Just an FYI that I have now completed the Prologue version of the String oscillator. The presets for the Prologue match the Minilogue XD as I can but there will be a few subtle differences due to the difference in capabilities and architectures between the two synths. Please visit my SoundMangling store for the digital download.

@lch7145

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Tim! Could you make a Complete Bundle for the Korg XD ? I am interesting in buying all in one ^^Cheers and keep it up with those amazing quality videos and photography from your website !

Sounds really good and authentic. I will get it for my XD. Please keep developing new oscillators

Very nice sounds. Both pluck and this add so much to the already wonderful XD. I’m waiting to get my hands on one. Great work.

Beautiful song at the end. Awesome job Tim!

Mad programming skills, great sounds and sweet outro tune. Will be getting this.

Awsome video and performance! Thanks for your design and demo!

Great work (and beautiful tune!)!

Amazing work. Love the Genesis chords by the way :)

After countless hours of failing at writing one I admire what you do, good job!

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. Writing an oscillator for this architecture is extremely tough. Korg could do more to help imho....

Wow, Tim! I honestly had no clue how capable the digital osc could be. I heard lots of good things about the user osc in forums but this is my first time really sitting down and listening to them. Very helpful to include a how to download video as well! I’ll be picking this up for sure 🙂

Great work and I also loved Genesis' "All in a Mouse's Night: " intro at 07:32 :) Congrats!

Awesome, especially the tune in the end, at first I thought what is this harsh sound, but did not expect the detuning at all :) Regarding the comment about "Korg could do more to help imho....", I couldn't agree more with you. Thanks for the video :)

Looks cool! I don't have an XD yet, but it's nice to check these videos out and see what people are doing with the user oscillators/FX and hear about your design philosophy. This reminds me a little of the oscillator section of Poly-800.

Fantastic work!

Awesome user oscillator, thank you!

Excellent job!! I think you might have just sold me on the XD - I never fathomed how much the multi engine oscillator could have been so flexible in development terms. This model certainly reminds me of the Lambda.

Sounds lovely!

Nice Tim! I poly chained 2 XD's today somewhat by accident trying to test a bug I discovered on my original XD module. 8 voices instantly with two DX modules chained and it worked well. Pretty nice 8 voice analog poly for $1,100 US dollars.

Exellent and that beat is cardiac !!

Excellent...so glad I found your stuff. Stay safe.

Nice work Tim! A very cool little synth I am aiming for next ;-)

amazing. can't wait to get this

Very cool, again. I haven't found the time yet to fully dive into my XD and get a grip of your oscillators. But am very interested for sure!

It's been so long I've been out of my body with you.... :D Amazing.

Beautiful. Thank you so much!

All in a mouse's night! Fantastic!

Love it - just had this, me first (missus looks at me sharply) synth and it’s ace - I’ve a lot to learn as was gonna use it with my bass guitar to have a bash at composing summary interesting 👍🏻 thanks for the inspiration - great tune 😀

This is awesome! I have no knowledge about how creating the oscillator works, but I'm hoping to be able to use this with the NTS-1 when it lands. Instant sub from me 👍

damn, as I see it I have to buy each and everyone of your oscillators.

Very nice

Very nice! By 8:30 it starts to sound like my Roland RS09 Organ Strings. 😊

Super!

Sounds great, basically you've made a Streichfett style mod for the XD and Prologue for far less than the cost of a Streichfett...I haven't bought one (digital osc bank) at all yet, but I'll buy this for my Prologue 8, I've already got the Streichfett and this is a lot more affordable than adding a VC340...

amazing tankyou

tnx

Thank goodness for clever people! Now I won't have to buy the Waldorf Sting machine thingy. Excellent work, thank you very much.

@sethone6140

4 жыл бұрын

You should. It's cool AF.

Just got String and Pluck2 and installed them. I haven’t installed the presets yet, but I’m already having fun. Thanks! If you are looking for your next oscillator project, how about a B3 with fundamental and overtone drawbars? 😀

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot and glad you are liking the oscillators. i have a couple more ideas already in development, I think you might like one of them for sure ;)

@billfinch4661

5 жыл бұрын

I added your presets, and I’m working on a piece using pluck 6, with a bit of riser reverb. Nice!

