I mean, yes, as far as standalone analog synthesizers go, it's feature rich. But, want to play more than six notes at once? Limited. A piano sound? Limited. Realistic strings? FM? Etc etc. Limited doesn't mean *bad* - it means limited. Yes, to an extent that aspect of this video rubs me a little bit the wrong way, but his point is actually still very valid. That $2800 USD synthesizer is far more limited than a $200 used iPad with $100 of DAW & synth tools on it.
@@overand why would I want a piano sound on a synth? yes it's an analog synth with specific features; not a daw; not a digital synth with every feature in the world. Also I think it does a bit of FM?
The patch blend knob on the PolyBrute alone is one of the most exciting things I’ve seen on a synth in a long time. While I understand the point you’re going for I think calling the PolyBrute boring is a HUGE stretch. The Brute oscillators are just amazing and capable of so many sonic possibilities it doesn’t need wavetables and complex FM routing.
Well said, I really should limit myself to what I have not looking for the next fix of this shiny thing or that, cos at the end of the day it’s the ear…not the gear
So many great tracks made with an Atari, old Akai sampler and a cheap ancient synth. I find the more time goes on the more I use the stuff I used 20 years ago. I still use Reasons Subtractor for my bass lines and been on that since the early 00's.
The polybrute is probably the most complex synth of it’s cloth lol. So many modulation routing options! I get the drift though, just had to poke a little fun on that.
I like this channel and the message but it's an odd choice of synth to talk about "limitations". If here were sitting there with a model cycles , a trash find dx100, a boss delay pedal and a contact mike on a shoe box that would be another thing 😅.
I made My best music on Reason 4 lol 3 samplers, 1 drum machine, 3 synths, and basic effects, reverb, EQ, distortion. Now I am replicating that same basic set up nearly 20 years later with hardware.
I'm new to the synth world, but this is the first I've heard anybody call the Polybrute "simple" and "boring". Anyway, I think your point is to say that simplifying things can breed creativity, and I agree with that.
HARD AGREE! I am a big fan of creative constraints. I use an ancient Roland arranger and it helps me get my ideas out WAY faster because I don't get caught in decision overwhelm!
That’s why octatrack is king, limit yourself to 8 tracks (or 7 if you really want a challenge) and it will have you learning so much about the device. I pair it with an access virus and it covers pretty much everything I need. Learning with the right amount of constraints can make you really appreciate what you have. Love this content ❤❤❤
Venus theory is the goat. I learned so much from him. I owe allot of what I’ve been able to achieve with very little to this guy. I may not watch your videos all the time now, but when I was learning I watched everything on your channel. What he’s saying is true. After you spend thousands on a computer and thousands on software and then maybe 1 thousand more on hardware gear, you really start to question when are you just going to start learning the basics and just put the money towards food and rent. I went broke so many times putting music above everything. If you have your DAW, a computer, basic plugins, a midi controller, decent headphones and Audi interface, you have more than most. Just keep learning the software and use what you got.
I have this Yamaha Portasound synth in good condition, basically a 2-op cut down FM/PD kid synth thing. Makes amazing patch samples I can stretch and mangle on the computer. It's the thing that got me into synth, dormant when I was a child. It's totally awesome now.
i spent a few years producing music as a hobby and the only money i ever spent on it was a copy of Fl studio, all my samples, all my plugins would be completely free and it actually helped me learn sound design faster since i had to tweak more stuff to get what i wanted.
for me, this is the Korg Electribe 2. it's basically a little library of techno and house sounds you've heard a thousand times. saves the effort of designing that same sound over and over so that i can focus on the unique parts of my music.
Totally agree as someone who makes different music and just happened to watch synth channels. I love my small midi controllers and don't have much of a reason to upgrade from them
I love Arturia's keybeds! Even their inexpensive ones are so good! Also, their synth/filter sounds are jus a little different from others that are 'similar' in approach. Some think that's a good thing, others not so much. I like mixing my Minibrute 2s' signal with other voices to get stupid-fat with it. The sequencer in that thing is pretty nuts, too. What a great time it is, to be a musician.
