My Dream Instrument Is Here // Torso S-4 Sculpting Sampler
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- I am thrilled to finally show you the amazing Torso S-4, an instrument that is a dream come true for both sound designers and live performers. I have been involved into this project since months and while the firmware is still in beta, I believe it's mature enough to give you a walkthrough of it.
I will try to give you a good sense of what the S-4 can do and I will also build a patch from scratch at the end of this in-depth video!
Enjoy!
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00:00 Jam
01:33 Introduction
04:22 How to support me ( THANKS! )
05:22 S-4 Overview
06:10 Audio Devices (Material, Granular, Filter, Color, Space )
08:40 Performance Buttons
09:30 Action Buttons // Modulations
11:19 Simple workflow as sound processor // PASS THROUGH device
20:10 Switching to TAPE device
26:06 You can easily record everything internally
28:42 Recording a sample in TAPE device using OP1 Field
30:20 Switching to POLY SAMPLER device
31:30 Starting from a percussion sample to build a full 3 track patch
37:35 Conclusions
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That looks like a really unique machine with a unique workflow and capabilities. Great to see innovation is still possible! Looking forward to see the final box.
Great to see this first demo of the Torso S-4. Thanks for making this.
Thanks ! I hope you will have one too, considering the magic you are doing with the T1
Next Surgeon live set about to get tripppppyyyyyy 🌹
fuck for a second I thought you'd changed your handle to 'stormy surgeon' a la Donald Trump trial.
We are witnessing a granular renaissance in the last few years and especially these days. Very cool device, looks and sounds good.
very true
Granular is the holy grail of Ambient music.
Kyma users from the 90's are probably having a flashback to their youth.
@@justinbennitt835 or max/supercollider users from the 2000's, not to go back to xenakis, gabor matrices, etc...To me this such an overused effect that can only be interesting if "homecoocked". Thre could be some interesting implementaion of the synthesis method but, you probably need to have som "pure ears" to be exicted.
It’s true but with modern digital synthesis and silicon chip power we’re entering a new dimension of sound 👽
Looks absolutely stunning! Also that wave form display is amazing.
I am not that happy with the sound either.
Was actually quite hyped before this video.
Such an amazing machine! Thanks for the beautiful music:)
❤❤❤ I always enjoy your approach to storytelling, as well as learning about new music making products. It’s always refreshing checking in with you and your world ❤❤❤
I appreciate that!
Looks amazing!❤
Really nice demo man. Thank you!
My pleasure!
First time ever pre-ordering a device. Been waiting for your video, Oora, and I’m even more hyped now.
happy to hear!!
@@OoraMusic Have you tested hooking up a class-compliant audio device for additional ins and outs? Not sure if that's available in the current beta firmware.
Love my T1. Think these guys know how to make great, usable instruments.
100%
Great demonstration and wonderful music you came up with, thank you!
Many thanks!
I like how happy you are with it - I hope it stays with you for a long time
thanks Robert!!
Beautifully demonstrated, Sir! Nice instrument. 🙂
Thank you kindly!
Nice vid thank you, cool to see this machine in action.
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow...this looks amazing, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching
Officially sold! Preordering now.
:)
Preordered instantly many months ago. Excited for this to be added to the collection.
great one!
True awesomeness right there, Die Mensch-Maschine... ❤
:)
Perfect watching when I get back from my little gig later. I’ve pre ordered one so I have high hopes. 👍
:)
Awesome work buddy 💜
thanks Miles!
Sounds incredible
thanks!
The unit Sounds perfect 👍🏽
I agree!
@@OoraMusic has a very unique timbre to the textures along with the potential manipulation algorithms, impressive… it’s not often units come along that are innovative for sound design 😎 great demo also
I can't wait to hear your thoughts on this. I am in batch one and am really itching to get it installed with my SOMA instruments rig.
I'll see you in a few hours!
:)
@yannleroch1760 believe it or not, I don't have those units :( I use 2 stregas (would love to try a Lyra), the Terra, Enner, Ether, and RoAT.
