What's your favourite Future Ninjas episode? I liked the one where they fled into the lithium mines of New Madagascar and escaped on a battery powered ninja scooter they built from scrap parts.
Mine is the one where the ninjas saved a time travelling composer named Van Sclänger who was imprisoned by the dictator because his music was considered too revolting.
My favourite episode was the one where they were stranded in the deserts of southern Europe, and had to help each other snap out of hallucinations and find food. Plus those mysterious ruins they find which serve as the cliffhanger for the second series we never got.
Sounds like an 80's Japanese toy-company-sponsored Saturday morning anime. Just the kind of thing I grew up with. I want _Future Ninja_ actions figures!
If one of the better (whatever that means) synths channels deserves more subscribers on youtube then it's definitely your channel. Every single video I have seen so far has been an entertaining delight made with much knowledge and passion.
You had way too much fun making this awesome video! I hope that your invention isn't as prophetic as the omicron film. Loved the sneak peak from Oblivion. As always this was a great demo of a great piece of kit.
I thought the spring reverb in the original was an essential feature. I have two different spring reverb Euro modules (plus three more in guitar amps), so it is not a super big deal, but as a self-contained thing, I think the spring reverb should have been left in and the VU meter taken out. I would have also added a couple of jacks and a switch to allow patching in different tanks. I am not a big fan of built-in speakers in any sort of device, so I am okay with those going away. I read that some users think feeding the speakers back into a microphone input was a fun thing, though.
You are going to lose your sh*t when they call the next Covid wave the Ninja variant... Outstanding work as always Mister Ball. I would buy that ending jam, moving pads over a distorted 303 baseline? Hell yeah.
that intro jam!!!! (edit: never comment in the very beginning of an Alex ball video, wait until the end.) dude the entire video! deceptively nostalgic but aren't we all looking for that? well done, I genuinely needed to see something like this this week.
Ha! Ha! That's awesome Alex 👍 What is it with EMS stuff at the mo? I've just put up a couple of vids about the originals. Erica always produces cool stuff!
My favorite future ninjas episode is the one where they ran into the corrupt local lithium mine boss and had that awesome tunnel chase sequence on improvised ninja scooters. The song under that scene totally rocked.
I can't think of anything more 70s Sci-Fi than referencing your enemies, who, you know, exist at the same time as you, as the "future ninjas". You know, just to drive the point home for the audience that this is indeed the future.
I loved ninjas as a kid. If Future Ninjas had been around when I was a kid in the 80s; I would have been all over that shit. There would of course need to be action figures with "Ninja Action". The shock troops for the villain ate his swarm troopers. He would also need right hand people for the Future Ninjas to battle. I love how you turned a simple concept into something that would be a believable kids show from the 80s that would have enjoyed. There was already a live action sci-fi show for kids called Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. So Future Ninjas would have fit right in.
Wonderful to be allowed to follow along parts of the creative process; I need a gong, we'll do it like this, I would like something else, I'll do it like this. Don't know where the footage came from, but I have to give props to the edit of this video. The effects (fingerprint and all) made it all seem somewhat coherent...
Haha, wow! You made me want a SYNTRX II. Sadly I can't afford one, but still. You not only showcased this in a plausible context, but you also made practical use of new features, highlighting them specifically. Manufacturers must love you :)
Thank you. My preferred approach is to show features with some sort of context. Loopop has mastered the art of tech run throughs, too, so another reason to do it a different way. 🙂
A few days into my ownership of a Syntrx II and the only thing I’m having any difficulty with is the ‘trapezoid’. Oh, that and the curious fact that, even though there is no ‘clear patch’ button combo, I find that every time I try to switch between the sequencer and the patch itself, I clear both sequencer AND patch!
I’m going to mess with people’s heads and say “I’m going to watch Future Ninjas on [randomise streaming service]” And yes, on Saturday mornings with a bowl of cereal.
Brilliant show - slightly worried it might happen like Omicron… really would like. Syntrx but kept thinking I can achieve most things with my Dominion 1 I never use so that has inspired me!
This was awesome - I was just watching your terminator vid which I loved also. - Do a "Big trouble in little china" style vid next please. -- Do you have any other videos on the other gear in this video? - besides the keyboard, - what mixing desk was that? and is that a mastering bus? What else did you use to produce the final track besides software?
Ahhh come on guys! How could you all forget the Season 13 finale! You know, the one where the future ninjas beat the ninjas from the alternate present caused by digging up the Time Crimper!!!!
Take that show or movie idea to Ridley Scott. You and Gary Numan can do the music. It would be awesome. Just don't go all "Hollywood" on us when you make it big.
Oooh! I remember this show! They really jumped the shark in season 7 when they introduced the irritating kid and his wise cracking robot dog. My favorite was probably the "Witches of the Wasteland " story arc from season 3. Anyone else?
Future Ninjas, it easily brings to mind several things at once, Saturday morning cartoons, the David Lynch version of Dune and the Hunger Games. Earlier this year, I will fanfiction story called Stalemate 2099. The premise is a lot like your concept for this nonexistent franchise, only in it based on characters from the MTV adaptation of the Teen Wolf franchise and doesn’t involve martial arts warriors. Now, here I go being thick as a brick, something I do almost every day. Knowing as little as I do about Syntrix and being too lazy to research it myself, I have a question. The mod matrix is accessed withy those LED buttons instead of physical pins. Is there patch memory storage included on either model? That would make sense, since the modular functionality is not dependent on physical parts like the original EMS line.
