I made a song with the stupidest instrument I own
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2023
- The Korg Monotron is to my knowledge the cheapest analogue synth on the market. It is also a very silly instrument, and as someone who takes their silliness very seriously, I figured I'd put it through its paces as a songwriting tool, both with my pedalboard for an exploratory jam, and in my DAW for the actual songwriting bit.
Gear used:
Korg Monotron
Zoom MS70CDR
TC Electronic Flashback II
Bright Onion Pedals tap tempo
TC Electronic Infinite Sample Sustainer
Mooer Pitch Box (in loop of the Infinite Sample Sustainer)
Bright Onion Pedals 1 in/1 out patchbay
Boss RC-30 Loop Station
Cockos REAPER
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Welcome to Stupid Gear! About the world's most stupid audio tools. At the first glance, the Korg Monotron is ticking all the boxes!
I see what you did there! #badgear @audiopilz
Brilliant! A combo of tech and song writing skills, not to mention video production! Well crafted, sir.
I love this! My entire collection consists of shitty, second-hand gear and low-rent instruments, and it's a part of my whole mission as a musician to make the best music I can out of the worst instruments I can find. I make some of my own with trash!
YES! Can I hear your music anywhere?
Great video!!!
You really squeezed that little box. Korg owes you an endorsement paycheck now.
such a dope track, good job man!
Very good video. Love the idea you had of using just the Monotron as the base instrument, passing it through anything you could find to make difference.
That was quite an end result, mister! Really love this late 70's song you made! Subscribed!
Very inspiring my Ma'man! Silly is the secret to my success ;) Love what you came up with...I think I'll look into purchasing one to see what I can come up with myself! 👏👏👏
Love this. Great work Nick. :-)
This is insane in the best way!
Korg Monotron was my first piece of gear ever and I still love it!
Subscribed for more 👍
Deserves thousands of likes
Boris Johnson's in da house! Good job - catchy little number. Loved the kick sound.
This was pretty awesome.
This was great! I just got my first synth of any kind (Moog Mavis), and I want to see how far I can go with a minimal amount of gear... so this video was quite inspiring. Thanks and cheers!
Oh I’m so glad! The Mavis looks great - I’ve been wondering about getting a semimodular synth just to mess around with something totally unfamiliar… Hope you have a great time with it!
@Nick Siepmann I recommend the PWM Malevolent, it sounds evil!
monotrons are great, I made some live shows and videos and four albums all with monotrons
It brings back early memories of me watching Sooty and Sweep! What's that Sweep? Sue not talking to you now for some reason? Sorry I digress.. Thank you for sharing! OH MY Goodness. You're just made me realise something else.. There was a 70's Children's TV programme called 'The Tomorrow People' (Yes they were called programmes back then) The lead sound is identical!
I have that one, and the space sounding one. I like them. You can change things around. I composed a few songs with it too. They came out really nice. It was a great investment. You can change the sounds once they are corded on the DAW. I like your video. You are very talented.
Love it!
Very well done!
"Wibbly"....must be somewhat like "wobbly", but perhaps at a higher pitch....great video and highly inspirational....I've got a Monotron Delay and so much fun!
New rule: ‘wibbly’ = high
‘Wobbly’ = midrange
‘Wub’ = dubstep bass
We solved it folks 😁
I love this guy! New subscriber here
the monotron delay is awesome
Indeed! Check the solo of my track Lord, I take your power in me ( Jason Basson And Lady Nathalie ). I played it live into Ableton. greetings
I used to play keytar in a progressive rock band. For a while I had one of these fastened to the strap so I could just reach up with either hand and do weird sweeps and wobbly stuff on it whenever I wanted. It was like my secret little weapon!
That’s awesome 😁
Good job!
That vocoded voice is too lofi to be understood but bass and drums are sounding great. I liked that constriction of snare sounds using multiple "trash" sounds.
Yeah, I struggled a bit with the vocoding - haven’t had much experience with it so far! Need to do some experimentation to find what works
Amazing! I think I’m going to have get a Monotron!!!
The thing about the monotron is it actually has a pretty decent oscillator and filter. Limited, but good. Some people have done some incredible mods. I wish I could remember the exact details but there's what basically amounts to an ms-10 from modding one of these
cool mate, nice job, loving it
Super cool, subbed
Amazing video. Keep it up man, you're going to blow up if you keep this going.
Honestly I'm just happy to have reached the point where I'm reaching people and getting to connect with them in the comments - so thank you!
@@nsiepmann I understand, I feel the same way. At the same time I’ve watched many small channels over the last 6 years of YT and you have massive potential to blown up at some point. Stay safe and keep creating
Top notch
Great ideas!!
I don't own a loop-pedal or anything similar but I can manage a loop-record method using FL Studio and
the Monotron's nephews 'Duo' and Monodelay' I got for Xmas-present some time ago, will be featuring here. 😊
Nice! The delay one looks so fun - I’m a sucker for weird feedbacky delay effects 😁
Lo Fi Infected Mushroom vibes once the vocoded lyrics became a thing.
Nice song, ...I may enjoy the lyrics even more than the sounds.
Nice!
has a great cyberpunk/ darkwave feel.
Like it.
very clever
Magic stuff. You know your onions my friend.
Thank you!
You should put korg monotron in the video title - making a song with my stupid korg monotron
Agreed
Kickdrum? put a cable in the input, turn up the resonance, set the frequency pretty low, lfo to filter, boom, boom, boom!
That's just great, great. Just to prove what can be done with a simple, mono, tone generator.
While millions are crying over what something doesn’t have that allegedly stymies their creativity, Nick is out here making things happen. Well done.
😁 Don’t get me wrong, I do plenty of thinking myself into a corner like that, but I’m trying to get better at it - which is what videos like this are for!
Monotrons are cool i blew my chance at one and regret it
Very nice track you made! Never underestimate the power of the Monotron! They are capable of big sounds! Listen to my track "Lord I take your power in me"( Jason Basson And Lady Nathalie ) For the solo I used the Monotron Delay directly inside Ableton. I played it live. Greetz from Belgium.
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That voice is way more annoying than the synth 🤷🏼♂️