[BILL HOLLAND GIVING A GEARWIRE GREETING THROUGH THE KORG R3'S VOCODER]

BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. My name is Bill Holland.

We have [PH] "Benjie" which contains bells or metal-type instruments like mallets. Listen to this.

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Moving on, we have H which is the motion bank.

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Notice that this utilizes a lot of the built-in sequencing options on the R3, but we'll get to that in another video. For the moment, we'll sample a few of these.

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So what that essentially does is take advantage of the sequencing options in the R3. Now we have the percussion and hit section.

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We have a few more patches in this...,

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...and some chords.

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And this calls for use as a hit.

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SE or special effects.

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Moving on, we have the ARP Sequencer which is also the arpeggiator and sequencing on the R3. these patches all utilize those options.

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We have the vintage bass, bank L.

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The vintage lead bank.

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This is meant to emulate something like a Moog or Buchla or different things like that. All of these patches have something to do with vintage mono synthesis.

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Vintage poly synthesizer which are vintage synthesizers that had the ability to play multiple notes at one time.

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And formant motion, which takes advantage of the formant filter built into the keyboard.

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And notice that I can turn the voice on and off by hitting the vocoder button.

So you can actually go through and record your own audio sequence that modifies the synth while you play. That's the formant motion bank, and there are eight patches, preset, that you can also design your own and set them up how you want to. Now, moving on to the vocoder, we have eight patches. Check one, two. Check one, two. Check one, two.

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Check one, two, three, four, five.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING WITH THE KORG R3'S VOCODER]

[STILL PLAYING WITH THE VOCODER] You're watching Gearwire.Com. You are listening to Gearwire.Com. You are listening to Gearwire-wire dot com. I'm Bill Holland, your host, and we're listening to the Korg R3 synthesizer.

Well, that's it for the basics of the Korg R3. We will be back in a little bit with more details on how to edit the patches in here, tweak your parameters, and work with your settings. I'm Bill Holland for Gearwire.Com, and this has been the Korg R3 synthesizer.