I realised when I was editing that I misspoke on one of the features: I say in the video that the sequencer is global across the two layers, this is wrong - the sequencer is per layer, which is excellent. I hope you enjoy the video!
@@SuchaDoofus yes - although the Modwave sequencer is so much more than "just a sequencer". The two layers can also be mapped to two different midi channels so you don't even have to use the same controller/sequencer really
yes cause there are presets in there already use that, one I heard another youtube video is a sequencing bassline while the second doing like a high swirling sequenz... Good with all the mod stuff could be a LFO or what... but from the kind its typical sequencing, anyway ... I am really curious now this synth by your video, thanks a lot anyway
@Riccardo Bacchini have you checked the Display Brightness setting in the preferences? It might be that, but honestly even at its lowest it shouldn't be that hard to see. Sounds like a fault.
Thank you so much for this video. I just got one of these synths a few days ago and following along with this has really helped me fill in some blanks on aspects of it that just weren‘t clicking right away in my head
I think you'll find the sequencer really interesting - it's more part of the sound design than it is a traditional melodic sequencer (although you can "hack it" to be that). Happy exploring, I hope you're enjoying the modwave!
Having the flexibility to configure a second layer completely independently like that is one of the most appealing aspects of the Modwave for sure. I'm glad you liked the patch!
Great channel! Great video. I've built most of your patch ideas for the OpSix and I use your filter-bank and comb techniques all the time. Now I reallly really want a modwave... It would complete my Korg holy trinity: Prologue, Opsix, Modwave. Anyways keep up the good work. I really enjoy your content :)
Fantastic video! Got this and the opSix Hopefully the world doesn’t end before I get a chance to explore them fully!!! Looking forward to more on this one!!!!
Another great video and fantastic synth, thank you! looking forward to combine it with my Wavestate, I just love the 'happy accidents' and experimental / unexpected results that seem to often happen with those synths...
6000 nerds like myself watched this, and only 197 were not too lazy to put their thumb up. Come on guys, this content is pure gold, even if you only hear the humor hidden inside. Thank you Sir, this was so educational and fun!
Wooo! Got the Modwave in the house now! Looking forward to your series on this synth to help me decide on it or the Hydra. I love your Opsix videos. Korg is killing it!
The fact that the modwave lets you load your own samples is what pushed me into getting it over the hydra. But the hydra seems to have an incredibly well designed interface, which sadly can't be said for the modwave (its not terrible but its definitely not as good).
Great video! I got the modwave a few months ago. Your opsix videos make me want that too. Modwave seems quite deep in its possibilities, I look forward to seeing what else you do with it.
awesome video! wow so much stuff possible with this. funny thing, theres buttons on the modwave i somehow forgot were actually there when i watched this.
I knew this synth would be good! You really showed its power here... it makes me sad because I moved house and suddenly had to cut my budgets. This was the thing I was going to buy next and now I've had to wait until I have spare cash again :( I will get one in the end though.
Hey, don't feel sad - just look at it as an opportunity to get to know the instruments you already have even better - it'll help you appreciate it even more when you can pick one up!
Hi OS seems ages since you released any tutorials which on this synth very interesting but as don’t have or will have can’t try out as I’m more a Eurorack explorer, you used to cover Modular have you given up on this was so interesting Anyway glad your back doing what you do best Cheers👍🆒🎶🎶🎶🕸⚡️🔱🌟🌟🌟
Funny you should ask - my next "talky" video will probably be on modular, so keep your eyes peeled 🙂 The interesting thing about the Modwave is that a lot of the features feel very 'modular' to me - I'll talk about that in some upcoming videos.
I found time to follow along and build this patch with you. Definitely a worthwhile exercise to pause and explore from different points along the way, and it helped learning to get around the synth controls without the editor (but I miss being able to "undo" by hitting CTRL-Z like I can with the editor). I'm looking forward to your next modwave video. Soooo, I'm reluctant to be "that guy," but have you tried turning the OLED screen brightness down? It's challenging to read the display as is, so maybe that would help? I guess maybe you're at the resolution limit of your camera. If so, Korg should buy you a 4K camera and video editing rig!
If you saw my video setup you'd weep - it's not great. At all. I keep nearly upgrading, but then I'm like: "or a new synth?". Guess which option wins every time?
Probably! But first I need to do the long overdue part 3 of my deep dive into the sequencer (worth a watch of the first 2 parts if you want to get to grips with arguably the modwave's most interesting feature!)
Great content as usual :) any plans on getting the Wavestate too? I'm looking into the different videos online and I'm finding it mind blowing. Super deep actually.
