Flat Beat Synth Tutorial (Korg MS-20) 

GOOD JOB ALEX BALL. almost there! bravo.

This is much more complicated than I expected. Such a simple sounding tune, but in reality it's a composition. Thank you for this!

I was absolutely obsessed with this song when it came out, I tried to recreate that sound on just about every synth I bought in the early 2000s, I never realized it was an MS20, but it makes so much sense now that I've seen it done.

Goldie Foxx: Love this! The attention to detail in the opening video footage wobble is genius.

always love the resonant high pass bass boost trick.

That intro and Hotdog cigar is so brilliant lol

Following your Daft Punk synth tutorial this is the second one I discovered, and it is as amazing as the first. I see long nights with little sleep coming when I will have to start digging and trying all of those... :-)

Thank you! This is great. I knew the Flat Beat bassline was sampled but didn’t realize how much of a collage it is.

Finally bought an MS-20 Mini and got to experience this in person :) thank you again for this video! Flat Beat and Oizo’s whole Analog Worms Attack album is one of my absolute favorites!

Appreciate the hotdog cigar :)

I'm a genuine fan of your vintage color grading, Alex.

When Futuremusic was talking to Mr.Oizo about making the flat beat track he talked about how he approached the MS20 as something to sample and said he spent hours getting the LFO timing right. He used an S1000 iirc

Man, you're so productive! Great sound from the MS20, it sounds phenomenal through my headphones. The MS10 could really do with the extra EG. Another way the filter could be rhythmically modulated is with an external signal into the filter frequency input jack.

I had high expectations on this flat beat. That's perfect ! Well done Mr Ball \o/

Now I know why my music sounds like trash. It's the lack of sausage.

I think the MS 20 is the best synthesizer there's so many things it can do! I have the MS 20 mini and it's so much fun! 😀 thanks very much for the video by the way and it was very informative 👍

Dude hell yess I have always wondered how this song was made, I really appreciate you making this!

Awesome mate! Just bought an ms20 mini and flat beat was a deciding factor!

With the korg MS20 vst is the easiest way to behave the original one without sampling since lfo can be key synced and parameters automated. Thank you for this quick tutorial.

Great video. Love your explanations and getting straight to the point. Can't wait to try this on my MS-20.

Hey Man, please keep on uploading. Your music and style is so flipping inspiring! I even went and bought a mini lab mk 2! One day I hope to make sick stuff like you do!

f'ing great! and the feeling you must have got when you told the deli you wanted some hotdogs (for such an obscure reason) must have been priceless! nice work!!

This tune speaks to the core of my bones 🤗. thanks for having a good look at it

Great tutorial. It very well shows that you don't have to complicate things. Keep it basic folks.

I used to do the Flat Beat riff on my Korg 700s, good emulation

This, this I love, I absolutely love

Great video! This song will always hold a special place in my heart 👊🏼 much nostalgia lol

The sausages and head-banging-video is such a brilliant "easter egg" !!!!!

The envelope behaviour on the MS20 mini is totally different. It’s true that a zero sustain is the same as the set level of the cut off but as you turn the sustain up on the Mini the cut off drops, and by the time you reach full sustain it’s the equivalent of moving the cutoff from 5 down to about 3.5. The envelope behaviour will start at a lower level as you increase the sustain but will return to that start point, not to zero volts. I think. Confusing. Another good video, btw. 😀

Been wondering exactly this for about a week , 🙏🏻. Nicely broken down bro.

I love your tutorials. Please do more thing's like this. Maybe next time something from The Prodigy or Boards of Canada ?

Daaaang thank you for the shoutout! 1:30 A way to possibly check if a sound is sampled would be to chop out the phrase in question, flip it's polarity, and align it with a segment containing the same phrase. The idea is that if they cancel, you have a sample. I've had okay results with this while trying to isolate tracks. It's not full proof, and many factors can come into play like master bus compression making the same phrase sound different depending on instrumentation for example. All that said, we can assume you're right that Oizo sampled a phrase and looped it. No need to go through the strenuous effort to check. All in all another excellent tutorial, Alex. Great editing on both the camera work and recreating Flat Beat!

Utterly delightful!

You nailed it! Thank you for sharing, I ll try on my neutron, might sound close

Dude, more of this please!

Thaaaaaank you for making this!! You made my day!

that spot on as you can be

Brilliant video again. Thanks Alex

Nice work! Learned a few things about my MS-20! Many thanks 😁👍

I love that this popped up on my recommend vids!!

Very good cover

Love ya´ channel, it is full of positive energy ;)

Good job

Would you be down for doing a video for the layman on what the acronyms stand for, and their function? (e.g. LFO, VCO, ADSR, ect.) Really dig the channel, amazing videos!

