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KORG micro KORG: MIDI CC, NRPN and OSC map

The KORG micro KORG as named OSC addresses — 47 CC — ready to use from Claude (MCP), SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, TouchDesigner or any OSC app via osc-bridge.

Device KORG micro KORG
Vendor KORG
OSC prefix /micro_korg
Source 📦 Derived from MIDI Guide (community CC/NRPN data)
Firmware unknown
Revision per pencilresearch canonical CSV
Upstream pencilresearch
Data licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 — MIDI Guide (https://midi.guide) by Pencil Research and contributors
Driver file devices/korg/micro_korg.json

Not tested on the device yet

This driver comes from documentation or community data and has not been checked on real hardware. If you own one, a quick test and a pull request promoting it helps everyone — see CONTRIBUTING.

How do you control it?

Find the MIDI ports, then start the bridge with this driver:

osc-bridge detect        # prints the ready-to-run line for what is plugged in
osc-bridge run --device devices/korg/micro_korg.json --out-port <N> --in-port <M>

Then send OSC to 127.0.0.1:7777, for example:

osc-bridge osc-send /micro_korg/pitch/portamento 63

From Claude or any MCP client, the osc-bridge mcp server exposes this driver as micro_korg: ask “what can the KORG micro KORG do?” and it reads this map with list_routes. See the MCP guide.

MIDI CC and NRPN parameters (47)

OSC address CC NRPN (MSB/LSB) Range Nature Section
/micro_korg/pitch/portamento 5 0–127 continuous Pitch
/micro_korg/osc_1/wave 77 0–127 continuous OSC 1
/micro_korg/osc_1/control_1 14 0–127 continuous OSC 1
/micro_korg/osc_1/control_2 15 0–127 continuous OSC 1
/micro_korg/osc_2/wave 78 0–127 continuous OSC 2
/micro_korg/osc_2/osc_mod 82 0–127 continuous OSC 2
/micro_korg/osc_2/semitone 18 0–127 continuous OSC 2
/micro_korg/osc_2/tune 19 0–127 continuous OSC 2
/micro_korg/audio_in/vocoder_hpf_level 18 0–127 continuous Audio in
/micro_korg/audio_in/vocoder_threshold 19 0–127 continuous Audio in
/micro_korg/mixer/osc_1_level 20 0–127 continuous Mixer
/micro_korg/mixer/osc_2_level 21 0–127 continuous Mixer
/micro_korg/mixer/vocoder_inst_level 21 0–127 continuous Mixer
/micro_korg/mixer/noise_level 22 0–127 continuous Mixer
/micro_korg/filter/type 83 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter/vocoder_formant_shift 83 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter/cutoff 74 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter/vocoder_filter_cutoff 74 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter/resonance 71 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter/eg_intensity 79 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter/vocoder_mod_intensity 79 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter_eg/attack 23 0–127 continuous Filter EG
/micro_korg/filter/eg_decay 24 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter/eg_sustain 25 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/filter/eg_release 26 0–127 continuous Filter
/micro_korg/amp/level 7 0–127 continuous Amp
/micro_korg/amp/panpot 10 0–127 continuous Amp
/micro_korg/amp/vocoder_direct_level 10 0–127 continuous Amp
/micro_korg/amp/distortion 92 0–127 continuous Amp
/micro_korg/amp_eg/attack 73 0–127 continuous Amp EG
/micro_korg/amp_eg/decay 75 0–127 continuous Amp EG
/micro_korg/amp_eg/sustain 70 0–127 continuous Amp EG
/micro_korg/amp_eg/release 72 0–127 continuous Amp EG
/micro_korg/lfo_1/wave 87 0–127 continuous LFO 1
/micro_korg/lfo_1/frequency 27 0–127 continuous LFO 1
/micro_korg/lfo_2/wave 88 0–127 continuous LFO 2
/micro_korg/lfo_2/frequency 76 0–127 continuous LFO 2
/micro_korg/patch_intensity/patch_1_intensity 28 0–127 continuous Patch intensity
/micro_korg/patch_intensity/patch_2_intensity 29 0–127 continuous Patch intensity
/micro_korg/patch_intensity/patch_3_intensity 30 0–127 continuous Patch intensity
/micro_korg/patch_intensity/patch_4_intensity 31 0–127 continuous Patch intensity
/micro_korg/mod_fx/lfo_speed 12 0–127 continuous Mod FX
/micro_korg/mod_fx/depth 93 0–127 continuous Mod FX
/micro_korg/delay/time 13 0–127 continuous Delay
/micro_korg/delay/depth 94 0–127 continuous Delay
/micro_korg/midi/timbre_select 95 0–127 continuous MIDI
/micro_korg/midi/sync_control 90 0–127 continuous MIDI

Performance MIDI

Notes, pitch bend and any CC are also available: /micro_korg/note/on <note> <velocity>, /micro_korg/cc/<number> <value>, /micro_korg/pitchbend <0-16383>, /micro_korg/program_change <n>.

Limitations

CC/NRPN only. SysEx (preset management, display control, bulk dump/load, vendor-proprietary opcodes) is NOT covered by pencilresearch. To extend this device with SysEx, sniff the vendor editor, add `sysex.header/footer` + `commands` blocks, and use `update_device.md` PR template.