PWM - Malevolent.
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- If you like experimental noise, and dark distorted growls, then you will enjoy this synth. I genuinely feel inspired to write a punky-experimental synth EP. Whether that will happen or not is another thing. But it's always a good feeling when an instrument can inspire you!
CONTENT
0:00 - Intro
1:43 - Overview
7:45 - Sample 'n' Hold Jam
12:25 - Arp + Mojave
16:27 - Noise Montage!
23:15 - Outro
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This is the best demonstration of the malevolent I've seen--thanks for it!
Glad you enjoyed it thank you!
Indeed!
7:21 The arpeggio 'hold' function has two types: manual/temp and automatic/hold. Pressing the joystick down into itself as in clicking the joystick in the Z-axis (like a videogame controller's L3 and R3 function) changes its arpeggio function so you don't have to keep holding the joystick towards the 'hold' logo to keep it cycling.
Thank you! I knew there must be a way to do it. So much better now.
You sold me on it. Great demo
Fantastic! Love the sample and hold at 7:43!
This is a great sounding synth. thank you for another impressive demo
thank you! Yea I really like it!
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My dark rock-synth album of choice would be Depeche Mode Ultra. Lots of distorted synths and drum-machines
I’ve never heard this album before ~ will definitely check it out!!
Do you call Depeche Mode dark and crunchy? Check a bit more real Industrial EBM bands please .This Malevolent is a Gristleizer in synthesizer form .
sounds great!
I think that I had the same idea about the Malevolent as you started with, but I appreciate how you were able to coax some pretty special sounds out during the jams.
i do think it looks a little underwhelming but it sounds so interesting and wild!!
That was the most compelling demo of the Malevolent. Sort of like the long lost younger sibling of the Korg MS-20, Polyvoks and Doepfer Wasp. Has character for sure. But, I wouldn't turn my back to it, in a fight. So it's name does suit it. A Dystopian synth for the times. I'm not old enough to know the punk groups that used synths that well. But some groups that have that metallic menacing kind of punk soundworld are DAF tracks, like El Que. Cabaret Voltaire tracks like Landslide, Album Red Mecca, or Blue Heat on Micro Phonies. Maybe Bauhaus, the second album Mask added a keyboard player. Hard to distinguish which is keyboard and guitar. Because his guitar sound was pretty advanced toward that already. But, on tracks like Dancing, I think you can hear it doing weird things in the background. Also Alan Vega and Martin Rev's New York group, Suicide. Ghost Rider is a stone cold classic. They used Prophet 5, organs, and made it sound trashy AF. Great Minipops CR-78 drums on the Suicide albums too. The Prophet can definitely be a menacing sounding synth (used in John Carpentar's horror films etc...), it's a slightly demonic sounding synth ;) Another track I absolutely love is Quando Quango's Love Tempo - taking things in a post disco / post punk direction. Again, that sounds like a Prophet, if I had to guess.
Thanks for the music recommendations! I'm gonna add them to a malevolent-style playlist and get them in my headphones!
@@TheUnpersonNo problem, hope you enjoy. I forgot Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats, Hot on the Heels of Love, but also the more aggressive ones. Also, Liasons Dangeures - 'Los Ninos del Parque' - think it's an OB-XA, judging from the live version. I love the very aggressive snotty punk synth sound, and it's funky too. I also forgot the group The Normal, Warm Leatherette, but especially T.V.O.D. especially is Malevolent. Even the lyrics: 'I don't need a TV screen, I just stick the aerial into my skin' >:-) Anne Clark - Sleeper in Metropolis, and Our Darkness are also full of pure punk attitude, but with technology! Or, the rubbery / metallic synths of Front 242 - Masterhit or the smashed glass synths of Don't Crash, the snarling funk of 'Controversy'. Also Nitzer Ebb - Tracks like 'Murderous', and 'Let Your Body Learn'. I'm sure Joey from Blush Response on UA-cam would know tons of great tracks like these.
The sample and hold jam sounded dangerously close to Cannibals by the Units.
Great Demo of what looks like a great synth.
You managed to get me from "that's interesting" to "I want one of those". The last person who managed that was Vlad with his Pulsar23 demo.
Great job
Thank you! I'm gonna have to check out this Pulsar23 video now!
Awesome
Saw this thing in a Jay Hosking vid for the first time and thought it had such a cool, unique character. Glad to see you've gotten your hands on one.
Somehow I had really heard of it.. but I'm a big fan now!
the bit starting at 21:29 is awesome
Damn I want one!
This synth is definitely on my gear lust list! Time to save up.
Another one added to the list lol
Great demo and a good debut from PMW but I wonder just how close you'd get to this sound with pretty much any synth fed through good distortion fx....pretty close I reckon. With a name like Malevolent I want it to scare the sh*t out of me but I never once felt the need to change my underpants. Thanks again for sharing ❤
Press down on joystick as if it's a button to hold ARP 👍
Thank you!! :D
Nice video, thanks for taking the time and effort. This type of synth is right up my alley, but I do wish that somebody would create one of these with patch memory. I’ve read about all the complications and added costs, but still…
I know what you mean... the sounds are so dependent on very fine tuning and almost impossible to reproduce sometimes.
