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Thank you so much! I do need to do something with the electronic side of my music tbh, besides covering Warp artists for YT... Plenty of acoustic guitar stuff but there isn't much of an overlap between that and this!!

Everything!

I always wanted an A/D for that big screen, but they started going up in value shortly after I got the SR... Edisyn helps a lot though - such a pain to program otherwise!

@ the rotaring knob similar to mpc is superb! and using it with romb buttons with both hands makes it fun to use, like a game pad haha. its worth it of you are really into this synth

Yes! Though it's quite limited. The R8 only receives on one MIDI channel, and each drum instrument gets assigned a note. In addition, the R8 can only listen to 8 CC parameters (the R8 calls them Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-8), which you then need to map an instrument parameter - I demo it in a video here -> th-cam.com/video/4-D5TqEgOc8/w-d-xo.html

@@bleepsandboops Oh I see. Yes that is really limited. Thanks for the link!

It wouldn't surprise me if he made his own. On the MS20 thing though, he mentions having one in some early interviews, and that photo of him hunched over an MPC and EMS Synthi features an MS20 alongside an MS50. Not sure when that photo's from though, and how that sits with the general discography...

@@bleepsandboops I even know the photo. You are 100% correct. I totally forgot, oh well, frequencies and memory roll off with age lol Keep the videos coming mate, love your work. MS20 is all over his early work, I am being a bafoon lol. Just saw in interview, he had not one, but 3 (at the time of Surfing and Ambient ) and he butchered them as the rest of his gear. Man, I too had ZX spectrum computer but i was playing games on it, the first music on computer i ever made was tacker on amiga. Richard programmed music on Spectrum! FFS.

@@earlsfield 😁😁 Need to get me an MS20 or similar clone.... maybe not for butchering though!! The USB controller version with the Legacy Collection was my first 'proper' synth until it broke and Korg couldn't fix it... expensive paperweight by that point. Was a big fan of Air and Ladytron at the time hence it had to be an MS20 😎

@ man, that Ladytron remix of “Little Kids” by Kings of Convenience… that bass/synth line, one of the fattest things ever recorded. Yeah, early days were big deal. I picked up JV1080 and for a while that and old Casio CT670 that I used as controller was everything I had. Then I got TX81z, and Jupiter 6 (bought it dirt cheap second hand, like 1994. or so). But by far the most important instrument I had was Akai 3200. My God, I was butchering every single sample disc known to producers back then. The odd thing is, over the years, I missed picking up MS20, that’s weird - given its status and the fact I am in this game for 30 odd years. Have a few filters in my modular rack that sound similar to the squelch of MS 20 but I really want the actual device, I might pick up Mini version. Someone offered a trade recently I turned down - might revisit it. We had MS20 OG at the institute I was studying and later even teaching, that was one untamed beast.

SHOW ME THE CHAMPION OF LIIIIGHT!!!!

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I've not but sounds like I should! A lot of those early game soundtracks were really iconic 👍

Thank you so much! 🍻

One of the best VAs!

Hello!! 😁😁 Guilty as charged...

Awesome, will check it out!!

@@bleepsandboops but that's correct for the Half-Life 1 version, not the remix in sequel. To be precise, 0:44

😘 Thanks!

Thank you!

Thanks!

It's very much up there! Vordhosbn is mine... need to get into trackers before I try recreating that though... 🤓🤓

They're awesome boxes - something about the graininess that works nicely with these older synths too

Thank you!! ✊✊

Thank you!!

Thank you Captain!! Love your channel btw - and yes, the Quadraverb is the not-so-secret sauce!

Thanks a lot!

I know... I do think it's a thing though.

Maybe one day.. it's a lot of pressure, and I don't necessarily want to just churn 'content' for the sake of updates!

@bleepsandboops I respect it

😂 Sounds like it was well used

Thanks for watching!

What, shown how to isolate a single sound on the akai? Shown how to edit sounds on the drum machine? Most of that is covered in other videos

Aw thanks! And do it!

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Thanks! Ah, Thomas is a legend! 🙏🙏

@@bleepsandboopsindeed 🤙🏼

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Thank you!

Thanks! That TX is great - so much more than just Lately Bass!

It was really popular in the rock scene too iirc... Yngwie used it and I think Kiss did an entire album with one?

@@bleepsandboops Yes, but I did not know that at the time - I was even annoyed that "we are recording hardcore and punk with electronic machine" ( i was 16 yr old stupiud kid), ofc studio owner first laughed then told me countless "live" bands are using machines on recordings. You always learn something from the previous generation on engineers:) Thats how I got to lear to program entire songs into darn thing :) But yeah I think Steve Vai also used it, I mean God knows how many bands at least layered that "rock snare 2' with the real recording.

@@earlsfield ties in with the old joke about only needing to punch the pattern into the drum machine, once... 😂

@bleepsandboops hahaha oh yeah that:)))))) well pinch of truth in there

Gah, you're on to something here. Ed Sheeran next time

The loon sample? Didn't think it was on Heliosphan but I've used it on the background music track. Bit of discussion further in the comments but seems to be a sample that shipped with the Emu II. I found it on Zero G's Datafiles 1 too (along with loads of those early 90s samples)

@@bleepsandboops That's the one (EMU II) and yes, I'm confusing the background with Heliosphan 😵‍💫

@@johndoe-nh9sh to be fair, the background _is_ Heliosphan just played on different instruments, with different drums, and bonus 303 and loon sample .😁

@@bleepsandboops Oooh you cheeky monkey, I thought I was going crazy for a while there 😳

Awesome, thanks! And welcome aboard!

Thanks! 🙏

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Thanks!

No worries, and do!! Can be a bit noisy but that's part of the charm!!

@@bleepsandboops I never had a noise problem with them. Gotta be careful to set your levels properly

@@nicodemuspapadopoulos4708 I know... combined with the low output of the TX81z I'm using here, it's gain gain gain and more gain unfortunately!!

@@bleepsandboops No pain, no gain. See if there are per-voice parameter in the synth where you can kick up the gain or put it through a mixer's FX loop