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18. EQ 

— SYNTH/VOCODER

This is a two-band equalizer. Use EQ FREQ (knobs 1  and 3  to specify the frequency that you want to adjust, and use knobs 2  and 4  to adjust
the gain of each frequency band.

Excessively raising the equalizer gain parameters may cause the output to be distorted.

LOW EQ FREQ. [40Hz...1.00kHz]

Sets the frequency of the low-range
equalizer.

LOW EQ GAIN

[-12...12]

Sets the amount of boost or cut for
the low-range equalizer.

HI EQ FREQ.[1.00kHz...18.0kHz]

Sets the frequency of the high-range
equalizer.

HI EQ GAIN

[-12...12]

Sets the amount of boost or cut for
equalizer.

Summary of Contents for microKORG

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Page 3: ...s cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of th...

Page 4: ...cedure 12 Editing each timbre 14 Editing a synth program 15 Explains the functions of the synth program parameters adjusted by edit control knobs 1 5 for the corresponding setting of the EDIT SELECT 1...

Page 5: ...r the corresponding setting of the EDIT SELECT 1 2 knobs GLOBAL structure 46 Overview 46 21 GLOBAL 47 1 VOICE SYNTH VOCODER 16 2 PITCH SYNTH VOCODER 17 3 OSC1 Oscillator 1 SYNTH VOCODER 18 4 OSC2 Osci...

Page 6: ...s that you edited Saving your edited settings 58 Saving a program 58 Saving GLOBAL MIDI and SHIFT function settings 58 SHIFT functions 59 Explains functions that use the SHIFT key such as initializing...

Page 7: ...erent oscillator algorithms such as the sawtooth and square waves familiar to users of analog synthesizers you can use the various controls located on the front panel to edit any sound or to create so...

Page 8: ...FT key By holding down this key and pressing another key you can access various utility functions p 59 Also while this key is lit it will function as an EXIT key to exit the current state and return t...

Page 9: ...one LED is lit the EDIT SELECT knob corresponding to the lit LED will be the object of your editing If the object of editing has not been finalized the LED will blink If a Synth program using layer i...

Page 10: ...put level from the DYNAMIC or CONDENSER jack CONDENSER jack Connect a condenser mic to this jack DYNAMIC jack Connect a dynamic mic synthesizer or audio device to this jack If both the DYNAMIC jack an...

Page 11: ...the included mic grasp it by the base and pull it out 2 Turn the rear panel AUDIO IN VOLUME 1 knob to the MIN position and set the MIC LINE switch to the MIC position 3 Connect the plug of the includ...

Page 12: ...the included one Inserting exchanging batteries The microKORG can also be operated on batteries Batteries are not included You will need to purchase them separately 1 Make sure that the power switch o...

Page 13: ...FF key The demo will begin playing TheSHIFT OCTAVE SHIFT DOWN UP and PROGRAM NUMBER key LEDs will light 2 To switch the demo song during playback press the OCTAVE SHIFT UP or DOWNkey You can also use...

Page 14: ...This will affect the brightness of the sound Normally turning the knob toward the left will darken the sound and turning it toward the right will brighten the sound Edit control knobs 1 5 PROGRAM NUMB...

Page 15: ...f desired p 58 Using the PITCH and MOD wheels for control PITCH wheel The effect will be applied when you move the wheel away from or toward yourself When the wheel is in the center position there wil...

Page 16: ...input sound while you make adjustments p 37 5 While vocalizing into the mic play the keyboard Try pronouncing different words and changing the chords you play and listen to the vocoder effect If you...

Page 17: ...nded For example if you selectedARPEG A in step 4 the parameters shown in the lower left diagram below will be selected as the knob functions Turning knob 1 will change the tempo of the arpeggio and t...

Page 18: ...er sections in a logical order for creating the sound You can turn the dials in sequence to step through these parameter sections in the appropriate order By holding down the SHIFT key and pressing th...

Page 19: ...cutoff fre quency and cuts the frequencies that are above Figure 6 1 Low ering the cutoff frequency will make the tone darker and more mellow 12dB LPF The 12 dB LPF 12 dB octave Low Pass Filter has a...

Page 20: ...be used as the value at which editing begins 2 To cancel edit sync press the TIMBRE SELECT key Edit sync will be cancelled and timbre 1 will be the object of editing You can use the Solo function even...

Page 21: ...of the past The oscillator settings vary the pitch the filter settings modify the tone and the amp settings modify the volume The microKORG s oscillator filter and amp On the microKORG the OSC1 OSC2 a...

