I pulled out the old MIDI to Arcade button funky keyboard machine early this morning to film this video, i had to rewire it a bit, having just looked at the video is would seem i have wired some in the wrong way round. its all good. i'll categorise the mistake as artistic licensing. also you;ll see some lights are missing, its likely i borrowed em for other projects. time has a tendancy of doing that kind of stuff.
@@mataloger the keyboard machine is plugged into a midi sequencer for the vid. regarding the christmas one its a midi sequencer. so yes. my synth only talks externally to midi to keep wires between cases minimal for quick setup time.
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER with respect to keeping wires short and quick setups, have you thought of making a pair of midi remotes using Arduino's and analogue 433MHz modules for 0 latency? They wouldn't ever need to be disconnected while remaining a wireless link between 2 or more devices.could support passthrough too allowing wired and wireless to work together for multiple devices.
As a classical musician I always love how your renditions of classical pieces don't just take the most well known part and use it as a hook, while at the same time, you're not just playing the original piece note for note with electronic instruments. These renditions are real interpretations that respect and expand on the original pieces to suit the capabilities of modern electronic music
Is Mozart was alive today he'd lose his shit over the synths. _(in a good way)_ _I also realise this is Vivaldi not Mozart, but Mozart loved making music like it was what he lived and breathed for, Autism for the win_
As a classical musician, I would totally pay for an album of classical covers done in this style. Goes to show you that musicianship is musicianship, no matter what tools you're using to make your music.
I’d be very interested in Beethoven. I think of Beethoven as the gateway to the modern paradigm with his experiments in discordance and transitional notes.
I've often thought there should be a Soundtrack Sequel to CO! And this might fit (except that technically there aren't "techno drums" on CO, only orchestral, and modular noise)
@romankosins- what do you mean "new " soundtrack to clockwork orange? That movie and its soundtrack came out in 1969? But yes, Wendy Carlos kind of has synth classical on lockdown as "her thing" yeah.
@@evancairo one person can't "lock down" a style of music, even if they are the greatest known example. Classical music has a lot of usage / arrangement of earlier material in it's history. ^ perhaps he meant "a new soundtrack" rather than "the"
I always wonder if you went back in time and showed artists reinterpretations of their music with technology so advanced it looks like music and beats that seem demonic at first if they would really appreciate and love it or not... Just imagine that brainfuck he would have listening to this
@@Buderus69 I do wonder about that, and obviously no one could ever actually know…but….We have a different relationship to music, in the days of basically all the classic composers you only heard a piece of music if people could play it, they didn’t get our luxury to listen at our leisure and I think they probably would have found it lacking. There really is a a whole full-body feeling to being in a theatre and hearing an orchestra, it’s all those individual instruments independently vibrating the air around them. Speakers can come shockingly close, but they can’t re-create that. But if you consider all that, and then think how they might respond to devices which can seamlessly play notes above and beyond the register of any other instrument in the orchestra, with polyphonic complexity and a precise timbre of your choosing. That’s a lot of power for people who compose a piece of music with a multitude of voices. And if you look at the most obvious of them all, Beethoven may have been able to appreciate amplification in a way that few others then could. Not that he would have fully heard it in the way we would, but given his bad hearing it would have provided a physical sense of sound that was unprecedented. One way or another it’s really interesting to think about. I mean pipe organs were certainly very popular precisely because of the types of things synthesizers actually do much better, aside from the insane physical presence.
Really great Idea to take Vivaldi 4 Seasons. My father is a total classic fan, and I grew up with classic music. The funny Thing is, my brother was a total Raver and I was a Punk. My father hated Electronic music like techno. Since some years I play around with Synths which wondered my father. I will show him this Song, than he understands because He surely likes this Song
THIS is my favorite part of Vivaldi's Four Seasons - I always imagine a thunderstorm with a hefty downpour after a hot summer's day, somewhere in Italy, with some nice landscape and an old castle in the background … maybe Dall-e could create an image out of this … I should try it at some point … 😁 (Oh, I forgot a bottle of good Chianti or Primitivo, sitting on a porch!)
