I do like these plugins a lot - but one moan about sales, it makes people who buy at full price feel like chumps, to the point that really nobody should ever buy at list price unless they really need it for a paid project...
This seems like the kind of machine that you could compose masterpieces on, while under the influence, and then wake up the next day and delete the recordings.
NGL, I do this dance with some frequency with fantastic gear. Gin, in particular, seems to make everything I make sound temporarily epic, until the sleep reset that is.
@@defcreator187 did you even watch til the end because considering the sounds it was making, the track at the end was decent and showed that the synth is still useable. Plus, when you get a new synth or toy the first thing you do is mess around with it to explore what noises it can make. That’s clearly what Hainbach is doing here. He literally just opened the box.
@@defcreator187 I think you may be missing the point of what Hainbach does. You do not need to do cover versions and ‘complex’ sequences and song structures to be an artist. Art is different things to different people but someone can still be an artist even if you don’t necessarily like what they do. It’s not up to you. It’s still art even if it’s not your cup of tea. You don’t have to like everything. You simply go and find something else that you do like, rather than complaining about the things that you don’t like.
send it to vienna, sounds like this one needs the Bad Gear treatment 😄 edit: would love to hear it run through a filter with an envelope, like the one on the elektron analog heat
I would love to see Florian and Hainbach do a collab or temp exchange of synths, I'd be very curious what odd piece of gear Florian might have that would excite Hainbach to play around on
This is truly one of the most ear-piercing synthesizers I've encountered. For experimental, ambient, or possibly soundtracks this might be a useful tool, but for everything else....yikes!
I don't see why people say it sounds like crap. I love it, honestly, it sounds very Italian prog rock to me. At 3:26 it brings to mind Le Orme's Felona E Sorona, at other places it reminds me of Goblin, and even some other great albums/bands such as Cervello and Alphataurus. Well, even some Canterbury prog bands used it, such as Caravan and Matching Mole. It has its own peculiar tasty sounds, IMHO
Exactly. I loved it. I wanna be a drunkard with 666 Euros in the pocket in Germany now. Well, I am in Germany but I don't drink and I have to still pay the rent this month so is not gonna happen :(
So glad someone said this. I immediately got excited when I heard it and was like "That's the Italian prog synth tone!!!" I've never heard of this thing until just now but it already has a place in my heart.
What a ludicrous machine! Do I want one? No. Am I glad it exists and has found a home with someone who can make use of its madness? Yes! Fantastic video, made me laugh out loud in a couple of places!
Also used by the late Klaus Dinger (NEU!, La Düsseldorf, kennen Sie natürlich) f.ex. the lead melody on "Silver cloud". Great video of an interesting keyboard.
too bad this cunning spring released "hand pedal" has never been taken up by any other manufacturer. In my opinion, iit's a killer and in many play situations way better than the traditional mod wheels or pads! And definitely perfect for any italo-kraftwerko. Toll !
@@ParkerP yes you could absolutely modify a mod or pitch wheel by adding some kind of damper. this could be as simple as fitting a spring washer (or some kind of felt or rubber) to your wheels potentiometer shaft or as complicated as attaching an off the shelf rotational or horizontal damper to your mod/pitch wheel with a mechanical linkage.
Before I play this video I wonder, "can this be worse than the Timbre Wolf?"..... The answer is no, this still sounds more interesting and you can make goblin horror music with it.
Whenever i see a Davolisint, i think of a Polish progressive rock / fusion / jazz group called SBB, especially in their early years (until about 1976-1977). Their instrumental work (up until 1980) is extraordinary and futuristic (only 3 musicians most of the time) and you can clearly hear what that primitive Davolisint could do in hands of the virtuoso (Jozef Skrzek). In their early years, they didn't have the resources/means to buy more advanced synths so they used the Davolisint and Minimoog to their full potential. The Davolisint can be clearly heard on their first three albums and on "Nagrania dla WFDiF". I really recommend the latter one as it is much more outstanding and explorative than most of their official albums. The Davolisint also seriously got me into DIY synth making as i got to hear what 2 simple, low pitched, slightly detuned square waves could do. I'd buy the Davolisint for a reasonable price, drunk or sober. Loving Italian drum machines and synths. That dream box 15 drum machine is also GREAT, i'd really like to have it in my collection :D Sounds like it had a phaser processing all the hihats and snares
some people make terrible music with good synths, think about that! EDIT: I take everything back, this is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life 🤣
Brilliant - I remember buying one of these things when it first came out! I hooked it up to my WEM Copicat, and an Electric Mistress pedal, and got some fun sounds out of it. Amazed there are still some of these still around and working...
