Korg Wavestate Tutorial Ratcheting / Berlin School
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is a tutorial on how to create a Ratcheting effect on the Korg Wavestate. Ratcheting means retriggering a note or a step in a sequence multiple times. You could also call it note repeat. It is frequently used in the Berlin School type of electronic music.
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Init Performance
Timing Lane:
Step Type: Gate
Sample Lane
Step A1: MS: Wave: Saw
Arpeggiator
Hold
Pattern: Up
Resolution: Eighth note
Sort: Off
Tempo: 141
Amp Envelope
Attack: 0.0013
Decay: 1 sec
Envelope curve D: 10 (exp/log)
Sustain: 0
Filter
Type: MS-20 LPF
Cutoff: +46 (116.54 Hz)
Res: 0%
Envelope: 49.5
Key Track: 16.5
Filter Envelope:
Attack: 0.0013
Decay: 1 sec
Envelope curve D: 10 (exp/log)
Sustain: 0
Amp LFO (ratcheting)
Tempo sync: On
Freq: 32th note
Waveform: Square
Intensity 0
Use the step wavesequence lane to control when ratcheting should occur.
We can use the Mod processor to multiply the output from the Amp LFO with the value of each step in the step wavesequence.
Mod Processor 1
Type: Scale
Input: Amp LFO
Scale Src: Step Seq Lane
And then we set the Amp and Filter envelopes to be triggered by the output from Mod Processor 1.
Filter Envelope:
Trigger Src: Mod Process 1
Trigger Threshold 100%
Amp Envelope:
Trigger Src: Mod Process 1
Trigger Threshold 100%
Step Seq Lane:
16 steps
Value 0% on most steps
Step A2, Value: 1% (can be any value over 0%)
You can add a probability here, if you like
Turn on Note Advance
Step seq loop A1:A16
We'd like to be able to set the number of note repeats.
We can use the step sequence for that as well, if we set up a modulation so that step sequence value modulates the Amp LFO Speed (note subdivision)
Amp LFO (ratcheting)
Freq: 8th note
Add modulation:
Amp LFO Note
Source Step Seq Lane
Intensity: -8
Step Seq Lane:
Step A2, Value: 75% (4 notes)
Step A6: Value: 33% (2 notes)
The rest of the steps: Value 0%
ModFX
Type: Small Phase
Preset: Small Phaser Color
Wet/Dry: 16:84
Reverb:
Type: Overb
Preset: Ultima Vega Star
Wet/Dry: 14:86
Sample Lane
16 steps (add 14)
Enter + Step to solo the stem
Step A1: MS: Wave: Saw
Step A2: MS: Wave: Saw (Not too much variation at first)
Step A3: MS: Wave: Saw Chroma
Step A4: MS: Wave: Saw + Square EXP
Step A5: MS: Wave: Square, Oct +1, Trim -5.8 dB
Step A6: MS: Wave: Wobble Wave
Step A7: MS: Wave_WS: VS119
Step A8: MS: Wave_Guru: Pianoish
Step A9: MS: Wave_Guru: Organish 2
Step A10: MS: Wave_WS: 13_01
Step A11: MS: Wave_WS: 13_13
Step A12: MS: Wave_WS: 13_09
Step A13: MS: Wave_WS: Krypton
Step A14: MS: Wave_WS: OBTRESN
Step A15: MS: Wave_WS: 13_59
Step A16: MS: Wave_WS: VS118
Enter + Step to disable soloing
Note advance
Sample seq Loop Start: A1, Loop End: A16.
Control the decay times for the Amplitude envelope and the Filter envelope with a performance knob.
