Start using the vocoder on the microKORG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มี.ค. 2018
- In this video tutorial, I will show you how to make ambient and noise soundscapes with the Korg microKORG vocoder feature. These textures, drones, and noise walls can hold their own for recording or add to your overall composition. Experiment!
For questions, please comment below. I'll try and answer appropriately!
Signal chain:
Panasonic Cassette Recorder
Korg microKORG
DOD Stereo Chorus
Traynor TS-15
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Man I was honestly about to give up on the microkorg until I stumbled across your videos. Literally the best tutorials out there man!
That is so kind! Thank you for checking out my channel, Sam. I can't wait to share more, so please check back soon.
can confirm
3:25 those little percussion sounds! sweet!
i have plugged my guitar into before.. some very jangly shoegazy stuff you can do.. i can't believe i didn't think of this and i never knew about the latch feature to grab a section of sound and loop it.. 12 years later i am still learning about more this little guy can do!
I’ve had my Microkorg for about 9 years and still don’t know how to use it right,I just know it’s potential.I’m not really a direction manual type of guy because I’ve had so many synths in my life,I just figure them out,but the Microkorg is not the everyday synth by any means.To this day it still holds the top spot in its category.Thank you for your videos,as I even have trouble getting my voice to even enter the MK’s “brain.”THANX 4 your videos and I’ll continue looking you up for more help…Great job!
Yeah I can't really be 4rsed to read through the manual. Maybe here and there just to figure out how to do something but I just won't take the information it reading through the manual.
This has definitely motivated me to save for the one in the junk shop near me!
DUDE YOU’RE A GENIUS, I LOVE YOU VIDEOS
That's awfully kind, thank you!
Thanks for posting, just got a microKorg and these tutorials have been been great. I'm running my phone into the audio ins with Akai's iMPC playing some beats and getting some very cool effects.
Just got my korg today. Got a lot of learning to do lol this looks like so much fun
such a cool idea, i never knew you could do that sort of thing with the vocoder!
This is awesome! Sounds killer.
Many thanks for posting this. Got my micro a few weeks ago, lots of hidden obscure possibilities with this, most intriguing perhaps is the vocoder.
This video has persuaded me to purchase another one of these (it's on the way 😁). Can't believe I didn't think of this. Thanks you!!
I love all your videos! I've had a microkorg for about a year and a half now and your videos have been the most accessible way to get the sounds that I've been looking for. I really enjoy the ambient shoe-gazey side of synthesis. Unfortunately I don't have anything to suggest right now, but keep it up and keep putting out videos!
Thank you so much for checking out the videos. I hope to keep making some posts for gazers and wavers alike! Stay tuned.
Great video my brother. I just got one today and oh my I was laying down some of that funky stuff within minutes.
Sounds really good!
Excited getting one in the next day or two
the vocoder is no joke indeed...
Fantastic brother. Thanks so much.
I was messing about with the microphone with the vocoder patches on my microkorg S and was very disappointed in them all. I'm glad the vocoder can be of some use with audio played through the vocoder jack
So excellent, thank you very much.
You're a synth wiz, thank you.
Amazing!
Hi Daniel do you know if the new micro korg s has the same functions? Great video thinking of getting one in the next week or two but don't know which one new or older.
Alessandro Cortini hell yeah!
Wow. I really need to purchase a Microkorg. xD Thank you for all these tutorials!
Luckily, the ideas can be applied to many other synths too!
Daniel Kastner Yes I already tried something similar with the Vocoder section of my Roland JD-Xi and it sounded great! :3
never considered running other audio sources into the vocoder. Dig!👍
Do you think that's possible with other synths that have a vocoder too? Life for example the microfreak?
Have you ever tried to connect the audio out of a drumsynth to it? Oh boy, I am even stunned of the imagination :D
And again thx for your inspiration and help!
Wow! Brilliant stuff here. I love that texture. What did you record on the tape initially? I love this. May have to get a tape recorder and a microkorg just based on this video.
Thank you so much! I recorded some guitar loops and other microKORG sounds on this tape in a very similar manner. It's the gift that keeps on giving! I might make a video showing how I completely make these sounds too. You should be able to find an old tape recorder at a thrift shop or online for a pretty reasonable price.
Seriously though why doesn't this guy have more subs?
Have you seen any video of people using 4-tracks as an instrument? Would be interesting to put one through this
Hey, nice videos. I'm mainly a guitar player and don't know much (if anything) about synths. I've been creating drone/ambient type textures using either a guitar or octave mandolin and really DIYing it by manipulating the sounds through Audacity.
This looks really cool, and I'm very tempted to purchase a Microkorg -for this and other features. I have a couple of questions though:
When you create these sounds can you save them as patches on a memory bank? Like, can you sample the sounds from the cassette recorder or does it have to be connected every time?
Also,can the Microkorg be configured to use as a midi controller?
This is 5 years late but no, you can't use the microkorg to sample. But obviously you can record whatever sounds you can create or sample them with a sampler.
How do I plug the vocoder in the synth with the cable I that comes with it? What does it go in? Do I need an aux to 3.5 or can it go direct in the condenser slot?
What peddle are you using with the microkorg? Do you use it every time you play?
Ok, I did it, I connected the snare output of my drumbrute to the microKorg and tweaked the channel volumes and the gate. The result sounds dubby. Maybe I get a nice surrounding beat and bass to this, then I'm gonna upload it to my channel.
Hello! I love your experiment. Thank you for checking back. I'm so glad this trick made a cool effect for you!
Is it a condenser mic jack?
Would that mean its phantom powered by default and could possibly damage other mics etc?