I LOVE IT!!! It may be just wishful thinking, but it even looks like the physical feeling of playing the keys would be fun. There’s something about analog that can never be replaced by digital (synthesizers, music recordings, cell phones…). Thanks for sharing this!
WHAAAAAAT 660 euro????? I either still have one in storage or it's been binned. Bought for £25 in 1985. Looks cool, sounds like cr*p. I only had two tape decks to do overdubs and only an occasionally borrowed delay pedal in terms of effects. It sounds better than I remember tbh but thats probably in my brain filed under 'things I hate' 😜. Sad to think that after the apocalypse there will just be the toughest of mutant cockroaches and Davolisint's left. Bands will be formed and aliens will look on in wonder, wondering why the entire planet wasn't destroyed.
@@candykrackenmysteryboutiqu388 I can’t begin to tell you how robust those things are. It’s 3/4 inch wood and steel. Ya know how things which might attract you to a synth might be, say, a good sound, flexibility, portability. The question needs to be asked, is there anything this ‘synth’ *CAN* do 😂. Poor post apocalyptic mutant roaches, it’s all they will have.
He paid 666 Euros! The synth is called Davolini and he offered the amount over silver that is known as the number of the beast. So it is only fitting he won.
I think you got a great deal for the price! I'm jealous. I love rare synths. I'd love to loop some sounds washed thru a filter and effects module to come up with something unique. I can't believe the sounds you were able to get out of it. Edit: it sounds like Lurch playing the theme to the Munsters.
I love the sound of this synth, in fact I wish there was more a market for off the wall horror sounds in the synth market, okay so I know why the easy market is going to be making synths for the club sounds of the day, but I do wish that some synth manufacturers would realise how many of us are complete weirdo's and would buy synths that help us explore that. It's an area of the synth community that has been there since day one of the synthesizer as well. I was thinking as well that since you did a tipsy purchase that you should do a tipsy jam on it too haha.
I had one of these as a teenager in around 1978 . Really great to see the little monster again. It makes me realise that I didn't have the vision to get anything out of it whereas now I can see it's potential....
when i went from grand piano into electronica around 1979 and years before i built my first proper synth (one of the first doepfers), i wanted to rent a "real" synth and was presented with either moog model D or Davoli's finest here. not knowing what to do i took the Davoli. Sick experience. should have deterred me from ever using synths again, but ... well, never stopped making music with synths from then on. pulse modulation, pure vibration, my ass... great song!
9/10 times people say they were drunk or high when they did something, they were perfectly sober, but don't want to be judged over it. Don't worry, we'll judge you regardless ;) Also, that is a wonderful little noisebox. My timbrewolf ran away scared.
I could imagine this sounding good buried under layers of analogue degradation like low pass filters, spring reverb and tape echo - that shrapnel storm sound. One synth I'd love to hear you work with is Crumar's Performer with the most beautiful, mournful synth strings I've heard. Sounds like a cyborg crying!
When I hit the "like" button, the counter advanced to 665. Missed it by just *_1!_* The instrument has a sound that brings to mind, for me, music from a late 60s/early 70s Saturday morning children's cartoon about a group of low-powered superheroes who all live in a spaceship. Cheesy, but also unique and hard-to-replace. And better-than-expected. Congratulations on being happy with your drunk Reverb purchase.
Even though it made my cat look up, that actually doesn't sound at all that bad but it may be the way you played it so well. Seems ideal for off the wall 1970s-style improvisation.
I would like to see some research on Reverb prices of weird, obscure synths before and after Hainbach videos on them. You must be fueling a whole second hand industry! Anyway, great video, as always!
time travelling Nintendo 64, transporter accident on the pattern buffer, comes back to the future as hybrid demented clone, takes over world single handed, screeching like a wobbly banshee, that's all i have, takes self off stage, turns of light, closes door.
Love it! What an unusual machine. I can see it has it's own charm. If I had one I would keep it, but this is one synth I'm happy to admire from afar and not aquire myself. Love the 'extend' lever with it's delayed return. It's actually really nice to see some unique and unusual control methods. A low pass filter and envelop would really improve it a lot.
This sounds like it could be a really capable sound effect generator, on top of its “rave-synth” potential. I think it would really fit for something like an 8-bit racing game.
I know this one only because of an old freeware VST, Davosynth by the polish developer Elektrostudio (possibly defunct by now, the last time I've checked their site, it was still there, but no updates for a few years already). This really throws me back to my early days of music production when I was downloading and testing any freeware I could find. Davosynth was, together with the other Elektrostudio plugins, one of those which stayed on my hard drive.
Oww it has some crackles in the sound. It is pretty unique though. It would be good for Hardcore Techno as a Juno saw alternative. It has the perfect sound to cut through big distorted 909 beats. Beautiful!