You got a thumbs up just because of that intro :P

De la balle. Bravo. Je me suis toujours questionné sur ce son sans me prendre la tête mais une réponse est sympa. Merci

nice synth tutorial man! love this

Love this tune! Thanks for the video!

New to your channel and easy sub, good stuff right here! Out of curiosity, is that a mini or vintage? I dont own one but those keys look full sized. And likewise, those sliders look bigger than my SH-01A, is that a 101 you're casually reaching over? Fantastic video btw, can't wait to check out your other content!

This video made me buy an MS-20.

Cool video. Thanks a lot!

Top skills another top video.Thanks

.....A raw hot dog? *Subscribed*

Wish I had even 1% of that skill. Respect.

Love it. Nice work

Great video and explanation 😀

Superb!!!

thank u friend, u nice n very brave, impossible to get exactly the same, so u made the best possible imo

You know, I always avoid doing wub wub sounds with synths that can't tempo sync to the DAW.. but watching this, I realize that's stupid. I can just edit the parts together in the DAW! (I also hadn't realized how good the MS-20 is for these sounds... very cool)

Amazing! Thanks for sharing

Wow really well done!

Hey Alex, just found your channel! Thanks so much for all these videos, you're insight into synths as well as general music production is so awesome. What synth would you recommend as the first synth someone should pick up? Or maybe just a great all round synthesizer to get started? Budget doesn't have to be cheap. Greets from Belgium

Love that classic. Nice sounds you get out of that ms20 :D

Sooo good! Allmost forgot about this song 😍👌

Great work! Is the bassline rhythm right though? It feels like it's all played an 8th note late in relation to the drums. Eg- the 2nd note of the bassline should come an 8th note before the snare hit. Not at the same time as it. Geeky enough for you?

haha yeah :D So cool Alex!

Awesome videos mate

I wish I still had my MS-20!

All I seem to do these days is watch online video of a man with a sausage in his hand?!

If you made a video with tutorials for music from ed banger records you would make my day

great video. how many years of experience do you have?

Thumbs up for the intro!

to me it sounds like instead of playing with the LFO he's got the pattern sequenced out and he's playing with the envelope attack, but yes its probably sampled. Also it has a nice late shuffle to it.

I have the single cassette, saved my dinner money for it. It's in a paper sleeve, thick paper but just paper. I really disliked those singles, it gave such a cheap feeling. A very nice remake, it's really close. I've not heard this track for >15 years, guess it's time to dig that tape out. Searching UT is too easy

really good tutorial serie !!

I don’t know if anyone else mentioned it in the comments, but I remember reading in a music magazine that it wasn’t sampled and cut up, he spent an entire day recording lfo knob twiddling to get the right sound.

Yeaaah! For me, to get a better "Quentin Dupieux" sound, you have to replace your sausage by a STEAK (one of the great Quentin Dupieux's movies)! :p

Awesome vid! Thnx!

but how do you make that french kick and snare so punchy

I wonder if all ms20s sound different like all roland tr808s sound different

This song, man- Awesome bass synth, painfully thin drums which sound like they're coming from a tin can.

Could you not use an external LFO that is clock-synced and use it's voltage to control the filter cutoff?

You need to patch in the sample and hold function plus some other bits to achieve the different speeds of the modulation

Greate video! :) The MS-20 is a versatile little sizer. :D

Bravo!

Nice!

Hey can you help? What do you use for a speaker if I wanted to play this outloud just like playing a guitar through a amp but synth to what?

exxelent presentation.. cheers

Bruhh you are a genious thats spot on

they didn't use the lfo. they played the speed changing wobble by hand while controlling the filter

Nailed it

WOW! That had my fastest like! :) Nad Quentin in the comments! ANd everybody happy! What a wonderful orthodox Christmas! :)) MC and HNY from Russia! Shweeet! :))

2:28 "you'll only hear this if you got headphones or speakers" yeah that's usually how it works.

Hehe very nice :) Thx for that !

gonna buy da synth

Now I wanna challenge you... :D You need to do the Gary's lead synth patch of the " regular show - gary's synthesizers battle" That lead is amazing hehe

Dope!

Love it 👏

I'd love to hear Rock 'n Roll on the MS20 by Daft Punk

Well hot DOG! Are you WIENing us off your other videos with all these tutorials? Because I have to be FRANK, I'd like to see FURTER episodes on light music as you get the chance. I don't want to be a WEENIE about it, though; this is not the WURST thing you've made. Quite the opposite - you can definitely cut the MUSTARD with electronic instruments. I just hope you can KETCHUP on your other projects some point, too. I RELISH the thought of another music analysis or re-creation of a film score cue. Have to ROLL with the punches, I guess. Come to think of it, something on German electronica or KRAUTrock might make a nice tutorial, too! :-)