Korg Wavestate Drum Programming Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- The Korg Wavestate is very well-suited for ambient soundscapes, but it also can serve as a drum sequencer. In this tutorial, we explore the basics of drum programming within the Wavestate, going from sample selection, to programming our tempo, to making variations, to playing with phasing between the timing and sample lanes. Future tutorials will cover more advanced generative techniques through modulation routing for algorithmic percussive patterns.
0:00 - Initializing
0:25 - Changing samples
0:44 - Soloing a step
0:55 - Loading kick sample
1:19 - Auditioning kick samples
1:40 - Loading snare sample
2:30 - Intro to changing the timing
3:15 - Two parameters to change for percussion sequence
3:25 - Why you don’t want xfade for percussion
3:35 - Two ways to turn down the xfade
4:50 - Using time values for rhythms
5:24 - Changing the timing lane to “Tempo” mode
5:38 - Adjusting tempo value for step A1
6:00 - Expanding our timing lane to two steps
6:25 - Changing value of A2 for triple meter
6:39 - Looking at perform to see the lanes
6:50 - Adding more elements
7:00 - Expanding our sample lane to 16 steps
7:30 - Changing loop end
7:50 - Adding hats
8:00 - Changing octave of snare for hat-ish sound
8:13 - Loading a hat to A3
8:30 - Auditioning hi-hat sounds
9:04 - Copying/pasting steps to fill out our drum pattern
9:25 - Copy/pasting kick
10:03 - Copy/pasting snare
10:36 - Copy/pasting hat
11:30 - Changing timing values to 1/16ths
12:05 - Swapping out samples
13:21 - Values to change for the sample (octave, semitones, sample offset)
14:05 - Changing the timing lane
14:54 - Changing the loop end times for phasing between sequences
15:47 - Future directions
Nice to see someone actually exploring this synth. Well done! Thanks for sharing!
Ok, I give you compliments of your step by step tutorial of programming drum loops on the Wavestate.
Though I've been following your tutorial by pausing here and there and try it hands on with my Wavestate, I simply and frustratingly gave up in the end to comprehend the sheer complexity of creating drum/percussion loops on this machine.
It just is so time consuming and I will leave it up to the nerds. That's why in the past, programmers have been mentioned on an album like band members. And for that matter I'd rather be a musician and enjoy the flow of music.
And by the way I do agree with a previous comment, that this is a very clunky way of producing drum loops.
Any drum looper/sequencer would indeed do this job in seconds!
Apart from that, the Wavestate is an awesome machine with almost unlimited possibilities.....
Agreed! For straight forward drum programming, a dedicated drum machine is much, much simpler and straightforward. However, one significant advantage of the Wavestate for percussion is to have phasing patterns between rhythm, sample selection, and parameters, which can create some interesting, generative, experimental results.
this thing has a wild sort of potential inside of it. i went with this one for my first real piece of hardware because i like the idea that you could do most of the work with just this machine if you wanted to. now all i have to do is achieve my first actual (wave) sequence
It takes a few days of patient experimentation and much manual reading to figure out all the features and idiosyncracies of the Wavestate, which is very deep and flexible, and this was very helpful in consolidating my understanding of this great music machine. Thanks! 🙂
2:40 I laughed at the praying hands and the little commentary image inserts haha. Thanks for your really informative tutorials on the Wavestate! 💙
🙏 thank you. The wavestate is a brilliant machine. To learn to program this beast will take time.
You should consider coming out with a handbook on step by step instructions for tutorials.
Actually Korg should have done this.
Your tutorials are very helpful
👍👍
so i have come back and watched this again with a fresh perspective and realize that as much menu diving as theer is on this machine ,one haqs to enjoy the journey as well as the end result on this machine. its not about speed ultimately with this. its way too vast for that approach. its about DEPTH and getting into the little corners of what this can really do! this tutorial really illustrates how monstrous and powerful this thing is.
Great video, thanks for creating and uploading. I picked up lots of useful info.
The Wavestate is a machine which just keeps on giving, and giving, and giving. What a deep mothership of musical potential. So glad I got this instead of the Hydrasynth
As companions they are even better, throw in a sequencer like the SQ64 and you can do some amazing things. If I don't have the space to bring the HS with me I can create a multi-sample and put it onto the Wavestate
Thank you for an excellent tutorial. I've been struggling with the manual for a few weeks but have learned more in 16 minutes after watching your video.
Great tutorial, thanx!
The pasting sounds killed me lol. Awesome vid man. Totally glued the whole way, pun intended lol.
Thanks again. You have a great way of getting the point across.
Great tutorial. Thanks.
Thank you , I am fumbling around with this thing. This video is very good in that you can see what buttons you press and why . Subscribed thanks again.
I much needed to to watch this its a great help Thanks dude
Thanks for this! I'm loving my wavestate. Like somebody else said, this thing has so much potential. I think this thing's going to be around many years. It's a huge step up from the old wavestation, which was nearly impossible to program. But it's still pretty complex. I've found the new wavestate native software is a lot easier because you can click around and do everything you need and then export it to the keyboard. (And I love all the cute graphics you added LOL)
Thanks!
