As someone who's never really been into synths, this is incredible. This thing sounds so expressive and full of life; seriously impressive and makes me want to dump money that I absolutely don't have into it.
I literally heard about synthesizer’s existence about 2 years ago, went ahead and bought a expensive one 3 months ago 😅 I’m completely in love with them now lol
Lots of respect for Vlad's creative efforts. Its extremely hard to develop a brand new interface that's actually effective, I hope this has some success. Seems impossible to tell how well it works until more people try it.
@@sampreece I mean, the sound generation is digital, so whatever analog voltage those sensors pick up on is transformed into a digital number at some point.
@@sampreece Check out the ROLI Seaboard line of music keyboard controllers. It's like a piano keyboard, but you can change the tone in various ways by sliding your finger up and down the key, and change the pitch by bending the key from side to side.
Vlad is one of the few pioneers pushing synthesis forward today and not just remaking old designs. Between SOMA and Make Noise we have some amazing innovation happening and they are both treasures to us all.
Agree. I would add Pittsburgh Modular. Their designs are unlike anything else, especially the limited edition modules that flew under the radar like the Flamingo which is an all analogue harmonics generator using a new method never before produced.
Its Awesome that Vladimir made it with materials as natural organic as Oak wood.The sound frequencies Bends, Goes with the Grain of real Timber Wood.Versus synthetic plasticities that leaves the listener with less than is expected.Its full Soma within variations that pushes,then pulls it's own nuances, or sensitive, yet synthesis vibrations.Through Real instrumental tonal scales,that full on Resonates within alot more soulful,than not usually bargained for.
What if he and other electronic instrument builders would have a video output from the instrument to connect to a variety of monitors to see the what the parameters and knobs are doing? Further in the future the parameters could represent commands to a visual software so the audience would see visuals changing with what the musician is doing.
Wow I resonate with the design philosophy of this instrument so much. It addresses so many of the shortcomings I've felt with a traditional keyboard approach to synths.
I feel like this is inferior to a keyboard controller with foot controller pedals in so may ways. It might be useful for creativity to break out of muscle memory patterns, though.
@@dereknolin5986 Well said, totally agree, there are loads of different ways to add expression alongside a midi controller, the touché to name just one. People have even made gloves, rings and finger scanners. This cannot do anything new but reading the comments you'd think they'd revolutionised music.
@@silverblue73 No, with all due respect, amplification and pickups revolutionised music, multi-track recording revolutionised music. If I desperately wanted something like this, I could make it from basic components and bind them via midi, assuming I didn't already have 100 different ways to control that are better suited. Sliders, pedals, pads, wheels, knobs, buttons, slide/tilt axis and keys with aftertouch, to name just a few. If you like it then buy it, workflow is key and we are all different, but I will not for a second accept or pretend that this is a revolutionary product, because it isn't. If in 20 years, every musician is using one, get back to me and I'll apologise.
Yes! Really nice with this longer format where we get both demo of the instrument and discussion with the maker! Really cool to hear about the philosophy behind etc. Good stuff Nick!
Vlad is a rare maverick.................so great to have someone out there doing things in this manner.....the attention to detail is unsurpassed, as is his vision and unique mind
Nice to know that rare mavericks are still out there somewhere on this now pseudo organic retarded planet, maintaining the uniqueness through various unsurpassed visions.Most Synthesizers without the right person behind the keyboards can & will per usual ruin most any composition,bcs it's the same modern fake synthetic approach. That forwards through conventions of traditional futuristic sounding empty Non-essential resonate vapid crap!
yeah, but if you follow Vlad's work, you'll find that there still are people doing inspiring and innovative things........the rest of the mediocrity out there are unimportant.
Absolutely brilliant and when he said under 1000 I was very surprised. To have this level of physical design and expression I would have expected double that at least
I once left a comment on a Moog One vs Prophet 5 video saying that the Moog One sounded like a 10th century monk blessed a piece of wood instead of sounding like a synthesizer. We can all return our Moog Ones, we now have the Real Deal!
Very intelligent practical design in terms of musical need (in a world of so many frivolous designs that are not much related to musical need). The verbal comments and explanations are both insightful and interesting. The designs practical utility is not obvious by look, but its layout is very rational in terms of music theory, excellent job.