Thanks@@mrz80 appreciate the kind words. I guess it's all relative because compared to an Oberheim OBX8, Moog One, Yamaha CS-80, Roland Jupiter 6/8 it's pretty boring.
This is indeed the very core of the issue with gear. These days, if I see something interesting, I add it to a list and then mostly just forget about it. Much better than buying and then regretting.
I just bought my MicroBrute from arturia, it's genuine analog, don't have any interface, but the thing is powerful and have massive sounds. I really loved it!
So true. I used to complete a song in couple hours on a Tascam 2488 with only faders and 3 band Eq versus a complete DAW with 50 plugins. Limitations are a great advantage to get shit done ..quick
true, I remember seeing someone using a plugin I didn't have yet the other day and I was just about to search for it and then a thought hit me: "I don't need it, I can already do those things without it, it's limited". And since then I do like 3% of downloading I used to do
Make that your assignment: Find your favorite limitation! For me, it's the Dirtywave M8. It's powerful and versatile in all the ways that matter, but it does limit you to 8 tracks of polyphony and you don't get to make a ton of mixing choices after sound design. I love not having to ask myself "of the thousand tools I have at my disposal, can I make this better somehow?"
and this is why making chiptunes is great lol there, a couple of oscillators, now do something with it lol you'll really start understanding envelopes too
Have to give you such a big compliment. Your just n underrated UA-camr. In any fukkin video there are a lot of wise words and solutions for problems. Technically and personally your one of those who should have more clicks then people like streaky or those other fakin dudes withouth showin their hidden plugins on the Masterbus or somethin like that. I wish you,your family and all the people around you the best health and success for your career and more important your life ! Keep doin what you do - FUKKIN great work. Everything’s for the music 💪🫡
Same thing with my Sylenth 1 and Mini Moog plugins. Simple subtractive synths that don't really do anything fancy, but I use a bunch since the simplicity makes it really easy to learn how to use. Even with wavetable stuff like Serum, it's a bunch easier to build simple stuff instead of getting really into the weeds with complexity. Most of the time people won't notice the complex stuff any more than the simple patches.
Know thy gear first…then you can concentrate on having fun creating something uniquely fresh, rather than rehashed , re-marketed temporary trendy shit. Gr8 synth, can’t go wrong With dedicated gear that you know and keep rediscovering.
I agree that some limitations are good for creativity. There is just no way you can fully master a full warehouse full of gear or at least I don’t think I could.
Inspiring words I plan to remember. I don't have "top gear", I have some keyboards and a soft synth or two. And that forces me to...get my sh*t done...thanks...
Love your videos, other UA-camrs just find a product and show you a couple presets and go on to the next one, while your videos are like free mini master class videos were you explain everything in a way we can understand
This is so true. There are tons of reviews where the implicit message is “this is great because it can potentially do anything”. Problem is, when you sit down to write music “anything” is not a sound. It’s an overwhelming idea. I have a lot of soft synths. Lately I have gravitated to some very simple virtual organs because I can fully master what they can do. And the truth is there is so much variation even in a very “limited” instrument that you can easily be in a deep state of creativity many many times within those limits.
I think this mindset can also get out of hand. the simplicity could sound like a limitation of the poly brute. Still, I also believe in the "minimal threshold" which represents some basics that instruments need to cover to even start being considered useful tools. Sure it may not do a lot but a polybrute has good tuning stability, all its keys work and turns on, so it can help you.
I have several pieces of gear that just do one thing but do it amazingly well. You can make great music with nearly nothing. And if you want a poly brute, save up for one. Arturia have not disappointed me.
So true. Especially if you are a beginner. When I first started producing my tracks, I had nothing but a few stock EQ, delay, reverb and compression plugins. I didn't have complex software that did it for me, I had to learn and figure everything out on my own. It forces you to grow. I have a "post-apocalyptic" mindset, in that I think how I would produce if everything went down and I had to produce music with as primal gear as possible.
Busy sounds often sound best in isolation ,but they dont work well in a mix. That's why preset designers fill synths memory with tons of wooly patches ,they sound impressive ,they sell the synth, but then you'll have to dump them and program sth useful from scratch.
