The Omnichord's Unique Charm // The OM-84 in Detail 

I really want one now. For no good reason except that I just really like the way it sounds… which, on further consideration, may be the only good reason to buy an instrument.

The Omnichord is basically an electronic Autoharp. That's what it was designed to be.

Unsolicited music theory time! If you are playing a major or dominant 7 chord or a minor or minor7, you can experiment with playing the diminished chord one column to the left (or two to the right, they are inversions of one another) back and forth with that chord. Like if you had 4 beats of A min 7 in a song, you could try 1 beat of Am7, 1 beat of D diminished, and then repeat. That's the basis of Barry Harris' diminished scales of chords. You can also throw that diminished in as a lead-in chord, like if you were playing Fmaj to Cmaj, you could do Fmaj, F diminished, C maj.

Charming sound from the omnichord. Great explanation too. It had that soft tone so lovely

Yup, here because of Adventure Time. Lots of the music feature the omnichord. The composers have said they were inspired by video game music and used lots of sounds/instruments to create songs for the show.

The Adventure Time connection is not only the soundtrack, but one (or multiple) actually appeared in the show and were played by some of the main characters, most notably Marceline and Simon (Ice King) writing the song I Remember You. It's a very nostalgic sounding song with awfully dark lyrics, and the omnichord backs it up very nicely! Plus the Adventure Time soundtrack kinda sounds Like That anyways, Omnichord or not. EDIT: just seen it's already been explained, oh well. just got done with a rewatch of the whole series and it's all very fresh up there!

Gave my omnichord away to my godson when I lived in Spain. Great instrument.

I actually have my eye on one of these at the moment. The bard DnD usage is very funny. It's a real cool device for people who aren't musicians and just want to strum at something

I could watch you play this for hours

Now I need a followup to redirect the GAS I got from this video. That thing is seriously cool.

I just bought one at a garage sale for 10 bucks!, I'm a guitarist but excited to mess around with this

You did this machine justice with this video. Thank you!

Suzuki also partnered with Hammond to make midi foot pedal controllers in the manner of the Moog Taurus pedals. They were called Midistep by Forward Designs. They came out in the mid 80's. I have 2 sets and 1 set of the Roland PK-5A midi foot pedals. I use them to control a Minitaur from Moog and an Oberheim for the strings or to trigger other sounds. They are great and built like tanks. It's a shame that they weren't more popular. Back when Moog came out with the Taurus pedals 3, I wanted to purchase a set but 1. They were so darned expensive! 2. Knowing how much I'd have to pay for them AND they were only making 1000 of them, is that something that you want to take out Knowing that they could be stolen or damaged? They weren't worth it. So at least the Minitaur came along at the right time! Now Behringer is coming out with the Toro. It doesn't have pedals however it's almost a clone of the Taurus pedal body. The price will be 200.00. I don't care what. After the model D and the Poly D, we know they are going to shake the foundation of any place with a good PA. Period.

My brain has started playing A Little Respect like 597 times while watching the first part hahah

Excellent demo! 🙏

"Touch me I'm going to scream" by My Morning Jacket features this instrument heavily in the form of a steel drum sample.

I had a chance to get one of these and did not, regret it.

Dude friggin killing it!

i love the omnichord and i love your hair. its so nice when you let us visit. the gobbinjr song firefly i think shows off how well the naked omnichord can hang together in a composition, and how good the design is to suit a single performer, and elevate a track past where guitar girl could usually get you. suzuki made something that is so easy to dismiss, and i think its built that reputation because of how accessable they made it. bad poetry is easy to write, bad songs are easy to omnichord. but a good performer with the omnichord can make something wonderful.

Nice video man!!

I’m one of the Adventure Time people lol. I won’t bore you with my opinions, but I wanted to say thanks for the pedal demo. I’ve been a guitarist/musician for like 20+ years, and I have one of these bad boys coming in the mail as we speak. So I was wondering what it was going to sound like once I start running it through some of my gear. Much appreciated, dude. I’m even more stoked to get mine now lol.

You can get chord hold if you press the playback/record button down with chord memory interface turned off! Thanks for the video. The Omnichord really shines with a phaser.

@Jorb, use the Record/Playback button in the chord memory interface section to enable/disable chord hold

This would be a good one to mod with individual outs for chord and strum. Then you could gate the chords with some envelopes or lfos while keeping the strum clean.