WOW JUST WOW. Its like classical music was discovered to showcase the capabilities of synthesisers in later life. Im absolutely blown away by this rendition. Amazing work 👍❤
Baroque music is perfect for interpretation with synths and your approach to it is so good! Your version of Handel's Sarabande is a masterpiece but these Vivaldi recordings are also amazing. Thanks!
This was one of the most incredible analogue electronic arrangement of a classical piece I've ever heard! Wendy Carlos herself just got chills hearing this from her cloud. Thank you so much. I was literally in tears by midway.
Lord I love these analog behemoths! For whatever reason, I desperately want to hear some kind of Latin High Mass or High Anglican style music on one of these.
This was incredible! Also, Winter would kick ass through a crunchier, more distorted setup, akin to something like the sound MasterBootRecord goes for. Anyway, keep up the great work!
Man these classical music on synth videos are THE BOMB. I've always loved the blend of classical (especially Baroque) music and analogue synthesis, it's almost like it's how it was intended to be. I'd love to hear Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem Mass. That is probably my favourite classical piece ever, along with Keyboard Concerto in G major, Movement 3, H. 444 by CPE Bach
As always, spectacular work Sam! My ears are tickled pink and brain cells wiring away. I love these interpretations and would absolutely love to see what you could do with Danse Macabre! As always keep up the good work you technological wizard!
Damn, this works so well - a lot of classical music is hard to blend with drum beat because 4 on the floor accents upbeat but classical music accents downbeat, but the pulsing rhythm of parts of this song are great places to bring the drums in, you've got the restraint to pull the drums out when they wouldn't work, and the places when melody and drum accents mismatch work because you don't overdo it and has a syncopated feel, love your music man
Awesome! Loved it! I still remember the endless enjoyment I had with the Wendy Carlos album, "Switched On Bach" and I have loved Classics on Synth ever since!
I pulled out the old MIDI to Arcade button funky keyboard machine early this morning to film this video, i had to rewire it a bit, having just looked at the video is would seem i have wired some in the wrong way round. its all good. i'll categorise the mistake as artistic licensing.
also you;ll see some lights are missing, its likely i borrowed em for other projects. time has a tendancy of doing that kind of stuff.
Are you playing back a MIDI file in this? Were you playing a MIDI file with your Christmas music too?
@@mataloger the keyboard machine is plugged into a midi sequencer for the vid. regarding the christmas one its a midi sequencer. so yes. my synth only talks externally to midi to keep wires between cases minimal for quick setup time.
Could you have a go at Vangalis, Chariots of Fire, if you have the time of course?
You're a genius, Sam. Thanks for sharing 🙏🙇❤️🌹
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER with respect to keeping wires short and quick setups, have you thought of making a pair of midi remotes using Arduino's and analogue 433MHz modules for 0 latency? They wouldn't ever need to be disconnected while remaining a wireless link between 2 or more devices.could support passthrough too allowing wired and wireless to work together for multiple devices.
As a classical musician I always love how your renditions of classical pieces don't just take the most well known part and use it as a hook, while at the same time, you're not just playing the original piece note for note with electronic instruments. These renditions are real interpretations that respect and expand on the original pieces to suit the capabilities of modern electronic music
Total agreement! Sam - please press these on your next LP!!
You might like some of OVERWERK's older stuff.
@@nathanlewry633 Yeah, Overwerk makes great stuff.
Is Mozart was alive today he'd lose his shit over the synths. _(in a good way)_
_I also realise this is Vivaldi not Mozart, but Mozart loved making music like it was what he lived and breathed for, Autism for the win_
I could not agree more!
Wendy Carlos would be proud. Wonderfully done.
YES SHE WOULD!!! I spoke with her via the internet several times and she always delighted in new ideas for electronic music!
👍
Wendy Carlos's music Lawyers less so. People get worked taken down off youtube for daring to do classical synth music in the style of Wendy Carlos
@@billyballbuster Her name is Wendy.