In a backwards way this is also exactly why I like using FM. You can do a ton with it of course, but it's unpredictable so I'm still left to deal with whatever I end up with.
for real, ive been using a $300 DX7 (reface) for the last 6-ish years now on a very regular basis both in live performance settings in various bands and recording/production for various projects across a wide variety of genres (pysch, rock, hip hop, various electronic subgenres, ambient and shoegaze, world music, etc) and i STILL continue to create and find new sounds with this thing. it has gotten an absurd amount of use over the years and keeps giving!
@@D__S__ I feel it always keeps this excitement because you never know what's gonna happen unless you've done exactly that before. Even just 3 sine waves affecting each other can sound incredibly different with different configurations.
Love the one your with - so much gear is amazingly useful when you are willing to work with it and learn it. Go beyond the 2-4 presets that immediately grabbed your interest and see what you can do with them fully. A lot of the new flashy things are niche expressions of more basic tools. And honestly, only gearheads will care how you made a track, or if that track has the most unique sounds. People actually listening won't care, so long as you do something interesting to them with what you have.
The thing with a synth like the Polybrute, is that it may be sort of basic, and only can do a few things, but it does those few things well, because its basic sound is gorgeous, and thus its few sounds are super useful and charachterful This is the inverse of a lot of cheaper gear, which may also be limited, but the basic tone you get may be super underwhelming. Thus you may not feel super limited with your Polybrute ,but someone without a synth that is one big sweetspot like the Polybrute might find it useful to upgrade, especially if their limited arsenal doesnt sound very good, versatile or not
I fully agree although i have GAS and a ton of plugins (i called myself a preset guy), one day i wanted to learn sounddesign and get something to play around without menudiving i bought myself the novation summit. I also tried this but the summit made it 😊
Yup. I use LMMS - a free alternative to FL Studio. I also use Audacity for recording audio. I've used it for years and don't plan on changing it. I've only recently looked into hardware that can aid me in music production - including a MIDI guitar. Gear and tools don't actually matter anymore.
That’s a synth on my wish list. Bought a few pieces of hardware To break away from dependency on my laptop My mpc live 2 plus the poly d and the modwave mkII Is all I need for the type of music I do
holy shit i was expecting this to be expensive as fuck because its an analog synthesizer after all but i still almost fell out of my chair checking it.
Definitely having limits makes you more creative, too many lazy people love to brag they don’t need to play chords, program beats, make new sounds. It’s like an artist just working with primary colours and black & white, all the other colours come from those
I am a composer so i try to limit my sounds to bread and butter stuff. Just the vocal, piano, and snare when I compose. I dont need the extra distractions
I love my poly brute it forces you to get knobby and creative, the sounds are incredible and the sequencer is so so good. What do you think about the Waldorf iridium ?
Just watched a Polybrute demo today and I was NOT UNimpressed, but I didn’t hear anything that I couldn’t already do with what I already have or a plug-in. Now part of that can be due to the person demoing it, but a lot of the times there’s not a huge sonic distinction between one piece of gear and it’s differently branded brethren. Sometimes it’s about form factor and workflow. And that other factor some of us won’t admit, we buy some gear because it looks cool. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Doesn’t do a lot” - about one of most capable and innovative analog synth;) I know he knows, buy for those who don’t know -no, it is not boring. And it has FM;)
If you have an idea of what you need to do or what you’re trying to do, buying something that will help you get you there is not a bad thing. It just means you have a clear path of what you have in your imagination. Yes you can make a whole track from one synth but having the right tools that let you control everything for speed and comfortability is very important to getting “shit” done. Imo. Assuming people just by gear just to buy it kinda right…but understanding people take a long time of studying before they buy it, is probably more true.
"work with the limitations you have" I wish my limitations were the "good old boring" Arturia Polybrute
Came here to say this, I’m glad someone else called bullshit on this strange gaslight ceremony.
lmfao truue 😭
I mean, yes, as far as standalone analog synthesizers go, it's feature rich.
But, want to play more than six notes at once? Limited.
A piano sound? Limited.
Realistic strings? FM? Etc etc.
Limited doesn't mean *bad* - it means limited. Yes, to an extent that aspect of this video rubs me a little bit the wrong way, but his point is actually still very valid. That $2800 USD synthesizer is far more limited than a $200 used iPad with $100 of DAW & synth tools on it.
