinced as to how useful these titles are, to be honest - it all smacks a bit of home-keyboard territory, and anyway, once you've edited a few of the programs, the chances are the descriptions will no longer be valid.
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The two 'sides' are selected by a dedicated button, and you access the eight banks via a large knob which clicks around a questionable series of genre titles, such as Trance, Electro and Hip-Hop/Vintage. The programs are arranged in two 'sides' of eight banks of eight programs. There are 128 program memories, any of which are available for overwriting with your own creations, though the factory presets can be recalled at any time in future if required. Whether you like it will therefore depend on your particular needs, but it's definitely worth an audition. It's good as a MIDI controller, though, and the battery operation allows you to use it on the move. The Microkorg sounds great, and may suit some live applications, but others are going to find fault with the mini-keyboard, four-note polyphony and fiddly in-depth editing regime.