@@AudioPilz And ... see you next time. Congrats on the prize, you've earned it. Also that trance track ... maybe you should finish your tracks for a Bad Gear Compilation?
This thing actually looks pretty dope! And congrats on the win. This show is insanely entertaining, and I love the celebration of janky gear being used to make bangers.
How on earth does he make such labor intensive work on such a regular basis? I can't fathom it. I love his energy, and I take a shot every time he says "I wanna know"
I remember these, and remember wanting one for a while. I think these sold a lot (As did all QUASIMIDI GEAR..especially the 309 unit they made) on the basis of being used live, and not having to take your brick of a laptop back then, or a PC (OR even ATARI ST) based set up with you, to do your live set(s). But perhaps many people just couldn't produce anything more than a track or two that they were happy with, just with the unit alone. I think Jorg Schaff (I think that's how his name's spelt) was responsible for this and a lot of the Quasimidi instruments, and he went on to form Radikal Technologies, with their SPECTRALIS range of grooveboxes, amongst other things. Surprisingly, whilst the sound quality improved significantly, the user interface become more complex, with a 2 line backlight LCD screen employed to display even more functionality. Back to the sound, the SIRIUS , as well as the other grooveboxes Quasimidi made (I think there may have been a keyboard controller as well, similar to the Arturia variants) had this lo-fi grungy sound, which i think may have been 12 bit samples interpolated to give a better sheen using the effects. You can hear some odd stuff in the raw samples, which gives the game away. It's an odd choice this one, as the prices show how sought after they still are, which may be due to the look or some 90s nostalgia-based halo effect. But it's dated faster than a pair of flared combats with a glowstick in the backpocket, due to the sounds on it, and if you're brave enough to reprogram the whole thing, what you'll get out of it will be mostly of the same ilk. No matter what you do, everything that comes out of it will have that grungy, slightly lo-fi, distorted overcoating. If i remember correctly, it always sounded good coming out of the mini keyboard section P.A.'s in a shop, but when you plugged headphones in, you'd wonder where all the grime and even occasional hiss was coming from. Like using an old performance car, it has its moments of brilliance, but pushed hard and the flaws become noticeable. And you'll be grappling to steer it, to prevent your sonic drive from ending up in the nearest hedge.
@@AudioPilz i know. I wanted one for months, and then the RM1X came out. The internal sound engine is average, but it had one of the best sequencers ive ever seen. Same goes for its succesor, the RS7000.
Best online personality award is very well deserved. I love how fully realized the tone of your content is. It strikes this goldilocks chord of nostalgic 20th century sincerity accented by a wry, free-based future meme abyss of total noise. Thanks for getting me through 2020 with a smile on my face.
The Rave-O-Lution 309 is actually a beast for drums if you like a grungy, dirty sound. The sequencer is very easy to use and straighforward too. The bass synth kinda sucks though. If you get one, make sure it has the drum expansion. Worth it!
This is just amazing... but hey you're throwing some awesome beats with it!!!!!!!! And congrats on that #1, totally deserved!!!! your videos just get better and better
Thank you, Mr Audiopilz You've been a source of joy in what's been a pretty dire year for me. I look forward to many more of your creative, informed and entertaining videos.
Congratulations on the MusicRadar award, well deserved! Your channel offers a humorous take on weird gear. As for this episode's subject, it was a new one for me. I've seen the Quasimidi name on Vintage Synth Explorer and that's it.
Thank you for all the awesome music and laughs! I produce 95% in the box but this channel makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of old hated hardware and do some dawless midi jams. Best channel on youtube!
I made sure to vote fro you so I'm glad you won. You are without a doubt the most enternaining newcomer I've witnessed in ages. Not only that but your subject matter and approach is second to none. Congrats man!
Well done on receiving this award. If you ask me I think that you certainly more than deserved it. The fun I had reminiscing all the bad gear I owned during the last two and a half decades and seeing you make them come to live again has been true bliss. Ahhh. Quasimidi. The built quality was awesome. I have owned a maxxed out Rave-o-lution and a Raven. Those where so freaking awesome back in the days. And the fact that my favourite synth guru/hero Klaus Schultze used this gear to me was a great pull factor. Please continue to make more peace, love and pancake for a long time. Thank you. Oh yeah: I totally enjoyed the Austrian pronunciation of 'Sirius'. It sounds so much cooler than the English or Dutch pronunciation. Instant techno.