Modulation:
Filter Env Decay Time
Source: Master PrfKnob
Intensity: x4.257
Modulation:
Amp Env Decay Time
Source: Master PrfKnob
Intensity: x4.257
Modulation:
Amp Env Sustain Level
Source: Master PrfKnob
Intensity: 70
Delay
Type: Stereo/Cross Delay
Preset: 1/8 dotted LPF
Wet/Dry: 39:61
Feedback: 48
Timbre: -25
Let the Pitch LFO modulate the Decays of the Filter and Amplitude Envelopes
Pitch LFO (modulates Filter and Amp Envelope Decay)
Freq: 0.070 Hz
Waveform: EXP TRI
Sync Notes: On
Intensity: 0
Modulation:
Amp Env Decay Time
Source: Pitch LFO
Intensity: x2
Modulation:
Filter Env Decay Time
Source: Pitch LFO
Intensity: x2
Modulation:
Amp Env Sustain Level
Source: Pitch LFO
Intensity: 70
Use the Filter LFO to modulate filter cutoff.
Filter LFO:
Freq: 0.064 Hz
Waveform: Triangle
Intensity: 8
Sync Notes: On
Use the Pan LFO to modulate panning.
Pan LFO
Freq: 0.215 Hz
Waveform: Triangle
Intensity: +31%
Sync Notes
The audio is recorded to SD card on a Zoom R16 and normalized in Audacity. Video is recorded on iPhoneX. Audio and video is synchronized in DaVinci Resolve 15.
Gear:
Korg Wavestate
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I love that they let you trigger an ADSR with an LFO, plus all the mod sources and mod processors. They did a great job designing this synth. Great tutorial btw.
Yeah! It’s really really well done. Especially making such a complex synth architecture accessible through a relatively intuitive interface and the feeling like you’re controlling it through the hands on knobs and buttons, and not diving through endless menus.
You probably dont give a shit but if you're bored like me during the covid times then you can watch all of the new series on InstaFlixxer. I've been binge watching with my brother these days =)
@Raiden Maurice yup, been watching on instaflixxer for since november myself :)
This is an awesome tutorial! I've had the wavestate since it came out, but felt a bit intimidated by the learning curve. This video has me making new patches on the fly now. Thank you so much!
Cool! It’s really a sound designers dream 😊.
@@Waveformer but he seems to be more of a hair designer type :)
Thank you for sharing your insights and for the details on where to edit what.
Thanks 😊. Glad you find my notes useful.
Don't know how I missed this originally, but it's clear I should have bought one of these when they came out. Rectifying that mistake soon. Great video.
Great tutorial. I added pitch lane as well with odd number of steps. Just amazing .Cheers mate
That’s cool! It’s amazing what this synth can do 😀🎶
Thanks man! Great little tutorial.
Thanks, Tim 😊
What a MasterClass in Wavestate programming 👏👏🙏🎶
I just ordered my Wavestate today and should have it by monday, so in the meantime I'm just soaking up tutorials to be prepared. This is definitely one that taught me a lot of stuff about the sequencer that will come in handy :)
its like doing long equations! very interesting .
Thanks for this. I have had the wavestate a couple of weeks now and it’s amazing the music it can generate. It reminds me of modular in that there are so many ways to create similar effects. I’ve been using the shape and gate lanes to create ratchets, but your method adds another tool to the armoury.
It’s a lot of fun, and it makes me think about composition and sound design in a new way. I haven’t tried modular synths, aside for a few hours at Schneidersladen, but I imagine it’s a similar way of thinking.
As many others have already commented, this is an excellent, deep tutorial - one of the best on this magic box of tricks from Korg. Wavestate = Beast. Waveformer = BeastMaster. 🙏🤣
These tutorials are very informative, also the music you're making is beautiful, please keep making some more wavestate tutorials :)
Thanks. I will 😃.
Unglaublich, ich verstehe zwar ab 2min. fast gar nichts mehr aber finds einfach nur faszinierend, Respekt.
This is one of the best tutorials I have seen on the Wavestate. I absolutely love Berlin School and this has got me in a creative fervour! Many, many thanks 🙏🙏
I have been waiting for you to do this tutorial for a few weeks!! Thanks so much for this brilliant tutorial!
Wow!!! You know your Wavestate for sure!! Really great patch. Tangerine Dream ratcheting was so innovative at the time. Thank a lot for that, I will try this for sure.