I now wanna see a kind of Soma orchestra band. Individual players on Pulsar 23, Lyra 8, Ether, Weird pipe thing, cosmos effects and strange vocalist. Would be very interesting. Would be a whole new genre
@@chinmeysway Your confusing DAW vs Software sythersizors, the DAW consists of Stop, Play, Record, and a sequencer to place and edit midi or audio. If I want tactile feel of Software devices then I'd use a Midi controller.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I’m comparing use of physical objects to creating / finding similar sounds in virtual instruments via daw. I get that u can use a physical midi keyboard controller to utilized that but the point is that it’s a super typical set up; the point of this instrument is it gets ppl to think and behave differently of course so for you to compare it to identical daw just feels annoying / missing the point is all but uh yeah maybe the actual sounds of the piece herein aren’t nearly as interesting as the aesthetic is could be a useful debate moreover.
This is cool. I am definitely there on the "friction" comment. Would have been cool if la voix du luthier had teamed up and made a resonator with the body
What Soma does more than any other synth instrument manufacturer, is to move away from any questions about Midi in your own head... A real instrument. Bravo! 👍
This is so new. Imagine when real musical prodigies get a hold of it for a year or two. There is not telling what might come. Maybe a new musical movement. The new electric guitar.
@@squatchykrislapuma4611 Heh. I mean, he says it all in the video. It's not on the market yet but will be soon. Price will apparently be somewhere around €800
This is Amazing. The best way to learn this instrument is to simply sit down and play with it for hours and hours and hours. The Good thing is you don't have to be a Trained Musician/ keyboard-Player. (I want one!). Tangelos (May He Rest in Peace) Wold Have Loved one of these.
Marvelous creation! Laurie Anderson would would probably love to work with this instrument. She is so experimental and beyond the typical frame with audio creativity.
I'm assuming and somewhat hoping that with the SOMA Terra having midi out it would have some unbelievable mind blowing control over other synths via midi, is this correct?
The device can be used as a controller for other synthesizers, you could use this to play a Micro Freak for example through midi but you can not control the device from external midi other then clock.
@@HOLLASOUNDS @sommerfugl030 Many thanks for your replies, great news to know it has control out via midi, the onboard sounds are just out of this world but to know it can it also control all my other synths is just the best news ever.
This is amazing. I'm a guitar player who never got around to learning piano, but I love the sound of synths and pads and all that cool stuff. This would be perfect for me!
"Hope this helps people develop these approaches of playing synthesizers, not programming synthesizers". DX7 desperately trying to avoid eye contact...
Why not? Imagine the sound moving together with the ship and thus with the listeners as well! All together his could come up as an amazingly pleasing, immersive experience. Give up total control and float with the waves..! I'm pretty shure Vlad would like this very idea.
You could also use it to serve cheese at the buffet on the same cruise and create a new kind of inadvertend music genre. I kid the Terra of course, it looks super interesting. Also it seems to continue the proud tradition of synthesizers that can be played by sausage, of which there are definitely not enough of.
Although I absolutely love this synth and the idea of playing vs programming, one of my favorite things about working with synthesizers is being able to playback a composition via midi and live tweaking parameters while it records the audio. I also use this technique when playing live, as I haven't been able to find a doctor that can perform octopus surgery just yet. =(
He's a unique human being and true genius who makes works of art. I have a Lyra 8 and the Cosmos pedal, and I'd never want to part with them because they feel so organic, like they're trying to help me make music, rather than getting in the way as technology can sometimes. I think Vlad deserves a place in the electronic music hall of fame.
I really admire anyone who attempts to explain complex subjects in a language that is not their native language. This was very interesting.
Dude has charisma in buckets too, which helps
This has got to be the most expressive cutting board I’ve ever seen! I must have one for my kitchen.
It cries when you cut onions. 😢
I thought they were going to play chinese checkers.
@@dereknolin5986 Lol!
This man has a beautiful mind. He makes true electronic instruments instead of devices. Love Soma!
I love Lyra too, a weird feeling of a real electronic "instrument" character
Soma deez nuts
This is not an instrument. It is a device
@G Sizzle you play notes on it... touch capacitance sensitivity... how is it not an instrument?
@@defcreator187 are you autistic and attempting internet standup?
The phrase "shut up and take my money" springs immediately to mind
As someone who's never really been into synths, this is incredible. This thing sounds so expressive and full of life; seriously impressive and makes me want to dump money that I absolutely don't have into it.
I literally heard about synthesizer’s existence about 2 years ago, went ahead and bought a expensive one 3 months ago 😅 I’m completely in love with them now lol
Lots of respect for Vlad's creative efforts. Its extremely hard to develop a brand new interface that's actually effective, I hope this has some success. Seems impossible to tell how well it works until more people try it.
One of the most organic looking synths I've seen, truly art-ful!
And yet it's digital and not analog.
@@dereknolin5986 Analog input for our digits.
