This is so so good mate. Said this before but if you ever come to the UK I want you to play at one of my events. I'm In London and this would go down a storm in the underground scenes here.proper 90s breakbeat vibes but with some amazing up to date sounds
Oh my goodness - This fucking SLAMS!! Thank you for defining a sound that I'd like to aspire to create my own version of. Super inspiring, and just phenomenal music. What a great mix, by the way!
I love this! Wish there were more folks doing Nu-skool/Progressive breaks these days. I also appreciate that you didn't sprinkle this set with goofy movie dialogue samples like much of the 90s Nu-skool stuff. Really great.
This is nothing short of epic. So impressive. Especially the second part of the song. Totally agree with the Crystal Method similarity. Never stop making!
dude those patches on the circuit monostation! ive been working on my patches, kinda hard to crank something badass using their preset soundbank but you did a good job
I decided,finally, to purchase a circuit monostation because av this epic synth set and the lovely piece of real electronic music! And thanks for your note on the patches! @Abel Martinez
Woo! Really happy to hear/see a new video from you! And with the collection of synths that really inspired me to learn! (Circuits, Peak, & Digitakt). Loved this one, the Digitone really adds a new quality to it! Thanks!
This is F*CK'N EPIC! It should be the sound track for a series of action scenes in a sci-fi movie. There are multiple instances of sonic brilliance throughout. You were in the zone, Ehsan, Gelsi, like a bull rider that couldn't be thrown straddling sinewy waves of musical muscle; not only holding on but guiding the headlong rush of some mythical beast. There's a string of short riffs that appear out of nowhere that forge a symphony of lightning bolts that are hellbent to reach the center of the Universe. Creativity is the driving force that shines throughout this cinema for our ears. Ehsan is so inventive that he should be called the Edison -- no, the Tesla of modern electronic music!
Love your music man!!! Huge fan. I have a technical question... I have a Digitakt/Peak setup as well, but I'm having difficulty sending midi program changes (and bank changes) from my Digitakt to the Peak. I can use CC#32 to change the bank number, but this only seems to work when I start and stop the Digitatk. If I switch from Pattern #1 to Pattern #2, the program and bank changes don't recognized... You've obviously figured this out... what am I doing wrong?? Thanks in advance!
@Ross Wyeno Hey 👋 did you find out? Seemed to be eh important to be able to changes patches.,thought the digitakt to be simple. Maybe you can find something at the Bobeats channel, he’s lots into Digitakt.
How long does it take you to prepare the set ? Patterns/sessions/etc. I haven't played my synths in a month but this performance is so inspiring it makes me wanna jam tonight
It gives me huge pleasure that I might inspire you to go and fire up the machines and get musical mate! So, I plugged the gear in on Friday after dinner with the idea in my head, wrote 6 of the pieces on Saturday morning, the other 4 on Sunday afternoon, and recorded it on the Monday evening after work. So all up probably about 5 or so hours of composition, another hour of tidying up and doing a practice run, then the easy part of doing the recording and uploading. :) Thanks for stopping by!
@@EhsanGelsi Did you make all the patches from scratch during that window? Or did you have a lot of existing patches that you previously made that you liked?
@@botousai A bit of both mate - all the patches I use always get fine tuned to the track I'm working on, cos I'm not using any EQ or whatever, I need to refine them always so they fit into what's going on. Hope that makes sense!
@@EhsanGelsi Gotchya, that makes sense. It's obviously easier to tweak existing patches you worked on for awhile and make them fit into a mix than it is to create a bunch of brand new ones every time. Thanks!
@@EhsanGelsi can I ask about your composition process? Do you arrange the tracks beginning to end or do you come up with a bunch of ideas first and try to lay them out in a cohesive order? (Enjoying my 4th listen-through, you're helping me with my new years' resolutions too! lol)
Amazing stuff :) I have a M:S and I am thinking to give it a partner (limited budget), do you think Mono Station is a good option? Or maybe go for the M:C?
Hope you got what’s best for you. I purchased a sec hand used monostation and it’s in good shape. Very funny and I love it. More fun than the circuit original even, that I also have, kind of different.
How much post-production editing do you do? The quality is outstanding. I use an all-hardware setup as well, and the mix always seems to get muddy and crowded very quickly. Maybe I've got too many instruments within the same frequency range, or not enough panning? Anyway, I always enjoy your jams. Great stuff.