Fantastic work as usual, another insta-buy. A question for you- would you ever consider a video explaining how you handle things like aliasing, etc, within the programming? I'm developing some oscillators myself and have been playing around with biquad filtration and oversampling but am quickly running into the limitations of processing on the XD itself. It's been tough to find concrete resources on the 'net, and with the Nu:Tekt coming out soon, I expect there are going to be a whole host of new programmers for the 'logue series. Thanks again!

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much :) I have had a lot of people ask me for programming tips for the user oscillators and a tutorial video is something I am contemplating but it would be a lot of work. The problem is that knowing C/C++ syntax is not enough to get something to work on the Korgs, resources are so minimal, there is no feedback when things go wrong or to debug an issue, it really is a poor environment to program against. I guess I have some tips I could give from my experiences so far but to be honest a lot of it comes down to a methodical approach and a huge amount of iterative trial and error to get stuff to work :(

@KarwoodBear

5 жыл бұрын

@@TimShoebridge Excellent- I've decided to put my money where my mouth is and opened up loguesdk.com as a resource for Multi-Engine programmers. I hope you might be interested in it!

@fortheloveofnoise9298

5 жыл бұрын

@@KarwoodBear Your password requirements are annoying, otherwise cool site.

@KarwoodBear

5 жыл бұрын

Weird Music Sorry about that! I just don't want people's common passwords stolen.

@fortheloveofnoise9298

5 жыл бұрын

@@KarwoodBear Reguardless, I am looking foward to the Nu:Tekt. I want to learn how to create custom oscillators and stuff for it but I have no programming knowledge.

This sounds amazing, is designing your own oscillators user friendly in any way? Or is all a matter of knowing code?

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks very much. Unfortunately Korg don't give you much in the way of assistance on this, you need to be able to put together your own mathematical algorithms using a programming language called C

Interesting osc, I have an XD on the way, may not buy osc’s right away but I like the added voices. Do the keys bother you playing much? Thanks for putting this together.

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :) The keys are better than many mini keys - a bit longer but still very narrow. I'm ok noodling around but I make constant mistakes if I am playing anything serious. You'll see in my videos I tend to play a lot of black notes, they are easier to hit on this synth ;) Recording the videos is for me like playing live and using this keyboard in that kind of situation makes me nervous. In the studio with the cameras off I hook the synth up to my MIDI controller kbd...

@ubiquitousreverser

5 жыл бұрын

@@TimShoebridge Good to know. I have a 49 key controller that's pretty nice and I've thought to sell it since it only had the 1 extra octave but I'll hold off now till I get to see for myself. I have nimble fingers but full size keys are full size keys. And if I consider purchasing any oscillators your string one will definitely be in mind as I like the idea of combining that with the ensemble/chorus effect to make a string section w/ the analog osc's combined. Thanks for the helpful info Tim!

Hello Tim 👍

Excellent work. You've created a digital Solina string machine. Now... can you create the Jarre-esque phaser (stereo phaser?) To use with it?... and maybe a second that is basically an Ensemble and then a phaser?

@sethone6140

4 жыл бұрын

Also, lovin the improv demo at the end!

i wonder if you could play the end title from the movie SCARFACE

I don't kno whether anyone will see my question, but anyway. Hello ! :D I know we can sync vco1 and vco2 , but is there any option or anything in this world that can help SYNC the multi engine with VCO1 and 2 ?

How much work is it to modify a user oscillator to work on the Prologue (or vice-versa)? And do you think you'll modify your oscs to work on the Nu:Tekt digital synth kit when it comes out?

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

It is very little effort to convert the oscillator to Prologue but what I then want to do is to really test it out and write some presets... those two things take time esp. when I need to borrow the prologue!! I'll definitely take a look at the NuTekt when it's available.

@jc3drums916

5 жыл бұрын

@@TimShoebridge Ah, I see. I was curious because all of my coding experience is in ancient languages like Fortran, but just in case the oscs I like don't get Nu:Tekt versions, I'm wondering how challenging it would be to modify them on my own. Thanks!

