Yeah, Peter did layouts that are far worse and sometimes require to wait in some corner for over half an hour - meaning they're impossible to beat as you get disconnected if you stay in someone's base for more than 30 minutes. So this should still work (as fists are as glitchy as ever) and it should be safe to use as it's not really THAT weird to beat.

I came across it the other day and even with the red guard off, it's still very, very hard. But there are other bases where you have to do some insane jump that is nearly impossible even with ALL the traps off.

Bee have knees? 😋

Thanks, I made that myself, here's the corresponding video 😜 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3ZepaS5uhZA.html When I make music, the result depends on 1) the gear I use and in this case, I just bought the Walrus Audio Julianna chorus pedal which is why the melody has that "wail" in it and 2) on the mood I'm in. This was from October 26th, 2021, sometime during the 2nd or 3rd lockdown, mandatory masks in public, with the days getting darker and me postponing yet another holiday I had planned for September that year. Sometimes, it's also about exploring and finding new sounds. For example that "breathing/spitting" sound around 1:00 - Aphex Twin did something similar in 1991 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kCCpAOeYNbQ.html and I was kinda happy I was able to achieve that kind of noise.

I finished the game in a twitch live stream on Thursday and I'm currently editing the video. Not sure if I can finish it in time, but I hope the final episode of this game will be up on Monday (also the last episode got 75 views in 12 days while I have 26.272 subscribers - so I believe there's really very little interest in this and no need to hurry 😭)

​@g3cd Don't worry about views, just keep your head up and keep making vidoes. Do what you enjoy bro!

When there was still "the King's Grace" - that gave you 10x keys 10x faster - I could play for maybe 2 hours without ads and record all noob dungeons in one session. Then Zeptolab took over a YEAR to fix another subscription model and now you get 8x keys 8x faster for TWICE the money. Not worth it - and without it, I can only attack 1-2 dungeons with my 66 keys and then watch ads forever 😭 In other words: recording Noob Saturday is no longer manageable as it would take 12 hours in 50 sessions over a whole week.

Well, yeah. It's a pretty good game. But it has bugs that haven't been fixed in 8 years - like when you raid a gem and it disappears in your roaster. Or your guild ranking where I don't understand to this day why you seem to be #24 all of a sudden when in reality you carry your whole guild and are # 1 both in GXP and gem delta. Also more recently, people record the ghost solution and beat your impossible base that took 10 hours to save with ONE death. And Zeptolab doesn't even react when you report these hackers ... multiple times. So yeah, pretty good game. But is has seen better days. Time to carry on. And do cooler stuff.

@@g3cd thanks dude

I think these bases are very much unreal (but would be a good extension to the game)

​@@g3cd so why don't you record such hacked viewers' bases? You simply repeat bases in the game editor and use a speedhack/macro so as not to waste time on an legitimate passage, because to be honest, the viewers don’t really care how many hours you spent completing the base. Just make the most ordinary video in which there is only an explanation of the passage. I mean without the part with potions and ways to die, and also without a lot of video editing. Then your videos won’t be too labor-intensive and your percentage of fun from the KoT game will be higher. I also think everyone who watched you and even those who have already quit the game will be very happy. Think about it, I'm not pointlessly writing this - it's an attempt to help create a compromise between your love for the KoT and the desire to have fun blogging

I actually did record over 70 of the new bases exactly like that, but couldn't get around to finish any videos for them. Maybe I will ... I mean, I must update my database, mustn't I?

@@g3cd I really hope that you will understand that it is not necessary to perfect the quality of the video. I'm sure that most people watch less than half of your videos, especially now in the era of short videos. Therefore, I advise you to make a video no more than 1 minute, in special cases no more than 1:30. in editing, make red signs only for the most important jumps, and not for all. Don’t zoom in on the camera too often or make various complex transitions. remember how you made your first videos 6-7 ago - this option will now be the best for both you and the audience Viewers used to watch your videos in order to know the strong bases, but when the game began to lose popularity, there were fewer and fewer newcomers in it, then your videos gained fewer views, because for viewers everything that you film became very ordinary and well-known - just combinations for a long time famous jumps and timings. The only time your videos got good views was the release of new databases. But they rarely come out, so Peter created the KOT creative discord server (you are there) and taught others to change the bases and add traps in unlimited quantities. I also got inspired by this and wrote a script to change the physics of the character. In fact, we ourselves began to diversify the game. And believe me, if you start posting on your channel those bases and jumps that are invented on the server, then all the old players will pee from the happiness and variety of new jumps and timings that they have never seen. Just don't spend too much time on videos and reduce their length

Well, it's important for ME do do well-produced videos: either I do it right or I don't do it at all. I'd rather die than being mediocre. No kidding.

