Thank you so much for this video. I finally after 8 years or so understand the mod 7. I have read all the manuals several times to no avail and you just made it crystal clear for me. Many blessings your way my friend. Peace Steve
Guys like you are awesome. Thank you. So hard to even scratch the surface of the Kronos. Had my X-88 for almost a decade. Manuals not easy to grip up (how do you write a manual for something so complex?). Love seeing the practical demos and explanations. That piece of kit can do anything. First need to know what it can do (anything sonic), then know how to. Amazing piece of kit. More than just a workstation.
I have owned the kronos X for some 10 to 12 years now and untill now have not experimented with the MOD7 engine. Many thanks for this video. Very well demonstrated.
I’ve been meaning to do more tutorials on the MOD-7 engine. Specifically the waveshaper section. The fact that the same semi-modular engine contains both VPM and waveshaping makes this synth one of a kind! OP-6 is technically more versatile than MOD-7 but the internal fidelity and polyphony of the Kronos is still unmatched.
@Charles Ferraro can you use FM synthesis modulators on the PCM oscillators or is it just a quick way to throw in a sample? I'm thinking single cycle waveforms or things like that would be neat
I'd love to see you do a waveshaper series. Some ideas: Waveshapers as sound sources, using various Drive modulations (LFO, step sequencer, velocity). Waveshapers on triangles and squares in addition to sines. Waveshapers into waveshapers. Layers and splits. Then there is the use of waveshapers as saturation tools. Run a sound through a tanh or tube, and you fatten it up a bit (works with the drum kit too using Audio In). Increase your flavor of waveshaper saturation using tables such as Mixture 2, Triangles, and Phase. Again, layers and splits increase possibilities. MOD7 is also a mini-modular synth. Besides saturation of sound sources, you can saturate both pre- and post-filter, to get more variety of filter styles. Meatier, squelchier, more nasal, different high resonance breakup characteristics -- all dependent on where you place your waveshaper(s) in the Patch Panel chain. I've seen one of your older videos where you used the Inverse waveshaper to invert the phase of an oscillator. (Of course you can also just use the Phase buttons in the mixers). With creative crossfades and pitch modulation, you can create PWM style sounds on *any* sample, not just the classic saw/ramp combo. Then you have other exotic uses of waveshaping and FM, esp with 0Hz FM carriers. Different flavors of wavefolding and sync sounds using triangle, square, and sin carriers, with 45°, 60°, and 90° offsets. Monitored through a spectrum analyzer, you'll find that 0Hz wavefolding can create certain specific sounds like odd-only or even-only harmonics, grokking some of the Modwave's processing capabilities. For even harmonics, use a WS table that is symmetric about the Y axis, or else set Tri carrier to 45°, iirc (let me know if you want patches for these). As you know in your FM-inspired OSC sync videos, modulation depth matters. Subtle LFO of modulator modulation depth = modular-like wavefolding. More extreme LFO modulation pushes into OSC sync sounds. I'm sure you're also aware that besides 0Hz wavefolding, you can use the MOD7's Chebyshev waveshaper tables (sine and triangles). The 2-, 10- and 20-cycle WS tables, and Phase also do a good approximation of folding. Then there's Casio PD style fake resonance using windowed sync and ring mod. Very fun sound, and fun to watch on a spectrum analyzer too. The RM/AM block is a nice hidden tool, and can also do some harmonic trickery. I better stop, looks like I've suddenly created a wall of text. I've been away from the Kronos for awhile. Narf's MOD7 video came up in my YT recommendations, and as you can see I still have a nostalgic enthusiasm for the monster that is MOD7. Hope to see some more videos from you and Narf. I think a good portion of Kronos owners still want to learn more about their baby, and there are too few knowledgeable MOD7 content creators around. Peace!