@@sampreece I mean, the sound generation is digital, so whatever analog voltage those sensors pick up on is transformed into a digital number at some point.
@@dereknolin5986 Yes, I was just being facetious :P I do like the hangpan-style inputs, tho, such a cool idea.
@@sampreece Check out the ROLI Seaboard line of music keyboard controllers. It's like a piano keyboard, but you can change the tone in various ways by sliding your finger up and down the key, and change the pitch by bending the key from side to side.
Thanks for traveling and getting theses videos made for us!
this is how every product should be presented, no fancy trailer s but real people real talk.
this is awesome
who needs loopop, right?
:::)
Vlad is one of the few pioneers pushing synthesis forward today and not just remaking old designs. Between SOMA and Make Noise we have some amazing innovation happening and they are both treasures to us all.
Agree. I would add Pittsburgh Modular. Their designs are unlike anything else, especially the limited edition modules that flew under the radar like the Flamingo which is an all analogue harmonics generator using a new method never before produced.
@@sub-jec-tiv yea good shout, Pittsburgh are awesome
I would add Gamechanger Audio, as the name itself say, their Motorsynth and Plasma series are unique concepts as the SOMA ones.
Its Awesome that Vladimir made it with materials as natural organic as Oak wood.The sound frequencies Bends, Goes with the Grain of real Timber Wood.Versus synthetic plasticities that leaves the listener with less than is expected.Its full Soma within variations that pushes,then pulls it's own nuances, or sensitive, yet synthesis vibrations.Through Real instrumental tonal scales,that full on Resonates within alot more soulful,than not usually bargained for.
What if he and other electronic instrument builders would have a video output from the instrument to connect to a variety of monitors to see the what the parameters and knobs are doing?
Further in the future the parameters could represent commands to a visual software so the audience would see visuals changing with what the musician is doing.
Wow I resonate with the design philosophy of this instrument so much. It addresses so many of the shortcomings I've felt with a traditional keyboard approach to synths.
I feel like this is inferior to a keyboard controller with foot controller pedals in so may ways. It might be useful for creativity to break out of muscle memory patterns, though.
@@dereknolin5986 Well said, totally agree, there are loads of different ways to add expression alongside a midi controller, the touché to name just one. People have even made gloves, rings and finger scanners. This cannot do anything new but reading the comments you'd think they'd revolutionised music.
@@dereknolin5986how is a keyboard “better”? The only concern here is how easy can you make sound, and do you like it?
@@bizarrefruitthis configuration has never existed before so yes it’s revolutionary
@@silverblue73 No, with all due respect, amplification and pickups revolutionised music, multi-track recording revolutionised music.
If I desperately wanted something like this, I could make it from basic components and bind them via midi, assuming I didn't already have 100 different ways to control that are better suited. Sliders, pedals, pads, wheels, knobs, buttons, slide/tilt axis and keys with aftertouch, to name just a few.
If you like it then buy it, workflow is key and we are all different, but I will not for a second accept or pretend that this is a revolutionary product, because it isn't.
If in 20 years, every musician is using one, get back to me and I'll apologise.
Yes! Really nice with this longer format where we get both demo of the instrument and discussion with the maker! Really cool to hear about the philosophy behind etc. Good stuff Nick!
Very exciting to see this update. I’ve been putting off any purchases for this.
Beautiful instrument and fascinating discussion; thank you!
Dude ur a monster of sound. Greetings from 🇺🇦 thanks for your supporting
Another Soma Masterpiece 🖤 another Outstanding demo 🔥 Cheers 👏👏👏🤘
Vlad is a rare maverick.................so great to have someone out there doing things in this manner.....the attention to detail is unsurpassed, as is his vision and unique mind
Nice to know that rare mavericks are still out there somewhere on this now pseudo organic retarded planet, maintaining the uniqueness through various unsurpassed visions.Most Synthesizers without the right person behind the keyboards can & will per usual ruin most any composition,bcs it's the same modern fake synthetic approach. That forwards through conventions of traditional futuristic sounding empty Non-essential resonate vapid crap!
yeah, but if you follow Vlad's work, you'll find that there still are people doing inspiring and innovative things........the rest of the mediocrity out there are unimportant.
Wow.Makes me wish I was young enough to learn to play it. Music was my life! Very well done! Cheers.
Can't wait for this! I love my PIPE!
This thing is going to be all over film scores for years to come. Love what Soma do and thanks Nick for the in depth interview.
Very cool vocal Chair sounds.
That's the first thing I thought when he showed it's triangular control and it went into all those crazy sounds I've never even heard lol
And it's infinitely upgradable. If he marketed this right he could sell these for 5 figures a piece
Absolutely brilliant and when he said under 1000 I was very surprised. To have this level of physical design and expression I would have expected double that at least
Really cool instrument! You can hear ideas from The Pipe for sure!
