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offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-27 04:49 [#02260945]
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In some ways I agree with that, but in practice I don't find
that at all.

I was fiddling around with one of Ae's patches yesterday (or
whatever was put up by Fluorescent Grey) and it's
neverending. Sub sub sub sub modules all over the place.
When you start screwing round with it, it really does become
very interesting-they're very skilled in what they do
(whoever programmed it).

However, in the time it takes to program something like
that, I could be making MANY complex patterns using hardware
and software and not having to bother with fault finding
etc.


 

offline Mask 500 from now on 2008-12-27 07:56 [#02260958]
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Via software, that thing doesn't have enough knobs to
control every parameter live.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2008-12-27 09:38 [#02260960]
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I never meant to disrespect those who choose to work with
software that requires conformity to an interface


Not at all, my good man. I'm amused, not offended, by your
myopic contempt for musicians who use the wrong software
application programs on their computer hardware devices.

Some day you'll show them all - the girl who laughed at your
Klingon love poem, the boys who gave you wedgies at camp,
the grandma who didn't understand your vision, the guy on
xltronic who said your youtube video was the Linux version
of Waiting for Guffman. You'll unveil your 20k lines of code
that make humming and dripping noises.


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-27 09:51 [#02260961]
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so you're saying any synth that doesn't have a knob for
every parameter is shit? I'd love to get busy with a full
modular synth but when it comes to fast fun sounds I see
nothing wrong with the microkorg or similar. Granted the
presets/genre things are sad but only a fool would use them
without tweaking and experimenting.


 

offline Mask 500 from now on 2008-12-27 10:37 [#02260963]
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Nah I'm not saying it's shit but the XL layout seems rather
empty.


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2008-12-27 12:55 [#02260982]
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no, not via software

you obviously have never used one, so fuck off out of the
conversation

i cannot stand people who think they know stuff about a
piece of gear when they've never even fucking touched one in
real life


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2008-12-27 13:04 [#02260984]
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So is it like a Micron, where you can access all the
parameters by various combinations of buttons and knobs? The
thing I like about the Micron is the piano keys take you to
different areas like filters, mod matrix etc.


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2008-12-27 13:09 [#02260986]
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the original microKORG uses two central knobs to access the
various sections (OSC1, filter section, etc) and then the
five knobs along the top right are used to change the
parameters

obviously you cannot have a high level of tweakability
during a performance, but with a synth like the microKORG
you're not meant to make your patches live.

i never got to pla with a micron, but i did hear a lot of
people liked the way that it uses the keys as parameter
selectors

i personally would find it annoying, but it's one way to
access the parameters in a small form factor


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2008-12-27 13:27 [#02260989]
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might as well if you're on that kind of budget.

Yeah it's cheap and analog sounding, but save up and get a
good ANALOG synthesizer, like a juno synth, or a
synthesizers.com synth.


 

offline Mask 500 from now on 2008-12-27 14:06 [#02260993]
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Touchy twat, we where talking about the XL which is
obviously meant to be used with it's software.


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2008-12-27 14:24 [#02260994]
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do you not see the parameter matrix on the front panel?


 

offline Mask 500 from now on 2008-12-27 14:50 [#02260997]
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Yes that seems very practical with only three knobs, they
emphasized the patch selecting area for a reason.

http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/lg01/56/0000684456/01/imgd
249f8e8zik1zj.jpeg


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2008-12-27 14:53 [#02260999]
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I must say i do feel a bit offended by your statements
there. No one in the world MUST make their own software to
suit the user's needs, i guess you are really so proud of
yourself that you mastered SC the way you let me think you
are (if that is the truth, i don't know, i haven't listened
to your work yet). I'm quite tired of people claiming
homebrew is the jew (=way, but i thought it sounded more
funny and 'ziltic') while they really are only just trying
to hype up what they think has changed their lifes and put
them 'up there' above 'those other artists'. Well let me try
and counter that, though in a rather more kinder way instead
of flamboiant, if you have encountered such limits in, let's
say, FLstudio, then you are probably lacking the motivation,
curiosity to find and explore unexplored unknown roads, and
the capacity to do something with them.

I know you have already apologized for your earlier
statements, and i know i'm not the only one who appreciated
that, but I could not help myself from having to say
something about it.


