Boards of Canada's Turquoise Hexagon Sun | Tutorial with Korg Minilogue, No Talking

What's happening here?

We turn up the resonance of the Minilogue's filter all the way, so that it self-oscillates (kinda like feedback) and creates a very nice sine wave. This is a thing it does. It is a good thing.

The pitch, or frequency, of this tone is now controlled by the filter's cutoff frequency. We click the Key Track parameter up to its full amount. This adjusts the filter's cutoff frequency a tiny bit for every note on the keyboard. With Key Track at full, we can play the filter's cutoff frequency, and therefore the frequency of our tone, chromatically.

So: our filter is producing a sine wave that we can play with a regular ol' keyboard. The sine wave is tuned to the same note as the initial saw wave. It pretty much buries the saw wave underneath it, but you should play with different wave forms that 'support' the resonance! You may need to retune the filter.

We introduce the Minilogue's delay, and we recommend you do the same. By setting the time relatively short, and turning the feedback up, we now have some lo-fi fizzle, and the notes can beat against one another. You may have to play around until you find a sweet spot where the notes bloom but don't get out of hand.

The melody seems to be in some kind of F minor key, but we don't know things about notes. Get a feel for all the 'good' notes in the tune, and explore all of the tiny variations that we didn't cover.

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