I have the Haken SlimContinuum full size with me & its really incredible especially for me who wanna get more microtonal playing (since I'm from india so indian classical raags i can attain more with MPE like this). And also I don't have the ability to play wind instruments so Haken has been great for me in that regards and to add micro tonal embellishments to my tracks. This has been my dream instrument for so long(along with the unobtanium original CS-80 lol)
I wish this was more accessible to mere mortals. I'm amazed that there aren't affordable MPE MIDI keyboards without the sound engine attached out there.
The algorithm saw me watching Kitaro and Hermeto Pascoal videos and brought me here. Praise the algo. Anthony’s enthusiasm and explanations are wonderful.
Another great and unique video! And what they did not have time to get into is that those CVCs are totally programmable in terms of voltage and WXYZ CV distribution to channels to allow for amazing CV flexibility. For example, W does not have to be a gate. It can be programmed to output X, Y or Z if you like, (or any mathematical combination of them) and much, much more! You can even program Z to output a continuous stream of Off/On voltage at some speed modulated by pressure if you want to have a zither effect, etc. The CV output is only limited by your imagination.
Great video! In many ways this new world of expression reminds me a lot of an old one: wind synths. I play a windsynth, and (for the most part) we windsynth players ignore EGs. Our breath is our envelope. This type of keyboard playing feels very similar to me (but polyphonic, obviously!).
Wooowwwww c’était vraiment incroyable, tout l’épisode au complet était excellente. J’aurais écouté vos performances encore et encore, pendant des heures ! Bravo guys !!!
man, this makes me excited to try this stuff in software modular - there’s endless numbers of cv splitting and routing modules, especially the threshold module, which would allow you to direct cv based on velocity. great inspiration!
I can't believe how amazing those controllers are...not to mention the synths. I'm really loving these videos and i'm dying to get my hands on that incredible room
When Rob mentioned his SEM system I started wondering - Anthony, maybe there is a way you can set up your SEM voices in the Four Voice to be triggered with MPE! I'm sure if Oberheim and Emu systems could have used that kind of keyboard in 1975 they would have. Pretty amazing, this video has me totally reconsidering what kinds of hardware I should have around. Synth modules seem a more obvious choice now - why have so many keyboards if they are simple on/off switches like you said? A small number of expressive keybeds with MPE and Poly AT are all one needs, and with Midi and CV, the number of synths that can be linked appears to be limitless...thank you for expanding my mind!
This is great. Thank you for sharing it. Would love to have a separate video that dives deeper into the technical side of how you set up the box to assign voices and CVs please. Thank you!
This setup has changed the dynamic I feel different because you feel different within a wave.. It's a new way of communicating sonic gestures. What fun' Really. Much Love.
Going to be a lot of really funky bass lines as people get used to MPE. To have the equivalent of ghost notes available to the gestural palette of keyboardists will be very rad to hear.
Really interesting to see a keyboard type controller with the kind of expression one might achieve with a breath control input device. Using something like a Yamaha WX7 with the bite controller for pitch pend and vibrato and breath to modulate whatever controls you can definitely achieve this kind of expression. Kind of amazing to see a keyboard controller that can do that kind of thing and on each voice. Definitely next level stuff.
I Remember when I try the continuum many years ago in Frankfurt music messe, maybe was the First time show It, I Understand immediately the possibilities but in the same time I realyze that was a complete new instrument and Need practice...
@@PianoHero1994I have looked into those. For now I'm happy enough with my Keystep but if one came up the second-hand market at the right time I'd pick one up
Many of the times I found pink floyd sounds being played, for so many years I was wondering how pink floyed produced it. But specially @10:52 thats definately pink floydish sound, how did they produced it? We didn't had Haken continuum OR any MPE at that time. Can you please make one video for Pink Floyed?
Hi Nitesh, you can see Pink Floyd tweaking their modulars in a lot of their old videos. But the big secret to a lot of their sounds (like the iconic solo in Welcome to the Machine) is that he would play the exact same solo twice, getting the sounds as close as he could to the same, and then pan it hard left and hard right. If you listen close you can tell the slight difference in left and right speakers, that’s why it sounds so big, just slight variations in the filters and timing of things, but very, very close (as a classically trained keyboardist should be able to do, even if the first take was all improvised).
i(just saying), i can do that with my regen using Anthony's 2600 samples that are allready inside... could be interesting to do some mpe vid with the regen though. Tbh, i'm surprised there isnt a vid on this channel dedicated to the Regen... Just saying...
Horses for courses. The polybrute can’t do pitch slides for a start so can’t compete with a Continuum in many ways. Beyond the analogue synth attached of course (which I’m not saying isn’t important) the Polybrute has nothing the Osmose doesn’t have with regards control it’s just people don’t know how to program the EaganMatrix.
I cannot wait for Anthony to review the Polybrute 12. It indeed appears to be a game changer regardless of the availability of other expressive devices. It democratizes music making as programming and playing these sounds are often out of the technical capabilities of many.
I did something similar to this with my Seaboard and Behringer sound modules... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PQK_taiqe1o.html I don't have the envelope or filter expressivity, but it is a 5 voice poly analog (like the SEM multi voice synths) with independent pitch bends. Midi and tech has come a long way in 40 plus years!
@@boldstandard Not yet, unfortunately. Would love to try a continuum. I've heard people say it's like playing a wet suit as the material is like a scuba outfit.
I have known about this for a few months now... someone needs to make one of these and town the price tag down omg.. this thing is 5000 USD, no one can afford this that comes to $ 6804.50 Canadian . unreal. what componenents make it's value this much, i really need to know. I can buy that Korg Flagship keyboard for quite a bit less than this. so we need this explained.. why is this so expensive
Supply, demand, design, machining, tool building, manufacturing, salaries, leases, licensing, shipping, taxes. It all adds up. There’s a lot more to price than just the cost of parts.
Has anyone played on the Continuum and also a Roli Seaboard? I’m curious if either has features that the other one lacks. I like that the Seaboard has slightly raised keys so it feels a little like a regular keyboard. I’ve only played it in shops though, and never played on the Continuum.