@@billyballbuster She changed her name. I have a copy of the rereleased version in her new name.
As a classical musician, I would totally pay for an album of classical covers done in this style. Goes to show you that musicianship is musicianship, no matter what tools you're using to make your music.
Check out the album Qlassix by Fantastic Plastic Machine. While a lot lighter in tone, they're a fun a bunch of classic covers
You gotta get Switched on Bach, it's a synth album legend
Wonderful to hear! Would really love to hear more LMNC-interpretations of classical pieces. You my man are a solid successor to Wendy Carlos!
I don't think LMNC has done any Bach yet? This needs to be remedied --- Bach is the OC heavy metal!
Tron 3 OST by LMNC when?
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@Don't Read My Profile Photo Ok.
I’d be very interested in Beethoven. I think of Beethoven as the gateway to the modern paradigm with his experiments in discordance and transitional notes.
A lot of what you do sounds like the new soundtrack to “A Clockwork Orange.” It’s awesome!
Yeaaah was thinking the same
I've often thought there should be a Soundtrack Sequel to CO! And this might fit (except that technically there aren't "techno drums" on CO, only orchestral, and modular noise)
RIGHTRIGHTRIGHT
i thought the same thing
@romankosins- what do you mean "new " soundtrack to clockwork orange? That movie and its soundtrack came out in 1969? But yes, Wendy Carlos kind of has synth classical on lockdown as "her thing" yeah.
@@evancairo one person can't "lock down" a style of music, even if they are the greatest known example. Classical music has a lot of usage / arrangement of earlier material in it's history. ^ perhaps he meant "a new soundtrack" rather than "the"
I think Vivaldi himself would approve! Spot on as always Sam 👌 👏🏻
If Vivaldi did not like this, he must be dead ; )
I always wonder if you went back in time and showed artists reinterpretations of their music with technology so advanced it looks like music and beats that seem demonic at first if they would really appreciate and love it or not... Just imagine that brainfuck he would have listening to this
@@Buderus69 I do wonder about that, and obviously no one could ever actually know…but….We have a different relationship to music, in the days of basically all the classic composers you only heard a piece of music if people could play it, they didn’t get our luxury to listen at our leisure and I think they probably would have found it lacking. There really is a a whole full-body feeling to being in a theatre and hearing an orchestra, it’s all those individual instruments independently vibrating the air around them. Speakers can come shockingly close, but they can’t re-create that.
But if you consider all that, and then think how they might respond to devices which can seamlessly play notes above and beyond the register of any other instrument in the orchestra, with polyphonic complexity and a precise timbre of your choosing. That’s a lot of power for people who compose a piece of music with a multitude of voices.
And if you look at the most obvious of them all, Beethoven may have been able to appreciate amplification in a way that few others then could. Not that he would have fully heard it in the way we would, but given his bad hearing it would have provided a physical sense of sound that was unprecedented.
One way or another it’s really interesting to think about. I mean pipe organs were certainly very popular precisely because of the types of things synthesizers actually do much better, aside from the insane physical presence.
2:09 When that Folia hits:
I want you to make an ENTIRE ALBUM of classical synth performances, please!
100%
Yes!
I would buy this album.
@@michealmorris3766 As would I
Indeed .. yes, I'd happily pay for an album of classical pieces done on your synths. Might you, perhaps, consider creating one ? .. Thanks, Chris-'S.'
Really great Idea to take Vivaldi 4 Seasons. My father is a total classic fan, and I grew up with classic music. The funny Thing is, my brother was a total Raver and I was a Punk. My father hated Electronic music like techno. Since some years I play around with Synths which wondered my father. I will show him this Song, than he understands because He surely likes this Song
Bro just casually gives us an absolute masterpiece. No biggie
Musical Interpretation: Excellent
Programming: Excellent
Video: Excellent
Tuning and Calibration: holy crap that must've been a lot of work!!!