Congratulations on your reward, well deserved! Your content always manages to be fun, informative, and inspiring in equal amounts -- not an easy feat to pull off. Keep up the good work!
I wanted that so bad over 20 years ago. Ended up settling on it’s little sibling: the Rave O Lution 309, which had decent(for the price) 808 & 909 emulations with real-time, tweak-able controls. Congratz on your award 👍👍 You deserve an editing award as well. I laugh with all the pop culture references you throw at us. Happy Holidays 🎄
Synths was very expensive i remember .i had a 2nd hand sampler it was way too complicating i took it back and got a boss 6 track and synth modulator was a grand which plugged in my keyboard .couid u do all the classic ravey sounds?on it i never knew u could detune the saw back in the day
I fondly remember the Quasimidi ads that would be in every keyboard magazine. I think it was just the amount of controls that seemed very appealing. They were way out of my price range at the time and no one around here had one, so I settled for Buzz Tracker running with Rave-0-lution samples. Which probably aged a lot better considering. Congrats on the award! Also, have you considered doing a guitar synth? I'm sure that could be very interesting!
I love all the bad jokes in this episode. Awesome! And congratulations for winning the award. I really enjoy watching all the different gears that can make great music.
Gotta admit... When UA-cam started suggesting your videos last spring, I didn't expect you to win synth personality of the year. I avoided watching your videos for quite a while because I assumed you were just some angry guy ranting on the internet, and I didn't want more negativity in my life. But when I finally watched one, I was pleasantly surprised. And things have only gotten better from there. It's not just the great production quality and the sheer amount of work each episode takes... The thing I love most about your show is that you prove again and again how music depends mostly on the musician, not the instrument. You make bangers again and again with "bad" gear, and it's satisfying AF. It speaks directly against the culture of "my music would be good if only I had better gear", and points us all in a healthier and more creative direction. It's a big middle finger in my shopping cart, but in a good way -- a way which motivates me to learn instead of buy, to make songs instead of excuses. So, um... I guess that's a long-winded way of saying... Thanks! You're doing good work, and I hope you'll keep at it.
I've been watching your show for a while now and I really like it. It's cool to see how the old machines compare to current ones and usually the bad gear has something to offer, even now. Thank you
Right on!! Congratulations!! You deserve it! Edit: since you referenced Mortal Kombat, a little piece of trivia, Praga Khan AKA Lords of Acid was the musician behind that MK tune!
This was one of the best synths in the series, I don’t know how it got to Bad Gear... Love how you pronounce Sirius the German way :) Btw, it would be interesting to see a Casio CSM-1 (or its Hohner counterpart, the MSE-1, which I can donate to you)
I own the Quasimidi Polymorph - my brother the sirius, I like and love the Polyymorph so much more... however, Quasimidi-Team where nerds, not really musicians, they figured out what should be cool, useful and extraordinary - and they did it. At this time, for that price and possibilities - they where really going forward and beyond.
Does anybody else remember seeing this synth on the cover of Future Music back in the day when they had models posing with the featured products on the cover?
dude hell yes. I have been eyeing these and been super on the fence. after this video.... still super on the fence.... gratz on the award man! cheers!!!!
Appeal to all the distributors and the music platforms: please adopt all of the new cool genres this genius comes up with. We need them badly!. Thanks! Thumbs up if you agree.
Picked one of these up second-hand way back when for about £300. Absolutely hated it. Loaned it to a friend, who agreed to pay me for it, bailed on me and kept for themselves. Had to force my way into their house to retrieve it. Made an EP of extremely cheesy EBM exclusively with it. Had a nightmare about having spiders in my bed one night, jumped out of bed, sending the Sirius flying across the room to have it never work again. I deeply miss that synth for some reason.
The peace, love, and pancake tune sounded like it would fit in a jet ski/ powerboat racing game like hydro thunder or a futuristic racing game like wipeout very well and I'm loving it
Indeed the 90's were the peak of inspirational dance music production. Early "Goa" and proper trance thereafter were something else. Twas an amazing time 👍👌🙏
I love your channel. Consider doing a bad gear review on the Roland Phraselab. I love it, but I imagine it is hated. You have to really learn to work around many flaws: slowest loading times of sequences and loops of any piece of hardware I own. Knobs feel cheap. One of those red led displays. hidden synth features you can only access with an external midi controller. No delay somehow, no compression, oh and the loops are just slightly out of phase with the build in synth (which lets you layer a loop with the same synth line for an...interesting effect) If I remember right you cannot use the slicer with the synth directly... It sounds like a gameboy on steroids...uhhhh is that good? The list goes on and on.
