Detailed Program Editing; Editing Hd-1 Programs - Korg NAUTILUS Series Operation Manual

Playing and editing Programs

Detailed Program Editing

Editing HD-1 Programs

Creating your own Programs
You can create your own original HD-1 sounds by editing
the factory Programs, or by initializing a Program and
starting from scratch. You can save these Programs into any
bank other than GM (which contains General MIDI
Programs).
You can also create Programs using your own Multisamples,
either from SAMPLING mode or User Sample Banks. In
addition, you can play a Program and resample your
performance, or sample an external audio source while
listening to the sound of a Program.
Overview of editing pages
PROGRAM > Home page is where you select and play
programs, and adjust the ARP/DRUM settings. The other
pages let you modify the sound in more detailed ways.
Page
• Select and play Programs
• Perform easy edits using the RT control knobs,
and Tone Adjust
Home
• Adjust mix parameters including volume, pan,
EQ, and send levels
• ARP/DRUM settings
• Quick sampling and re-sampling
• Set the Program to Single, Double, Single
Drum, or Double Drum
Basic/X-Y/ • Select Mono or Poly voice allocation
Controllers
• Select a scale (e.g., Equal Temperament)
• Set up controllers
• Set up Vector synthesis
• Select Multisamples, Wave Sequences. or
Drum Kits
Osc/Pitch
• Settings related to the pitch, including the
pitch EG
• Settings related to the filter (tone), including
Filter
the filter EG
• Settings related to the amplifier (volume),
Amp/EQ including amp EG and pan
• Settings for the 3-band EQ
• For each of the two LFOs provided for each
oscillator, select the LFO type and speed, etc.
LFO (Settings in the pitch, filter, and amp pages
determine how much the LFOs affect the
sound.)
• Mix and modify AMS sources using the two
AMS Mixer/ AMS mixers provided for each oscillator
Common • Set up how the Common Key Track output
KeyTrack changes as you play up and down the
keyboard
• Select insert effects and make settings for
IFX them. Specify send levels to the Master effects
and routing to the outputs
• Select Master send effects and Total effects,
MFX/TFX
and adjust their settings
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Main features
For details on how to select the different pages, see "Basic
operations" on page 14.
You can sample from within PROGRAM mode—including
resampling the Program itself. For more information, see
"Sampling in PROGRAM and COMBINATION modes" on
page 145.
You can also mix in live audio inputs, and process them
through effects. For more information, see "Using effects
with the audio inputs" on page 229.
Note that the page and parameter structures of EXi Programs
are different than those of HD-1 Programs.
Basic HD-1 Structure
Multisamples and Wave Sequences
The sound of the HD-1 starts with one or more
Multisamples. These can be recordings of instruments like
piano, bass, guitar, strings, organs, analog synths, and so on,
or purely digitally-created timbres.
You can play these Multisamples directly, or use them
through Wave Sequences, which play a series of different
Multisamples over time to create rhythms or complex,
evolving timbres.
Oscillator Mode
HD-1 Single Programs have one oscillator, and Double
Programs have two oscillators. Each oscillator includes a
complete synthesis voice, with velocity-switched
Multisamples, dual filters, EGs, LFOs, and so on.
Single and Double Drum modes are similar, but use Drum
Kits (as created in GLOBAL mode) instead of Multisamples.
Single and Single Drum Programs use one oscillator, for a
maximum of 140-note polyphony.
Double and Double Drum Programs use two oscillators, for
a maximum of 70-note polyphony.
A note about polyphony
Polyphony means the number of notes that you can play at a
time. This number will vary depending on the particular
sound being played, and how that sound is produced.
Generally speaking:
• Double Programs use twice as many voices as Single
Programs.
• Wave Sequences use twice as many voices as
Multisamples.
• Stereo Multisamples use twice as many voices as Mono
Multisamples, and Stereo Wave Sequences use twice as
many voices as Mono Wave Sequences.
• If the X-Y Envelope is enabled, the number of voices
used increases slightly.