Please buy a gs e7, and compare it to the muse. People say it's a cheap desktop 7 voiced moog muse that has similar brassy like tones but apparently struggles with pads as they sound "muddy".
It just sounds so good. I just dislike how easy it self resonates even under low feedback values (the input knob seems to affect that, strangely). I’ve mostly seen the SDD along guitars, so I plan on using it with synths only.
I have the Chase Bliss MK2..I love it, but I feel like it needs something else. The Blooper looks like it can be used as a traditional Looper, with added effects. So very cool. I love this music. You have a great setup. Thanks! Subbed!
Being very honest, I think the Matriarch is a more suitable synth for bass, I like the bass response on it more. I had the Grandmother too, and the bass there is even stronger, but it’s a bit too much for me. The Matriarch has more sweet spots, and really nice sweet spots.
Hi, thank you for watching. I’m not in love with the bass on the Muse. With enough time and tweaking, it can do any bass you want, but it takes more time to find the sweet spots, and they are not as nice sounding as what I hear from the Matriarch for example. Pads, brasses, plucks and keys all sound gorgeous on the Muse, Bass? Not much of my cup of tea, for that I keep my Matriarch
@@sauermusicDE Thanks a lot. The release was not so long, it was mostly the diffuse delay. It can work as a reverb like you heard, very interesting, although I’d have preferred a classic analog stereo delay like the Matriarch has.
For the life of me- and I cannot figure out why- I have yet to see a video of this synth where it's TONE and sound quality has really gripped me. There's something a little too fizzy and "thin" about it. Your playing and patch design are fantastic, I'm just not sold on the synth.
@@halcyo That’s a fair point, in the end we all have “that feeling” with different synths. For example, I can’t see anything attractive on the Prophet5/10, but some folks would die for it. It’s all about personal taste. Thanks for watching the video and for the nice words ❤️
You're not wrong...i returned mine a week later, it was sort of polite and bland. No excitement or grandeur or spark, as if it was designed by an engineer and not a musician
I have one and the sweet spots have not been as easily discovered as the UDO Super 6 I sold to get it. I think the Moog ladder is a little better tuned for a mono synth. That said, it’s starting to click for me and the UI is really, really excellent. I’ve had a few “holy shit” moments while sound designing in the last couple days. Its gonna be exactly the right thing for some folks.
No reason for jealousy. I often layer the Muse and the OB-X8 - growling, fundamental 24db ladder LPFs combined with 12db BPFs or HPFs. What a wall of sound! They are a perfect couple.
So glad I have mine. I have not got to use it too much as working on a song with my band for Halloween and on drum duties. But from what i have done with it I love it, Your demo is pretty awesome. Are you running the ARP in 8 step?
A question of a complete layman here. This sound is great to me. But.. this thing is way too expensive for me to buy in a short period of time. Is the Roland Gaia 2 a good option, speaking in terms of a good pretty lowbudget analog synth? Thanks for this share.
Gaia 2 is not analogue. It's a virtual analogue/wavetable digital synth.. a fork of the Zen Core engine code. It sounds very harsh and unanalogue to me. Maybe look at something like the Korg Minilogue XD in a similar price bracket
Thank you. 569euros is even way better to me than the 735 of the Gaia 2. Yeah the Gaia 2 is not a complete analogue, I knew that a bit, as said I'm a layman in this area. I think it's very useful to me that you say the Gaia 2 sounds too harsh and unanalogue. That's a no go to me. A musix teacher adviced the Gaia 2 to me, but he wasn't that much into the synths so here I go trying to do some decent research. Thanks.
@@kierenmoore3236Okay, thank you. Well, I don't really know. How many voices (whatever that is, sorry ..) does a starter need to have? I think I will be happy (enough for now) with the Korg Minilogue XD. Atm, I want to search and shape tones and I do have to find a suitable voice. Is it possible for you to say what I need to buy in order to record the sounds so that I can capture it with the highest quality? Just curious to know, also in terms of budgeting.
@@erikbroker4127 dont listen to people calling a synthesizer harsh on which they never made their own patches - you can totally make beautiful sounds with a digital synth but usually a digital synth with wavetables has presets that may sound harsh - thats why a lot of people get mislead Most of the commercial music in the last 3 decades were made with digital synthesizers
@@morphicresonancechannel604I also love the 80s‘ Roland synths, particularly the mean JP-6. But don‘t underestimate the Muse! You can modulate virtually everything with noise; along with the filter overload you can get a lot of dirt out of the Muse!