Page 22: ...e in steps of one cent VOICE ASSIGN and polyphony for a Layer program Timbre 1 Timbre 2 VOICE ASSIGN Mono Poly Polyphony 1 voice 3 voices VOICE ASSIGN Poly Poly Polyphony 2 voices 2 voices VOICE ASSIG...

Page 23: ...ento effect Increasing this value will cause the pitch change to occur over a longer time If VOICE ASSIGN is set to Mono or Unison and if Trigger is set to Single portamento will not apply to the firs...

Page 24: ...called a pulse wave A square wave is used for woodwind sounds such as clarinet and for wooden percussion sounds A pulse wave is used for plucked string sounds and reed type sounds CONTROL 1 0 127 Adju...

Page 25: ...ula tion available on analog synthesizers of the past Normally a low fre quency signal such as from an LFO is used as the modulation source for an oscillator but Cross Modulation lets you use another...

Page 26: ...cutoff fre quency will move according to the keyboard location you play and the change will be heard as a pitch If you want the oscillation pro duced by resonance to match the reference pitch set CON...

Page 27: ...AUDIO IN 2 LINE jack 3 After making connections turn the power on in the order of your external device the microKORG and finally your powered monitor speaker system 4 Select a program to initialize a...

Page 28: ...ments in the pitch If OSC MOD is set to Sync adjustments in Semitone or Tune will change the pitch of the overtones The pitch of the fundamental will not change 4 1 Ring Modulation This modulation gen...

Page 29: ...e oscillator 1 noise generator but you can use the FILTER section to create the same results as the noise waveform of oscillator 1 Noise is used to create percussion instrument sounds or sound effects...

Page 30: ...ter EG will affect the cutoff frequency With a setting of 0 the Filter EG will not affect the cutoff frequency In creasingly positive settings will allow the Filter EG to have a corre spondingly great...

Page 31: ...t the MOD wheel or LFO 1 2 as a source in Virtual Patch and use it to control CUTOFF as a destination Figure 6 5 Time Note on Note off Cutoff SustainLevel Attack Time Decay Time ReleaseTime Figure 6 6...

Page 32: ...to Multi Figure 7 1 0 AttackLevel Time Note on Note off Cutoff 1 Attack Time 3 Sustain Level 2 Decay Time 4 Release Time 1 3 4 2 Here you can make settings for the filter EG which applies time variant...

Page 33: ...positive settings the vol ume will increase as you play above the C4 note on the keyboard and will decrease as you play below C4 With negative settings the vol ume will decrease as you play above the...

Page 34: ...olume change as time passes Create the desired volume curve by adjusting the ADSR parameters ATTACK knob 1 DECAY knob 2 SUSTAIN knob 3 RELEASE knob 4 You can use AMP EG as a Virtual Patch source to mo...

Page 35: ...nd can be set if TEMPO SYNC is OFF SYNC NOTE 1 1 1 32 Specifies the proportion of the LFO cycle relative to the tempo specified by ARPEG A TEMPO p 65 This parameter will be displayed and can be set if...

Page 36: ...d by vibrato or Virtual Patch Pitch Bend PITCH wheel MOD Wheel MOD wheel MOD INT 63 63 Specifies the depth of the effect pro duced by the modulation source With a setting of 0 there will be no modulat...

Page 37: ...plies a filter with the analyzed characteristics to the carrier signal typically a waveform produced by an oscillator imposing a vocal character on that waveform and making it seem as though the instr...

Page 38: ...nob 2 THRESHOLD As you turn the knob toward the right the sound will be cut more readily Adjust this so that noise is not obtrusive when you are not speaking into the mic Then adjust knob 1 GATE SENSE...

Page 39: ...ixed into the output of the vocoder Increasing this value will empha size the portion that corresponds to the consonants of speech or singing HPF GATE Disable Enable Specifies whether the high fre que...

Page 40: ...rnal input signal p 10 21 connect the included mic to the AUDIO IN 1 CONDENSER jack and connect the output jack of your external device to the AUDIO IN 2 LINE jack Use the VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2 knobs...

Page 41: ...e character of the vocoder output Both of these knobs do the same thing and have the same range FORMANT SHIFT is indexed to shift from filter to filter and CUTOFF is continously variable In addition y...

Page 42: ...he modulation source AMP EG AMP EG LFO 1 LFO 1 LFO 2 LFO 2 Velocity Velocity keyboard playing strength KBD Track Keyboard tracking keyboard posi tion Pitch Bend PITCH wheel MOD Wheel MOD wheel These p...

