MicroKorg - Patch creation blog

Hi,

I've just started a patch creation blog for the MicroKorg. Mainly started to help with my own ignorance of synthesizers this may be useful to some of you. Check it out.

MicroKorg - Patch a Week

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which model? old first model or XL
i use the old model, don't know if the patches are compatibles with the two models...

The blog covers the original model. The XL model is a totally different synth so isn't compatible.

ghostlywhitemachines wrote:The blog covers the original model. The XL model is a totally different synth so isn't compatible.

oh ok, thanks

i'm checking this out for sure, cool idea.

great blog man!!!

i like how you have all the settings so i can manually input them and see how it works

looking forward to your updates

peace

nice, just got my MicroKorg in december but havent really had time to mess around with it

thanks

do you ever do bulk dumps at all. I have backed up with bulk dump to MPC and find its very useful just in case. You could also post MIDI dumps of the microKorg for those patches as well to share.
I have only a couple of factory presets left, I write alot of patches to and run out of room but yeah can sound really good and is a nice VA, for cheap to now second hand so I dig em. Mine is in need of repair, but will do it myself, as its just the pots that need replacing. I got mine years ago though when they came out, so its a bit stuffed now. Still works cept it is always sending CCs out from the broken pots.

Syx and/or prg dumps would be most welcome. I'm constantly saving my best patches to the editor to keep my patch library organized.

m:t:c wrote:Syx and/or prg dumps would be most welcome. I'm constantly saving my best patches to the editor to keep my patch library organized.

well yeah i usually use MPC for saving sysex from microkorg. Have not done it in ages and am due another save. My global settings are set when it starts up so I never need to send stuff back to microkorg, but if i ever loose it, touch wood, or it gets reset, I have my patches saved and can down load to another one as well of course. So hit shift 6 and put MPC into record for that same channel microkorg is on, and set bpm round 90. Then save MIDI file on your MPC as Microkorg backup. I never use the microkorg editor.

Oh man never thought of that, but just tried it. Thnx. Super easy:
* Set midi track to the midi channel and port MK is using (In & Out)
* Go to STEP EDIT
* Hit [OVERDUB]
* In MicroKorg hit [SHIFT]+[F6] and set it to dump 1prg (knob 1 on mk)
* Hit [F6] again to dump (system exclusive step appears)

Save a sequence as .mid.

When your sequence plays and MK reads the system exclusive message it takes about a second so keep that in mind.

Awesome!

Edit: The most awesomest benefit of this is that now you never have to remember again what patch were you using on that specific project and where on the synth you had it stored as it's saved along your project on MPC.

Right on. Thats the old school way to save synth patches right there. Also most gear that has MIDI usually does a sysex dump.
I use program change usually and only use this for back up but as you noticed m:t:c that yes you can send it back and have patch ready for you to use as well. Thats why I mentioned it for OP and everyone cos I think why post the values when you can easily just sysex dump a patch and share that MIDI file. Because also it is very small and easily sent over the internets.

I did consider providing sysex files (like I did with my blog on the Alesis Micron) but people following the thread will learn more from seeing the settings and tweaking the knobs themselves . The point of the blog is not so much a patch resource but more a set of tutorials helping people get more out of their MicroKorgs.

yeah cool. Tell them to ditch that editor and get hands on with it, thats good

I love working on MicroKorg hardware. Sometimes I just zone out and twist knobs and few hours later realize how awesome session I've had and didn't even remember to save any of the stuff I came up with...

But also it's good to know how to receive and transmit midi dumps at least for backup purposes. At first it might not be so apparent and seeing how MK can be the first ever hardware synth for a lot of people it wouldn't hurt to have one article about general best practices & "housekeeping"