Live Sound Design Jam on Korg modwave - Zebra Crossing

This is my very first (recorded) jam on the Korg modwave synthesizer. It's based on one custom-made modwave patch, using the built-in arpeggiators, with live sound design throughout the jam, showcasing the powerful wavetable and motion sequencing features on the modwave.

My music on Bandcamp: http://waveformer42.bandcamp.com/

This thing is ridiculously powerful and fun to play with. I'm truly amazed at how Korg has managed to make this thing so user-friendly and enjoyable, with a feature set that's hard to beat - in hardware or in software.

A modwave patch (performance) consists of two layers, each with three oscillators.

This patch uses each layer and oscillator as a separate melodic or percussive element or track, for a total of 6 separate tracks.

Layer A Osc 1 Arp Melody 1
Layer A Osc 2 Arp Melody 2
Layer A Osc Sub Arp Melody 3
Layer B Osc 1 Arp Melody Bass
Layer B Osc 2 Tuned Perc
Layer B Noise Noise Perc

Each track's volume can be controlled independently, so I can fade each track in and out.

The oscillators on each layer share the arpeggiator, the filter and the effects.

The "patch" / oscillator on each track has it's own amplitude envelope, using Osc 1 and Osc 2 envelopes, as well as the Amp envelope.

Motion sequence lanes A-D modifies the notes played by the arpeggiator, adding silence/rests, holding notes, adding ratchets, adding glide, or shifting the notes up or down by an octave or a fifth.

So even though there are only two arpeggiators, one for each layer, each of the six tracks appears to have it's own unique rhythm and melody.

The ModWheel is used to increase the Reverb Size and Envelope Decays.

The KAOSS pad is used to control a decimator / bit-crusher effect on layer B.

The jam and sound design is further explained with text overlays in the video.

The audio is recorded to SD card on Zoon R-16 mixer/recorder and normalized in Audacity. Video is recorded on a Canon EOS M50 mk2 with the included EF-M 15-45mm lens. Audio and video is synchronized in DaVinci Resolve 17.