 Hello, Oscillator Sync here, and welcome to another video where we look at how we can build a patch from scratch on the lovely Korg monologue So this video is very much going to be a follow-on from the last video that I posted on the channel Where we look to how we could build drum percussion sounds on the monologue So if you haven't seen that video yet, I highly recommend that you pause just for a moment and go and check out that video first Link in in this video's description and probably also a link appearing up here somewhere Before we carry on with this because I'll assume a couple of techniques that I'll be using in this video So that being said what we're going to be doing in this video is turning the monologue into a drum machine And we're going to do that by making extensive use of the motion sequencer And in particularly step sequencing the motion sequencer Before we get going what I will say is there are a number of different ways that you can achieve this kind of effect on the monologue I'm going to use a Technique that I found has worked pretty well for me in the past, but there are lots of different ways to do it But the underlying Underlying fundamental technique I think probably remains the same Whenever you're trying to do the drum machines on this. So that's kind of the takeaway from this video Okay, so the way that I usually start when I'm building a drum pattern on the monologue is I will play in notes Just on the initialised patch at the moment Just to let me infer where my kicks my snares my hi-hats that sort of thing are So I'm just going to set my tempo. I've been enjoying 82 and a half bpm quite specific recently. So if we set that playing and hit record Okay, so we're going to do the kicks Okay, there's some kicks. Let's do some snares on the two and the four And then the rest of these will be um hi-hats. So I'm just going to put in some higher notes and just play them in the step sequencer So we play that back now. We have a sequence that's monologue, but we'll hopefully infer Where our hi-hats and kick are going to be and it's quite a nice sequence. Anyway Okay, so I'm just going to turn vco one like almost all the way down because you don't want to get in the way with our initial beat making so The way that we're going to build the beat is by going into the motion sequencer And we're going to be step sequencing certain parameters As I mentioned there are different approaches to doing this But the four parameters that I'm going to make use of here are going to be my filter cutoff my filter resonance my decay of my envelope generator And the level of vco 2 which you'll come to um in a moment So um the way that I usually start is by defining my kick drum sound And I'm going to do that by using the filter as I showed in the previous video So I'm going to crank up that resonance and we're going to lower that cutoff It's on to hear that but we're also going to set our envelope generator to attack decay We're going to send it to cutoff Set a bit of intensity Start to get that kick drum sound to get a bit more click On our lfo. I'm going to switch to one-shot mode into sawtooth send it to cutoff and just set a Set a rate and intensity that gives us a bit more of a click Cool, okay, so let's just remind myself when my kicks are And we're going to get that kick on every single one so we can turn the resonance down for a second So, um, let's get that back. So what I'm going to do on the steps where I have my kick I'm going to program in my four parameters basically as they're set at the moment So that means that my resonance is going to be set to full On that one On that one And on that one My cutoff is going to be set to where it is now. So I'll just give a little wiggle that one That one My decay is going to be set as it is. So again, I'll just give a little wiggle from where it is Three steps And vco2 is going to be at zero. So again, just give it a wiggle on those steps like that Because we are triggering the gate when every single one we're still going to be getting Whatever our knobs are currently set to and that's an important thing to note when we're doing our motion sequencing is that If there's no motion sequencing set anywhere We will just get However the knobs are currently set up. So if I If I change the knobs the motion sequencing takes over on those steps But otherwise it defaults to the current settings Okay Okay, so let's do our snares next. So the way we're going to do our snares Primarily is that we're going to make sure that vco2 is set to noise And we're going to turn up vco2 So on the ones where we're going to have our snares We're going to make sure that vco2 is set basically at full. So that's on my two and my four Like that we're going to set the Cutoff let's find a good place for it about there or maybe the resonance About there. So again, we can go into those steps and just wiggle the knobs as to where they are at the moment Like that And here like that and maybe we want to Maybe shorten that to cage a little bit be more like that. So again onto the steps Uh So again, if we set our knobs to something default We're starting to hear that drum beat so every other um step here is going to be our hi-hat sound. So for our hi-hat sound We're going to go from much shorter decay We're going to open up our cutoff all the way Or lower our resonance I mean all the way down But also we're going to have it quieter than the snare so um What we'll now do is go through all of those other steps And just wiggle the knobs as they are to get those programmed in And I'll now do a cut to the magic of editing once I've actually wiggled all these knobs Okay, so I've gone through and I've wiggled the knobs on all of the remaining steps So let's just turn down vco one now that we don't need it as a guide and listen to what we've got So you can hear I've uh modified the level of some of the hi-hats in there to k just to keep the beats a little bit interesting One thing I would say Uh with any of these drum beats is that they sound cool with the drive tone And there's our drum beat but um Here's my ulterior motive for suggesting that you played in notes to begin with And that is that not only do we now have a drum machine, but we also have a groove box So if we bring up vco one And the really cool thing is if you kick vco two up into a waveform instead We can do this Just get the kick drum for a breakdown And then bring the beat back by going back to Noise Instantly I really really like those breakdowns with the vco two set to ring as well Still sounds good with the drive turned Turned down but I have to say I'm absolutely suck if having it turned up Seriously hours and hours of fun and of course don't forget the other sequencer um Functions in the sequence edit in edit mode where we can play with what we've got a little bit more So for example, if we wanted to switch our step length to something um a little more interesting maybe if we wanted sevens Or indeed we could swing That's cool hours and hours and hours of fun And it has a definite vibe about it as well. It's never going to be replacing your 808 um or your 909 or or my case play for mona but um It has a definite vibe. I think it comes from the fact that we're abusing a piece of hardware to do something It's not meant to do Anyway, I hope you enjoy that guys. I hope you found that interesting and fun and I hope that you go and try this technique out because it's It's it's really great fun. And it's such a wonderful Hack of them on lock to get it to do something Really really great and interesting and unexpected. I think most people see this um humble sub 300 dollar uh Monosynth and And you can show them that it can be a drum machine as well. I think that's a really really cool thing If you enjoyed it guys, please do hit the thumbs up button and like the video Make sure you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out any more videos on the monologue and other videos on synthesis um And go and check out some of the other videos on the channel as well if you haven't already done so um Thank you again for joining me on this great journey with the monologue and I'll see you again soon guys. Bye. Bye