BOOcast - Synth of the Month: Korg MicroKorg
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2022
- This is taken from BOO-cast episode 7 (bit.ly/boocast7).
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after 3 seconds of demo I'm sold
Plugged my microkorg in last week after having it leaning against the wall for many years. I was surprised how much fun it was to play much better than I remembered. Great synth
Hahaha LOVE the vintage labelmaker stickers on the "genre knob"! I put them on mine too but turned it into an instrument knob (bass,leads,strings, etc)
Omg this is such a great in depth video. I pulled out my Microkorg after like 3 years. ❤ Thanks
Thank you very much! Give that ol' MicroKorg some love!
8:15 the wobble on that knob is mesmerising 😵💫
You should see it fall off. Heartstopping!
I love this synth so much. I’ve been playing synths since the early 90s, and this is still one of my favorites. So inspiring.
Yes, I feel a bit bad for neglecting mine so long... It's out in the open now though!
Sounds great for any style
Still great, still sounds fresh !
What a dreamy review!!! thank you
2:54 Strictly speaking it IS multitimbral....there ARE 2 (which is a multiple of one!) timbres to be used.
The MicroKorg was my first synth. I didn’t know anything about subtractive synthesis, and I have to say I don’t think it was the best starting point for someone who wanted to learn to program their own sounds. The edit select system is elegant, but I’m envious of people getting into synths now, with stuff like the Minilogue and Microfreak and stuff like that. Sure does pack a lot of punch for its size though, and I think if I had one now I’d probably be much more at home programming sounds on it.
Thank you, yes, I hadn't thought of that... I suppose the editing system could be a barrier to learning... my first synths were the Yamaha CS01 and the Roland SH01... both analogue and both pretty simple synths with everything on the front panel... I guess what I meant was that the MK is a lot of synthesis for a small price, but you're right, if I hadn't had experience with the "real thing" I may not have made the connection to the edit system... when I use it, I'm almost forced to visualise what might be happening on a real synth with a real interface just to make sense of what's happening.... If I hadn't had that experience, maybe It wouldn't have made any sense to me? Good point!!
Totally agree...Learning how to program this synth is torture.
Same. It was both my introduction into it and my impetus to prefer one knob per function stuff… my eyes go cross-eyed trying to reference the table for knob functions.
That said, I’ve been thinking about controlling it from my big poly for a long time, and this video might be the impetus to actually get round to it. I can customise the CC-out for every knob, so I should be able to get a lot more out of the microKORG than I did on its own.
Thanks so much for this explanation!!!
TIP....The Vocoder is fine if you use a different microphone.
Exactly. I have a Shure SM-58 & have used the MK's vocoder on my music w NP. WORLD of difference compared to the little mic that comes with it
my go to for making pads and arppegios for my friend new song - experiment; trust for fun ))
The great sound wow Micro Korg Is very good
I used to go into Turnkey, bought a JP8000 from there
Loved Turnkey.
classic
The Korg XL is also fantastic as is the Micro Korg S. The S is similar to yours and has built in speakers.
We played with a band recently that had 2 Microkorg S... Nice update!
Had one. Some sounds and waves were a bit cheesy, but you got a complete, deep, powerful (quite vast sound palette and lot of modulation possibilities) and polyphonic little portable synth, and relatively inexpensive too.
Well I'm using a Yamaha DJ x from 1998 and it's still mint condition
probley my favorite keyboard
splendid!
me too
You know, I had completely forgotten it has 4 voices; I always made the layered sounds and then got frustrated when I could at best outline chords.
I don’t think I’d found the extra waveforms though, so if I used those tricks to get a chord per key I could probably get my favoured 4-6 stacked chords coming out.
That’s of course an old synthesist trick but this was my first synth after only ever playing acoustic instruments (sax and guitar). So I still came at it from a “classical” perspective - always playing every note manually. It was only much later I’d learned about getting chords out of a single key and playing chord melodies single-fingeredly!
Personally I prefer vocoders with low intelligibility, though I’m also inclined to agree with the assessment of its utility - I got much more use out of the “vocoder” as a guitar effects unit!
I’ve mostly left my microKORG alone since I got a bigger analogue poly, though I always intended to hook them up together because I knew in theory the sounds weren’t that similar despite the microKORG calling itself analogue modelling. This video reminded me of how different the filter and the wave folder sound, super glassy and crisp stuff. So I definitely want to integrate it back into a bigger permanent setup with MIDI snaking everywhere.
Especially if I automate the wave selection through CCs from a DAW, and also run its output through the analogue filters in my bigger synth… Wave scrolling with analogue resonance: that could be a fun mix!
U play very nicely.
That's very kind of you!
2:32 Just a "good" Vocoder...
A true Vocoder uses the clean mic signal mixed in...Most people tend to use it wrong...They expect it to be like "autotune" but in reality , if you want to hear what is being sung, you ORIGINALLY Neede to mix in the voice with a separate mic. So this Vocoder is EXACTLY as it is meant...The Microfreak for example does not do it much different/better.
It is funny, that the sound on 21:00 (you said about it "you are not gonna use it") is used on Gorillaz song "The Joplin Spider" (here ruclips.net/video/tYVrv0r5ekg/видео.html )
Yeah, similar
It’s a fantastic synth. I owned the Micro Korg XL a few years ago. I’ve owned other keyboards over the years including Novation Mini Nova which to is EXCELLENT. Please check me out here on youtube thanks.
Our friend's first synth was the Mininova, and he loves it still... He was a folk musician before he touched the Mininova!