My Love Hate Relationship with the NAUTILUS Sequencer 

makes total sense, agree!

Ensoniq sequencers were great. Korg introduced a cuelist feature in the Triton that did something similar.

Do you control multiple synths with it

@@wireguy123 Yes you can but I just use id as a stand-alone recorder with my Synths

i vaguely remember you mentioning it yes, that's an arranger i haven't come across, but really appreciate your insight, it sounds pretety cool!

If you could play with Yamaha Genos, or Yamaha Tyros 5 or Korg Pa4X and..... They are the flagship of today's highly advanced arranger Keyboards literally and righteously ......thus they are very expensive as such. Again i'm saying it, if you try them, that Casio you have described..... Kinda Looks like a cheap kid's toy keyboard.... Believe me, i have been working/playing/rhythm making/sound designing/ layering, etc for many years... I have been working/playing with so many Arranger keyboards as well as famous Synthesizers. I have been playing keyboard for about 29 years professionally.... Casio itself decided to remain very very low key for years. They mostly were producing very basic & plain simple keyboards for beginners. Though, in recent years, they are making fairly good-ish arrangers as well as digital pianos, and also digital pianos+synthesizer voices. All i wanna say is that if money is not an issue for you, go for those flagships that i mentioned above.

@@Talia.777 These flagship models do not offer any better sequencing, probably worse. (please correct me if the flagship model you are using can exceed the Casio's pattern sequencer). The only weakness of the Casio is the sound, which is not a concern since all 8 tracks of each (main/intro/exit/fill) can be output MIDI to external synths, PLUS MIDI 1-4 channels of the keyboard. I figure for $1100 I have the best keyboard sequencer in the world. IF you sound design like I do, the Casio with a lot of work can sound good too. Presets on the Casio are not great, but my users can be not bad. I don't use one keyboard in my rig; I have 3 groove boxes, a sampler, and 8 synths. The Casio is the centerpiece for MIDI clock and sequencing. ....live in poverty, $5000 would only go toward my paid talent, solo acoustic piano.

So probably Casio has produced a decent keyboard because I have never seen an arranger has 8 output midi ports!!! That's really great. You mean there are 8 individual ports on the rear of the keyboard?! BTW, how many Variation does it have? 4 or more? If the price is above $1000, then it must be something worthy... Would you please write down here full specifications of your Casio? Thanks 🙏 I guess you're not so into DAWs.... right? I personally prefer to have hardware ( keyboards, modules, etc....) Although DAWs deliver unimaginable and amazing features but as far as I really like playing live ( gigs or alone....), I go for hardware....

@@Talia.777 Yes, I am a musician/performer too, so the DAW was destroying my creativity. I went 100% hardware including the recorder, a ZoomR24, a 24 track hardware recorder. Since going 100% hardware I have recorded over 60 albums. The Casio has one MIDI output, but with a MDII expander ($50) I can control 8 synths individually with MIDI channels 1-8. Casio has 4 main/variation 4 fills, 2 intros, 2 endings and one fade out. But I am not limited to these, with a simple push of the registration button I can have 8 more of the above without stopping the arranger. So that is 32 variations/fills, and another 16 intros and endings. Now...each variation can be up to 32 measures before looping back, at any time signature, and any quantize level from zero to 1/48. So I can have entire verses or chorus programed in and at any time just change a chord and the whole 32 measures is now in another key. The 32 measures can be interrupted and looped back at any time with a chord change. Intros and endings can also be up to 32 measures long. The casio is used as my basic sequencer by programming styles from a blank, it is a simple process to make styles, but it is a pattern sequencer, not a step sequencer. Pattern sequencers are for musicians who wish to write styles by playing in the patterns, instead of pushing buttons on a grid. Each song I compose has its very own style I create. Depending on the style it may have just drums and bass, or may have everything except drums, depends on how I play to perform with it. Once the casio is programmed I will program a step sequencer and a groove box to layer in more complexity. I then play my sound designs live in one take on the synths with the patterns for a full rich performance... all recorded through 4 submixers and then to the Zoom hardware recorder in 8 tracks. Then final mixdown on the Zoom to a 2track stereo master. Song finished. All this is experimental, my paid gig as a musician is only as a solo acoustic piano performer, playing my own compositions.

yeah, you could totally do this with naut and daw, but most synths don't do seamless transitions this well, not even kronos? let us know!

yeah, some other brands do it too, it's advertised so on the modx, but only seems to work well under certain circumstances, the naut is the first time that it really is seamless! i think i remember them improving it on the naut over the kronos, might be wrong.

Kross(2) doesn't have seamless transitions. Neither did the X50.

That's not the Korg way outside of their Electribes.

your best bet for accuracy on naut, kron, krom is to tap the parameter (may require a few attempts... :D) and then use the data encoder to adjust.

