Thank you for this video! This reminds me vaguely of Reaktor’s metaphysical functions which to this date is still on of my favorite sound generators. I really want to try this out now
***MASCHINE MK3 users: Harmony Bloom website states that it works on any DAW. That is not entirely correct. You will need a third party plugin for it to work. Midi plugins are not compatible Maschine MK3 without first a plugin like Element. :)
***MASCHINE MK3 users: Harmony Bloom website states that it works on any DAW. That is not entirely correct. You will need a third party plugin for it to work. Midi plugins are not compatible Maschine MK3 without first a plugin like Element. :)
Thanks for the clear explanation. I've just picked it up and found it all abit mind blowing. Would you be able to do a specific video on using it for arps at all please? Thanks.
Poly aftertouch goes back to 1977 with the Yamaha CS-80… 6 years before the 1dt MIDI instrument shipped. Ensoniq had a few models of keyboard instruments that were released in the 2nd half of the 80s. Sequential Circuits released the T8 in '83. Roland's A-80 & A-50 MIDI controllers have poly-AT… as did the Kurzweil MIDIBOARD.
Majority of these are very obvious solutions. However if you're someone like me, who doesn't want to depend on DAW or computer itself to enable certain feature, the best would be to buy the cheapest or even a used keyboard with aftertouch, and connect it to your main synth via MIDI Cables and setup channels accordingly, and done, one very versatile setup even for live! Luckily my kurz pc3k8 has channel aftertouch, I recently connected via midi, an Alesis VI49 for more flexibility, which has aftertouch too, now I replaced the alesis with a used motif xs, and I guess it's working great so far. I've got plenty of flexibility while not having to turn on my computer or DAW. I now have 15 sliders and 8 knobs and 18 switches (depending on modes of keyboards) and 4 wheels to control both of my synths.
Something I obsess over is how, since 1997, I’ve owned 14 synthesizers, three of which are mine and it longer. Among them, five have been equipped with both velocity and channel aftertouch, but only my latest acquisition from June 2024, a Hydrasynth Explorer, is built with polyphonic aftertouch. I would definitely be fascinated to see how it interacted with plug-ins if I was still trying to use those, but all the sound that I include on my tracks come from hardware synthesizers, no sequencing, arpeggiators or loops used if I can help it.
Well presented and instructive - as ever.! I am of a 'certain' age and always loved Phasing - check out Doobie Brothers "Listen to the Music" 7 minute version or the very short version of The BYRDS = " I wasn't born to follow" as seen in the film "EASY RIDER"..!! A new 'phase' of "Phasing" is upon us.!!! Extremely amazed at what it did to the drums..!!! Well done.!
Thank you. You are the first to upload a proper demonstration of this plugin. All other YT demos of it so far were rubbish. It's clearly a very decent plugin, I'm going to buy it while it's at the intro discount.
I’ve only listened to this for 40 seconds, but you immediately remind me of a Dark Souls character who is going to give me a speech about the nature of the soul and why the gods have abandoned us…ok, now for the synth.
By far the best musical device man ever made. Iam entering new ground with this togehter with my other secret weapons. But this it top notch when it comes to synthesis. WOW ;)
Wow, I just popped over from the Harmony Vid and eh? What's this? I've never heard of rapid but the other peeps in the comments are weeing themselves with glee! I'll for sure have to take a look at this.....
Morning buddy! I already had Harmony and was interested to see you tutorial but when I heard this Cascade baby and since then I've just watched like 30 videos and also Velvet and I'm going to buy it and have a jolly good ambient musical time! Thanks for that and have a fun day, Subbed! ;)
Technics kn7000 had this back in 2002 when yamaha tyros 1 didn't have it ,not before the genos 2 i had the kn7000 when it first came out, now i play genos 2 and hs7 x2 studio monitors and hs8 subwoofewr
can you use it to follow chords or notes you play on a midi keyboard? sort of a smart arp type idea so it only uses the notes you hold down? ive always wanted a smart arpegiator that randomly play notes held and the timing it plays them . being able to hold chords down it then allows it to use a chord structure in real time. can you do this with bloom or is there a software arp that could do this every arp i here is so boring up down or the like and no timing changes
Yes, it'll follow notes...which was how I triggered some of the patterns, but chords are a different matter. I don't know of a "smart arp" that'll do that, but there have been so many updates to Harmony Bloom I really need to do another video to explore its new features...
Hi There! I Love your intro, did you use hive completly for the intro tune an what sounds where used if you don't mind sharing? also your explaination and tutorial is excellent!
Thanks for your comment & sorry for the delay in getting back to you - the intro for every video was written a few years ago, and is "all hardware"... mainly the TG77 and the exM1r...
Very interesting plugin! I just wish you'd gone all-out on the full bombastic Bond sound. Thanks for this video - I will definitely be investigating Synthesizer V studio.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!! BOTH SOFTWARE & VIDEO -superbly put together instructional video... as ever!!! Does this herald the end of singers - as was expected of musicians when synthesizers came out....!??!? I don't think so - the possibilities are endless - I just hope it doesn't get used and abused for rap.!!
S1gns preset spotted! 6:20 Great video my friend. I've been in contact with Mario for a few months and making a few suggestions for HB. Fantastic developer and a really wonderful debut plugin! I'll be coming out with a video of my own soon. Cheers!
The reason you get a chord with 3 notes is not because 2 is even. With 2 notes and a quantization of 2 you get the arpeggio again. Think of the quantization as of divider for the Notes. So with a quantization of 1/1 (newer versions of HB use that notation) all notes are at the same spot (the actual chord). With a quantization of 1/2 the number of notes gets divided into two halves and put equidistant into the loop. Quantization of 1/3 makes 3 groups of notes from the input (if loop length is set to 1, each note group will be the length of a triplet bar). If you look closely at your video, you see that one of the 3 notes is triggered by the trigger line on the left side of the circle whereas the other two notes are triggered by the right hand sided trigger. So you only get a chord of 3 notes because you have these 2 triggers. You would have a chord of 2 notes followed by a single note played instead, if the left hand trigger line was somewhere else. So the conclusion is, if you actually want a chord of the input notes, you want a quantization of 1 and then trigger lines according to your rhythm. Quantization besides 1/1 will create chords from a subset of the input notes which. More specifically it will create $quantization number (the number below the bar) of chords using $totalnotenumber/$quantization notes per chord, with the last chord possibly having less notes when the numbers don't divide. Given there are trigger lines at the right places, those chords could played together, forming chords of different note amounts (up to all notes like in your example) throughout your loop, which is a lot more complicated than just 'thinking even'. Basic arpeggios get generated by having $totalnumberofnotes = $quantization, but of course any setting that has $q other than 1 and maybe some offsets specified could be considered an arpeggio. However all offsets except for $q are time based and not grid based, so in case my limited musical knowledge is not missing anything, it feels rather unsuited for arpeggios to use these other offsets.
