Introduction
There is little to say about this patch. Some of us might recall the Delay Lama VST plugin, which was a kind of vocal synthesizer with a lot of reverb and delay. Excellent for drones and lush backgrounds, but ended up as a joke, making pseudo-covers of pop and rock songs. Despite its missuses, the sound of a vowel-ly voice chanting in the background with a lot of delay is something desirable in many occasions. This patch takes advantage of the Vox setting in OSC1 to make the microKorg chant. The Pitch and Mod wheels are routed to the Filter Cutoff and OSC1 Modifier, allowing further shaping the sound instead of the usual pitchbend and vibrato duties.
Patch
Patch Name: | FM Bells | ||||
PARAM 1 | PARAM 2 | PARAM 3 | PARAM 4 | PARAM 5 | |
VOICE | SYT | SGL | PLY | — | — |
PITCH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OSC1 | VOX | 65 | 25 | — | — |
OSC2 | TRI | OFF | -24 | 0 | — |
MIXER | 127 | 49 | 0 | — | — |
FILTER | BPF | 28 | 30 | 6 | 32 |
FILTER ENV | 70 | 64 | 70 | 70 | ON |
AMP. | 127 | CNT | OFF | 0 | — |
AMP. ENV | 6 | 88 | 110 | 80 | ON |
LFO1 | S-H | OFF | ON | 1.4 | — |
LFO2 | SIN | OFF | ON | 1.2 | — |
PATCH1 | LF.2 | CUT | 12 | — | — |
PATCH2 | FEG | 1CT | -7 | — | — |
PATCH3 | BND | 1CT | 21 | — | — |
PATCH4 | MOD | CUT | 20 | — | — |
MOD FX | FLG | 5 | 2 | — | — |
DELAY | L-R | ON | 1.1 | 105 | — |
EQ | 500 | -1 | 5.00 | -1 | — |
ARPEG. A | 90 | 1.16 | 80 | UP | 1 |
ARPEG. B | OFF | 0 | OFF | 8 | — |
Example
Here’s an example of this patch in use.
License
This patch is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Please share this page’s (or the website’s) URL if you found this useful for your work.
Delay Lama MicroKorg Patch by Filipe Teixeira (Philip+) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://filipe-teixeira.com/electronic-music/microkorgcookbook/delay-lama-microkorg/ .