microKORG Tutorial - First things you should know 

The Microkorg the 'Honda Civic' of the synth world, and I wouldnt get rid of mine for all the tea in china! A brilliant little unit, got mine when they were first released.

dismiss this as a "beginner synth" at your own peril . by the time i got a microkorg for 100 bucks i already had a juno 106, a juno 60, a roland sh 1000 , a "74 white face arp odyssey, the dave smith mopho a polysix and a poly 61m. etc. but the microkorg STILL blew my mind.. i use it live right next to my juno 60, because it does some awesome stuff , not in spite of what it is but BECAUSE of what it is!

I finally picked up a beat up microkorg less than a month ago, after watching your videos for close to a year. Thanks for all the knowledge you share on YT! You’re great!

I have had MK for years and even with the knowledge I have gained from messing around and playing, I found this to be really informative and helpful. THX.

I love how much you love the microKORG

Hey, thank you again Daniel. Everytime I hit a wall, I revisit your tutorials and whammo. Success.

So I’m looking into getting one of these just to expand what I can do so my music isn’t always necessarily sample based. I’m literally 5 seconds exactly into the video and I smashed like and subscribe straight up simply because of your insanely friendly and welcoming intro 🙌🏾

Great breakdown of this instrument. Thanks so much.

Great work! These are the most helpful videos I've found on the microKORG.

Thanks for this video, I’ve been thinking of getting a microkorg, but I’ve been hesitant because I’m a guitar player who knows nothing about synths. But you really presented this in a way that makes sense, even to me. And the nearly 30 minutes flew by. I’ll be watching more for sure, and I already subscribed. Too bad you don’t get commission from Korg. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people buy microkorgs after watching your videos. I know I’m about to order one right now. My poor neighbors... they have no idea what’s about to hit them. Lol

-Hey, that was pretty informative! I liked the digital wave--- options.

Thanks a lot buddy for making this kind tutorial. microKORG-BKBK player here.

Thanks Daniel! Can't wait to watch this from start to finish this weekend and discover the never ending possibilities with my good ole microkorg. Keep it up! I'll buy you a coffee once my paycheck comes in

Excellent tutorial/explanation. Thank you.

I just got a microkorg Vocorder sythn and I didnt really grasp all the options It would have and I am very please with what Im experiencing and seeing from all these youtube posts. I already recognize a couple artists I like with the sounds Ive been experiencing making. Thank you for making these videos. I still have a lot to learn and Im eager as I grew up playing all sorts of instruments so the fact I can run an instrument through this synth and manipulate the sound is Amazing!

Thanks Daniel, I'm new to the micro korg finally purchased 1 from Kraft music just a week or so ago. [Kraft music is currently selling the platnum edition for $100.00 less then the original making it $299.00] I highly appreciate your tutorial videos, I find it is much easier to understand a physical hands on explanation then reading it in a book or manual. Thanks again I look forward to watching more of your videos and have subscribed so I can view anything new you care to share.👍👌🤘

best video I could find on this machine, thankyou

this is so helpful even in 2024 ilysm for this

really really informative, thanks for taking the time to explain.

Nice video. My first synth as a MS2000. Bought my micro used for $200.

How did you know I just picked up a microkorg? Thank you so much

A low pass filter will filter out high frequencies and let low frequencies pass. Filter cutoff is the point where highs are cut. Filter cutoff peak will accentuate the cutoff. The resonance increases the sharpness of the peak, which can reveal harmonic content. Int=intensity bruh!

Dude I got this thing and trying to figure it out … subscribed

Red and black microkorg here

I can't reset my Korg any suggestions or a link to how to reset?

Thanks lots Daniel!

Very informative video thank you! ❤

Hi Daniel! Thanks for your introduction to the microkorg. I am thinking about buying one for our band. We would like to have some synth-sounds in the background, sort of layers behind everything, which should last for a whole intro, for example. Is it possible to have like a latch-function on chords? i mean, is it possible to press down a chord and let go of the keys an have the notes ring on, like a latch-function, until you press a next chord?

Keep up with your videos. Thanks a lot!

thanks Daniel for sharing the video, I've just purchased the microkorg and completely new to it, though I have played guitar for decades so have picked up the basics. I am confused about the edit select dials. I understand that different sections and how to manipulate them with the control knobs and the corresponding lists for synth/vacoda written under each control knob. here's where I get confused, starting out for making a new sound, when I adjust the control knobs for VOICE and find the sound I want, I then move the edit select dial to PITCH. Then when I start changing the control knobs for PITCH what happens to the controls I had set for VOICE? Are they still part of the current sound? And when I keep moving through the edit select dial to OSC1,MIXER, FILTER,AMP etc. what happens to the previous edit select settings I have just set? Are they lost or do they keep adding to the sound? I hope this makes sense.

Thank you Daniel! Very helpful.

you should start a music twitch account and just go live while having fun with your microkorg and pedals :)

Hi Daniel I was just wondering how well the synthesizer syncs with the other units ( like the minilogue which now has a full range of note resolution) please. Thank you very much you've got some great videos. And I've read a lot about the new microkorg or the newish ones and is it true that the original has a much higher build quality Because of because I've heard things about the microkorg XL/S which isn't encouraging. I don't know what you think of the mini Nova I like quite a few of the sounds had a lot of trouble playing the keyboard if I wanted to play fast but I've heard the microkorg keyboard is a fair bit better would that be a fair call.

Thank you so much for these!

