Ambient jam with the Dreadbox Nymphes, Tasty Chips GR-1, Strymon NightSky, and Empress Reverb

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A live, semi-improvised track performed entirely on hardware.
Dreadbox was kind enough to send along the Nymphes a little early to me, and I couldn't have been more excited. While I have the Abyss, I've been hoping for a new Dreadbox polysynth that's more widely available for a long time.
And the Nymphes doesn't disappoint. It's unbelievably small but with a super sturdy build and great fader throw lengths. It has a lot of secondary functions but it's dead easy to navigate, and still feels more hands-on than the Dreadbox Typhon (another great small synth). And most importantly of all, it has a beautiful sound with tons of character and some great particular nooks and crannies in its timbres. A warm analog polysynth the size of a paperback book? I love it.
I've also got lots to say on the Tasty Chips GR-1, but I'm planning to do a video with it in the near future, so more then. Suffice it to say for now that I love it and that it's a perfect companion for ambient work.
Dreadbox Nymphes through Strymon NightSky - Main synth
Tasty Chips GR-1 through Empress Reverb - Ambient granular goodness
Arturia Keystep - MIDI controller for the Nymphes
Performed and recorded live, with EQ, compression, and limiting on the master.
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Arturia KeyStep: shrsl.com/3bfpk
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@kevinmathiasen7334 2 года назад

Im gonna be honest. I revisit this sometimes. You're a true inspiration. Im moving together with my girl over these weeks because shes pregnant with our child. I seek for grand beauty in life and these things are amongst it. I charge up on your music, and envision the things to come, looking forward more and more. Ive dropped a chaotic lifestyle including multiple drug addictions. And now life seems to evolve for me going the right direction. And listening to this little piece just before i go to bed with the things in mind, is more powerful than any physical or mental stimuli. Ive learnt to face the music so to speak. I just wanted to share it with you as a message of good energy and love. And I really hope you will make more in this alleyway because it is so damn beautiful the half could be enough, yet you exceed and amaze. Thank you very much, and I Hope youre doing well 😎😊👍

@JayHosking 2 года назад

Thank you so much for sharing this with me. It means the world to hear that I can positively contribute to that "right direction" you mention. I'm sure there will be more like this coming. All the best.

@alexmousley7213 Год назад

What an absolutely beautiful comment. 😊

@pollohertz1428 Год назад

xx months later, still one of the most moving works

@InnerPeaceSounds 2 года назад

It sounds so mesmerizing!

@LordoftheBadgers 2 года назад

Opening lines are reminiscent of For Now I Am Winter by Olafur Arnalds - and that makes me happy cause I love that and I THINK he used his juno 60 (or maybe his polysix but I don't profess to know the sound signature of these intimately). Anyway long story short - GORGEOUS as usual Jay. Nightsky & Nymphes... Hmm space on my controller keyboard case...

@blagojcilakov2630 2 года назад

Supernice!

@simon_jakobsson 2 года назад

This is beautiful. I enjoyed every second of this, great work! I'm sure they are all excellent synths/effects, but it takes someone with both great taste and a lot of knowledge to make something like this.

@6pin66 2 года назад

Ooooooh geez ! I love the GR-1. Seems like something you could use to make ultra lush sounds from literally anything . Someday when I mortgage my organs to the black market ......... such a gorgeous sounding machine .

@MikkelGrumBovin 2 года назад

Im slowly, but surely , falling in love with that GR-1- it sneaks up on you - like a good Jay Hosking tune ,-

@ericpeters0n 2 года назад

Not the same thing, but a poor-man's version might be the Borderlands iOS app.

@cortical1 2 года назад

Great performance, Jay. And nice demo of the Nymphes's capabilities. Cognitive neuroscientists know no-brainers better than anyone when they see them.

@JayHosking 2 года назад

This made me chuckle!

@alligatorgamer9137 2 года назад

Holy crap dude! I love this! Is it ok if I use some of your ambient synth songs as background music in a video/film project I'm working on? I feel like this would fit perfectly with the general theme and feel that I would be going for. I would of course make sure to credit you for it. It would likely end up being a multi-part ARG series that I would post on a new channel. I wouldn't expect to make any money off of it at least in the beginning since I don't know how well they would perform. As I make progress I could go into more detail about what I'm working on and I could send you some clips that I put together so you could see how I end up implementing it if I can get it to turn out good. Thanks for reading, Great stuff!