Memories - the 'keyboard' player (using term loosely) in my first ever band had one of these 'synths' - I remember that sound - we mainly did covers (Son of My Father was one if I remember correctly with the DavoliSint taking centre stage 🤣
Christ, it sounds awful. Like it's *trying* to be a Hammond organ, but failing miserably. Would be perfect for a classic giallo film with bizarre lighting choices.
I paid 7 quid for my 700 , got it from a charity shop , I destroyed it by trying to clean the keyboard with a solvent that melted the keys , good synth though and yeah I couldn’t save patches either
For the uninitiated, check out the Polish prog rock giants SBB - Silesian Blues Band. Frontman Josef Skrzek handled his davolisint quite well and to great effect. All their albums are great.
Brilliant interface. Like an old Kimball organ. A true secret weapon to dust off when you need that special tone. Thank you for showing me another instrument I want yet will never buy.... Much love, H. My you're synths multiply and flourish.
This was the first video of yours Hainbach that I couldn't finish. Please put this synth out of its misery. It sounds like it is screaming to be euthanized. Thanks for never being boring.
Hallo Heinbach! deine Musik und Videos sind 1A😁👍🏼 - you can feel the 'fun n love' in creating this chanel... will recomend to others... viele Grüße aus Croatien
The first synth demo that's made me want to learn to play the guitar ... that thing is hilariously bad. Damn, just how drunk were you? Great video though and congratulations on managing to make some music with it.
the sound from this thing is really unique. around 5:00 I thought that someone played with the classic NES and Mario just had fallen into the flames :D and about a minute later you mention the chiptune stuff. this is where I see this synth. a chiptune monster!
yes, bad synthesizer are very hard to find, if they exist xD I even know people who make great music with the akai timbre wolf ; Personnaly my favourite synth is a modded Korg EX800 which got lot's of hate for a long time before people actually changed their mind on it Great video thanks !!
Also famously used by Dave Sinclair of Caravan in "The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again", for example. Video definitely available on YT. Therefore, not just a "Rave Killer Machine" :D
Wow!!! Thank you so much! I knew I loved that thing :) I just watched the Caravan video: gorgeous song and fantastic synth solo - the sounds he got out of it are beautiful - not a ghost in sight! Sinclair also really liked that Extend lever :) Thanks for introducing me to a great band, as well.
Fun fact: on repairs leaky capacitors are not a literal term even though they’re usually literally leaky when they go bad. It’s referring to the capacitor leaking ac voltage.
Italy is accordion country -- so many factories into the fifties. And they had supply chains all over the world, even before the war. So all 60s electronics by Italian brands are all using a lot of accordion parts in guitars, amps, synths and of course fx units. Why are Italian wah wah pedals a thing, even in the USA? Because the Italians had supply chains and contacts in place all over the world.
Think it's one of those things that when you're looking for a sound and you can't pin it down, you suddenly realise this synth, with a few tweaks, is the answer.
Interesting sounding one. Beautiful at least as a piece of hardware. For „discussable“ Synths in absence of a filter, I‘ll stay in budget with my Kawai K1 - which delivers musical interest in the limited pcm-samples-domain and rudimentary structure. May be a youngtimer in relation to that italian starship. (:
Ist doch geil das Teil! Der Track am Ende ist 10.000 besser als alles was zurzeit im Radio gedudelt wird. Love your chiptune reference, because thats what I do most of my time, but real chiptune with the Commodore64 home computer ^^
Sounds pretty damn good! It has to be said that I aren't all that familiar with Italian prog (although I probably ought to be), but this immediately made me think of the likes of Suspiria and Goblin, which can only be a good thing.
Are you serious??! The whole of Harmonia's 'Deluxe' pretty much came out of THIS beauty! Not to mention the fabulous 'Clanger Disco', ‘Rote Rikki' from Cluster's Zuckerzeit!! I’ve always wanted one, but never had the funds. Lovely to have you demonstrate it. Thanks!
@@Hainbach yes I sort of put my foot in it there! LOL! I am also a huge fan of Cluster ever since I first heard Cluster II in the early 80's. And the two Harmonia LP's are absolute gems. I sort of think of Deluxe being the genius of Conny Plank when he got fed up with Kraftwerk for taking all the credit for Autobahn's production and only crediting Plank as 'engineer', and Plank then going off to create possibly one of the best LP's from that period, which of course was 'Deluxe'. Remarkable recordings.
Fantastic! Love the glitchy key contacts, and super edgy transistor organ tones. These tones sound very familiar, certainly this was used on some low-budget "experimental" film or TV show soundtrack 'cause I swear I've heard stuff like this before.