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Thank you so much for this tutorial. Beyond grateful as I sit here high as a kite on an edible on 4/20/21 years after you posted this and I am your student learning this synth for the first time getting lost in the sounds that make our music. Sound design is a beautiful thing thank you Teacher.

@Mamotreco

3 жыл бұрын

So beautifully put. You are most welcome! Glad you are enjoying it. Thank you so much for watching

@codroyave

Жыл бұрын

4/20 today 2023, 😂

More than 5 years later and I want to say Thanks! Your vids are helping a lot. Cheers.

@Mamotreco

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for leaving a comment!

Thanks so much for this! The info is so helpful! Even "unprepared" your video is more valuable than many I've seen. Thanks again!

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

+Rick Moore Glad it's helpful. Thank you.

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Rick! I'm glad it's useful.

This is excellent. Thank you very much! I sat here and played along with mine while you were going through the examples, pausing every known again or rewinding as need be, but it definitely gets you right inside the guts of it and I feel like I'm gaining more appreciation for the machine. Thank you once again! :-)

@Mamotreco

4 жыл бұрын

Really happy to hear that. It's definitely a synth that rewards the time you put into it.

As I have little experience with electronic music production, this has been extremely informative for me as a guitarist. Very interesting too. Thanks for the upload!

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

thx

Wow... the possibilities are overwhelming.

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

You just need to grasp a few and enjoy them :)

Thank you so much for uploading this. I've going through the settings with you and it has demystified a lot of doubts I had. Just what I needed!

@Mamotreco

4 жыл бұрын

very happy to hear that

This is EXCELLENT. The light bulb is starting to turn on for me. thank you!

@Mamotreco

3 жыл бұрын

Very happy to hear! Thanks for watching

I have been messing with my korg for weeks not knowing a THING. THANK YOU FOR THIS

@Mamotreco

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear my video helped

Thank you SOO much for this AWESOME tutorial on the Microkorg! After struggling for a year with mine, it finally is starting to make sense. I want to move past presets and really understand how to craft my own tones for songs.

@BugzKiller

4 жыл бұрын

Great comment, same here with me!

Thank you I rediscover my microkorg I have for 2 years now

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

Thx .. Glad u found the videos useful

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

It makes me really happy to hear that!

finally picked one of these up. Added all your videos to my queue. Thanks Jacques!

Your video is the most realistic Microkorg tutorial I have seen. Many thanks!

@Mamotreco

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

World class tutorial! I watched last week before I bought the MicroKorg, and again just now. Very thorough and helpful.

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hey, I am glad I found your videos. I just got one on the way and I'm so anxious to get started. I have some experience and knowledge of synthesis but not with 4 note poly, and all of the different wave tables and such that this has over my minibrute. I look forward to learning and tweaking along with you once I my micro arrives. Thanks for takin the time to share your knowledge of this modern classic!

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

Of course. Glad to be of help!

This tutorial works perfectly for the Korg R3 as well. Nice hands on explanation.

@Mamotreco

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and sharing your feedback!

thank you for this video, ive now decided to buy this great synth.

finally found a well-explained video for the microkorg!!! thanks bro!!

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

+Abdiel Gallegos Glad you are finding it useful!

Hahahah this is so amusing!! I love the way your hands move when you talk. It's like they're the actors and the video is the play.

@TheFreshPeddler

9 жыл бұрын

thanks for that lol, the imagery is not helping me pay attention. excellent explanations otherwise

@bluntobjct

6 жыл бұрын

how high are you?

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

Haha! I definitely see what you're talking about.

I finally got one, thanks for doing this!

Really informative, thank you for this.

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Happy to hear it was informative!

Terrific step-through instructional, thanks

big ups thanks for the insights, just started using my microkorg as more than a midi control and I'm really looking forward to make some niceness with it

Great and easy to understand.

Thank you! Your tutorials are very helpful for me, cause i just started to work with synthesizers! Keep it up! :)

@Mamotreco

5 жыл бұрын

Really happy to hear that! Thank you for watching. What synthesizers do you have?

@timoreitetschlager9804

5 жыл бұрын

My setup consists of the Microkorg, the tb-03 and the tr-8, playing with them for about 4 months now

Good start, could only be improved if you had see thru glass arms

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

+jazzopie definitely true. One day maybe I can get George Lucas to do an enhanced edition ;)

@BarryWarne

4 жыл бұрын

Synth & Sundry green screen sleeves maybe

@nozefian

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, that's quite funny...... I was thinking the exact same thing. This is a great intro tutorial, but get those hands out the way! haha..... I do appreciate the video though, it has been very helpful!

