And worth a second comment, thanks for NOT using a goofy "OMG shocked facial expression" picture thumbnail for the video. You and Loopop might be the last 2 decent reviewers who haven't caved in to the trend. Seriously, it is much appreciated...
Haha… I think it’s probably highly detrimental to the channel but I Just can’t bring myself to do it! Honesty it feels so cheap. Maybe I’ll give it a go as a scientific test… my face would probably put people off anyway… a face for radio as my mother used to say 😂
@@StarskyCarr Well, pleeeeeease hold out as long as you can! I gave Tom over at Synthanatomy some ribbing for doing it, and he fully admitted he didn't like it, but it was just part of the synthfluencer routine nowadays. The goofier and faker the facial expression, the less likely I am to click the video. I must be an outlier...
No need for a soldering iron with the kit versions of those.. just screwing stuff together.. took me about 30 minutes for the Erebus kit. Understandable since their previous kits like the Dysmetria and so on did need soldering
Polyphonic Erebus (for a normal price) would be interesting! Other than that I don't hear anything that is "much cooler than Neutron". The biggest advantage is that Erebus can be powered via USB (as I've understood). Sometimes it's helpful.
@@StarskyCarr I think that Neutron is pretty special between many synths. Maybe wave-morphing isn't something really rare now. But it's filter is really great! The weak part is the overdrive but it can be ommited through patchbay.
Awesome review, thank you! Just ordered a Hades, it’s replacing a Minitaur. Can’t wait! It might be more narrow but what it does is sick and exactly what I’m looking for. It’ll be next to an Erica Bassline, Roland MC 707 & Tr-6s. For techno, cybertrance and electronica should be perfect
I like how you're holding the S∩BƎɹƎ. See what I did there? Add the Typhon, Nymphes, West Pest and East Beast, you're going to have a ton of sound for such little real estate. I love the sound of my Typhon, and it's fun to use live with those nicely sized knobs, rather than what other companies like Roland use on their boutiques. For the price of one good synth, you could have all these and have a much wider sonic pallet which for some, makes much better sense. Doesn't matter what you have though, just make some music!!!
It a tough one. I think on balance I'd keep the 2 voice one if pushed (the blue one - but to me there Erebus and Hades and I can never remember which is which... think its the Erebus!)
I was taken by the Erebus at first, (I never heard of this brand until today and that Erebus demo) but now I hear what hades can do and now I cannot decide!!
Great overview! Bought a couple of the new Erebuses (Erebi?) to stick in my Waldorf KB37. Though I had a bunch of Dreadbox modules in it previously, the overhead and cable clutter is now nicely reduced. It's probably the closest I'll get to a Dreadbox keyboard.
Thanks, it’s nice when folks notice the effort. These take ages, but it’s nice to make something useful and hopefully entertaining. Really great to read comments like this. Cheers.
Competent people will make everything sound impressive (not saying that they aren't). I'd need more than the two little synths and a couple of minutes in order to get those results. I'm imagining a "counter-review" of someone such as myself.. wouldn't make those little beasts sound nearly as enticing - believe that! For synths I usually always start with presets and tweak it from there. PS: I got a general understanding of ADSR from doing a little Drum and Riser-FM with the Ableton Stock (Operator), but there's a lot more to understand and utilize (again and again and again) until one can get those sounds as intuitively and fast as you are. Where my synth-capabilities fail me, I make up for it with post-synth-processing. What can I say? I'm lazy. I go with what I know..
@@StarskyCarr you know I probably should. And I do a lot of the things I should do. They are just so many things. Unfortunately plenty of the things I should do are currently more urgent 😅. And when I'm NOT doing what I should I often choose being entertained instead of enlightened. Let me remain unknowledgeable and in awe some more please - knowledge is not as comforting as ignorance (well, sometimes it is).
Starkey Carr is certainly an expert on sythersizors and thats his job and is very good at it hence the 45k subcount, He didn't come here as a Newbie so not to sure why your compering yourself to Him, prehaps if you make hundreds of videos and use Hundreds of different sythersizors over a span of over a decade then maby you might be as skilled as Starsky. I do know sythersizors have used them decades and can make them sound great but Starsky is still alot more knowledgeable on sythersizors then Me, and thats fine.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I think we have a communication issue here. I'm not all sad and comparing myself as if I would need to know nearly as much about using synths at all. If that is what you think I was doing, you are misinterpreting what I was trying to convey. I tried to convey that what you get out of such "simple synths" will be determined by your skill more than anything. I think when people hear skilled artists like Starsky use such gear, they get a distorted idea of what the gear can do for them. It's the skill that makes it look so easy. It is not easy for the regular chap. And he could absolutely do that with stock-plugins too (it wouldn't look so cool though). But I phrased that message in a subtler way - obviously it was too subtle. Once more: I was admiring his skill, while pointing out that the very same gear would not be nearly as impressive and thus useful in my hands. I thought that was a clever balance of being positive about the video, yet real to newbies who think spending 500 Bucks on a synth will make them sound like this.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I’d say Phatty but in a smaller form factor. I’d buy the erebus in a blink of an eye if it had midi CC. Which my slim phatty does have. So nice to control it with an elektron sequencer or similar.
Both great little physical sythersizors however for music production I think software is always going to be quicker far easier to modulate and easy to edit. I like to have modulation in My sythersizor and to do that with these I'd have to send it midi and then record the audio of Me manually modulating and getting it perfect no mistakes or I'd to do it over again and for a 4 to 7 minute song it might take forever. Physical sythersizors are fun but I dont use them in My music production other then being sampled.
Software is so much handier, I agree. I went totally in the box about 10 years ago and sold almost everything I had. Somehow though it didn’t give me the same enjoyment. But definitely software can do anything you want.
@@StarskyCarr I had mostly been in the box for over 10 years but decided I wanted a decent vertion of a hardware Dawless and computerless setup. Novation MiniNova, Peak, and Behringer Monopoly, Reverb, looper, distortion, Flanger pedals and a little mixer, but as yet not actually been able to put it all together.
If you have Cubase you can set up the external synth so it works similar to a vst in the daw. The midi and audio routing is set up and ready to go as you create the track. Then the inspiration from playing with hw takes you to places sw won't. Good idea to own one or two hw as 100% ITB can make you bored and less productive.
