You have such an aura of peace and curiosity, cuckoo! You have inspired me to try new combinations and simplify things in ways that make sense. Love your content!
I think what is great about you is that you seem so free to be yourself. I don’t know if that is how you feel, but you come across that way and it’s inspiring. That’s what we all need to be - ourselves.
Love how you say support me with a little so you can support more people like me. Really in it for the love man, that's so special. Keep being awesome, you ffin rock! ❤️
I'm really fascinated by how you chopped up the song and arranged it. I would LOVE to see more about that. I have no idea how it works and the results are incredible! LOVED this song man. great job.
Loved this so much, just got a Microfreak second hand one week ago, so this is a great, inspiring coincidence 😊 and your song is mindblowing! Maybe not in the classic 'larger than live epic' sense, but in the small print, crazy how you weave rhythms and melodies together, truely one of a kind music creator!
There is something about you man...you sound so genuine, i find it very inspirational both on a creative and on a human level. Thank you for you :) and well done for the work you put in your videos and tunes
Okay, i know it's not a contest and it truly amazing what you all did with a single synth. But i.m.h.o Cuckoo did something extraordinary here. Kind of extra layer of emotion. What a great song.
All the tracks were fantastic, but I preferred yours dude - Fantastic harmonic and rhythmic interplay and beautiful low key lyric and singing. (Also your comments on the other tracks were brilliant and very loving) Peace and love bro'.
maaan. i didnt had any contact point to experience your craft mr. cuckoo. thanks for that 4 producers 1 synth thing , this is no longer the case! love even more the fact youre having this epic beard. love you man.
You are an amazing artist! Your tracks are moving me like a robot! I think I will make one dance video with one of your tracks! Thanks for sharing your vibes!
Yeee. Hey I just got the Patch and Tweak with Moog book and they list you as a channel to check out!! Nice man! Good thing I already knew you were dope
Ya it’s sweet, funny I thought they would of told you haha. Also love this track man, it was so cool to see how the four of you made something so different from each other but they’re all so good!!
Thanks for the video, Great track that conveys a good feel of what the Arturia sounds like! I checked out the MicroFreak a couple of months ago at a local store and thought at the price it was a no brainer to get it. However, it sounded like there was some sort of cassette tape emulation coloring the sound. Which, of course can be nice but somehow also narrows the possibilities if its "always on". I the end I didn't buy it. Would be nice to see this in an 80ies kind of track or mixed with chip tune sounds!
You’ve got the glitchy/bouncy vibes down. A growing edge that I think could be interesting for you to explore would be to add in some defined chord progressions that allow for more potent emotional expression and memorable melodies. I think that contrast added into your current sonic repertoire would be powerful. Just a thought though, love your work!
Thanks mate. Yeah loop and glitch vs longer format is a constant struggle. I love free form improv on the piano, but as soon as I write things down it’s easy to fall into simplified loops. I’m interested in this too.
Love the video, and all your video's and music in general (just bought your stuff on BC, great music) but couldn't help noticing a problem I had in my setup: the Microfreak is out of phase. It happens when you're using a Y cable straight into the stereo audio interface. Invert the phase of either the left or right channel and the problem is solved. If it's on purpose (which can be the case), never mind my comment. :-)
The wide stereo is a result of the signal chain I set up on the Apollo. I remic’ed the sound with that Mic plugin you see here and there, and perhaps went a bit overboard there, hehe.
Can you give us the isolated sound bites of your responses to the other producers? I want your honeysweet growl of "O thatz faat" and "This Is Smile-musik" to exist in the songs of 2021.
Yeah it worked really well, but my Mac is too old (2017) to run Sidecar for too long. It stutters and eventually throttles to the point where sidecar is failing. I imagine a new Mac, or one with better graphics card would do much better.
I love how well this worked for the Andrew Huang video, and how true to your signature Cuckoo style this video is. Same music but two different experiences. Awesome!
i abolutly love the song you created tehre. only issue i have there is, that everything (exampt the vocals) is 100% out of phase. sounds like the microfreak output has an issue there ?!
I've never heard anything like this before. Thanks to Cuckoo and Andrew for revealing a new musical horizon for me! Does anyone out here know anything resembling this track? I mean WHAT GENRE IS THIS? :) If you could suggest something like it, I would be happy af.
Was I alone in hoping he'd be utilizing the vocoder on the updated edition when seeing the microphone? My first impressions after finally unboxing mine... #1 why is the output level so low? sounds so brittle but then a few of the presets are loud af! #2 i didn't find it very intuitive and am still kinda confused by the thing.
Tutorials, lots of experimenting, and try to use at least modestly decent over-the-head headphones to make sure you can actually hear what it's up to. Not that I really know what I'm doing, I have next to no music background (grade school) and yet I bought one because I couldn't resist its versatility for sound, only tested out making some SFX so far but just playing with it is giving my ideas for tunes to (try) to make. It's a odd device with so much stuffed into so little space you just gotta let loose and "play" with it before really trying to make anything, don't feel pressure to make music, just start with some fun sounds!
