Video tutorial: creating evolving motion pads

QuiRobinez · Post by **QuiRobinez** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:45 pm

On the Korg Kronos it's very easy to create Evolving Motion Pads when you know what the building blocks are of a Motion pad. This Video shows the seperate building blocks and what KARMA and Effects can do for creating those kind of sounds.

You need to be familiar with how you assign KARMA GE's and Effects to a sound. That is not a part of this video. If you need a tutorial on that issue let me know.

I hope you like it.

you can find the video on my youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXiG_-rdEXA

Ksynth · Post by **Ksynth** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:26 pm

Great sound. Love the arp patterns.

Thanks for the video.

Chriskk · Post by **Chriskk** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:26 pm

You don't need KARMA to create motion pads. IMO, KARMA makes pads sound inorganic and kinda mechanical. The Trinity (especially the TR-Rack) was and still is capable of generating mind-blowing motion pads. I don't even need to talk about the WS. To me, the best synth for evocative, organic motion pads is the E-mu Morpheus.

cello · Post by **cello** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:31 pm

Karma is very good for creating intersting textures/rythms to pads and thanks for posting/sharing your creativity QR.

WS is different to Karma - very much so. But both can create very good motion/evolving pads.

I particularly like mixing the two (Karma and WS patterns) on the OASYS - great fun!

Lou · Post by **Lou** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:32 pm

Qui,

I don't know how to say thank you, this is a "Great Tutorial" video, I will have to watch it many times to get all it has to offer.
It zeroed in on the very thing that I was looking for. Everyone will love it.
Very kind of you to take the time and make it available for all users. Thank you!

QuiRobinez · Post by **QuiRobinez** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:45 pm

Chriskk wrote:You don't need KARMA to create motion pads. IMO, KARMA makes pads sound inorganic and kinda mechanical. The Trinity (especially the TR-Rack) was and still is capable of generating mind-blowing motion pads. I don't even need to talk about the WS. To me, the best synth for evocative, organic motion pads is the E-mu Morpheus.

you are absolutely right, you can get great motion pads without karma by using envelopes, waveschaping and vector movements. But that was not my intention to show with this video. My intention was to show that you can use KARMA also in a creative way for these kind of things.

The E-mu Morpheus is indeed a great synth. Also the Additative synth Kawai K5000S is great for motion pads. But my absolute favorite for Motion synths is Spectrasonics Omnisphere.

RonF · Post by **RonF** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:43 am

Cool video!

QuiRobinez · Post by **QuiRobinez** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:54 am

cello wrote:I particularly like mixing the two (Karma and WS patterns) on the OASYS - great fun!

great idea, but most of the time i find the WS patterns to dominant (busy sound) in a padsound. How do you handle that, so that the main character of the pad sound stays the same?

jamsire · Post by **jamsire** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:18 pm

I liked it!

QuiRobinez · Post by **QuiRobinez** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 2:16 pm

jamsire wrote:I liked it!

thanks

this weekend i'm going to create a KARMA GE basis Arpeggiator tutorial for dance.

What i'm going to describe is:

- how to program a basic KARMA GE for that standard UP arpeggiator often used in dance / trance
- how to modify this basic KARMA GE for rythmic variations on that Arpeggiator
- the most important parameters of the Control tab (touchscreen)
- create rythmic variations with FX

If you got any wishes about something specific to be covered in this tutorial, let me know.

Ksynth · Post by **Ksynth** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:42 pm

qrobinez wrote:
jamsire wrote:I liked it!
thanks

this weekend i'm going to create a KARMA GE basis Arpeggiator tutorial for dance.

What i'm going to describe is:

- how to program a basic KARMA GE for that standard UP arpeggiator often used in dance / trance
- how to modify this basic KARMA GE for rythmic variations on that Arpeggiator
- the most important parameters of the Control tab (touchscreen)
- create rythmic variations with FX

If you got any wishes about something specific to be covered in this tutorial, let me know.

Sounds great. Look forward to that.

Can you factor in an "Easy" button?

Lou · Post by **Lou** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:47 pm

Qui,

Just a side note..

I was wondering why, in some of your combis you move the drum track from 10 to another channel.
A lot of the time it is assigned to a Karma module. Would it be for getting more variable percussion without using another Karma module?
i.e. turning off the drum track and being left with say hi hats running on Karma? If so, very creative thought here, .. It would have never crossed my mind to apply it like this.

QuiRobinez · Post by **QuiRobinez** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:15 pm

Lou wrote:Qui,

Just a side note..

I was wondering why, in some of your combis you move the drum track from 10 to another channel.
A lot of the time it is assigned to a Karma module. Would it be for getting more variable percussion without using another Karma module?
i.e. turning off the drum track and being left with say hi hats running on Karma? If so, very creative thought here, .. It would have never crossed my mind to apply it like this.

Yes i use this trick a lot. Most of the time i use 2 drumsounds. The main drum is often just a kick / snare rythm connected to the drumtrack. I use a limited zone on that drum timbre to filter out all the other drumsounds.

The second drum is the groove which is connected to a KARMA pattern. This is a great trick because that way you have millions of drumgrooves available. Even better is that you vcan change the drums dramaticly when changing a karma scene. All my video's are recorded with just one scene activated until now, but if i would change the scene i would get a rather different atmosphere with the same sounds.

Furthermore i use some extra fx tricks on the karma drums. I can really recommend this way of setting up combis. If you only use the standard drumtrack it can be rather static and gets boring over time. That will never happen with karma drums and scenes.

I start this weekend with an absolute karma beginners guide, but if enough people like my videos then i will post more advanced programming tutorials online in the future.

But great that you noticed that trick!

Lou · Post by **Lou** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:32 pm

qrobinez wrote:
I start this weekend with an absolute karma beginners guide, but if enough people like my videos then i will post more advanced programming tutorials online in the future.

But great that you noticed that trick!

Thank for the info Qui. I don't know if you record to a DAW or internally, but I'm trying to get my head around how to record this. I'll figure it out though..
Looking forward to the new video.