 Hello, Ocelator Sync here and welcome to another video where we look at building a patch from scratch on the Korg monologue So today we're going to be looking at some funky talking bass sounds Now when I'm talking about sort of funky talking bass sounds my point of reference is always going to be Bootsy Collins from Parliament and Funkadelic So we're talking about a sort of kind of sound which is you know usually generated by slap bass being played through an envelope Follow a filter pedal typically But of course we're going to do it on the monologue instead So let's get started. Let's start from the initialized patch Cool, and let's drop down an octave because we are creating a bass So I want to start by creating a Sort of fairly rich sort of initial sound for us to work with So I'm going to bring in both oscillators to begin with and I'm going to set them to sawtooth Of course that slight detuning has given us some interesting stuff. We probably didn't detune them Intentionally now the nice thing about the monologue on its VCOs is this shape control the shape control does wave shaping Just different types of wave shaping on the different VCO shapes on the sawtooth It kind of folds it into almost like a sawtoothy square wave And what that can do is introduce some really useful bottom end to the sound So just on VCO one I'm going to turn up the shape control and get it to a point where I've got some nice extra bottom end Because of course we're making a bass sound Cool so that's a nice rich sound with some useful bottom end So this bass sound this funky bass sound we're talking about this little sound so all that is is Something with fewer harmonics Opening quite quickly, but not instantaneously to something with more harmonics and quickly dropping off again So we need to start at a point with our cutoff on our filter where we've got a darker sound probably not all the way to there, but Or somewhere around there We can still hear some of that richness underneath it, but you know a lot of it's been taken out So if we want to Get to a brighter sound one of the ways that we can do it is by opening up our filter So we could do it by hand if you wanted to like that, but of course Eventually we're going to get tired of doing that when we're playing so we want something else to do that for us And of course that is what the envelope generator is for So we're going to send the envelope generator to cut off obviously and we need to carefully check which envelope generator type we're going to use and the reason for this is that this wow sound is Formed by us hearing the filter open up Quickly, but not instantaneously at the start of the note now these top two modes here The attack decay and the attack sustained decay modes On these modes the envelope generator is also coupled to the vca of the synth. So that's what controls the loudness of the output So if we're going to have a fast but not instantaneous attack That means that on these first two modes that's also going to apply to the the volume of the sound What that means is it's going to We're going to miss that initial wow part of the sound which is very much what we're after So what we're going to use in this case is the gate mode. So the gate mode means that as soon as I press the key The vca just opens instantaneously and when I release it it it closes again So this means that if I have a fast but not instantaneous attack I'm still going to hear it open up the cutoff, which is what we're after So let's set the intensity So at the moment I've got an instant attack We want to hear that wow thing happening So it's fast but it's not instant and the decay we want set accordingly And at the moment we don't really have that kind of vocal sound that we're after But we can get that by turning up our resonance At the moment we're probably we can be a bit darker probably So I'll just turn down the cutoff So we've definitely got that kind of vocal wow thing happening But at the moment it's not very expressive to play because Wow Everything is the same every time I play it. So let's go into edit mode and head across to the fourth Light and there's a couple of things here that allow us to add some expressiveness To the way that the filter is operating. So the first one is the cutoff key track And what this does is it means that the higher up we're playing The more open the filter is going to be It basically couples the filter cutoff to the position on the keyboard So that allows us to make sort of higher up notes be brighter And that kind of makes sense if you think about a bass guitar As you move up the fretboard and you hit those those higher notes, there's more top end So let's let's turn it up a little bit It's not a massive difference Without it And with it Here are those lower notes are darker. It's cool sound. So we're going to keep that The next thing along here is the cutoff velocity. So this Again maps something to the cutoff knob. In this case, it is how hard we're playing the notes Now this is going to make a big difference. So if I turn this up to a hundred percent You can hear that that's very dark when I'm playing lightly So A lot brighter When I play hard lightly And