It's one of the few audibly pleasing demos of a synth on the entire fucking internet, and people are going off and making fun of the way the guy talks.
I just sold my KING KORG and got the Studiologic Sledge. Best decision I've ever made. I didn't like the K.K. but the Sledge is awesome. Tons of knobs for programming and the 2.0 firmware upgrade makes it way better than the original and the price drop didn't hurt either. It's ALL that !!!
I just got one. I had a Blofeld but this seems much better to get sounds out of quickly. Plus storing a sound is a couple of button presses. My JD-XA requires you to press about 5 keys before it writes a patch.
60MB for the purpose of taking snapshots of sounds to then manipulate is quite a LOT. This is not a recorder. Granted devices like the MV-8800 have 512MB of sample ram, but it IS designed (being a sequencer) to record entire audio tracks if needed.
Very small sample ROM size for the modern standards. The Waldorf Quantum has 4GB of waveforms, and the SCI Prophet X has 150GB of waveforms to be manipulated and processed in a number of ways.
i got one of these . good fun to sit down and make sounds with all the controls. it has. good at emulating classic analog synths and can do lots of digital modern sounds. makes a good master keyboard connected to a DAW as all controls send midi data to map to vst via usb.
This thing looks like it would be really cool to have. I have some great vsts, but I would love to have something like this where I could get my hands on real controls and design my own sounds, or alter what's there. The fact that it's got a unique look, the 24 note poly, and the wavetable/FM makes it even a cooler deal. I love the overall lack of screen there too. There's plenty of knobs. Maybe someday I'll get something like this.
If it's like the Blofeld, that's 24 max. There's some presets on the Blofeld I swear I was getting only 2 note polyphony from. But mostly the Blofeld has acceptable polyphony when not trying to do multi-mode
No way. Prophet X can do more complex transformations to samples, it can use giga-sized libraries and it has real analog filters that the Sledge hasn't.
@@msxwiki SThe X still somehow manage to be somewhat lacking in the sound department for me, analogue filters or not, i still think the Sledge sounds warmer then the Prophet X, i wish the Sledge had a modmatrix though, like on the waldorf Q, microwave XTK and the Blofeld.
@@snuppssynthchannel I don't find the Sledge sound warm at all. It sounds like a regular VST instrument to my ears. It's still a great and very capable synth, and an excellent choice for the live setup.
@@msxwiki After a lot of programming on the Sledge, i can with ease say that it has a fuzzy warm character to it, all tough it depends on how its programmed, too much of its internal reverb which is quite bad, can make it sound colder and it is just as much of a proud digital synth that it is a pleasantly sounding V.A. Plus its not that it sounds like a VST, but the case is really that there are good VST instrument that sounds sounds about as good as the sledge, i know of plenty of VST instruments that sound warm and organic, just check out the legend by Synapse Audio software. I can program the Sledge to sound very similar to my Moog sub 37 and Behringer Deepmind 12 and i find it to sound in many ways every bit as good as the Deepmind 12, and i think it sounds better then the monolouge and prologue by Korg.
I watch this and wish I could speak on camera like this (or hell, even in person). No 'uhhh...' 'ummm...'. I think in person I just use swear words instead.
As an ex PPG owner I love my Sledge. I don't like the sound of the DeepMind at all. No wavetables either. Considering my PPG cost $8,999.00 new, the Sledge was a deal.
I just took delivery of a rev 2 in black...looks a million dollars...it's sounds awful...the reverb is crude (sounds like an early spring) the sounds are totally underwhelming and quite thin and muddy at the same time??. What really made my mind up was the amount of hiss and the clicks and bangs in the background of many of the sounds. Good luck to the company but I'll cut and paste this and chuck it on a few channels on UA-cam 'cos it's really that bad when listened to straight though headphones. I haven't been this dissapinted in years......for around the same price my Roland Juno DS88 (wonderful piano sounds) and Korg Prologue (£300 more...wonderful synth sounds) are in another league. Mine is back in the box and going straight back. Good luck everyone.
when he said "i love that sound" i really felt that
It's one of the few audibly pleasing demos of a synth on the entire fucking internet, and people are going off and making fun of the way the guy talks.
1000%
I just sold my KING KORG and got the Studiologic Sledge. Best decision I've ever made. I didn't like the K.K. but the Sledge is awesome. Tons of knobs for programming and the 2.0 firmware upgrade makes it way better than the original and the price drop didn't hurt either. It's ALL that !!!