One day I may finally get a pulsar and Lyra. I feel like this S4 is going to handle the cosmos functionality
Me too 💙 been waiting patiently for more information, this video came out on my birthday, with the s-4 also being the purchase I made as the one birthday present to myself. I gotta say Oora, I am very grateful for your work and effort in sharing this, a present in itself.
Based on what I saw in this video, and having a Cosmos, they are quite different.
@adammatza I really wanted a cosmos, I still do. I am glad to know the S4 and Cosmos are still distinct from each other.
I attempted to win a cosmos in a tutorial contest last year, and SOMA sent me a RoAT as a runner-up prize. They are a very cool company, and eventually, I'll have the rest of the line up :)
Stupenda! Great video mate! Was not an easy task to narrate such a new and unique machine.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@OoraMusic I’m in search of the perfect sampler for years. Owning any kind of these, I’m so eager to put my hands on the TS-4… Maybe I could have a taste of it at Superboth in May. Ci becchiamo, eventually! Thanks
that looks amazing !!
it is!
Can’t wait for usb in/out tbh !
Also a repartition curve for amount/ thresholds of modulation ?
Thanks for making these video, you are a good teacher 👍
This is too cool. I got to learn more about this.
its a great instrument in my opinion!!
So sick hyped on this thing
yeah man , is SO cool!!
Thanks for this - it’s great to finally get a detailed overview of the S-4! It seems like it has some good possibilities, and Torso have demonstrated a positive track record of ongoing improvements with the T-1 (which I really enjoy). That said, between the vague information available last year and the limited initial product specs, I ended up pre-ordering a GR-MEGA instead, but perhaps this is one to keep an eye on when more features are (fully) implemented.
yeah the development took longer than expected and im happy they decided to take the time needed. Im sure the mega is also a great instrument!
@@OoraMusic indeed, there may yet be room for both of them in my studio… 😅
Going to be ordering one.
Lovely, I saw ableton link implemented as well, awesome 🥰
yep!
Sounds very nice. I would definitely be interested to see more said on the possibilities for live looping and the sound on sound functions!
video will come
I'll be getting one for sure
glad to hear!
Ok I want one even more now after watching this 🥰
:)
thank you for this
You're very welcome!
I’m so impressed by T1 and S4 , they’re my most wanted and I am so sad about, can’t afford this 2 , but in my mind, I’m constructing tracks with them …
Love the approach of that gear, coming from Cubase/Maschine/ Ableton Environment ..
These little miracle machines make a great step, bringing such a potpourri of possibilities to a real-time live performance .. I love it … ❤
thanks for your kind words!!
I want this to success so bad. I will for sure buy it and I hope they will develop it. It will be perfect to play live and just add whatever synth/sampler to play a little live sounds
im sure it will be a success!
Nice demo! Thanks 🙏
thanks mate
Ammazing, and very happy to hear it will have a 10 in 10 out interface. mwuah
yes super!!
Pre ordered waiting for mine
congrats!
@@OoraMusic great video 👌
Very interesting machine 😊I am sure this must be cool to create beautiful ambient sounds 🍀
yes !
I would love to see what it can do with vocals! 😃
probably next video
this will fit into my hardware set up perfectly I'm in
:)
Im surprised as an Octatrack lover you haven't looked at the Tasty Chips Mega being released this month. Its the Godfather of granular :)
I reached out to tasty chips many times to try their instrument and do a demo, never happened tho
Very interesting and you crafted some beautiful sonic experiences. I have the Torso T-1 which I'm just beginning to explore. I imagine it pairs well with the S-4!
yes they have a similar approach to music making!
ohhh, very interresting
ciao Robert!
Oh my what a device, Great video, I can't wait to see more. How would you sync it with an external sequencer I wonder and get it quantised/looped correctly.
This looks so good might be the next order!!
Great 🎛️ I dream ... Motormaschine Mk2 with this awesome Sampler 😮 Bring IT ON a Higher Level 🌀
Its nice to see that developers finally realize: yes a big screen is needed to avoid endless menu diving *cough* Elektron. Sounds really good!
