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hi,
this might be a really dumb question.
i'm sorry, i'm a guitar player and i just got the microkorg... never owned a synth before....

the microkorg is not in tune with my guitars. i have used a tuner to tune them all and made sure they're TOTALLY in tune however everything i play on the microkorg is coming out sharp! it's quite annoying.

i figured out how to fine tune a patch but is there some way i can tune the whole thing so i don't have to go through every patch and tune it?? and why is mine out of tune in the first place? seems really strange to me....

please help out!

okay.. doesn't seem like all patches are out of tune.
but i just A78 through a tuner pedal and the patch is out of tune.. there are a few...

anyway. again. i'm not familiar with this stuff, but why would some of these sounds be out of tune?

artie wrote:anyway. again. i'm not familiar with this stuff, but why would some of these sounds be out of tune?

because they were programmed that way

hahah.. thanks!
still doesn't make sense to me why you'd want an off key sound.
now i gotta figure out how to overwrite settings and fix all the ones i like that are out of tune. the LCD still shows them being in pitch (shows a zero) but they're not!

damn this new and confusing world!

Sometimes a patch will sound out of tune due to modulation settings, or the 2nd oscillator being detuned. Sync or ring modulation can cause this effect as well. Just adjust the tuning in the Pitch setting (coarse and fine) to match your guitar, and then store the patch back into memory, and you'll be all set.

did you check the global tune setting?

I find that with the way some synthesizer patches are programmed, they are sometimes different to 'true tuning'. also guitars are tuned slightly differently to keyboards due to something with intonation...
I wouldn't really use a tuning pedal with a keyboard... just use your ears.

sometimes a second oscillator is made out of tune to get a phat phasing sound (or use of flanger etc), just like when you have two guitar strings slightly playing the same note but slightly off, you get a nice phasing effect.
sometimes you can even have a lead where the second osc is set to an interval like a fourth, fifth, or sixth... it is impossible for a tuner to recognise this because you are essentially making a chord... the presets should be in tune by default. if a sound is using the ring modulator or crossmod or anything again it will add extra aharmonic intervals which will confuse a conventional guitar tuner...