@@EnochDark probably better than mine actually XD, I only have MDR-XB550's so far, perhaps if it's sounding quiet to you just need a headphone amp, my cheapo headphones are pretty low impedance
@@UNSCPILOT ah i didn't mean the hp out but the main out is almost like guitar level or something and requires large gain. sony headphones are definitely some of the best though, i miss mine.
I’m using Logic Pro as my DAW. In the beginning of the video I was using my iPad as a monitor, through Sidecar mode between the Mac and iPad. But my Mac is old and can’t really coop with Sidecar, so I went over to the mirror solution instead.
How do you set the tempo or bpm on the Microfreak? I tried to synd the clock to one of my Volca’s but the bpm on my Volca went nuts and way too fast! Lol! There is no manual, only a quick start. Awesone synth btw, with so many possibilities! 😊
Arturia's site has a manual for the microfreak. it's an amazingly great manual. The rate/swing knob can toggle to set the BPM for the microfreak, but syncing it with other hardware might need to be set in the utility menu. either way, the manual should be able to help!
No, I went overboard with the reverb simulation, looking for creating a lush and weird space. Kinda screw it up. But the headphones experience is interesting.
you rule cuckoo! always love seeing you work
Hey man, thanks! I appreciate you 🙏🏼❤️
A lot of love to the both of you 💚
You rock too, Andrew!
Who’s this charlatan on cuckoos channel! X
Love both of you guys!
You truly are the Bob Ross of music-making.
Happy little beats
You have such an aura of peace and curiosity, cuckoo! You have inspired me to try new combinations and simplify things in ways that make sense. Love your content!
Thank you so much Lavenders!
omg all my favorite TH-camrs in one video!!? WHAT IS HAPPENING
Heey thank you 😭🙏🏼
Watching your videos is one of the most wonderful things in this world.
Your voice man... That's the best voice for an audio book.
I think what is great about you is that you seem so free to be yourself. I don’t know if that is how you feel, but you come across that way and it’s inspiring. That’s what we all need to be - ourselves.
Good on you for authentic ways and breaking down what you're doing. It's a lesson in jamming
This is fucking banging. The half spoken and slightly cryptic vocals comboned with some of the sounds weirdly reminds me of Yello. Awesome stuff.
Loved this
Love how you say support me with a little so you can support more people like me. Really in it for the love man, that's so special. Keep being awesome, you ffin rock! ❤️
🙏🏼🙏🏼 thank you!
Great track, unique and continously engaging. Strange and quirky in a very good way. Loved it. Awesome walkthrough video too. Thanks!
Thanks 🙏🏼
I'm really fascinated by how you chopped up the song and arranged it. I would LOVE to see more about that. I have no idea how it works and the results are incredible! LOVED this song man. great job.
to use mirrors the way you do is just so satisfying to watch
Honestly i'm mostly here to tell you that your voice is really calming, love that. Keep up the good work!
Brilliant, as always. Every time you make me smile ❤
Loved this so much, just got a Microfreak second hand one week ago, so this is a great, inspiring coincidence 😊 and your song is mindblowing! Maybe not in the classic 'larger than live epic' sense, but in the small print, crazy how you weave rhythms and melodies together, truely one of a kind music creator!
very cool tune and work-flow and valuable explanation about getting the sounds right to begin with and committing to them... nice vocals man.
Thanks a lot mate! 🙏🏼
I really like your screen capture, so high quality
Haha thanks mate! 🤣
It's always a pleasure to see you at work!
so much love for the cuckoo aesthetic & sound
Thank you!!
Loving the vox on this. Your voice sounds great.
I love all you do! And your spontaneous presence. Please never stop.
that was great! you've convinced me to get an arturia.
There is something about you man...you sound so genuine, i find it very inspirational both on a creative and on a human level. Thank you for you :) and well done for the work you put in your videos and tunes
Thank you so much for your incredibly kind words! I will keep them close to my heart 🙏🏼
Once sentence, two words -> humble genius 🦄
i admire your dedication to your passion ! super cool
Okay, i know it's not a contest and it truly amazing what you all did with a single synth. But i.m.h.o Cuckoo did something extraordinary here. Kind of extra layer of emotion. What a great song.
Thank you so incredibly much Jorrit! I’ll keep your comment close to heart, mate. Means a lot to me. 🙏🏼
The song was gold! I really love it. Very catchy and keeps you interested.
Grateful to have enlightened souls like you in my youtube algorithm, sir.
My favourite bit was making a mirror your screen capture :) excellent track.
