Bad Gear - Akai Miniak - The Copy/Paste Synth
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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Akai Miniak. Why is this 2010 virtual analog synth so suspiciously similar to the Alesis Micron and Alesis Ion and still so different. Is it just an Akai MPK 49 with some added synthesizer sounds?
Thanks to Tom from Synth Anatomy for lending me his Miniak:
www.synthanatomy.com/
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:20 Overview Akai Miniak
01:54 User Interface
02:22 Presets
03:03 Oscillators (Waveforms, Waveshaping, Sync, FM, RingMod, Noise)
03:39 Filters
03:51 Envelopes, LFOs, S/H Generator
04:01 Tracking Generator, Mod Matrix
04:17 Drive, FX
04:33 Signal Flow, Mixers, Analog Drift, Unison, Portamento
04:55 More UI, Multitimbrality
05:13 Sequencers, Arpeggiator, Phrase Recorder, Groovebox & Drum Machine Functionality
05:45 What else??? (Rear Panel, Pricing, Thanks)
06:00 Hate
06:28 Jam 1
07:15 Jam 2
08:10 Finale (Drum and Bass)
08:37 Verdict
09:46 Patreon Vocoder Shoutout
Audiopilz: *slaps roof of YT channel*
Full Tracks, Extended Jams, Sample Packs: www.patreon.com/audiopilz
Another fun episode!
I'd love to see a bunch of the DIY kits and novelty instruments explored. How about the KORG/Little Bits Synth Kit, or The GAKKEN SX-150 or Vocaloid , or the MODAL Craftsynth (especially the first one which sounds great but is difficult to integrate into a setup)?
I've alway enjoyed the old Yamaha FM synths and would love to see more from the PSS series (480, 580 etc.) the PSR-36, or DSR 2000 which hide interesting, sometimes powerful FM engines inside ugly home keyboard cases.
Friday's are always better with Bad Gear!
Still want you to do the Sound Blaster 16 preset sounds, and the Elektron SidStation....
Pls, make review of roland mc 707
Casio XW-P1 deserves your wrath
@@pomafiwo maybe that new voice synthesis one....
I haven't made music in almost 20 years, and I love every episode, here's to you never running out of at-least-mediocre-if-not-actually-bad gear!
Thank you so much!!!
You need to start again man, just buy a cheap synth or whatever instrument you play, you will really enjoy it,
Watching Bad Gear and occasionally purchasing the actual recommended gear seems to satisfy my desire towards electronic music production. I just don't need to make music anymore.
I know you probably hear this a lot, but I don't know how you pump out such quality content on a weekly basis, it's crazy. At this point, you uploading is what tells me it's Friday.
Also more synths should have multiple bindable modwheels
Thank you so much!!! I like to drink espresso;)
My friend's family got him this synth when it came out. We were in high school and in a band. I was initially kind of jealous of it because the third Osc made it sound so much sharper than my microkorg, and the presets kind of amazed us at what we could potentially make. Overall, it was impossible to use, even compared to the confusing matrix of the microkorg (which at the time I also didn't know how to use). Every time we tried to pull this thing into a song, it took over and sounded horrible, mainly because the sounds could not be easily tweaked to what we wanted. Glad to see the groovebox features confounded you too and it wasn't just that we were synth n00bs. We ended up using my Mircokorg in conjunction with the ever confusing QY-70, which somehow was still simpler than this synth's UI.
Yeah, MK is so much easier to integrate in real music making!
I use a QY70 to run my MiniAK.
Ultracursed.
Yamaha QY20,22,70,100 coming up...?
This reads like a war story, straight from the trenches of menu-diving hell.
yes, for the first view seems to me also a typical Bad Geat
My favorite synth in my small collection finally made it to Badgear. My love for this thing is a prove that I know nothing about synths.
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Yeah one of the only things i USED to have that now appears here. It's an EX-instrument for a myriad of reasons and i really feel it DESERVES to be in this series xD
it has a solid synth engine, it just needs a better interface or software editor to live up to it’s potential. when it was inside the alesis ion they had enough knobs to do it right.
Maybe you're just a programming genius!
Never had the Miniak, but I had the Alesis Ion and Micron, which are basically the same. They are amazing digital subtractive synths. Some of the best sounding around.