@@AudioPilz oh man. I got mine really cheap in 2009 or 2010. I then raided every charity shop for memory cards. I think I paid $155 on ebay. I now use it with a volca beats and a volca keys, using the phrase lab synth for my bass lines and so i can compress drums in the loop channels. The Phraselab probably sucks, but it was my first....groovebox? Looper? Oh, it is very friendly about letting you pre make loops on the pc, then loading them on to a flash card. Making a loop first on the phraselab, then modifying it in Reaper and reloading it into the phrase lab is the best way to get the best sound out of it if you want effects like say....delay
if Parade-Ready Peace, Love, and Pancake, Animal Diarrhea-Inducing Trance Anthem is Techno Viking approved, then i approve! PS i've lost quite a significant amount of work in 2020 (music production, live shows, tours... etc.) but Bad Gear has gotten me through this shit show of a year. you've also inspired me to take out the MC303 out of storage and learn it. SPOILER ALERT: still haven't read through the 300-page Japanese user manual (thanks, Roland). got it hooked up to an 4-channel audio interface, along with a Casio MA120 for my own version of a Bad Gear jam. this show made me realize that it's not what gear you use, it's how you use it. Thanks for the weekly genre-bending jams and congratulations on being the Best Music Tech Personality of 2020. You deserve it! BRB, making pancakes for breakfast
I’ve have this one and have used in on lots of my songs! Especially the choir samples in dark ominous tones. Very lofi and dope sound. My song ”Downlord” is based on a choir melody from this synth.
Someone from one of my synth groups just bought this bad gear. I was going to recommend that you cover it, but within 30 seconds, I found that you already did. Your approach is a bit different, and still fun! I'll let the guy know that the knobs go to 11!
Back in the early MP3.com days ( you know, where Darude ORIGINALLY released Sandstorm? ) there was a fellow named 303 Infinity that rocked loads of Quasimidi gear to make late 90’s Euro-Trash ( trance, psy, “acid” ) music. Their gear always intrigued me, but is still too expensive for my tastes. I’ll just buy a JP-8000 or Virus Indigo for those prices 😂
Feels like the guys who built this had a real vision and were technically very ambitious. “Phonetic Spectral Transformer” is presumably just techno babble for “Vocoder”? 🤣
There's some short vocoder bits in the final musical bit but it was almost impossible for me to squeeze some proper sounds out of it. It's funny because all I hear is either "best vocoder" or "worst vocoder"
A week cannot be complete without that "Welcome to bad gear"!
Thanks for watching!
@@AudioPilz And ... see you next time.
Congrats on the prize, you've earned it.
Also that trance track ... maybe you should finish your tracks for a Bad Gear Compilation?
Congratulations Florian. My Saturday morning hangover here in Australia is made better by a dose of Bad Gear.
also called: bottom gear
@@MayzMatthiasYzebaerti believe he offers the complete tracks on Patreon (it's very tempting)
This thing actually looks pretty dope!
And congrats on the win. This show is insanely entertaining, and I love the celebration of janky gear being used to make bangers.
Thank you!
Bad gear: Novation circuit .
Just kidding , Gabe😁
You should check out The Raven by Quasimidi a 61 key synthesizer aimed at well 90’s dance music.
Props for the Jexus reference!
Freaking legend!
True
"NEVER Go Full Mortal Kombat" wisest words from 2020
Yeah, this is what 2020 taught me
Good work brother.
Unwisest, you mean
Don't go Plaid - Zeal ?
For some reason I feel like this is terrible advice but maybe I need to see/hear some context lol
How on earth does he make such labor intensive work on such a regular basis? I can't fathom it. I love his energy, and I take a shot every time he says "I wanna know"
Thanks! Some tried and tested work ethics help. AudioPilz drinking game!
@@AudioPilzcos he's brain box smart a**.
Also, on topic: I do love my Sirius even though the sound isn't particularly good. But on the other hand it's the rawness that makes it stand out.
That gritty sound certainly has its uses!
It certainly sounds better in your hand than on anyone else's hand! Love your sets!
I remember these, and remember wanting one for a while.
I think these sold a lot (As did all QUASIMIDI GEAR..especially the 309 unit they made) on the basis of being used live, and not having to take your brick of a laptop back then, or a PC (OR even ATARI ST) based set up with you, to do your live set(s). But perhaps many people just couldn't produce anything more than a track or two that they were happy with, just with the unit alone.