:D
Where's the menu diving on Elektron boxes? You've got a physical button for every menu plus a double press for the second page, and then there's one individual encoder for every on screen parameter. Try navigating some Roland/Korg stuff, that's menu diving!
And, btw, the S4 menu structure here resemble A LOT the Elektron one, it's got a better/bigger screen, yes, but the menu concept is (luckily) very similar
@@CiabaMusic huh? Try the Octatrack. Also btw: just because your fine with it doesn't mean it couldnt be improved. Yes - one of my points was A BIGGER SCREEN. /eye roll
@@sonicmayhemofficial Easy with the drama - are you 12 years old ?
I love the screen. I have a Gotharman Little DeFormer II that can do amazing sample mangling but the menu is atrocious compared to this. Great sound on the LD2 though!
This would go really well with my polyend tracker and my play, will have to look into getting one
Interestingly, we are getting more and more of these granular machines. GR-1 has already established itself as a success, and the new version is coming out soon (already in pre-order if I am not mistaken), and I just wonder how much it overlaps with S4. Also, it is interesting to see such a hype for hardware granular stuff, since we have so many good software solutions for this (Izotope Iris even, as spectral granular plus tons of other stuff). Tracker by Polyend also offers granular mode, albeit in a different way. In modular world, there is Clouds, Morphagene, Arbhar, Lubadh, and now even granular - based filter like Klavis Grainity. I wonder how much of the S4 is unique and does it warrant the price tag, since it seems to me GR - MEGA much brings more on board albeit for 1k quid heftier pricetag (don't get confused, on Tasty Chips site preorder for GR MEGA is about 600 quid, but that is just a part of it, full price is 1.8 k). It is, indeed, all about how the instrument inspires you and if you like the workflow, I might get this one just to emulate old Tascam 4-5 channel cassette recorder and fill in my nostalgia.
nice video looking forward on future updates
More to come!
Great betatesting dude!
Appreciate it!
Looks really promising, I wonder how is the midi implementation because it just lacks on a good sequencer! I love the form factor it's super portable but the Tasty Chips GR-Mega looks even more advanced but hard to tell how both will really compare, especially based on current firmware you just showcased.
You got interesting results pretty fast tho, that's a good selling point!
I bought a Tasty Chips GR1 and returned it because it did not work properly. I actually had to force them to take it back after they where not willing or able to take care of the problem. They even tried to talk me into selling it on to the next fool at a loss. On paper it still is a dream instrument to me but I have totally lost my faith in the company. It has also made me less trusting towards boutique type companies in general.
When a reviewer opens the video with an improv, no voice-over, he's clearly appreciates the unit and wants it to have the first "word".
ah never thought about that, but I think it is right, I humbly try to show how im using the unit!
for a whole minute and a half. clearly a passionate love letter
Great video, awesome sounds and looks awesome
Thank you 😋
this would be great with a variety of different reverbs and delays/echos. like a convolution reverb and the ability to import impulse responses for example would be perfect. can't wait to see how the fx section on this thing gets filled out with future firmware updates, it's looking great so far
yes it is going to be a great platform!
Brilliant! My order stands. And Hans Zimmer is redundant. What you just created there, in no time, could be a score to a scene in the latest Dune movie. Unbelievable.
ahah i wish :)
thanks a lot for the demo, superb work
Glad you liked it!
And a cool feedback machine like on the Ableton Roar FX would be great.
Torso have such great designers. And this would sit so nice next to a Digitakt/Digitone/Analog Heat mk.II. So aesthetically pleasing, gotta catch em' all. Try and get your mitts on a Tasty Chips granular processor too sometime, think it would really suit your style. They need some excellent demoes, and you could definitely knock that one out of the part.
Yeah, I was comparing the S-4 to the Tasty Chips GR-1 throughout the video. Problem with the GR-1 is that it doesn't have audio in, recording requires an external audio interface and is very awkward, it has only a single effect that requires deep menu diving, setting the volume for 4 tracks is way more complicated, MIDI implementation sucks and saving a project is virtually impossible as the save menu feels like Windows 95 and tends to loose 2 hours of work. BUT: The granularity of the GR-1 has a better visualizer, it has way more grains and sounds better - more grainy, less washed out - even without delay/reverb etc. Tasty Chips said they'd overworked some functions for their truck-sized new granular synth, so I hope they will burn the old Os after Superbooth and make the GR-1 user interface somewhat acceptable for the first time.
