Korg MICRO User Manual

The LED of the selected timbre will light-up, and that timbre will be the one 
affected by your editing.

The TIMBRE SELECT LED won’t light if the COMMON page “VO-
IC.MODE” parameter is SINGLE. The LED of the timbre being edited will 
light if you’ve selected LAYER, SPLIT, or MULTI as the voice mode 
(J p. 32).

You’ll use the VC FILT–VC BAND pages to edit the parameters of the six-
teen bandpass filters (analysis filter and synthesis filter) and the envelope 
follower.

The best choice for the carrier is a waveform that contains a large number 
of overtones, such as a sawtooth wave or fixed-width pulse wave. You can 
edit these parameters in the VC CARRI page.

If you want to input a sawtooth wave as the carrier, first edit timbre 1 so 
that the OSC1 page “WAVE” parameter is set to SAW; then in the vocod-
er settings, use the VC CARRI page “TMBR1.LVL” parameter to adjust 
the input level of timbre 1.

A human voice is typically used as the modulator, but you can also obtain 
interesting results by using rhythm sounds or some other audio source. As 
the modulator, the microKORG XL lets you choose either an external input 
such as mic or rhythm (AUDIO IN) or timbre 2. You can edit these parame-
ters in the VC.MOD page.

The process of editing the vocoder settings is essentially the same as when 
editing a timbre, but you’ll need to turn on the vocoder function and select it 
for editing.

Select a synth program.

Press the [VOCODER] button.

The LED above the [VOCODER] button will light-up, and the vocoder func-
tion will turn on. The vocoder will also be selected as the object of your edit-
ing.

Set the [KNOB FUNCTION SELECT] dial to “FULL EDIT.”

Use knob [1] to select one of the VC CARRI–VC BAND 
pages, and then use knobs [2] and [3] to edit the vocoder 
parameters.

When the vocoder is the selected object for editing, knob [1] will select 
vocoder parameter pages.

If you press the [VOCODER] button to make the LED light, set the 
[KNOB FUNCTION SELECT] dial to Full Edit and turn knob [1] to raise 
the VC AMP page “DIRCT.LVL” parameter, the input audio will be output 
directly. Raise this value if you want to hear the input audio while you 
make adjustments.

If you have difficulty hearing the effect, press the [VOCODER] button to 
make the LED light, set the [KNOB FUNCTION SELECT] dial to Full Edit, 
and turn knob [1] to adjust the VC CARRI page “TMBR1.LVL” parameter 
or the VC AMP page “VC LEVEL” parameter.

You can use the filter, amp, EGs, and LFOs etc. to modify a signal from an 
external synthesizer, rhythm machine, or audio device in the same ways 
that you modify an oscillator waveform.

Before you connect an external device, power-off the microKORG XL 
and any external devices including amps or powered speakers, and 
make connections before you turn the power on again.

You can use the external input as the carrier of the vocoder.

Set the [KNOB FUNCTION SELECT] dial to “FULL EDIT.”

Use knob [1] to select the OSC1 page, knob [2] to select 
“WAVE,” and knob [3] to select “AUDIO IN.”