Your Mininova tutorials are amazing, sir! I've had mine for a little over a year, now. I haven't played it much but wanted to take the time to dive deeper into its functionality. I did not know I could do so much with this little synth until watching your videos! Thanks!
I've been looking at the Circuit hard lately since the tracks just came out and I'm seeing the original circuit pop up for under 250 sometimes. Just got a mininova myself. Are they a good combo together?
@@Sicbay138 I don't really use them together.The Circuit's synth editor is great and it is its own thing once you learn how to use the Sample Flip etc.Very powerful.The Circuit had a lot of updates and took a while for me to appreciate the full power And now they have new versions !
This is fantastic! Only had my mininova about a week now. I was already in love with this thing, but I hadn't really realized how very capable it is for sculpting sounds from scratch. After mostly reading negative things about the mininova before I took the plunge, this is very good to come by. So appreciated!
Congrats on getting a great synth! Yeah it gets a bad wrap because of the presets. But once you start to edit them you'll see it's capable of fantastic sounds. It also has the best vocoder of all the synths in it's category.
Cool stuff, man. Really appreciate seeing your patch creation walk through on the mininova. I’m finally starting to see what mine is capable of and it’s really nice to see your workflow.
You can make patches for any musical style you want. It's especially good for trance. It comes with two banks of preloaded presets that can be edited and it has a bank of 128 blank patches. I'm not aware of a specific function to initialize a patch but you can just load one of the blank patches a save it over whatever one you want to replace. Anyone else know of a different way? It would be handy.
@@mastershake1187 That's exactly what he did first. When you go into the patch section just look for one that says "INIT" meaning initial & it will be the starting sound that you heard when he first started.
im a realtime music playing person and i dont understand how this pattern stuff works. do they make just normal ass keyboards that have effects on them? like a keyboard witha sound bank and all those sweet knobs that funkify the waveform? does this thing do that? or does each key just equal a pre loaded pattern that plays on its own?
Honestly that's pretty much what this is. They have more normal digital keyboard Casio type stuff, but no knobs on those to mess with the sound. The mininova comes with presets, super easy to select. Just turn that big ol knob under select/edit to whatever category, and you can scroll the different sounds with the data knob or the patch left and right arrows. Then you just use the knobs on the right side of the select knob to mess with all the sounds. The little slider switch sets what the 4 knobs do. Its honestly exactly what you just described. Super simple to use, and comes with over 200 presets or sounds or whatever you wanna call em. There is just also lots of sound sculpting capability on this thing, if you wanna do such a thing. By no means is it required. There's even more premade sounds for you to download online if you connect it to a computer.
The sounds were great, no doubt about it. But You left out the most crucial part and the reason why I clicked the thumbnail - how to actually program the pacth in the device as an sequence. The dedicated homepage of the device states that the device has a step sequencer, but it's mentioned only once in the device manual and I don't seem to find a single tutorial video how to use it. I'm thinking of buying one to go with my Korg Monologue and Korg Minilogue XD synths, put I need to know before getting one, that can the sequencer be programmed like the sequencers on the Korg synths?
The Mininova has no step sequencer. This video was for creating a patch not a sequence. The Mininova has an arpeggiator that allows you to change it's rhythms using the 8 buttons on the front panel but no step sequencer.
@@System-1541 Copied from Novation's dedicated website, "Switch to 'Arpeggiator' mode to jam with arpeggiator rhythms in realtime, using the buttons to edit the arpeggiator *step sequencer* so you can switch steps in and out." novationmusic.com/en/synths/mininova
@@sanakassara Yes the key is in "arpeggiator" step sequencer. Like it says you're changing the "rhythm" of the arpeggiator steps. It's a tad misleading but there is no step sequencer in the classical sense like on the monologue. What you can do though is change the rhythm of the arp and then set it's play mode to "as played" which will play the Arp in the order of the notes you pressed down instead of just up, down or random. When you latch the arp it's almost like having a programmable sequencer.
@@System-1541 Arpeggiator is an pre programmed step sequencer, the notes in arpeggio are sequenced in certain order, so in essence all synths with an arpeggiator have a step sequencer. The reason why I clicked the thumbnail was in the fact that I concider the word "patch" to mean a set of sequenced notes strored on the device. I wanted to hear how the sequences on the arpeggios sound like on the MiniNova.
Press the save button. It'll ask you what you want to name it. Use the data knob and and arrow keys to enter the name. Then select a category, genre and where you want to store it using the okay or save button.