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Especially if you like evil techno. :D
@@Claidheambmor good people like evil techno. bad ones like pop ballads
I will need about a 4 hour set of that Decorative Dancefloor Tapestry for the weekend.
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Where on earth did he get those visuals they were so sick
for when you need to chill.. but fast
That photo of Nick Batt after you said "aftertouchless" lol - he's so disappointed whenever a synth doesn't have aftertouch even though hardly anyone ever uses it 😆
Even worse: NO PWM!!!
Nick Batt uses aftertouch, obv… to modulate the PWM, duh! … (actually that’s a pretty good way to use aftertouch. brb)
Correct pronunciation is No touchy touch after you touch me.
Who even uses a keyboard these days!!🥲
This synth does have aftertouch - both channel and poly ... not in the keybed but in the synth engine. Couple it with a poly AT keyboard and it is very expressive
I LOVE the Miniak, had it twice. Sold it again because of the devastatingly depressing way of programming. Please Akai make a miniak with at least about 20 knobs.
It sounds so extremely good. Even alone for the kickdrums and basses. They just blast.
I think you need an Alesis ION;)
@@AudioPilz yes ofcourse, because all the rotary dials just do their thing, whatever the way you turn them. 😁
Having three pitch/mod wheels looks a lot more cursed than it should.
It's actually really nice!
I'd beg to differ, looks badass if you ask me.
Makes me think of "blinky" the famous radioactive three eye fish from "The Simpsons"....
It looks great on my Yamaha SY77. Then again, my Yamaha is a 40-pound behemoth.
1:25 lmao people are still mad about the show being called 'bad gear'
Thank you for all the great episodes over the years, totally love this weekly show, all the music, all the memes, the vocoder shoutout...everything is perfect !!
thanks you :D
Thank you so much!!!
08:07 Nice....i was waiting Dieter Meyer suddenly sings "Oh yeah"
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Vintage Bad Gear looks great. Also waiting for other spinoffs like, Dad Gear: only gear designed between 1990 and 2007. Trad Gear: reviews of mandolins. Chad Gear: Sample packs for making mainstream EDM. And for Halloween, of course, Vlad Gear.
Yes pls - The Unison MIDI chord pack on Chad Gear.
Great ideas!!! Thanks!
Gear
Damn, all my samplers are Dad's Gear. All the samplers I like are Dad's Gear. I look at the new ones and I'm tempted all the time but I always go back to my Dad's Gear. It's a great idea, doing episodes about Dad's Gear
I own a Miniak and i must say i LOVE IT!!! I find it very versatile and inspiring!
Happy to hear that it works for you!
@@AudioPilz so much,that i have a problem with the L output and i keep postponing the technician visit. I play it mono thru R out :)
man i'm so glad i found this channel. love the set up of the videos. the editing and you use the damn thing not just play around with it. just to have the patience to learn every machine is crazy.
Thank you so much!!!
Just love love love my Miniak! It's so much *fun* to use 🤗
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@@AudioPilz While you're here.. how about Liven's bass&beats or the Alesis Andromeda 😋
Another fantastic video. Thank you.
Thank you so much!!!
I've would love to see a series where you review some old gear, the heavy hitters of the synth world, to see if they're all they're cracked up to be and see if they still have a place in the modern world, sort of like your DX7 video. If nothing else, just to see your always humorous take on things.
Bad Gear - Prophet 5 - filter stepping nightmare???
You’ve done it finally!! 😂 I suggested the Miniak quite a while ago to you and you mentioned that it would be something that was hard for you to get ahold of at the time. I own this maddening synth! Some cool sounds but the menu diving is on another level and I HATE it! Great video!
Thank you!!!
Dude... These make me so happy every week, & I feel like I learn a little bit more every episode, as well. Thank you for doing these, & I guess, for making learning fun?!? Hahaha...
Thank you so much!!!
Anyone else here constantly pause the video to catch the memes?
I usually do;)
Your videos are brilliant works of art brother! Totally enjoy learning abour these gems of bad gear! Your editing is top notch mastery 🔥👊🧡👍🔥
Thank you so much!!!
Almost every piece of gear I have owned at some point or another has been on this channel and I am proud of it! Proud looking back to see how I still managed to make music inspite of all odds being against me!
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I had a Micron. Good little synth! I miss it
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God I’m glad you still make these.
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Outstanding as always.
Thank you!
