Thank you for mining the caverns of the opsix for us all and showing us all the gems found super deep within. I think we are more grateful for your patient deep dives than we realize!
Very cool. Another musical use for the Opsix that I hadn’t thought of. The ability to write your own algorithm and assign any mode to any operator makes the mind work … it’s like, oh, I could also build a 3 op FM synth, then send its audio into a 3-part filterbank …then start modulating all sorts of things…
@@OscillatorSink Oh I have been going through all those videos, especially with my opsix coming on Wednesday. What you have shown me is far beyond anything I’d ever be able to come up with on my own. I know this is probably a much bigger ask then I am making it seem but it would be incredibly valuable if you added to the series by walking through how to make patches of “common instruments.” For example, take basses. There are upright basses, electric basses, electric basses with slap/pop articulations, 808s, etc. Being able to make FM versions of these would be very beneficial from a music perspective but also for a just learning more about how FM works perspective as well.
@@jloiben12 I haven't done a video quite like this, but if you haven't seen this (it's an archived livestream so it doesn't turn up in the same places) it might cover some 'archetypical' sounds that you're after. ruclips.net/user/liveREjZNvhRP-8?feature=share
Brilliant video! I still love the FM-synthesis of the DX7 MK1 but always thought something is missing and quite not accessible. The opsix seems to have those "accessabilities" and has an ease of use. Great tool for sounddesign and *science of sound*-users.
Brilliant. Although I had some reservations about it, I broke down and bought the Opsix thanks to you and I am glad I did. Really the evolution of synths beyond the labels of FM, Subtractive or Additive . Hydrasynth OSC mutants hinted in this direction but Opsix is crystalizing a new way based on a networked array of definable operational blocks. I hope KORG develop this further and give us a bi-timbral OP9 in the near future.
Thanks for the video. Wow. The opsix keeps amaze me, its so much more then I think it be when I bought it (bought it to replace my other FM synths, reface dx and volca dm). Wonderful.
Man, I’m really loving the flexibility of this synth. The crazy part is, I wasn’t even planning on owning it! I’d bough a Dreadbox/Polyend Medusa and it just wouldn’t keep tune. I had a couple other issues with it as well so I returned it. I decided then I didn’t care about analog and I just wanted a flexible and dependable modern synth. Shortly after repacking the Medusa, I saw your video on building a Juno inside the OP6 and I knew immediately that this is an incredibly powerful, modular synth. And it would hold its tune! I’ve had it for a few weeks and not a day goes by that I don’t make at least one patch in it. It sits incredibly well in a dense mix and I’m very happy with it. TBH I probably wouldn’t have bit the bullet had I not gotten a good deal on a demo unit. Though it does look super cool and has 100% proven it deserves its space in my studio, I still feel some kind of way about paying that much considering it’s outside build and Raspberry PI insides. Also it does lack bottom end compared to my Yamaha DX. Still, it’s probably my second most used synth right now after my all time favorite synth, my ESQ-1. I really hope Korg does a major update like multistage/loopable envelopes, more mod destinations/sources, more waveforms/filter models, more FX…Looking at the capabilities of the other synths in the series, I believe there should be more CPU to add a few more features. Anyways, thank you for inspiring me to get an OP 6! It’s the most underrated synth of the series IMO. TLDR; OP6 GOOD.
I'm really glad that you've found it to be an inspiring synth. And, like you, I live in hope that we'll see some exciting updates in the future. The Wavestate just had a very significant update so I'm hoping that the opsix won't be too far behind.
Firstly, a HUGE MASSIVE thank you for this series on the OpSix - having tried a DX7 in about 1986, it just about put me off FM for life (I always thought "FM" stood for "F***ing Mayhem") :-). However, your fantastic videos have not only helped me get over my DX7 PTSD, but really shown me soo many new ideas for patching and routing - I'm not scared of FM anymore, and the OPSIX is an incredibly fun and inspiring instrument to me!!!! Please please please would you consider doing a tutorial to recreate the amazing singing monk 1990's VST "Delay Lama" by AudioNerdz? I'm sure the OPSIX can do something close, I'm trying really hard to do it but I know with your skills you would nail it!
Thanks! I think a lot of the surprise is down to Korg calling it an "Altered FM" synth - doesn't really do it justice... but then I don't know what you'd call it and still make it marketable. I think of it as an "Algorithmic" synth, but that's not a term that means much to many people...