Use Novation's patch library program. It has all the factory banks there. Just send those to the MiniNova. There is no function on the keyboard itself for this that I know of.
The MiniNova has it's own internal sound engine. It doesn't play sound fonts. Sound fonts play through computer software like Native Instruments' Kontakt. NI does have midi controllers mapped the their software if you want the hardware feel.
@@System-1541 just ordered one, can't wait to get into all the modulations! Having said that, I'd also need a Hammond and an Indian harmonium-type sound. Do you know of any packs that offer those type of sounds?
@@adamcsorghe8815 There are some good jazz organ patches in the factory presets. I'm assuming you mean Hammond's jazz organs. I'm not sure what an Indian harmonium sounds like but I think there is like harmonica, accordion or bagpipe sounds that might come close in the factory presets as well.
I haven't found a specific function for that on the synth itself. But you can load one of the blank patches from bank C and save it over the one you want to erase.
On the left it has octave up and down buttons and it has a chord memory mode that allows you to transpose chords. I've never looked into it but I'm fairly certain it has a master tune setting. I think in the general settings? Other than that it's just kinda like a piano so you'd transpose by playing higher or lower in the scale
You have left out what at least to me is vital information. How in the heck to you get to the intial patch? Your not alone in this. The manual doesn't say jack about it either
All patches in bank c are init patches. It mentions that in the manual on page 7 under the subheading "Scrolling through Patches". I believe you can also initialize any patch using the librarian.
Indeed sorry for being a jerk . The manual just says to scroll through patches.nothing specific to any bank .I don't really understand the banks . It makes sense to have all blank slots in one spot . But why for instance are some presets from "dubstep" from bank A and others from bank b . I assumed that the ALL selection meant the patches from the other selection on the knob. Thanks for the tutorials I need the help
@@mastershake1187 You can use your favorites as bank switchers. Assign the first patch of each bank as a favorite and put the category knob on the "all" option and make sure the sorting switch is in the 0-127 position. Then, you can switch banks and scroll through your patches. The other thing is that you can edit any patch in any bank. The factory patches are not permanent. Just make sure you don't have write protect on.
Try using one PW oscillator. Keep the filter open all the way and no resonance. The amp envelope should have sustain all the way up and no release. Experiment with different phases of the pulse width on the oscillator. A thin pulse width gives a real nice NES sound. You could also try cranking up the speed of the arpeggiator and shortening its gate. When you hold down a chord that'll give you that really fast jittering effect you often hear in 80's games.
Yesss beautiful work! This the best mini nova tutorial online. I recreated the sh-2 last night with the controls and the mod wheel modulations so fun
Thank you! That means a lot! There's more videos for this beautiful synth to come;)
@@System-1541 yes! Very deep. I believe you’ll be very successful with the content.
Your Mininova tutorials are amazing, sir! I've had mine for a little over a year, now. I haven't played it much but wanted to take the time to dive deeper into its functionality. I did not know I could do so much with this little synth until watching your videos! Thanks!
Love how quick you got something with character going here.
Once you get the menus down it really isn't that hard to make patches.
this is the best tutorial series on youtube for the mininova! fantastic and easy to follow. I'm excited for anything more
Thanks! I'm glad you found it useful.
I haven't had my MiniNova and Circuit that long, so finding your channel has been a huge boost.
Thanks !
I've been looking at the Circuit hard lately since the tracks just came out and I'm seeing the original circuit pop up for under 250 sometimes. Just got a mininova myself. Are they a good combo together?
@@Sicbay138 I don't really use them together.The Circuit's synth editor is great and it is its own thing once you learn how to use the Sample Flip etc.Very powerful.The Circuit had a lot of updates and took a while for me to appreciate the full power And now they have new versions !
Was surprised how you made such an awesome sounding patch with relatively little tweaking...nice work!
Super stuff man! A blessing to have found you. So great to see you crafting your own sound on the Mini Nova.
smart tutorial - best greetz from austria
Awesome tutorial. Subscribed.
This is fantastic! Only had my mininova about a week now. I was already in love with this thing, but I hadn't really realized how very capable it is for sculpting sounds from scratch. After mostly reading negative things about the mininova before I took the plunge, this is very good to come by. So appreciated!
Congrats on getting a great synth! Yeah it gets a bad wrap because of the presets. But once you start to edit them you'll see it's capable of fantastic sounds. It also has the best vocoder of all the synths in it's category.
Yeah... I don't get people bashing this little synth. For 400 bucks I really don't think it can be beat.
