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Hello,
When I start a new session in the drums I hear a buzz on the first note. Notes 2 through 16 just play the drum notes. How do I eliminate the buzz?
Thanks,
John

jminor wrote:Hello,
When I start a new session in the drums I hear a buzz on the first note. Notes 2 through 16 just play the drum notes. How do I eliminate the buzz?
Thanks,
John

Bring up the Mixer screen and hit Mute, for Channel 1.

That's a single note being played by the Synth itself on the 1st step of the sequence.

Thanks Richarius. I need to stop bouncing around to my other music apps and take the time to learn the iMS-20. Other iOS synths may have a shorter learning curve, but I love the Korg sound and that makes it worth the effort.
Thanks again,
John

jminor wrote:Thanks Richarius. I need to stop bouncing around to my other music apps and take the time to learn the iMS-20. Other iOS synths may have a shorter learning curve, but I love the Korg sound and that makes it worth the effort.
Thanks again,
John

No troubles John. I'm only 2 days old in learning how to work with the i-MS20 program, but I was able to figure out and fix that irritant rather quickly.

(I owned the Korg MS20, MS50 and SQ10 through the early 90's.)

If you're new to synthesizers in any way this program can have a fairly steep learning curve. The power in it though, is huge. And, wonderful to work with. Outside of the 10+ apps that I've bought since I got my iPad 3 on Monday, this one is so far, one of my favourites.

Yup, I'm a newbie to synths. The iMS-20 is a complex beast, but the time I've spent experimenting has revealed a wonderful soundscape. Thats what keeps me coming back. I'm watching everything related to the iMS-20 on You Tube and learning a bit there, but hands on is where the real learning comes from... And it's true, these are some fine synth apps out there, but they can't match the sound that comes from the Korg.
IMHO of course.....

jminor wrote:Yup, I'm a newbie to synths. The iMS-20 is a complex beast, but the time I've spent experimenting has revealed a wonderful soundscape. Thats what keeps me coming back.

Questions you have - fire away. I began teaching myself how synthesizers worked in about 1983. I know far from everything but I'm not too bad at helping out with basics at the very least.

I'm watching everything related to the iMS-20 on You Tube and learning a bit there, but hands on is where the real learning comes from... And it's true, these are some fine synth apps out there, but they can't match the sound that comes from the Korg.
IMHO of course.....

Just down a ways a little bit in this link - http://discchord.com/blog/category/tutorials/ - Tim has an excellent miniature course on working with i-MS20! I already knew a fair bit about the real MS-20 itself but having not actively worked with mine since about 2001, Tim's videos helped me greatly in remembering things from before as well as learning tricks / functions / etc. within i-MS20. There're 7 or 8 vids in order, that could be very helpful then.

I'm really impressed with both Arctic Keys and Sunrizer but Korg's i-MS20 is still by far altogether, my fave.

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Questions you have - fire away. I began teaching myself how synthesizers worked in about 1983. I know far from everything but I'm not too bad at helping out with basics at the very least.

Thanks for the kind offer. I'm sure I'll have questions as I go along so I'll try not to be too much of a pest.

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Just down a ways a little bit in this link - http://discchord.com/blog/category/tutorials/ - Tim has an excellent miniature course on working with i-MS20! I already knew a fair bit about the real MS-20 itself but having not actively worked with mine since about 2001, Tim's videos helped me greatly in remembering things from before as well as learning tricks / functions / etc. within i-MS20. There're 7 or 8 vids in order, that could be very helpful then.

I'm really impressed with both Arctic Keys and Sunrizer but Korg's i-MS20 is still by far altogether, my fave.

I'm going through discchords tutorials, as well as those of "The Mighty Fatman"', and they are helping.
Now it's time to kick back and make a few loops on ikaossilator....; )

Richarius wrote:

jminor wrote:Hello,
When I start a new session in the drums I hear a buzz on the first note. Notes 2 through 16 just play the drum notes. How do I eliminate the buzz?
Thanks,
John

Bring up the Mixer screen and hit Mute, for Channel 1.

That's a single note being played by the Synth itself on the 1st step of the sequence.

But what do you do when you actually need to use the synth? You could unmute that channel, but the buzz would still be there. Is there some way to actually delete that annoying boop every time you cycle?

rpaxton32 wrote:

Richarius wrote:

jminor wrote:Hello,
When I start a new session in the drums I hear a buzz on the first note. Notes 2 through 16 just play the drum notes. How do I eliminate the buzz?
Thanks,
John

Bring up the Mixer screen and hit Mute, for Channel 1.

That's a single note being played by the Synth itself on the 1st step of the sequence.

But what do you do when you actually need to use the synth? You could unmute that channel, but the buzz would still be there. Is there some way to actually delete that annoying boop every time you cycle?

For the clearest example of how to stop the 'buzz' from happening:

When you start a 'New Session' (new song), you're shown the MS20, which is playing the 'buzz' on Step #1 of the repeating sequence. If you scroll the MS20 down, bringing the Sequencer into view, look at the Channel C / Gate value of the first knob. It's set at the 3 o'clock position which stands for 100% Gate time for that Step. The remaining 15 knobs for Channel C / Gate are set to 0%.

In this instance of the 'live' sequencer and 'live' MS20, the Gate value is used to specify whether that Step is 'active' or 'not active'.
Turning Step #1's Gate value down to 0, will completely stop the 'buzz' from happening each time that Step #1 is triggered.



It drove me half way to batty as well. If I recall correctly, I found the solution to / specification of this, in the manual, a few days ago.

Thanks for this latest tidbit of valuable information. I was wondering what to do when trying to run a synth on this channel. There is a lot to learn with the iMS20, but when I do get a handle on it, the payoff will be great.
Thanks again Richarius.....
John