I would love this synth so much more if it had better audio rate modulations on the filter or other things. I wish Korg would make it so you could use the oscillators as modulation sources .
I still don't have this baby, I wait for a second hand....but it could be interesting if you could demonstrate the sample import and, for example, import some Jupiter 8 or OB-X files, to check if it could sound like those legends, with large reso sweeps and stuff, lol. That would be exciting...I have a Yammy AN1X and would like to hear or see if it could replace the AN1X.
Great video! I was wondering, how you’d go about making one oscillator an octave higher then the other. Same layer, but osc 2 an octave higher then 1? I read through the manual, and I just couldn’t find an answer.
If you look at the position knob it has "octave" written beneath it in blue. That's a shift function. Hold shift and turn the position knob to change the octave of the currently selected oscillator. (Page 59 in the manual for reference).
Thank you so much for this incredibly helpful video! Just one specific question... do you know how / if it's possible to pan a whole layer, including effects eg Delay?
I don't have it any more, but if I recall correctly, the FX are shared between layers and can't be individually panned. The stereo delay type shouldn't ping pong the sound around and where the voice is panned, the delay should also be. The reverb will definitely diffuse across the stereo image though.
@@OscillatorSink thank you so much for very quick reply. The reverb is shared, but the delay is by layer, I had at go at some of the stereo delays but I had the same result. Oh well, not the biggest problem to have! Thanks again for the inspiration throughout these videos.
love this guide video, thanks man! Do ytou think the modwave can create some hard gritty neuro basslines? Thinking about importing own wave tables and use it with the software UI.
@@OscillatorSink Pity, I think you would really enjoy the new OS features. I now have my old MK i with the new OS, and the mk ii with 60 note polyphony with the same new OS.
I do not own the Modwave. I was wondering how well the arpeggiator and sequencer syncs to other gear when the Modwave is receiving MIDI clock ? Great video.
Do you think the modwave is different enough from the hydra as to not be redundant? I love my hydra but this seems to have a bit more one knobe per function feel and sample waves are nice as well. Tat reveb is also really nice. Hmmm...🤔
I've only used a Hydrasynth very briefly at a trade show so my opinion is only based on videos etc. I think the biggest difference comes from how complex the modulation routing and sequencer are on the Modwave and not so much from sounds where, at a high level at least I see some overlap. The Hydrasynth, however, has other performance controls going for it, not least the provision of aftertouch and the ribbon... I think the Modwave has an advantage when you want it to "play itself" and the Hydra has an advantage when you want to feel more physically connected to the instrument you're playing.
I'm enjoying it! The samples are useful, but there's not a tonne if sample mangling you can do beyond the downstream processing with the filter, effects etc. - although the AM/Ring mod stuff is cool. You can't (at the moment) mess with chopping samples, changing loop points or anything like that. I think it's definitely "wave-table first" from a synthesis perspective, with the samples being a nice option to layer up sounds.
They're all there in a single wavetable. There's also an extended set in another wavetable. There was an aftermarket DW8000 kit that added extra DWGS waveforms to that, but I guess the extended set is not those waveforms.
Great stuff as alway, looking forward to seeing your deep dives on the Modwave (I love mine). As a note if you dig music with these kind of timbres I highly recommend a early 00s band Gridlock that were sort of industrial / IDM. Lots of D50 abuse: ruclips.net/video/YFLhE7VmJuw/видео.html
Oh, don't you worry - the opsix hasn't gone anywhere and I've been cooking up some good stuff in the background that I can't wait to share! Modwave is fun too though!
@@danerivera very kind of you to say so! Keep an eye on the channel, just need to get some Modwave stuff off my chest first. The envelopes alone on this thing deserve their own video.
Have you managed to find it? You'll need to press the Home button to get back to the patch selection and then scroll up to the top with the Value knob (the one by the screen).
The full manual is available as a digital download in PDF format from the Korg website. You'll need some software to open the PDF file, but if you're using Chrome as your browser - you're in luck! It can open PDFs! Here's a link to save you the trouble of using Google: www.korg.com/us/support/download/manual/0/880/4781/ Hope that helps!
Omg, the endless tweaking. Oh , gonna show you something, hold on while a off ramp and tweak this sound or that parameter for minutes on end. It's like droning on and on and every now and then gives useful insight. Hard to watch. Like this on alot of videos in my opinion.
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I realised when I was editing that I misspoke on one of the features: I say in the video that the sequencer is global across the two layers, this is wrong - the sequencer is per layer, which is excellent. I hope you enjoy the video!
