 Hello, Oscillator Sync here. This is the Korg Nutect NTS1 digital. It's a little digital mono synth with built-in effects and it's rather lovely and so today I thought what would be fun is to just sit with the NTS1 a little while and build some lead sounds with it just to get a feel for the character of the synth and how it operates. So those already in the know might be aware that you are able to load on your own user third-party oscillators and effects. This unit here is virgin as it comes out of the factory so we're just working with the default sounds that are available. Of course if you start putting on user oscillators and effects we could be taking this to all sorts of new places and perhaps I'll do that in a future video but for today I'm just going to stick with the default stuff. So what we have here is the initialized patch so this is what it sounds like when you first plug it in. So let's we're at the moment we're on the saw oscillator. Let's stay there actually for the moment and let's just get something a little bit more characterful going on here. So the first thing I'm going to do actually is go into the filter and I'm just going to darken the sound a little bit. Digital filters but sound nice so darken the sound a little bit and just on the B knob here we've got a little bit of resonance just enough to emphasize the cutoff frequency without getting any sort of ringing or anything nice. Okay so let's go back into the oscillator. So on the oscillator the A knob gives us a shape control which in the case of the sawtooth does what it does on the log so the mini log the monologue prologue series of cork since when it gives us a sort of way you'll hear it kind of moves towards like a square wave via some interesting sounds. At the start there you get those sort of thin kind of things happening then almost like a square wave in them. I'm just actually just going to stick with a saw wave at the moment. Now if you hold the buttons on the NTS1 the A and B knobs in some cases might do other things so on the oscillator mode here what holding the oscillator button does it gives us access to the LFO mode. So on the LFO mode probably the place you want to go first actually is the knob B which decides what the LFO has been applied to and you've got two options so from the center position if you go to the right you're going to be affecting the shape and if you go to the left you're going to be affecting the pitch so what I'm going to do is just get a tiny tiny little bit of pitch. Then on A what we have is the frequency so that's the speed of the LFO which is way too fast there. So that's too slow. Just get some of that little bit of pitch, maybe slightly slower not by much. Yeah something like that. Kind of get that sort of spooky horror movie vibe there. Right so let's head over to the envelope generator here the E, G. You've got different envelope generator modes and for all of them A and B control the attack and release. Now on the ADSR what so if I raise the attack a little bit the ADSR what's slightly finickety I think is that the decay portion seems to be fixed so it doesn't really matter what you set the A the attack or the release to you always get that same drop off there it's always the same rate which is going to work for certain types of sounds but not necessarily all of them. So what I tend to do when playing sustain notes is I move across to the next mode which is attack hold release so you get an attack portion it holds what would be the maximum sustain if you had an ADSR and then you have a release portion so it's like having an ADSR but cranking the sustain. So let's give this a little bit of an attack and a bit of a release maybe darken it a little bit. Okay so I'd like it to have a bit of timbral change over time there so what we would want to do is maybe send an envelope to the filter the way that you do this on the NTS1 is by going into the sort of the hold menu on the filter which gives us sweep mode. So the sweep mode is it's not quite an envelope but you can do most of the things it would probably do with an envelope with it. So on the B knob you have to the left a sweep up and to the right a sweep down so that means that from your starting point the filter is going to sweep over the time period defined by A either up or down. So I think with this sound I'd quite like it to get brighter over time so we'll go up I'll set it to sort of arbitrarily there see how that sounds. So legato playing you don't get the sweep. Okay so let's make that generally a bit darker maybe give it a bit more resonance now which is quite a nice sound. Do you want it to have a bit more of a sweep maybe a little bit more of a sweep so we'll make the up bigger. Got a nice brassy sound let's just compare that to the two pole which is a bit of a more of a wah wah sound and like the four pole. Okay we're going to explore the other oscillator types for lead sounds in a second but let's add some effects because you know you've got to so usually at this point I would reach across and turn on a pedal but we don't need to do that on the NTS1 because we have our built-in effects as well so let's start by adding a little bit of reverb of various different types. I'm not going to go into the special effects ones for the moment or am I? No now I'm just gonna stick with the hall for the moment but we'll set a nice long time and just use the depth knob there to bring probably slightly too long there so A gives us time and B gives us the depth which is kind of the mix but not quite because there is a separate mix control you get by holding down reverb as well but we'll leave that where that is at the moment. I think that's too much resonance I think maybe too much sweep as well sorry I'm a let's give it some delay as well let's give it some ping pong delay lovely okay let's go back to our oscillator section and choose using the type number different oscillator type so let's go into the triangle and see how that sounds just by moving nothing but the oscillator type some reason I feel like the oscillator the triangle oscillator here could be moving slower so let's talk about the the B knob when you're in the oscillator menu here so the B knob in