Come on, Charles, MOD7 has *way* more versatility than its nifty little brother OP6! More flavors of wavefolding, more flexible envelopes / operators, more keys and aftertouch, more physical / virtual / MIDI controllers, more outputs, more class compliant USB ports, more FX and FX chaining, both external and internal audio input, instant live audio capture and resampling, more multisample capabilities, drum track, multiple mixers, double engine for more multitimbral possibilities (and more complex algorithms using the audio operators), more polyphony, more polyphonic and mono unison options, portamentos detunes temperaments and user scales, more flexible ring mod section, more global operator parameters (analog, brightness, key tracking), more modulation sources and destinations, more sequencers and AMS mixers, more real-time mod sources, KARMA, an open ended modular patch bay for more filter and waveshaping permutations… MOD7 rules! Enthusiasm aside, I’m hard pressed to think of things OP6 can do that MOD7 can’t…
@@psionic111 TH-cam reply I’ll go paragraph by paragraph. Waveshapers themselves cannot be sound sources. A common example of a modifier acting like a source would be filters. Resonant filters can be sources because they are able to feedback a noise floor. Waveshapers do not contain this property in and of themselves. I like the idea of sticking a waveshaper in a feedback loop though. Everything else you mentioned in the first paragraph would be great experiments to try out. I think I did use the waveshaper insert as a saturation tool in my waveshaper video on the effect unit. I also talk about how you can create multiband effects with the Stereo Isolator. I have not done a multiband split and applied Waveshapers though. Sidenote, did you know the Korg Radias has a multiband distortion effect? It’s one of the few effects that I haven’t noticed in other Korg products. Using filters pre-waveshaping is an excellent tool which is partially why the oscillators have basic filters built in. Though they’re not as interesting as using a notch filter. You can definitely create really neat pulse width modulation effects to any waveform. I don’t think there’s a way to create pulse width modulation to the pcm samples though. Unless you layer a program with two instances. And even then you could prob just use HD-1 instead. PCM aside, I have a private video showing someone how Waveshapers can manipulate pwm position. I’ll unprivate the video. It’s called “moving a wave shape to move phase“ 0 Hz FM carriers are of course waveshapers. Another interesting topic to look into is 0th harmonic artifacts from Waveshapers. The “0th” harmonic from DC offset is why there is a highpass built into the waveshaper section of MOD-7. Many Waveshapers use a highpass as a DC blocker much like the Kronos’ own Waveshapers ifx. Much of what you’re talking about in that paragraph is advanced. I haven’t heard of even-only saturation and would like to learn more about that. An even-only waveform would just be a Wave with the fundamental pitched by an an octave. From what I could understand it seems like you were describing a waveshaper that only adds odd order harmonics. Maybe I’m not accurately conceptualizing what you wrote. The fm sync video was fun for sure. Wavefolding is a topic I should study more. I don’t see too much difference between wave folders and shapers at present. I’m not familiar with Casio’s phase distortion fake reso sound, though the Waveshapers in MOD-7 can do that. And I agree, it’s fun to watch. Haven’t messed with throwing ring mod into the equation but it probably does wonders. You should do a video on that. I should try experimenting with the AM/ring section more. Your message is a nice deep dive. I definitely need to upload again soon.
All I have to say is thank you I've had the Kronos since 2014 and trying to use it for all that it's worth. It's so hard to find anyone who teaches in more detail about how powerful it is
I clicked the like button only because there is no 'I LOVE THIS!!!' button. Thank you so much. You've helped open this engine for me. I can't wait to start experimenting with this. More colors on the palette is a good thing.
Wow, learned a lot from this short video. Very nicely done - clear and specific. I am new to electronic keyboards (just picked up a Nautilus a few months ago) and also VST synths. Thank you for putting this together! Would love to see something on wave shaping function in MOD-7. Thanks again!! 😎
Thank you so much for posting this. This was one of the best lessons on creating a patch! Please keep putting more content like this on here. I love my Kronos but honestly, it really intimidates me when I try to create patches.
Really great video! I had experimented with some of the patch bay and control panel controls before, but I had no idea how to do the splits and other advanced stuff you showed here. So helpful, thank you!