@Mamotreco

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Definitely will keep in mind for the future!

@haolehonu

3 жыл бұрын

It’s called camera angle...THIS is the wrong one, have you ever seent a movie before? 😎 nobody likes POV!

Thanx very much for this, Jacques! I got a MicroKorg for Christmas and started here, but it was too much for someone that knew absolutely nothing about synthesizers, so I unsubscribed. I did a lot of reading, watched other generic videos and now have "re-subscribed". It makes total sense to me now that I've spent some time with the synth first and is a HUGE addition to the owner's manual. I have all of them queued up!

awesome tutorial!!!

My little baby love it!

Thanks a lot for the tutorials !!

@Mamotreco

5 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome

Very useful, more of them!

Yeah nice one man. great stuff.

Great video. Love the hand gestures!

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! Thank you

I feel the MicroKorg was better than it was generally thought to be. Very versatile, even sporting a vocoder. I bought one for my son, and he loves it to this day.

@Mamotreco

11 ай бұрын

You're right, it was looked down upon at the time because of its reduced number of knobs and minikeys when compared to the MS2000 but at the end of the day it was equally capable

@t.c.494

11 ай бұрын

@@Mamotreco Indeed.

so grateful

Thanks for the explanations!!

@Mamotreco

3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome! Glad they were useful. Thanks for watching.

This is so incredibly helpful, thanks a lot mate :D

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

+whitecoldicecreams Thank you for the positive feedback!

@whitecoldicecreams

8 жыл бұрын

Just a little question, is it possible to play 2 sounds on top of eachother? How do you do that exactly?

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

Yes and no. You have two possible layers. Some sounds have a single layer with all the parameters possible and up to four note polyphony. Other sounds can have two layers but you have to program them independently. You cannot load in presets into the layers, you have to program them in manually. Two layer sounds, possibly because of they more hardware intensive, only have two polyphony tops.

Perfect! Exactly what i wanted to know! On the Point and nothing more. Greetings from Berlin, dude :)

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

+Maik L. Jackson Thx for the feedback!

Keep going with these vids!

So very helpful. Thanks.

This is not a criticism but it would help if you put the camera directly above the keyboard.

@Mamotreco

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely and totally fair. I’m shooting some other synth (not for the microkorg unfortunately) demos this weekend and I managed to get overhead shots

@joshraab6808

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, it is a criticism, but it’s okay

Awesome vid bro

Thanks for making this :)

Man ty for these videos,you saved my life... maybe you just saved me from reading the whole instructions manual, which is a lot. Thank you again, amazing little thing this microkorg.

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help. Thanks for watching!

1:19 Nice starting point for the sound of Prince's DMSR!

@Mamotreco

2 жыл бұрын

Ah thank you!!

great video, very informative

Great vid, thank you!!

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

awesome. thanks

Great tut thank you bro🙏 extremely helpful and easy

@Mamotreco

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great tutorial! Thanks...gonna build some sounds from scratch today.

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

Glad you were inspired ... I would love to hear them.

@roymattson4936

10 жыл бұрын

check it out here: or here; soundcloud.com/roymattson/proton-packets-microkorg

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

Roy Mattson lovely sounding

Greatest tutorial on it ever

@Mamotreco

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!

great video. thanks!

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

thx

thank you very much!

finally a good tutorial thanks for these vids

this was very helpful!

@Mamotreco

4 жыл бұрын

Very happy to hear! How did you discover the Microkorg?

Thank you...very helpful

@Mamotreco

2 жыл бұрын

Happy to hear that

hey bro thank you for making these vids

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

It's my pleasure. Thank you for watching!

Thank you for this sir

0:50 Create New Patch, 2:44 Voice, 3:43 Voice Assign Mono / Polyphonie, 5:30 Pitch, 6:33 Pitch / Portamento, 8:05 Oscillator / Wave forms: Sin, Square, Triange, etc.

Thank you

Thank you ! well done :)

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

+yomichee Thank you for watching!

NICE! thanks so much man

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

great!

@Mamotreco

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

thanks this is very helpfull👍

@Mamotreco

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it! Thank you for watching.

@BB3video

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mamotreco Yes, now I understand the instrument a little better, now I can make my own sound from scratch....