I think Jorg Schaff (I think that's how his name's spelt) was responsible for this and a lot of the Quasimidi instruments, and he went on to form Radikal Technologies, with their SPECTRALIS range of grooveboxes, amongst other things. Surprisingly, whilst the sound quality improved significantly, the user interface become more complex, with a 2 line backlight LCD screen employed to display even more functionality.
Back to the sound, the SIRIUS , as well as the other grooveboxes Quasimidi made (I think there may have been a keyboard controller as well, similar to the Arturia variants) had this lo-fi grungy sound, which i think may have been 12 bit samples interpolated to give a better sheen using the effects. You can hear some odd stuff in the raw samples, which gives the game away.
It's an odd choice this one, as the prices show how sought after they still are, which may be due to the look or some 90s nostalgia-based halo effect. But it's dated faster than a pair of flared combats with a glowstick in the backpocket, due to the sounds on it, and if you're brave enough to reprogram the whole thing, what you'll get out of it will be mostly of the same ilk. No matter what you do, everything that comes out of it will have that grungy, slightly lo-fi, distorted overcoating.
If i remember correctly, it always sounded good coming out of the mini keyboard section P.A.'s in a shop, but when you plugged headphones in, you'd wonder where all the grime and even occasional hiss was coming from.
Like using an old performance car, it has its moments of brilliance, but pushed hard and the flaws become noticeable. And you'll be grappling to steer it, to prevent your sonic drive from ending up in the nearest hedge.
This one was the thing in the 90s!
weirdly enuf the flares seem to be coming back too lol
@@AudioPilz i know. I wanted one for months, and then the RM1X came out. The internal sound engine is average, but it had one of the best sequencers ive ever seen. Same goes for its succesor, the RS7000.
Headphone op amps are cheaper than the actual output, causing lower quality sound... For so many words, you don't know much...
@@wizards001 well said, if this guy had actually owned a Sirius he would know it’s a different story if you plugged the phones in the mixer.
The award was well deserved! Also, I look forward to new Bad Gear episodes as much as the mandalorian on Fridays.
Thank you!
Best Online Tech Personality 2021 let's go fam
Thanks!
Yess the world is yearning for it
I'd be surprised if that didn't happen, Mr. Pilz has been on a roll lately. ;P
@@AudioPilz Congrats! I've been loving the content, the accolades are well deserved
That trance tune at the end is it sine the main riff?
AudioPilz: *presses more than one black key in a song*
Everyone: “It’s evolving.”
Also AudioPilz: losing authenticity
Meanwhile me: using black keys 98% of the time
the only UA-camr whose notifications get me hyped
Thanks! So happy to hear that!
Best online personality award is very well deserved. I love how fully realized the tone of your content is. It strikes this goldilocks chord of nostalgic 20th century sincerity accented by a wry, free-based future meme abyss of total noise. Thanks for getting me through 2020 with a smile on my face.
Thank you so much!
Prices in america range from "I'm going to call the cops" and "Do I get a reach around at least? Lube? Something?"
I laughed harder about this than I should have;)
God it's so true
You are criminally underrated! Also the amount of editing you put into your videos is insane! Instantly one of my favorite youtube creators!
Thank you so much!
Man that jam around 8 minutes in pretty awesome, you really are a member of Covenant in disguise! Superb work as usual!
Thanks!
Always been tempted by the Rave-o-lution. Don't know if it's bad gear, but purely for having the cheesiest name ever I think it deserves an episode
I'll keep my eyes open for more Quasimidi stuff!
The Rave-O-Lution 309 is actually a beast for drums if you like a grungy, dirty sound. The sequencer is very easy to use and straighforward too. The bass synth kinda sucks though.
If you get one, make sure it has the drum expansion. Worth it!
The Rave-o-lution has been heavily used by Klaus Schulze by the way.
@@mudi2000a Indeed, he had six of them. And six Polymorphs as well. I always wanted one of those!
It's only cheesy if you didn't like rave music in the 90s
This is just amazing... but hey you're throwing some awesome beats with it!!!!!!!!
And congrats on that #1, totally deserved!!!! your videos just get better and better
Thanks!
Love the 90s techno doodie that you made, sounds absolutely kick ass, I wanna hear moar!!!
Thank you!
This was the sound of Kraftwerk's Tour De France Soundtracks and the Minimum Maximum tour.
True that!
