Hologram Microcosm: Make anything sound cinematic 

I an whip out a Bitwig Grid device doing the same thing within 30 minutes or so.

All True , but not so great for intuitive improv live looping performance scenarios. Switching a signal flow fx chain with one switch vs wasting 30 min staring at a screen while eye tracking the mouse cursor. Pretty sure that if you only read the manual it will make you a better music maker. All for free. Its all a matter of priorities. Your comment is true but its adds nothing. This device shows a perfect balance between engineering, programming and creative expression . It tells a lot about the creators. Look i bought a new car. Well if you walk. Its free.

@@MultiMam12345 I think op's comment was informative, and could help a lot of creators out there. Many people these days have gotten their workflow super fast within their daw, so this might be new information to some of them. - it's really not up to anybody to tell anyone how they should pursue their improv or creativity. Midi control freaks can make magic happen within a daw! that being said, im a wire, knobs and spaceship kinda guy, and definitely getting one of these! Sounds amazing

Yeah of course it sounds good, but a bit too much of a "magic black box" effect for me. Sounds like anyone can do cool ambient music with it, which is nice in a way but.... also kind of a pre chewed creativity device.

leave them in the black with their little "analog" devices and no recall

What games have you done? Would love to check it out

@@ApolloSuns I have mostly done slot games these past 6-7 years. Did everything for ELK studios and nowadays I work at a company called Nolimit City

That is so cool that you did slot game music! I'm always wondering who writes those tunes

@@loveit8602 hehe I am :) woop woop

@Jakob Nielsen Sorry dude, no need for help over here. But depending on where you live etc you should check with various gaming companies to see if they need help with sounds/music.

Yeah I get it..the whole story is already outlandish. Want to try an uncensored version and non.

What I always wonder is; are these just rehashed versions of Ocean’s 12 and the such, with a new-face, and the word “Algorithm” thrown in for shock factor!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Could you name a few plugins?

@@broederharry2534 Audiority GrainSpace does the job !

Neural DSP has something like this built in with the delay and reverb section.

If you do, may I suggest to share it with a stranger creator once in a while :)

Compared to CB Habit?

I honestly read it like that until looked closely.

Glad you enjoy it!

so far everything I've heard coming out of it... I've heard regularly coming out of my DAW for the past few years. A few of my favorite plugins can do these and hundreds of variations. Valhalla DSP has a lot of plugins, even free ones that can get these sounds with a few clicks of my mouse. You just have to know the proper terminology of the effects. Shimmer, Verb, Lo-Fi, Flanger, Delay, Echo.... all these terms put into any search engine, any daw will lead you to these sounds you hear on the video... throw the term vintage in the mix and people will look at you like you know what you're doing. When you have no earthly idea... if anyone actually throws money at this marketing scheme... they simply haven't read enough books growing up and I blame their parents for being complete dolts. :( but hey, that's what makes consumerism great... where would we be without all the stupid running around here? You know?

@@austonsmith536 We all have our favorite tools. I'm happy for you that you've found excellent tools that work well for you. What I find interesting is that different tools lead us to different workflows, and this produces creative results that we might not otherwise have thought of. For example, although I have several marimba sample libraries which are really excellent, I find the experience of playing a physical marimba leads me to be creative in different ways than playing a marimba sample from a keyboard. I believe that one can turn out great music both ways, but we are all very privileged to live in a time when there are so many excellent choices for creative expression. I also feel exceedingly grateful that I have a career that allows me to occasionally splurge on things like the Microcosm (or an actual marimba), because it certainly leads me to different creative results than I might otherwise achieve.

@@austonsmith536 yeah but using a DAW is boring as shit in my opinion got sick of that crap after 15 years of making music in the box I don’t ever wanna touch a mouse… if I don’t have to click a mouse then that’s a good thing. I want to plug in my guitars and synths right into the box and have at it not even comparable to plug-ins there is something so much more satisfying having the pedal right in front of you. Also my little modular rig just absolutely destroys any type of VST on the market not even comparable but it’s just my opinion though I’m not knocking your opinion at all if that’s what you like than hell yeah go make some music

Absolutely. Calling it a “pedal” is an understatement. It’s another instrument.

Smug twat says whaaaa?

I think it should be somewhere around 20 - 22fps, giving it the stop motion effect.

