Hardware: Ela Minus’ Colorful Rig Is a Small Orchestra of Synths 

Raton Perez

Eaton Perez!

@@TUO__ Wow, you've just spent most of your vocabulary there. Lol

I'd say that's only true as long as you already have huge experience like Ela. I find it extremely helpful - especially as a novice - to have some visual representation of things like an envelope, waveshape, mod sources etc.. People seem to forget that beginners don't easily remember what each section does and how it affects sound. So it helps a lot to get into synthesizers and explore them further. One reason why I use my Waldorf Blofeld much less than my Deepmind or my Wave 2 - despite its great sound - is how it does such a poor job at giving visual representation. It doesn't even matter if it is screens or many distinct LEDs - I just simply prefer to know what is going on. The same applies with software synths: Synths like Vital or Pigment are just great with their visual representation. I don't see how such obvious drawbacks of (some) poorly designed synths should be praised. Good synth design doesn't prevent you from listening. Though I see that mere "track editing" at a laptop can stifle the creative process - but thats nothing that is required at a laptop. After all, the MPC is also just a very underpowered computer with a decent control surface - there is no essential difference to a good, well integrated MIDI controller at a laptop/PC.

Exactly! That is why no self respecting composer or orchestra uses sheet music 🙂

That's funny, it also just popped up on my recommendations. And I saw her open for Austra in Canada a few years ago at a small venue. Think she may have played drums with them for a song.

for those who want to see ela perform drums: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wffthf0RXYU.html

Trust you to be here. You are the man who made me buy the Analog Rtym back when it came out. It's a pity my tastes have gone towards extremely minimalistic synthwave style music, because the Rytm is capable of glitchy mayhem like very few other pieces of kit.

Trust him to be here as well. Love seeing people's DAWless setups and they use them to make eclectic music. It's just so awe inspiring. Yes Cuckkos has sold me some great gear as well. I've learned so much from him.

Satyan Patel ❤️

i absolutely love all your videos, i've seen them all. this means so much to me. thank you : )

Ela Minus well thank you so much!! I hope our roads will cross one day. It’d be fantastic meeting you, and catch one of your performances live! Keep it up!

I remember people going back to their hardware sequencers from Cubase on an Atari ST 25 years ago for the very same reason.

At the same time it's a bit contradictory. Not playing a keyboard and instead rely more on button pressing and sequencing being more Rhytm and pattern based and less chords, "aftertouch", modulation wheel bending and melody playing is not "more tactile" in my view. You can get maximum expression if adding a good midi keyboard controller with a great feeling keybed and using velocity sensitivity, after touch, mod wheel, pitch bending etc. Something not in her setup here! Not that you still will have a tactile experience with her setup (you do!). It's just that I think the most important component of that is missing. (We can all agree that staring at a screen and using a mouse to turn virtual knobs is the least tactile thing no matter what).

That and getting away from the EM radiation, blue light, ect. Much easier on the eyes. It is valuable to be forced to use your ears, turn off quantize or just experience another route and learn from it. That said, you can still make music with your ears with a pc a much less screen time if you know key shortcuts or set up midi control surfaces, synths ect. Im liking the po-33 ko screen. Its like a cheap handheld game from 1993. Great little sampler with some limitations like 8bit, quantize only, and being monophonic, but is more immediate than the MPC and there are lessons and workarounds for all but the 8bit aspect, which isnt necessarily bad.

@@Magnus_Loov What works for her may not for you. Honestly I've seen street musicians banging pots and pans express themselves better than musicians with a "traditional" setup.

I guess something like an sp404 could also be used without that visual representation? Im not sure. Id love to have and know more gear that isnt reliant on a computer like a midi keyboard

I didn’t know she was Colombian until right now that I heard her speak in English and said: she has to be from Bogotá!

They are ! The Kia Ora comes out in March 19 I think

Ha! Well we've been driving their cars for almost a decade now and they are great value. If they made synths I'd expect the same...

2021 and Behringer release a car, it looks identical to a 911 but costs only 7k 😂

Lol

Y’all joking, but Yamaha is having the real laugh.

We think it makes perfect sense!

@@originellername3062 Bro, I am an old fart and I started playing with music tech in the 90's. I will never be a huge artist, I am not interested in just being able to do anything and I have used many DAWS. Started with Cubase (when I could eventually afford it) have used Logic, and ProTools coupled with a huge SSL desk while at a college for a while. Hardware is what I enjoy, and the challenge of getting them to talk to each other is part of that. I don't understand why some people think there can be only one right way to do stuff.

@@DocBolus GET the new MPC!!! WOW

Do you know what kind of case that is / what to Google to find something like that? I've been struggling to figure out a set up just like this.

@@MicahT Look for pedal board cases. I bought a "CNB PDC 410G SSL Pedal Case" new from ebay for $69 USD. I don't do analog, but I was able to cram two Arturia Keysteps, an old Yamaha Drum Machine, a Behringer 4-input Audio Interface, a power strip, a space for my netbook, a foot pedal, and all of my MIDI Splitters and Audio Chords. If you're lucky you might be able to find a used pedal board case with the power supply built in for cheap.

@@murve33 Thanks! Flight cases are overkill for what I need, but this might just be perfect.

Caleb Joseph MPC!!

hmmm what does MPC stand for?

Zoroark 420 Get a MPC LIVE! !

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Hybrid is best! Best of both worlds!

Colin Rupprecht Google FORAT MPC CUSTOM. ;)

Sounds Colombian