So in theory one could sequence a separate bassline and pad for instance?
@@SuchaDoofus yes - although the Modwave sequencer is so much more than "just a sequencer". The two layers can also be mapped to two different midi channels so you don't even have to use the same controller/sequencer really
yes cause there are presets in there already use that, one I heard another youtube video is a sequencing bassline while the second doing like a high swirling sequenz... Good with all the mod stuff could be a LFO or what... but from the kind its typical sequencing, anyway ... I am really curious now this synth by your video, thanks a lot anyway
@Riccardo Bacchini have you checked the Display Brightness setting in the preferences? It might be that, but honestly even at its lowest it shouldn't be that hard to see. Sounds like a fault.
@Riccardo Bacchini in the utilities. Press the Utilities button then scroll through the pages.
Wooh! That little pitch wobble in the choir is just straight up evil. I love it. Great job!
Thank you so much for this video. I just got one of these synths a few days ago and following along with this has really helped me fill in some blanks on aspects of it that just weren‘t clicking right away in my head
You're very welcome! I've done a few other deep dives on the Modwave (in particular a series on the rather unique sequencer) that you might enjoy.
Those are absolutely on my ever-growing to-watch list once I get a better handle on designing sounds on the modwave
I think you'll find the sequencer really interesting - it's more part of the sound design than it is a traditional melodic sequencer (although you can "hack it" to be that). Happy exploring, I hope you're enjoying the modwave!
Best modwave demo I’ve seen. 18 mins in and I’m running off to try ideas out. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge!
Adding the bass on layer B and then turning the MS-20 filter and resonance... so simple yet so amazing and totally ties the patch together.
Having the flexibility to configure a second layer completely independently like that is one of the most appealing aspects of the Modwave for sure. I'm glad you liked the patch!
Proper nerdy stuff, thanks for taking the time!
I love you're tutorial, especially this dark atmospheric idea get some really nice vibes to it. Absolute stunning! Thanks 👍
Brilliant extended exploration video with great explanation of what you are doing and your thought processes! I learned a lot from this.
Thanks!
Great channel! Great video. I've built most of your patch ideas for the OpSix and I use your filter-bank and comb techniques all the time. Now I reallly really want a modwave... It would complete my Korg holy trinity: Prologue, Opsix, Modwave. Anyways keep up the good work. I really enjoy your content :)
Cheers! I'm glad you enjoyed my opsix stuff because I really enjoy working with that synth - one of my favourite sound design tools for sure.
Best tutorial for Modwave on YT. Please make more if possible.
Very kind of you to say, unfortunately this was on loan from Korg and they've asked for it back now.
Another amazing vid thanks, and what a chuckle too! Love your work.
That's SUCH a great pad - I left a post on your FB channel asking if you were going to post it on your website or not. Thanks so very much!
Thank you! I wasn't planning on it, but I'll see if I can export it and pop it on Google Drive or something...
Love watching you work ! 👏🏻👏🏻🙏
Fantastic video! Got this and the opSix
Hopefully the world doesn’t end before I get a chance to explore them fully!!!
Looking forward to more on this one!!!!
Fingers crossed there's not another apocalypse pending! Enjoy exploring all those sounds!
Another great video and fantastic synth, thank you! looking forward to combine it with my Wavestate, I just love the 'happy accidents' and experimental / unexpected results that seem to often happen with those synths...
6000 nerds like myself watched this, and only 197 were not too lazy to put their thumb up. Come on guys, this content is pure gold, even if you only hear the humor hidden inside. Thank you Sir, this was so educational and fun!
Really happy to hear that you enjoyed it!
Wooo! Got the Modwave in the house now!
Looking forward to your series on this synth to help me decide on it or the Hydra. I love your Opsix videos. Korg is killing it!
Here we goooo! I'd love to have a play with a Hydra too so I could compare and contrast.
The fact that the modwave lets you load your own samples is what pushed me into getting it over the hydra. But the hydra seems to have an incredibly well designed interface, which sadly can't be said for the modwave (its not terrible but its definitely not as good).
@@ZetaCarinae Take that 10m dive into that 2cm screen menu
Great video! I got the modwave a few months ago. Your opsix videos make me want that too. Modwave seems quite deep in its possibilities, I look forward to seeing what else you do with it.
Modwave is super deep for sure I could (and probably will!) make a video just about its envelopes!
Our kind of sound, very nice!
awesome video! wow so much stuff possible with this. funny thing, theres buttons on the modwave i somehow forgot were actually there when i watched this.
