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MicroKorg Oscilators question
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:24 pm
by laikenf
Hi everyone. I've been doing some patching with my MK and it's pretty fun and easy, but I have a couple of questions:
Is it possible to directly control the Pulse Width of the waveforms in the patches? Also:
Does anybody know which of the two oscillators on the MK is the master? I tried looking in the manual but there is no mention of who is the master and who is the slave.
Thanks for the help guys.
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:12 am
by Pin
OSC 2 tunes in relation to OSC 1, so it seems that OSC 2 is the slave. But then, how this information can be useful?
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:11 am
by laikenf
Pin wrote:OSC 2 tunes in relation to OSC 1, so it seems that OSC 2 is the slave. But then, how this information can be useful?
It's kind of a long explanation, but it's useful information when you want to create plucked instruments (like pianos) which can only be achieved when you sync both oscillators by tuning the slave higher than the master. I didn't want to go crazy twitching nobs before at least trying to get this info so thanks a million.
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:03 pm
by philtipping
This picture may help:-
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/philweb/phil ... timbre.htm
The large bold box represents OSC1 with its Pitch controls down the left of the box (Transpose, Tune, etc).
They then go into the OSC2 box below, so it shows (hopefully!) how OSC1 is the main pitch controller, and the OSC2 controls (Semitones & Tune) are offsets to this.
You can also see just how much more complex OSC1 is compared to OSC2.
If the picture is too fuzzy if you zoom in, then click [Up] and download the high quality bitmap version (or get them direct from the Korg Forums page
http://www.korgforums.com/).
Hope this helps.
Phil.