I just got one. I had a Blofeld but this seems much better to get sounds out of quickly. Plus storing a sound is a couple of button presses. My JD-XA requires you to press about 5 keys before it writes a patch.
can it send audio through usb?
It's basically a reworked Blofeld, so no it can't.
a shame :(
I own a king korg, and i think it sounds better. But i love this synth too, i also want a sledge. It kinda sounds like a memory moog to me.
Superb job on design modeling! This is a synth nerds dream come true!
The 80's nostaligic sound is quite accentuated on a most of filtration here. So great.
(Not a "grungy sound" here for me, that is.)
To do a synth demo with 10 fat sausage fingers is quite a feat.In all seriousness Chris is true pro.
0:25 "Our good friends here at full calm piss."
Yes.
Take a seat and have a drink!
ahh
That’s actually the case color
@@ryangunwitch-black patch now playing: Full Calm Piss
60 whole megabytes? Wow! That's like 50 floppy disks!! Amazing!
60MB for the purpose of taking snapshots of sounds to then manipulate is quite a LOT. This is not a recorder. Granted devices like the MV-8800 have 512MB of sample ram, but it IS designed (being a sequencer) to record entire audio tracks if needed.
Very small sample ROM size for the modern standards. The Waldorf Quantum has 4GB of waveforms, and the SCI Prophet X has 150GB of waveforms to be manipulated and processed in a number of ways.
not sure how they can compare @4x the price
Nick Cosic storage is cheap
@@msxwiki Waveforms or user samples? They're two different things.
This is an excellent demo. Thank you.
the sounds of this are straight out of blade runner, i love it
yeah if blade runner was recorded by the keyboard guy at your church
Great explanation and demo.
Sounds very 80,s/ or typical movie sound synth. Very interesting
The sound on the 2:42 mark sounds like the cs-80 sound used by eddie jobson on the track Alaska by UK.
A tie, a windbreaker AND a synth?!? Sign me up
He has to be the most dull presenter ever. Every time I come across a video of him I'm transported back to the 90s. Early 90s.
Grrrrreat job Chris! 😁👍
As always fun to watch your reviews. Can we upgrade old one in to V.2? Thank you so much.
i got one of these . good fun to sit down and make sounds with all the controls. it has. good at emulating classic analog synths and can do lots of digital modern sounds. makes a good master keyboard connected to a DAW as all controls send midi data to map to vst via usb.
Brilliant demo
That high pass chord sweep sounded gorgeous! Is it possible to quickly sum up the differences between this and the similar looking Waldorf Q?
Is the melody at 3:25 part of an actual song? I liked it a lot!
@ 2:42, this is the same key notation and quite vague synthline for the beginning of VH's - Jump.
Nerd Alert!
This thing looks like it would be really cool to have. I have some great vsts, but I would love to have something like this where I could get my hands on real controls and design my own sounds, or alter what's there. The fact that it's got a unique look, the 24 note poly, and the wavetable/FM makes it even a cooler deal. I love the overall lack of screen there too. There's plenty of knobs. Maybe someday I'll get something like this.
Nathan Weeks Music You can get it for a very nice price, used on ebay. I usually se it for around 430$.
Nothing under $700 on Ebay - must have been a good time 8 months ago.
This guy is great. "I love that sound." Bob Ross of keyboards. They don't make em like that anymore.
Maschinestorm I enjoyed his presentation. He’s a great sales guy.
Maschinestorm 😂
You can clean your bathroom with it too!
Nice Piano, Chris! Care to share? Also which wavetable at 5:17? And which patch do you play at 2:46? Thanks man.
You're very good for such a hamburger-handed guy.
why would it only load 60 MB of samples? why, in 2016? a 64 gb SD card would be so cheap for the manufacturar to install if memory was a issue.
Did I miss a mention of how many voices of polyphony it has?
24
If it's like the Blofeld, that's 24 max. There's some presets on the Blofeld I swear I was getting only 2 note polyphony from. But mostly the Blofeld has acceptable polyphony when not trying to do multi-mode
Great synth for making Discovery Channel music! )
The best presenter there is --- CM
Great sounding instrument.
Awesome presentation , thanks ;)
5:05 like ASMR, only loud.
You had me at yellow and lots of knobs. Admit it. Half the reason we buy synths is for the "cool looking" factor.