@@overand why would I want a piano sound on a synth? yes it's an analog synth with specific features; not a daw; not a digital synth with every feature in the world. Also I think it does a bit of FM?
@@synthxplayer he’s still not wrong lol.
Pulling out the polybrute and saying “it’s great to have limitation”?!?!?! This is hands down the best synth in the world
I don't think you make that claim, there are so many competitors!
‘The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.’
-Marcus Aurelius
Dude should write a book or something...
Can't do anything these days without Marcus having predicted the solution hundreds and hundreds of years ago. 😂
@@VenusTheoryinvite Marcus to your channel!
😂 joke, but anyway, a full video about limited gear, real limited, not just a modular stuff...
Yeh but did he write any decent beats?
The patch blend knob on the PolyBrute alone is one of the most exciting things I’ve seen on a synth in a long time. While I understand the point you’re going for I think calling the PolyBrute boring is a HUGE stretch. The Brute oscillators are just amazing and capable of so many sonic possibilities it doesn’t need wavetables and complex FM routing.
Totally agree. I'm a recovering gearaholic.
That genuinely made me laugh very hard lol
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One of the best comments I have ever read. I hope you find strength to stay off the gears!
Same
same
The Polybrute boring? 😅 That's wild.
And it is quite complex
+1
Got it. Will now buy a Polybrute.
Exactly what I was thinking hahahahahaha
Me too
Well said, I really should limit myself to what I have not looking for the next fix of this shiny thing or that, cos at the end of the day it’s the ear…not the gear
Wise words! I made my favorite tracks with 1 piece of gear.
Point taken but if I'm putting down 2.5k for a synth it better not be boring.
So many great tracks made with an Atari, old Akai sampler and a cheap ancient synth.
I find the more time goes on the more I use the stuff I used 20 years ago. I still use Reasons Subtractor for my bass lines and been on that since the early 00's.
I guess you are the best UA-camr in this niche. I learn a lot with you
Glad to be of service 🤠
This guy video inspired me back into music creation. He saved my musical life.
The polybrute is probably the most complex synth of it’s cloth lol. So many modulation routing options! I get the drift though, just had to poke a little fun on that.
I like this channel and the message but it's an odd choice of synth to talk about "limitations". If here were sitting there with a model cycles , a trash find dx100, a boss delay pedal and a contact mike on a shoe box that would be another thing 😅.
I made My best music on Reason 4 lol 3 samplers, 1 drum machine, 3 synths, and basic effects, reverb, EQ, distortion. Now I am replicating that same basic set up nearly 20 years later with hardware.
Venus Theory is growing in popularity while minimizing the usual grift and being more honest. That's amazing on its own.
I'm new to the synth world, but this is the first I've heard anybody call the Polybrute "simple" and "boring". Anyway, I think your point is to say that simplifying things can breed creativity, and I agree with that.
HARD AGREE! I am a big fan of creative constraints. I use an ancient Roland arranger and it helps me get my ideas out WAY faster because I don't get caught in decision overwhelm!
That’s why octatrack is king, limit yourself to 8 tracks (or 7 if you really want a challenge) and it will have you learning so much about the device. I pair it with an access virus and it covers pretty much everything I need. Learning with the right amount of constraints can make you really appreciate what you have. Love this content ❤❤❤
I 100% agree. I have a studio filled with synthesizers, but I play my electronic piano the most for my song writing. 🤟
Venus theory is the goat. I learned so much from him. I owe allot of what I’ve been able to achieve with very little to this guy. I may not watch your videos all the time now, but when I was learning I watched everything on your channel.
What he’s saying is true. After you spend thousands on a computer and thousands on software and then maybe 1 thousand more on hardware gear, you really start to question when are you just going to start learning the basics and just put the money towards food and rent.
I went broke so many times putting music above everything. If you have your DAW, a computer, basic plugins, a midi controller, decent headphones and Audi interface, you have more than most. Just keep learning the software and use what you got.
