The Korg Monologue- Part 6- Low Frequency Oscillator part 1
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2017
- Here is part one of a two-part demonstration of the surprising functionality of the Korg Monologue low frequency oscillator.
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I thought you said 'Murder Boat' and for second I thought it was reference to some obscure noise artist. Then I realised you said 'Motor Boat'' and started giggling like a 14 year old. However, sincere and heartfelt thanks for the work you do, it really makes things so much more accessible and fun for me.
You're a great walkthrough-er. Especially because it doesn't come with instructions. I'm old so i like when everything comes with a manual.
Looking forward to the sequencer demos parts 1-20!
This is incredible. I found these right after buying my monologue and they’ve taught me a ton about it and synthesis in general. Thank you 🙏
"Not *that* kind of motorboat. . ." Nice.
Seriously though, I'm impressed by the almost hard FM/AMish (not Amish, obviously) tones you were getting with the higher LFO speeds/intensities. I usually don't like LFOs very much, but this one sounds like an asset.
I'm like you, Michael. Standard LFO on vintage or analog synths usually generates a typical vibrato effect or sweeping filter that is really quite boring after all of these years (although, sometimes subtle usage can generate cool effects). So, I was surprised and delighted that I could create such unique and interesting outcomes with this LFO.
11:18 Is what sold this synth to me. Also the rest of this fantastic video series, I've watched all parts twice now. I felt like I got to know the synth better then I would have if I went to the store and tried it for myself (which isn't really an option right now). So thanks for these great video's.
And this synth is just awesome. I thought the single AD/ASD envelope would be limiting, but that third option really helps and it's just so quick and easy to dial in a great sound. One of those clever 'better than the sum of its parts' kind of synths.
I’m stunned and shocked how much fun i’m having with the Monologue!!! Thanks to you! Tomorrow my second Monologue will arrive and on friday my first Minilogue!! First thing i’ll do on friday and over the weekend is your Minilogue tutorials! I’m super thankful!! Sure there are other sources but nothing like these vids!!
Korg should pay you for these videos. They are inspiring.
Thank you!
The frequency modulation might have just sold this to me. Wow!
as you can tell , I'm watching all your videos for the monologue. I just ordered the minilogue xd and want to make sure I have my other gear figured out. Anyhoo, you gained a subscriber and hope to learn more from your content. Stay nerdy my man. Pardon me if I comment on the other videos as your commentary has me laughing out loud at times.
Well done, you just sold another monologue!
I know at least one person who bought this piece of wood only because of your youtube series.
Good Job!
P.S. I hope KORG appreciates you for what you have done :)
Greetings from Berlin, Germany
Thanks for the LFO demos. They seem to be one of the strongest aspects of this synths. Seems like a crazy thing to say!
Marc. Your videos are very thorough and entertaining.
I have watched several of your video series before, and after purchasing certain bits of equipment - such as the Volcas, the Microbrute, and now the Monologue. I've actually had this for 2 years and not really scratched the surface. I am working my way through this video series with great interest and have already learned a lot in regards to the VCOs, EG, and filter. I am a guitarist of many years. My introduction to synths was the Microbrute which I bought about 4-5 years ago now.
Anyway. Thanks again.
Thank you for your message and for watching! I’m glad to help!
I'm pretty certain the LFO is the same as the Monotribe. Totally awesome synth. In fact this is what the Monotribe should have been in the first place.
What an awesome potential for Modulation this little guy has!
Thanks for all your hard work Mr. Doty!
Thank you, Caalamus, and thanks for watching!
11:36
So that's what alien dial-up sounds like.
You are just an outstanding teacher.
thank you for your videos! they helped me decide what to get. and its the monologue other option was microbrute
Can't wait for part 2 of the LFO demonstration.
The sounds you are getting out of this synth and soooooo much better than the factory presets.
A great lead sound @ 8:40
@3:57 sounds like a zx spectrum. Great synth btw.
Another fine video Mr Doty! Almost modular in its capabilities. Is wave shaping the same as wavefolding?
"I'm gonna click this to fast..."
Cue mass face melting.
I swear there was something where you could make the LFO wave shape the opposite phase. Anyone?
The gold one will look good with my Volca Keys.
Suddenly lfos are exciting to me!
Do you use the saw and square waves often (for musical applications)? I tried using the square to make notes jump octaves back and forth, only to discover it isn't unipolar, so of course the pitches were off by a tritone. That, combined with VCO 1 not having a pitch knob, makes for some interesting transpositions.
Ok, so this or Roland SE-02? I like them both.
can the LFO be key triggered?
My LFO settings keep dropping out during shaping, rate and intencity goes to plain sawtooth etc. in the middle of adjusting and I can't get the effects back. Just now, while typing, the LFO reseted itself. Am I doing something wrong, or is the LFO broken? Pitch seems to work fine. I also keep hearing clicks and pops constantly while shaping. My synth is set based on yours and it's on VCO 1 while doing evything mentioned here.
Mr. Doty, I recommended your DX7 Operators tutorial to my buddy that just picked up a Reface DX... I'm going to watch this one instead. ;-)
(To be clear, no relative disrespect to the Reface DX which isn't brown, has an improved interface, and a very playable keybed... :) )
Ha ha, that's hilarious! I could see someone, perhaps, buying a Reface based on my Korg Volca FM video, but I can't really imagine anyone being that into FM after that DX video!