I had this! I loved the aggressive leads on this guy, perfect for cutting thru dubstep wobbles.
Yeah, those were the days...
changing the double tap skip/rewind from 10 to 5 seconds is a godsend on this channel.
5 sec is way to go!!!
Your self awareness is on point! Layers == Leias… Hilarious!!!. In unrelated commentary I’m pretty sure no matter how bad the bad gear is you are capable of making it sound great! Always impressed with your tracks. Love it.
Thank you so much!!!
Great video once again. I seem to end up with a lot of the instruments that end up on this show. I just bought one of these two days ago. I don't really know how to use it properly yet but I plan to use it via MIDI with my MPC500 and a Korg ARP Odyssey. Both Akai products have that small screen that lots of people don't like but for me it's just something to learn seeing as I have it and want to make use of it.
Thank you!!! That setup should work fine!!!
This little beast has more features than you may expect...
The 'third' wheel sends aftertouch when you control external gear...(nice for my DSI desktops)
As a standard, a patch offers you 12 mod matrix slots, but if needed, you can get more, up to 15...!!
Not only gives you the standard portamento, you can emulate Vangelis or ELO with the glissando feature...!!
The S&H module acts as the real thing, just like the one on an MS20... and it's the key to get the random panning 'a la Roland'... (static for each played note, instead of the pan movement with the LFO)
Balanced stereo inputs & outputs...
The inputs let you process any external signal alongside the oscillators: filters, comp/dist, fx... Or use any two sources as the modulator & carrier for the vocoder...
There is a step sequencer to control anything via the mod matrix...
Far from just the modulation amount, the mod matrix slots let you define an offset value for the destination parameter that overrides its patch value, a good way to hide your programmer tricks to the reverse-engineers...
You can set levels for every source (osc, noise, ring and ext) to any filter, bypass one source, and after the filters, mix and pan the two filter signals with the bypassed source before the comp/dist stage...
It's possible to mimic the dynamic behaviour of any synth or instrument, since you can set every step of the envelopes to be linear, exponential or logarithmic...
By far, the most complex synth engine of all the first generation VAs...!!
Enjoy it...!!
Akai was more expensive than the Alesis at the time. You're not running out of Bad Gear, there are still a lot of synths not reviewed in the channel like Model:Samples, Waldorf Pulse 1 & 2, Roland V-Synth GT & XT, Roland SP-404, Roland JV-90, and half of the catalog of Akai and Ensoniq, just to name a few ones. Thanks for these video reviews !
Thanks! Great suggestions!
The V-Synth family are GREAT GEAR,.with some maddingly frustrating limitations.
I dont know its a Friday until you post. Thank synth its friday! < 3
Have a nice weekend!!!
Thank you, another bit of my gear ticked off 👍 i pretty much use the presets on mine through some effects for various bits n bobs. Can't really be arsed delving into the headache inducing menus on the tiny screen. I find the drums can be nice and deep. Multis great fun for some instagrooves. Keep up the good work bro 👍
Thank you so much!!!
Gut gemacht! Wie immer, war's lustig und informativ. Tom war sehr nett, dir sein Miniak zu leihen. Great sounding synth with extensive programming options (inheriting the Alesis Ion engine basically), but a SERIOUS PAIN to program without software and a computer. I always thought it didn't sound so analog, but it also didn't have the typical digital VA sound either (it's slightly dirtier, if that even helps describe it). The manual helps, but it's not nearly as in depth as it needs to be. I had a Micron, but sold it, and then later picked up the Miniak to use live for proggy leads (I do prefer the form factor on the Miniak, with the traditional pitch and mod wheels). Had I tried the Micron with some software (for programming), I might have kept it, because it makes ALL the difference for letting you get fairly deep with creating patches.
Yeah, Tom is the best!!!
Never heard of this one, might just be as well. Off course, you make every synth sound good.
Thank you!!!
Lots of love and hate on UA-cam for this synth. As a guitarist with minimal keyboard skills, I fall in to the "love" column because of all the easy to access presets (especially the multis), the rather nice key bed, and the sturdy construction. It's been a whole lot of fun for a quite small investment of US $250 in 2019. 😎
...and you already have all the fancy FX pedals to make it usable in a mix;)
@@AudioPilz All any synth player will ever need is a Zoom MS-50G! 🤣
That was a nice spoopy little thing!
