Wow. I am amazed that keyboard still works after so many years with that bizarre aftertouch feature. I could see wires becoming brittle and losing contact with all that movement. Very neat
It's always cool to see modern music/recording sessions played on synthesizers that would be lucky to even see a compact disc before going into the closet. They sound... exactly the same as new ones.
Maybe someone else already noted it, but the Moog matriarch feels like a very similar instrument! Analogue piece with four notes paraphony and a delay unit? I mean come on, even the design matches. Really interesting stuff!
there are some synths like that - such as the Korg Monopoly as well. But the Matriarch has the whole 90 plus patch points, the modularity and complexity, stereo filters with highpass and bandpass etc etc. Not even near
@@bateimidrashnetwork I can see it kinda sounds like I'm criticising Moog but that was not the point at all, I just found it very interesting that the paraphonic unit with stereo delay with similar visual aesthetics to the matriarch existed way before the matriarch.
0:03 - 0:09 the haptic feedback of the keys scares me. I thought ''every moment, he breaks it''. But this instrument again shows, how in the past music was made. Thanks for this excursion again, Doc.
I love colors!!! I thought that Roland Jupiter 8/50/80 could be the most colorful synth that I saw in my life. But now, in this vídeo, I know the Polisynthi and its very special sound. Doctor Mix, thank you for bringing more colors and sounds for us!!!
MisAnnThorpe Thank you for the suggestion!!! :) I never knew this synth before. Is really colorful and I loved the painel of tones and selection of waves, very organized and, I think, more easy to understand :) Thank you!!!
@@bibicapuccino7477 The only problem is that they're extremely rare, very expensive - assuming that you can find one for sale - and they also have a reputation for unreliability. Why does there always have to be a catch?!
MisAnnThorpe I understand it. I agree with what you said. For me, I'm happy with my keyboard and for add some new one, only with many researching and studying so much for better use ^^
@@bibicapuccino7477 Although not exactly colourful, a friend of mine - who has a synthesizer collection that would make Vince Clarke or John Foxx jealous - tells me that the Waldorf Blofeld is a great synth and excellent value for money. He actually rates it much more highly than many of the so called "classic" analogue synths.
Design looks like a school text book from the 70s. What a cool instrument. Is it divide down + paraphonic? Looks to have full polyphony from your playing.
Sounds like an 80s gamecomputer (Commodore 64 and the likes) to me. Anyhow, thank you for uploading, it certainly is an interesting design and I never heard of it before now!
Very Minimoog like bass lows and nice Arp.Odyssey/Oberheim highs and pitch bends. And as always love the wonkiness of old synths. Those scratchy pots remind me of tinkering with tape decks. The colors remind me of Moog's latest synth offering, the GRANDmother.
Different from every other synth of its time in almost every way. Gotta give credit to EMS for being so bold here. It's too bad it was produced in such low numbers. One would think with all of the R&D that went into this that they would have produced more. Either way, thanks for doing your part to preserve the instrument's legacy!
A few comments earlier were made before they had watched the whole thing. This synth definitely holds some unique sounds for some original tracks. Not sure I want to be paying £30,000 for one, however much I like it.
That's pretty cool, though I really wanted to hear more of the Delay/Chorus unit! You could probably do quite a bit of cool stuff with this once you spend enough time with it.
That bass is Go(o)d. I would like to use it in my productions. 1. Nobody tells that it's a vintage synth, 2. I could tell that it's a very rare sound in my music. :D
That 'bass sound' at 4:20 reminds me a bit of Ultravox! LOL! I just Googled the song, 'All Stood Still' ... and there it is! My band used to play that song and that part on a Sequential Circuits Pro-one. It could sure fill a dance floor. I had a kitchy skunk haircut to go with it. Groovy.
Most of the synths made today are just like this ones. This synths are nice since they are vintage and difficult to get your hands on which i totally agree ;)
@@edgarwestmanprage1716 Prophet rev 2; it maintains that classic look of the prophet 5 and can make the same great warm sounds, yet has countless new features built into it as well
KORG Minilogue is a four voice analog with delay built in. It's a no-brainer for the price. I wish it had full size keys and more, but, what can ya do.
"This synth, you cannot find anywhere!" You found it, though- you guys are good! I'll take one in red please! :) I am reminded of the Donkey Kong sounds when I hear it.
That is a really cool I would love to see young artists being challenged to use old equipment and chords they would have used in the 70s to see what they can make
Could you do a little tutorial on the fast 2-hands run you start the video with? I saw you use it in other vids. Would be cool to get more examples, when to use it etc.
The aftertouch is not that weird when you think about it. The vast majority of synths only use channel aftertouch, not polyphonic aftertouch. In this case the notion of an individual key having aftertouch is a farce, as it's only sensing the pressure of the hardest-pressed key. So this is just a novel way of representing it more factually by moving the entire keybed up and down. The Polysynthi was released in 1978, when aftertouch technology was only just emerging. One of, if not the, first synthesizers to have aftertouch was the Yamaha CS-80 which arrived two years prior to the Polysynthi. The CS-80 had proper polyphonic aftertouch. Polyphonic aftertouch keybeds have been surprisingly rare despite MIDI providing support for it since the beginning. More recently MPE is heralding polyphonic aftertouch once again, while also adding more dimensions of control.
There’s one of these for sale in Walla Walla Washington right now for 85 grand. Just in case some viewer would like to trade in their Mercedes or something. That’s only slightly more than 20,000 dollars per note of polyphony.
@@benjamingring621 found dead in his house today apparently it may have been suicide, so sad ..I'll second the original post ,I would like to see some sort of tribute for him (although it mostly Liam's work he still deserves a lot of credit )
Wow man that's so fun that you were able to get hands-on time with one of these. Surprised the owner was willing to let it out of sight. Will you personally be using it on a recording, or is it just for this demo?
A cool and weird synth, that I had no idea existed. The keyboard moving up and down was odd. Had a very late 1970s look to it with the bright colors. The sound was interesting, although the pitch bending knob would have been better situated it was like the moog or other typical keyboards, in my opinion. Great video.
That’s not the only, “big red knob” in this video ;) I kid man, I swear first time I started watching your stuff I’m like this guy feels like he belongs on a cruise ship. Your energy is over the top, and it’d grate on me if you weren’t so damn proficient. Keep up the great work!
I can kind of see why this was a rare product. Its cool but its sound and gimmick aren't very versatile and I can see a lot of people finding its overall signature abrasive
Something tells me it would have a slightly wider selection of usable sounds if the triangle wave knob wasn't so noisy. Seems like he's kind of being backed into a very square wavey corner.
Some changes for sure, like a spring reverb tank instead of a (presumably) bucket brigade delay; and then the obvious of the grandmother being mono not poly