I do, all the time. Join my guild 22kill 😉 I'm just not doing any videos any longer for it as a) you guys grew up and are interested in other stuff now b) King of Thieves is a declining niche game that is currently rank 14717 in the Google Play charts. Making the future of my channel depend on this game will be fatal.

Bruh I played this game when I was like 10-13and now I am 19​ back playing it we need cool people like us to guide us back@@g3cd

It's in the video in the top left and in the video description: store.mixperience.net/patchbay.html

Difference is: you turn physical knobs and hear the difference. You don't program something in and do like "set this to 22% as it LOOKS right in my DAW (but sounds terrible)". I'd always prefer a clever little hardware box with a smart user interface to anything that ties me to a PC even more (I already stare at computer screens all day).

You've made making this comment your full time job lmao. What a loser.

Yeah, it's the most compact I've seen. And it works as a "granular synth" or "live effect pedal" as well. I was sceptical about the secondary button functions and the small display, but after seeing the demo, I think they pretty much nailed it.

That's roughly 350 cables in that desk - that's why I labelled both ends of each cable so I always know which goes where. If you don't, you can spend hours trying to figure out where a couple of cables came from and follow them through the table, that's living hell. Also when I bought the studio desk, I didn't consider the factor that I'd need easily over 2000€ for cables. So it's a good thing to plan stuff in advance and write down "Prophet 6: sits in the centre, it requires 2x 1,80m TS-TS cable, 1x 2m 220V power cable and 1x 30cm MIDI". I got spreadsheets for that, no kidding 😖

@@g3cd I may make my own studio, but I hate cables so I am thinking it very well😭😭😭

Yeah, apart from the 8x RJ45 cables leading from one side to the other, I'm using 2x 1,50m snakes with 8x TS going from the patchbay to the pedals, just to save some space and clean up the mess. Enoaudio.de does custom snakes in Europe (also with angled jacks for tight desktop spaces), swamp.net.au has some rare lengths in Australia, custom-lynx.co.uk does them in the UK and rockfordsound.com is a nice source in the US. You also could use DB25 cables if you need loads of stuff to go from one corner of your studio to the other but a) Switchcraft 9625 patchbays are between $1345 and 2000€ a pop b) they use smaller TT patch cables instead of TRS and c) I'd feel restricted when I must use 8 ports in the patchbay in the order dictated by the DB25 plug instead of using TRS/TS in the back in an order that makes sense to me (for example mimicking the order of my pedals on my desk). Switching from 4x 48 port Samson to 2x 96 port Switchcraft would now cost me 5000-6000€ 😭 As for mixers, speck.com has some awesome TRS-based mixers - I'm currently using the X.Sum which has 32x TRS in, 4x TRS out in 1U (!). My audio interface, microphone pre-amp and headphone amp is the Cranborne 500R8 that has ALL the connectors and options you could EVER think of, I'm also using the 1010 Bluebox with 6xTRS in 3x TRS out as my main mixer (with my speakers connected and a very handy touchscreen). I wish I had some faders - I'm using the AtoVproject 16N to control MIDI velocity, but I'm considering getting the After Audio Bartender and Barback Eurorack modules that would allow for 16 stereo (!) faders in just 19" 3U rack space.