This channel has literally become one of my favourite in a matter of days I’m learning more about synthesis through this series than tutorial videos😂
Happy to hear that, thanks!
Dr. Manhattan knows where I keep my love for AudioPilz
Thanks! Nothing to see here ;)
Thank you, Mr Audiopilz
You've been a source of joy in what's been a pretty dire year for me. I look forward to many more of your creative, informed and entertaining videos.
Thank you so much!
Congratulations on the MusicRadar award, well deserved! Your channel offers a humorous take on weird gear. As for this episode's subject, it was a new one for me. I've seen the Quasimidi name on Vintage Synth Explorer and that's it.
Thanks! Quasimidi is classig German techno stuff!
Thank you for all the awesome music and laughs! I produce 95% in the box but this channel makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of old hated hardware and do some dawless midi jams.
Best channel on youtube!
Thanks!
❤️❤️ The pre-parade pancake mix sounds like “Army of me”. Thanks Florian!🙂
Thanks!
"Icelandic" just meant Björk clearly 😂
@@chrixtopherjane Isn't she the president or something. Sigur Ros making artisan coffees and potato cakes in the kitchen...
I made sure to vote fro you so I'm glad you won. You are without a doubt the most enternaining newcomer I've witnessed in ages. Not only that but your subject matter and approach is second to none.
Congrats man!
Thank you!
Man that trance track was good. Would love to see that full produced out.
Thanks!
You beat me too it. Put that up somewhere.
Well done on receiving this award. If you ask me I think that you certainly more than deserved it. The fun I had reminiscing all the bad gear I owned during the last two and a half decades and seeing you make them come to live again has been true bliss. Ahhh. Quasimidi. The built quality was awesome. I have owned a maxxed out Rave-o-lution and a Raven. Those where so freaking awesome back in the days. And the fact that my favourite synth guru/hero Klaus Schultze used this gear to me was a great pull factor.
Please continue to make more peace, love and pancake for a long time. Thank you.
Oh yeah: I totally enjoyed the Austrian pronunciation of 'Sirius'. It sounds so much cooler than the English or Dutch pronunciation. Instant techno.
Thanks!
It did indeed sound like an early '00s trance banger for a hot minute and then you went all synth pop.
And, yes, Jexus is the gold standard.
Jexus is the GOAT!
Congratulations on your reward, well deserved! Your content always manages to be fun, informative, and inspiring in equal amounts -- not an easy feat to pull off. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!
Coolest thing I’ve ever seen. I especially like “The Raven” synth
The Quasimidi guys were ahead of their time
I just say. Nevermore!
Still looking for one of those. Mainly because it's blue.
I have four of ´em and I dont think it´s that bad (as some are saying in the comments here) ...
So glad you won the award and was more than happy to be involved in voting you to the top of the list. Hope you win many going forward!
Thank you so much!
I wanted that so bad over 20 years ago. Ended up settling on it’s little sibling: the Rave O Lution 309, which had decent(for the price) 808 & 909 emulations with real-time, tweak-able controls. Congratz on your award 👍👍
You deserve an editing award as well. I laugh with all the pop culture references you throw at us. Happy Holidays 🎄
Thank you! The 309 is tight!
Synths was very expensive i remember .i had a 2nd hand sampler it was way too complicating i took it back and got a boss 6 track and synth modulator was a grand which plugged in my keyboard .couid u do all the classic ravey sounds?on it i never knew u could detune the saw back in the day
I wouldn’t say rave so much, but it fit well in late 90’s house and trance.
Wooooooo! You’re the best! So happy for your win. We gear nerds have such a great community here on this little information superhighway
Thanks! Gear nerds FTW!
I fondly remember the Quasimidi ads that would be in every keyboard magazine. I think it was just the amount of controls that seemed very appealing. They were way out of my price range at the time and no one around here had one, so I settled for Buzz Tracker running with Rave-0-lution samples. Which probably aged a lot better considering. Congrats on the award! Also, have you considered doing a guitar synth? I'm sure that could be very interesting!
Thanks! Which guitar synth would you suggest?
@@AudioPilz Check out the G Vox or Roland GR50 first.
Congratulations! You were the only candidate I was excited to vote for this year.
Thank you so much!
Gratz on your award you deserve it, your channel rocks keep it up!!
Thanks!
I love all the bad jokes in this episode. Awesome!
And congratulations for winning the award. I really enjoy watching all the different gears that can make great music.
