I get it. 61 is my sweet spot too, though 49 is fine and so far I am doing fine with the 37 on my MiniFreak after trading the KeyLab 61 down to it (for keybed anyway; it’s an amazing synth otherwise). It also fits my space much better.
Mini keys were a bigger adjustment. However the MiniFreak shares the same keybed as the KeyStep Pro, so about as good as MiniKeys get.
I recently bought an OE BassRig Fifteen like you have on your pedal board. An Ampeg B15 in a pedal. It sounds great in front of my Rumble Studio 40, but one of these days, when I have a chance to get my GR Bass 500 combo and 112 cab out of my apartment, I want to hear what it sounds like at volume. 
Agreed. Used it for years until I recently scored a really good price in the V Collection v11. Analog Lab is a CPU hog compared to the individual V synths, but it’s great for quickly browsing through a bunch of presets for different synths, and then load that preset into the synth itself.
Not exactly accurate. The Analog Lab presets map up to eight of the most common, useful controls of the synth used by the preset to the 8 knobs along the bottom of the UI. Those can then by mapped to 8 knobs on the MiniLab, for example. You can still do a lot of tweaking to the preset default without having the actual V synth.
You can tweak the existing presets a bit, sure. But you can’t program new sounds.
I would argue that a significantly altered preset via the 8 visible controls that can be saved as a user preset counts as a “new sound”. I purchased Anthony Marinelli’s “Think Like A Synth” course, but I’m no sound designer, dreaming up new presets from scratch. I suspect that most peeps are preset users like myself. Even after Marinelli’s course, I still find the massive number of controls on some synths to be overwhelming.
EDIT: Holy crapola! I just watched the video and noticed that, for the MiniLab, Analog Lab makes up to 16 controls visible and automatically mapped to the 16 encoders on the MiniLab. That offers a ton of sound control.
EDIT 2: Welp, the newer version, the MiniLab 3, has 8 encoders and 4 sliders, but it’s still really inexpensive. 89 € (white) or 95 € (black) at Thomann. I’m going to grab a black one since all of my other gear is black (not counting most of my basses, of course). I have Analog Lab Pro, so I’ll take a screen shot and post it when I see how ALP maps it.
love to have a minifreak
Soooo, story time: I decided to cancel Amazon Prime and now they will only do free shipping if I spend 35CAD minimum. I wanted to get glass screen protectors for my phone because the last one cracked and obviously, they don’t cost that much. So as I’m sitting there thinking “man we don’t need anything else from Amazon right now”, for some reason, I type Behringer UB-1 Micro in the search bar. Not in stock yet, like the Canadian retailers, fair enough…BUT WAIT! The Behringer JT-4000M is in stock somehow! So long story short, I’m now a proud owner of an adorable little synth.
Hand for scale
Hands down, the most fun I’ve had related to music in a long while.
i mean who wouldn’t love the barbie synth 
if they could’ve figured out how to squeeze a crappy lil speaker in it so you could bring it everywhere to play it would be perfect
See this is the interesting thing, I was never into electronic music or anything. But soon as I saw those two little synths online, for some reason I wanted them. Which has led me down an unbelievable synth rabbit hole now…
A tiny Jupiter! I love Behringer’s synth group.
theres a whole line of them, more than just two. Pro VS, Phara-O, JT, CZ-1, UB-Xa, i think that’s all of them 
Yeah I saw there was a whole line, just the JT-4000M and UB-1 Micro were the cheapest, so easiest entry for me. I might still get the UB-1 when it becomes available. Then again, I’m also already thinking of the TD-3-AM drum machine…
So many instruments, so little time!
Well, didn’t get the TD-3 after all, instead I decided to get one of these tiny little guys:
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This collectible item is a Cosmic Key prop replica from the 1987 film Masters of the Universe.