When I only did RU-vid and Twitch, I had a much smaller desk with 1 AIDA 100 camera, the ATEM Mini Pro ISO streaming desk, a Atomos Ninja V as a fallback for video recording, a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 mic pre-amp (and optional: a TC Electronic Sentry noise-gate pedal and a Empress Compressor MK2 pedal). That's already completely independent from any PC and doesn't slow down your computer when streaming or recording. I then started with synths during the lockdown when RU-vid didn't update copyright-safe music to the audio library for 9 months and I was worried I'd get a strike with the hundreds of gaming vids I did. So I started making music, got a Nord Drum 3P, one poly synth, a Polyend Seq sequencer, the 1010 blackbox and one reverb and one delay pedal. That's enough to make electronic music and also 100% DAW-less. The Focusrite was a pain in the ass though and I always wanted to replace it with something more professional and reliable - that's why I got the Cranborne 500R8 with the 500 modules for the voice chain after a tax refund. And well ... I wanted a 2nd drum synth with faders, a proper 303 clone, some good poly synths and then I saw the JP8080 and Orbit 9090 with all those 90s techno sounds I loved. And things got a bit more complicated 😂

Well, join my guild "22kill" if you want to stay in touch 😉

@@g3cdnah bro ur base is impossible frfr

It's just two magnet jumps and very precise timing 😏

@@g3cd and I am thinking I’m special because I have a saw jump in my base 😭😭

I wish I had a saw - my base is not potion proof ☹️

I don't know why this video is getting so many views all of a sudden - I thought it was demonetized even years ago because of "teen content" 😂

@@g3cdlol it’s because the game has blew up online and loads of people are just starting to play it even though it came out like 8 years ago 😂😂

😱

@@g3cdits on xbox gamepass thats why and we all stuck on the find the teens part

I asked the guy and it can be used as "a very expensive effect pedal". Usually in granular synths, you can switch between continuous recording and recording only once (with a max length) and then you can set the start and end of a loop with the potentiometers and some bars on the screen. So while you can "record continuously" and apply effects to the live sound, making a loop does require some fiddling and is nothing like the Boss RC loop stations with huge buttons Record/Play. And while the manual does list a MIDI CC command (that will be implemented with the next firmware update) for "Material Start" and "Material Sound on Sound", I didn't see any "Material Stop" or "Material Overdub" CC values. So not sure whether you could use it with an external (foot) MIDI controller to achieve that Boss RC feeling. It would make total sense though and seeing how active these guys are with their firmware updates (S-1 received sometimes multiple updates per week), I would consider this possible in the future.

It's all there if you look in the manual (from page 114 on) downloads.torsoelectronics.com/s-4/Manual/The_S-4_Manual_1v0v0g.pdf Not sure whether this has been implemented yet, the S-4 has only been shipped for a month and the Torso guy said something from "CC in the next firmware update", also I don't think I saw as many MIDI items on the screen in the demo as in the manual. But it's definitely all laid out in a good way already.

@@g3cd It has not. That’s literally my point. There’s a HUGE amount of features that haven’t been implemented. When I spent $900 on a device, I expected it to actually do what it says on the box, and it didn’t.

Well he said "MIDI CC in next update" and for the T-1, Torso has been cranking out sometimes several updates per week (bigger updates took like 3 months). So I'm sure it'll come soon. Right now, it can already do more than my GR-1.

@@profitsandloss more loss than profit, though

I'll try to get one in the next few weeks and will let you know how it compares to the GR-1. And usually I do EVERYTHING via MIDI, either through a Faderfox or a sequencer, so proper MIDI implementation is pretty much a must for me.

The Mega hasn't been at Superbooth this year. I saw the prototype last year and well ... it's gigantic, like 2x Pulsar 23 (which is already too big to fit on my desktop). From my own experience with the GR-1 I'd say: 4 tracks is more than enough and already does every ambient/drone magic ever, but in conparison, the S-4 is way more accessible and does a lot more than the GR-1. I can't wait to see the GR-1's firmware 3.0 that is said to resolve the terrible load/save functions that lost me a few projects after hours of work and has been 2 years in the making... but I actually sold my GR-1 two days ago to get a S-4 instead 🫤

there's a perfect icon for it too cause the ritual thingy icon kinda looks like power armor

I'm currently using a Baklengs granular pedal from Pladask Elektriks - that does a lot of weird stuff but isn't really transparent at what it does - and a Tasty Chips GR-1 that is very similar, shows clearly how it applies and scatters grains and produces an ambient pad out of some voice sample in an instant (but with terrible load/save windows-esque functionality). I'm about to sell my GR-1 to get the S-4 ... but there's a waiting list again and the next batch won't ship before September.

