In this video, Greg Pagel takes a look at using two keyboards with the Moog Mother-32.
This tutorial briefly explains the difference between MIDI and CV (control voltage) inputs, and demonstrates several ways you can simultaneously use a MIDI keyboard and a CV keyboard with the Mother-32 synthesizer.
Techniques covered include using the keyboards to:
- Play two independent melodic lines
- Precisely control FM (frequency modulation) effects
- Use a CV keyboard to precisely control the filter cutoff while playing separate melodic lines with a MIDI keyboard
- Use a CV keyboard to add microtonal inflections to melodic lines played on a MIDI keyboard.
- Control a 3rd pitch, melodically, using CV velocity
- Use MIDI, CV pitch, and CV velocity to play 3 independent lines using the VCO, LFO, and VCF.
- Use the arpeggiator on the Keystep and the Mother’s VCF to create pulsating rhythmic patterns.
Note: Pagel notes that at about 6:00, he says the VCO tracking is bad, when he really meant the LFO tracking.
Sounds awful. The first thing you learn as Musician is to be in tune. How is this useful in the context of this song? I prefer good solid examples, i.e. if you mention something, and then go onto follows that you’re covering the next video, what’s the point in mentioning mentioning it to begin with. A brief explanation would suffice.
This is an awesome and informative vid. Don’t pay attention to that guy “Michael Bennett” — I came here looking for inquisitive approaches to modulating pitch in a microtonal manner, and I found it along with a lot more inspiration that I didn’t expect.