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Just a few thoughts, besides welcome!
Perhaps it would be best to simply listento the synth first, before you try to conjure up “strings”“moog bass” or what have you. Listen first to just one oscillator, (turn the others down) and adjustthe filter cut-off, resonance, as you may be familiar with from your former synth. Anyway, Ialways told my students that if you have a sound source, a way to vary thetimbre over time, a way to affect pitch, and a way to affect volume you have avery expressive instrument. I thinkonce folks realize that, sound creation gets lots easier. NOW, if you are looking for the “classic”analog synth sounds, (strings, the usual basses,leads and so forth), I think you can get pretty effective sounds from themono-poly. Don’t forget thateven way back in the history of voltage controlled synthsmusicians looked for all sorts of ways to be more expressive with theinstruments they had… they experimented with tape delays, chorus effects,distortion, etc…so what may have started out as a Moog, Arp, Korg, Roland or Oberheim often became another instrument altogether. Many of the sounds we like on olderrecords where also processed by compression/limiting, etc, which drastically effects the way we hear the synths. Regarding the MP4 in particular, it’sa bit tough to get really great strings with our 21st century ears…what sounded unbelievably realistic in 1971 sounds merely like a “keyboard”sound today…
Well, sorry for the verbiage, but I thinkyou will be able to coax lots of expressive musical sounds from your MP4 if youplay with it for lots of hours!! Best of luck, and welcome tothe forum.
-----Original Message-----
From:korg_mono-poly@yahoogroups.com [mailto:korg_mono-poly@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of frankvisser333
Sent: Wednesday, September 07,2005 5:45 PM
To: korg_mono-poly@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [korg_mono-poly] thanx
Many thanx for the warm welcome.
I knew the former zen site and it was helpfull.
My biggest problem with this great synth is makingsounds.
I wanted to make simple strings but its not soeasy to make them on
this synth.
Before the MP4 i had a akai ax73 so i know how asynth works but
making just simple sounds is difficult.
There are times when i'm thinking that my mp4 isbroken because its
almost impossible to create sounds but i cantcompare my mp4 with
another to check this.
I know from other forums that there are more mp4owners who can't make
good sounds and are dissapointed by this synth.
Any help is welcome
greetings frank