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2008-12-27 15:24 [#02261003]
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and i suppose you didn't even see the buttons underneath the
LCD display?

wow, looks like someone's never even played around with a
DX-7

that thing will NEVER be used by professional musicians
because the DX-7 has no knobs

don't worry mate, you're knob enough to make up



 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2008-12-27 15:32 [#02261005]
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haha look at you guys all wearing your serious pants

lets all get your knobs out and compare, just hold on a sec
and let PoutMask code his first in supercollider


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2008-12-27 15:45 [#02261006]
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oh vlari, you cocksocket

<3


 

offline Mask 500 from now on 2008-12-27 16:18 [#02261009]
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See, your so far up your own ass that you don't even try to
stop and figure out what people are saying do you? dx7 great
example of what I was saying about this type of interface
and patch editing, most of the Italo keyboardists used
factory patches and made great use of them including the
ones on the dx7, nothing wrong with that like you're trying
to imply.

Also just because I have a new register doesn't mean I
didn't read the board before mister "buy synths to toy with
them and sell them at a loss once you figure out that you
can't do anything with them due to your lack of talent to
anything but still want to fit in", k?


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2008-12-27 16:30 [#02261012]
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i like my bum


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2008-12-27 17:15 [#02261016]
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i'm much happier now that i had some alcohol


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2008-12-28 05:14 [#02261075]
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lol

what else did your research bring up?


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-28 05:18 [#02261077]
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Seconded, very few people bothered editing the presets on
the DX series apart - these guys new what they were doing
and had read the manual (lol).

Mind, it would be nice to have some degree of massive
control surface for the DX series, I was trying to find a
parameter randomiser for my DX11 but there's nothing out
there like that, just really simple software editors :(


 

offline brocksamsung from the forest (United States) on 2008-12-28 12:51 [#02261136]
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the idea of using FL as an instrument (as opposed to a work
space to compiling complete track into) and then multi
tracking it into a daw like cubase or logic has always
intrigued me.

never dug into it tho. theres a whole bunch of other shit iv
already got my hands tied up in. like reverb in traktor 3
and tin foil samples taken with a makeshift contact
microphone. the results are insane.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2008-12-28 13:02 [#02261142]
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There are Synthmaker dashboards for the DX7 and DX7 2 in FL
Studio now. I don't see why you couldn't make one for the
DX11 also, by digging in and modifying the existing ones.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2008-12-28 13:05 [#02261144]
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FL is some pretty powerful juju if you have a bit of
imagination. It's also the king of resampling itself, even
more so than Ableton. Don't see why you'd need a separate
DAW.

Can you share your tinfoil contact mic samples?


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2008-12-28 20:30 [#02261187]
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The dx7 had a knob interface that you can buy separately. It
accesses 64 of the prarameters.

The microkorg only had 4 knobs, and practically everything
was accessed with them.

Sorry to stay kind of on track here. I will stop posting
before I get flamed.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-29 04:59 [#02261208]
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Ooooh that's interesting, I might have a look into that.
Unfortunately barely anything is CC controllable in the
DX11, it's all SysEx (which really I probably should learn
how to do...)

I might also check that hardware interface Taxi, that would
be great if that would work with the DX11...


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2008-12-29 06:50 [#02261239]
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Sysex is easy. I can't remember the exact format of the
messages, but your DX11 manual hopefully has a big section
on it.

You typical sysex message starts with F0 to denote sysex,
then the manufacturer ID and device ID, then midi
channel(?), address to write data to, number of bytes to
send, the data itself, checksum(parity?)
You end with F7.

Your mileage may vary, but thats the jist of it. A sysex
might look like this TOTALLY made up example:

F0 3B A1 34 E2 D2 A3 F7

All the numbers are in hex. You're on windows aren't you?
midiox will do the trick.



 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2008-12-29 09:17 [#02261251]
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I just had a peep inside the DX7 one and it does use sysex -
F0blahblahblah as Dave G says, and StrSysex modules. I
really should spend more time learning Synthmaker; it's
pretty powerful and it came free with the latest FL Studio
update.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-12-29 09:25 [#02261253]
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Cool, that looks easy enough! I'll have a look into building
some kind of programmer.


 


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