@benzmobil 2 года назад

I'm not sure which I like more nymphes or take 5. You manage to make the sound absolutely fantastic.

@jemgel1162 2 года назад

listened to this on a rainy ocean morning, went so well with the vibe! thank you!

@Dynatronsynth 2 года назад

I saw this video and I fell in love. The Nymphes is coming home. Thanks for the beautiful music 🙏🏻😊

@guilessa 2 года назад

Amazing sounds! I'm really thinking about getting the nymphes.

@_alexxon 2 года назад

holy...this nymphes looks so simple, but sounds unbelievable warm and tight...maybe it's its simplicity that makes it unique.

@watchaddicts1213 2 года назад

I listen to this track, on average, about 3 times per day. I suppose I will until the day comes when my Nymphes arrives in the mail.

@synchronisticmelanatedmysitic 2 года назад

Bruh amazing second time listening I think this will be a song I listen to regularly throughout my life

@ResAffolterSoundproductions 2 года назад

This does so so well!!! Thx Jay 🙏🏻🌈🕊✨🌿🌸🦄

@JasonStayanchi 2 года назад

I have lost track of how many times I listened to this.

@Sicolirics Год назад

y yo

@ToyKeeper 2 года назад

Nymphes is such an odd device. It can map aftertouch to chord type, and has a UI so complex that even Loopop can't operate it reliably. It seems okay for basic polysynth duty though, with the core functions being reasonably straightforward. And the basics are most of what people really need. But as a firmware author who designs interfaces for embedded devices, I'd like to have a talk with the Dreadbox team sometime.

@vvcv__00 4 месяца назад

Very nice! Just one suggestion, but of course I don't mean to say it's a 'rule' or anything. But anyway, be careful with using reverb in stereo. You can end up with a wide sounding unity which degrades a lot of the instrument's punch up the middle-which is achieved via mono. Mono is more often better than stereo until the final mastering. Then again, this is just a 'jam' so it's kinda like 'why not'. And, of course, the rules (in a creative field) are, that there are no rules. :DD

@ryanholmberg Год назад

If this was in a bad movie, it would make it a good movie. Suuuuch a vibe

@Jin-Hu 2 года назад

Beautiful Jay, once again, my gratitude for your gift to us all. Times have been tough on this little rock in the galaxy, what you do makes a huge difference to us.

@Sicolirics Год назад

1- GR1+Empress+Nymphes+Nightsky+Keystep = 2391 eur 2- Arturia Polybrute = 2444 eur With that configuration I consider the following what to choose ? Polybrute is currently a bomb in the ambient field

@EZBOT_ 2 года назад

So good!

@KingKass2929 4 дня назад

This song is perfection.

@AlfonsoMuchacho 2 года назад

Jay this is probably the best jam I've ever seen on RU-vid, just two synths but such an enormous sound. Goosebumps.

@New_Zealand_Music 2 года назад

Gosh yes those Strymon pedals are brilliant aren't they. Thank you for the beautiful music it was lovely. Hope you're well. But as I'm no longer working because I'm not well. I can't afford expensive pedals anymore full stops on one of those guys that have have a couple of Zoom Ms-Cdr's. And my old verbzilla. Which I think still works fine. Some of this mini Alesis, and boss rack effects. In the 1980s and early 1990s. My country only got 3% of the world's total musical output to listen too. I'm so grateful for websites like RU-vid and SoundCloud. But some of the best music is made by unsigned artist. I don't like having music sold at me, if you know what I mean. I mean obviously I would buy someone's work. That's respect. I like to find the hidden gems like this. Aren't Dreadbox great! Lol. And on q Sonicstate reviewing of. Nymhpes, he said that everyone seems to be moving to Berlin, because he said Dreadbox might be. So I said to Nick when are you going? Lol. And when I finally have the courage. I'll start uploading some of my music

@ambiyond1155 2 года назад

What a lovely pairing of the granular synth with the Nymphes, and the duo of effect boxes. Is there a 12 minute version? 😄

@JayHosking 2 года назад

Hah! Maybe one day. More of both coming, though!