Thank you! Jokes won't get any better any time soon ;)
vermutlich ein seltener Fall von "ich mach irgendwas mit Medien" und trotzdem was drauf. Der Award ist verdient^^
Danke! Ich habe, um ehrlich zu sein, sogar 2-3 Berufsausbildungen ;)
This channel just keeps getting better, keep up the great work!
Thank you!
I missed this video when it first came out but Congrats on the award,man! Here’s to more success! 🍻🍻🍻
Thank you!!!
Gotta admit... When UA-cam started suggesting your videos last spring, I didn't expect you to win synth personality of the year. I avoided watching your videos for quite a while because I assumed you were just some angry guy ranting on the internet, and I didn't want more negativity in my life. But when I finally watched one, I was pleasantly surprised. And things have only gotten better from there.
It's not just the great production quality and the sheer amount of work each episode takes... The thing I love most about your show is that you prove again and again how music depends mostly on the musician, not the instrument. You make bangers again and again with "bad" gear, and it's satisfying AF. It speaks directly against the culture of "my music would be good if only I had better gear", and points us all in a healthier and more creative direction. It's a big middle finger in my shopping cart, but in a good way -- a way which motivates me to learn instead of buy, to make songs instead of excuses.
So, um... I guess that's a long-winded way of saying... Thanks! You're doing good work, and I hope you'll keep at it.
That's a truly heartwarming comment. Thank you so much!
I nearly bought one when they were heavily discounted in the early 2000s. In the end, I got a Waldorf MicroQ.
Both great instruments!
I've been watching your show for a while now and I really like it. It's cool to see how the old machines compare to current ones and usually the bad gear has something to offer, even now. Thank you
Thanks! You have to think a bit differently when using that weird stuff, that really helps
"Cats on Synthesizers in Space meme generators" hell yeah!
We need that!
Right on!! Congratulations!! You deserve it! Edit: since you referenced Mortal Kombat, a little piece of trivia, Praga Khan AKA Lords of Acid was the musician behind that MK tune!
Thanks! Interesting!
This was one of the best synths in the series, I don’t know how it got to Bad Gear... Love how you pronounce Sirius the German way :) Btw, it would be interesting to see a Casio CSM-1 (or its Hohner counterpart, the MSE-1, which I can donate to you)
It's got a lot of hate on the web. Thanks, great suggestion. Casio has to be on one of the next episodes!
I own the Quasimidi Polymorph - my brother the sirius, I like and love the Polyymorph so much more... however, Quasimidi-Team where nerds, not really musicians, they figured out what should be cool, useful and extraordinary - and they did it. At this time, for that price and possibilities - they where really going forward and beyond.
Herzliche Gratulation zum Award. Hast ihn Dir definitiv verdient!
Danke vielmals!
ooooofff now that "parade ready peace, love and pancake animal diarrhea inducing trance anthem" was on fire!
Thanks! 1 water please
You have such a great way of making groove boxes and sequences sound and feel alive!
Thank you so much!!!
Ah Yeah! Florian. Congratulations on your award, it's well deserved.
Thank you so much!
Congrats on the award! Hope you keep giving us all the great content in the future for many moons to come, and the channel keeps growing.
Thanks! It doesn't seem like there's a turning back now ;)
i dig this synth. cheers on the award, well deserved!
Thanks!
Great episode again. Heard and read a lot about quasimidi in Future Music in the 90s but never heard one. Thanks for 11 minutes of fun!
Thanks! Always wanted to have one, now I found an excuse to get it;)
Yeah, Jexus is always hard to beat - he's coaxed some sounds out of keyboards I've owned in the past that make me wish I'd never sold them!
Pure talent!
Good work on the win. Bo is amazing, Cuckoo is a total guru, but your work is beautifully written and produced and often very funny. Well deserved.
Thank you so much!
"Sirius" sounds much cooler when pronounced with a Germanic accent.
Everything does!
I can hear the accent of the region where it was built when I read the manual😂
@@AudioPilz Hopefully you'll never read a Fairlight CMI manual then.
I can't believe I wasn't expecting that.
You Siriussly think so? xD
Congrats on Best Music Tech Personality! Well deserved. Didn't get to vote but there's always this year :)
Thank you!!!
Does anybody else remember seeing this synth on the cover of Future Music back in the day when they had models posing with the featured products on the cover?
I do ! I have that one around.
Love that covers!
I have that issue, lol!
