Korg is Awesome
March 30th, 2010
I was totally amazed today to get an email from none-other than the designer of the Monotron himself. He congratulated me on the implementation and gave me a few hints:
- filter doesn’t sound nearly as aggressive at maximum peak.
- LFO is slower at minimum (about 15s period) and faster at maximum (>1kHz).
- monotron resets the LFO at the moment the ribbon is touched, so it
works like a simple cycling EG at slow LFO rates.
- monotron has fixed intensity keytrack. cutoff tracks ribbon position
by factor of two. only tracks ribbon not pitch knob.
I made the adjustments above and also added keyboard control for the ribbon. New version here:
It doesn’t sound particularly good at extreme modulation, something that is very hard to do digitally and where analogs really shine. I’ll have to come back to this one when I get my hands on a real Monotron and try getting a bit closer to that beautiful analog squelching.
Special thanks to Tatsuya Takahashi and Korg, can’t wait for the real thing!
Hey man, just letting you know this thing blew my left monitor lol. Be careful with extreme resonance settings people!
Comment by jarrydn — April 1, 2010 @ 3:11 am
Actually, it was the left channel on my amp that’s gone, after a closer inspection.
Comment by jarrydn — April 1, 2010 @ 3:30 am
That’s rather unfortunate. I’ll have to double check the output, it might be introducing a DC offset at high resonance.
Comment by admin — April 1, 2010 @ 8:10 am