KORG ms-20 mini jam session
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Got my KORG ms-20 this week. Hooked it up for the first time today through a ibanez analogue Echo Shifter delay.
The ms20 was synced with a KORG monotribe through a jomox t-resonator with added rev+ddl FX.. the ms20 is clean except for the analogue delays.
No multitracking... one take no edits and overdubs straight into DAW just some limiter to keep the peaks down. And yep, its noisy and hissy, but thats the way i like it.
And yeah, i suffer from "cutoff frequency knob ticks"... 30 years w analogue synths does that to you :)
#ms20
i watch a lot of synth videos. i drive my girlfriend completely nuts with how many synth videos i watch. this is one of like 3 that i come back to just for the music itself. well done, intrepid composer/performer
haha, tell you what.. that could be an exact description of myself, hahaha :D thanks for coming back, and for the listen!! cheers !
What are the other youtube videos that are awesome - intrigued?
Then im curious what the other two are...
Listen this : MicroBRUTE Solo Tape 1- Old Berlin School
@@BURG jeee, me too. Life is hard. ;/ Need to decide which one to get: Moog GM, Arp Odyssey or MS 20 mini...
This is sick. It's hard to find demos of synths in a style that I actually enjoy listening to. Keep it up man.
thanks a lot mate, appreciated! cheers!
truth!!
Your demo make me buy ms-20 directly
The can of beer on the right is the real source of the sounds!
oh yes, indeed it is! :D thanks for listening, peace!
What was just a jam for you is now one of my favorite electronic tracks of all time. Thank you for this. I've been listening to this for years.
big thanks, that makes me happy! :) peace!
Same. I got a MS-20 Mini and found this video looking through tutorials a few years back and this song is so nice I keep coming back to this video to keep listening to it. Are there any off youtube recordings of this?
After watching some of these analog jams, I don't think I'll ever be truly satisfied with my VST synths. Analog just sounds...SOOOO good.
Yeah, i agree... i have never really been friends with my VSTs in terms of creativity. I have the Artuira V collection for example, but it never really replaces the real deal... having one of two analogue machines will do magic for your creativity (at least thats the way for me) Peace, and dont stop the music!
ollilaboratories How did you go about making the sound at the beginning? Really incredibly rich sound texture, I love it,
Ollie I listen to this on my train ride from work almost every day. It really helps me de-stress. Thank you for making such powerful spacy music.
+The Root Cause thanks man, cheers!
ollilaboratories This is huge. I don't know how else to describe it. Truly amazing, I'm so glad you shared it with the world!
Strong BoC vibes, in the absolute best way possible.
Not only do I keep listening to this but I am developing a deep seated need for an analog synth even though I'm a guitar player and would have no idea what I was doing.
Once you had a deep seated need for a guitar, even though you had no idea what you were doing :)
Same thought!!!
Yeah. Sounds like a cross between Geogaddi and Tomorrow’s Harvest.
I have been watching this video for at least 5 years, never gets old. God level of simplicity only comes from god levels of understanding your instrument. Brilliant work brother.
Big thanks for the kind words! Peace 🎹😎🎹
When I wasn't happy with the sounds I was getting from my new Korg Minilogue, this is the video that made we realise what to swap it for. MS20 is an awesome synth and this is the best track I've heard to showcase it. Absolutely stunning...
big thanks!! :) yeah, the filter in the ms-20 is something special, miles ahead of the minilogue in character, i hear you on that one, cheers !
I accidentally found my way back to this after hearing it many months ago, and it's just as cool as I remember. I could really imagine this playing over the end credits of a Tron film. And that, just in case it's not clear, is a big compliment. :)
thanks a lot man, much appreciated! :) cheers !
... thanks, a lot! This Video was the reason that I drove to a music store and got a synth. With the learning curve, maybe in 50 years I can create sth, like this. Hope I have enough lifetime left to learn. Very, very inspiring!
Given the fact that it was released on 1978, this little machine was WAY ahead of its time..
This is hands down the best jam/track I’ve ever seen
Everyone talks about how aggressive the MS-20 Mini is...this video highlights it’s not just that but can get some very expansive and smooth sounds as well. This sold me
I was searching for MS20 demos, but I found my new favorite song. Can't stop playing this one.
thanks a lot! :) cheers
I just bought myself an MS20 Mini and have been obsessed with it. To quell my obsession a bit while not around it, I left this on loop while I worked today and now I’m home from work with it on loop again while I make dinner. Amazing textures and sounds.
May just have to knick that patch you’ve got going here :)
Also, I can’t explain how the synth line bubbling up at 2:05 with the drums going on makes me feel.