I have this Yamaha Portasound synth in good condition, basically a 2-op cut down FM/PD kid synth thing. Makes amazing patch samples I can stretch and mangle on the computer. It's the thing that got me into synth, dormant when I was a child. It's totally awesome now.
i spent a few years producing music as a hobby and the only money i ever spent on it was a copy of Fl studio, all my samples, all my plugins would be completely free and it actually helped me learn sound design faster since i had to tweak more stuff to get what i wanted.
Your one of the only people that make shorts worth watching
If one of the most exciting Synths in the last couple of years is the most boring gear you own, consider yourself lucky!
Very good advice, sometimes nothing gets done when you spend so much time on choice
Limitation is the mother of invention
for me, this is the Korg Electribe 2. it's basically a little library of techno and house sounds you've heard a thousand times. saves the effort of designing that same sound over and over so that i can focus on the unique parts of my music.
Totally agree as someone who makes different music and just happened to watch synth channels. I love my small midi controllers and don't have much of a reason to upgrade from them
I love Arturia's keybeds! Even their inexpensive ones are so good! Also, their synth/filter sounds are jus a little different from others that are 'similar' in approach. Some think that's a good thing, others not so much. I like mixing my Minibrute 2s' signal with other voices to get stupid-fat with it. The sequencer in that thing is pretty nuts, too.
What a great time it is, to be a musician.
arturia uses Fatar keybeds like 99% of decent keyboards
Absolutely true! Been using Arturia stuff for years and it’s always super useful and inspiring
My Roland Juno 106 is my "boring" synth. And when I get bored of that, my Oberheim Matrix 1000 is my backup "boring".
Dude, your "boring" is pretty much everyone else's hyperventilating with excitement :D
Thanks@@mrz80 appreciate the kind words. I guess it's all relative because compared to an Oberheim OBX8, Moog One, Yamaha CS-80, Roland Jupiter 6/8 it's pretty boring.
This is indeed the very core of the issue with gear. These days, if I see something interesting, I add it to a list and then mostly just forget about it. Much better than buying and then regretting.
"Limitation breeds Creativity" is by far one of my favorite concepts when it comes to gear and music! ❤❤
I have been saying this for years to other musicians artist/ producers. Great piece as a reminder 🤘
I just bought my MicroBrute from arturia, it's genuine analog, don't have any interface, but the thing is powerful and have massive sounds. I really loved it!
So true. I used to complete a song in couple hours on a Tascam 2488 with only faders and 3 band Eq versus a complete DAW with 50 plugins. Limitations are a great advantage to get shit done ..quick
true, I remember seeing someone using a plugin I didn't have yet the other day and I was just about to search for it and then a thought hit me: "I don't need it, I can already do those things without it, it's limited". And since then I do like 3% of downloading I used to do
Make that your assignment: Find your favorite limitation!
For me, it's the Dirtywave M8. It's powerful and versatile in all the ways that matter, but it does limit you to 8 tracks of polyphony and you don't get to make a ton of mixing choices after sound design. I love not having to ask myself "of the thousand tools I have at my disposal, can I make this better somehow?"
100%! And it applies to all kinds of things beyond just music as well. Simplification is a great way to not get stuck at the starting gate.
and this is why making chiptunes is great lol
there, a couple of oscillators, now do something with it lol
you'll really start understanding envelopes too
The truth could not have been delivered so gentle yet so smoothly.
This is why I went back to writting music in trackers. I finish way more music then working in a mordern DAW
Have to give you such a big compliment. Your just n underrated UA-camr. In any fukkin video there are a lot of wise words and solutions for problems. Technically and personally your one of those who should have more clicks then people like streaky or those other fakin dudes withouth showin their hidden plugins on the Masterbus or somethin like that.
I wish you,your family and all the people around you the best health and success for your career and more important your life ! Keep doin what you do - FUKKIN great work. Everything’s for the music 💪🫡
My Vermona perfourmer mk2 is my "boring" synth that is just everything I ever wanted in an instrument; so simple and yet so warm and lovely
This is kinda the reason I prefer hardware. When I have too many options I don’t get any music done at all.
I heard Polyfjord once saying (not sure if he quoted; too lazy to look up) “With limitations comes creativity”
agreed, limitations foster creativity
Well, it’s comforting I’m not the only one that finds the polybrute boring.
