Just a few thoughts, besides welcome!

Perhaps it would be best to simply listen to the synth first, before you try to conjure up “strings” “moog bass” or what have you.  Listen first to just one oscillator, (turn the others down) and adjust the filter cut-off, resonance, as you may be familiar with from your former synth.  Anyway, I always told my students that if you have a sound source, a way to vary the timbre over time, a way to affect pitch, and a way to affect volume you have a very expressive instrument.  I think once folks realize that, sound creation gets lots easier.  NOW, if you are looking for the “classic” analog synth sounds, (strings, the usual basses, leads and so forth), I think you can get pretty effective sounds from the mono-poly.  Don’t forget that even way back in the history of voltage controlled synths musicians looked for all sorts of ways to be more expressive with the instruments they had… they experimented with tape delays, chorus effects, distortion, etc…so what may have started out as a Moog, Arp, Korg, Roland or Oberheim often became another instrument altogether.   Many of the sounds we like on older records where also processed by compression/limiting, etc, which drastically effects the way we hear the synths.  Regarding the MP4 in particular, it’s a bit tough to get really great strings with our 21^st century ears… what sounded unbelievably realistic in 1971 sounds merely like a “keyboard” sound today…

Well, sorry for the verbiage, but I think you will be able to coax lots of expressive musical sounds from your MP4 if you play with it for lots of hours!!    Best of luck, and welcome to the forum. 

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From: korg_mono-poly@yahoogroups.com [mailto:korg_mono-poly@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of frankvisser333
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 5:45 PM
To: korg_mono-poly@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [korg_mono-poly] thanx

Many thanx for the warm welcome.

I knew the former zen site and it was helpfull.
My biggest problem with this great synth is making sounds.
I wanted to make simple strings but its not so easy to make them on
this synth.
Before the MP4 i had a akai ax73 so i know how a synth works but
making just simple sounds is difficult.
There are times when i'm thinking that my mp4 is broken because its
almost impossible to create sounds but i cant compare my mp4 with
another to check this.
I know from other forums that there are more mp4 owners who can't make
good sounds and are dissapointed by this synth.
Any help is welcome
greetings frank