THIS is my favorite part of Vivaldi's Four Seasons - I always imagine a thunderstorm with a hefty downpour after a hot summer's day, somewhere in Italy, with some nice landscape and an old castle in the background … maybe Dall-e could create an image out of this … I should try it at some point … 😁 (Oh, I forgot a bottle of good Chianti or Primitivo, sitting on a porch!)
WOW JUST WOW. Its like classical music was discovered to showcase the capabilities of synthesisers in later life. Im absolutely blown away by this rendition. Amazing work 👍❤
Classical played on synthesiser, a time honored tradition
Baroque music is perfect for interpretation with synths and your approach to it is so good! Your version of Handel's Sarabande is a masterpiece but these Vivaldi recordings are also amazing. Thanks!
absolutely amazing you have just proved that well written music can transcend time and still sound fundamentally good. more like this please
Sam really is a mad genius.
Impressive...
That was magnificent! *chef kiss*
Imagine a collaboration with Kebu on this wizardry, that would be one immense show.
The tone practically melted my eardrums 🫠
Just recognised this on Colin Furze latest video. It was used perfectly
i love the remixing of classical music using analog synths
This Channel keeps getting more Epic.
This is seriously fantastic. words cant describe how happy i am that this exists
Outstanding! If there's internet in heaven, you know Bob Moog and Wendy Carlos are groovin' on this shiz!
While the sentiment is nice, Wendy Carlos is still alive!
@@seymourbuns4620 ouch! I should have verified that! Sorry, Wendy!
@@seymourbuns4620 I was like NOooOOooO when???? Glad to see that she's still around.
@@seymourbuns4620 thanks, I almost started to freak out about a minute ago, ending with a quick browser query.
Long live W.C!
Don't scare me Bill. Wendy's alive and kicking photographing skies.
You' re a great musician, and a genius ❤
That s awesome dude ...you re so F76king Awesome
This is exactly what it's all about. Love this music.
I was just listening to Wendy Carlos' SoB records in the last week or so. Now this. My life is complete.
Nice to see you are doing more classical music recently ....... keep it up..... excellent rendition
Saw the orignal mix performed in a cathedral the other day, this remix beats it hands down 🤘
There is something special about classical music being played on electronic synthesizers. Almost magical. Beautiful
I just wanna say the KSP2 cinematic opened this rabbit hole for me. And I'm not mad.
The algorithm has blessed me. I love EDM renditions of classical music 💗👄💗
When played like this Vivaldi reminds me of Erasure.
Classics would always remain an ultimate flex for the synth.
Colin Furze uses this music in his new weightless machine rig video around 9 minutes
Well now you really made it : you’re in Colin Furze’s video today ! 👍
This is definitely my favorite of the Vivaldi pieces you have done. Keep up the great work.
Angry partner: wheres all the alfoil gone?!
these are great! Cant wait for a full album of them!
I love the skinned Furby sitting up in it's module the entire time with it's eyes closed.
Amazing music and wonderful visuals! I love seeing the music :D
There was a round on University Challenge this week about synthesizer renditions of classical pieces... these Vivaldi pieces are excellent, more!
This was one of the most incredible analogue electronic arrangement of a classical piece I've ever heard! Wendy Carlos herself just got chills hearing this from her cloud. Thank you so much. I was literally in tears by midway.
This machine is alive, it speaks and watch me when playing music
1:40 nooo freaking way you are a freaking genius whaaat????
What a master of computer and E. M.
Vivaldi would have been the best and most famous synthwave and electronic music producer of the 21th century.
Had to listen to it a second time on 1.25x. Already a good rendition was transformed.
Apart from the bed for love, a human needs music, rhythm, melody, harmonies and all of their counterpoints and I need MORE! This is epic.
I love your classic interpretation with Cosmo! This is so brilliant Sam!
your right up there with Wendy Carlos Sam, fantastical bud :)
Nice work. I love these. Do more!
Now i want to hear ALLAthe classic standards!
This is AWSM!
There are some really nice sequences to this. It's beautiful.
This is LEGAL FIRE. My senses are so happy 🔥🔥🔥
I already loved you for your craft when i found you during the covid lockdowns, but this just takes it all the way. Keep up the great work!