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You did well to get some good sounds out of this interface
Thank you!!!
Very timely! as the Akai Mini Plus controller just came out.
Ah, nice, gotta check it out!
You got me at Flatulent Duck. Every synth should have that preset! Okay that and the Roflcopter.
That preset has become quite a meme;)
Wow. This really does sound identical to the ion/micron. Great Job, Akai!
Yup, same engine!
You deserve many many more subscribers.
Thank you! I wholeheartedly agree;)
I bought one of these when they were practically giving them away at Guitar Center. Not a bad synth, and actually feels nice when I used it as a controller for my rack synths/samplers. Great video as always!
I find it a pretty good controller. I really like the keys & the mod wheels are good for midi as well (depending on the instrument.)
Thank you, I liked the keyboard and wheels quite a bit
4:25 Simply having a Wonderful Christmas Time !
Less than 2 months away!
Miniak on my wish list
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Ich bin, wie immer, begeistert....super..
Besten Dank!!!
Now I can't wait for the Yam Pounder episode.
Yam;)
This was my first synth ever and while I had no Idea what I was doing, I loved it. In fact this video convinced me that I do still love it. Gonna fish it out of my parents loft and re introduce it to my set up. I'll probably sample loads into my digitakt. I think it sounds great.
Definitely give it another try!
Owning and working with both the microkorg and miniak are such completely different beasts. For raw sound design microkorg is way more fun, easy to learn and immediate... the ultimate beginner hipster synth.. buuuutt the miniak.. given the proper attention and focus can play an entire lofi set by itself. Okay sure the beats are serviceable at best, I recommend setting and forgetting.. but once you get a multi with bass arp and lead flowing together with the right tweaks set on the knobs & wheels.. welcome to synth Valhalla. My much more accomplished friend swore by his micron in his live set. Surely not for the faint of heart, but at under $250 to this day why wouldn't you travel to the early 2000s and experience what fun we had.
Love my Miniak, thanks
Great to hear that it works for you
I loved this thing, only sold it because I had to move to another country and couldn't bring it with me. I suggested the miniak for a video a few months back!
Thanks!!!
My favorite intro since I watch this channel
Thanks!!! Pixels!
Synth with such minimal human interfaces and which slow you editing possiblitys down are great for ambient music session... The korg r3 got the same feature or issue depending on the view..
I bought an Arturia Minibrute 2s and battled hard to make it sound interesting or good in any of the different modes (FM, Sync, all the oscillator warp knobs). Sold it in despair last month. Highly recommended for a Bad Gear review!
Yeah, it's not the most inspiring piece of kit
I second that emotion
Cant wait until the end of this beautiful series so we can continue with the Better Gear C:
Can't we have both?
Why not both?;)
Bad Gear is indeed a youtube channel to show that you can exploit any cheap and weak sounding device in a creative way.
Thank you so much!!!
I still like mine, it's fun 😀👍
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Great video 👍. This is another one to keep my eyes open for - though it is far less likely than the Alesis to end up in the kids toys section of the charity shop! 😀
Thanks! I totally agree!
vintage bad gear. like tubular phonograph records or steel wire recorders. I loved THE BRICK and this Akai. MORE WHEELS,!!!
Wheels really make the difference!
Great video.
Thank you!!!
The MiniAK was further repurposed into an iPad/iPhone app that they abandoned and no longer loads on modern devices. It was really pretty good! I keep waiting for them to resurrect it yet again as a plugin for the MPC line. It would make a lot of sense!
The controls are so minimalist you could run it on any wristwatch with the one push knob.
Nice gotta do some research on this
My most used app in the aviation world was abandoned by the developers during the switch from os 11 to 12 I think. Still hurts to this day.
This channel is everything I want from UA-cam for a synth nerd like me
So happy to hear that, thanks!
Ah! This was my first favorite synth!
Nice!
Okay, well you outdid yourself this time. The videos and stills in the background of this episode set the bar too high for competition. I cant say the same about this Miniak thing, but once again you managed to get excellent sounds out of it. Thanks again for helping bad gear sound good.
Thank you so much!!!