Haha thanks mate! Yeah it required some serious technology know-how as you might have guessed 🙈🐣
@@truecuckoo Zounds! Thank you! Really fun and especially appreciated your self-analysis on moving the sound design to the front of the recording.
Out of all the songs from the video, the song you made resonated with me the most. I got the good chills and vibes :)
You makin me crave a digital synth, OMG!
Awesome! I love the MicroFreak, and good to see it getting love elsewhere also. A capable synth in capable hands like yours, make it shine 👍🏻
I'm stunned by this. A lot going on, sad lyrics yet uplifting too. Your peace aura comes out in your music somehow. So cool.
Thanks Trevor! I appreciate it.
All the tracks were fantastic, but I preferred yours dude - Fantastic harmonic and rhythmic interplay and beautiful low key lyric and singing. (Also your comments on the other tracks were brilliant and very loving) Peace and love bro'.
Thank you sooo much Tangly! 🙏🏼
maaan. i didnt had any contact point to experience your craft mr. cuckoo. thanks for that 4 producers 1 synth thing , this is no longer the case! love even more the fact youre having this epic beard. love you man.
Thanks Steve! 🙏🏼
Grande Cucù...Ti adoro! Così grezzo e unico.
Loved the mirror, and seeing you work. I hope you do more on the microfreak.
You've rapidly become my #1 go to channel for music inspiration Cuckoo
This was so good! The lyrics are superb, thank you!!!
This mans voice is super soothing
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
It's from the 2 litres of tea he consumes each day.
So cool dude, experimentation is always one step forward
Nice editing, you put a lot of work on this, loved it
You are an amazing artist!
Your tracks are moving me like a robot!
I think I will make one dance video with one of your tracks!
Thanks for sharing your vibes!
Love all about you and ya´channel, Thanks for being True and inspireing
4 four amazing tracks from one source, very cool videoes.
I got this synth today! Love your videoes! 😊
i love watching these synth videos, theyre jamming + asmr in one
One of the best synth by Arturia :)
This track reminds me of early acid house, good stuff, opened my eyes to the micro freak, thanks.
I'd just got one today!!
Such an interesting track. So curious to see an overview of the edit workflow, and tips for the wideness of that mix. All the best. Cheers!
this made me realize how much i've been neglecting my microfreak, this track is so cool!!!
Amazing work
Crazy-wide mix. So cool!
Dude this song is wonderful. Best sort of Hot Chip vibes
Yeee. Hey I just got the Patch and Tweak with Moog book and they list you as a channel to check out!! Nice man! Good thing I already knew you were dope
Wow cool, I didn’t know 🙏🏼 Thanks for popping by ❤️
Ya it’s sweet, funny I thought they would of told you haha. Also love this track man, it was so cool to see how the four of you made something so different from each other but they’re all so good!!
the best breaks ever! smile music indeed
I knew you'd smash it. Nice work mate. Those closing lyrics OMG... 🎧💙💙💙💙💙💙💙👍
💙💙🙏🏼🙏🏼😭
Thanks for the video, Great track that conveys a good feel of what the Arturia sounds like! I checked out the MicroFreak a couple of months ago at a local store and thought at the price it was a no brainer to get it. However, it sounded like there was some sort of cassette tape emulation coloring the sound. Which, of course can be nice but somehow also narrows the possibilities if its "always on". I the end I didn't buy it. Would be nice to see this in an 80ies kind of track or mixed with chip tune sounds!
Incredible.
You’ve got the glitchy/bouncy vibes down. A growing edge that I think could be interesting for you to explore would be to add in some defined chord progressions that allow for more potent emotional expression and memorable melodies. I think that contrast added into your current sonic repertoire would be powerful. Just a thought though, love your work!
Thanks mate. Yeah loop and glitch vs longer format is a constant struggle. I love free form improv on the piano, but as soon as I write things down it’s easy to fall into simplified loops. I’m interested in this too.
I got one of these recently and have been wondering if you had one too. I knew you could make something awesome with it!!
Love the video, and all your video's and music in general (just bought your stuff on BC, great music) but couldn't help noticing a problem I had in my setup: the Microfreak is out of phase. It happens when you're using a Y cable straight into the stereo audio interface. Invert the phase of either the left or right channel and the problem is solved. If it's on purpose (which can be the case), never mind my comment. :-)
You are using balanced out to stereo. That imakes an interesting wide stereo-effect from a mono-synth!
The wide stereo is a result of the signal chain I set up on the Apollo. I remic’ed the sound with that Mic plugin you see here and there, and perhaps went a bit overboard there, hehe.
@@truecuckoo Ah I see! Cool :)
Loved and hated in equal measure. Personally I love it.
I would love to watch a studio tour by you
Can you give us the isolated sound bites of your responses to the other producers? I want your honeysweet growl of "O thatz faat" and "This Is Smile-musik" to exist in the songs of 2021.