Cheers! I do very little! There is no editing whatsoever - the whole thing, video and audio is one unedited live take top to bottom into my Zoom Q2n camera. I then pop the resultant file into a video editor, do a master limit and eq, sometimes a stereo width treatment, sort out any buzz weirdness if there is any on the 2 track with a fade in and out, do a quick grade on the video then spit it out. It's all done in the video software, so pretty basic stuff. My little mixer doesn't have EQ, and everything on the mixer is panned dead center. I do panning within the Takt and the Tone, and the CMS gets a nice stereo spread from the Strymons. Like you say, you can really program your sounds to work with and around each other from just within the synths - that's what I do - helps with the fact I'm not using per-channel EQ. As ever, it's a neverending process. Good luck out there! :)
Questions for yah... what do you record into? Interface? Camera direct? What sorts of audio post production are you doing on this? Sounds so polished. Great jam too!
Lofuckyou I was curious about this as well and if I remember correctly he mentioned it’s direct out from the mixer into the camera.. which blows my mind. I have much to learn lol
Heya! Indeed as Daeman says, it's all just straight into the puny little Behringer mixer (check out my How? video to see exactly, er, how) - no eq, no nothin, straight out the headphone output (heh) into my little Zoom Q2n line input, which records the video and audio at the same time. A bit of a 2-track spit and polish and that's it! Whole thing takes about 25 minutes from the moment I press stop to the moment it's on the internet. Nothin fancy! Thx for stopping by, appreciate you taking the time to tune in, it means a lot! :)
You got to bear in mind this is electronic music. The sounds being played are already perfect. It's very different to recording music acoustically (like rock/metal etc) where theres huge amounts of post production that needs to be done.
Hey Ehsan! I've just come across your channel and I'm blown away by these performances. You've sold me on the Takt and I've only just got my first hardware synth! Quick question - How do you go about composing each section in regards? Do you plug in a midi keyboard and just create your own midi and then save it to each sequence and then use whatever synth to play your midi?
Hey Chris! Thanks for tuning in, I appreciate your kind words. Regarding the composition workflow, I just plow through, one section at a time - it's usually written with a MIDI controller - indeed this set was. The Digitakt has a great Auto Channel feature which makes it super easy to just punch in the ideas straight through the Digitakt and into any connected synths. Basically just like you say. There is a video called 'How?' on my channel and another called 'Let's try to write some tunes' which go into detail. Any questions, just holler :)
@@EhsanGelsi Thank you! I'm trying to work out a future setup with what I have now. Would it be possible to use something like the Mono station to sequence my DM12 Synth, the takt to sequence some drums, and also sequence the Mono station's own synth at the same time? If not on the mono station itself but perhaps routed to the takt? Basically I want to get a setup going with some drums, a synth for bass, DM12 for chords, mono station for some lead lines or something? I'll certainly check those videos out too. Along with loads more of your content - eye opening stuff!
Were all 6 sound sources playing a particular audio role through the set? I'm guessing the 'Takt was drums, MonoSt for lead, Peak for Bass / chords / growls. Couldn't quite work out what Digitone and the 2 Circuit synths main roles were. Chords and confetti? :) Brilliant set. Being playing it non-stop on my commutes all this week.
Thanks mate! So they sorta stay in their lanes thru the set, but as ever some synths play multiple roles. Basically: Takt = drums, Tone = glass sounds, percussive synths, and mid-range thunk basses, as well as some acid sounds (p-locks, yay!). CMS is all the acid, the Circuit is the sub bass and animated chordal things, Peak is mostly poly sounds, but then does giganto bass in 3 or so tunes, so swaps about a bit. :)
That acid patch on Mono Station at 1:19... How did you make it? I can't seem to get a good patch going for that sound! I can see you tweaking Mod amount for Filter that's getting fed from Env but the env settings don't look like how the filter sounds...
Heya! The envelope faders won't represent the actual shape being sent to the filter, because the patch has been recalled and the fader positions are stored in memory - so it's not live-reading the faders! It's just a straight up env-filter with a BEOW shape and plenty of resonance. Super easy - you can do it! DON'T replicate the fader positions, they'll send you in the wrong direction!
I couldn't find him, so pushed on, then when I finished, there he was, eyeballing me from under the table. Mini Beethoven, secret ninja stalker skills! He's there in spirit, watching you, hiding. (cue the 5th symphony) DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN. x
I absolutely save them, the Elektrons make it super easy to just have a project for every set I make. And the circuits I back up each set to the Novation Components cloud thingo, so it's super easy to just zap them back in if I want. 🐬🐬🐬