Fantastic explanation. I was thrilled to see the waveshaping sine choice in oscillators. Something like my Microwave XT! Waldorfs kernel module owes a lot to this module. Would you ever consider producing a sound set showing the grungier sound from this module. I’d be your number one buyer. Thanks again.👍
This is absolutely excellent - thank you very much! If you start a ‘Korg Kronos College’… I’d attend, although with the capability of the Kronos it’d be 5 full days a week for a year 😁 I’ve had my 2 - 88 for almost 3 years and I feel that I’m still only scratching the surface.
*QUESTION: I use the Nautilus: Is there any way that I can assign an external MIDI control to manipulate the VPM ratios and amplitudes?* On the Kronos and OPSix you have knobs and sliders. I was wondering if it was possible on Nautilus too, with an external setup.
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Thank you so much for this video. I finally after 8 years or so understand the mod 7. I have read all the manuals several times to no avail and you just made it crystal clear for me. Many blessings your way my friend.
Peace
Steve
This is a great FM synthesis tutorial. Love how you take us through the different “instruments” created at different ratios. Thank you.
I could not have gotten there from the user manual. I have no background in this, and you made it look easy. Thanks...
Guys like you are awesome. Thank you. So hard to even scratch the surface of the Kronos. Had my X-88 for almost a decade. Manuals not easy to grip up (how do you write a manual for something so complex?). Love seeing the practical demos and explanations. That piece of kit can do anything. First need to know what it can do (anything sonic), then know how to. Amazing piece of kit. More than just a workstation.
I have owned the kronos X for some 10 to 12 years now and untill now have not experimented with the MOD7 engine. Many thanks for this video. Very well demonstrated.
Thanks Colin, it took me a long time to make any sense of it. Glad the video helped.
Thanks for doing this tutorial on MOD7! Good to see this under-rated synth get more loving attention.
Glad you like it!
I’ve been meaning to do more tutorials on the MOD-7 engine. Specifically the waveshaper section. The fact that the same semi-modular engine contains both VPM and waveshaping makes this synth one of a kind!
OP-6 is technically more versatile than MOD-7 but the internal fidelity and polyphony of the Kronos is still unmatched.
@Charles Ferraro can you use FM synthesis modulators on the PCM oscillators or is it just a quick way to throw in a sample? I'm thinking single cycle waveforms or things like that would be neat
@@user-pb1xd8pv2l yes you can use samples as modulators
I'd love to see you do a waveshaper series. Some ideas:
Waveshapers as sound sources, using various Drive modulations (LFO, step sequencer, velocity). Waveshapers on triangles and squares in addition to sines. Waveshapers into waveshapers. Layers and splits.
Then there is the use of waveshapers as saturation tools. Run a sound through a tanh or tube, and you fatten it up a bit (works with the drum kit too using Audio In). Increase your flavor of waveshaper saturation using tables such as Mixture 2, Triangles, and Phase. Again, layers and splits increase possibilities.
MOD7 is also a mini-modular synth. Besides saturation of sound sources, you can saturate both pre- and post-filter, to get more variety of filter styles. Meatier, squelchier, more nasal, different high resonance breakup characteristics -- all dependent on where you place your waveshaper(s) in the Patch Panel chain.
I've seen one of your older videos where you used the Inverse waveshaper to invert the phase of an oscillator. (Of course you can also just use the Phase buttons in the mixers). With creative crossfades and pitch modulation, you can create PWM style sounds on *any* sample, not just the classic saw/ramp combo.
Then you have other exotic uses of waveshaping and FM, esp with 0Hz FM carriers. Different flavors of wavefolding and sync sounds using triangle, square, and sin carriers, with 45°, 60°, and 90° offsets. Monitored through a spectrum analyzer, you'll find that 0Hz wavefolding can create certain specific sounds like odd-only or even-only harmonics, grokking some of the Modwave's processing capabilities. For even harmonics, use a WS table that is symmetric about the Y axis, or else set Tri carrier to 45°, iirc (let me know if you want patches for these).
