HI I'm dB Velocity, short for Death By Velocity; it's an old handle that was suggested for me, and has kind of stuck. I now embrace it in the condensed form. Here I discuss and showcase electronic music production with the mindset of being a performer and no laptops, just external hardware, some arrangement and practice. I hope you find my channel inspiring, informative, and entertaining. I love talking about synths and music gear and sharing my knowledge as I've been at it for over 20 years. Thank you for stopping by!
I could not do any better than your with it unfortunately, selling it off next week, what an abomination and insult to sythesizers. 6 oscs, you think you could make fat leads? Well, no, not really. Probably the teason why one keeps talking the whole time and then bleeps away for 5mns at the end, incapable of making anything much different from the presets.
First off, from a user perspective, this unit, with inputs on the right and outputs on the left, feels backwards. We already have enough wire mess, we don't need to cross our streams more than necessary.
Great video. Can't really see where this fits my workflow. Need to see more use cases. That magneto example, hard to tell how a generic sequencer/ looped random would be worse.
I love what you're saying about the wall being up, preventing us from being creative. The desire for more features can definitely become an excuse to not make music.
Try this. I got my Blofeld a couple of months ago. This helped but I still took a while to figure it out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dylOTZAaGuA.htmlsi=oDJSavJJ2_a3TCIO
As someone who uses the MPC X exclusively for MIDI sequencing, this change improves my previous efforts to map CCs on various projects. Nice to see anything like this updated. Also, after your Tempest video, and now this, your content here is well spoken and very effective at communicating this subject. Well done!
I just picked up a Mob of Emus and your video has been a huge resource for me. It’s hard to make a simple video about such a complex module. You’ve done a great job of it. Both Sweetwater and Rossum owe you for your contributions and for making the sale of their module much easier. IMO you’re operating as an extension of their marketing department here. Great work and please keep it up.
I USB midi sync’d my grandmother Moog last night couldn’t believe just how plug and play it was. But I did find that recording to looper and dropping the recordings into a program seemed like a quicker workflow than recording to audio tracks. Did notice a few pops at the end of the recordings but I’m pretty sure that’s the spring reverb. Is there a reason to stick to audio tracks instead of using the looper method?
Hi, thanks for this one, am considering getting one myself. around 16:20 you said the magic happens only on the returns, while the sends are basically mults. I've read the manual and they say "Each central channel button corresponds to a SEND and RETURN channel (IE: button 1 {labeled 6} corresponds to SEND and RETURN channel 1 {also labeled 6})." - SO MY QUESTION IS - when one of the send is not the one that is active at the moment does it still sends the signal or does it kill it for that time, the same way the happens with the related return?
Sends on this module is a mult of the input.. A mult is a copy of the same signal at the input and always on ...so yes, they still send when not the active channel. The returns are the interactive switches.
🔥 video by the way!! But I have a quick question for you... Is there a way to loop the sample but still have it hit with its initial attack so for instance I want my 808 to hit as it would normally hit but when it finishes its cycle I then want it to loop at a certain looping point but not getting rid of the initial attack of the sound??
Amazing tutorial on this. Seems like a module that begs to be used a lot both because it’s so versatile and because you have to remember all of the option combinations haha
@@dbvelocity6508 excellent, its as you say and stays with the last settings, This is such a great video, I've now managed to start key group my vst plugins now im moved from a DAW workflow to back in the box with the mpclive 2. thanks for such great videos,
Thanks so much for this video. I'll keep watching it until I understand how to use this thing :) I'm still vaguely optimistic that this module is worth the time it will take to learn how to use it. Side rant: MoE is my fifth Rossum module, so I'm obviously a fan of the company, but I am mystified as to why they didn't add a display like Morpheus and Control Forge have (or even the micro b/w display from Satellite). When you have banks of hidden functions and buttons that can do six different things depending on which mode you're in, or you need to rely on LED chases and other kludges to indicate modes, that should've sent up some red flags about the UI. This thing would have been so much easier to use with a display that shows the status of each channel, active modes, menu choices to scroll through, etc.
This is basically what I was most happy about getting in the last update. This makes controlling external gear so much more fluent (after all the initial setup that is)
at the end of the review you point out to the downside of the global CV Mode, and the potential of truly individual channels. Does that mean you cannot (yet) set the Module to 6 individual oscillators and control these with 6 different v/o inputs to get 6 different outputs like a regular standard VCO?
The module is already setup to use as six individual VCOs and you can use a global cv mode set for v/oct to drive the channels independently. Global cv mode means all channels are now v/oct input or trigger or etc. There is also an update that came after this video was uploaded that allows independent cv mode now. So you can have e.g. 3 VCOs with v/oct and 2 env with trigger inputs and a quantizer channel or whatever combo you want.
it's brilliant. i use blofeld like this as a synthetic drummachine connected to my sp16. it's a shame that the overal sound of blofeld isn't so snappy and punchy, dull and flat compared to more waldorfs. doesn't take away that it is a great box full of processing power and potential... it's bizarre that they put this amount of cpu power in such a small box. inspiring vid!
I love the Tempest, sounds great! Only thing that`s a bit disappointing is the limit of projects you can store, and that it doesn’t automatically save projects...had some accidents.
Thank you for what must have been a massive amount of work. I appreciate it. I have to say, though, that the demos were almost completely unhelpful to me. With such a complex and unintuitive module, I would have liked you to start very basic, like: let's do an LFO on a single channel, how do I change its parameters... then add another channel doing the same or sth else, turn some knobs to see what they're doing and get a sense of their behavior etc. Make clear distinction between using channels individually vs globally, or between CV inputs and audio inputs. Maybe that's something you could do in the future. Thanks again.
thanks for the helpful overview of the new firmware! Just flashed the new firmware to the module and this video is a great overview over the new features and options. Thanks!