Same thing with my Sylenth 1 and Mini Moog plugins. Simple subtractive synths that don't really do anything fancy, but I use a bunch since the simplicity makes it really easy to learn how to use. Even with wavetable stuff like Serum, it's a bunch easier to build simple stuff instead of getting really into the weeds with complexity. Most of the time people won't notice the complex stuff any more than the simple patches.
Limitation breed creativity!
Sure 👍😃
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"As soon as you get it you want something new." (1979 The Cars/ Song: It's all I can do)
Know thy gear first…then you can concentrate on having fun creating something uniquely fresh, rather than rehashed , re-marketed temporary trendy shit. Gr8 synth, can’t go wrong With dedicated gear that you know and keep rediscovering.
I agree that some limitations are good for creativity. There is just no way you can fully master a full warehouse full of gear or at least I don’t think I could.
Inspiring words I plan to remember. I don't have "top gear", I have some keyboards and a soft synth or two. And that forces me to...get my sh*t done...thanks...
Man you’re such a breath of fresh air. Content straight to the point, no ego, and great tips. Please never stop, it’s absolutely inspirational
I would definitely say the Polybrute is many things, but boring is not one of them 👌
I wholeheartedly agree with this. It’s a cliche but I recorded *most* of my first record with an sm57 and a crappy guitar
Love your videos, other UA-camrs just find a product and show you a couple presets and go on to the next one, while your videos are like free mini master class videos were you explain everything in a way we can understand
Roland SH-2000. Old Skool. :>)
Look I'm just gonna say what no one else will: the Polybrute is not a simple, boring synth. You're out to space on this one, Venus.
I love this synth. It's so easy to play especially live. I will happily trade anyone my Hydrasynth for a polybrute
This is so true. There are tons of reviews where the implicit message is “this is great because it can potentially do anything”. Problem is, when you sit down to write music “anything” is not a sound. It’s an overwhelming idea.
I have a lot of soft synths. Lately I have gravitated to some very simple virtual organs because I can fully master what they can do. And the truth is there is so much variation even in a very “limited” instrument that you can easily be in a deep state of creativity many many times within those limits.
I think this mindset can also get out of hand.
the simplicity could sound like a limitation of the poly brute. Still, I also believe in the "minimal threshold" which represents some basics that instruments need to cover to even start being considered useful tools.
Sure it may not do a lot but a polybrute has good tuning stability, all its keys work and turns on, so it can help you.
I have several pieces of gear that just do one thing but do it amazingly well. You can make great music with nearly nothing. And if you want a poly brute, save up for one. Arturia have not disappointed me.
was thinking of getting serum but this alone is changing my mind!
So true. Especially if you are a beginner. When I first started producing my tracks, I had nothing but a few stock EQ, delay, reverb and compression plugins. I didn't have complex software that did it for me, I had to learn and figure everything out on my own. It forces you to grow. I have a "post-apocalyptic" mindset, in that I think how I would produce if everything went down and I had to produce music with as primal gear as possible.
Very good tutorial on Reaper thanks 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Busy sounds often sound best in isolation ,but they dont work well in a mix. That's why preset designers fill synths memory with tons of wooly patches ,they sound impressive ,they sell the synth, but then you'll have to dump them and program sth useful from scratch.
I have a lot of fun with my used minibrute and cardinal. :)
In a backwards way this is also exactly why I like using FM.
You can do a ton with it of course, but it's unpredictable so I'm still left to deal with whatever I end up with.
for real, ive been using a $300 DX7 (reface) for the last 6-ish years now on a very regular basis both in live performance settings in various bands and recording/production for various projects across a wide variety of genres (pysch, rock, hip hop, various electronic subgenres, ambient and shoegaze, world music, etc) and i STILL continue to create and find new sounds with this thing. it has gotten an absurd amount of use over the years and keeps giving!
@@D__S__ I feel it always keeps this excitement because you never know what's gonna happen unless you've done exactly that before.
Even just 3 sine waves affecting each other can sound incredibly different with different configurations.
Eloquent and wise advice that applies to any creative outlet.