I once left a comment on a Moog One vs Prophet 5 video saying that the Moog One sounded like a 10th century monk blessed a piece of wood instead of sounding like a synthesizer. We can all return our Moog Ones, we now have the Real Deal!
Very intelligent practical design in terms of musical need (in a world of so many frivolous designs that are not much related to musical need). The verbal comments and explanations are both insightful and interesting. The designs practical utility is not obvious by look, but its layout is very rational in terms of music theory, excellent job.
Love the Delay Llama at 21:25!
Everyone on the planet will want one of these... That will be one heck of a production ramp!
I love it can't wait to see people perform live with it😊
Soon
Wow, simply incredible, can’t wait to hear more!
I now wanna see a kind of Soma orchestra band. Individual players on Pulsar 23, Lyra 8, Ether, Weird pipe thing, cosmos effects and strange vocalist. Would be very interesting. Would be a whole new genre
I can make identical sounds in My DAW however the control and live proformerce aspect of this device is what makes it very interesting.
And here it is!
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Great thought. Daw is so uninteresting ps bc it’s not tactile reinvention
@@chinmeysway Your confusing DAW vs Software sythersizors, the DAW consists of Stop, Play, Record, and a sequencer to place and edit midi or audio. If I want tactile feel of Software devices then I'd use a Midi controller.
@@HOLLASOUNDS I’m comparing use of physical objects to creating / finding similar sounds in virtual instruments via daw. I get that u can use a physical midi keyboard controller to utilized that but the point is that it’s a super typical set up; the point of this instrument is it gets ppl to think and behave differently of course so for you to compare it to identical daw just feels annoying / missing the point is all but uh yeah maybe the actual sounds of the piece herein aren’t nearly as interesting as the aesthetic is could be a useful debate moreover.
Beautiful.
This is cool. I am definitely there on the "friction" comment. Would have been cool if la voix du luthier had teamed up and made a resonator with the body
I feel like I'm watching the same guy at two different places twenty years apart in his timeline.
Genius from Soma once again smashing it!
Glad Nick got to be on this.
Great interview and sounds 😊
I need this! The robot singing alone inspires me a lot!
The future is Now! Amazing sounds 💖🌟🎶
What Soma does more than any other synth instrument manufacturer, is to move away from any questions about Midi in your own head...
A real instrument.
Bravo! 👍
Oh man! This looks wonderful, i want it!
i just count the seconds!!!! i heard it already at the superbooth...just cant wait to get my own!!!!
“This is a saw ?” “It is the soul of the forest gods signing in their sleep”
🤣🤟
This is so new. Imagine when real musical prodigies get a hold of it for a year or two. There is not telling what might come. Maybe a new musical movement. The new electric guitar.
I have seen amazing things in my life. But by far this is beyond amazing
At the first glance you would think, they are father and son sharing their hobby. Great synth by the way!
Yeh really. Sound off that's what I thought lol. Everyone is quietly ignoring the obvious I think.
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Can Terra be used as an MPE midi controller? That would be amazing! Imagine being able to use samples on Terra.
yes
@@somasynths Very exciting. I'd love to see a demo of that.
Wonderful!!! Thank you
this thing is incredibly beautiful
Awesome instrument you made there!!
Good god. I already love Soma gear. But, this might have become my favorite. Clearly, I need to start saving up for this.
What is the price and where can one be purchased?
@@squatchykrislapuma4611 Heh. I mean, he says it all in the video. It's not on the market yet but will be soon. Price will apparently be somewhere around €800
Like father like son ;O)
Yes please!
It sounds great!
I hope we start seeing more synths like this
This is Amazing. The best way to learn this instrument is to simply sit down and play with it for hours and hours and hours. The Good thing is you don't have to be a Trained Musician/ keyboard-Player. (I want one!). Tangelos (May He Rest in Peace) Wold Have Loved one of these.
I'm in love with this synth!
Very interesting. What a clever invention.
Very nice concept! I'm stunned...
🖖🏻🇫🇷😎🇫🇷😎🇫🇷🖖🏻
😮amazing! this synth has crazy huge expression and dynamics capabilities
Wow! It looks and feels like something out of Star Trek!
My friend has an ouji board synth that looks like this ...but this thing sounds amazing
I love the organic feel of this.
Brilliant!!!!
When you need that horror soundtrack while chopping your vegetables
One HUGE end cheek!! Love it!
😵Wow! I love Vlad.
