Can a Modern Synth Inspire New Ideas? 

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Well you beat me to it. I was going call it Alien Space Disco.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

Go home, ya dirty Nimby

Yes, I agree. Give yourself the opportunity to discover something.

Thank you Arvid, much appreciated.

Yes, Alex does an amazing job of getting musicality out of whatever he's working with. That's something that a lot of people struggle with. Granted, these are edited RU-vid videos, but he makes it look SO easy!

Yeah, there is some truth to this statement.

Hell yeah, this homie is brilliant, I usually think people suck, Alex rules

I try not to think of that as it’s too depressing😢. Very true though.

It ticks all the boxes !

I read this in Florian's voice. Shows how good his branding is. :)

@@AlexBallMusic I was just about to comment on his comment, "Thanks, Florian!" 🤣 You guys should do another collab!

i'm sincerely happy that florian is a name

I lovesch a bit of binaural.

Shmoke and Pancakesh

Sean Connery has entered the chat. 😆

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Haha. Yes!

Thanks Vincent. By the looks of the comments, most are positive and I appreciate the honest replies that are not. This was an experiment after all.

Cheers Will

Swing or sing?

Yeah, I thought it was just interesting in an experimental kinda way until the vocals came in, then it congealed into something more awesome.

@@AlexBallMusic both I’ll say, that part brought me back to the 80’ ties funky disco dance music. Could listen to that all day😀😀. Hit material for sure!

Yeah, a lot of ideas and a few nods to some classics.

Thank you! Yes, I'd been dying to try one.

"Lebowski rug" - I'm stealing that!

9 is the new 7.

Thanks Audrey!

Cheers! Yes, quick and easy if you want, but also some button pressed and knob twists later and you're somewhere totally new.

Thanks Paul. Yes, I was hoping this would be a fruitful exploration even if it just challenged my mindset. The result was less important than that. 303 - funnily enough I had thought of seeing if there was a way to reinvent the 303 in the same way that it was reinvented back in the mid 80s.

Looking forward to that!

Thanks Peter. It actually works nicely with four octaves and I usually get annoyed by that.

Thanks Lance! Glad you enjoyed the off piste adventure!

Thanks very much!

Hey Scott. Glad to hear!

Scott, you Wake Up My Life 🤣 Love your music! 🤙🏻

@@project-95 ❤️

Yep, I went where it took me having posed the question. For good or bad I thought it worth poking around.

Thank you Bill, much appreciated.

Yeah, very cool feature.

Hydrasynth has polyphonic aftertouch?

@@lundswedenyes it has.

The UDO 6 can now respond to MPE for poly aftertouch. There is a desktop module version that could compliment a keyboard with poly aftertouch such as the NI Komplete Kontrol 3. Could use a synth as the keyboard such as the Hydrasynth or Waldorf Iridium Keyboard. All good. I have a Hydrasynth, Iridium Keyboard and UDO 6 desktop.

@@mrfuzztonehow do you love the combo of the iridium and super 6. I have wet dreams about the blue keyboard version but fear I’m going to regret getting the desktop for MPE. I was thinking about getting the desktop and iridium keyboard or hydrasynth explorer

Thanks for the opinion Gert.

I got that too. Sounds like it cuts great in a mix.

Ballpop "Get your mind outta the gutter and your hands on a synthemasizer!"

Ballpop it is. ;)

Totally agree, he's got such a great ear for synths. Great imagination :)

I would classify this as Braindance, as it sounds like something that someone in the IDM scene has already come out with, and they probably did it 20 years ago.

Kinda sounds like experimental yugoslavian or soviet music tbh

Thanks, glad it was interesting.

Thanks Bruno.

Thank you for the thoughts! I'll have to mull that over.

Before I got some effects pedals I used my microKORG in vocoder mode with my guitar a lot for effects… heh. So I really loved when he plugged guitar into this! Guitar pedals with synths on the output, and synths as pedals for guitars on the input, always go well together :)

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In Germany we use the word Karacho it means to do something with punch, power or fast. I did not know it means dope in spanish. Ha Ha

As we say in California "It was da BOMB!"

Thanks for the multi-national praise. :)

@@peter-utrblk nice, some say "caracho" here when they dont wanna say the actual curse. I guess in a way we're speakind german (wich is a common name gere, by the way, Germán)

@@jawoody9745 re piola, guacho

Thanks. Often throw in a little chorus of vocals at the end as a send off.

Haha. You sound smitten. :)

I know exactly how you feel Jon! I’ve been following this synth since it made the trade show rounds a few years ago. I’ve only bought £300-500 synths before, so I’ve never even contemplated a ~£2000 unit. But my gosh is the Super 6 tempting. The keybed is no joke either, the manufacturer’s standalone MIDI controllers with similar specs are £800-1000 by themselves. If I only ever bought one premium synth, I really do feel it could be this one, it grabs me much more than the competitors. I’m trying to assess the viability of having this at the centre of my other softsynths and synth modules, connected various ways by MIDI. In addition to just recording the output of the Super 6 directly or running it through effects pedals of course. Eg I imagine my mini-synths, which require menu diving by themselves, could with the right MIDI parameter assignment also work very well with this acting as their controller. I’ve not been interested in buying a MIDI slider board to supplement their existing mini keyboards, but playing them on full size keys with all these knobs could be game-changing. And of course that’s on top of really loving the Super 6’s sound! In fact it might actually eclipse a couple of my minis, such as the microKORG which is emulating a lot of what the Super 6 does in hardware… but these are just things I’m thinking about, assuming that my minis would still have their unique elements too. Certainly the reface DX or other FM modules could go amazingly, if I can tweak parameters and switch algorithms from the Super 6 control panel.

Haha, yeah it's fun seeing the LED bubbling away.

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@@imlxh7126 AYYY

I think so!

Have you been good enough for Santa to deliver?

@@AlexBallMusic hahahahaha

:)

As a child of the Master System (the original, not the II, I might add), Sonic is always in my subconscious.

Thanks Tom. Yes, I thought this was a more interesting thing to explore.

We should make that movie. ;)

Cheers Ian, much appreciated. It will be used in some other videos for sure, probably in more typical ways. :)

@@AlexBallMusic 👍

Ho Devon. Yes, that's the dividing factor for sure, doing something we've not done before is going to sound unexpected or unusual at first.

Cheers!

"If in doubt, wobble it about." Dave Smith, inventor of Midi.

@@AlexBallMusic I love a good wobble.

Paper and comb are on my purchase list funnily enough. Just weighing up the Moog or the Sequential.

I think so!

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Summit has that feature as well

The joys of CCs.

Cheers!

Ah thanks. I'm glad it came across that way and that's it's inspired you to do the same!

Agree 100%, really nails that vibe

Yeah, come a very long way! I remember seeing that initial peak.

Thanks. I hope you enjoyed the binaural experience.

Cheers!

Haha, great description.

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Thank you. I'll stick it up there.

Thanks Glenn.

Is "more tuba" the new "more cowbell"?

9 is the new 7.

Cheers :)