Korg - Nu:Tekt NTS-1 Digital Synth Kit

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Moving onto the effects section we have Modulation, Delay and Reverb to play with. All three start off bypassed. The Modulation section has Chorus, Ensemble, Phaser and Flanger with time and depth controls. There's no frequency control over the time, you just dial between smooth and wobbly, and there's no extra parameter available while holding the button. The Ensemble effect is particularly gooey, but they all sound excellent. To begin, let’s talk about what an “SDK” is. SDK stands for “Software Development Kit,” which is a set of tools necessary to develop specific software. This makes three float-type static variables called “rate”, “lastSampleL” and “lastSampleR”, and a uint32_t-type static variable called “count”.

I’ll be following up with those of you who have used the command line or who are creating a program environment for the first time.

Thanks to its ribbon controller, simple interface and display, the NTS-1 can be played and enjoyed very intuitively. Deeper parameter changes are also possible with several combinations of buttons / knobs, furthering the possibilities. Don’t let its size fool you; NTS-1 goes deep but keeps it all easily accessible.

To circumvent this, we came upon a bold idea to separate the sounds by using the differential in the stereo audio.The fun isn’t over after you finish building the NTS-1. The screws on the side panels are long enough to let you easily attach custom side panels.

As you might imagine, you’ll need a lot of memory to store long files of music data. The SDK of the NTS-1 includes a function for memory operations (handling memory), and the third line of our code includes the statement “#include buffer_ops.h” for doing this. Right, now here's the part that you've all been waiting for; that magical Multi-Engine digital oscillator and effects engine. This is the same Multi-Engine digital oscillator that's found on the Prologue and the Minilogue XD and is compatible with all the third-party oscillators and effects that have been written for them. But there are some caveats. Due to limitations in the hardware interface you may not get access to all the physically available parameters. Also, it will allocate parameters on a first-come-first-served basis, and so if the custom oscillator hasn't been tweaked for the NTS‑1 then it might not select the most helpful ones. And lastly, remember that this is a monophonic synthesizer and many of the lovely demos you see on the Prologue and Minilogue XD use their polyphony with great effect. With those things understood, let's jump in. Since the “for” statement has popped up, from here we’ll apply the effect and get busy overwriting the “xn” variable.The NTS‑1 comes with Waves; a morphing wavetable oscillator made up of two wavetables of 46 waves. Select wave A and B and you can morph between the two. The controls are accessed via a special edit menu that you get to by holding the Osc button and moving the Type knob. You can then release the button and its LED flashes to show that you're in Edit mode. The Type knob now selects various parts of the oscillator and knobs A and B alter the parameters — the equivalent of 'Shape' and 'Shift+Shape' on the bigger synthesizers. With Waves you have a Sub you can mix in, or you can use it as a Ring Modulation source, and then there's a Bit Crusher. Knob A remains steadfastly the Shape control which in this case morphs between the waveforms and can be modulated from the oscillator LFO. isStop” is used for determining whether the stop effect is activated or not. In the C language, we can use the numbers 1 and 0 as a substitute for true and false respectively, so we’ll set this to “0” prior to the stop effect. In this way, since this is a plugin for use with DAWs, it offers a different kind of freedom from the vocoder that works with the NTS-1.