@MidlifeSynthesist 2 года назад

Man the nymphes sounds epic! And it looks so tiny next to the nightsky lol. Thanks for the early christmas present, this was lovely🙌🏻 happy holidays bro!

@eriecanary1916 2 года назад

Subscribed! Love all the ambient stuff. I noticed you've used a couple different keystep models and was wondering, is the keybed on the mini keystep the same as the one on the keystep pro (just less of them obviously)?

@architectofthemachine 2 года назад

Im curious about your chord progression, it was so beautiful

@Krilin84 2 года назад

Beautiful, the GR-1 really adds something special to the atmosphere.

@suntzu6122 2 года назад

Well shit. This was niceeeee. Im not usually going for the ambient stuff, either.

@LoVeAmBiEnT Год назад

Can anyone tell me which chords he’s playing? Would love to learn some new chords

@watchaddicts1213 2 года назад

Here's a new comment/question: At just about the moment of clicking BUY on the Empress Reverb, I got sidetracked by the Strymon NightSky...way sidetracked. So, the old Going to a Deserted Island (deserted but all electrical needed for a killer studio) and. you can only take one. Rats. Which would you take with you, Empress or NightSky? Thanks!

@JayHosking 2 года назад

Empress. It's far more versatile, and works better as a traditional reverb. NightSky is special and does a few things really well, but the Empress is hard to beat as an all-arounder.

@watchaddicts1213 2 года назад

@@JayHosking thank you, Sir. I, too am persuaded that Empress Reverb will amount to Max Joy Per Studio Hour. Something about the physical appearance of NightSky that’s intoxicating! Perhaps I’ll buy a large, suitable for framing portrait of NightSky…to go wit my new Empress Reverb. Thanks! Mark

@watchaddicts1213 7 месяцев назад

I had to resort to PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY (a HAMMOND B3); got too old to be effective on either end of the Roll-R-Carry Dolly. I gotta make a new comment, so bye.

@ronnie_cutmore Год назад

that was wonderful. you made my night. thank you

@lundsweden Год назад

I think it's amazing that they could fit a great sounding, 6 note polysynth in a package this small. Certainly great for desktop jams!

@stylusnation 2 года назад

Man, I just keep coming back to this video, it’s heavenly. I love my GR-1, use it mostly for longform drone pieces, but I love the way you’ve paired it with the Nymphes to give this piece so much more movement & depth with the samples you’ve chosen. Awesome.

@architectofthemachine 2 года назад

ouaouzers dude amazing vid thank you

@aaronazz 6 месяцев назад

Really nice. Thanks.

@johnnyo8471 Год назад

Amazing work friend😊

@thisriver 2 года назад

Love it, got a new sub mate

@i.syntaxerror 2 года назад

Beautiful , refreshing involving from begging to the end. Love it! Thank you for sharing.

@DECIMA1 2 года назад

This is delicious

@bigmanlizard7326 2 года назад

amongst the best ambient ive ever heard literally youre talented as fuck as for the nymphes its pretty baffling that its at that price point, good job dreadbox it sounds incredible

@Winterdagen 2 года назад

Another truly gorgeous piece Jay!

@5kMagic 2 года назад

Very cool man. Very cool.

@feelda303 2 года назад

very cool!

@grainyday 2 года назад

Man, this is what I feel . This music tells my life. I'm at the bottom of my life, there is no room to back off anymore.

@MarcWeertsMusic 2 года назад

Excellent stuff! I particularly love the atmospheric background sounds...

@LORANBELTRAM 6 месяцев назад

great !!!!

@BenVoigt Год назад

oh man, that outro... so good

@RikMaxSpeed 2 года назад

That’s a lovely gear collection! Great sound & composition.

@michaelkonomos Год назад

Gorgeous

@kdthartwich1423 Год назад

Perfect !!

@NateHorn 2 года назад

Gorgeous performance mate. I'm 100% sold on the sound of the nymphes but less so on the form factor - as a man of impecable synth taste how are you getting on with it from a tactile perspective?

@JayHosking 2 года назад

I had serious reservations about form factor before I tried it. In practice, I've found it to be a total non-issue, and find it really easy and intuitive to navigate. I never really use presets, so they've done something right in their UI overall. The only time I've felt I wanted more sliders was wanting to edit both envelopes while quickly alternating. It's a great setup-and sounds gorgeous-for those of us who like to keep it small!