Really cool. It would be amazing if they would put out a bandpass with a more extreme response curve. You can get some decent results, but one that emulates a single frequency of a fixed filter bank would be incredible for tone sculpting and really honing in those more specific sounds.
So I was playing around with this patch (which is PHENOMENAL btw), and I paused the video right before you started going into the arpeggiator, and I started to mess with the saw wave's feedback and width amounts. First off, holy shit, the textures you get are SO, SO good!!! But then, I made the WEIRDEST discovery. Like I genuinely have no idea what's happening. Set the feedback amount to 79%, and the width amount to 15%, and then just start kicking the octave of OP1 down slowly. If you get the same thing I did, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE IT'S BLOWING MY MIND!!! Also thank you for all of these vids, seriously. They've really helped me unlock some new and weird ideas from this synth, I just need to figure out why my computer won't recognize it, and then I'm gonna download firmware 2.0 and just get lost in this beautiful thing all over again. Cheers!
I wish I had played with the width a bit in the video because there are loads of different vocal-y sounds that a thinner waveform can coax out (try a square wave with a low width for an alternative vibe). I'll have to try out your feedback recipe, but I know that a saw modulating a saw can give a pseudo-sync effect so it might be something like that - I'll have to have a play!
I'm studying these religiously right now, really great videos. Do you know anything I could read up on to understand more synth architecture like this or the buchla patch to better have some direction when I'm designing on the opsix?
I'm. Not really up to date on what literature is available and good, but I know that one of the authorities on all things Buchla is Todd Barton, so that's a great place to start: toddbarton.com/buchla/collected-buchla-tutorials/
Another brilliant exercise...thank you. Have you tried the Modal Cobalt 8? Different animal, but you might enjoy all the routing possibilities there as well.
I haven't. I had a little play with an Argon, and they both sound good to me, but they probably don't fill a gap in my setup so I suspect they would end up not getting the use they deserve.
Another cracking video. Thanks! I'm not sure if you've already done this, but it would be nice to see how well it can do an "evolving" pad of some kind. By the way, like many others in the comments I'd like to see you cover the Modwave! I was going to buy one of those, but I've had to put a freeze on all my spending while I move house... :(
I should do a nice evolving pad, seeing as that's kinda my aesthetic, you're right. If I can sell some gear I think I'll be picking up the Modwave, but, like you, money is tight right now!
This is why I watch youtube; thoughtful and inspiring ideas, well done! Do you think Korg will release module versions of this line? I have the wavestate but really don't like the keybed.
Korg don't seem to be that into modules, although I believe they've announced a bigger version of the Wavestate which might have a different keybed... Perhaps they'll follow suit on the opsix? Personally I think an opsix module would sell really well.
@@OscillatorSink Yeah, I'd buy one for sure, I have the XD module(which I bought specifically after touching the keybed of the minilogue xd, I was like 'oh no way, no day, korg') hahah
Thank you!!! This patch is insanely beautiful and making me delve further, into the world of Op six. However, running into bugs. When I move my volume knob it seems to effect the pitch of Op1. When I move my Op 6 slider, it also alters the pitch of Op 1. This is a bug, right? I've updated mine to the latest firmware. Is any one else running into this problem? Any way to fix it? Thank you.
That sounds like a physical problem with your synth to me, maybe some kind of loose connection? Only thing I can think otherwise is - do you have USB / midi plugged in when it's happening?
@@OscillatorSink I did have Midi plugged in, but the Midi device was turned off . By the way, I tried to replicate your gorgeous vocoder patch. Set the virtual patch - LFO2 = Sample and Hold for the volume of Op 6, as you explained. At least that fixed the strange volume issue. Op 6 had to obey the v patch command. Thank you for such a quick response.
przy przestrajaniu operatorów w kierunku barw nieliniowych można zbliżyć się tu do najlepszych doświadczeń zespołu Kraftwerk, oczywiście warto użyć też miksu z vst fm7 latencja 5 ni i dołożyć klawiaturę 8-10 oktawową, i tak też zrobiłem, fm niezmiennie mnie inspiruje, od40 lat:), i uwaga, zbyt mała polifonia może tu np. w dx7 m1 hamować sporo... emocji kompozytora, a w fm7 zbyt... mały procesor-ek... komputera:)
@@OscillatorSink TIme for a Morpheus eurorack filter. It's amazing. Thanks for NOT supplying this patch, it gave me a chance to learn to navigate the opsix by following along.