Man super helpful thanks
Great content :) I am convinced now that the Wavestate needs more shortcuts for the sequencer. Talk about menu diving!
Agreed! It'd be nice if the keyboard could double as a way of inputting values in the lanes.
@@bluecliffsynthesis6685 totally agree!
I liiike! I'm leaning towards getting a wavestate due to its range of sounds, traditional and synthesised. It'd be interesting to see a montage of tracks of different genre's all made with the wavestate. show off its versatility
this is my first hardware synth, and this video helped a lot! Even just for the general layout of the synth! Thanks, very kewl! Also are you a school teacher? If not that is truly your calling aha!
Hehe, I have worked as a teacher before :D Glad you found the tutorial helpful!
I want in one layer on every key the same drum sound, not higher and deeper. How to do it?
Nice tutorial. Is it harder to program drum patterns using one Layer A which have personal multi samples (kick, snare,hit hat...) ? Thank you.
Thank you for the informative video! How would you program a drum sequence so that two drums hit on the same step in the sequence, for example if you wanted to program a classic 2/4 drum beat where the high hat hits on both the base drum and snare drum beats? Would you have to put the high hat on a separate lane within the performance?
Hi Justin, you'd have to use another layer for simultaneous hits (there are 4 layers on the device). Hope that helps!
Hi ! Could you tell me if it's possible to play a lane without having to hold on a key, like the "latch" function for arpeggio for instance ?
Good question! Not as far as I know. There are two workarounds: 1. The most convenient and one I use is to use an m-audio sustain pedal ($20-25), so that the note holds and I can tweak/program with both hands. 2. You can give the note a very long release in its amp envelope (90 sec). This has the added advantage of allowing you to play other notes for other layers without the sustain while that note continues to play, but it will slowly fade out and there is no infinite release for the wavestate. There might be other options within the perform menu, but will have to dig around a little bit.
Actually, yes! There’s a hold feature I think you can access from a page via the Home Screen
@@cyruskarshenas1674 😮
Hi! I'm following every steps but when you select the second wave and go thru the list of snares, we hear only the snare, but on my machine I hear the kick followed by the snare. Not sure how to configure the synth to do exactly what you do. Also, this synth absolutely needs an editor!
Never mind - found it. my seq step button was not flashing. Thanks anyway and great tutorial.
Why did Korg not allow the samples to be assigned to the keys, then when you select the keys you should be able to highlight one of the 16 buttons to program the instruments in, seems to me like the drum loop programming was an afterthought.
Same applies to programming the pitch lane semitone offsets with the damn knob. If only there was a less clumsy device to specify pitch data with... perhaps it could have long rectangular buttons painted in black and white colors or something, but I'm not the expert.
Thanks - it would be even better if the light wasn't reflecting off the wavestate screen, but ... otherwise - very helpful :-)
So how do you add steps?
At 7:00 I describe using the Sample Lane Utility to add steps to end :-)
A decent tutorial on how to do drum programming on the Korg Wavestate. However, having worked with task-specific drum machines (like the Alessis units) programming drums in the Wavestate seems clunky and inflexible. Sometimes "infinite possibilities" isn't what we need in music creation.
I would agree that drum programming in the WS is fairly clunky, though it does have its own idiosyncratic kind of flexibility. i'd definitely agree that dedicated drum machines (MPC, Alesis, Machinedrum, etc) are much quicker and streamlined for making standard rhythmic material
Amazing machine up until you want to program drums. That took way too long. Still. It was deep what it can do once you get past all that
the superfluous graphics trying to make this video "kewl" are juvenile and distracting from the information and what separates this from all the serious tutorials out there. And you can't even film the screen without reflection, like all the other ones do. Good job.
Sometimes I find the seriousness of tutorials pretty dry. There is a part of who I am that is juvenile and easily distracted, and it's this part of me that led to the addition of the ridiculous and superfluous graphics. And yes, this was one of the early videos I had recorded, and the lighting is regrettably imperfect. I hope that you could still gain some useful information from it, and I hope as well that whatever information was obscured by the ridiculous and amateurish elements of this video you were able to gain from another tutorial online. Be well and happy patching.
@@bluecliffsynthesis6685 thank you for being understanding and gracious. It's just that there is so much info to absorb that I found it distracting from the learning. I have epilepsy and so I need things clean and simple. But the WS is so vast that it will take all of us to learn it. Thank you.
I'll watch your videos again with all this in mind.
wow. It is the most complicated and time consuming drum programing I ever seen. On an mc101 or any other drum machine this could take 10 seconds. obviously wavestate is not for drum patterns.
Hehe, yeah I agree! In comparison to a dedicated drum machine, the wavestate is pretty cumbersome. What might lead one to program drums on the wavestate would be its generative possibilities through modulation of the sequencer, its particular synthesis architecture, or the convenience of programming both drums and synths in a single performance patch.
The Wavestate has some super complex and morphing drum and percussion hits, so I usually sample them into my TR-8S and use that to program the rhythms.
You're going to fast for us boomers
:D apologies! I will upload some more bite-sized tutorials later.
I'm trying to learn - stop making me laugh, damnit.
Right!!! Lol
And why did you put a woman photo to watch your video??
very sad