Or maybe cause it is an amazing synth for the price..
No.
bruh, u uncovered us!
What's with the tie?
Why only have wavetables on Osc 1? It's like getting half a PPG lol. I would have paid more for wavetables on Osc 2 as well :(
Yes. I see that it is a spinoff. Lots of problems with the firmware and Spectre too. Its crashed alot on me.
sounds very good damn
Isn't this quite like a Prophet X but about 1/4 the money?
This thing sounds and looks like FUN. Bright yellow fun.
No way. Prophet X can do more complex transformations to samples, it can use giga-sized libraries and it has real analog filters that the Sledge hasn't.
@@msxwiki SThe X still somehow manage to be somewhat lacking in the sound department for me, analogue filters or not, i still think the Sledge sounds warmer then the Prophet X, i wish the Sledge had a modmatrix though, like on the waldorf Q, microwave XTK and the Blofeld.
@@snuppssynthchannel I don't find the Sledge sound warm at all. It sounds like a regular VST instrument to my ears. It's still a great and very capable synth, and an excellent choice for the live setup.
@@msxwiki After a lot of programming on the Sledge, i can with ease say that it has a fuzzy warm character to it, all tough it depends on how its programmed, too much of its internal reverb which is quite bad, can make it sound colder and it is just as much of a proud digital synth that it is a pleasantly sounding V.A. Plus its not that it sounds like a VST, but the case is really that there are good VST instrument that sounds sounds about as good as the sledge, i know of plenty of VST instruments that sound warm and organic, just check out the legend by Synapse Audio software. I can program the Sledge to sound very similar to my Moog sub 37 and Behringer Deepmind 12 and i find it to sound in many ways every bit as good as the Deepmind 12, and i think it sounds better then the monolouge and prologue by Korg.
How does this compare against, say GarageBand midi synth?
Sweet!
I watch this and wish I could speak on camera like this (or hell, even in person). No 'uhhh...' 'ummm...'. I think in person I just use swear words instead.
Sledge 2.0 (2.5) or Deepmind 12? Which sounds better?
As an ex PPG owner I love my Sledge. I don't like the sound of the DeepMind at all. No wavetables either. Considering my PPG cost $8,999.00 new, the Sledge was a deal.
So is this pure Analog, Hybrid or analog modeling through DSP?
Virtual analog
Roland Gaia - SH 01 "the Middle path", but i prefer the Sledge
What you mean? That this synth reminds of Roland GAIA?
can you split the keys?
You can do a single split on version 2.0
@@alternatingbitmusichow do you do that? Thanks
@@robinsonvanvliet you'll need to search online tutorials or look up the manual - I sent the unit back years ago after too many OS crashes.
beautyful
At 0.24..."Hi, I'm just fartin' around with..."
Will Ferrell's showing his age now.
Tom Stevenson or is it really Chadwick Smith?
60 megabyte of Flash memory
60 megabytes? What even IS a megabyte? Is this 1992?
I just took delivery of a rev 2 in black...looks a million dollars...it's sounds awful...the reverb is crude (sounds like an early spring) the sounds are totally underwhelming and quite thin and muddy at the same time??. What really made my mind up was the amount of hiss and the clicks and bangs in the background of many of the sounds. Good luck to the company but I'll cut and paste this and chuck it on a few channels on UA-cam 'cos it's really that bad when listened to straight though headphones. I haven't been this dissapinted in years......for around the same price my Roland Juno DS88 (wonderful piano sounds) and Korg Prologue (£300 more...wonderful synth sounds) are in another league. Mine is back in the box and going straight back. Good luck everyone.
The necktie just screams NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paired with a plunging unzipped hoodie that says "what are you doing after this"
NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD!
Admitted lol
Nothing analog in this synth, so basically, it is a plugin inside a midi contrôler?
dsp isn't software
61 keys just isn't enough.
useless at this time and age
Why? Live it comes in very handy...
not at all
Yea I’d like to know what makes you say this, I’m thinking of buying one since it has more knobs than the blofeld
@@johnhennessey5 MOST SYNTHESIZERS CAN COPY MOST SOUNDS NOW BUT IF YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY AND ONLY WANT THIS SOUND THEN ITS WORTH IT
Unfortunately the ugliest synth of the century.
So is this pure Analog, Hybrid or analog modeling through DSP?