For Karplus-Strong, to do it properly at least, you would need a delay line which could change its length quickly, and scaled to note input - the opsix doesn't have this (and believe me, I've tried!). That said, you can still create some interesting, atonal, bendy string like sounds by messing with the delay effects and modulating their delay times in the vpatch.
Thank you for mining the caverns of the opsix for us all and showing us all the gems found super deep within. I think we are more grateful for your patient deep dives than we realize!
Very cool. Another musical use for the Opsix that I hadn’t thought of. The ability to write your own algorithm and assign any mode to any operator makes the mind work … it’s like, oh, I could also build a 3 op FM synth, then send its audio into a 3-part filterbank …then start modulating all sorts of things…
I need more of this. Far and away the best “how to make actually useful sounds” videos on an FM synth
Thank you - I have a few more opsix 'make a patch' videos which hopefully are also useful sounds!
@@OscillatorSink
Oh I have been going through all those videos, especially with my opsix coming on Wednesday. What you have shown me is far beyond anything I’d ever be able to come up with on my own.
I know this is probably a much bigger ask then I am making it seem but it would be incredibly valuable if you added to the series by walking through how to make patches of “common instruments.” For example, take basses. There are upright basses, electric basses, electric basses with slap/pop articulations, 808s, etc. Being able to make FM versions of these would be very beneficial from a music perspective but also for a just learning more about how FM works perspective as well.
@@jloiben12 I haven't done a video quite like this, but if you haven't seen this (it's an archived livestream so it doesn't turn up in the same places) it might cover some 'archetypical' sounds that you're after.
ruclips.net/user/liveREjZNvhRP-8?feature=share
@@OscillatorSink
Thank you. That definitely seems like it would cover a decent chunk of what I am talking about
such deep but intuitive programming on the OpSix, I think this is my next synth.
I'm happy to recommend it - I think it's a brilliant synth if sound design is your thing!
@@OscillatorSink hi. question. Opsix or Modwave? If you can only buy one. Thanks
@@spectralknights2 I don't have a Modwave (yet) so I can't really answer that, sorry!
Brilliant video! I still love the FM-synthesis of the DX7 MK1 but always thought something is missing and quite not accessible. The opsix seems to have those "accessabilities" and has an ease of use. Great tool for sounddesign and *science of sound*-users.
Great set of videos on the Opsix, especially this one.
Makes we want to get one to add with my Modwave!
Bravo!
The opsix is definitely worth exploring, it's right near the top of my favourite instruments I own. Fantastic synth.
Routing your own synth by playing hypercreative with this six operators. Just great and very well demonstrated 👌👍✋✨
Great sequence from 30 mins @Oscillator Sink - love the latch arpeggiator on the Opsix.
I think I'm going to use your filter description picture as my halloween pumpkin carving template this year.
Spooky Filter Face is my Aesthetic.
Brilliant. Although I had some reservations about it, I broke down and bought the Opsix thanks to you and I am glad I did. Really the evolution of synths beyond the labels of FM, Subtractive or Additive . Hydrasynth OSC mutants hinted in this direction but Opsix is crystalizing a new way based on a networked array of definable operational blocks. I hope KORG develop this further and give us a bi-timbral OP9 in the near future.
Thanks for the video. Wow. The opsix keeps amaze me, its so much more then I think it be when I bought it (bought it to replace my other FM synths, reface dx and volca dm). Wonderful.
3:25 That is one angry page of black paper.
I'm so glad someone noticed. It wasn't intentional, but once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it.
16:50 is very Novachord-esque! The Hammond Novachord had an arrangement of fixed "resonators" (basically bandpass filters) very similar to this.
Man, I’m really loving the flexibility of this synth. The crazy part is, I wasn’t even planning on owning it! I’d bough a Dreadbox/Polyend Medusa and it just wouldn’t keep tune. I had a couple other issues with it as well so I returned it. I decided then I didn’t care about analog and I just wanted a flexible and dependable modern synth. Shortly after repacking the Medusa, I saw your video on building a Juno inside the OP6 and I knew immediately that this is an incredibly powerful, modular synth. And it would hold its tune!
I’ve had it for a few weeks and not a day goes by that I don’t make at least one patch in it. It sits incredibly well in a dense mix and I’m very happy with it. TBH I probably wouldn’t have bit the bullet had I not gotten a good deal on a demo unit. Though it does look super cool and has 100% proven it deserves its space in my studio, I still feel some kind of way about paying that much considering it’s outside build and Raspberry PI insides. Also it does lack bottom end compared to my Yamaha DX. Still, it’s probably my second most used synth right now after my all time favorite synth, my ESQ-1. I really hope Korg does a major update like multistage/loopable envelopes, more mod destinations/sources, more waveforms/filter models, more FX…Looking at the capabilities of the other synths in the series, I believe there should be more CPU to add a few more features.