This jam is phenomenal.
I just bought one of these, waiting for shipment now. Found this vid expecting a silly jam, ended up finding an incredible groove that I will likely download and listen to thousands of times.
Thanks!!!
That slow detuning of one of the oscillators starting around 6:00 sounded fucking awesome!
big thanks! :)
Aaawww man how I love synthesizers
this music made me travel through space so beautifully
Who in the name of music can dislike something like this???
:D
maxx magnus I agree..it's pretty spectacular
I remember listening to this while absolutely stoned out of it and it sounded so fucking beautiful.Mad props good work man
Love this... you can’t beat those lush analogue sounds when having analogue highs. They go hand in hand with each other even if we do listen over a digital medium. The foundations area what connect.
Yeah, don't ever smoke digital pot. Yes, it dilates time, but only in discrete intervals. It really sucks.
Absolutely brilliant. I lay back listening to this track. It sent me into a such a deep state of relaxation that even the muscles in my eye sockets relaxed - so much so that when I sat up my eyes fell out.
I had the same thing happen with my neck muscles.
I watched this video for the first time 7 years ago. I happened upon it once again just now and immediately remembered how great this track is. Among the thousands of synth demos I have watched since then this one still ranks very highly. Kudos!
I found this song a year ago, and still listening to it. I've heard it about a hundred times already, and still get goosebumps!!!
I bought an ms-20 mini thanks to this video about a year ago and I've loved it since.
Found this for the demo years ago and I find myself coming back for the music. I couldn’t count the times I’ve listened to this on repeat.
Thanks a lot!! :) its great fun to hear, this is one of the first proper videos i made back int he day :D cheers !
I wrote this comment 3 years ago and it’s still holding true today.
Fully climaxed listening to this. Unbelievable track, absolutely loved it. I picked up an MS-20 today and I’ve been watching every video I can, easily my favorite one so far. So glad I’ve got a reverb/delay pedal for it so I can achieve a similar vibe
Excellent track (or jam)! Sounds like Boards of Canada, or something that inspired BOC. It's pure magic. Bravo!!
Thanks!! yeah, many have compared this to BOC, funny thing is that i discovered them after the fact when people mentioned that after posting this vid... a great band for sure. Cheers and thanks !!
lol
I totally didn't expect this little jam to turn out to be a well composed and complete song, very impressed!
big thanks! :)
Fantastic sounds, really great job. I hope more people support your bandcamp because you've got a great aesthetic.
thanks a lot!! cheers and thanks for the support!
Jake Chudnow vibes. Awesome
Just picked up an MS20 mini. Can't wait to to learn all the ins and outs.
Love your videos. They're so inspiring.
nobel 11 thanks a lot, and happy to hear about your new ms-20, you will love it! cheers!
Same
The detune bit was fire, and resolving the tension was just slow enough to make this certified "naughty."
Thanks a lot!! 🎹🙌
Very cool jam. You may have sold me in getting this!
I recently got into synths, and i can say this is very inspiring. This motivates me to practice more.
I don't know too much about synthesizers but this sounds really awesome.
You know how to play around with synth effects and sound designing! It sounds GREAT!! Just PERFECT!**********
This sounds super close to Reach for Dead by Boards of Canada. Similar harmony and vibe.
I actually discovered BoC after i made this one (someone told me some of my tunes it sounded like them).. and just like that i had a new favourite band :) cheers and thanks for listening!
A good reverb really is the key to making some great music with these analog synths
I just purchased a Ventris dual reverb and it really adds a lot. 👍
Your best song so far - 6:00 and onwards rocks
Maybe it's because I am Scots. It similar to some music my Uncles played on pipes. For a 'jamming' session this is hypnotic. I am now old enough at 58yrs to remember building VCO & VCF's from discrete components ( and pocket money ) and mating them to a keyboard switch array, to approximate a Moog; we could not afford the "real thing". The sound you have achieved is without doubt, through much experience, astonishing. Pass it on - What was ALL the other kit you were using. Thank you, GordonJ, Edinburgh, UK.
Hi! wow what a great story, thanks for sharing! also thanks much for liking the music and the comment, really appreciated!
On the kit in this video, ms20 mini is synced with the monotribe melody which is connected thruohg the jomox t-resonator which has a DDL/rev fx setting.. the ms20 is kept clean except for the analogue delays by the ibanze es-2 echo shifter.
thanks!