Page 43: ...E for the carrier KBD TRACK knob 4 specifies how keyboard tracking will affect the volume and DISTORTION knob 3 specifies whether the sound will be distorted The DIRECT LEVEL knob 2 specifies the outp...

Page 44: ...the eight band pass filter channels of the carrier CH 2 PAN L63 Center R63 CH 3 PAN L63 Center R63 CH 1 PAN L63 Center R63 CH 4 PAN L63 Center R63 14 CH PAN A 15 CH PAN B VOCODER These parameters set...

Page 45: ...diting the filter or amp parameters You can use effects to modify the sound in a variety of ways Then you can use the two band EQ to make final adjustments to the tone before the sound is sent to the...

Page 46: ...ng this value will deepen the modulation effect and also increase the amount of feedback If you do not wish to apply the effect set this to 0 Excessively high settings of this parameter may cause the...

Page 47: ...time This parameter is available only if TEMPO SYNC is OFF SYNC NOTE 1 32 1 1 Specifies the ratio of the delay time relative to the ARPEG A TEMPO value p 65 This parameter is available only if TEMPO...

Page 48: ...ncy band Excessively raising the equalizer gain parameters may cause the output to be distorted LOW EQ FREQ 40Hz 1 00kHz Sets the frequency of the low range equalizer LOW EQ GAIN 12 12 Sets the amount...

Page 49: ...t the timbre s that will be sounded by the arpeggiator This is specified by ARPEG B TARGET TIMBRE knob 5 You can arpeggiate both timbres or only timbre 1 or 2 Synchroning the rate of LFO 1 2 or the de...

Page 50: ...nate 1 Alternate 2 Random Trigger Selects the arpeggio type Figure 19 1 Up Notes will be played consecutively from low to high pitches Down Notes will be played consecutively from high to low pitches...

Page 51: ...y which even numbered notes of the arpeggio will be shifted in timing relative to the first note Figure 20 1 KEY SYNC OFF ON Specifies whether the arpeggiator will be synchronized to the key board If...

Page 52: ...TRANSPOSE In cases such as when you use multiple programs in a single song it is convenient to simply adjust the GLOBAL setting instead of adjusting the pitch of each individual program Here you can...

Page 53: ...er nal settings routed through the arpeggiator arpeggiator notes are sent as MIDI data and then sent to the MIDI OUT connector Figure 21 2 Pre TG Incoming MIDI data will be affected by by the global s...

Page 54: ...IDI tone generator use a MIDI cable to connect the microKORG s MIDI OUT connector to the MIDI IN connector of the external MIDI tone generator MIDI OUT MIDI IN microKORG MIDI tone generator EM 1 TAP 1...

Page 55: ...ill set POSITION to Post KBD The various settings listed above will affect the MIDI data that is transmitted The received data will be processed as MASTER TRANSPOSE 0 VELOCITY CURVE Curve and OCTAVE S...

Page 56: ...DI data and the MIDI note data generated by the arpeggiator will not be transmitted However the MIDI note data echoed back from the external MIDI sequencer computer whose echo back setting is turned o...

Page 57: ...nal MIDI device sequencer rhythm machine etc If the LFO 1 2 or DELAY TEMPO SYNC is ON the LFO rate and delay time will also synchronize in the same way as the arpeggiator Auto The microKORG will autom...

Page 58: ...FILTER to CONTROL CHANGE Enable If this is set to Disable control change messages will not be transmitted or received MIDI channels MIDI uses sixteen channels 1 16 MIDI messages can be transmitted an...

Page 59: ...POSITION is Post KBD A control change message is used for this Sync Control message as specified by Shift function Control Change By using Sync Control to apply sync to a LFO you can cause each arpegg...

Page 60: ...OURCE Bn 63 04 Bn 62 01 Bn 06 mm PATCH 3 SOURCE Bn 63 04 Bn 62 02 Bn 06 mm PATCH 4 SOURCE Bn 63 04 Bn 62 03 Bn 06 mm n channel mm parameter value Controlling the VIRTUAL PATCH 1 4 DESTINATION PATCH1 D...

Page 61: ...oKORG Use the SHIFT function MIDI DATA DUMP to select the data that you want to transmit 1PROG PROG GLOBAL ALL and dump the data 1PROG will dump only the data of the selected program When the microKOR...