Cool stuff, man. Really appreciate seeing your patch creation walk through on the mininova. I’m finally starting to see what mine is capable of and it’s really nice to see your workflow.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Soooo helpful, thanks a lot.
Great work! Please do a series of step by step tutorials for mininova sound design. Bass, leads, pads, motion dronie sounds, ambient sci-fi etc.
Thanks for this tutorial. On my mininova sounds good like yours.
best tutorial!!
Superb!
You actually made ps1 ántré sound
Thx very cool
Again a very good tutorial! Would be great if you would explain the VST plug-in that can be loaded using Ableton Live.
cheers!!
This would make a nuts DnB sound. I have a Mininova but I have made a sound like this on Reason.
Great video!I’m looking at picking one of these up. Two questions though:
1.Can you create trance bass lines on this?
2.How do you initialize a patch?
You can make patches for any musical style you want. It's especially good for trance. It comes with two banks of preloaded presets that can be edited and it has a bank of 128 blank patches. I'm not aware of a specific function to initialize a patch but you can just load one of the blank patches a save it over whatever one you want to replace. Anyone else know of a different way? It would be handy.
@@System-1541 Just ordered one. Thank you very much.
And just how do you a blank patch? I don't see anything for that in the
How do you load a blank patch?!?!?! Shouldn't that be step one of a patch creation tutorial?
@@mastershake1187 That's exactly what he did first. When you go into the patch section just look for one that says "INIT" meaning initial & it will be the starting sound that you heard when he first started.
Good tutorial, though you didn't actually use the EQ bass level to boost it.
can you make a bass patch next?
Excellent ! how do you find the "initial" patch on the MiniNova ?
All the patches in bank C are init patches.
im a realtime music playing person and i dont understand how this pattern stuff works. do they make just normal ass keyboards that have effects on them? like a keyboard witha sound bank and all those sweet knobs that funkify the waveform? does this thing do that? or does each key just equal a pre loaded pattern that plays on its own?
Honestly that's pretty much what this is. They have more normal digital keyboard Casio type stuff, but no knobs on those to mess with the sound. The mininova comes with presets, super easy to select. Just turn that big ol knob under select/edit to whatever category, and you can scroll the different sounds with the data knob or the patch left and right arrows. Then you just use the knobs on the right side of the select knob to mess with all the sounds. The little slider switch sets what the 4 knobs do. Its honestly exactly what you just described. Super simple to use, and comes with over 200 presets or sounds or whatever you wanna call em.
There is just also lots of sound sculpting capability on this thing, if you wanna do such a thing. By no means is it required. There's even more premade sounds for you to download online if you connect it to a computer.
Can normally get them for pretty cheap. I just got mine used in perfect condition for 320.
The sounds were great, no doubt about it. But You left out the most crucial part and the reason why I clicked the thumbnail - how to actually program the pacth in the device as an sequence. The dedicated homepage of the device states that the device has a step sequencer, but it's mentioned only once in the device manual and I don't seem to find a single tutorial video how to use it. I'm thinking of buying one to go with my Korg Monologue and Korg Minilogue XD synths, put I need to know before getting one, that can the sequencer be programmed like the sequencers on the Korg synths?
The Mininova has no step sequencer. This video was for creating a patch not a sequence. The Mininova has an arpeggiator that allows you to change it's rhythms using the 8 buttons on the front panel but no step sequencer.
@@System-1541 Copied from Novation's dedicated website,
"Switch to 'Arpeggiator' mode to jam with arpeggiator rhythms in realtime, using the buttons to edit the arpeggiator *step sequencer* so you can switch steps in and out."
novationmusic.com/en/synths/mininova
@@sanakassara Yes the key is in "arpeggiator" step sequencer. Like it says you're changing the "rhythm" of the arpeggiator steps. It's a tad misleading but there is no step sequencer in the classical sense like on the monologue. What you can do though is change the rhythm of the arp and then set it's play mode to "as played" which will play the Arp in the order of the notes you pressed down instead of just up, down or random. When you latch the arp it's almost like having a programmable sequencer.
@@System-1541 Arpeggiator is an pre programmed step sequencer, the notes in arpeggio are sequenced in certain order, so in essence all synths with an arpeggiator have a step sequencer. The reason why I clicked the thumbnail was in the fact that I concider the word "patch" to mean a set of sequenced notes strored on the device. I wanted to hear how the sequences on the arpeggios sound like on the MiniNova.