"FM hater video guy" was someone else in my mind for a long time. I had gone looking for serious tutorials on FM sound design... That the clip length was long enough to look like a real tutorial, that was evil. Took awhile to realize the kind Moog foundation guy was the same person. ;-)
The video is actually a clip from a DX7 demonstration video a friend of mine made. That clip was meant to be comedy. I didn't shoot it, I only loaned my voice to it!
It did crack me up, though. :D
It was a "War of the [FM] Worlds" moment for me. I definitely crack up about it now. ;-)
Hi, I AM buying this machine as my first hardware synth. I have serious question.
Is that thing on 11:20 (doing incredibly fast and strong LFO on pitch) safe for your synth's analogue oscillator? Won't it break and I van Play IT all day? ^^ thanks on advance for your answer.
Respect from Wrocław PL
Dorpfer DarkEnergy also have LFO that runs in audio-range :)
So the Sync In-Out speaks only Volca or am i wrong? Would be very cool to use it with a semi modular or any synth that has no Midi
My understanding is that it is a "sync pulse," which means that you could probably use it with modular. But I'm the wrong person to talk to this about!
I’m a bit concerned that you may have summoned something from another dimension or altered time at about the 11:21 mark onwards with that LFO! What a beast!
just watched your microbrute AND monologue tutorials.. everyones telling me to go for the monologue but something about the microbrute keeps pulling me towards it. which would you recommend ?
When is part 2 coming??????
RIGHT NOW
11:46 Sounds like Metroid Prime Essence.
Neat, so it's basically a redone Monotribe LFO.
I just checked Marc's LFO video in his MicroBrute series, and it doesn't
go nearly as fast as the Monotribe's (whose knobs also have a much
finer resolution, a lot more than 7-bit). To my ear, the Monologue LFO
seems to have the same frequency resolution, perhaps scaled slightly
differently. So, that combined with nearly identical speed and routing options is what led to my judgement.
So they decided to learn from their Minilogue mistakes and not reset the LFO when you press a key?
How is LFO restart a mistake? I think that these days people want their LFO to restart with a key press so that it can be synced, etc. Granted, I'm more used to free-running LFOs... but if this LFO was free-running, you'd miss out on the one-shot feature, which is unbearably cool.
Having a 1-shot LFO is really useful on this machine because of the limitations of the AD/R-style envelope
In the Minilogue, it basically made the LFO useless for modulation in pad sounds. Every time you added a new note, the LFO (s ???, was there even more than one?) would reset in how it affected all voices, which was very jarring.
Ian Hoffman you're incorrect, the Minilogue in program edit can have the LFO reset on key press or NOT.....Go to program edit/Button 3 and turn LFO Key Sync to OFF, you can also turn Voice Sync on/off which will sync the phase of the LFO between voices or have all 4 of them running freely(yes in the Minilogue there is an LFO per voice). By default on a lot of patches Korg set LFO Key Sync to on and that was what you were experiencing. You can also have the LFO BPM Sync to on/off....which will give you a numerical range, or a beat measurement that syncs to the sequencer. Explore your synth and RTM:) Marc, you should know this lol;)
Marc, you reviewed the Minilogue lol;) On the Minilogue..... Program Edit/Button 3: Turn LFO Key Sync on/off to have LFO restart on key press or NOT. LFO Voice Sync can be turned on/off too which has the phase of the 4 LFOs synced or running independently for all 4 voices....LFO BPM sync on/off is an option too on that page.
that is an Alien LFO!! It is an AlienFO
You motorboatin son of a gun.
:D
No Sine ? ...
Can you discern the difference between a sine and a triangle in modulation?
Robert Moog can. :D
Yes i do, especially if you use it to modulate the cutoff and use a White noise as a audio source! Try it! Maybe i'm wrong...
Hmm. I don't miss it on this synth, but I do find triangles to sound quite unnatural on say, guitar chorusing. Whether it makes much difference to perhaps, audio rate modulation, I couldn't say.
It's easy to tell in comparison to each other, but I admit it's not a big deal.
Who ever uses an LFO to modulate pitch that much in any actual musical way though? Maybe in one song have I ever used that. I'd rather have more travel on the knob dedicated to useable pitch modulation.
That isn't to say you're wrong about it being cool, but it isn't terribly useful. And like you said, "a synthesizer is an instrument".
That being said, I'm blown away by the fast rate of that LFO :o
When a synth gets your brain going with neat sonic opportunities like that, you can't help but feel a little excited.
I'm happy to see someone else saying this. I've yet to find a significant way to use this, but there's always more I can learn, I suppose!
Well, just because it isn't tonal doesn't mean it can't be used in a musical way. In face, a synthesizer that is capable of making sounds like this has use as a sound design tool, unlike the synthesizers whose modulation is limited to that which would be traditionally musically useable.
Look up FM Synthesis (Frequency Modulation). It's an entirely different branch of synthesis. Most analogue synths we're used to are based around subtractive synthesis, i.e. start with a harmonically dense waveform (square, saw) and remove harmonics with a filter. FM is basically modulating in audio range and above. It's often metallic sounding, but can be great for pads and atmospheric. The fact that this can do both is a huuge bonus.
Well written & exactly ;)
not that kind of motorboat.lol
You have the sound on the synth turned up so loud it's tormenting to listen to. When I turn down the volume I can barely hear your voice unfortunately.
Fibber