I’m boldly creating a thread for anyone making music with the synths of Kinotone pedals, particularly Ghosts, but not exclusively.
As a sort of PSA, if you have a Ghosts and a midi keyboard, you absolutely should experiment with the “user” scales and making your own for using it as a synth. I finally bought a Keystep 37 and figured out how to load the user scales.
I’d been getting deep into just intonation, and I find microtonality to be one of Ghosts’ superpowers. Are there any other hardware physical modeling synths that allow for customizable microtone scales? Probably something like Iridium, but not in a guitar-pedal-sized object that isn’t $1000+.
I absolutely hope for key velocity in the next firmware and would love expanded control of the air mode for longer attack times, and other harebrained wishes, but, as is, y’all need to mess with this mode.
Try out the hyperconcord scale: it’s gonna blow your mind. I’m not a keyboard player, but a beautiful scale hides my ignorance. Regardless, please, all you Ghosts users, don’t let this mode go unexplored.
One last tip for synth playing: turn the tone all the way down, or start with tone very low. It makes for a very tasty sine wave generator and the tone can be brought up for emphasis.