@danm9561 3 месяца назад

The gr-1 sounds interesting, but I wonder if a 1010 lemon drop could sit in that spot and still get good results at a fraction of the cost

@JayHosking 3 месяца назад

Never tried the Lemon Drop, but people love the 1010 stuff. I would miss the interface, but you could be right!

@GuidoGautsch 11 месяцев назад

I spent about an hour on my Virus just now in an attempt to recreate that Nymphes patch and although I liked the result, it didn't really sound anything like this in the end (using the inbuilt FX). Any patch notes you could share per chance? 😅 👉👈

@GuidoGautsch 11 месяцев назад

just tried something sneaky and it kind of worked :D Took a snap of the vid and applied perspective warp to basically get a top down view of the Nymphes. Looks like it was a square wave 1/4 of the way to a triangle, with about 50% bit glide, sub and noise mostly turned down, a closed filter without resonance with the EG set to about 2/3. Difficult to know if the ADSR is controlling the amp or filter, but I think it's the filter, with a fast attack, slow decay, sustain turned down but resonance up. The amp sounds like it would be a slow attack and plenty of release. Might give that a crack tomorrow. I love the gentle breakup you get in this patch, sounds like fat saturation with the top fizzle tamed. Gorgeous stuff - this is what I wanted to capture and just couldn't quite achieve...

@cryptout 2 года назад

Very nice!

@applegarden2448 8 месяцев назад

tnx man

@Bfredproduction 2 года назад

Great !

@notsoquiet6598 2 года назад

Glad to see your channel growing, Jay.

@sir7707 2 года назад

NICE

@PiotrstrashcanŚmietnikPiotra Год назад

This is beautiful! If I may ask - so does it work this way that the companies reach out to you and provide their gear for a bit so that you could play with it for a little?

@JayHosking Год назад

Usually, I sell gear and use that money to buy other gear, which I sell in turn to buy others. Through this I've been trying a lot of gear and finding what works best for me. On very rare occasion, a company will send me a piece of gear, and I just keep it, but that almost never happens. And thanks!

@grindedfranz 2 года назад

beatiful, Id wish the nymphes had a stereo reverb, woulb be a instant buy then..

@ericpeters0n 2 года назад

It's a mono output! Add your choice of chorus pedal and reverb/delay and it's a true beauty. (The built in reverb is pretty disappointing)

@LoVeAmBiEnT 2 года назад

This made me get the night sky. So good on synths and guitar. Tried frippertronics with an El capistan on sos mode. As the loop degrades All through the night sky. Epic. Nymphes is last synth for a while. It’s a winner. Thx Jay. Ur Super talented

@LoVeAmBiEnT Год назад

I bought the nymphes as well. It’s a winning combo

@nitram.9621 2 года назад

Splendid

@LoVeAmBiEnT 2 года назад

Those chords. So very nice. Ugg. I really need to learn my way around a keyboard.

@LoVeAmBiEnT Год назад

Anyway you can reply and let me know which chords these are?? Please!!!!! 🙏

@skoulaman 2 года назад

Wow......

@lktlkt 2 года назад

NICE! Are you running all outs into a mixer?

@JayHosking 2 года назад

Directly into the audio interface on this one. I was travelling (hence the different setting)

@angeldc54 2 года назад

Beautiful!! Subscribed

@dtreestudio 2 года назад

HAUNTING..., very somber... and without resolution on last note. KOOL. THANKS!

@markozoric822 2 года назад

Beautiful sounds. Love it

@Mr.Tubster 2 года назад

Hey ya.. Chillastic!! 😎😍😎 insta subbed for sure.. Good one! Geez cya

@berndschneider8265 Год назад

had a rough time. your tune helped me a lot. thanks for that

@JayHosking Год назад

I really appreciate hearing it. Here's hoping that things are looking a little better. All the best.

@phazerbrains 2 года назад

Nightsky is amazing here.

