Korg Mono/Poly

does anyone know any good ways to get a good crisp cymbal sound out of
my mono/poly? ive been trying and filtering then eq'ing white noise
just isnt cutting it.

try this:
get a really clangorous unison patch going (use fm and freq mod, 
detuning, etc.)
now turn all the oscillators down in volume quite a bit, but turn noise 
all the way up.
most analog cymbal circuits are a bunch of simple oscillators 'ring' 
modulated after a fashion, and mixed w/ noise.

please tell how you get on!

cheers,
Scott Deyo
The Bridechamber
contact@bridechamber.com
www.bridechamber.com

On Jul 28, 2007, at 12:19 AM, MATT wrote:

> does anyone know any good ways to get a good crisp cymbal sound out of
>  my mono/poly? ive been trying and filtering then eq'ing white noise
>  just isnt cutting it.
>
>  
>

Hi

> does anyone know any good ways to get a good crisp cymbal sound out of
> my mono/poly? ive been trying and filtering then eq'ing white noise
> just isnt cutting it.

The the MonoPoly lacks a hipass filter, which is most relevant part for 
a synthesized cymbal. Cymbal produce more low frequencies, than you 
would expect, but these frequencies have a low level. So what you need 
is a 12 dB (or even 6dB) hipass filter in the output of the synth.

Florian