Daniel, watched one of your vids on the MK, decided to dig my old MK out. We've recently moved to a new house, so studio is in boxes, but I've dug out about 10 items and have a little jamming setup that I'm loving, recording to reel to reel. So got the MK into the mix, and came up with some really inspired stuff. Thanks for your vids man, keep it going. And it is Form - Ant
Ahhh! That is so cool to hear. I’m so glad you found new inspiration!
So more videos bud, we need em. Someone sarcastically said the other day, "Yeah, like we need more videos about the MicroKorg on TH-cam!" Well, yeah, we do need more videos about the MicroKorg. I dig and dig (I like watching vids about gear that I already have, it gives you GAS, but GAS for gear you already have, so you jump on and use gear that you've already got rather than pining for high priced gear you don't have) but there aren't really that many vids about the MicroKorg, and none as good as yours. Anyway, more vids man!
I appreciate this so much. I'm having a blast making these. Thank you for watching and stay tuned!
Looking for vocoder.. what to choose from miniak, mininova, microkorg and microkorg xl. Thanks
would you be able to plug in a PO-33 KO into the vocoder?
Wait a minute, so basically you are just taking the white noise from the cassette and using that to build chords out of? Or had you already recorded some synth or pad sounds in the cassette, then you're just running it back through the vocoder to play chords out of?
What cable do I need that is compatible with both the tape recorder and the Korg?
A doubble ended cable that plugs into a standard stereo headphone jack
So I plug the mic if it's not the original in which plug do I plug it and then the knob has to be on vocorder anything else? It's not workin
If better go buy another microkorg. Do you know if all this can be done on the MS-2000?
Liked and subbed 😊
Thanks so much!!!
I know the video is old, but I can always try.
My microkorg is just kinda refusing to turn on vocoder led on the edit/select right side panel 🙃 i have it on vocoder, de microphone is conected, the volume's up, everything. But it won't switch from synth to vocoder 😭
When I tried this the sound of synth still played and I couldn't manipulate what was coming through the vocoder, despite me following all your steps..
Someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
oh my god
Pardon my noobness, but is there a "Hold" function on Microkorg XL +? I can't seem to find it. *confused*
I would refer to the manual. I do not have much experience with the XL+ and its a whole different design!
That sounds great! I acctually was planing to get a tape recorder because of the videos of Heinbach (check him out) I found. Good think I also have a microkorg
what was the sound you had playing from the tape?
Hey man is my microkorg broken? audio still going through even though the global audio in thru is off ...
I'll have to look into that. Thanks for asking!
Fuck this is dope
fuck yes
This little thing seems a monster, but a pain in the ass to program. Would you recommend buying it?
I think if you understand some basic synthesizer ideas, you can go a long way with the microKORG. If you are new, other synths may be easier to learn. I'm trying to make more videos so this thing doesn't seem so hard to dig into. Because I don't think it is. Anything you'd like to see or know?
it was my first synth and i played presets for a long time before i realized what it could really do.. now that i know my way around it i can program it as quickly as any other of my synths.. if you want more control out of an interface check out the ms2000.. it is like the sibling of the microkorg.. some subtle differences but same synth engines.. in fact using the computer software you can actually load ms2000 patches onto the microkorg.. i found the patches online somewhere
Luigi, the MK isn't hard to use at all. At first, its like hey there are no knobs, how are you supposed to do this. But once you start editing through the matrix, two knobs on left, 5 across the top, you'll be able to program very quickly, seriously. BUT right now, we are in the most fruitful period of synth production. There are more choices than there have ever been. For many years I recommended the MK to a lot of people. At the used price, it was a real bargain. But now you can get knobby actual analog monosynths, and for a little more, analog polys... which is incredible. Honestly, totally crazy, for the past 20 years there were NO real options, now there are so many. I'd check out Korg's analog synths, Behringer's analog synths (more are coming to market this year) and Arturia's analog synths. I personally don't get inspired by arturia's synths, but still, it is an option.
So, I don't think the MK is that great of a buy, right now. If you already have it, it is a great tool to use, and Daniel's videos show just how useful it can be. If you see it for a hundred, go for it! But even at $200 (American) I think it is too much, you can get analog synths for that. You could get an korg analog poly, KEYS, and an analog drum machine Korg BEATS for $200, and each of those have sequencers... Crazy times.
I've got a buncha n00b questions for you (forgive misused or ambiguous terminology here, doing the best I can):
1) The formant hold... why do you turn off the line-in audio instead of pushing the formant button again? Does the formant capture the silence? Then does it just loop? Or does it distill all the info it received before you cut the line-in into one sound?
2) What audio info is the vocoder (or is it the formant? I'm not clear on who is doing what here) grabbing? Is it any tonal/melodic/note stuff? Or amount of noise? Or just volume/rhythm oscillations? I.e. if you're running a field recording of... I dunno, the Aka Pygmie children singing (a la End of the World)... into the korg... is it taking the melody? the rhythm? a bunch of stuff and flattening it? In my limited playing around with this, it seems the 'textural' recordings, not of melody but of a note breathing in and out, for example, translate the best - that can give you a kind of Basinski tape decay sound...
3. I'm assuming the vocoder presets are just like the others in that you can patch them with your own tweaks? Are you using the original korg preset in this vid? Or a patched one?
4. You use the term 'latch' a couple times in your videos. I see that as a setting for the arpegg. Does it work essentially like a looper? (I haven't even scratched the surface of the arpegg functions yet)
Thanks a ton for your channel!
This dude assumes that the viewer already knows how to use the micro Korg. I've run this back and done everything exactly how he's doing it half a dozen times and can't even get my source to make a peep
audio is terrible and way too variable in volume
!!!
Your videos are too quick and you could slow down your delivery and show stuff in steps--it's hard to keep up. I appreciate what you are trying to do, but hard to figure out what you are doing.
Best use a DI to input hotter signals....Straight into the 3/4 mic input jack...