all of the out of the box oscillators will give us a bit of a sub oscillator to see how that sounds the sub oscillators are square every time I take off some of this pitch wall so it's actually take the pitch wall off all together for a moment literally of clicking this if you're not playing legato I think it's going to do with the envelope I feel like it's something called my address in a firmware update but as long as you're playing legato properly I'm a bad keyboardist so I'm not all the time you don't get the clicking so I've taken off the pitch wobble because I didn't think it was working so much with the triangle let's add a little bit of modulation instead so we're going to maybe the chorus so with the chorus A is the sweep time and B is the depth of the chorus it's rather nice isn't it and that deals with the fact that I don't want to have that pitch wobble anymore so the A knob the shape knob on the triangle does again the same things it does on the log synths and it does wave folding so which brings out some really nice harmonics let's try the two pole yeah that's very pleasant now let's turn off that mod for a moment and let's move over to the next oscillator type which is square we'll turn off the sub so the most important thing you need to be aware of for the square wave is that A gives you pulse width modulation so so nick bat is very pleased about this so obviously that's adjusting the pulse width so let's make the LFO move the pulse width because of course if we go into the LFO menu to the left as I said is pitch but to the right is shape which in our case now is pulse width so let's just glorious maybe a little bit slower or faster let's go back to the four pole feel like that deserves a more over-the-top reverb so let's switch our reverb mode over to space low notes very low notes awesome let's put some mod on maybe we'll try ensemble mode is nice really makes it really wide I think that might have just clipped my my interface maybe I don't know it was picked up wasn't it that's lovely that very really is very very lovely okay let's turn the mod off again maybe just set the reverb back to you guys let's go go to plate now oh gorgeous okay so the next one what do we have we have the vpm so the vpm is the essentially the fm if you like from corg variable phase modulation I think it's called oh hello oh yes so we've still got the the LFO going to the shape so the shape in this one is your modulation amount that's cool what would that sound with a really slow LFO like super slow even slower even slower slower so we can go on those harmonics just let's get a little bit more of that delay in there now let's try like a band pass or something and see if we can get some more of those harmonics sort of really sort of popping out okay so it's too much of a sweep that so let's turn the sweep off or much much lower maybe a little bit but much slower again then as those harmonics sweep across in the oscillator with the resonance turned up it's just snatching a couple of them let's go to like the TAY delay that's lovely yeah that's nice it's really nice okay so let's go ahead and turn the LFO off and let's go to the final one here which is waves uh oh yeah I've got the sweep happening aren't I so let's get rid of the sweep all together and just open up our filter a little bit uh okay so on this one the alt controls don't do anything we don't have a sub oscillator here but what we'd have instead is a wave table I think that we're sweeping across uh so let's go ahead and set the LFO going on that really slow because I think that's going to sound gorgeous uh I want that over to the right for shape so if I think if we go I think this is bipolar so if we go to 50 there and then set the shape more or less in the middle let's give it more and a little bit faster slower than that please and let's darken up or down let's go for a bigger reverb again let's try one of the other more effective ones we've got the submarine one which is like an octave down reverb let's try a mod effect as well while we're here uh I haven't tried the phaser yet have we do you know what I just like the ensemble yes it's got this on a glassy thing that works really well with the wavetables let's go back to the maybe the stereo reverb maybe let's try the uh riser which is your classic shimmer classic shimmer isn't it bonkers that shimmer is a classic thing now it is nice though isn't it maybe brighten the field a little bit more maybe go to two pole too much shimmer okay let's maybe set that filter to go down really slowly so we'll set this to the down sweep and real slow lovely like the the fact that this is 99 quid here in the UK means it's kind of a no-brainer to pick one up just as a toy but when a toy sounds this nice like this is before we even get into into the the third-party oscillators this is just with the out-of-the-box stuff yeah it's it's yeah it's just lovely uh and uh we'll do some more videos like this where we look at it for live bass sounds and twinkly sequency arpeggiated kind of sounds but certainly the first time I had a play with one of these which was a um I guess a prototype at Korg event a while ago way before they were available actually I did try and steal it they didn't let me get away with it it was the lead sounds that immediately jumped out of me so that's what I wanted to showcase here anyway I hope you enjoyed this little ramble through some of the lead sounds on the nts1 probably went on for quite a long time yes it did looking up at the camera well I hope you're still here if you are and you enjoyed this please do give the video a little thumbs up and make sure you subscribe to the channel if you want to see any more nts1 stuff going because there will be plenty more on the way and other synth fun as well the new gear day jam that I did a couple of days ago maybe a week ago now showcased a couple of the bits of pieces that I want to show off on the channel the nts1 will probably be jamming with the noodler which I'm really excited to start really probably digging into on the channel because it's really really interesting yeah so um anyway as always guys thank you so much for joining me I will see you again soon take care bye