More new Korg videos posted (Drum Kit tutorial, M3 XPanded)

RichF · Post by **RichF** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:07 pm

Hi all,

We just put up a few new videos.

First, here's a two-part tutorial on creating/tweaking your own Drum Kits. It's relevant to the M3, M50, with many concepts that also translate to the Triton, OASYS, KARMA, and TR workstations.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unZplOy0e0w
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBiwuGAaV0E

Next, here's a quick video "guided tour," detailing the features of the M3 Xpanded update.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti2Fy_eSnh4

Thanks, please feel free to leave comments.

Rob Sherratt · Post by **Rob Sherratt** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:28 pm

An excellent set of videos - I learned several new things from each one I watched. e.g. velocity cross fading, the use of group assigned samples, the editing facilities in piano roll mode (sorry I hadn't tried it until now). It's really helping me get beneath the sheets with my M3

Thanks a lot Rich, and Korg!

Best regards,
Rob

aerial7 · Post by **aerial7** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:14 pm

These are so well-done and informative.....keep 'em coming!!

Is there a master index of these somewhere -- something organized like a table of contents?

RichF · Post by **RichF** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:15 pm

Thanks! You can check out the "KorgUSAVideos" channel on YouTube, they're all there.

jazlover · Post by **jazlover** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:44 pm

Excellent Rich, the drum kit tutorial in particular!

Randelph · Post by **Randelph** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:53 pm

Rich,
Thanks!!!

Your tutorials are great! Had no idea that each drum key had up to 4 samples with all kinds of eq and other options- no wonder they sound so good. So with the crossfading option, then they use 2 oscillators per drum note? How does this impact the polyphony?

? Would you do a tutorial on organizing drum patterns? Being fairly new to the M3 I assumed that my trouble copying preset drum patterns over to the user area was my inexperience. I was wrong apparently.

With 672 preset drum patterns I'm not likely to remember what's where and which ones i like as i stumble across them, and there's no category search like with programs or sounds, so it's just one big pile of patterns! I really don't want to resort to printed out sheets of drum patterns!!! That's why I've got a pro board, right?

I'm a refugee from the Motif XS7 (had it 2 years), and the readily-available drum patterns and (supposed) user friendliness of the M3 were big selling points. One of the things that really turned me off to the XS was how hard it was to make the board mine (managing user samples was horrible, and the file system made it hard to keep track of favorites and where the hell everything was). On the M3, things like being able to rename and recategorize preset Programs, that in itself is wonderful; but with such a great drum function, it seems crippling not to be able to do something as basic as categorize or in some way make useful the preset drum patterns.

Here's the solution an expert user offered:

BasariStudios wrote: What you do is in Seq Mode, go to Pattern/RPPR and then select the Preset
Pattern. After selection go on the Arrow and Put it to Track, after that done, now Select
a User Pattern and then Get from Track. And then convert Track to Drum Pattern. I know it sounds as a long process but
it usually takes me 25 seconds.

Hmmm..... that's ridiculous! It could easily be a 1-2 second operation. Rob Sheratt suggested that it's for copy protection of the drum patterns, but how can that be when drum patterns are only so much midi data, it's easy enough to record it into the sequencer and have it- so I'm not sure why Korg would make it so stupendously hard to copy preset patterns into the User pattern area (which is where I want to put my favorites, being that there's no other way to organize them).

Thanks, keep them videos rollin'!
Randy