@@g3cd Tasty Chips also has the GR-Mega coming out which looks amazing, but is double the price of the Torso S-4.
And I'm sitting here thinking how bad it looks and how backwards the interface is to use in 2024
@@g3cd😂😂😂 oh man exactly how I think... the new features look nice ... and yes: Tasty Chips
burn this OS!
@@mikenoface Yeh but it does so much more and is better built.
I am blown away at 10:27 modulation page. Cant stop thinking about possibilities...
unlimited possibilities ")
Looks like the features I bought the Polyend Tracker for, but done right.
:)
Will be interesting to see this used in a more deterministic and rhythmic usage case...seems to consolidate a lot of gear into a more performance friendly interface. Had to watch the vid 4 times before I’d fully mapped the S-4 to a creative situation rather than just a feature-set (due to the amount of versatility) and then it just clicked...I get it. I’m getting it :) thanks for the in depth look. Big future for this thing!
Also consider this is still beta unit and we are working to refine many things!
@@OoraMusic aye, and knowing Torso I think we’ll see some massive jumps in what it does in the future :)
Between this and the OXi One we’re so spoiled with unique and novel devices. I can’t wait for my S-4 to arrive! I think it’ll be KILLER with the Analog Heat!
yes!!
This sounds bloody good doesnt it
thanks!
Reading the specs and thinking this would pair really well with a Digitone with the 4 midi tracks.
definitely
Very interesting device. Love the minimalistic look, the screen layout, etc. The granular part is wat interests me most, but I think I need to see a few different reviews on this device.
it will start shipping soon im sure we will see lot of different uses!
Thanks for the introduction! Does the S-4 polyphonic sample player support multisamples with velocity layers?
not at this time! maybe in future firmwares!
I think the dynamic visualisations are really pretty clever, I'd love to see the next gen of Elektron devices have a similar kind of UI approach.
yes the UI is just amazing I think
Hey Oora, thanks for the vid mate. 🙏
If you have some spare time I would like to ask you a few questions :
-are tracks tied to scenes or whatever they call their "kits", like digis workflows ? I mean for live purpose, it would be great to be able to change track by track to a new scene for smooth transitions.
-is it possible to use the timestretch according to a set length/bpm so if many tape tracks play at the same time we could have them play at the same kind of tempo ?
Thanks for reading !
Hey! at the moment all tracks are tied to global tempo. The implementation of scenes is not there yet, so can't really tell you about that!
@@OoraMusic Okay thank you my friend 🙏 have a nice day !
So refreshing to see a real instrument (this and the new Tastychips granular synth).. after seeing so many videos about that $900 white-on-white Instagram prop.
which I really like tho :)
can you change the order of the 5 fx engines or is grain always frst and space always the last in audiopath? for example put the space before the saturation engine or infront of the grain engine?
not at the moment
Cool presentation. Do you think it could be used as a performance mixer like what Ezbot does with the octatrack?
Maybe implementing a midi controller yes, but I think the pace of the s4 is slower and more "meditative' . At least at firmware 1 :)
Come back to this for another listen - sounds better second time around.
Is it an alternate to the Octatrack? The foot print is ideal and love the workflow.
it could be . tomorrow I will release a video about the live use
Although I don’t think it really fits my needs so unwise it is very interesting as a design concept. I hope we get more multi channel samplers with polyphony.
My God! This is truly something special, I have been wanting something like this for a long time and I’m primarily a guitar player. Well done you explain this very well. Question, how would one sample let’s say piano or violin from felt instruments VST? Is this possible?
it has internal memory or 2 line ins so you can sample yourself!
Oh wow! So I assume you can’t sample a vst via usb? Would you have to send audio outs from interface?