Early 2025, got 12 voices, btw.

Same here ... it's really awkward to record something into the GR-1 even though I bought the Centrance R4 mixerface specifically to get some sound into it (and it's a really good audio interface). But I lost a project or two when saving failed. The S-4 can do at least the same as the GR-1, loading and saving is a breeze and with the additional compression, bitcrusher, distortion, lowpass/highpass and 4 LFO per track it has a lot more to offer than just one delay/reverb buried somewhere at the bottom of some hard-to-reach preference like the GR-1. I wanted to ask Tasty Chips about the new file structure they were said to introduce with the MEGA, truck-sized granular synth, but they weren't there at Superbooth this year 🫤

Don’t bother getting one. I sent mine back. In theory, this is great, in practice it sounded extremely bland and same-sy. Half the features aren’t there. It is a half baked product that they should not have released for another 3 months at least.

@@profitsandloss Thanks for letting me know.

Thanks and yeah ... that was part lf the problem. Most of my subscribers grew up and while some insist I still do content for elementary school kids, most of them have other interests now. Like PS5 shooters or fun gadgets like synths. Glad you like the "new" content 😉

Yeah, I had trouble recording the effect audio, especially stereo effects. Next year will be better 🤪

Thanks! I was just at this synth fair in Berlin which was more like a festival with live music on every corner and while had to catch up with some sleep, it was an awful lot of fun 😅

@@g3cda whole lot more fun than the same 7 traps for 6 years

@g3cd yo that's fr sick

Well it's one of the most interesting little machines out there (and I'm looking to replace my Tasty Chips GR-1 where load & save is a nightmare). I was worried a bit about the secondary knob functions but the touchscreen and the LEDs make things very clear. I also talked with the designer for a quarter of an hour and I think this is in good hands, can't wait for the release! 😉

@@g3cd No one else covered it haha. John is awesome! I'm one of the sound designers for the instrument, and I was really hoping to see some coverage on it. I think you were the only reporter who took time to show everyone Groc. I am very excited about this instrument, and am super stoked to see Groc get some love.

Several others showed it too like Red Means Recording (he was there when I recorded my video, see ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8M5mu3wZfzs.html at 9'02") and Jorb (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Th_hg4GNd84.html). But as Superbooth is so noisy, it's very hard to record a dedicated demo - this only worked since I used the Sennheiser HMD27 and the Lauten LS-308 that are really good at rejecting noise - and heavily used AI to seperate speech from music and Izotope to filter out additional background noise. That's quite a bit of work and why most people just record some music and then comment it back at the hotel.

@g3cd yeah, I saw Jeremy mention it briefly, Jorb did as well. You were the only person who showed a demo of it and a chat with John. I definitely understand about the signal to noise issues out in public, I do a lot of microphone based work, and I use RX-10 from time to time, so I understand the workload lol. Either way, I appreciate you taking the extra time and effort to present the Groc and Oddments effort!

Thanks for your time and coverage!

*sob* yeah, I know. I'm not the entertaining guy like Simon from the Yogscast, I'm very good at explaining things. That's why I intend to do a few more synthesizer / studio setup videos where I explain stuff and give tipps. I do enjoy these story rich exploring games though, that's why I'm still playing them and sharing them on my (mostly gaming) channel. After this I will be playing some Hellboy - Web of the Wyrd which sounds like an interesting game concept. I would be probably more successful if I did the usual clickbait surprised face stuff and concentrate on popular topics that OTHERS enjoy. But I'd much rather do videos about things I enjoy. There used to be a time where RU-vid was a platform where every niche topic found an audience. These times are over now, the popular stuff with high view numbers is junk food for the masses.

​@@g3cdyour a really wise man you know that...

But I also miss your old facecam w/commentary King of Thieves videos 😭

@@g3cd You are right. The You Tupe platform has differed from before. Long videos were acceptable, but now they are not👍