As you know in your FM-inspired OSC sync videos, modulation depth matters. Subtle LFO of modulator modulation depth = modular-like wavefolding. More extreme LFO modulation pushes into OSC sync sounds.
I'm sure you're also aware that besides 0Hz wavefolding, you can use the MOD7's Chebyshev waveshaper tables (sine and triangles). The 2-, 10- and 20-cycle WS tables, and Phase also do a good approximation of folding.
Then there's Casio PD style fake resonance using windowed sync and ring mod. Very fun sound, and fun to watch on a spectrum analyzer too. The RM/AM block is a nice hidden tool, and can also do some harmonic trickery.
I better stop, looks like I've suddenly created a wall of text. I've been away from the Kronos for awhile. Narf's MOD7 video came up in my YT recommendations, and as you can see I still have a nostalgic enthusiasm for the monster that is MOD7. Hope to see some more videos from you and Narf. I think a good portion of Kronos owners still want to learn more about their baby, and there are too few knowledgeable MOD7 content creators around. Peace!
Come on, Charles, MOD7 has *way* more versatility than its nifty little brother OP6! More flavors of wavefolding, more flexible envelopes / operators, more keys and aftertouch, more physical / virtual / MIDI controllers, more outputs, more class compliant USB ports, more FX and FX chaining, both external and internal audio input, instant live audio capture and resampling, more multisample capabilities, drum track, multiple mixers, double engine for more multitimbral possibilities (and more complex algorithms using the audio operators), more polyphony, more polyphonic and mono unison options, portamentos detunes temperaments and user scales, more flexible ring mod section, more global operator parameters (analog, brightness, key tracking), more modulation sources and destinations, more sequencers and AMS mixers, more real-time mod sources, KARMA, an open ended modular patch bay for more filter and waveshaping permutations… MOD7 rules! Enthusiasm aside, I’m hard pressed to think of things OP6 can do that MOD7 can’t…
@@psionic111 TH-cam reply
I’ll go paragraph by paragraph.
Waveshapers themselves cannot be sound sources. A common example of a modifier acting like a source would be filters. Resonant filters can be sources because they are able to feedback a noise floor. Waveshapers do not contain this property in and of themselves. I like the idea of sticking a waveshaper in a feedback loop though. Everything else you mentioned in the first paragraph would be great experiments to try out.
I think I did use the waveshaper insert as a saturation tool in my waveshaper video on the effect unit. I also talk about how you can create multiband effects with the Stereo Isolator. I have not done a multiband split and applied Waveshapers though. Sidenote, did you know the Korg Radias has a multiband distortion effect? It’s one of the few effects that I haven’t noticed in other Korg products.
Using filters pre-waveshaping is an excellent tool which is partially why the oscillators have basic filters built in. Though they’re not as interesting as using a notch filter.
You can definitely create really neat pulse width modulation effects to any waveform. I don’t think there’s a way to create pulse width modulation to the pcm samples though. Unless you layer a program with two instances. And even then you could prob just use HD-1 instead. PCM aside, I have a private video showing someone how Waveshapers can manipulate pwm position. I’ll unprivate the video. It’s called “moving a wave shape to move phase“
0 Hz FM carriers are of course waveshapers. Another interesting topic to look into is 0th harmonic artifacts from Waveshapers. The “0th” harmonic from DC offset is why there is a highpass built into the waveshaper section of MOD-7. Many Waveshapers use a highpass as a DC blocker much like the Kronos’ own Waveshapers ifx. Much of what you’re talking about in that paragraph is advanced. I haven’t heard of even-only saturation and would like to learn more about that. An even-only waveform would just be a Wave with the fundamental pitched by an an octave. From what I could understand it seems like you were describing a waveshaper that only adds odd order harmonics. Maybe I’m not accurately conceptualizing what you wrote.
The fm sync video was fun for sure.
Wavefolding is a topic I should study more. I don’t see too much difference between wave folders and shapers at present.