I had one of these and a Micron too. I always preferred the minimalistic design of the Alesis. That thing is just a slab of plastic and that’s part of the charm. The improvements with the Akai didn’t win me over. Two mod wheels is better than the faders but I was so used to the UI of the Micron that it was second nature flipping those faders back and forth, morphing sounds. Seriously. I used it to such an extent that I made myself sell it and learn to live without it, which was hard because I used the sequencer and the multis everywhere. I always thought it sounded way better than a MicroKorg and once you mastered it you could dial in almost any analog synth sound you wanted. Listening to your demo now I felt some sort of PTSD, not so much from editing it through the letterbox but from the overall sound. I still browse the web for used ones once in a while but people are asking crazy money for them. Never pay over 200$ for these and try it before you buy it because those endless encoders like to give up the ghost and the volume knob is prone to noises after all these years. The volume knob is an ok repair job if you’re handy with a soldering iron, the encoders are a lost cause. I’m pretty sure the Akais suffer the same problems. Replacing broken keys is a piece of cake though. If you can find them.
Definitely a deeper engine than the Microkorg
My weekend just started
Have a nice one!
The knobs look like googly eyes with your original camera angle. (Can't be unseen)
Damn, so true!
I'm a mathematician and I've seen the original form of the meme at 3:27 - which is about math. The memery of this channel is deep!
Thank you!!!
Muy bien very good buen teclado sintetizador....Animo y vayamos con alegrias...
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I love when I'm looking for reviews of something I'm considering buying only to find there's a Bad Gear review.
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I have a Miniak and you hit the nail right on the head. The synth engine isn't half bad, the arranger is pretty cool, the lack of knobs and buttons makes it practically unusable. I built a custom midi controller to add some knobs, sliders, and buttons, and gave it the same kind of instant on the fly mapping functionality as the built in controls so that it would be more usable and that definitely helped. I wish they had come out with a pro model that just like like 30 knobs instead of 3 that would have made all the difference in the world.
There are a few decent programs to control it like miniak tools and miniak editor but I find that trying to fiddle with virtual knobs on a computer interface to be just about as bad as diving through menus with a single rotary encoder.
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6:52 that 3am feel
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Not surprised that an Akai patch is complicated. 3 mod wheels and an xlr mic input though? sold!
These features are really nice!!!
Heyyyyyy I own this one! I have *such* a love/hate relationship with it, because it has one of the most capable synth engines in my entire hardware arsenal but the workflow (especially as a groovebox) positively blows. Patchbase is your best friend with this little guy, once you have all parameters front and center it can make you pretty giddy in operation.
Yeah, I would love one of these with a more groovebox oriented workflow
@@AudioPilz I'm honestly surprised they didn't go for it! It's not like the Electribe line didn't exist for Akai to compete with 😂
Your killing me!!!! Fantastic presentation as always, but since adding a mutilated Micron I had to restore to my other bad gear (I also own and play 2 Fusions) I bit for the Miniak, fully knowing which functions are buried in the menus. The DNA of both these is also in the Fusions, which helps. At least this one can be accessed through software, unlike the Fusion, which omitted sysex code and locked the firmware to further development.
Thank you so much!!!
Greg cameos on Bad Gear! Whoever put that clip in there, I owe you a drink 🤣🥃
That's me, thanks;)
Can’t wait for the Synclavier Regen episode.
Is it bad?😏😏😏
Finally! And even after you did the Micron! "THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!"
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Getting this video out was only a matter of time.
True that!
That second jam i wanted to loop lol, it was so good
Thank you!!! Shameless plug: extended jams can be found on Patreon;)
@@AudioPilz OHHHhhhh
Listening at 50% speed to (catch the memes) Almost tempted me to whip out my TE - PO-33-KO and start grooving on samples . Especially in the "let's try out the drum machine " part . So much GOLD . Very lofi. Extra Nutella, and Clamato ! I have an answer to your resonance lack . It's the alesis guitar pedal style filter and mod modules . "Christian's sonic spaces" youtube channel uses them constantly in his ambient synth shootout. (Early 2000s bad gear for sure , and worth an episode perhaps) 🙏
Thanks! I actually got the Phaser one here and I found it to be too bad for Bad Gear;)
you're an absolute unit
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ofc we enjoyed the episode!
Thank you!!!
Apart from its weird name, i think it sounds great in your hands !
Thank you!!!