Strange I just got a Q Chord 3 days ago and apparently so did you!

wow thatQchord is hot af! I almost bought an omnichord once and have always wondered what I passed up.

Very versatile instrument. I'm lucky I have two different models of the Q-Cord, and I have plenty of foot pedals for sound affects. It is a neat instrument even though it is a button pushing unit. I will be having some fum later thsi summer in my free time. Thanks for showing me more about thsese instruments specially for background type add-ins in recording songs. The ones I picked up didn;t have any owners manuals with them so when I got them it was all hit and miss in the sounds they made. Now I have a better understanding of the two instruments that didn't come with them.. I'll apply what I have learned here and seek out more sound affects as I go. Thanks very much for making this video.

thank you dope content

I want one of these so bad

Just here after seeing how the Gorilaz created Clint Eastwood....

❤❤ love your giggly enthusiasm. 😂😂

idk it just looks and sounds so cool. i rlly want one now 😭😭

I´m super freaked out because I have been watching omnichord videos because I feel like I need to learn more because I AM GOING TO START MY FIRST DND CAMPAIN AND MY CHARACTER IS A BARD WHO WILL USE THE OMNICHORD!!!! AND I WAS JUST THINKING OF HOW COULD IT WOULD BE TO HAVE ONE FOR IT! I am most certainly not able to get one, not only are they out of my price range, but out of my country (I´m from Chile), but maybe one day I´ll get one, who knows!!

I've owned an OM-84 for 12 years and never knew you could hold 2 chord buttons down simultaneously for more chord variations. Thank you! p.s. my favourite Ominichord song must be the imaginatively titled "Omni" from Daniel Lanois' Sling Blade soundtrack:. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5Ntybob_KS8.html

I have a QChord and use it just to be wierd sometimes .... And put it through some of my guitar pedals...... Just because ....... It's FUN

if these went for 2 or 300, id get one asap. Thats exactly what one like me needs!

Danny Lanois plays an Omnichord on U2’s The Joshua Tree - the most obvious appearance I think is on “Trip Through Your Wires”, complete with a strum right at the end…

Good jorb

I've had one of these laying in my closet for years. I actually forgot about it. Never realized they're actually worth something. Mine is in great shape with the case too. I may just look at selling mine.

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood is based on the Rock preset 1 of the Omnichord 300. and when i say based.. i mean its the whole song.

Got mine for 140 last year

The The…This is the Day is the standout omnichord track for me.

The pattern I heard on the strum bar was root, up to the third, down to the fifth, then the pattern repeats on the next octave up, spanning a total of four octaves.

Q Chord looks like something Halo stole

17:00 Holy shit, that riffage is cool! 🤣

Here courtesy of Uncle Larry. This appeals to the 15 year old me in 1984.

If you're located in Nashville, I could have sworn I saw you at a bar Sunday night lol

I see ya girls checkin' out my trunks I see ya girls checkin' out the front of my trunks I see ya girls looking at my junk Then checking out my rump, then back to my sugalumps

Add sElf to that list as well...super good music and check out Gizmodgery fully done with children's toys only...it's still dope and is a producer's album, you'll understand when you listen and remind yourself it's all done with toys .....

Cool

Also this shit is literally kahoot-core

Fahorglingrads!!!

Vennart - Immortal Soldiers!

i have the same model and i used to play it all the time, but it broke a while ago :( im trying my best to fix it, and i really hope i can get it working cuz its genuinely one of my favourite instruments

I want one, so I can make music with it, first I need a Dreadbox Hypnosis

What does the keyboard pot do? You said you’d come back to it but I’m not sure that you did. Great demo!

I have one that stoped making noise. Anyone want to try and fix it?

Which model is the most fully featured ?

Wake me up when you release the price. I'm not paying more than £200 for this tbh.

Does it have to be plugged into an amp ?

what was the other shop mentioned besides ebay ?

you really nead a pop-filter

I came here to hear some Gorillaz Clint Eastwood in Rock 1

GSXR's older, disabled brother

what is so god damn funny sounds like sarah belle reid over here. laughing your asses off through the entire script read

I used it for ambience on the last record I made lol

Feist... Rilo Kiley... annndd ahhh, who knows.