I'm really sad that I sold mine back in the day now :( but I do have a behringer Neutron now which I instantly fell in love with so that's cool :)

Really helpful. Thank you man

Thanks dawg!

people think its weird how defensive I am about my microkorg, I do a lot of experimental music and most people don't realize that the awesome sample they are hearing is in fact the microkorg

mad props to you.. thx for makin this. seems u aint post in awhile do u have another channel?

Hey Daniel! Nice sound at the end of the video!!!

Good video Sir!!

How about UltraNova? Compare to microkorg?

Is it possible to run the patch setup in series , rather than just parallel ?? Thanks

Hi Daniel, my Micro arrived this morning, so obviously i checked into your channel and went straight to this video to get started. Regarding the outputs, i've always used the headphone out on my Minilogue, using a 1/4 stereo jack adapter - into a 3mm phono jack - then the left/right phono connecters into left and right channels on my desk, with the left panned to the left and the right panned to the right, is this ok rather than running two seperate cables from the L/R outputs? Everything seems to work fine but following this tutorial, i find that when you get to 6.48, voice - single, the sound is much lower in volume than when it's changed to Layer. I've turned the synth off and back on to see if it will re-boot, just in case i have altered the volume in the settings but it's still the same. The synth main volume is turned to full and the volume is set at the desk, via the channel faders, as is the case with all my synths and modules, so as to get a clean input. Great tutorials, cheers.

Can you split the keyboard? I mean, first half of the keyboard making one type of sound, and the second half of the keyboard with a different sound?

great video, just got the microkorg & I was wondering does anyone know how to go back to the live knobs function after modifying one of the edit? or is it not possible at all?

HEY DANIEL? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I AM SEEING THIS VIDEO HERE BECAUSE I AM NOW LOOKING INTO THIS KORG MICRO.. BUT I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS NOW IN 2022 AND HOPE YOU CAN ANSWER THEM FOR ME... MY FIRST QUESTION IS: WHAT IS THE LITERAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS SYNTH AND THE KORG KING KORG? AND THE ROLAND SH 201 SYNTH AND THE ROLAND JD-XI SYNTH????? : / IM CONFUSED! PLEASE LET ME KNOW.. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!

The space between the controls and the keys could have been used to make the keys regular size without affecting the compact size of the synth.I would have designed it differently.It is a nice synth though.Not a fan of compact keys.

I just bought a microkorg, but I can't get it to play sound when I play the keys. I've got a guitar jack from OUTPUT L/MONO to my mixer amp. No midi or other inputs. Please help?

Informative fella

How to come back in main menu (cutoff, resonance, attack, release) after I turned selector and add some effects?

Hi! I just bought mine today and I was wondering how I might get sound out of it? I thought it would produce sound with the AC adapter, but I don’t hear anything. What would I have to connect it to to get the sound? Does connecting to just a speaker work?

Great vids man!

once you play with the edit select, how do you go back to the knobs like when u first pressed the preset?

How would you make the synthesized held-out B-Flat French Horn note from the 1986 Walt Disney Home Video logo on the Korg MicroKorg?

How do you make it loop?

Int. - intensity

nice broski thx

genio bro saludos

Does this have its own built in speakers

I just have to comment on the vibrato part… it’s awesome, you just don’t know how to use it or what it’s for. You need more funk in your life man!!

Does it have a sustain pedal input?

did you ever release your custom sound patches you said you would do in march?

I've never used a synth before and I really want to but I have no idea what's happening...

if i buy one used can i reset it so i get all the factory presets ??

have you new patches to share? thanks

The Vocoder mic that comes with this sucks. I use a quality mic on mine

Sorry for this really stupid question (I’m new to the synth world). but can this make sound on its own. Like a regular keyboard/piano?? I think the keyboards that can’t make sounds on their own are called midi, right?? Please help me out I’m so confused about everything all the time oof.

Yo do you use a guitar amp to amplify this synth? I REALLY wanna buy one of these

Does it have its own output speaker??

Hi. I’m considering now etween microkorg and microkorg s model. Are they different? For example , this video didn’t help if i would get microkorg s?

what kind go cables are required? I received my microkorg from the store without audio cables

I just got a used one and most of the patch select buttons don't work and the octave buttons barely work. Ugh... :(

Would you need a computer for it to work?

Which amp do you recommend me to buy for that microkorg?

Hello I feel very clueless right now. I don’t understand a lot about synths and I try to do research and google everything but I’m still very confused. I just got a microkorg and I turn it on and there is no sound. I’m guessing because it goes through a midi? I don’t know I’m so confused. What do I need to buy to get this working? I have an interface and speakers.

Is that a D&D map behind you?

Bro how do I just get normal piano sound I just wanna play Minecraft music lmao?

I'm like completely clueless with this thing and the lingo goes right over my head

The bird which is the bald eagle

You need to talk to me like I’m stupider

Hi! How to make a monophonic sound into a polyphonic sound? Thanks.

Intensity

thx ....Kastner sounds german 😀

I guess I need something with analog capabilities especially I want a Hammond b-3 sound and the fender Rhodes sound. Can somebody Facebook me thank you

For idiots why didn't you start with what you plugged it into because I just got one and it is quieter than a church mouse. Do you have something against idiots?

Next time, either be in frame for the whole synth, or shoot some b roll and attach it while you're talking.. because not doing it just feels like you're being kinda lazy ;) haha good video anyways. Keep improving.

Du laberst zu viel..Spielen!!!

Man idk what the hell he's talking about with initalizing a patch and shift+8 I dont understand anything

Don’t know if people are still active on this vid but does anyone have a solution to this problem? Higher notes on certain patches tend to sound very soft and low volume compared to lower notes. Any way to fix this?