@@AudioPilz found them! images.app.goo.gl/uSvwJmvP9TepDQTk6 The Sirius cover is top left
This ADSR technique is just ingenious. Gonna make a eurorack module with that for myself.
I really like that concept!
@@AudioPilz could you please explain what exactly happens in-between the states? Manual does not say much as well.
Apparently this thing was used on KMFDM's Adios album. The more you know.
Didn't know that! Thanks for posting!
Great album! Sounds good, goes to show that most gear can have a place.
The "symbols" album also, I am fairly certain.
You won it!!!!!!! Congrats man, so deserved xxx enjoyed the ride so far
Thanks!
6:10 Prices range from, "no thanks," to, "I'm gonna call the cops" 😂
I mean, you can get a real synth for that money;)
If I have known about the poll, I would have voted for you. Great videos that always make me laugh. 👍
Thanks!
It was a clever move to pixel out the Techno Viking face.
BTW, I felt like they wanted to make the ultimate synth at the time, which is nice.
I really appreciate Quasimidis ambition in those days
I really appreciate the Techno Viking in those days.
Congrats, you deserve the award!
Thank you for explaining the hard-to-explain.
Thanks!
Someone who reviews bad gear? We have no choice but to *stan*
It's my duty! ;)
hello commander keen :3
dude hell yes. I have been eyeing these and been super on the fence. after this video.... still super on the fence.... gratz on the award man! cheers!!!!
Thanks! Interesting synth!
Look. It's 'Bad Gear' I have been wanting for a while.
Lots of very pronounced animosity against it. Funny instrument, tho
@@AudioPilz I think Quasimidi's stuff is awesome, but I not German and only have so many arms and legs to give.
Always a treat to watch! Always wanted to add a Sirius to the collection but there are never any my area.. Thanks for the great video and humor!
Thanks! Sirius is hard to find, even around here
Holy shit, hilarious edits!
Thank you so much!
Appeal to all the distributors and the music platforms: please adopt all of the new cool genres this genius comes up with. We need them badly!. Thanks! Thumbs up if you agree.
Thanks! I'm open for that!
Not gonna lie, the full Mortal Kombat warning made me want one. 😂
Safety first!;)
Love u g, I’m chronically ill and your videos are one of the best parts of my week
Thanks! All the best!
@@AudioPilz your voice soothes me
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Picked one of these up second-hand way back when for about £300. Absolutely hated it. Loaned it to a friend, who agreed to pay me for it, bailed on me and kept for themselves. Had to force my way into their house to retrieve it. Made an EP of extremely cheesy EBM exclusively with it. Had a nightmare about having spiders in my bed one night, jumped out of bed, sending the Sirius flying across the room to have it never work again. I deeply miss that synth for some reason.
Yeah, it certainly got character!
Epic story. We've all had a couple of those "friends". Fuck em. Glad you liberated the synth, sad with its passing. You've touched all the emotions!
@@virus2003 i know I've had the spider dream absolutely ghastly
The peace, love, and pancake tune sounded like it would fit in a jet ski/ powerboat racing game like hydro thunder or a futuristic racing game like wipeout very well and I'm loving it
I LOVE the OG Wipeout soundtrack!!!
The Rave-o-lution 309 would be a worthy addition to the Sirius. ;)
I would LOVE to try a Quasar!
@@AudioPilz Yeah please.Still waiting 4 ur rackpisode about it.
Congrats on the well deserved award!! I wish I had this synth back in the day. I never heard of it. A real winner!
Thanks! Quasimidi is classic 90s rave stuff!
🥳 Like, congratulations for your award thing or something
Thanks!
Congrats on winning the title and thank you for making our 2020 better ❤
Thank you so much!
I kind of like the sounds actually. But I raised up with those sounds, so maybe not that strange :) I really like the design of the unit aswell.
True, it triggers instant 90s flashback!
I like how this guy handles the Sirius: ua-cam.com/video/GvylqNhuauk/v-deo.html
Still, not a synth for me in the end.
So cool to hear that you won! They absolutely made the right choice. I heard that the runner-up refuses to concede and has threatened lawsuits.
Thanks! Fake news! LoopOp is cool!
back to the 90's Trance
Yessssssss!
Indeed the 90's were the peak of inspirational dance music production. Early "Goa" and proper trance thereafter were something else. Twas an amazing time 👍👌🙏
@@marcopaganotto9125 Couldn t agree more
Congrats man! You totally deserve the title! Thanks for your content!
Thank you so much!
