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I didn't mention manuals, but since you bring it up: a mind is a terrible thing to waste.

A chimpanzee can hit the keys and make sounds come out.

Reading the manual on its own might not be very useful to you, but sitting there with the Parameter Guide (Not the Owners Manual), and going through each page of parameters, just reading what it does whilst tweaking and hearing what it does, can do a lot to learning what a synth does.

Or just go and tweak and figure out what they all do. But there will still be some things that are complicated that you probably won't get straight away. Those are definitely worth reading up on.

Good point I should sit down and read the manual just to get some info but I doubt I'll understand,a.d.d here.

I tried sitting down and reading the parameter guide but none of it made any sense to me there's just way too much.I need to start off with the simplest synth that is layed out in the easyest way of how to create sounds.maybe this isn't really my field in music maybe I'm here just to compose and should leave this stuff to sound engineers or another person while I stick to what I'm good at.


Ps.sucks that I have this powerful machine I will never put to full use but all I can do is just layer combis and make the best I can do.

With ADD you can use the manuals, but perhaps not the way you are doing it.

Don't use the manuals like a novel that you read from cover to cover - because there's no immediate purpose or objective that you're trying to accomplish. Just learn how it's basically organized, and put index tabs on the important sections so you can find them quickly.

Be sure to install and load the editor software - this is the key to making everything inside the synth easily and quickly accessible.

Then find a simple sound that you want to reproduce, like a flute, and put it into a loop that is constantly but quietly playing in the background. Then set about to recreate it with the editor software. Play with the parameters one at a time - even though you don't know what they do - treat it as a game of exploration. The destination isn't as important as the trip itself. For parameters that are completely baffling - either move on or look them up if they sound interesting. It should only take a few minutes at most to find it and read just that section, then return to the synth to play with it.

Bend the synth to work around your ADD. Use it as a fun challenge, not as a terrible drudge. Synthesizers are FASCINATING, WONDERFUL TOOLS to craft, shape, cut, slice, and invent sounds. When you play a patch created by someone else - you are only hearing the end result of their effort - but you are completely missing out on the fun process of learning, creating, exploring, and all the other cool parts of creating those sounds. You can make sounds that NOBODY else has ever created before, at least not exactly, and as you learn more, you'll get much better at it.

Benjamin Franklin was inspired by the sound of wine glasses caused to resonate by running a finger around the rim. He invented the Glass Armonica to reproduce it by having the glass rotate on a spindle. It was used by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss and many other composers. That was just one sound that Franklin constructed. Inspiration can come from anywhere.

Yeah maybe the editor will make it easy cause all the parameters are allthetr in front of me.Okay what are the sets I gotta do to set up the editor and create a sound?

Download and install the latest Korg USB-midi driver.
Plug in the USB cable between the keyboard and computer.
Run the "Install Korg USB-midi device" program.
Download and install the latest Software Editor for your keyboard.
Run the editor.

I knew someone with ADD/ADHD hybrid. He had it real bad too He built his first computer when he was 10.

You need to read manuals to assemble a PC for the first time. Don't use your ADD as an excuse.

He has since moved on to build 4 others, I (a 'normal' person) have only built 2. Goes to show you ADD isn't that inhibiting, no?

I just can't get it, it'd the exact same thing on the editor as the board and doesn't make sense.The synths that do look spittle easy and you can see the path if the sounds are the Roland sh 201 of even the Jupiter synths.I think I'm gonna just try out softsynths since there less.