Vlad is a genius. That instrument is beautiful.
Woooow! This looks amazing
Those vocal Chair sounds are cool.
Marvelous creation! Laurie Anderson would would probably love to work with this instrument. She is so experimental and beyond the typical frame with audio creativity.
Laurie is old news at this point.
@@morbidmanmusic So is Mozart. Laurie is a genius, relevant, and best part, still with us.
Nick can I commission a furniture from you
I'm assuming and somewhat hoping that with the SOMA Terra having midi out it would have some unbelievable mind blowing control over other synths via midi, is this correct?
Yes it does! It even includes MPE
The device can be used as a controller for other synthesizers, you could use this to play a Micro Freak for example through midi but you can not control the device from external midi other then clock.
@@HOLLASOUNDS @sommerfugl030 Many thanks for your replies, great news to know it has control out via midi, the onboard sounds are just out of this world but to know it can it also control all my other synths is just the best news ever.
@@pauldazeley Yes I believe that's what the Gentleman said but dubble check that yourself.
This is amazing. I'm a guitar player who never got around to learning piano, but I love the sound of synths and pads and all that cool stuff. This would be perfect for me!
same thing here... I had been waiting to find a good deal on a Roli but this looks pretty dope!
21:01 --> Finally a synth that can recreate Randy's ''Jaaah jaaa jaaaaa, I am Lord, jaaaaah jaaa jaaaaaa''.
Such originality. I love all my Soma gear. Have one of these on pre-order and I'm happy to see it's nearly ready.
Boy these are going to be OUTRAGEOUS lol. But very creative, cool video.
SOUNDS GREAT!!!
Very cool !!!!!
Raja Ram from Shpongle will be using the vocal patch of the Terra, for sure 😉
This was great. I'm looking forward to Terra. But Nick got me there, with the Star Trek Theme, when he said Star Wars 😀
They both look like Engineers from Prometheus.
Wild, no clue what I’d do with it but I want one.
"Hope this helps people develop these approaches of playing synthesizers, not programming synthesizers".
DX7 desperately trying to avoid eye contact...
His price estimate actually didn't seem that bad for a real instrument.
What's its price?
They originally wanted to keep it under 1000 euros, but due to costs going up might need to be a “little more”
If they charged €1500-2000 I do not feel this would be overpriced because it is unique, well designed, and just lovely.
what makes it a "real" instrument?
@@aakash9058 A lot of y'all replying the comments don't seem to have watched the video.
As a guitarist , this appeals to me immensely.
What a creative and novel instrument! Just to think of what a good musician with some practice might do with this thing on stage 😯
true!
this is almost like the unit in ST:TNG where some of the children are kidnapped and groomed to be artists or scientists or musicians. Way cooool!
Bjork is about to rock with this on stage!!
I guess that cruise ship gigs with this unit is a no go...one small wave and the rocking will modulate the unit.
:) :) :)
But the Buchla and Bug Brand system is still a go for the Love Boat Booze Cruise...
Why not? Imagine the sound moving together with the ship and thus with the listeners as well! All together his could come up as an amazingly pleasing, immersive experience. Give up total control and float with the waves..! I'm pretty shure Vlad would like this very idea.
You could also use it to serve cheese at the buffet on the same cruise and create a new kind of inadvertend music genre.
I kid the Terra of course, it looks super interesting. Also it seems to continue the proud tradition of synthesizers that can be played by sausage, of which there are definitely not enough of.
Interface it to HOLON, and let the cruise ship environment play the Terra.....
This is very possibly one of the coolest things youtube has ever recommended to me, I cannot wait to get my hands on one of these.
Great! 👍
I would love to see Hans Zimmer use this. Amazing idea of an instrument
bravo!
Amazing instrument😮😮😮
21:22 OH GOD HE'S BACK. REVENGE OF THE DELAY LLAMA
Although I absolutely love this synth and the idea of playing vs programming, one of my favorite things about working with synthesizers is being able to playback a composition via midi and live tweaking parameters while it records the audio. I also use this technique when playing live, as I haven't been able to find a doctor that can perform octopus surgery just yet. =(
Combine this with a sampler/looper?
Oh this is beautiful
Fascinating instrument, a game changer in the right hands.
Also in the left hands
what a fucking wizard
This is awesome
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the potential is high
a young guy to experience this the way it should, could make it the new guitar
He's a unique human being and true genius who makes works of art. I have a Lyra 8 and the Cosmos pedal, and I'd never want to part with them because they feel so organic, like they're trying to help me make music, rather than getting in the way as technology can sometimes. I think Vlad deserves a place in the electronic music hall of fame.