rauðvik visits The Disaster Room, and we dig deep into Korg wavestate sound design, and whatever other Tom Foolery we get into. We chat a lot about the wavestate and the rest of the PiKorgs, a number of other Korg synths and controllers, about music making in general and a bit about process. The conversation is wide-ranging.
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Key Moments:
00:00 False start – the joys of live production
01:07 The real Transmission Begins
01:50 Introduction — and how do you pronounce rauðvik?
04:15 Some overview within the wavestate editor and concepts for long, slow pads and how the programs work together within the wavestate
09:50 Performance demo of one song in a box (excerpt)
14:45 Some conceptual background of how it works
17:15 PiKorg similarities to the SQ64 sequencer, and some ways to modify the timing lanes and relationship to other sequencer lanes
21:50 PiKorg architecture with regards to reverb
24:40 Moving a wavestate program from hardware to native – and Windows decides to take a break
27:45 Brief technical difficulties
31:00 Building a bass sequence; how timing and pitch lanes work on the PiKorgs and defining a key zone
50:45 Some thoughts on Berlin School music, ambient music, and applying the wavestate sequencers
57:10 Channel plug: @dani_raudvik
58:45 Thoughts on assigning macro knobs and sequencer lane tricks and limitations, DAW control of parameters that are not automateable within the synths
1:15:55 My rant on digital encoders and surface mount electronics and some chatter about how electronics are made
1:26:00 Back to wavestate! Let’s build a drone pad
1:29:00 Thoughts on assigning key ranges for “song in a box” with wavestate (and multi/poly) |
1:32:30 Pad construction
1:41:20 – (How the loop markers work)
2:01:12 – (Recipe for how to build the Vela Pulsar on the wavestate)
2:03:30 – (Importance of monitoring and knowing your monitors)
2:13:20 The multi-filter experiments
2:25:00 Adding delay to the pad layer
2:28:05 More filter work
2:34:46 Some thoughts on process and performance when designing and composing for “single-instrument” pieces with PiKorgs
2:28:25 Detrimental effects of having certain electronics in the studio
2:41:16 Can you teach how you hear? “Visualizing” sound
2:46:00 Some more examination of the sequencer – applying the shape lane to pitch, and step sequence to filter resonance. Almost everything can be modulated, but there are exceptions that can be confounding
2:58:00 Certain limitations may tie back to the Korg core architecture that was introduced on the M1
3:00:00 Are the PiKorgs good for non-sound designers?
3:07:00 Korg’s history of display shortcomings, plus general chat about the world of Korg synths (particularly PiKorgs), pros and cons
3:12:00 Thoughts on King Korg NEO
3:15:35 Sound packs for wavestate?
3:17:30 A complaint about most, if not all, of the native series and user wavetables and samples
3:18:40 Beginning to wrap up …
3:22:10 Some live performance thoughts; Smooth transitions is a great performance feature
3:30:20 opsix special sauce and sound design thoughts (foreshadowing?)
3:34:20 Really wrapping up. It’s dinner time!
3:38:18 End of transmission
THIS VIDEO IS NOT SPONSORED. Any products demonstrated on the channel are purchased using personal funds unless otherwise noted. Manufacturers or resellers have no input to the content of this channel.
Links:
My music gear: https://gerenm.net/about/music-gear/
Korg wavestate: https://www.korg.com/us/products/synt…
rauðvik on YouTube: @dani_raudvik
rauðvik on Bandcamp: https://raudvik.bandcamp.com/
Multi/poly multitimbral setup: https://www.youtube.com/live/uWFDcbpo…
Qui Robinez on YouTube: @quirobinez
Ian Dixon on YouTube: @IanDixonTDL
Synkrotron on YouTube: @synkrotron
Freelance Sound Labs: https://freelancesoundlabs.com/
Amps and More: https://ampsandmore.com/
Tall Dog Electronics: https://www.tall-dog.com/
Oscillator Sink on YouTube: @OscillatorSink
Oscillator Sink builds Buchla on opsix: • Korg opsix: Buiding a West-Coasty, Buchla …
Waveformer on YouTube: @Waveformer
Korg wavestate sound libraries: https://korg.shop/sound-libraries/wav…
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