@@morphicresonancechannel604 I got the Juno 106 and love it too. I got 6 new voice chips for it but need someone who can build them in. Hard to find someone who's still in synthesizer repairs.
This is my dream synths. Modern sounding, perfectly accomplishing the Matriarch, versatility and coming with exactly the right amount of power for an analog poly.
Fully agree. They complement each other very well. Sometimes I wish they had made a poly synth closer to the Matriarch. Or rather having a 8-voice or 16- voice paraphonic synth though.
Impressive singing ability! The slow-warped, warmed on tape part tho warmed my vaporwave heart. Any chance of a full release of it with a little reverb at "nostalgiawave" speed?
You here! Thanks for checking it out. The vocals are the original 2 steps down. I really like the “vaporwave” vibes when pitched extremely low (maybe 4 or 5 steps). I will post a full version
I was looking at the Moog Muse and the new Polybrute 12 but decided to get a used Rev2-16 desktop unit. I'll wait until the Muse hits the used market to get it. I decided not to get the Polybrute because the sounds don't impress me compared to my Novation Summit. I was just interested in the poly aftertouch, which other synths have, like the Waldorf Iridium
Great stuff mate...I crumbled and bought Polybrute 12..will get Muse next year. Too many delays..end of november now. Thinking the same about PB12..awesome synth..looked a bit complicated but already figuring it out. Not the Moog sound but it has its own magic flavour, loving it.
Congrats! The advantage of the PB12 (besides the most obvious ones) is the number of presets, I’d surely get lost on that nice keybed and zillions of presets
@@NGC0Music thanks man, plenty space but probably still run out lol! Keybed is superb, didn’t think I would love it as much as I would, tongue is on the floor 🤘
Great sounds. Yeah this is a dream synth. I have one on order. Hopefully it will show up in a month, but who knows. You have any thoughts on this compared to other synths you’ve looked at or owned?
Thank you, I hope you will get it soon! Talking about polysynths, I have owned a Prophet12, Prophet6, OB-6, Yamaha SK30, Hydrasynth, Minifreak, Matriarch, Polymoog, Polybrute and Osmose, and I can say the Muse gave me the sweetest Pads. The Matriarch is paraphonic, but I mentioned it because I love the sound of that thing in 4-voice paraphonic mode, if it had 8 voices, I’d probably not have gotten the Muse. If money was a problem for me and I had to choose the cheapest option, I’d keep the Hydrasynth explorer only.
Fantastic machine, which definitely has a Moog-specific sound. Don‘t know why some people deny that. When it comes to modulation depth, among my 8 fully analog poly synths only the PolyBrute is on par.
@@kierenmoore3236 Yep, I got scammed because they have digital LFOs and envelopes. 😁 I mean: analog oscillators and filters, as in: P5, P6, Rev 2, OB-X8, OB-6, PB6, e7, Muse. What I don‘t want to read now: “But the Rev 2 has DCOs“! I‘m Rayy, and Espen is not.
@@RayyMusik Indeed, you have! 😉. lol, seems we have the same taste in synths and sense of humour. I love the REV2 - mostly because I bothered to learn it well … seems so many of them get flipped by people who don’t … ?!! Those are all really great synths, imho … e7 is an interesting/less usual choice; how are you liking it? What dj you use it for, mainly? Cheers!
@@kierenmoore3236 I bought the e7 in 2023 because I wanted a ladder filter poly synth (played a Memorymoog in the 80s) and don‘t like the harsh sounding Trigon that much. The basic sound of the e7 is fantastic; as someone put it: “The most vintage sounding poly synth these days“. It sounds more like a Memorymoog than the Muse does! However, it lacks many mod options I‘m used to from other synths. Another plus is the additional voice compared to the usual 6-voice synths. It is 4-part multitimbral, but I never use this. As a pad addict, I wanted to use it for - guess what. But here its greatest flaw kicks in: it does not have any kind of HPF. Of course you can turn up the resonance, but then it starts screaming beyond 25%. The greatest feat of the Moog designers is that final HPF at the very end of the Muse’s signal chain! Now, having the Muse, I wouldn‘t buy the e7 again.
@@NGC0Music Very clever response 😀! The Muse is wonderful. Seriously though, I sat in from of it recently and really was impressed. It's got the famous Moog sound with more. Effects are lovely!
@@TheCbone1979 I would love to try the UB and compare with the OB-6, and from a sound design/user interface perspective as well. Maybe I’ll find one in a shop someday
@@NGC0Music the more I play with the TEO the less it sounds like an OB 6. It’s definitely it’s own machine. It sounds more like an OB X if anything, but with a lot of influence from say the Xpander