So last night as I was making my BOSE IE2 headphone bump inside my ears, I started to become a little disappointed. The sound I was creating wasn't quite what I wanted. Not all of them at least. So I decide to look at what else KORG had to offer me. What else could I use in my musical adventure... And just like the finding the master sword in Zelda, I had found two new weapon's. KORG's iELECTRIBE and the iMS-20. I wont talk to much about the iMS-20, for the most part its just like the iPolysix. The difference though is obvious the second you open the app.On the right side of the synth there are rows (there are all 2 rows at the top) of 1/4 inch audio jacks, all labeled an with a propose. I can connect them with yellow cords and produce new sounds with different effects. The biggest difference is relieved once you start using the keys, the sound much more modern. Well the iPolysix makes a pre-80's sound (which its designed to do and does it well) the iMS-20 creates the sounds we hear today from artistes like Skrillex, Shiny Toy Guns, NETSKY, Moby, David Guetta and so on.
iELECTRIBE... At 1st it seem like a whole new device when compared to the other three. I'm greeted with just one screen, most red background with different sliver knobs and battens. Starting from the top left, there is a LCD screen with at large knob which allows for selecting between per-made beats and sounds.(about 96 total with 62 more free ones) Below that are two smaller knobs for master volume and tube gain and next to them are 6 buttons ( two rows of three) labeled browser, tempo, lock, write, settings and utility. I don't think I really need to explain what they do. Move down more we have 8 buttons (four rows of two) for are mute, solo, tap, pattern set, record, stop, play and repeat. Head to the middle of the screen I see three knobs. A large on at the top with different effects label's surrounding it, 8 in total. Each one changing the sound it its own unique way. Under the large one are the 2 smaller once, simply labeled FX edit 1 & 2. It takes me awhile to figure these two out, at 1st all they seem to do is adjust the offset and formant. It's only after I change the preset sounds and adjust the effect I notice a change. Depending on selected effect, the two knobs will control diffident elements. If reverb is in effect then the knobs control time & level, if filter is selected then cutoff & resonance is controlled.
Move right and up, I see the oscillator with three small switches (pitch, mod depth and mod speed) and two buttons for wave & mod type. Luckily from using the iPolysix I'm already familiar with these. Each effect the sound (like everything else), but more its wave length or the path it follows as apposed to the sound its self. Below this is the Motion seq. (off, smooth, trig hold) and be side this the AMP controls. Four nobs for decay, level, pan and low boost. Finally after this I am met with two rows of buttons, the bottom row simply labeled 1-16 (with the help of two arrow buttons just above to the left) 17-32, 33-48 and 49-64. above all this (next to the arrows) are 12 buttons. Fx send and accent, witch allow be to turn the effects on/off for a specific button. Then flutter (which opens up a kross pad) with cross just below it. Finally the last 8 are left for synth 1-4 and some basic drum sounds. All in all this is a fun app and actually easier to use then the rest, and now I have sound to create
My name is Chris Jones and over the next few months I will be teaching myself how to make music using the KORG iKaossilator and iPolysix. Through out the weeks I will be blogger about what I've learned, how I figured things out and just my over all experience with the apps. Then at the end of each week I'll try to post something I've created.
Logitec headphones are worth a try! I really like mine. Great bass levels and depending on the kind you like there are in-ears and the muffs. Both are great! Check them out!
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