The effects and EQ settings are both off.
The mod and pitch bend wheels take on vibrato and pitch bend duties respectively with no other modulation controls operating.
If, like me, you're a new microKORG user then it is worthwhile taking the time to check out the settings of an initialized patch - a single oscillator (saw wave), no detuning, filter fully open and a basic amp envelope of fast attack and decay, full sustain and no release. In the end I was happy to keep 78 of the 128 presets and set about initializing the other 50 patches (shift+3). The first thing I did when I got my microKORG a couple of weeks ago was to restore the factory presets (I bought my synth used on ebay) and go through them one by one taking note of which ones to keep and which ones to ditch. Here are the final settings of the patch I called Ambient Pad (where "unchanged", this is relative to timbre 2 of the Factory preset b.62 - "Stairs Pad").įilter EG: 115, 122, 53, 115, ON (unchanged) From playing about with these controls though, the only thing I did and kept was closing of the filter cutoff a little so that the pad was a touch brighter, although you could always just use the mod wheel for this as the mod wheel is currently assigned to the cutoff. You'll notice how important the envelope controls are in ensuring that what we are left with is a pad sound. For example, turn the EG Attack counterclockwise and you'll get more of a brass sound (especially with the cutoff increased). What I do like to do though is save the patch to a free program, select it to go out of edit mode and then play with the performance controls which can result in noticeably different sounds. Now, call me boring but I like this patch pretty much as is.
If the arp is on, turn it off as this is arpeggiating layer 1 (now the pad). Now reverting to a single program only the pad will play. Therefore you'll need to swap the timbres (shift+2, you'll need to set it up to be layer first or you'll get an error message). This is because single patches use timbre 1 only and the pad I want is on timbre 2. Therefore, the first thing I do is change the program to single but what you'll notice is that now only the arp plays. I actually really like the pad sound as it is, great for ambient landscapes, but I wanted to play more than two note chords (although the patch is polyphonic it is limited to two voices because it is layered) and I didn't want the arp voice playing as it doesn't fit with the track I am working on. So now I have the "Stairs Pad" loaded on my synth, the first thing to do is try it out.
If you don't want to overwrite your custom patch saved to b.62 already then copy this to another program position first. Remember you'll need to have turned the write protect off first (shift+8, turn knob 1 to off and then press the 8 key again to confirm). If you've already overwritten this with a custom patch then you can restore it by pressing shift+7, selecting 1Program (1P9) with knob 1 and b.62 with knob 2. The starting patch is b.62 - "Stairs pad".
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