Love the one your with - so much gear is amazingly useful when you are willing to work with it and learn it. Go beyond the 2-4 presets that immediately grabbed your interest and see what you can do with them fully.
A lot of the new flashy things are niche expressions of more basic tools.
And honestly, only gearheads will care how you made a track, or if that track has the most unique sounds. People actually listening won't care, so long as you do something interesting to them with what you have.
The thing with a synth like the Polybrute, is that it may be sort of basic, and only can do a few things, but it does those few things well, because its basic sound is gorgeous, and thus its few sounds are super useful and charachterful
This is the inverse of a lot of cheaper gear, which may also be limited, but the basic tone you get may be super underwhelming.
Thus you may not feel super limited with your Polybrute ,but someone without a synth that is one big sweetspot like the Polybrute might find it useful to upgrade, especially if their limited arsenal doesnt sound very good, versatile or not
"Limitation breeds creativity "
Using a super expensive polysynth not a limitation, however.
😂 I've never once thought my polybrute is just a boring old school synth with limitations.
Definitely right about it being boring, got rid of mine 😂
You are necessary to the world! I'm happy for being able to learn from your wisdom!
I fully agree although i have GAS and a ton of plugins (i called myself a preset guy), one day i wanted to learn sounddesign and get something to play around without menudiving i bought myself the novation summit. I also tried this but the summit made it 😊
Great point❤
"Get shit done"
Stronger than you'd think
Restriction breeds creativity
My boring synth is subsynth on caustic 3. The most interesting thing it does is wavedraw. Everything else is extremely barebones.
Subsynth is really versatile! And it does ok acid where the acid synth does good electric guitar :p Caustic is awesome! I've got a lot done with it.
Probably the best advice ive heard this decade 👌☮
Yup. I use LMMS - a free alternative to FL Studio. I also use Audacity for recording audio. I've used it for years and don't plan on changing it. I've only recently looked into hardware that can aid me in music production - including a MIDI guitar. Gear and tools don't actually matter anymore.
That’s a synth on my wish list. Bought a few pieces of hardware To break away from dependency on my laptop My mpc live 2 plus the poly d and the modwave mkII Is all I need for the type of music I do
Slang
Sick = Outstandingly good
Boring = Utterly captivating
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I like your style bro.. I just subscribed 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks man ngl i feel like i kinda needed that🤘🏼
holy shit i was expecting this to be expensive as fuck because its an analog synthesizer after all but i still almost fell out of my chair checking it.
Definitely having limits makes you more creative, too many lazy people love to brag they don’t need to play chords, program beats, make new sounds. It’s like an artist just working with primary colours and black & white, all the other colours come from those
I am a composer so i try to limit my sounds to bread and butter stuff. Just the vocal, piano, and snare when I compose. I dont need the extra distractions
I wish i saw this before i bought that new midi controller
It is not what you have but what you do with with what you have.
I love my poly brute it forces you to get knobby and creative, the sounds are incredible and the sequencer is so so good. What do you think about the Waldorf iridium ?
Just watched a Polybrute demo today and I was NOT UNimpressed, but I didn’t hear anything that I couldn’t already do with what I already have or a plug-in. Now part of that can be due to the person demoing it, but a lot of the times there’s not a huge sonic distinction between one piece of gear and it’s differently branded brethren. Sometimes it’s about form factor and workflow. And that other factor some of us won’t admit, we buy some gear because it looks cool. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Basically the three laws of drama
Yeah I just rely on my boring old Moog One. Just analog stuff. But hey it works
I can't agree more. People need to learn how to actually write music before spending time and money with more toys they don't need.
“Doesn’t do a lot” - about one of most capable and innovative analog synth;) I know he knows, buy for those who don’t know -no, it is not boring. And it has FM;)
100% true! Totally works for me😁
If you have an idea of what you need to do or what you’re trying to do, buying something that will help you get you there is not a bad thing. It just means you have a clear path of what you have in your imagination. Yes you can make a whole track from one synth but having the right tools that let you control everything for speed and comfortability is very important to getting “shit” done. Imo. Assuming people just by gear just to buy it kinda right…but understanding people take a long time of studying before they buy it, is probably more true.