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Ask me anything you want to know... I reckon I have Abu pretty nailed down...
It's pretty straight forward... bring a sample in (under 10 secs)... it slices it into 16 even slices, which you can adjust if you want... pads relate to the slices ... sequence the pads in the piano roll.
The rest of it is just effects and tweaking that you apply to each slice... e.g. pitch up and down, reverse, cutting into the attack or bringing down the decay of each sample, 'repeat' which will rapidly retrigger the sample at the rate you set while the pad is active, choke group (none, A or
and whether you want the global effect to apply to this sound or not...
The 'arp' page is slightly trickier to get your head around maybe... I don't use it much but it makes the pads into an arp so if you have, say, three pads active at the same time on the piano roll it will 'arp' round those three sounds one by one as fast or as slow as you set it.
The effect page is where you apply a global effect to the whole gadget... which gets applied to all sounds apart from those you've disabled the effect on (see above)...
Thinks that's it...
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Very kind... thanks!
Here's a "rave lead" type thing I made in Chiang Mai... pretty versatile
Thanks @touchconspiracy and @Matt_Fletcher_2000
Thanx matt, Korg should make gadget projects able to be stashed in dropbox then we could share projects and preset ideas..
London is the go-to every time I open Gadget and being a drum nut probably my favorite: it sounds fairly amazing with little effort and whoever curated those drum hits was really smart about their distinct sound set and compatibility.
Special mentions for Tokyo and Kingston:
Tokyo was the first Gadget thing a friend Demo'd for me and those 3 minutes set my getting an iPad Air in motion.
And Kingston .. well: it's an arcade-themed UI that's Jamaican-named and chippy. (I couldn't make that up .. but someone(s) at Korg did)
Tough question to pick one. When I first got Gadget I was of kind of disappointed because each Gadget seemed to have limited synthesis options (when compared to synths like Nave, Thor and Z3TA+). Then the clever design started to dawn on me - each one is very well tuned and seems to give you 'the right' parameters to tweak.
It is very easy to quickly 'dial in' a sound that works. I can't pick one, but my top three this week (excluding the samplers) are:
Chiangmai - definitely has a sweet spot for leads that can cut through the mix - which is great given the lack of EQ on each channel for carving out space.
Dublin - modulation patching is just fun - just wish it had a delay.
Wolfsberg - just a great all-rounder
I'm still waiting for Detroit - that has be on the cards soon!
Darwin is my favorite. Like Kiev and Chiangmai, but obviously it's all the gadgets combined that makes it great.
Abu Dhabi is inspiring. Matt described it well above, and remember most of those controls can be automated (unfortunately not the marker points).
Those screenshots are a nice way to exchange soundsettings
I got into gadget pretty late. At first you run round like a kid in a sweet shop but over time you learn the strengths of each gadget. I tend to enjoy working with messed up percussion and slightly out of kilter noises so Bilbao and Dublin were very useful to me but mostly I kept coming back to the Marseille gadget. Something about the great variety of core sounds with dual automated effects gives me a massive sound mangling ability. Darwin is now providing a huge boost in the number and quality of sounds but there is still something about the immediacy of Marseille that I love to work with.
I rarely - if ever - use Tokyo, Brussels, Kingston, Amsterdam, & Miami Gadgets... And Helsinki and Kiev don't get too much use here either. But all the remaining ones (don't have Module or M1 yet) I like pretty much equally. If I had to pick one maybe it'd be Phoenix - - or Wolfsburg....
@xen Detroit? Vintage drum samples from the Motown "Wall of Sound" era through to Peter Criss?
So glad I started the thread, so inspiring and informative for me..
I was kind of relieved that the gadgets were less complex than the big boy synths, despite that, they each deliver depth and clarity that rival the other synths. Makes for faster sound design and more fun too.
