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I Bought a Korg Radias, I read the whole Manual But I Still not doing a thing!! I Need a benginers guide or something like that.

I want to create Music like house and trance music. I know How to use a workstation, but radias is completly diferent. I know is a Synth.

But I see on some videos ppl doing their owns drums bases and editing their owns Timbres.

I want to learn how to do this things>

#1> Create a Drum base and then use it to play some music on it with a Timbre

#2> I Want to learn how to create a song using Cubase. How to do it. What is first.

I hope somebody helpsss meeeeeeee pleaseeeee

If you have some tutorial or Guide to know how start on a Radias Will be AWESOME.

Thanks for your HELP!!

You should've bought an Electribe EMX-1 instead. Did you ask here before you bought the Radias? No. So now go buy an EMX and come back to ask how to hook it up to the Radias. You'll be making trance and house music in less than an hour that way. Otherwise it will probably be several months before you learn enough about the Radias to get it to do what you want. That's not a problem with the Radias, it's just that the EMX is better suited to what you're trying to do out of the box. All you have to do is spin one knob to choose the pattern/song and press play on the EMX.

I'm talking to create music Professional. My Owns Tracks and my own base with the Radias.

If you don't know the answers please do not reply.

I know I can record Timbre by Timbre and the Drums on the Cubase, But should be a easier way to do it.


Thanks.

You can set each timbre to respond to a different MIDI channel in the radias.

then in cubase, you create four tracks, set the output channel of each one to the same as your radias' timbre's channels.
this is specific to program. I think the general idea is that you create a program for each song.

Then when it does come to recording the audio, remember that you can use the alternate outputs too! (which route that timbre's IFX out to the indiv outputs, which isn't really very clear in the manual).

I'm not in front of my radias so can't offer any more detailed advice right now.
You can also create a simple drum or bass backing track but that gets more complicated. as I said above, if I do find the time I will try to write about the process here.

You might wish to check out the QuickStart guide:

http://www.korg.com/SupportResults.aspx?productid=262

That should get you playing with the very basics of the Radias.

Thanks For your help guys, I'm gonna try and see what happends!!

If somebody else have another IDEA Please write it down!!

thanks a lot!

I need to know how I can to create my own program, Doing my owns Drums and adding a specific timbre...

Thanks...

Apparently you didn't believe me 2 months ago when I told you it would probably take at least 4 months to do the music you wanted on the Radias, and that the EMX was a better choice. Do ya believe me now?

Have you used the Radias Editor Librarian software yet? That's a good first step to learn how to make new programs for it.

I didn't even try to study it yet. I didn't have time. I'm so busy. Before I start reading the manual I need to know if anybody can help me with that. I don't care what you said 4 month ago. I just know here there are experienced people with better answers than yours.

Sincerly

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It's ironic that it takes far more time to register and post on this forum than read a few pages of the manual. The quickstart contains all the info to answer your questions.

If you're not going to bother to put the time in, no-one will equally bother to help you. Given your current stance, I think you're on your own with this one. It's a shame as the Radias has a lot to offer, if you actually bother.

no one will teach you how to build a program from scratch - because it is an art really, not a science. everyone has a different method, and there is no right or wrong way to start or finish.

a program is simply a collection of parameters that tells the synthesizer what to do in order to produce a specific sound.

you need to go to a blank program and play with the parameters, in conjunction with the manual (possibly have the manual next to you reading about the parameter you are playing with), hear how it affects the sound.

some parameters will not initially have an obvious effect, for example the virtual patch routes sources to parameters, for example you can route the velocity to the pitch so that, the harder you hit the key, the more off-pitch the note will be. but in order to do that you have to set an entire virtual patch slot - source velocity, destination pitch, and the amount that you want the pitch to be affected.
similarly routing a LFO to something will affect the sound, but then you'll find that changing the LFO speed and waveform will also change the sound in other ways.

remember, the best place to start working on a blank patch is pressing the EDIT/YES key in order to get into edit mode. then all of the buttons on the bottom will take you to different categories, and pressing the page +/- buttons will take you through the different pages (and across into the pages of the next category), in order to access every parameter - not just those are are on the front panel.

As i've said, the important thing is to be reading about the parameter as you are changing it. in the parameter guide. it will clarify things if you're not sure what you are doing.
this will not only teach you how to program sounds and programs, but will show you what the radias can do and open up opportunities for you to figure out for yourself certain things.

there have been several posts in the past on the forum - recently I might add - about using the radias with a DAW. I believe i've answered them before on the best workflow, so you might benefit from finding and reading them with regards to using them for your cubase question.

All those knobs do stuff. Training complete.

Seriously, you said in your first post that you read the manual... if that was true you wouldn't be asking on here how to make you own programs and timbres. My suggestion is to actually read it this time.

Also you might want to check your attitude. It's a sure way to get nothing.

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Thanks for your help X-Trade. My problem here is I couldn't really Explain what is happening to me.

I Know what do any single button on the Radias. My problem is When I try to do my own Program. With 4 timbres. I get Stuck. I try it before, but my Drums doesn't sounds correctly. I don't really know how to record a a Drum Base like I can do it on a Workstation.

Sry for my attitude. Also my english is not good enough.

Thanks again to everybody.

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With your drum timbre selected, you then use the step sequencer select button to assign sequencer 1 or 2 to that drum timbre. After that you can push type/step rec and it will ask you if your sure, push it again to confirm, and then you will be able to "program" a drum pattern. When you're finished you can push exit/no to stop recording. When you wan tto play it, ensure the on button is highlighted in the sequencer area. If you want it to play the pattern only while holding a key down, leave latch off, if you want it to play automatically and continue after you've played a key have latch on.

Hope that helps.

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