I love your channel. Consider doing a bad gear review on the Roland Phraselab. I love it, but I imagine it is hated. You have to really learn to work around many flaws: slowest loading times of sequences and loops of any piece of hardware I own. Knobs feel cheap. One of those red led displays. hidden synth features you can only access with an external midi controller. No delay somehow, no compression, oh and the loops are just slightly out of phase with the build in synth (which lets you layer a loop with the same synth line for an...interesting effect)
If I remember right you cannot use the slicer with the synth directly...
It sounds like a gameboy on steroids...uhhhh is that good?
The list goes on and on.
You had me at gameboy on steroids;) Thanks. Phraselab is on my list but rare
@@AudioPilz oh man. I got mine really cheap in 2009 or 2010. I then raided every charity shop for memory cards. I think I paid $155 on ebay. I now use it with a volca beats and a volca keys, using the phrase lab synth for my bass lines and so i can compress drums in the loop channels.
The Phraselab probably sucks, but it was my first....groovebox? Looper?
Oh, it is very friendly about letting you pre make loops on the pc, then loading them on to a flash card. Making a loop first on the phraselab, then modifying it in Reaper and reloading it into the phrase lab is the best way to get the best sound out of it if you want effects like say....delay
if Parade-Ready Peace, Love, and Pancake, Animal Diarrhea-Inducing Trance Anthem is Techno Viking approved, then i approve!
PS i've lost quite a significant amount of work in 2020 (music production, live shows, tours... etc.) but Bad Gear has gotten me through this shit show of a year. you've also inspired me to take out the MC303 out of storage and learn it. SPOILER ALERT: still haven't read through the 300-page Japanese user manual (thanks, Roland). got it hooked up to an 4-channel audio interface, along with a Casio MA120 for my own version of a Bad Gear jam. this show made me realize that it's not what gear you use, it's how you use it.
Thanks for the weekly genre-bending jams and congratulations on being the Best Music Tech Personality of 2020. You deserve it!
BRB, making pancakes for breakfast
Thank you so much!
its comments like "animal diarrhea inducing trance anthem" that keep you on top
Happy to hear that! THX!
I’ve have this one and have used in on lots of my songs! Especially the choir samples in dark ominous tones. Very lofi and dope sound. My song ”Downlord” is based on a choir melody from this synth.
I think the choir sound on my song ”Holy Shit” is from this synth as well and that tune has 2M+ plays on Spotify alone :)
Loved the choir sounds, too!
BTW: One of the Quasimidi guys - Jörg Schaaf - brought us the legendary Spectralis.
Yeah, read an interview with him the other day. Interesting guy!
Someone from one of my synth groups just bought this bad gear. I was going to recommend that you cover it, but within 30 seconds, I found that you already did. Your approach is a bit different, and still fun! I'll let the guy know that the knobs go to 11!
Back in the early MP3.com days ( you know, where Darude ORIGINALLY released Sandstorm? ) there was a fellow named 303 Infinity that rocked loads of Quasimidi gear to make late 90’s Euro-Trash ( trance, psy, “acid” ) music. Their gear always intrigued me, but is still too expensive for my tastes. I’ll just buy a JP-8000 or Virus Indigo for those prices 😂
I won't even dare to say how much I paid for it ;)
Congrats Mr. Bald Gear!!!!!
We love your reviews!!!!
Thanks!
Feels like the guys who built this had a real vision and were technically very ambitious. “Phonetic Spectral Transformer” is presumably just techno babble for “Vocoder”? 🤣
Yeah, Jörg Schaaf and the other dudes really knew their stuff
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! :) I remember reading about the Sirius in the german "Keyboards"-magazine in the late 90s. Always thought it looked cool.
It had a mesmerizing effect on me ;)
Ad-breaks in the middle of every song?
Yeah youtube is a thrall of the dark lord...
Sorry, still trying to find the sweet spot.
Congrats on the award! Awesome episode as always!
Thank you!
Accolades are deserved - this guy is a content creating machine
Thanks!
You've done it again Florian Pilz!!!! Kudos on making bad gear BADA$$!!!
Thank you so much!
You completely missed the vocoder section! This thing came with a gooseneck mic as standard.
There's some short vocoder bits in the final musical bit but it was almost impossible for me to squeeze some proper sounds out of it. It's funny because all I hear is either "best vocoder" or "worst vocoder"
Congratulations on the award.That Quasimidi looks and sounds cool.
Thanks! It's a 90s monster!