Page 62: ...64 0 65 1 127 63 0 1 63 2 62 63 1 64 0 65 1 127 63 PATCH 2 Intensity CC 29 0 1 63 2 62 63 1 64 0 65 1 127 63 0 1 63 2 62 63 1 64 0 65 1 127 63 PATCH 3 Intensity CC 30 0 1 63 2 62 63 1 64 0 65 1 127 63...

Page 63: ...d received by operating OSC 2 SEMITONE knob 3 of a synth program corresponds to the parameter value as follows 0 2 24 3 5 23 6 7 22 8 10 21 11 13 20 14 15 19 16 18 18 19 20 17 21 23 16 24 26 15 27 28...

Page 64: ...ss the lit SHIFT key If a program number such as blinks in the display when you press the WRITE key a program is selected for saving Press the SHIFT key to return to the normal state and turn the EDIT...

Page 65: ...tly selected program If you execute this on a synth program it will be set as a Single program Procedure 1 Hold down the SHIFT key and press the 3 key The display will indicate 2 Press the blinking 3...

Page 66: ...anges will be transmitted and received 3 knob PITCH BEND Selects whether pitch bend messages will be transmitted and received Disable Pitch bend messages will not be transmitted or received Enable Pit...

Page 67: ...ss the 5 key The display will indicate 2 Turn the EDIT SELECT 1 or EDIT SELECT 2 dial to select the section that contains the parameter whose control change you want to specify 3 Turn each knob to sel...

Page 68: ...xecuted and then the microKORG will return to its normal state If you did not select a data dump to be transmitted the 6 key will remain lit If you attempt to transmit by pressing 2 3 2 4 the 6 key in...

Page 69: ...p 2 turn knob 2 to select the program A 11 b 88 that will be restored to its factory set condition 4 ress the blinking 7 key The Preload operation will be executed and the microKORG will return to its...

Page 70: ...arameter was selected Compare 1 While editing a parameter i e when the parameter value is shown in the display hold down the SHIFT key and press the OCTAVE SHIFT UP or DOWN key The corresponding LED w...

Page 71: ...DELAY SYNC NOTE ARPEGGIO RESOLUTION Synchronizing the LFO 1 2 rate or the delay time of the delay effect to the arpeggiator tempo You can synchronize the LFO 1 2 rate or the delay time of the delay ef...

Page 72: ...ember to turn the knob to a position that matches the displayed value p 13 If you are unable to edit timbre 2 of a synth program has VOICE SINGLE LAYER been set to LAYER p 14 16 If you are unable to e...

Page 73: ...nputs AUDIO IN 1 CONDENSER jack with MIC LINE switch Connector 5V mini phone jack AUDIO IN 1 LINE Input impedance 39 k Maximum input level 3 5 dBu VOLUME 1 Max AUDIO IN 1 MIC Input impedance 22 k Maxi...

Page 74: ...ata 58 I Increment or decrement the parameter value 64 Initializing a program 59 Initializing CH LEVEL A B 60 Initializing CH PAN A B 60 Internal MIDI IN OUT routing 47 K Keyboard tracking 9 24 27 37...

Page 75: ...1 System exclusive messages 55 T Tempo 9 44 Three attributes of sound 15 Timbre 15 16 Timbre solo function 64 Timbre s that will be sounded by the arpeggiator 45 Transpose 47 Tremolo 29 Triangle wave...

Page 76: ...If you have purchased this product via the internet through mail order and or via a telephone sale you must verify that this product is intended to be used in the country in which you reside WARNING U...

Page 77: ...120 Off A 87 62 Bass Vocoder Vocoder Vocoder 120 Off A 88 63 Voice Changer Vocoder Vocoder 120 Off BANK No MIDI Name Category Single Layer Tempo Arpeggio TRANCE B 11 64 Synth Harp Arpeggio Single 138...

Page 78: ...DER WAVE KEY SYNC TEMPO SYNC FREQUENCY SYNC NOTE p 29 Saw Square1 Triangle Sample Hold OFF Timbre Voice OFF ON 0 127 1 1 1 32 LFO 2 SYNTH VOCODER WAVE KEY SYNC TEMPO SYNC FREQUENCY SYNC NOTE p 29 Saw...

Page 79: ...SYNTH VOCODER SHIFT 6 key 1 knob 1Program Program Global All 6 key PRELOAD PLd SYNTH VOCODER select Dest Prog SHIFT 7 key 1 knob 1Program 2 knob A 11 b 88 7 key SHIFT 7 key 1 knob Program Global 7 key...

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