@@WoodyPianoShack same as the M50 and M3, too

if I had to buy something new, and wanted a workstation, then yes, but in reality when I buy, I usually purchase used, and you won't find a used Naut, so I'd buy a used kronos instead. although i would want to try the fantom before spending any of my money :)

hi, i don't know and don't have instrument to test. it sounds like the auto-load could be a setting in there, suggest you download and study the manual!

that feature was only present on the M1 and the original (non-FD) 01/W - once you had the option to save sequences to disk, you were expected to save and load to disk. They have not updated the sequencer in Korg Workstations since the OASYS in 2005, so that feature def won't be on the Nautilus.

i avoided the seq and edit screens on the triton at all cost, in fact screen was so dim, i could hardly see it... :)

i've never seen undo or redo on a synth, that's why I prefer PC , the crescendo might be possible but I think will be difficult.

there should be an undo, though with limitations Kross2 has undo and redo in a menu, wouldn't make sense if the more upscale workstations didn't rolls have to be done manually or with the help of an arpeggiator, crescendos must be done manually or with the help of an expression pedal and the patch in question must be configured by the user to respond that way to the expression pedal as Korg doesn't do that for you expression pedal can be tied to many, many things, including EGs, insert effect parameters, and filter cutoff MIDI CCs can be recorded as you play or overdubbed later if you want, so this includes the expression pedal, mod wheel, and pitch bend, among others

i don't think so, you need to record one track at a time, definitely for the audio tracks in any case.

@@WoodyPianoShack Ah ok , that's strange because the manual says we can record 4 audios tracks at the same time 🤔

@@gosampeinturemusique well trust the manual, not me, but since there is only one audio input...

@@WoodyPianoShack 1 audio input ? the manual says 2 😁🤗 The manual doesn't say if we can record both MIDI and audio at the same time 🤔 If somebody knows .... Nevertheless , thanks Woody for your response 💚🧡💚🧡🙂

there's no debate about that!

Very

I have both, Krome and Nautilus. Krome's sequencer is much better and I miss piano roll on Nautilus.

i came into this hoping to use it as a quick, simple and easy pattern looper, with a bit of practise that might be doable, bit of a annoyance to have to interrupt the music to change tracks though.

And Korg sticks to their proprietary touchscreen design from the '90s. Cheap junk smart devices get better screens, Nautilus and Kronos do not for all the money they ask for.

Warning about iPad style capacitive screens: callouses. I’m left handed, but I play a “standard” uke/guitar (well, only recently the guitar). The callouses you get on your fingertips make it hard to register a tap sometimes. This isn’t a problem on the resistive screen used in the Nautilus.

@@Roboprogs oh wow

I'm in the same boat between these 2 and Fantom 06. The MPC and Fantom seem to have much better sequencers (and even if they didn't, the DAW integration is better to overcome it). But man, those Korg sounds blow the others out of the park.

@@seanmatthews5279 I tried the Fantom and Nautilus side-by-side for a couple of days and you are absolutely correct. The Korg sounds are really good, but their UI and the ridiculously long startup times are terrible. Nautilus should really be a sound module at this point.

So what did you end up with ? MPC or Nautilus@@totallynotabot151

thx for the thoughtful comment, great points and questions you pose!

nope.

i wouldn't make that claim in general,, but yes, this synth is a repackaged kronos, which is not such a bad thing! :)

Nope, having used a Kronos for a few years, they're definitely in the business of innovation, albeit subtle when you just scratch the surface.

korg nautilus my friend

no doubt the naut seq immensely powerful for a synth, with some practice and accepting some of the workflow annoyances it will be fine! I only highlighted two disappointments, to be fair. Yeah, could use ableton, but i'm still hoping one day for an enjoyable and creative dawless jamming experience from a synth, as these machines are always marketed that way but never quite deliver the promise, imho.

Philo did you get yours yet? Still waiting for mine!!

@@johnwilson7952 According to the retailer I preordered from,it's due to arrive on April 9th.

@@WoodyPianoShack Yeah....I can see how you would be annoyed with the Nautilus's workflow(that's what happens when one compares hardware to software.) It's not realistic to expect a hardware workstation to behave like a desktop DAW.The old Korg Oasys keyboard was more like a desktop DAW....but then,that keyboard was $8,000. Compromises will always be made with hardware workstations,to keep the production budget down(otherwise they just won't sell.) Hence the reason why the Oasys was only in production for 4 years....

@@HighlandStudio91 actually no, i'm not comparing to software,, but to sequencers on other workstations, synths, and grooveboxes, many of which are from decades ago, yet they were better (for me) :)

i tend to think the onboard sequencers get that part right! :)

@@WoodyPianoShack Hopefully Korg sort that out.

So does the internal sequencer...