Introduction
This is a kind of an utility patch that you can still use as a playable synth voice. It sounds somewhat between a noisy electric piano and a band-pass filtered noise (which is what this patch is after all). However, if you whish to have a full piano-like experience (i.e. polyphony), you do need to change the third setting on the VOICE row from MON to PLY. This is a very simple patch that doesn’t stray too far from the INIT patch you get from pressing SHIFT+3 and then 3 again. Because of this, the video does no go through all the settings in the MicroKorg, but you can still check the full patch parameter table on this page.
Patch
| Patch Name: | Sonar | ||||
| PARAM 1 | PARAM 2 | PARAM 3 | PARAM 4 | PARAM 5 | |
| VOICE | SYT | SGL | MON | — | — |
| PITCH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| OSC1 | NOS | 49 | 27 | — | — |
| OSC2 | SAW | OFF | 0 | 0 | — |
| MIXER | 0 | 0 | 127 | — | — |
| FILTER | HPF | 43 | 120 | 0 | 32 |
| FILTER ENV | 0 | 64 | 127 | 0 | ON |
| AMP. | 127 | CNT | OFF | 0 | — |
| AMP. ENV | 0 | 72 | 0 | 52 | ON |
| LFO1 | SAW | OFF | OFF | 10 | — |
| LFO2 | SIN | OFF | OFF | 70 | — |
| PATCH1 | BND | PAN | 63 | — | — |
| PATCH2 | MOD | AMP | 0 | — | — |
| PATCH3 | LF.1 | CUT | 0 | — | — |
| PATCH4 | LF.2 | CUT | 0 | — | — |
| MOD FX | PHS | 2 | 0 | — | — |
| DELAY | STR | ON | 1.8 | 69 | — |
| EQ | 120 | -10 | 10.0 | -5 | — |
| ARPEG. A | 90 | 1.16 | 80 | UP | 1 |
| ARPEG. B | OFF | 0 | OFF | 8 | — |
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.
FM Bells 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/sonar-microkorg-patch/ .