@watchaddicts1213 7 месяцев назад

After ALL THIS TIME, Jay, THIS VIDEO remains the GOLD STANDARD where NUMPHES is concerned! There is NOT another on RU-vid that even comes close. Using your Instructions (a couple of messages down) IF I can master this patch, my mindset then would be BE: I would KEEP Nymphs for this Patch alone. I keep thinking I'm gonna sell it, cuz 'when I was a child, I had a fever,' and the Doc says, "THERE'S ONLY ONE CURE, SON....a NOVATION SUMMIT." That's my burden (w. m's b.). So, I was gonna let Typhon and Nymphes turn to cash, to assist in the Summit payout. As my dad loved to say, "Son...poor folks have poor ways." Regrettably, I am a pig and a greedy bastrad. Anyway...The Dreadbox Duo are still here, audtioning as would be Keepers. The Summit obsession can be hard to understand until you find out that it contains the AIR I need , for breathing. Thankfully, you are a man of means and thank the Lord for that! My suggestion then, would that you procure the LATEST MERIS MERCURY pedal--you'll find kit: it's a couple hundred MORE and maybe it's BLACK. Mainly, it's a BIG FAT UPDATE and NEW EXPANDED STUFF from the Ole Mercury. 7 (wasn't the number "7"... I think that's right). Anyway, I expect you're gonna find it, like better than pure Heroin. Thanks . Mark

@GoatForceGaming Год назад

What an absolutely incredible track... Blows me away every time when those warm waves come in. Thank you for sharing this art with us!

@New_Zealand_Music Год назад

Absolutely brilliant portable Compact set up. Absolutely love dreadbox. Looking at the Nymphes. But currently have the Typhon. Would be so great to scale down more. Thank you for sharing your art it was very enjoyable. Obviously not just for ambient. These inspire me to score science fiction, ot horror films. I guess not having a screen. And only reverb. Helps keep the price down. 🙏💜🐈

@felixtrashmusic7907 2 года назад

An only mono polysynth with reverb? Interesting. Beautiful ascending patch

@dillipphunbar7924 2 года назад

Nice setup (Loving all those devices) and wonderful performance. ty

@rickhopkinson 2 года назад

Hi this great! I’ve just got a Minilogue XD and a Wavestate and will be recording ambient performances soon. Please can I ask you how you recorded your audio into for this video? Did you record into a daw and then sync up with the separate visual footage?

@JayHosking 2 года назад

Yes, that's exactly right. Recorded audio to a DAW and video separately, and then used Davinci Resolve to edit them together. Best of luck!

@rickhopkinson 2 года назад

@@JayHosking Thanks Jay :-) I was wondering if thats the standard way of doing it or if there's easier ways... So I'm guessing my audio interface with only 2 inputs (Scarlett 2i2), is only going to allow one stereo synth audio signal at a time to be recorded.... Unless I ran both synths into my Yamaha MG12XU mixer desk and then the stereo out from that into the 2i2 , and finally into the DAW....? Apologies for the long question :-)

@starskypartridge1177 2 года назад

gorgeous as always. I actually just paired my Nymphes with Night Sky. Such a perfect combo

@_s.d.s._ Год назад

This is great. Love the build and the mood. This is also the first time I've really loved what I've heard come out of the Nymphes. 😍

@watchaddicts1213 2 года назад

Thanks to you, I would say… Solely thanks to you, My nymphes recently arrived in the mail. It would mean so much if you could share your settings for this incredible patch with me! Or if it’s for sale, so be it! Thanks. Mark

@JayHosking 2 года назад

Hey! That's amazing. I'm sorry, but I don't have the parameters written down anywhere. It's simply a saw with a slow attack, the filter cutoff turned down, and then a slow envelope on the filter to open it up.

@watchaddicts1213 2 года назад

That’s very helpful, Jay! I’ll work on it. Your track, more or less became an anthem. Nymphes is such a wonderful, unique-sounding synth.

@natevizzi2901 Год назад

Dude …. That was dope … you’re cool and … this did find me well …. I needed some sonic inspiration today …. Awesome

@tendingtropic7778 2 года назад

Merry christmas!

@JayHosking 2 года назад

Thanks! Merry Christmas to you!

@music4screens 2 года назад

Gritty, subtle, epic sounding demo of this synth. Congrats.

@TheParanoidAndroid79 Год назад

My favorite video with this synth so far. Love the cinematic feel. I've heard this synth compared to a Juno ad nauseum, but it definitely has its own character to my ears.