Tim how you feeling about the XD compared with the Peak? I saw an earlier video you posted about not quite being able to get the warmth out the original minilogue. Is the XD doing it more for you? I'm considering both options, I got the impression the Korgs had a certain kind of clear 'hardness' that I wasn't sure about (I might be wrong) and I'm still a sucker for the warmth I get even from my old Ensoniq ESQ that I'm always trying to see if I can find in modern synths. Wondering about the peak...and the XD. Any thoughts appreciated

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

I'll be perfectly honest with you up front which is that I sold the Peak at the start of the year. Not because it is a bad synth, it is actually a great synth, but I had created so many presets for it that I found myself going back to presets too much rather than making new sounds. When I get too familiar with an instrument I tend to sell it and move on. I know that might sound contradictory but I prefer to keep discovering. The Peak for me is a great all-rounder, it is great at playing leads and playing pads, but dare I say it is not outstanding at either. If you want an amazing lead mono synth then a real analog synth is I think the way to go, and if you want an outstanding poly synth for huge pads then there are both digital and analog synths that excel at that kind of role better than the Peak. The Minilogue XD is not in the same league as the Peak in any way. Envelopes aren't great, the filter is basic and I personally don't like the mid-range tone it generates when any resonance is applied, you get just the one LFO, modulation routings in general are extremely limited, and of course polyphony is limited but we now have the option to polychain units. But despite all those negatives, there is something very charming and playable about the XD, it's a great synth for noodling and creating. And of course the extendable user oscillator is pretty unique. In terms of sound as I said I am not keen on the tone of the filter, and without any filter or effects the sound of the VCOs to me sound brittle and weak, but to compensate that the effects on the XD are really exceedingly good, they can transform the overall sonic character of the synth and you can get some really warm and rich sounds from it.

@ComfortAKASimonEugene

5 жыл бұрын

@@TimShoebridge Thanks for the reply Tim...its the brittleness, the best word for it, that I get from the Korg stuff generally for which effects aren't really a compensation. Its actually the same reaction I have to the Dave Smith synths. I'm gonna have a play around of a few more, the Erebus also really interests me, different to the Peak of course, I really like what I hear from that in the quality of the sound

@atommachine

4 жыл бұрын

@@ComfortAKASimonEugene Jd990 will give you warmth ;)

Hi. Thanks for video. What synth is behind You on the beginning of the video?

@TimShoebridge

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. That synth is a Dave Smith Mono Evolver Keyboard

@kpereszczak

3 жыл бұрын

@@TimShoebridge thanks :)

how can you record different sounds in the same minilogue? I think it cannot plays another preset while one is playing , the only way I though was using delay really strong with stereo bpm and turns down the tempo.. Thanks!

@TimShoebridge

3 жыл бұрын

You are right, the Minilogue XD is monotimbral, it can only play one preset at a time...

so you own sound mangling website ...I would like to learn how to program my own osc. Strings,PLuck are geared to traditional music but I am looking to make non traditional music inside techno and edm.

Hi! What did you use to create the beat?

@TimShoebridge

Жыл бұрын

Hi. A library by Spectrasonics called Stylus RMX

That's great!!!! . But that milky color filter on the video image is quite hurting the eyes if I may give a constructive feedback...

Is there a way I can recreate this on a regular Korg Minilogue?

@xMario91

3 жыл бұрын

unfortunately no, there is no digital oscilator possibility

Thanks for your job! Perfect! Can I ask you, do you know any way to convert Prologue or classic minilogue patches to Minilogue XD? Thanks!

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. Unfortunately I don't know of any tool or utility that can convert the patch files.

you need to know C++ to write OSC's for the user engine?

@TimShoebridge

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, in fact its more like programming in C than C++, real bare-bones programming to be honest...

@skyreadersociety6183

5 жыл бұрын

@@TimShoebridge cool, not for the faint hearted I guess, but that open SDK approach makes it really interesting for me, though I am not a big fan of Korg machines, nearly none of them worked for me out of some weird reasons.

@fortheloveofnoise9298

5 жыл бұрын

@@skyreadersociety6183 DW-8000 is the best.

anyone tried this with the nts 1?

This was on a second hand XD I bought but deleted it when no sound came out. (Slaps forehead)

Sounds like a church organ