FB-01 Control from Retrokits

We covered Retrolits recently in this post on their RK006/RK002 implementation making polytones in Reason. Gerrit is back with another video showing some hardware control for one of the FM Black Boxes, the FB-01. Notoriously hard to program without SYSEX messages, this Retrokits solution uses the Korg Nanokontrol with a sleek overlay to access many of the synths features. Here's more: 

The Korg Nanokontrol is such a nice little music plaything. And so is the Yamaha FB01 ... and the RK006 ... and the RK002.... so ... lets make something reeeeallly useful with it! We already did a RK002/Nanokontrol/PG300 editor combo for the Roland Alpha Juno ( https://youtu.be/oCPSLuGdDIQ ) but the Yamaha FB-01 4-OP FM unit is a different ballgame.

This little synth box has quite some parameters up it's sleeve and arranging it on a Nanokontrol was a bit of a challenge. It turned out pretty nice though, in this video a bit about making this setup work and an introduction to editing the patches. (PS: Make sure 'memory protect' on the FB01 is set to OFF or the patches will not be saved)

The RK002 DUY processor and template can be downloaded on the RK002 Portal https://duy.retrokits.com/

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