Anyways, thank you for inspiring me to get an OP 6! It’s the most underrated synth of the series IMO.
TLDR; OP6 GOOD.
I'm really glad that you've found it to be an inspiring synth. And, like you, I live in hope that we'll see some exciting updates in the future. The Wavestate just had a very significant update so I'm hoping that the opsix won't be too far behind.
@@OscillatorSink And now we have version 2.0 which includes a new Comb Filter Oscillator! This is going to be fun!
@@audioartisan video on that coming later today!
Really loving this series! Thanks for all your work!!!
Chuffed to hear you're enjoying it!
Your first one in this series convinced me to get an op six, and even though I have a DX5, absolutely no regrets!
I'm glad to hear that you're vibing with it - I think it's a really wonderful synth.
Firstly, a HUGE MASSIVE thank you for this series on the OpSix - having tried a DX7 in about 1986, it just about put me off FM for life (I always thought "FM" stood for "F***ing Mayhem") :-).
However, your fantastic videos have not only helped me get over my DX7 PTSD, but really shown me soo many new ideas for patching and routing - I'm not scared of FM anymore, and the OPSIX is an incredibly fun and inspiring instrument to me!!!!
Please please please would you consider doing a tutorial to recreate the amazing singing monk 1990's VST "Delay Lama" by AudioNerdz? I'm sure the OPSIX can do something close, I'm trying really hard to do it but I know with your skills you would nail it!
I like your really cool skeleton face drawing
Cool way from the idea to result. Thx
This was very fun! I keep being surprised by the range of the OP6
Thanks! I think a lot of the surprise is down to Korg calling it an "Altered FM" synth - doesn't really do it justice... but then I don't know what you'd call it and still make it marketable. I think of it as an "Algorithmic" synth, but that's not a term that means much to many people...
Fantastic vid! Thanks.
Really cool. It would be amazing if they would put out a bandpass with a more extreme response curve. You can get some decent results, but one that emulates a single frequency of a fixed filter bank would be incredible for tone sculpting and really honing in those more specific sounds.
Yeah, a 24dB bandpass would be a nice edition for sure. There's always the prospect of firmware upgrades... Fingers crossed.
Effin brilliant !
Cheers!
Lol evil skull page :)
Everyone that notices this gets 100 Synth Points. Enjoy your 100 Synth Points!
A like the filter drawing, looks like a skull.
It would be good if Korg made an Opsix desktop version
So I was playing around with this patch (which is PHENOMENAL btw), and I paused the video right before you started going into the arpeggiator, and I started to mess with the saw wave's feedback and width amounts.
First off, holy shit, the textures you get are SO, SO good!!! But then, I made the WEIRDEST discovery. Like I genuinely have no idea what's happening.
Set the feedback amount to 79%, and the width amount to 15%, and then just start kicking the octave of OP1 down slowly.
If you get the same thing I did, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE IT'S BLOWING MY MIND!!!
Also thank you for all of these vids, seriously. They've really helped me unlock some new and weird ideas from this synth, I just need to figure out why my computer won't recognize it, and then I'm gonna download firmware 2.0 and just get lost in this beautiful thing all over again. Cheers!
I wish I had played with the width a bit in the video because there are loads of different vocal-y sounds that a thinner waveform can coax out (try a square wave with a low width for an alternative vibe).
I'll have to try out your feedback recipe, but I know that a saw modulating a saw can give a pseudo-sync effect so it might be something like that - I'll have to have a play!
Wb 😉 thx 4 the upload 😊
I'm studying these religiously right now, really great videos. Do you know anything I could read up on to understand more synth architecture like this or the buchla patch to better have some direction when I'm designing on the opsix?
I'm. Not really up to date on what literature is available and good, but I know that one of the authorities on all things Buchla is Todd Barton, so that's a great place to start:
toddbarton.com/buchla/collected-buchla-tutorials/
Another brilliant exercise...thank you. Have you tried the Modal Cobalt 8? Different animal, but you might enjoy all the routing possibilities there as well.
I haven't. I had a little play with an Argon, and they both sound good to me, but they probably don't fill a gap in my setup so I suspect they would end up not getting the use they deserve.
My god, I want an Opsix now.
It's a very good synth!