This is one of the most epic
bro u are a genius and consistently make the coolest synthesizer videos on youtube
If I could like this multiple times, I would. I really love that sound, reminds me of badly dubbed 70s French children's tv series. Somehow.
Absolutely incredible.
Beautiful piece, such a well done mix.
Lots of love from Canada 🇨🇦💜
Can't stop listening to this
Okay but this is a WHOLE jam!!
Please i am BEGGING you to put these on spotify!!!!!!
Lord I love these analog behemoths! For whatever reason, I desperately want to hear some kind of Latin High Mass or High Anglican style music on one of these.
Blooming marvellous!🤘🏼🙌🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
This is my favorite rendition 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Switched on Mum! Sounds like a great direction to go in
Time is Not a Healer it's a Fuel for Resentment ... beautiful
Just well done.Great😋
If this isn’t the definition of ‘classical banger’, I don’t know what is
So crunchy I’ll count this as my morning cereal.
I’m blown away! This is going in my permanent playlist! 👍
Holly shit!!!! 1:39 AMAZING
This was incredible! Also, Winter would kick ass through a crunchier, more distorted setup, akin to something like the sound MasterBootRecord goes for. Anyway, keep up the great work!
im gunna do all of em i think. however i like the sound my synth does so ill be doing it close to the above. cheers!!!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER you got a great tone out of this setup, I'm sure it'll sound wonderful through it and I'm stoked to hear it!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Please do! Winter is my favorite
Allow me to share one of my favourite artists: ua-cam.com/video/yTmRxuXwivs/v-deo.html
It's not Winter, but is not *not* Winter.
@@heathcliffflowen4134 thanks for the recommendation regardless!
What a wonder of wonders 🔝🔝🔝
Thank you for creating this video, man. This is AWESOME!
Man these classical music on synth videos are THE BOMB. I've always loved the blend of classical (especially Baroque) music and analogue synthesis, it's almost like it's how it was intended to be. I'd love to hear Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem Mass. That is probably my favourite classical piece ever, along with Keyboard Concerto in G major, Movement 3, H. 444 by CPE Bach
Absolutely awesome Nigel Kennedy would approve 👍☢️
תודה!
It sounds cool! I love it! It's like a mixture of Jean Michele Jare, Tangerine Dream and Emerson Lake and Palmer and etc.
Reminds me of the soundtrack to the War of the Worlds Playstation 1 game. It's worth a listen.
Amazing. Please upload it to spotify ❤
Oh, my favorite composer!
One of my all-time fave pieces - a beautiful and powerful homage!
Comes from blur cover, discovered the LOAD OF GOLD! Man, keep it up!
damn.... so good... i can't wait for winter...
As always, spectacular work Sam! My ears are tickled pink and brain cells wiring away.
I love these interpretations and would absolutely love to see what you could do with Danse Macabre!
As always keep up the good work you technological wizard!
Looks and sounds like the gestational stages of a Christmas light show house.
Legends are bobbing their heads right now! Thanks!
What magnificent, maniacal, MARVELOUS Monstrosity of a Set Up! I LOVE IT !
Damn, this works so well - a lot of classical music is hard to blend with drum beat because 4 on the floor accents upbeat but classical music accents downbeat, but the pulsing rhythm of parts of this song are great places to bring the drums in, you've got the restraint to pull the drums out when they wouldn't work, and the places when melody and drum accents mismatch work because you don't overdo it and has a syncopated feel, love your music man
Awesome! Loved it! I still remember the endless enjoyment I had with the Wendy Carlos album, "Switched On Bach" and I have loved Classics on Synth ever since!
Amazing.... Vivaldi & Jean Michelle Jarr are proud & jealous !!!
BTW Very nice MIDI screen ;)
dude i downloaded this and jam it every few days and it gives me goose bumps each time.
Just wonderful. I would gladly pay to sit in a two-hour concert just watching/listening to this!
Absolutely fantastic! Please do the rest of the seasons, and more of this in general! This is the perfect fusion of two things I love, well done.