Really excited to try this. Just purchased the wavestate. Quite a learning curve as I'm new to synth hardware. Thanks for taking the time to show us this tutorial.
Cool video, it sounds so familiar like a indie rock band from mexico Band Zoe song Hielo.
Thank you! This is an amazing tutorial. The arpeggio sounds spectacular.
Thanks - I’m glad you found it useful. The Wavestate is complex, but very inspiring and rewarding to play with :-).
the Wavestate is really like a modular synth. you have really shown what it can do. thanks for your love of synthesis
Today I created my first custom timing lane to create an S.O.S rhythm.. your video is a few orders of magnitude more complex! Hat off.
Thanks for sharing this. Really interesting. I'm just about to buy the WaveState myself, and this is a nice little insight into the editing process
Cool! It works great for me, but I guess it’s not for everyone.
I subscribed within 5 seconds of this video starting! Very informative. If/when I get a Wavestate I will come back and view again, thanks.
Lol, this is an insanely arcane way to get something as simple as a ratchet going. Still, always good to get to know the functions, even if it is so I can avoid them like the plague.
Haha. Yeah, I see what you mean :-). I like a challenge 😅.
Wow! Super! Dziękuję za lekcję. Udało mi się zrobić wszystko, co pokazałeś. Nareszcie ktoś nauczył mnie obsługi tego sprzętu.
This is a very cool effect.
Thank you 🙏. You are an excellent teacher, precise details over every step and the results are fascinating
👍👍
Brilliant! I was just experimenting with the mod processors and this came up. Thank you so much. Gave me lots of new ideas. Please keep doing more wavestate tutorials.
Glad you found it useful 😊. I’ll continue making new tutorials as I learn more.
Great tutorial. Thank you - I learned so much about this great synth
Thanks. It’s so much to learn about this thing. I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface.
This is really great I hope you do more techniques with the wavestate
Le tutorial que j'attendais, merci Monsieur.
Merci, Giles 😊
This why I bought the Wavestate, in the hopes of doing this type of music. Thank you for such a detailed easy to follow tutorial. Easy to follow . Your Alexanderplatz patch is awesome and I've been jamming with it since you shared it. (Thanks for that too!) It's nice to understand it better
Thanks, Jack 😀. Glad you found it useful. I’ll create some more tutorial as I learn more myself.
great tutorial. you have made this machine even more complicated than I thought hahah. I have one for about a year and have not gotten anywhere close to understanding it as well as you . I just want to know how you figured this out. And you show what a genius design that Korg did on this synth. I think most people who get one have no idea what it is capable of.
Excellent presentation, thank you very much.
Exellent tutorial, thank you!👌🏼
Thank you, Dave.
Thanks, inspiring! I'll try to replicate it using the timing lane instead of the arp for a different approach.
Good Idea. I haven’t learnt how to use the timing lane properly yet. Will get there eventually 😁.
Wow. Great video and deep tutorial. Thank you.
Nice tutorial T! Yeah I'd like a wavestation too!
Thanks, Lisa. I’m having a lot of fun with it 😀.
Great tutorial. Thanks!
Thanks for the great tips!
Very cool tutorial, I'd been trying to use the Shape lane to achieve a similar ratcheting effect, but I think I prefer your methodology.
I ended up using the shape lane for ratcheting. Not for volume directly, but to trigger the Amp and Filter envelopes. Set trigger level to 94% for both envelopes, and trigger source to Step Sequence. Set step sequence to Use Shape. Loop start = Loop end = A1. Value 100. Then set most steps in the Shape lane to off, and a few steps to shapes with 2, 3 or 4 pulses.
@@Waveformer Very cool! I'm experimenting with adding rests in the timing lane, but I'm noticing that it's still triggering the Filter / Amp envelope. Is there a way to "AND" the Step Sequence Lane + whether there is a rest or not?
@@the8bitdeity Cool! I’m not near my Wavestate right now, but the Scale operation for a Mod Processor is similar to AND. The inputs could be Step Seq and Note On Trig (or maybe Gate?). Then set the Trigger Source for the Amp and Filter envelopes to Mod Processor 1. I’m not sure if it’ll work - let me know :-).
