Korg gadget tutorial. sound design helsinki

[@Teeum5]

Thank you very mich for the effort you put in this video. For me all this stuff is new so I got a good idea of how things work. 🙏

[@DylanParisMusic]

This is super helpful! Just got a NanoKey Studio and am super excited to dive into Gadget sound design. That lead sound is heavenly by the way

[@skroll71]

That was very helpfull!!

[@CRASS2047]

OMG the sound at 10:00-10:02 is just amazing! I need that !

[@HankAstral]

Cheers Chris. I like that sound too. Helsinki does resonant organ sounds washed in reverb with ease.

[@sigurdurhafsteinhrafnsson9040]

Thank you for this Hank. Made me take a second look at Helsinki. Good job!

[@HankAstral]

thanks Sigurdur.

[@benweichiba]

Excellent tutorial Hank...Thank you for the tips...

[@HankAstral]

Thanks for the feedback and glad you got something from it

[@808j3]

Great sound. I like the minimal approach at the start. Fix that funny note :) Thanks for video.

[@Meagain921]

Excellent video and easy to understand. Many thanks.

[@KrasavkinRomanE]

an interesting approach to the selection of sounds and colors), I became richer in knowledge). Thank you friend.

[@Michael_Lak]

You are the man. This is life changing. Thankyou

[@HankAstral]

great to hear. Good luck with your music

[@darkdroid6046]

thanks for the intel. , M.J. !

[@KrasavkinRomanE]

Thanks for the video lesson, I do not speak English but it's interesting to watch.)

[@ShekarCReddy]

You do not speak English but write accurate English??

[@CharlesFerraro]

I’m sure you already know but in the vid you say the lo-fi freq knob chooses the frequency to distort. It’s actually reducing the sample rate. All the way open might be 44.1 or 48 and all the way closed might be 0Hz sample rate if the sound gets completely cut off. It’s good for adding aliasing the the sound on purpose which def gives it a low fidelity feel.

[@HankAstral]

I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out

[@CharlesFerraro]

Oh cool, I learned a lot from your tutorial too. Really excited to get my hands on the Switch version. Think you'll do an in-depth tutorial like this on the other Gadgets?

[@HankAstral]

Glad you got something from it. I might do more tutorials though the days keep getting away from me. In the meantime maybe you should do one?! You obviously know your stuff.

[@CharlesFerraro]

haha thank you thank you. I do tutorials on the Korg Kronos over on my channel. Maybe I'll do some on Gadget when I get it. Yours is one of the few videos I could find that walks through the parameters... usually people just go through presets without really getting into design. I really appreciate a video like this where you start from an initialized state and show what each part of the engine does with audio examples. Also great job on your video editing!

[@mix28021954]

Thanks for the tutorial, one question, in gadget what loop length do you think works best in composing?

[@HankAstral]

interesting question. You can do a lot with 4 bars if you mix parts in and out and if you like hardware grooveboxes then 4 bars is ideal. But a contrasting section is always nice. So maybe 8 is the sweet spot with lots of automation and mixing of parts. Incidently, most of my pieces are just a single 4 bar loop. You could have a listen to see if there is enough going on for your taste. 'Circles and squares' and 'silent square' are good examples.

[@peacefulpony]

Hope Korg finds this!

[@meanwhileinespoo1265]

What you doing in Helsinki

[@aluminiumnaughty7122]

11:00 had a very reznor feel- I cant seem to place any of the sounds I make in Helsinki- they sound great solo, or with the drum modules, but I cant get them to harmnoize with the other synths

[@HankAstral]

Blending synths is such a personal thing. Its almost the opposite with me! The great thing with Gadget is that there are lots of other good ones. Hope you can find one that works for you.

[@darkdroid6046]

so any midi keyboard with pitchbend /mod wheel will work ? thank you ,M .J .

[@HankAstral]

Yeah it should do

[@KrasavkinRomanE]

Tell me, dear friend what a midi-keyboard is better korg microkey or korg nano key studio ,I mean on which key is better to learn to play?)

[@HankAstral]

If you want to learn how to play the keyboard then neither is a good choice. You should get a midi keyboard with 61 full sized keys. Any one will do. Choosing between the microkey or nanokey depends on what you want. If you only need 25 keys then the nanokey is better because it is ultra-portable and has some nice controllers and an interesting scale feature. If you want to compose/play in a more traditional way with both hands and construct chord sequences then get the microkey. hope this helps

[@boimesa8190]

Is there also an effects module for external audio?

[@HankAstral]

Yes: Rosario aimed at guitars!

[@boimesa8190]

@@HankAstral does it have the grainshifter effect in there?

[@HankAstral]

@@boimesa8190 No but you could use the gadget which does. You also get the channed strip which has a filter and nice reverbs. The FX on external audio sound very good in Gadget but it is not easy to program beats and other stuff around it because for some crazy reason whenever you select a track other that the external audio one it mutes the input.

[@boimesa8190]

@@HankAstral which gadget does have it? What about the ZURICH gadget..??? Does that have the grainshifter effect? I just REALLY want that effect in my DAW, it's driving me crazy that there isn't a plugin version that I can use on all of my instruments 😭😭

[@boimesa8190]

@@HankAstral ????

[@hArtyTruffle]

Hey Hank. Thanks for this. Helps a lot 👍🏼 QUESTION: around the 26mins mark, you mentioned arpeggiator. Where’s that coming from? Can’t see it on the Helsinki bank. Is it from midi keys elsewhere? Hope that’s not a silly question. Complete noob here, newly addicted to digital sound making 😬

[@HankAstral]

good question. Unfortunately it isn't an arpeggiator. It is a sequence I programmed that SOUNDS like an arpeggiator. Error on my part so sorry about that.

[@KrasavkinRomanE]

How are you? Do you write new songs?

[@HankAstral]

Hi Roman. Nice to hear from you. I might start makings songs again if I can carve out some time. best

[@freeloopsandsounds9316]

Looks like you’re having trouble getting things in focus

[@KrasavkinRomanE]

Google translator is not very good and understandably translates the text)

[@stevehackenberg]

Thanks for just reading settings we can figure out ourselves. Appreciate your time and work. Can't stand hearing your mic picking up all of your swallows and lip smacks. No new info. Zero.