don't miss out on my FREE sample pack that I just released: www.gumroad.com/bobeats - Crunchy Drums (NEW) and Sonic Solitude are both free/pay what you want. Maybe time for a Pulsar-23 sample pack?!
I've seen several reviews of this today. Everyone seems just blown away at the possibiities of this instrument. Head bobbing and groove faces all around!
Proud owner of black model #27; originality is pre-programmed, because of how the Pulsar encourages experimentation, and how it's nearly impossible to duplicate anything you've done. I hope people don't sleep on the Pulsar's sequencer--it is super high resolution, and encourages bizarre, broken beats (quantizing can be boring). You made some wonderful sounds here, too. I have video or two (also not sponsored) on my channel if you're curious. Cheers to Vlad--he's made one of the most static instruments in electronic music anything but.
yeah, quantizing CAN be boring, so why not add it as an OPTION? this was the only thing that made me pass on this...can´t believe it have a quantizing option
@@BoBeats in terms of functionality-price ratio it isnt anywhere close to the best computer ever, but if it works for you thats what matters. Also apple sort of has a monopoly over a lot of really cool music software, which sucks but does artificially add some pros to apple and cons to windows from a music perspective.
i would like to watch more of you live performing it. raw, unplanned, off the grid, just going mayhem, not giving f, then becoming slower and quiet, then slowly going mayhem again. 30min or 40. i think the pulsar comes best at that. not the preplanned, cautious preparation. i see the pulsar as helping to become free from trying-to-controll-everything-mindset. would really like to watch an uncut performance from you like that. you got my encouragement 😀🤙🏽❤️
@@BoBeats well whatever it was I liked it hah. Maybe I just prefer this type of messing about with lots of great sound examples. I also think you got better/more interesting sounds out of this box than most of the other RU-vidrs. Well done well done.
Thank you! And thank you for telling me. There is definitely a demo-focused culture on synth youtube and I battle with that with every video. This video is more -me- and I do prefer not to focus on demoing every aspect of something. But its also something people critique: ”you missed X or Y”. So your comment is helpful in pushing me more towards these more spontaneous videos.
This thing looks incredible. I was just thinking about how few interesting drum machines have come out recently and, whoops, I just had my head up my bum. Great video!
wasn't expecting such a complicated thing to sound so sick immediately. i'll never afford something like this tho lol, will probably just get a volca drum which can do some similar stuff.
Volca drum is incredible. It's digital, but you can get a lot of these sounds and more. The menu can be a little overwhelming, but once you get the hang of it there are hundreds of sounds at your disposal. The delay section helps shape sounds quite a bit too. I never use it as traditional delay haha
I know they’re not comparable but...compared to the 808 or 909 the sound design potential on this machine is vast. And it sounds crazily good. Hope you enjoy it Bo!
Great video Bo... That looks like an incredible machine..! Midi learn is a very handy feature... An onboard sequencer would have been cool with it but at least they've made it easy to work around it not having one by the midi ability. It looks like a handful of DFAM's all rolled up into a lot of fun!
Not my personal cup of tea but still an impressive device. You got some great stuff out of it near the end, I can see for real “modular sound designer-types” this would fantastic.
oh man i love to feel your eager cluttered fussing at 3:45 - the excitement getting out ahead of the cool and collected bo-pro (as sometimes it should) :D:D:D
I love the sound and the potentiality of this drum. I think that a jam with the Lira 8 will give a full impression of the sound that Soma have in mind when create this 2 monster in the synth industry. I believe some techno ambient en experimental electronic noise. I can't wait to be able to use them in combination with a small eurorack system such as the makenoise tapemachine. I need just somethink like 4500 grant !!!!!
It would be interesting if you could put the first video of showing in detail from start to finish all connectivity possibilities with Keystep pro instead of just just reviewing the product since there are reviews of it out there. Especially the ones from Vlad the inventor. How to connect drum gates, midi, and cv would be interesting to explore. For Keystep Pro users and Pulsar users.
You wouldn't need stackables, would you? Point A to B with one alligator clip cable. Point A to C with another, etc. Limited only by how much space is on the post to fit more clips. I think that's how it goes. I've seen some patched with an obscene amount of cables.
Great video! I pre-ordered mine just now in May, was thinking to myself that maybe they have caught up on production now. But looking around the web it seems that's not the case... but it sure seems worth waiting for. The sound and workflow of this seems to fit my tastes perfectly, too excited! Why was I cursed with the patience of a three year old...
Someone needs to make Eurorack jack pin adapters that allow you to use this type of alligator clip. It would be great for jacks that get the most use seems like a very resilient connection. It may already be available.
I'm going to order some 1/8" male to male adapters to use on my DFAM in an attempt to make it more organismic. I think those would work for your purposes, even if they are TRS plugs. I found some on Amazon- $6.59 to a 2 pack.
Only a couple minutes in, but wow it sounds amazing!! But I'm definitely a bit thrown off by the use of alligator clips over standard patch cables though. That's definitely enough to make me second guess purchasing one.
@@BoBeats It feels a bit like being different for the sake of being different. I get why Korg used those pin cables with the Volca Modular (which is still so so fun) for size reasons but.. these look like they would be more awkward to use and would be easier to bump off the posts.
Plus you can use the conductivity of your body to make temporary patch connections while performing. Idk if that was by design or just incidental in the cost saving but based on Vlad's other instruments it seems to fit with his design philosophy.
Amazing sounds all from the one box. It's so much money though, trying to tell myself that it's destined to be a future collectors item and therefore an investment. I've just about convinced myself, the bank manager, not so much.
I've just seen the price of these. £1800 UK pounds. Not sure my budget can run to that, especially as an amateur musician on an average paycheck. But I guess that there's a market for it with people who have more money to spend.
I hate the alligator patch cables, no way to integrate it with any of my other modular/semi-modular gear.. Why did they chose to go with the clips? Would have been something worth considering if they just used standard mini jacks but since it essentially acts as a standalone synth, and that price tag, I don't feel very interested. Cool sounding drum machine though.
At the top left side there are 8 input jacks that attach to the pins adjacent to each; plug in your external input to one of the jacks and then you alligator clip from that adjacent pin to whatever you want your external modular to control. For what it's worth, anyway.