Miami I only use for subs, and only wobble them occasionally. Not a big fan of mid range electro Dubstep wobbles..did all that in 2008
Korg really needs to at least allow global eq , maybe 5 band..and audio tracks asap
I'm sure many are just dying to record countless synths into gadget..can't blame u, you paid for those too
A sampler synth with wav editor would be great, but I'm not holding my breath..
Going to have a closer look at Chiangmai now..
I've just designed a page for "TB Midi Stuff" which sends a full set of random values to each and every Gadget synth. I'll share it when it's perfected.
It's really interesting. It means you can go through every synth (I've only explored Chiang Mai, Phoenix, Dublin and Toyko so far) and get a really wide and 'unbiased' sense of what sounds each can make.
It's also great for inspiration of course.
And the real surprise hit from the process? Kingston. You can do a lot with it because of the effects.
Yea favourite changes all the time here. The WORST one right now is Glasgow. A PCM based gadget like Marseille. But it's not as good. Only have a handful of sounds. It's like they started on it, and after a few presets they just went "Why are we doing this when we already have Marseille? Fuck this, just name It... Glasgow and put it out there.". It did come with Module to be fair, so one reason might have been for Module users to get a few more all-around sounds, but even in Module it just sucks. With a lot of tweaking and FX, yes it is possible to make some pleasant noise with it I guess, but still no idea what the thought process behind that Gadget was.
Intrigued now...might get that app
Wondering how lemur would feed gadget too..
Ok, agree , Chiangmai is amazing..here's a drone patch I just designed
Shut up and take my money!
Ha ha @solador78 I couldn't take your money... I made heavy use of your gadget midi chart to make it!
Kingston is amazing! I've barely really used it. But it's so nice. Not really for chip tune stuff. I just made some strings with it!
Just been on gadget..earlier I made some "robotic breaks" on Attack now I've finally got some flow with it..plonked them in Bilbao
Added some Kingston bassfx and the drone I made in Chiangmai
Also, filtered amen break in Bilbao too, plus fx from Darwin
Hoping to have coherent results to share tommorow, sounding like early photek minimal scifi dnb I think
So, thanx all of you for opening my eyes to Kingston and Chiangmai
i might need to get Lemur one day.
Recent idea for a crazy Gadget control surface to modulate patches... Maybe lemur could do it:
four 'random' buttons, one in each corner of the screen (A,B,C,D)
each button generates a complete set of random midi ccs sent to Gadget
you press the 4 random buttons until you are happy with each one (in affect, 4 patches)
then there's a 'spot' in the centre of the screen which you can move about, like an X-Y pad
moving this spot "morphs" the midi values sent to Gadget depending on proximity to the 4 buttons (A,B,C,D) in the 4 corners (would need a bit of maths to work that one out)
So it's a bit like the modulation area in the Novation LaunchKey synth, which is great (and I think, free).
One day maybe...
Sounds great. Would love to hear it...
Working hard on it right now..this kind of dnb has eluded me till today actually
Feels good not following set formulas or expecting specific outcomes lol
I like it because it's the least resource intensive "synth", so it's possible to run a lot more instances of Marseille without it stuttering.
The trick is to feed it exactly 2 bars. Sixteen 8th notes works well (chromatically, or a scale). You can import loops from other apps, or bounce and re-sample Gadget (to get around track limitations on earlier ipads).
edit: 054 is the Init Patch for importing loops
Darwin and Phoniex. Bilbao is great too. It comes with some excellent samples and the interface is easy to use.
I really wish you could do program changes in Gadget... It seems really wasteful and cluttered to have lots of instances of the same Gadget where more often than not, a program change at different parts of the track would suffice. Particularly where you are using lots of different little effects.
+1
Just recorded a bit of an experimental jam... Trying out some of the new Gadget patches I've created. Phoenix, Kingston, Wolfsburg, Darwin and Toyko.
Sorry, it's too long and you can hear few errors... I arranged it in one take just from a single scene using mute and solo and playing a few bits live...
The main purpose was to make some interesting noises. It's not in any way a finished track. But thought some might be interested... It's kind of spaced out ambient to a Toyko D&B beat...