Such a dreamy synthesized sound you have going on there, sounds very boards of canada'y lol.
fantastic use of the korg mini, i also love the sound of the kick on the monotribe
Damn so much neon Indian vibes I fucking love it . I feel like I'm running to a mountain top being chased by wolves while being filmed on VHS. Can't wait to get this for my birthday
If you think this sounds like Neon Indian, you should go listen to some Tangerine Dream or Klaus Schulze, where all these current electro bands "borrow" heavily from.
+the radical kindness I'll have to listen to klaus I have a tangerine dream LP I love there stuff . Speed dragons one of there best songs imo
Christian Lopez Yeah, definitely check out their stuff from the 70s, up through Force Majeure. Klaus Schulze was in Tangerine Dream but his early 70s solo stuff is utterly amazing. You'd love that too, I think.
An analog synthesizer a delay pedal plus a beer, nice!
nice session the echo sounds really good too :)
That glissando thing just after 8 minutes was slick
Säger som alla andra: väldigt vackert!! En av de videos som gjorde att jag bestämde mig för ms-20.
this is absolutely brilliant!! there are not enough musicians like you about in the north east of England!!
dammmn i want a korg
Have just watched this again after a few years.
This was the first video / sound demo I watched about hardware synths ever.
Without that one, I wouldn't have 8 Synths by my side now.
Thanks Olli.
Thanks mate !! keep up the music!! peace
Wow! Awesome job and a nice delay :D
"Tiger brand beer...it's a real treat..even real Tigers prefer it to real meat !" Seriously though. this is a nice eloquent composition. I love it. Kudos to you brother...an excellent use of time effects.
1:49 when the beat drops
This video made my buy this synth. Gotta love the polyphony that you took out of a mono synth
very very cool sounds and composition !
clap clap
That session. Inspiration dude. U might call yourself Holylaboraties, this describes your work in an accurate way !
Brilliant!
Thanks for sharing!!!
thanks!
It was this video that inspired me to buy my ms20. 2 years later and I’m still rocking out daily.
So fun to hear, the ms-20 is still a favourite!! cheers !
I think i'll have to go and get some paper towels now :-p
haha, thanks! :)
Ha?
I unliked this so I could like it again. Undoubtedly, Korg owes you some money for selling so many of these. You're a fantastic musician, sir.
Mind == blown
John Dow thanks a lot!! peace!
still an amazing and musical demo, much better than the "typical" demos I listened before I bought my MS-20 mini :-)
hehe, thanks a lot mate!! Really fun that ppl still look at this one :D
Still awesome
This is my favorite MS-20 jam.
Thanks! :) cheers
i like everything about this...synth sounds great, delay sounds great, tiger from a can (especially a small can) is very rare (at least in dublin) and great! how do you find the echo shifter? like how is the tap tempo on it? you find it easy enough to sync things? also what on the ms 20 min do you have in sync with the monotribe - is it like the re trig? cheers
conor
thanks a lot!! yeah, the tiger local here in asia, so not that hard to get your hands on. :) The echo shifter is great for the purpose.. eg as analogue delay for my ms20 mini, for guitar i have no idea.. its not the best "sounding" out there but it was cheap and will self oscillate if needed. =) Easy to set tempo, tap works fine, but the slider is a bit tricky at times. On this track i dont remember what i trigged on the ms20, i guess its the trig.. cheers, and thanks for commenting!
Jamming to this is like jamming with myself...
This is eerie. Loving the vibes..
why cant I find someone like you in my town,... sigh
fantastic stuff!
This belongs in a movie soundtrack man, incredible. I see a running man remake lol
6:00 OMG :O Eargasm
This just gets better as it goes along...
Dude I'd love to know a bit about the patch you made for this song. Really nice sound.
i saw this synth in a music store and i absolutely loved it. The thing is the headphones they provided were absolutely destroyed and i couldn't hear half the frequency spectrum.
What are you using for the drums? I really like this song btw
I understand it is a Korg monotribe, you can see a little of it at the right of the screen
I heard this session one day in the background.
Later I tried finding it in my history.
Our Overlords Opinion, “It might make him happy later”.
So..... Thank you YTOLs for suggesting it Again.
I think I may have commented before too... 🤔
Weirdest at Play.
God Bless. Got you sub now.
Keep up the Jam.
Make Analog Great Again.
If I WANT one of these, is it the same as NEEDING one? Some one please say yes so I have an excuse to buy even MORE gear. :)
You know you NEED it, mate. Stop lying to yourself and get ALL. THE. GEAR.
:D
I know!, right? LOL :D
oh man don't do this to me, seriously! I am soooo tempted!
You should know by now that as a musician, 'want' and 'need' are synonyms.