Thank you!
omgosh.. Just an amazing sound that is so at 30 min around... cool
Thank you!
Magnificent!
So many options on this thing that I still can't figure out how to change a patches polyphony setting.
It's in the 'Program' menu on one of the later pages I think the page is called "Voice Assign" or something like that.
@@OscillatorSink I'll take a look.. :) thanks.
I knew this synth would be good! You really showed its power here... it makes me sad because I moved house and suddenly had to cut my budgets. This was the thing I was going to buy next and now I've had to wait until I have spare cash again :( I will get one in the end though.
Hey, don't feel sad - just look at it as an opportunity to get to know the instruments you already have even better - it'll help you appreciate it even more when you can pick one up!
@@OscillatorSink Thank you! That's actually great advice.
Hi OS seems ages since you released any tutorials which on this synth very interesting but as don’t have or will have can’t try out as I’m more a Eurorack explorer, you used to cover Modular have you given up on this was so interesting
Anyway glad your back doing what you do best
Cheers👍🆒🎶🎶🎶🕸⚡️🔱🌟🌟🌟
Funny you should ask - my next "talky" video will probably be on modular, so keep your eyes peeled 🙂
The interesting thing about the Modwave is that a lot of the features feel very 'modular' to me - I'll talk about that in some upcoming videos.
Hello Modwave!
A welcome guest I reckon!
I found time to follow along and build this patch with you. Definitely a worthwhile exercise to pause and explore from different points along the way, and it helped learning to get around the synth controls without the editor (but I miss being able to "undo" by hitting CTRL-Z like I can with the editor). I'm looking forward to your next modwave video. Soooo, I'm reluctant to be "that guy," but have you tried turning the OLED screen brightness down? It's challenging to read the display as is, so maybe that would help? I guess maybe you're at the resolution limit of your camera. If so, Korg should buy you a 4K camera and video editing rig!
If you saw my video setup you'd weep - it's not great. At all. I keep nearly upgrading, but then I'm like: "or a new synth?". Guess which option wins every time?
@@OscillatorSink and rightly so 😸
@@gazzar67 thanks for the validation, but I think this year might finally be the year for a new camera and some better lighting!
Definitely useful I could use some more in shorter points. Awesome nonetheless
keep it coming thanks.
Some more focused videos incoming soon - thanks for watching!
This was really helpful in learning how to operate the Modwave - any chance you'll be doing more patch building on this synth?
Probably! But first I need to do the long overdue part 3 of my deep dive into the sequencer (worth a watch of the first 2 parts if you want to get to grips with arguably the modwave's most interesting feature!)
@@OscillatorSink That's on my list...I'm still trying to get a hang on the basic features. I'll be hanging around your page nonetheless!
Goodn, thx for sharing 😎😍😎 geezy
Sounds exactly like the ms2000 exactly
Great content as usual :) any plans on getting the Wavestate too? I'm looking into the different videos online and I'm finding it mind blowing. Super deep actually.
I would love this synth so much more if it had better audio rate modulations on the filter or other things. I wish Korg would make it so you could use the oscillators as modulation sources .
Would be so cool if you made for example the sounds of reese or wobble so I can see how well this baby suits to me. Thank you 🙏😂
I still don't have this baby, I wait for a second hand....but it could be interesting if you could demonstrate the sample import and, for example, import some Jupiter 8 or OB-X files, to check if it could sound like those legends, with large reso sweeps and stuff, lol. That would be exciting...I have a Yammy AN1X and would like to hear or see if it could replace the AN1X.
Great video! I was wondering, how you’d go about making one oscillator an octave higher then the other. Same layer, but osc 2 an octave higher then 1?
I read through the manual, and I just couldn’t find an answer.
If you look at the position knob it has "octave" written beneath it in blue. That's a shift function. Hold shift and turn the position knob to change the octave of the currently selected oscillator. (Page 59 in the manual for reference).
@@OscillatorSink Ugh. I’m an idiot! Thank you.
Thank you so much for this incredibly helpful video! Just one specific question... do you know how / if it's possible to pan a whole layer, including effects eg Delay?
I don't have it any more, but if I recall correctly, the FX are shared between layers and can't be individually panned. The stereo delay type shouldn't ping pong the sound around and where the voice is panned, the delay should also be. The reverb will definitely diffuse across the stereo image though.
@@OscillatorSink thank you so much for very quick reply. The reverb is shared, but the delay is by layer, I had at go at some of the stereo delays but I had the same result. Oh well, not the biggest problem to have! Thanks again for the inspiration throughout these videos.
love this guide video, thanks man!