@@sanakassara You'd probably be interested in my video on the MiniNova's arpeggiator then: czcams.com/video/37jEJWiOmCE/video.html
Hi, very nice this patch, but in the video you don't show how to save the new sound in the Mininova. Can you explain to me how to do it. Thank you.
Press the save button. It'll ask you what you want to name it. Use the data knob and and arrow keys to enter the name. Then select a category, genre and where you want to store it using the okay or save button.
hi is it possible to create multitracks with different sounds via midi in my daw or one sound per song? (Midi track)
The MiniNova is mono-timbral. So it only can play one instrument patch at a time. You would have to record the audio for each track.
How do you load up the 'initial patch'is this the generic starting point for creating your own patch...?
There's no direct way to initialize a patch. The way it works is that bank C has 128 initialized patches. Select any of those as a starting point.
I dunno if you still read comments, but how do you assign parameters to the empty sections on the matrix? Thx
Just select a slot and press ok, then use page up to go to the destination parameter.
Yes that's how you would do it. I demonstrate it in my ambient pad creation video.
Is there a factory reset for this synth that you know of? Thanks
Use Novation's patch library program. It has all the factory banks there. Just send those to the MiniNova. There is no function on the keyboard itself for this that I know of.
Hi man, do you know if I can import SF2 instruments into Mininova?
The MiniNova has it's own internal sound engine. It doesn't play sound fonts. Sound fonts play through computer software like Native Instruments' Kontakt. NI does have midi controllers mapped the their software if you want the hardware feel.
@@System-1541 thank you
@@System-1541 just ordered one, can't wait to get into all the modulations! Having said that, I'd also need a Hammond and an Indian harmonium-type sound. Do you know of any packs that offer those type of sounds?
@@adamcsorghe8815 There are some good jazz organ patches in the factory presets. I'm assuming you mean Hammond's jazz organs. I'm not sure what an Indian harmonium sounds like but I think there is like harmonica, accordion or bagpipe sounds that might come close in the factory presets as well.
I wanna know to save
How do you erase a patch to make it initial
I haven't found a specific function for that on the synth itself. But you can load one of the blank patches from bank C and save it over the one you want to erase.
How do you save the modified patch?
Press the save button.
How do I transpose on this keyboard????
On the left it has octave up and down buttons and it has a chord memory mode that allows you to transpose chords. I've never looked into it but I'm fairly certain it has a master tune setting. I think in the general settings? Other than that it's just kinda like a piano so you'd transpose by playing higher or lower in the scale
You have left out what at least to me is vital information. How in the heck to you get to the intial patch? Your not alone in this. The manual doesn't say jack about it either
All patches in bank c are init patches. It mentions that in the manual on page 7 under the subheading "Scrolling through Patches". I believe you can also initialize any patch using the librarian.
Indeed sorry for being a jerk . The manual just says to scroll through patches.nothing specific to any bank .I don't really understand the banks . It makes sense to have all blank slots in one spot . But why for instance are some presets from "dubstep" from bank A and others from bank b . I assumed that the ALL selection meant the patches from the other selection on the knob. Thanks for the tutorials I need the help
@@mastershake1187 You can use your favorites as bank switchers. Assign the first patch of each bank as a favorite and put the category knob on the "all" option and make sure the sorting switch is in the 0-127 position. Then, you can switch banks and scroll through your patches. The other thing is that you can edit any patch in any bank. The factory patches are not permanent. Just make sure you don't have write protect on.
how do u make a patch that sounds like somethin out of a nes game
Try using one PW oscillator. Keep the filter open all the way and no resonance. The amp envelope should have sustain all the way up and no release. Experiment with different phases of the pulse width on the oscillator. A thin pulse width gives a real nice NES sound. You could also try cranking up the speed of the arpeggiator and shortening its gate. When you hold down a chord that'll give you that really fast jittering effect you often hear in 80's games.
@@System-1541 which default patches work the best for this
trying to find a good instrument on the default patch list for this but idk what sounds could work
How do you save the patch you made?
Press the save button that's below the screen.
@@System-1541 So that overwrites the current patch?
@@richardlafond5007 Only if you want to. You can use the data knob to select one of the init patches on bank C, give it a name, select a genre etc.
@@System-1541 Thank you the information!
How do I turn off memory protect?
I'm actually not sure. Memory protect was never turned on in my MiniNova. I'm guessing it's in the global settings?
@@System-1541 ya it was in the global settings, did some menu diving and found it after I wasn't able to find the intstructions even in the manual lol
come on people show me at first how to reach initial patch :)))
Bank C is all initial patches.