I actually appreciate the fact that you are fumbling through it... I have bought one and am waiting for it to arrive.... I am not a keyboardist. I am a bassist but I was looking for something to add to background track noise and arpeggios into the composition of my writing (in no way a hip-hop, trance, or "dress up and use pacifiers" musician -nothing wrong with that)... I honestly love the OLD SCHOOL - DEVO- KRAFTWERK sounds.... they don't need to make you dance at a rave to be cool ;-)

Didn't realise you had the unison option and detuning... that's even better. (Edit) I have to add tons more to this... this machine I've had for almost 5 years didn't realise it could do half the stuff it can!! I thought the presets were all you got. Thanks for the demo.

@Mamotreco

4 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Thank you for watching

You can adjust the modulation speed at LFO 2 knob 4

"actually don't know what that means, wow that's quite a drastic change" lol

@Mamotreco

3 жыл бұрын

Lol indeed! Surprise is the spice of life

great! zanx

See I want to get one of these and record the sound into a mpc or a SP and use it to make the rest of the sample based beats . Would this be a good idea or is thee any other synths with the similar price range that would be better for this purpose ?

Ist it possible to play some of microtonal scale with using sound edit?

11:24 i have all settings as you, i at least think so, but the sound coming out on the speakers is super low, even tho, the vol on the microkorg is max and on my focusrite is on max too... any idea? so i am on saw, osc... it actually was the whole time very silent. like very silent...

Hey Jacques! Im just curious, how do you import patches? I know you can buy them online but how does the process actually work when you transfer them onto the microkorg?

@Mamotreco

6 жыл бұрын

Hey David, that is unfortunately one area I'm not familiar with

I haven't yet fully watched this, but I have one question. Let's say I just finished editing one of the parameters and now want to adjust the cutoff. How do I stop the knobs from affecting the parameters and just return to their normal function?

hello mate, i was just following your video but at the beggining, when i reset the patch, it doesn't make sound, it doesn't reset actually. Do you know whats happening? thank you for the video

Pretty good tutorial, but I still have one question, apart of the microkorg... What else do you need for it to work properly? An amplifier?

Thanks for these informative and very helpful videos!! Here's a question that might sound silly. Is it possible to have the mod wheel control the level of Mod FX. Like if the Mod FX was set as a phaser or flanger , could the mod wheel then dial the effect in and out? Thanks !

@Mamotreco

9 жыл бұрын

***** From memory I dont think you can as mod fx is not in the destination for the mod wheel

@BigNickEnergy88

9 жыл бұрын

Jacques Mongrel Damn. It should be! Thanks. Maybe I'll run it through a pedal.

the volume falls dramatically when I choose the single option from the second knob. Is there a reason for that?

Can the audio come directly from the korg itself or do you have to have a stereo?

Also I would like to see what section is the big knob in, Se/ hit? I feel so stupid.

pretty sure i'm just not seeing it but how do i make the tempo light stop blinking on my korg

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

You can stop the light from blinking by setting the Clock (under the MIDI section) to EXT. As long as there is no external MIDI clock incoming it will not blink.

arpeggiator of microkorg not working when I try to play vst instrument on Cubase. playing only notes (like any non-arpeggiator synth/keyboard would do) :/

My light goes off. Your number 5 stays on. I hit shift and then 3 then 3 again then nothing. Just says percent. Don’t you have to press write? It worked for me at first now I am getting frustrated. What am I doing wrong. What is Format Hold/ Timber select. I had it working great. How do you keep that patch??

Great tutorial video you have obviously studied this which is great and a nice bit of kit , I'm wondering if you can help me , I'm after a tone that the Kings of Leon use at the beginning of fans when they play live , any chance you might know how I can achieve this sound , it's almost like baba o'riley but just the first couple of seconds of it Great vids and keep up the great work 😃😃

@mikeruck3225

8 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing that's a no then lol

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

+mike ruck sorry I don't know how to achieve that sound.

@Mamotreco

8 жыл бұрын

+Jacques Mongrel ok I just got a chance to listen to that sound. You probably want to set the oscillators to square, filter them a little, have very short envelope and use the arpeggiator switching between time divisions.

@mikeruck3225

8 жыл бұрын

I have only just seen this reply , I will check it out I have no idea how the korg works lots involved in it it's an amazing piece of kit , thank you so much really appreciate it 👍🏻😊✌🏻️

I just bought the microkorg, it's plugged into my mixer/amp with a guitar jack feom OUTPUT MONO/L, but I can't get any sound out of it, when I play the keys. Please help?

@Mamotreco

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, I no longer have a Microkorg at hand. Just commenting to boost this. Anyone have an idea of how to fix this? My first thoughts are the cables, check if the Microkorg is ok with a TS jack or does it need TRS, and then of course check with headphones from the headphone port to eliminate an issue with the Microkorg. Basically, you want to proceed like a detective, eliminating suspects along the signal chain.