Do ytou think the modwave can create some hard gritty neuro basslines?
Thinking about importing own wave tables and use it with the software UI.
Loved your series on the Modwave!
Are you planning on revisiting the Modwave new OS in 2024?
Thanks
Thank you. I don't have it any more I'm afraid. It was on loan from Korg and they wanted it back.
@@OscillatorSink Pity, I think you would really enjoy the new OS features.
I now have my old MK i with the new OS, and the mk ii with 60 note polyphony with the same new OS.
@@SouthShoreSonics I honestly haven't looked too closely at the update - what's new?
I do not own the Modwave. I was wondering how well the arpeggiator and sequencer syncs to other gear when the Modwave is receiving MIDI clock ? Great video.
Seems to sync fine in my experience with the current version of the firmware
Do you think the modwave is different enough from the hydra as to not be redundant? I love my hydra but this seems to have a bit more one knobe per function feel and sample waves are nice as well. Tat reveb is also really nice. Hmmm...🤔
I've only used a Hydrasynth very briefly at a trade show so my opinion is only based on videos etc. I think the biggest difference comes from how complex the modulation routing and sequencer are on the Modwave and not so much from sounds where, at a high level at least I see some overlap. The Hydrasynth, however, has other performance controls going for it, not least the provision of aftertouch and the ribbon...
I think the Modwave has an advantage when you want it to "play itself" and the Hydra has an advantage when you want to feel more physically connected to the instrument you're playing.
You probably get asked this a bunch but what’s your favorite and why? The Opsix the Modwave or the Wavestate?
Opsix. I find it the most inspiring and enjoyable to use.
How do you like the Modwave so far? Are samples useful, can you manipulate them in any way?
I'm enjoying it! The samples are useful, but there's not a tonne if sample mangling you can do beyond the downstream processing with the filter, effects etc. - although the AM/Ring mod stuff is cool. You can't (at the moment) mess with chopping samples, changing loop points or anything like that. I think it's definitely "wave-table first" from a synthesis perspective, with the samples being a nice option to layer up sounds.
I'll add to this: "at the time of writing"; with firmware updates in the future, this could change.
Hi. Does the modwave contain all dwgs waveforms from dw-8000? thanks
I don't know for certain, but if it doesn't, you can import your own wavetables easily enough so if you can source them you can load them anyway.
Yeah, as far as I remember they're all included in the basic series of wavetables.
They're all there in a single wavetable. There's also an extended set in another wavetable. There was an aftermarket DW8000 kit that added extra DWGS waveforms to that, but I guess the extended set is not those waveforms.
Is Random Pitch the same as Detune?
It's detune, but it's detune per voice by different amounts. It's a nice way to make a patch feel less static.
Great stuff as alway, looking forward to seeing your deep dives on the Modwave (I love mine). As a note if you dig music with these kind of timbres I highly recommend a early 00s band Gridlock that were sort of industrial / IDM. Lots of D50 abuse: ruclips.net/video/YFLhE7VmJuw/видео.html
Thanks! I'll check that out later today!
Wait, that’s not Opsix :(
Oh, don't you worry - the opsix hasn't gone anywhere and I've been cooking up some good stuff in the background that I can't wait to share! Modwave is fun too though!
@@OscillatorSink can't wait for the next opsix video, I've learned so much from your channel. Such a resource, best op six tutorials on the internet
@@danerivera very kind of you to say so! Keep an eye on the channel, just need to get some Modwave stuff off my chest first. The envelopes alone on this thing deserve their own video.
The guy is talking about an initialised patch but doesn't tell you how to do it.
It's the first patch in the preset list. That's explained in the manual. Sorry for not pointing that out in the video.
Have you managed to find it? You'll need to press the Home button to get back to the patch selection and then scroll up to the top with the Value knob (the one by the screen).
The full manual is available as a digital download in PDF format from the Korg website. You'll need some software to open the PDF file, but if you're using Chrome as your browser - you're in luck! It can open PDFs!
Here's a link to save you the trouble of using Google:
www.korg.com/us/support/download/manual/0/880/4781/
Hope that helps!
Omg, the endless tweaking. Oh , gonna show you something, hold on while a off ramp and tweak this sound or that parameter for minutes on end. It's like droning on and on and every now and then gives useful insight. Hard to watch. Like this on alot of videos in my opinion.
No one forced you to watch it. Just click off if you're not enjoying it. It'll be OK.