It's not filmed in 24 fps. Instead, I assume that this was originally filmed at 60 fps or some other high framerate and the excess frames were cut out afterwards in order to give it that feel of a lower framerate, hence removing the motion blur as another reply pointed out.

@@matthew1550 that would me more related to the shutter speed then frame rate

@@rioforce Oh that actually makes a lot more sense. My bad.

Nothing to to with the frame rate but more with the shutter speed. For a a 25fps video, a standard shutter should be at 1/50. Here it’s probably around 1/100. Gives that "Saving private Ryan beach sequence" effect.

It’s not too bad if you read the manual. It really shines if you listen and collaborate with what the pedal is doing. That’s what it’s meant for.

I think so too!

That’s something a shopper would say.

this would be amazing to use with the fiddle!

Do it! It's easier than you think. Scoring your own content gives it a more authentic vibe IMO.

Thought the same thing instantly 😂

Exactly I mentioned the same thing people that complain about this pedal are obviously just lacking talent and creativity unfortunately you know new gear is not gonna solve the problem

Pedal Looper? I must’ve missed that he didn’t talk about that did he?

@@GuitarUniverse2013 sadly a lot of reviews skip that feature.

@@GuitarUniverse2013 He did at the end, briefly.

I loved Hilda so much! And yes, I loved the soundtrack too.

$459 USD, About what I would expect!

I got one used for $380 shipped which isn't exactly common but I think they're overall coming down in price a bit on the used market.

I've been in love with that thing for quite a while but yeah not only is it expensive but even if i had the money it's not available in my country :D

@@iliatilev Probably can get it used off ebay for cheaper and in your country

@@iliatilev you can buy it directly from Hologram Electronics and they will include shipping and import duties in the final price, that way you only have to order and wait for it to get to you.

Yep with its pastels and button-driven interface.

@@jimbailey1122 can probably buy a chunk of fx pedals that will produce the same effect for a fraction of the price. But it is one pretty little box.

It's definitely worth going back and watching Dave's other videos. I have learned so much about sampling and using Kontakt from this channel. It is time really well spent, IMHO.

good thinking. Plus HE does not accept returns. And there are other choices out there that do if it's not your game.

wait... what? like plays it back reversed? gonna have to do some manual reading haha. I've had it for almost a year and didn't know that. I knew you could reverse the looper playback, but not like live effects!

@@alexanderlane Yeah, I see now its on the pedal above the knob it says forward/reverse

@@surrealchemist Holy cow, I feel dumb. For some reason I always interpreted that as like related to the order it scrolled through the algorithms or something..

The problem is that everything is very convoluted, very small knobs to tweak so many parameters. On the positive side it can add dirt to your sounds, but other than some nice pingpong delays or some frozen reverbs there is not much you can consider exclusive, whereas microcosm IS just microcosm, in my experience no other pedal does what the microcosm does.

There are lots of great affordable vsts which do this kind of thing! Audiority GrainSpace and Arturia Fragments are both very inspiring

Try a free vst called "deelay"

@@trashbag8443 Thanks for your suggestion, GrainSpace in particular does indeed look interesting, it's definitely one to consider.

@@NoyaD9 I checked-out Deelay after your suggestion and I thought it seemed cool, but perhaps not amazing. Since then I've recently seen it featured in a Venus Theory 'Free VST round-up' video from a couple of months ago and it far outdid my expectations. I'm absolutely going to download it. Thanks for your suggestion.

I think he's just not required to make a video. But yeah, it's definitely their hope!

Oh, they definitely wanted me to, they just didn’t explicitly ask. ;)

check out Ina GRM Plug-ins. especially Freezer does similar Processings

But then you wouldn’t have it for easy hipster likes in your videos

@@Sorcerers_Apprentice_11 I don’t have any videos atm. And… I don’t see myself as a hipster bion. I need glasses because I have poor eye sight. I’ve lost most of my hair on top and grew a beard to compensate the hair loss. It’s just coincidence that my aesthetic is similar to that of a hipster.

@@carlix8035 wasn’t referring to you directly just the notion of having a device like this that draws in the hipsters.

They have it. Some is impressive.

That's exactly what I want my pedal to do though

Sold 😂

Behringer reverb machine sounds a lot like this , it’s 30 quid

@@smoli Then you can start begging for patreon like the rest of them!