I know right? LOL :)
I've been a guitar player my entire life pretty much, and have been thinking about diving into the synth universe here lately, and this song/video sealed the deal for me. My synth journey started here. 🤘🤘🤘
Happy to help with inspiration!! Good luck with the synth journey, I hope you will have loads of fun! :) cheers
"No multitracking... one take no edits and overdubs straight into DAW just some limiter to keep the peaks down" - can you explain this for me as if I were a 5th grader? I know what multitracking is but how do you get all those layers looping (or not ) on one track? What DAW? Great stuff too, thanks.
What you see is simply recorded live in one take with no overdubs e.g all sounds you hear is made on the spot. The DAW (cubase) is just used as a 2 track tape recorder and post dynamic processing of the audio file. cheers
I think that deserves a sip of beer.
And all that was inspired by just one can of Tiger beer.
oh yes, thats where all the inspiration comes from :)
No wonder Devo loved this unit so much!
Devo's mainstay synth was the Moog Minimoog. I don't know that they ever used this one, but I might be wrong. Maybe during the 2010s or something, but for the most part it was the Minimoog, the EML 500, and the Moog Sonic Six
this is great dude! on 3:34, your fading in a new tone., where does that come from? from the ms20? how then..?
Im wondering the same thing. Isnt he sampling it with that other korg?
@@isthisviolence also interesting to know.
It's the little things that make you happy, lush my friend, just lush, more please 😊
I really want to get into using synths for kind of Prog rock type music and stuff similar to what you're playing. What equipment, other than the synth, is required?
I know you need an amp, but will a Marshall guitar amp work?
Thanks :)
hi! some sort of line mixer is recommended.. marshall amp will do, but since its not really made for line in audio use you will loose the overall dynamic range and timbre (if using hi-z inputs on an guitar amp)
so, get a line mixer and studio speakers/and or use with current hifi equipment/speakers... combined with a DAW+soundcard. Nowadays when you buy a soundcard you get a lite version of a DAW included. Check with your local music retail store for great deals!
also, check this thread on getting started tips:: synthtopia, www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/11/25/open-mic-what-gear-would-you-recommend-for-someone-getting-started-with-electronic-music/comment-page-3/
peace!!
For synths you probably want a bass amp or a keyboard amp so the speakers can handle the lows.
Thanks for this song, It's my inspiration every time I work on architecture projects, I've been listening to it since 2014 when I was looking for the Ibanez ES-2 demos. Thanks for making it.
what did you use to make the drum loop?
Pretty sure it's the korg monotribe you can see hiding on the right.
+m thanks man! pretty cool jam btw
I remember some years ago, I see this video, I really enjoyed it but don’t know why? Now, same pleasure but with better hears and understanding better why it was so good.
Hello there, I like your session, by the way, this guy is using your audio: th-cam.com/video/D5HWKx1yDMQ/w-d-xo.html Did you let him?
I play a little bit of guitar, I have no idea how to play keyboards let alone manipulating analog synthesizers but you make me want to learn it all. Keep on posting videos.
You can do it, keep up the music!! cheers and thanks!
I've already played this about 5 times. You really should put together a release, this is some really amazing stuff.
thanks for the kind words, its really fun to hear you like the stuff! Seems that I might have to consider doing a proper recording of some of the tracks. :) peace!
I've listed to this about 10 times a day for the last few week. If you put together a release I'd buy it.
John Porter thanks mate! Cant tell what the future holds, but seems ppl really like this one. :) Cheers!
Yes this sounds really beautiful an I also have BOC in my favourites list. So distant, old and home'y sounding. Reminds me my childhood. Beautiful.
thanks a lot :) cheers
i just bought this delay pedal, if my girlfriend gets mad at me for spending money before x-mas, i'm telling her its your fault. btw, amazing jam, ive been watching this for two years.
+Thierry Henri Côté haha, no worries... i can take the blame, just point to this message as proof!! cheers, and thanks for listening :)
My favorite synth of all time! Nice use of the ibanez echo module to control the noise factor of the ms20
thanks man, cheers !
+ollilaboratories hi! great video, i often listen to it because it sounds so good! I wanted to ask you something: is this synth as noisy as a lot of people is saying? and what is that ekofarm is referring to? I have read somewhere that effect pedals help taming the noise, is it true?
I'm late to this but well done and very enjoyable. Shows just what the ms-20 can do.
the mau5 vibes are strong in this one
This made me not only buy a MS 20 mini, but also make my own music. many thanks 👍
To me, You are the music of this century. I listen to this song in my studio, in my car, in my kitchen, in my garage. Unbeatable.
thank you for the kind words!! cheers
Came for a sound review... stayed when the first beat kick in
This video just solidified me buy the MS20 Mini.