Up Close And Personal With The MicroKORG
November 16, 2006
The MicroKORG is a synth/vocoder featuring the same DSP engine that went into the Korg MS2000. It has dual oscillators, an eight-band vocoder, plus a nice selection of waveforms (including 64 from the Korg DW-8000).
Gearwire's Dan Agosto walks us through the features of this small-but-powerful virtual analog synth, starting with the simple stuff; ins and outs, what kind of mics to use with the vocoder, and more. When he gets into the deeper features, you'll see how to manipulate settings to add distortion, portamento, stereo panning, and more. See and hear the MicroKorg in action in our exclusive demo video.
Check out the Korg MicroKORG page.
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Can you tell how to obtain a believable sound of piano with microkorg? If i find the way to have a quite good sound of piano i won't need to take other keyboards with me when i play with my friends. I'd like to take only microkorg.
Thanks,
Andrea
The microkorg is a synth,
The microkorg is a synth, not a piano or rompler. If you need something with a good piano, aswell as synths, maybe look at the micro-x (rompler synth).
Guitar through MicroKorg
Is it possible to play guitar throught the MicroKorg so I can get those cool sounds while playing guitar?
there is an audio in...
you should be able to use your guitar with the vocoder.
my arpeggiator only wants to
my arpeggiator only wants to work on random settings like trance 1 through 3 and stop and the others (example)
it does it on my other settings too, is there like a reset or something i have to do to fix it cuz i really dont wanna turn take it back for something thats fixable
thank you ;)
oh man
I'll have to borrow one of my friend's microkorgs to let you know, but when I find out...i'll post it here.
RE: My Arpeggigator...
Well, if you press the arpeggigator button when it is not lit up it will turn on, [Smatass-y, I know, but I have to cover the basics]
If you have to hold down a key to get the arpegg to stay on, you need to turn the "Latch" feature on. To do so, turn the 2nd Edit Select knob to "Arpeg. B" and turn the edit knob 1/CUTOFF from eft to right until the LED Screen displays "on"
Now your arpeggigator will stay on after just one key press.
If it does not, you may have a problem with your Korg.
Hope this helps!
yes
I think it sounds like more or less a problem with the korg, but you never know. often it's those stupid little things that end up being the problem.
Audio Input 2
Hi,
I own a microkorg and have been up and down the manual.
And can't get Audio Input2 to let my external sounds through so I can use the microkorgs filter.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
RE: Audio Input 2
If you're looking to use Audio Input 2 as the input for your vocoder, I don't think you can at all.
I know that you can, however, run it through a synth program by switching Oscillator 1 to "Aud" and setting Control 1 to "0"
From there, you can filter the sound, but not change its pitch like you can with the vocoder programs.
If you DO wnat to run something that is a 1/4-inch plug into a vocoder program, plug it into the "Dynamic" port of Audio Input 1 and set the switch on the back from "Mic" to "Line"
Hope that helps!
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