Korg R3 Audio Clips
Sep 15, 2007 8:41 PM
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This online exclusive material supplements the Korg R3 article from the September 2007 issue of Remix magazine.
Check out these seven MP3 examples of the Korg R3, created by the author, Jason Scott Alexander. He started with factory presets and severely mangled them using the synth's deep yet manageable editing system.
ARPEGGIATOR/SEQUENCER
ArpSeq_PBF_Plus.mp3
ArpSeq_Phospho.mp3
Both passages are played live using factory presets and additional tweaking of filter and LFO parameters.
FORMANT MOTION
FormantMotionVoice.mp3
Demonstrates Formant Motion by playing chords of a single vocal percussion formant recording.
MOTION PRESETS
MotionDemo.mp3
MotionDemo2BeatVox.mp3
Taken from the "Motion" presets bank, these demonstrate the R3's ability to sound like a complex wavetable-scanning synthesizer. The beat box groove of the second clip in particular, demonstrates how Formant Motion and Step Sequencing live together in the R3.
VOCODER
Vocoder_Breathy.mp3
This is the author whispering the monotone phrase "It’s so wonderful today” into the R3’s included microphone while playing the melody on the keyboard. It demonstrates the powerful filter capabilities of the R3’s vocoder filters to be finely tuned to bright consonants and breathy overtones. At the end is an improvised chord sequence of the same phrase being spoken while tweaking frequency control of the vocoder--note how this can produce a cool real-time chop effect.
Vocoder_You_Wanted_It.mp3
Using a layered Vocoder + Sawtooth Oscillator patch, this is the author speaking the phrase "Yeah, you know you wanted it, so they went out and made it; this is the Korg R3 in Remix Magazine." The melody was MIDI sequenced in a DAW first, then the phrase was sung into the R3’s microphone in somewhat melodic (though not perfect-pitch) manner--the R3 corrected the pitch and gated the vocals perfectly, all in real time, as the sequenced notes played back.
Read the full Remix review on the Korg R3 by clicking here.
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