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Lovely! Too bad I can't fit this beast in my tiny condo, my partner would kill me. Recently did get a like-new Matrixbrute though (heard you might be after one too ;-)) after rediscovering my love for my first ever hardware synth - the Minibrute! Got it for under $1000 so it feels like a steal. Insane synth. Loving Arturia these days.
Anyma V - check Reaktor Prism... But if they are producing an MPE controller (MPE or PolyAT?) - really want one a decent PolyAT controller at a decent price point! GForce - was great to hear Dave Spiers on a recent video for their OB-1. But DMX drum machine - not a plugin I have picked up - sample-based drum racks do the trick for me - but at 25 sheets, might be worth a shot. A Place to Bury Strangers album - steampunk, which is cool, and I love an analog-rate mangler - but doesn't tickle me. If my synth sounded like that, it'd be straight to a guy like Kent Spong with a post-it note "It's fucked, please help" stuck on the front. Rnadomwaves - Drumboy and Synthgirl - now these are interesting! Love the sounds! Especially the Drumboy. But the UI seems convoluted. 149 dollars is cool tho! Sheaf Sway - not a bad thing, has is retro FM thing nailed down - cool demo - nice idea to do a deep emulation of an TG77/SY99. But programming it - what's that's like? Reason's Algoritm and NI's FM8 has my FM needs scratched. Soncware Ambient Zero - what a cool device! Excellent! But I worry it would become a "cool presets" machine. Hope they build a community of people contributing patches to it. I have Reaktor and Kontakt devices that cover a similar ground, Modular Sample's Quetzalcoatl - nice presets, Looks clever, the UI reminds me of the Psychic Modulation frontends, which are super. Juno 106 - not a bad idea but good luck to them! What's going on here? Have I enough already?? Nothing tickles my fancy, opens my wallet!
Kent is almost unlistenable with a booming bass coming from his mic. I think his mouth is way to close to the microphone. He needs to pull his head back when he talks. I can see Robbie and Andrew are about 9-12 inches from the mic and sound excellent and clear. Kent is right on top of his mic about 2-3 inches away. The wrong way to speak into a sensitive mic for just narration.
I've never felt for one minute that this channel was shilling anything. Actually I feel like the opinions here are far more honest that most other synth channels. I heard about Cherry Audio on this channel, and I bought two of their plugins (Mercury 6 and Quadra) after hearing them here.
Comment 2 - Years ago, I bought a cheap Behringer mixer. It was so noisy that I literally threw it away. A few years ago I bought a Behringer X-Touch. It's been fantastic and has been running every day in my studio with no issues. I played with the Behringer Poly D in a store and it had issues and it felt cheap. Then again I played a Kronos in a store and it had issues, too.
Around 1:10:30 the point about will it rattle windows is raised and answered with something that makes no sense (to me). The ouput voltage has little to do with the VCOs' low frequency output, a signal voltage can be amplified to whatever is required and most amplifier inputs give maximum output for less than 1 volt input. That the original Moog System 55 used internal +/- 15 volt peak to peak signals internally is not an issue because it would be attenuated before the output jack. If +/- 15 volt peak to peak signals were connected to an amplifier input there's a strong possibility that damage would occur to the amplifier and loudspeakers (tweeters in particular) connected to it because of extreme clipping. Thanks for an otherwise informative video.
Btw, a bit OT: I'll probably need a synth for playing live, Juno X still looks like a good choice (price/performance). EDIT: Or an Arturia AstroLab, come think of it. Pretty much the same price as Juno-X and I already have the V bundle.
1:08:32 Tom Wolfe's presets yeah. Definetly on my list of things to buy. Edit: bought binaural pads, thinking of textures as well. There's a 50% off a second set but I have no idea how that works. Email sent.
@@ProSynthNetwork 🤦🏻♂️ Of course … I was thinking it was a reference to some old piece of gear … once your brain gets stuck on a particular track … 😏. Cheers! 🙏🏼
one must really have empty days and a ton a useless time to go and download something in software called berringer vintage. The day i have time to take doing this kind of crap please shoot me...
i've been using two fostex d824's to do what these arturia boxes offer for years, combined with a minidsp usb-to-adat card at home that's just perfect (my old d824's go up to 96khz aswell though...
A bit of an apples and oranges comparison, but Arturia aren't claiming to have done anything particularly new here. They've simple offered their own brand of ADAT expansions that can be used with theirs or any other compatible audio interface. What is different is the quality of the converters, I would imagine, and that sexy Arturia styling! 😉
@@ProSynthNetwork i think you missed my point, this is not what i meant. I didnt say Arturia were claiming anything, i think redoing these is a great idea, very usefull, that was my point. And just tbh, being an electronician and a gear freak, i would doubt, with nowadays quality of supplys, AND the price they are selling these for (if it could lower the price of used ones...), that theyre converters give better results (at same bit/freq rate, 24/96 i'm good personally) than the fostex or tascam units of the late 90's. Just an opinion though, i couldnt proove what i'm saying right away. I'm an arturia fan since the beastep pro, because they are very good at finding what the home studist needs to makle his life easyer for nice prices and good quality hw, that adat series of boxes is a great idea, my point was also to let know that MINIDSP(go check theyre website...) make great cards with tremendous definition numbers (24/96 i'm good lol, i dont record orchestras) in many formats for really neet prices, and to use a usb to adat i doubt one could find that good for that kind of price and nobody knows about that... I would love to hear what your tech on the show would have to say about converters in those modern units compared to high end late 90's early 00's ones like you gert in an S6000 or fostex/tascam hd recorders, i have my opinion but it's just an opinion, but as an electronician, one thing i know is that those mass produced chips in nowadays dont have the type of quality they used to have. But in the mean time, they have spotted chinese fake chips in F16's...Apple and oranges i dont think, if you compare commun functions, an hd recorder records these dont, but these older hd recorders are used mainly like these in nowadays to go from adat to mutli outputs.