Naming some electro type bands / artists who may agree to have been cut from the same cloth of a punk/post-punk ecosystem . Included are some runner ups who had such undeniably unclassifiable chromosomes in their active musical lifetimes, that one may agree that they were proto-punk…roughly listing references from old to contemporary respectively: Roxy Music (Virginia Plain) Brian Eno (warm jet LP) , tuxedo moon (no more tears…San Fran group) , the screamers (they did only videos and posthumous demo releases- L.A. group), Iggy pop (mass production) , talking heads (listening wind/the overload) , early OMD, Joy Div. /early New Order(Obviously!) , Gary Neuman, Neu, CAN, Harmonia, Depeche Mode (speakandspell, blk celebration, …masses) , Bowie (low/heroes), devo, sextile, nation of language, adult., boy harsher. This is just off the top of my head!
Malevolent can be such a dirty little thing, I like it. I'm also really looking forward to the Mantis from PWM, which Chris Huggett helped develop (wasp, OSCar, Novation).
Is Mantis a poly version??
@@TheUnperson only duophone
@@TheUnpersoncompletely different synth but in the same spirit as OSCar and Wasp.
This one has been on my radar for awhile now. I love how aggressive it sounds. The semi modular aspect is appealing and I think it would interesting to integrate it into my semi modular family…Subharmonicon and West Pest. The Sub’s amp can be driven and distorted pretty nicely especially when you have all 6 oscillators pinned and I think it would match the PWM well.
Subharmonicon has been on my radar for a while! I think it would pair beautifully with Malevolent. I’m sure it would be easy enough to sync the two and make some really nasty beats!
@@TheUnperson I had been looking at it and when Moog recently sold I decided to pull the trigger on one mainly because I wanted a “before” Moog and because I wasn’t as interested in another “regular” synth.
That drive is NASTY
haha it really is!
Lorn is a great band fot this.
Will check them out thanks!!
Hold on... this is the first synth that you have hold the hold?
Sound brutally alive. Need to buy this on too...
I've subsequently discovered if you press the joystick then the hold holds by itself lol
Once again, just inspired stuff mate. I was getting - Horror soundtrack. Definitely some John Carpenter moments in there, but then that's malevolence for you...?
Thank you! There's absolutely some ghost haunting this synth!
Amazing jams - how does this differ from the Korg MS-20 ? Feel like it's quite similar in terms of types of sounds you can make with it.
Yeah it doesn’t seem to offer anything distinct in sound or workflow in or out of its price range. It’s boring
It's character is definitely less classic than the MS-20, and a bit more raw. The MS-20 might be a bit deeper when you learn the patch bay, but the Malevolent is very immediate and plays so nicely with other modular gear.
@@the_glove i don't find it boring at all. For me the Mother32 is mega boring compared to the Malevolent.
@@TheUnperson we can definitely agree on that
@@TheUnperson I hadn’t taken the external modularity of the ms20 into account , that is a good argument.
sick ! i feel like it borrows from the early Yamaha cs series, anyone else get these vibes ?
Hey, I think to hold the arp it's pressing the ARP button at the same time as moving the stick into the HOLD position.
I like this machine. It can be finicky, and may not be a replacement for some of the standard workhorses out there (the filter in particular is a strange animal that wants to growl and you gotta stop trying to leash it sometimes and let it do what it does best). It is a lot of fun and I've been enjoying it though.
Thank you! Wish I had known that before making the video lol. And yes it's one of the strangest filters on an analogue synth that I've encountered.
The thing I like about this synth is that it takes YOU places, maybe sometimes places you don’t want to go. But the caverns of grit and darkness are a lovely adventure at the end
Man 13:30!
What drum machine is that? Is it the Arturia DrumBrute Impact? Sounds nice.
Yea all the drums are from the DrumBrute Impact :)
I'm thinking of getting one. is it still awesome after a few months?
Absolutely! If you like ‘em dirty and weird then you’ll love it
Nice presentation! As this is a collaboration with Future Sound Systems I think you need to listen to some Finlay Shakespeare - ;)
You are absolutely right!
@@TheUnperson I’m looking forward to getting my hands on a Mantis soon too ✨💫🙏
Warm Leatherette - The Normal
Thanks! Gonna check it out now :)
Yes this is exactly the vibe I was thinking of!
Bands…
Not sure how old you are but there’s Skinny Puppy and Throbbing Gristle?
Old NYC band called Bile has a song called “Suckpump” that’s in some of the sonic territory you demoed here.
Dark synth drone: Hive Mind and Luasa Rhaelon
Not as dark but Time Machines by Coil is awesome.
PS saw the locust play like 20 years ago, great stuff.
check out Vulper. not really a band but very underrated dark synth thats incredible.
Thank you! Listening now :D
Yes, this is siiiiiick!
23:47 John Carpenter, Cabaret Voltaire, Coil, Silent Servant, Pye Corner Audio, Boy Harsher, Legowelt, Beau Wanzer
Awesome ~ thanks!
And not a single melody was produced.
You say that like it's a bad thing
@@pickyyeeter All I hear is Mozart rolling in his grave.
@@rezneba101so many forms of music have existed throughout the course of human history, many without melody. imagine how much more fun life could be if you actually took the time to learn about and appreciate them
If you watch any of my other videos you’ll find them full of melody, countermelody, chord progressions and harmony. This vid has a more musique concrete vibe which admittedly isn’t for everyone, but is as valid as any other genre of music.
@@pickyyeeter good on your for enjoying anything. Your condescension can be shoved up your bum my mediocre guy :)