Great video, thank you.👍
Thank you for this, it was extremely helpful :)
great tutorial !!! thank !!!
I used the subtitles with the French translation :) thank
NICE 🎼 I wish it had more 🎹
Yeah. I wish the keyboard had polyphonic after touch. But I have another keyboard with after touch and I’ll try connecting that and assign modulation to the after touch. But at least it’s light and portable.
very cool tutorial, thank you
Thanks 😎.
Very good! Tangerine dream is not sor far ... High level for me Thank's a lot
Thank you 😊. Tangerine Dream is a great inspiration to me.
I followed the tutorial but I realized that the “Init Performance” is monophonic” (only one key plays at a time) an does not sound like at minute 1:54 (and thereafter). How do play this “Init Performance” polyphonic? I realized once I hit “arpeggiator” only plays one key at a time...any advise?
Very cool tutorial!!!!
Thanks 😊
this is a great tutorial . are there anymore tutorials planned?
Yes. I have planned to do a tutorial on custom filters and morphing between filters (Multi Filter). And other stuff I learn as I create more patches. It’s been a busy autumn, so I haven’t had time so far.
Very interesting and well explained... :) :) :)
Awesome video
But how did you get the larger screen?
My old eyes would like to know
Thanks
That’s in the video only
👏👏👏
What compressor are you using for your voice in this video to duck the volume in your video?
J'aimerais trop reproduire ça avec des vsts, mais le niveau de contrôle que tu as à la fin pour toutes ces "variations", je suis déjà perdu. Ce Korg est vraiment incroyable...
Many thanks for this very interesting tutorial. Would it be difficult to apply the same technique not on arpegiator but on sequences?
Question...can pitch bend be applied to a single lane or does it engage all lanes playing? Thank you.
You can decide that yourself. It’s part of the patch. I often have pitch bend affect just one layer.
@@Waveformer thanks for the quick reply. I'm gonna get one!
Cool! Good luck 😀.
Great tutorial thanks. It’s your fault I bought one of these
Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I do :-)
for the function: hold which allows the notes to remain after we take our hand off the keyboard (you have to go to the menu to find the hold function program set up page 13) is the pedal essential?
The hold function in the menu is useless to me, since it so unavailable and requires lots of menu diving to turn on and off. I would say the pedal is essential. I use it all the time.
@@Waveformer thank you so ( if i understand ok ) its possible to use the ..hold function,, without the pedal but more easy with the pedal
@@drouk22 yeah, that’s right.
@@Waveformer ok thank you again
I can’t seem to get the note to loop or repeat. I have to manually hold the note on the keys. How do you get the Wavestate to sustain?
If you’re using the arpeggiator, you can set it to latch by pressing shift + Arpeggiator button. I also wholeheartedly recommend getting a sustain pedal.
@@Waveformer thanks for the quick reply! I will grab a pedal. Thank you
I spend my time watching gear and daw/vst software instead of actually playing. Just me? LOLZ. I've been watching this keyboard for months now. I need to break down and just buy the darn thing. Seems like the SE 61 is never going to actually be released.
wife thinks you love wavestate more than her = the one downvote.
Hahaha. Yes, it must be her 🤣.
Can anyone lend or better still give me the the money for a Wavestate? I need one, now!
🤣
They are so good man. Get one
Visualize that you already have one...the Universe will provide! :-) I myself dream about this...
This is excellent! Thankyou for sharing it with everyone.
and what losers gave this thumbs down? I think those people can't do this so they hate on it. very sad.
I quit after about 10 mins , far too complicated , there must be a much easier way of getting effect
This keyboard is insanely fun and deep! I thought it would be junk. Not so!
Yeah, it’s a constant source of inspiration 😀.
Junk??? No way
@@BeatsByJarel That's for sure. So glad I got it.
@@amb13nt59 Me tooo... is so deep.. is alot to explore...but i like the challenge... is gonna take me some to manipulate it
Quite straight forward then?, I am begining to regret getting a Wavestate