It's actually neither fish nor flesh. It costs as much as a decent car, you are limited to the presets Yamaha gives you. The advantage of it is you have a broad spectrum of expression only physical modeling can do. And physical modeling never really took off. The pendulum swang back to analogue synths.
Sadly, the PB was WAY after their time 😉 Not gonna lie, the JUNO is a total sweetspot. Very hard to make a bad sound on it. But the PB12 is a whole other level. Luckily, I don't have to make that choice 😉
About the Moog One... I would have bought one on release, especially after the amazing launch video with Sakamoto et al. But I never really heard anything from demos online. I did play one in a shop in London for an hour and I thought it was quality panelwise with an amazing keybed. (even though people complained about that),,, but the sounds I heard nor the character really appealed. Maybe I'd have been different after a few days/months but compared to even the Matriarch (which sounds wonderful) or my Prophet 5 (which is the best poly ever for my liking . even if it is simple)... well it did not click with me. That with all the complaints about software, reliability and noisy fans was the nail in the coffin in terms of my interest. As always YMMV... there's so many great synths around now with UDO, OBX8, Quantum Mk2, Third Wave et al... those really appeal more to me.
The Electronic Perspectives book comes with 2 CDs/hours of audio, the first Moog and Buchla recordings, the only recordings ever of certain instruments like the Hanert Electrical Orchestra, the Con Brio Synthesizers, and many more vintage instruments.
I still have Reason 5 running on a 2009 white MacBook, which I sometimes mess around with. I used it on my first album back in 2004 with Logic using ReWire, I think it was called. But between the Logic synths, Cherry Audio plugins, and Arturia V Collection 9, I don't feel the need for the synths/effects in Reason. But I'm glad it's there for people who love Reason. It was the Ableton Live of its day.
Thank you so much for featuring my project! I'm glad to hear everyone is excited to try it out. It's still on track for a release this year, but the end of the year is looking more likely than next month. Sorry to keep everyone waiting, but like you said I'm just one guy, and I'm developing this in my spare time.
Hey! A fellow Dutchie! :) I'm going to listen to your music on Bandcamp. *Edit* What, are you kidding me? € 18,75 for your whole discography? Sold! And better a well worked out than a rushed out program. Take the time you need!
Whilst I have restored a number of systems to go to new homes, my Series IIx remains a work in progress, as is always the way. One day, she'll be complete. I can't make any promises, but I have another Series III ready to go to its new home. If time and space allow, I might try and get a demo of that before it leaves.
I am not gonna watch 2 hours of somebody fumbling with an instrument he doesn't know. Obviously you are bright and well spoken so if you post a video after you have mastered the thing I will watch that.
Kent had this at "Jesus Christ Almighty!" opening that RS box! That sequence was really deep at the end- I could feel it! Great video guys. One day, I'll have one of these beasties...
Who is the channel you mentioned at 22:15 Zach something I missed the live stream so couldn’t get the link if anyone can help out it would be a much appreciated Great guest 💪🏼
@@ProSynthNetwork thanks for the link I thought I was missing out I know the memetune channel it’s one of my favourites I thought maybe he had another channel hidden in obscurity Thanks again much appreciated 👊🏻
Another pearly show! If you're light on news on the 14th, Ujam.will have a new synth plugin out. Plus you never mention my (almost) fav Teletone Audio :) Shelving, a hot topic, always!
FIRST PATCH: very interesting to hear this discussion. For those of us playing keys for over half a century, brings back memories of our "first time" with each synth, our age of innocence :) Today, after hearing hundreds of synths, digital pianos, sample players and performing on hundreds of keybeds, I don't care how impressive it sounds. I want to know how creative it is for a sound designer searching for that sound that is inside my head, a sound that is original. Over the last 56 years I have come to know that those factory patches don't indicate creativity, only what this particular synth happens to be strong at. IF a synth is creative enough, I can take average sounding oscillator and build incredible sounds with it...when performed by a high skilled musician. The performers skill is also a determining factor in what a synth is capable of. And as great as a synth sounds, if it takes a thousand menu dives to create it...well...I am too old to spend that much time, I don't have much time left. :) After all these years we still don't get the kind of synth that is creative and expressive except very rarely: physical control with minor menu diving, modulation routing galore, and a keybed with expression and complete control. Summit / Gaia / Matriarch / DeepMind12 / PolyBrute / as affordable synths. And with much more money others, like that wonderful PolyBrute12 with that amazing keybed with PAT. Plenty of powerful menu synths out there, and I will program them occasionally but try to avoid them until all my analog and physically controlled digital options have been exhausted. It must be very expensive and/or difficult to make synths like the JD800 even today??? Give me a big 88 key synth with a panel full of 100's of physical controllers and great sound...but they don't make them.