much harder So that allows us a lot more expressivity when we're playing Now both of these Things that we've done here when we're playing lower down And just in in general in the case of the cutoff velocity, it tends to make things a little bit darker By default so we can probably afford now just to open our cutoff just a tiny bit Okay, so the other thing I like to do in these kind of cases It's just have a bit of pitch slur happening By adding some portamento So that's on the first light in the edit mode So the moment the portamento time is set to off We don't want it. We don't want any sort of long languid Kind of things happening. We just want just a little fast slur Like someone quickly sliding up to a different note on a fretboard So like it's almost almost subconscious but So this has allowed us to do two things one we're getting that slow and also allows us to Um tie notes together Like that however at the moment in the setting that we've got at the moment if I Play note here and then play a note here We don't get a slur because we haven't Tied the notes together But I want that slur every time because it adds an interesting attack to the note So to do that if you go across to the next setting on the portamento Edit and go to the portamento mode And we're going to switch that to on rather than auto so that means that it will always apply portamento to every single note So I can leave a gap Here we've got that kind of slide happening Obvious there We also still get it we do play like that as well Okay So, um, that's one Wow One kind of recipe or one version of this recipe However, we're talking about a sort of a talking vocal sound although we've kind of got Some sort of a vocal sound there We do seem to be saying wow every single time So let's see if we can find a vocal sound in another way So I'm just going to turn down the intensity here Um and just open up my filter in general again Lovely and you can hear now Depending on how hard I hit you can hear that cutoff velocity being applied there So the other way that we can get vocal sounds on the on the monologue is by using um sync mode on vco2 Uh, I will I promise to do a video explaining what oscillator sync actually does seem as it's my namesake It makes sense But uh, what I will say is that if we use the sync mode on Oscillator two and switch its wave shape over to triangle This is how we get some really interesting vocal sounds. It tends to happen more in the higher octaves So the way that we get vocal sounds Using oscillator sync is by changing the pitch of the synced oscillator. So here's the pitch knob You can hear that definite sort of uh, uh vocal sound happening there, but again much like when we were doing, um This with the cutoff knob, we don't want to have to constantly reaching over and adjusting the pitch knob What we want to do instead is get that same sort of envelope generator thing happening But with the pitch of this vco, which is precisely why on the envelope generator There is a pitch two mode. I'm pretty certain this is purely to enable this kind of trick to be done So Let's turn up the intensity Yeah We're getting those sort of big vowel sounds rather than just a wow sound we're getting kind of thing happening Part of that is is coming from our our filter cutoff being modulated as well So that's where the resonance turned down when we turn Turn the resonance up we get that more of that kind of vocal sound happening as well So This sounds really cool in the very lowest octave instantly Really dark and cool now one other thing that we can do here to increase the expressiveness of how we're playing or what we can do when we're playing is um as well as As getting variations happening on the envelope generator pitch to we could also go into the edit mode Head over to the slider assign So this the slider function settings, which is the second light along at the moment it sets pitch bend Which you may want to keep actually because it does sound really good for these sounds But we can also send the instead pitch uh the vco to pitch Which allows us to have additional control on the lever Of this sort of vocal sound Yeah, let's darken that filter a bit that's cool Awesome Okay, so that's two sort of flavors of a talking bass sound Basically formed of the single recipe of getting this envelope generator right and applying it to one of the two destinations That gives us that kind of wow. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, kind of vocal sound Okay, I hope that was interesting useful guys. I hope you can try this trick on your monologue Um, if you enjoy the video, please hit the thumbs up button and make sure that you hit the subscribe button If you haven't already to make sure you don't miss out on any more videos on the corg monologue and synthesis in general Um, I'll just give you a spoiler alert guys if you're still watching Um, because I just impulse bought a corg vulgar fm This thing is fantastic and I will be posting some videos on it real soon Love this thing. Um, but don't worry. There'll still be lots of monologue videos for those You have a monologue as well Thank you so much for watching guys and I will see you again soon