Haha. Should make it a sample pack 🙈
Yesss
Amazing work!
song was amazing cuckoo
Wow love that unpredictable but soft electronic tone. I wonder if I can ever do that myself naturally x3 Without a DAW too
Poli oreo video!
All four songs were great!
What is the DAW you are using? Thanks for sharing this. Love your videos
Unreal tune 🔥
Complete Meditation!
I was hoping you were going to load the whole thing on the octatrak and go from there
Yeah if it wasn’t a coordinated 1-synth-4-producers challenge I would have. We agreed to only use one hardware synth machine.
@@truecuckoo you are right it wouldnt be just one synth if it got octraked
Awesome
that touchscreen Logic Pro is dope... really want to know how you set up the workflow.
Yeah it worked really well, but my Mac is too old (2017) to run Sidecar for too long. It stutters and eventually throttles to the point where sidecar is failing. I imagine a new Mac, or one with better graphics card would do much better.
@@truecuckoo thank you! I'll try that out!
I love how well this worked for the Andrew Huang video, and how true to your signature Cuckoo style this video is. Same music but two different experiences. Awesome!
Nice, I just released a song last night called "Everything is Fine", we all must be feeling the effects of 2020.
i abolutly love the song you created tehre. only issue i have there is, that everything (exampt the vocals) is 100% out of phase. sounds like the microfreak output has an issue there ?!
big new order vibes
Looking forward to the next one , how about using an old school recorder like a Forex MR16 with that Sonicware Liven 8bits Warp
Automatic 👍thumbs up!!
❤️🙏🏼
nice one
I've never heard anything like this before. Thanks to Cuckoo and Andrew for revealing a new musical horizon for me!
Does anyone out here know anything resembling this track? I mean WHAT GENRE IS THIS? :)
If you could suggest something like it, I would be happy af.
I would suggest more Cuckoo! 🎧💙👍 (His live set in Brisbane was pretty epic... you can find it on his channel I'm pretty sure...)
Was I alone in hoping he'd be utilizing the vocoder on the updated edition when seeing the microphone?
My first impressions after finally unboxing mine... #1 why is the output level so low? sounds so brittle but then a few of the presets are loud af! #2 i didn't find it very intuitive and am still kinda confused by the thing.
Tutorials, lots of experimenting, and try to use at least modestly decent over-the-head headphones to make sure you can actually hear what it's up to.
Not that I really know what I'm doing, I have next to no music background (grade school) and yet I bought one because I couldn't resist its versatility for sound, only tested out making some SFX so far but just playing with it is giving my ideas for tunes to (try) to make.
It's a odd device with so much stuffed into so little space you just gotta let loose and "play" with it before really trying to make anything, don't feel pressure to make music, just start with some fun sounds!
@@UNSCPILOT think ATH-m50x's good enough?
@@EnochDark probably better than mine actually XD, I only have MDR-XB550's so far, perhaps if it's sounding quiet to you just need a headphone amp, my cheapo headphones are pretty low impedance
@@UNSCPILOT ah i didn't mean the hp out but the main out is almost like guitar level or something and requires large gain. sony headphones are definitely some of the best though, i miss mine.
Simone Cowell is nodding at 0:59 thumbs up thumps up
What kind of set up is that for your laptop and daw???
I’m using Logic Pro as my DAW. In the beginning of the video I was using my iPad as a monitor, through Sidecar mode between the Mac and iPad. But my Mac is old and can’t really coop with Sidecar, so I went over to the mirror solution instead.
Commenting for the algorithm.
I hate myself... that's how good this is!
❤️ I hope you’re alright! 💙
@@truecuckoo Yess, started a dope beat so thanks for the motivation!💜
I'm confused by all the plugins used
I mainly use 4 plugins. Two different flavour preamps, one combined expander EQ, one room mic emulator for space. Sometimes a guitar amp.
What a nice 4. Microfreak is amazing but your ideas are powerfull. What DAW is running on the ipad?
Very nice Song :)
Thanks mate!
Niiice👐
How do you set the tempo or bpm on the Microfreak? I tried to synd the clock to one of my Volca’s but the bpm on my Volca went nuts and way too fast! Lol! There is no manual, only a quick start. Awesone synth btw, with so many possibilities! 😊
Arturia's site has a manual for the microfreak. it's an amazingly great manual. The rate/swing knob can toggle to set the BPM for the microfreak, but syncing it with other hardware might need to be set in the utility menu. either way, the manual should be able to help!
@@theshinylunchbox Thanks a lot! 😃👍🏻
Is there a kind a inverted phase problem in the recorded audio ?
No, I went overboard with the reverb simulation, looking for creating a lush and weird space. Kinda screw it up. But the headphones experience is interesting.
If you really want to see a master with the microfreak watch Martin Stürtzer stay at home concert no.7, or live ambient album as I call it 😁