Korg D1200s

  • Thread starter Thread starter Massimo
  • Start date Start date
M

Massimo

New member
I bought one of these off ebay, risky I know. I'm a gambler I guess. Anyhoo, it didn't come with the instructional video just the manual. I just about exploded my head trying to figure this thing out. It was a far reach from my Tascam 414 I was used to using. After two days I'm recording and mixing and hoping the thing doesn't die on me. I can't say it's been fun but it's been interesting. These things have so many functions on them it's incredible.

Well if anyone else has one of these, I'd like to hear any comments about it. Maybe we can share tips.

Aight

Massy
 
I've got one.

It is freaken great. The recording comes out great, without tweaking much at all.


Plug guitars and basses direct. It has great distortion and effects.
 
Yo MassiMO:

When I first got my Yam 2816, indeed many mysteries were inherent.

One thing I found on page 12 of the manual was "HOW TO SHUT DOWN" the unit. Glad I waited a while before turning on the unit and read the manual. Why Yamaha didn't put that little bit of info up front is another enigma of great magnitude.

Don't know much about your Korg but it must operate in sections like the Yams.

Input section; overdubbing; mixing. If your unit has a CD burner, that part is not very difficult if you follow the manual over and over of course. It should have "Track at once and Disc at once features."

Maybe there is a Korg site of users out there?

Well, keep at it -- the effort is worth the results and I hope your unit doesn't crash.

Green Hornet:D :cool:
 
de Korg 1200

Yeah I'm having a bit more fun now that I know how to use it a little. But I'm also finding out it's much more limited than what I expected. For example what if I want to plug my guitar into the handy guitar input #1 but record on lets say track #3? No can do amigo. Or what if I plug my guitar into Input #3 then I can't access the amp simulation stuff. Limitations, limitations.

And what's up with tracks 5 & 6 & 11&12 I can't even access those directly through the four inputs. Oh and tracks 7,8,9,10 are not stereo recording but Mono Left or Right. What's up with that? I thought I was getting 12 stereo tracks that I could access and record on. Oh well... live and learn.
 
Uh never mind what I said in my last post. I just figured out how to record on tracks 5,6,11,12. Also you can record on any track using the guitar input. Well if the manual would of explained things better I wouldn't of been so confused. But we all know about these manuals and how frustrating they can be sometimes.

I still think though, that tracks 7,8,9,10,11,12 are only mono channels from what I can gather. Meaning recording track 7 comes out only on the left speaker, recording track 8 comes out only on the right speaker.

Ok, just wanted to clear things up.
 
Nope, the last 6 tracks aren't exactly mono-channels. They are stereo-channels, each of them consisting of two paired mono-channels, with their panning set hard left and right.
I am a D1200 owner as well, and I thinks it's a great little machine. It's not nearly as limited as you think. It is capable of almost everything you'd want out of a recording device.
As for those stereo-channels : I usually use those for submixes, meaning that I record, say some guitar-tracks on 1, 2, 4 and 4, make a nice mix of those tracks, with their panning and all set, and then bounce those to a stereo-pair. Then I have the first 6 tracks free again, and can do the same thing over again with another instrument... and even keep the original guitar-takes by using different virtual tracks for different instruments...
 
Hey Dime, cut me some slack I'm new to this stuff. I've only had my D1200 for a couple of days.

So what's up with lets say tracks 7 & 8.

You say "They are stereo-channels, each of them consisting of two paired mono-channels, with their panning set hard left and right." What does that mean in simple english? Because, I recorded something on track 7 and it only came out of only the left speaker. Can I make it so it comes out stereo on just track 7?

Hey all that bouncing stuff you mention sounds clever. I haven't even gotten to bouncing yet. But I like the sound of what you're talking about. Even though I don't know how to do it yet. I love the virtual tracks and the quick rewinding of tracks, looping etc.

Now that I'm figuring out how to use this Korg it's becoming a lot of fun. It just takes time I guess.
 
Hey Mass... :-)

That's exactly the thing about those stereo-tracks : You can't pan them around. If you'd want something on those tracks, that should come out in stereo, the tracks need to be stereo. You might even think that just copying track 7 to track 8 will do the trick (yes, it might work) but that will also double your track, and you might not want that (although it can sound great for some things)
Hehe, yeah, I do sound clever, don't I?? Well, since I've got the papers to prove that I'm not, I can assure you that most of my knowledge about the D1200 comes from trial-and-error, as well as Korgstudios.com.
That place is a goldmine of information and help. I have noticed that you have signed up over there, so I'm looking forward to continue this over there... ;-)

Dime...
 
Clever indeed, copying track 7 to 8, I wonder when I would of thought of that if ever. I guess they made those tracks for the keyboard players that use stereo inputs, I don't know. Dang I just expected twelve stereo tracks like tracks 1-6. Now I have this split thing, I don't know what to do with those. Right now I'm keeping things simple and just recording Rythm Guitar, Bass, Drum Machine, and lead guitar, oh and a little percussion. But I know there's some experts out here that can do wonders with this machine. I'm interested in finding out some of the tricks.

What would be one scenerio where you would record something on just track 7 which would come out mono and something else on track 8 mono also?
 
That's what I suggested above.
I record everything in mono (except for drum-machine that goes direct to tracks 11-12) to tracks 1-6. I usually put down 6 tracks of rythm guitar, for example. I mix these tracks down, with panning set and all that to tracks 9-10. Then I change tracks 1-6 to another set of virtual tracks, and record more stuff. Usually I mix vocals down to tracks 7-8, and then fill in bass, and guitar-solo on the mono-tracks.
When doing all this submixing on the 6 mono-channels, I actually make a 20-track recording (or more).

Does this help you??

Dime...
 
Yeah, I got it, that's cool. I'm learning. So tracks 1-6 are mono channels and 9-12 are stereo channels hmm I see, I had it backwards I think. I'm recording a song right now with a drum machine is it better to record the drum machine on a stereo channel, instead of just a mono channel? I always wondered why my drum machine has mono or stereo. I haven't even started figuring out panning and bouncing on this machine yet. I'll have to read up on that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top