I’m not familiar with Casio’s phase distortion fake reso sound, though the Waveshapers in MOD-7 can do that. And I agree, it’s fun to watch. Haven’t messed with throwing ring mod into the equation but it probably does wonders. You should do a video on that. I should try experimenting with the AM/ring section more.
Your message is a nice deep dive. I definitely need to upload again soon.
All I have to say is thank you I've had the Kronos since 2014 and trying to use it for all that it's worth. It's so hard to find anyone who teaches in more detail about how powerful it is
Thank you for the awesome demo now i want to dive into the mod 7 looks like a lot of fun!!
I've had this keyboard since new and never played around with this. Awesome!
I clicked the like button only because there is no 'I LOVE THIS!!!' button. Thank you so much. You've helped open this engine for me. I can't wait to start experimenting with this. More colors on the palette is a good thing.
Wow, thank you!
Man!!! I love your tutorials!!! So easy to understad, you make things really simple. World like to see you explaining the other engines of kronos
Glad you like them!
Wow, learned a lot from this short video. Very nicely done - clear and specific. I am new to electronic keyboards (just picked up a Nautilus a few months ago) and also VST synths. Thank you for putting this together! Would love to see something on wave shaping function in MOD-7. Thanks again!! 😎
Oh wow - finally I began to understand the MOD-7
Thank you so much for posting this. This was one of the best lessons on creating a patch! Please keep putting more content like this on here. I love my Kronos but honestly, it really intimidates me when I try to create patches.
Thanks, will do!
Really great video! I had experimented with some of the patch bay and control panel controls before, but I had no idea how to do the splits and other advanced stuff you showed here. So helpful, thank you!
Glad it helped!
There is not many great video’s for mod7, this one is brilliant, showing why the mod7 is one or the most advanced FM synths..
Thank you Jules
Another highly informative video, thank you again Francis
My pleasure!
Fantastic explanation.
I was thrilled to see the waveshaping sine choice in oscillators.
Something like my Microwave XT!
Waldorfs kernel module owes a lot to this module.
Would you ever consider producing a sound set showing the grungier sound from this module.
I’d be your number one buyer.
Thanks again.👍
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video, thanks for posting!!! You make it so easy to follow!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this great tutorial. So clear, simple, and powerful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. This video has been very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
I love it, Kronos so powerful!!!
Thank you for this tutorial.
Very clear, I have to learn a lot more, but thanks for this😅
This is absolutely excellent - thank you very much! If you start a ‘Korg Kronos College’… I’d attend, although with the capability of the Kronos it’d be 5 full days a week for a year 😁 I’ve had my 2 - 88 for almost 3 years and I feel that I’m still only scratching the surface.
Thank you! I do offer online lessons in case you're interested at narfsounds.com/lessons.
Thank you so much, great tutorial!
Really so great, well explained, smart and pleasant tutorial. It is easy to follow. Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Your welcome. You know, such a tutorial about the Str-1engine would be very useful too. Because it is one of the more complex in the Kronos.
Very very educational thanks for this video
Great man!!
This was awesome. Well done. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
so helpful ❤️👌
Salamat po
Thanks a lot 🙏
Amazing tutorial
Glad you liked it
*QUESTION: I use the Nautilus: Is there any way that I can assign an external MIDI control to manipulate the VPM ratios and amplitudes?* On the Kronos and OPSix you have knobs and sliders. I was wondering if it was possible on Nautilus too, with an external setup.
Yes it’s just a matter of figuring out which sysex messages correspond to them. It should be in the midi implementation document.
Thats Brilliant .. Thanks :-)
Glad you liked it!
VERY GOOD
Thank you! Cheers!
So can you use samples as operators (oscillators) within an algorithm, as a modulator, or a carrier?
Like the sy99/77 ?
You can connect it to the signal chain. I think just as a modulator.
Great tutorial. But how to adjust velocity?
In the Amp modulation page
Thanks bro!
This could be used for Oasys???
Yes it’s exactly the same synth engine.
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