Such an amazing instrument and DSP platform. Might sell my whole Eurocrack system and replace it with this. I pray that Torso add Scala microtuning support at some point.
I think microtuming will come!
mine's in the first batch. I have so many questions, but the most important one is "where is it?" 😂 frustrated by the GR-1, loving the 1010 blackbox & the deluge here (three of the bb, two deluge), can't wait to see how this integrates...
ok- multisample support? & the internal recorder- is it post-everything? is it stereo? how do you name files? is there support for file transfers via usb? is there a file size or quantity limit? folder structure? will do some googling, but those are the main ones. can't wait!
No multisample att the moment ( might came later I feel), internal recorder is post everything or buffer recorder Pre everything ( still probably changing in the future forr the better),for now you name projects only, then it autonomies recordings and samples, file are tranferable easily with usb, no file size limit ( 4gb internal memory ), folder structure yes.
Feature suggestion, if not already present : allow to change the FX routing order. Opens more creative options.
it will come!
Great overview. Would really be interested in a Torso mixer (in the same format as the S-4).
that would be awesome
@@OoraMusic same monolith design, internal battery, bliss
great! I'm wondering if there is a way to use or include it in a DAW based setup
for sure, considering it will have audio via usb!!
❤❤❤
I can only imagine what lorn-esc sounding soundscapes i can create with a few sounds. I have the dirtywave m8, a little roland j-6. Just want to play and travel through the soundwaves... I am so glad i preordered batch 1. And this video only shows a small amount of what it will be able to do.
🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
Now I'm just going to be figuring out how to make that grinding sound in the demo track with what I have. I'm sure it's possible with some contact mics and effects.
:D keep me posted
Bien coooooool !
:)
Seems like a simpler, more straight-forward Octatrack. If this is the case, I’m buying one!
it can overlap, but both instruments have some strong points!
Is it possibility to route the tracks to a Trough Track used as a master? Maybe doable in a later update.
Nearly bought torso’s Euclidean sequencer on eBay but this looks far more interesting 🤔
ciao, complimenti per i tuoi video. da possessore di Organelle m noto alcune similitudini nella gestione dei sample, tuttavia Organelle non mi soddisfa molto perché ha tante patch granulari tutte simili fra loro, che per il mio modo di vedere è troppo dispersivo. inoltre la qualità di registrazione non mi sembra proprio ottima... tu hai mai provato Organelle? sapresti dirmi se sono comparabili? grazie
purtroppo non l ho mai provato! immagino pero' che l's-4 sia piu' avanzato tecnologicamente e quindi offra un miglior workflow!
This device was on preorder like from autumn and many features are not implemented yet.. Looks good, especially visuals, sounds rather glassy for my taste, hopefully sample examples related, but I'm not paying $900+ to work as beta tester. I think that for such a price it should be feature full and ready to go device :)
mate, they will ship final firmware units, not betas. This is a preview.
About the glassy sound: maybe a very generic idea, but almost all devices profit from some "warming" device toward the end of the chain.
@@OoraMusic cool, that leaves me a hope :)
@@stefanherzog yeah, with something like a heat after this, the next level textures 🤤
Definitely on my radar, but will wait for the firmware to mature. Want to be able to change the order of the effects at minimum. Also, 4GB storage limit is a bummer. Wish they would have added a microSD for storage of recordings and larger sample libraries.
it will read samples from external hd and will have chance to change order in future firmware.
It’s here! And about 50% of the buttons don’t work or unimplemented. It doesn’t even support midi sync yet. It blows my mind how a product like this gets released and they have the balls to charge $900 for it.
I definitely don't need another sampler, but this sthing has kicked in a G.A.S. vibe, no doubt.
:D
Is it possible to zoom in on a sample for precisly set i/o of the sample?
This is def a very interesting machine. If this would be open source and let others make unique scripts for it like on Monome Norns, it would be a hit, and make it more future proof and more versatile.
that would be amazing I know!
Interesting sampler
agreed
I think this could be a fun creative DJ device with the built in BPM detection
yes!!
Amazing machine!
Is it battery powered? If not, does it take power through USB-C?
it needs a power unit