The Pittsburgh Modular Taiga analog synth stuffs a ton of performance into a compact desktop format! Shop it today at Sweetwater 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/Taiga
Master Fisher and Sweetwater are absolute treasures. No one is better when it comes to demonstrating the sonic quality of different synthesizers, allowing for more accurate frequency analyses to make informed purchases
Great demo. This synth sounds really great and so flexible, even for a desktop modular. What really shines is that low pass gate though. I don't think anyone else is making one that sounds as good. It does the Buchla lpg and certainly has similarities to the modern euro companies but it just sounds better to my ears. It's not necessarily snappier but more natural and pleasing. It certainly has a distinct sound.
This was very informative for me! I received mine last week, but I couldn't really get my head around it, for the short free time I had for it. I've downloaded the manual, which imho is a mandatory read. But this hands on gave me a lot of 'A ha' moments. Thanks! I specifically bought this synth because of the excellent demonstration with Richard and this is my first dipping into (semi-)modular. Seemed to me like one of the best candidates to start that with.
Agree👍👌 I have the deepmind 12D from few weeks, but no time to explore, tomorrow I will buy the Behringer arp2600, and the Taiga will be next, I dare to have time to explore all those instruments, so those videos are very informatives too for me. Download and read all their manuals is certainly mandatory!😵🤗🙏🧡💚
This was such a great demo! I have been pining for one for some months now, and this provided an example of some very musical and even beautiful examples of the sounds it can make. You got me one step closer to purchasing, Daniel!
Few weeks I listen videos about Taiga for my harmonics quest🙏🧡💚🤗 if there is an analog machine missing to me, it's just the sound of Taiga... So that makes three times I listen your two Videos, for every half second sounds that reach my needs. In fact I will use it for the Atmosphere, countryside ambiance, rich resonance, echoing melodies from nowhere in the landscape.... Storms, winds, rainy days we are.... You are right about the pingpong stereo delay, and I have a separate effects rack, I will do some exercises soon, not sure the quality of mine is so good. But this add volume to the music, it's like wearing 3D glasses looking a 3D movie😎 .... This month I'm buying the Behringer arp2600😱🙆👌 and I'm comfiguring my studio in a moving mode, so I am inside a brain storm about what instruments are useful to my creations. I made a short wicked Rumble video on the go as I were making cry my Roland SH2000, and the Juno 6, that were few months before, said to be antiquities, as everyone is standing for the new clones coming on sales. I find funny to have the very last concept in sound design like the Pittsburgh Taiga, and one of the first concepts from 70's 80's, a Juno 6 or the late 70's SH2000, that you can hear talking through forty five years without a repair. Sound design is like sculpture, tools are made for artists, whatever the matter have technical aspects. The return to analogic in a cancelling mp3 mono culture, is fresh air in Nature for Us, old persons born in the 60', as we were not at all aware of the sound revolution coming, this was at a time we had not television, so knowledge about music was not coming at our ears. My aunt, offered me the 33T Rubycon from Tangerine dreams, that was a revelation for me. So the Taiga made in your hands some very complex interesting sounds, and this is just a short opening about how rich can be this music instrument, coupled with others, and sound tracks taken in Nature..... I can See the landscape now! I went also having a look to your last video about powered loudspeaker's units. I'm never satisfied by my studio monitors, and mostly I will use my headphones, perhaps buying new ones, but All that have a cost, and my choice is to not add more numeric systems modifying the sound at every step. So sometimes, simplicity is the best.
Jaw dropping demo.....concise covering both musical and EDM potential of this wonder. The coup de gras, perhaps over the top, would have been to use one of the many tools and play all three voices independently, which I can't wait to try:)
Got my Taiga today. Really struggling with it! 😕 I thought it would be pretty easy to get going with it. Took me a while to get a sound out of it. Then the sound was very odd and hard to control. Tried to follow the quick start guide. Helped a little. But envelope behavior is really odd. Not like any ADSR I've used before! And the whole thing sounds a bit off. Pretty disappointment so far. Not really what I expected out of the box.
Hey this is a couple weeks old but I hope you figured it out! I also struggled and thought it was broken for the first hour or so until I realized I just didn't understand it as well as I thought! Again you have probably figured it out or returned it by now, but the main culprit is the dynamics section. Keep midi control off, and most of the time you'll want the dynamics knob full left otherwise it'll drone forever. Keep the adsr CV control under the dynamics full right unless you want softer response from the adsr! Speaking of the adsr, they are very sharp by design, so the smallest touch away from full left is often all you need. Keep sustain full right unless you want the sound to decay to a lower level. Again, this comment probably isn't relevant to you anymore, but maybe someone else will need it. Don't give up! Your Taiga is just as good as Sweetwaters Taiga 😁 Just takes some learning and practice and experimentation, not as beginner friendly as an Elektron or something. Cheers!