Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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KORG Berlin's new phase8 is a magical synth. Since half of the sound is in the acoustic domain, there's countless of ways to use it. Here's a tutorial. Let's explore!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:48 The Acoustic Domain
03:10 Concept Overview
04:06 Digital Tuning
04:58 Your first sequence
06:49 Velocity and Envelope per track
08:52 Live record
10:41 Quantize
11:22 Modulation types
14:21 Pitch locked quantized modulation
15:04 Live recording parameters
15:44 Air = Open mics
17:35 Automating Velocity
17:54 Save a pattern
18:26 Shift - the unruly echo note
19:02 Shift is telling us to explore
19:39 Touch live input
20:30 Exploration level 1 = things on resonators
28:17 Exploration level 2 = Loosen up, mess it up
33:58 Tune a resonator with tuning app
37:47 Exploration level 3 = External effects