Another cracking video. Thanks! I'm not sure if you've already done this, but it would be nice to see how well it can do an "evolving" pad of some kind. By the way, like many others in the comments I'd like to see you cover the Modwave! I was going to buy one of those, but I've had to put a freeze on all my spending while I move house... :(
I should do a nice evolving pad, seeing as that's kinda my aesthetic, you're right.
If I can sell some gear I think I'll be picking up the Modwave, but, like you, money is tight right now!
upload the patch bro !!
i can haz moar opsix plz?
There is more opsix coming, but "real life circumstances" are really slowing me down being able to put out the content I want to.
@@OscillatorSink
This is why I watch youtube; thoughtful and inspiring ideas, well done!
Do you think Korg will release module versions of this line? I have the wavestate but really don't like the keybed.
Korg don't seem to be that into modules, although I believe they've announced a bigger version of the Wavestate which might have a different keybed... Perhaps they'll follow suit on the opsix? Personally I think an opsix module would sell really well.
@@OscillatorSink Yeah, I'd buy one for sure, I have the XD module(which I bought specifically after touching the keybed of the minilogue xd, I was like 'oh no way, no day, korg') hahah
Thank you!!! This patch is insanely beautiful and making me delve further, into the world of Op six. However, running into bugs. When I move my volume knob it seems to effect the pitch of Op1. When I move my Op 6 slider, it also alters the pitch of Op 1. This is a bug, right? I've updated mine to the latest firmware. Is any one else running into this problem? Any way to fix it? Thank you.
That sounds like a physical problem with your synth to me, maybe some kind of loose connection? Only thing I can think otherwise is - do you have USB / midi plugged in when it's happening?
@@OscillatorSink I did have Midi plugged in, but the Midi device was turned off . By the way, I tried to replicate your gorgeous vocoder patch. Set the virtual patch - LFO2 = Sample and Hold for the volume of Op 6, as you explained. At least that fixed the strange volume issue. Op 6 had to obey the v patch command. Thank you for such a quick response.
przy przestrajaniu operatorów w kierunku barw nieliniowych można zbliżyć się tu do najlepszych doświadczeń zespołu Kraftwerk, oczywiście warto użyć też miksu z vst fm7 latencja 5 ni i dołożyć klawiaturę 8-10 oktawową, i tak też zrobiłem, fm niezmiennie mnie inspiruje, od40 lat:), i uwaga, zbyt mała polifonia może tu np. w dx7 m1 hamować sporo... emocji kompozytora, a w fm7 zbyt... mały procesor-ek... komputera:)
man i wish i had more room for synths, i want this
It's one of the advantages of it having a smaller keyboard - easier to fit it!
@@OscillatorSink I'm praying to mr korg for desktop modules 🙏🙏🙏
Hoping the next synth is the Korg modWave - as I just got one!!!
I hope so too! I need to sell some stuff first to afford it though!
Please get a modwave 😅 these series are dope
I'd love to get my hands on one - I need to sell some stuff before I can buy anything though! It looks amazing though.
@@OscillatorSink are you reading this Korg hit the man up with a synth 😝
@@ronsone8373
Give him the Wavestate SE for sure!
Great video as always! This reminds me a little bit of the Morpheus and Ultra-Proteus synths by E-mu. Are you familiar with either?
I've never laid hands on any Emu instrument sadly, but I understand that the filters were kinda special.
@@OscillatorSink TIme for a Morpheus eurorack filter. It's amazing. Thanks for NOT supplying this patch, it gave me a chance to learn to navigate the opsix by following along.
FM seems good at twangy sounds.
The Karplus-Strong Synthesis is also good at this.
Can this also be reproduced on the Opsix?
For Karplus-Strong, to do it properly at least, you would need a delay line which could change its length quickly, and scaled to note input - the opsix doesn't have this (and believe me, I've tried!). That said, you can still create some interesting, atonal, bendy string like sounds by messing with the delay effects and modulating their delay times in the vpatch.
I didn't realise that Korg were literally days away from an update that means we CAN do Karplus-Strong now! Check out my most recent video!
@@OscillatorSink thanks again. I noticed the update, but I didn’t know it had these implications.
Hey Oscillator, I have been getting more into key playing and less bleep bloops. How are the keys on this synth?
They are fine. Not the most luxurious, but they're good, synth action keys.
Hello back to you oscillator sink
\*"hello"\*
Basically an ad for not buying synths for presets
firmware V2.0 baby
15:42 are you showing or hiding it?!
The screen?