Did I see some Amiga Spaceballs there during the final jam! 😁
It looks a bit like it but it's some 60s BBC footage
I would really like to see manufacturers send their upcoming instruments to be bad-gear “reviewed.” Using pre-release criticism, fodder, vitriol, drama from the interwebs.
Polyend actually did this;)
Owned the trinity. The Ion, Micron and Miniak. Sold the Micron but kept the two others. Ion is such fun to program and the Miniak is portable and playable. Miniak may have a newer DA converter and sound a little cleaner. The VA engine is still pretty good I think and quite recognisable. I think it is kind of comparable in sound to the MicroKorg but the engine is way more advanced if mastered. The "analog feel" is not bad at all. They are old instruments today and will require maintenance.
It's almost too clean I would say
Bad Gear vintage made me smile!😃
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I browse classified add regularly and every time I find something over priced I think “there must be a bad gear episode about it” and there it is
Yes, there usually is;)
Florian, you do a lot of funny and cool edits, but the finger >SNAP< at 6:35 was bad ass. I rewound and watched it at least 6 times.
Thanks!!! That actually wasn't even intentionally;)
@@AudioPilz I went back and watched it another five times.
Remember Dorian Concept on the micron video? Nasty.
The man's a legend tho!
I have the Micron and I just love that sizzling preset you played at 2:41! Honestly, I have a Virus KC as well and the Micron sounds better and warmer on some sounds. I found that it sounds good in a more limited octave range though. The high pitched sounds seem to have some aliasing or digital nastiness.
There are some digital artifacts indeed
Princess Leia photograph resembles a kind of familiar face to me.... maybe the amanita on the top of your royal vinagre logo blew my mind... 😁
Light sabers run on PWM;)
@@AudioPilz I see that Cain and Abel are still there. A waste of energies, resources, etc. A pity.
As others, my big respect to your work. As I assume that you will read this words, I am going to express myself as if it were on a private email.
You are the real power user; you know it but usually there is no public recognition about this more than the usual bunch of envy minds -neverthless the amount of envyers. is a level meter of your extraordinary superpowers-.
I am aged 54, and sensitive to flashing, so I have to watch to your videos with care (thanks for notice since the beginning of your series). On them I usually find very interesting background things, as the Kafka book on the shelf. That means that your brain is on the circular side, as well as on the squared side, that lets you know almost everything of all the technogeekery that takes years of reading, thinking, and experimenting. The dig into the poly 800 was astonishing.
So, as you recognize yourself as a very limited performer (nobody´s perfect, man...), that means not a limit for you, as you are composing on the most interesting field of music composition in the XXI Century, that is the timbral composition in front of the legacy notation composition. Finally, if in your mind flows some instumental parts that you are not able to play actually, it is a lot of fun to ask some other Crusoe and cross some letters.
Keep on rockin,
JJ
Great video and jams as always! Can I steal your "THIS TRACK IS DIFFICULT TO CLASSIFY SO I'LL PUT EVERY ADJECTIVE THAT COMES TO MIND" genre description method for my jams? Cheers!
Thanks! I don't think there's a way to copyright that method;)
Vintage Bad Gear? - I like the concept. Would sub.
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damn, this ion/microm engine sounds SO amazing .. had opportunity to buy micron for 290€ recently and now i regret i didn’t
You can find them a bit cheaper, there'll be another one. Don't worry...
Micron was my first synth and got a Miniak a few years later. I think the sound is great for what it’s trying to be. The Jupiter filter sounds really cool and if you know 3 osc FM that’s fun for hours.
The menu diving sorta sucks but considering what you can do with it under the hood, small price to pay.
What other beginner synth in that price range is basically a Keystep Pro, a drum machine, like 8 feature packed synthesizers and 2 effects slots not counting distortion/comp..
I know of JD-Xi but that’s only 4 midi lanes and no FM…
Honestly they should bring it back, just make the hardware better- it’s basically the perfect thing for DAWless jamming and learning how Midi and signal routing work as far as first synths go
FM is super powerful on these!
Thanks to all the manufacturers that keep bringing out poorly thought out devices. The synth community would probably be in another galaxy without your limitations that breed our creativity.
True! Electronic music would be so boring!!!
Sheesh. I can't believe this thing is so capable.
It's very deep indeed!
@7:16 I thought my doorbell went off...but then I realized I don't have one :D
Lol
Vintage Bad Gear? Yes pilz :)
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