One way is you can save the preset, then switch to a different one and back again to the original. I've had this question forever tho, i wish there was an easier way.

Hi jacques, was wondering if you could help me with a sync issue- when I set MIDI clock to EXT, this seems to disable the keyboard and arpeggiator. How am I supposed to put a pattern in? Trying to sync with a DSI tempest. The channels are set correctly on the Mikrokorg and tempest btw.

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

You need to have the tempest send out a MIDI clock signal to the Microkorg. Otherwise the the Microkorg will do nothing while waiting for clock signal to arrive. Best of luck.

My synth stops making noise unless I have it set to layered:( please help, all of my knobs and everything match yours but you lose me around 4:00-4:30

10:39 reminds me of a Farfisa Compact (kind of) :D

None of these micro korg videos are clear about how you save a particular patch sound and recall it later for a song or live performance. Is there a video that explains this ?

What cable do you need to connect it from the synth to the computer?

@RED_indiemusic

9 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but are you trying to use the microkorg as a MIDI controller or do you want to do direct recording from your synth to the computer?

@Solar-Atlas

9 жыл бұрын

Direct record I think. I don't know what midi controller is.

@RED_indiemusic

9 жыл бұрын

Ok. For direct recording to your computer, the type of cable you want would be a 1/4" to 1/4" cable, the same type you would use for a guitar/bass to an amp. Although you would need an adapter to convert the 1/4" to a mini audio jack so you would use your microphone port on your computer. This is just one way of recording and usually the cheapest way, but I cannot promise that you would have good quality. The other way that may be costly would be using an audio sound interface that connects via USB. You connect your 1/4" cable to the interface and use the DAW (digital audio workstation) of your choice. What DAW are you planning to use to record the MicoKorg (Audacity, Cubase, Pro Tools, Reason)? Please let me know.

@Mamotreco

9 жыл бұрын

To carry the sound or to carry note information? For the first you need probably an 1/4" to 1/8" jack cable or you need a converter jack at either end to make the connection. For the second of you only have a computer and no audio or midi interface then you need a a USB to 5 pin DIN MIDI cable

i love this machine!!! i will learn more by watching your lessons but best 100 bucks i ever spent! it makes all the nasty sounds i love and more! i run traktor a6 with proscratch timcode vynyl i am only running it through aux do i need interface converter to run midi to usb or is there another way? also i am learning reason can i use this as a controller for both Programs? thank you

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks ... I have tried using it as a controller for Ableton live with limited success. One of the five knobs ended up crashing the software every time I tweaked it! So I would say try going with a purpose built MIDI controller like the nanoKontrol or something from Novation or something more adapted to the software if your budget can handle it.

your video is great ,but i am still going to go lay down and put a cold towel on my head.

@Mamotreco

7 жыл бұрын

Synths can make my head spin too!

@chraosta

4 жыл бұрын

😂

Hi - is it mono or poly - one key at a time or more than one? monochromatic?

@Mamotreco

7 жыл бұрын

+Shannon Crane it's 4 voice polyphonic. You can play max 4 notes simultaneously

Instead of turning the edit knobs to get back to editing, just press shift + a/b

Can you input the output of the microKorg into Ableton Libe 8.x (or higher), or will it only work as a midi controller with Ableton Live? Thank you!

@Mamotreco

9 жыл бұрын

Dano K It sends MIDI through the MIDI ports and audio through the Audio outputs. It doesn't have audio or midi over USB.

@danok5124

9 жыл бұрын

thanks!

You sound identical to Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran.. That's pretty awesome..

Would this work without a control board and with a simple macbook computer? Or even acoustically?

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

You could run the audio from the outs to the audio in of your macbook to record it ... yes (in modern macbooks you can set the headphone jack to be an audio input). You just need a cable that goes from the 1/4" TRS outputs on the microkorg to the 1/8" stereo TRS input on the mac. Only thing is you will have to monitor your recording through the macbook speakers. If possible you could use an audio interface which will provide a better recording experience.

Can you do hip hop beats on this? I dont know if I need one I want to make rap beats and rap over them but I don't know if fruity loops is better or this.

@Mamotreco

10 жыл бұрын

Fruity Loops or another DAW would be better. This is a monotimbral (can play one sound program at a time) synth with a four note polyphony. It's not a keyboard workstation like a Korg Trinity or M50 or Kronos / Yamaha MOTIF series etc. I suggest mastering software like Fruity Loops first (with a cheap MIDI keyboard controller) and then you will know whether you need this or not.