This podcast/videocast is so good that I enjoy it, and learn from it, no matter how little I am interested in the specific items covered. And you have so many great folks participating. (Obviously, of course I am interested in all of Robin's modules, though!)
QQ for next week's show, big prize to any of the guests that can explain the new Presonus studio one pricing model! And maybe a discussion about the best value for money (non subscription based) DAW for both windows and Mac... please.
Softube Modular is my favourite of the software modulars. Not too unwieldy, good preset system, easy automation, heavy on cpu but due to the great sound, it feels worth the compute juice.
This Roland P6 is a great entry for the Volca studio lover, and another great product from Roland. But for a pro musician a sampler with a quick learning curve of a day and pristine pro audio and features, the 1010 Music Black Box is the most incredible product I have owned over the last 56 years as a musician. It is Sampling condensed to its purest form and made just for the musician. 6 outputs to be processed any way, stellar sound from the DACs and ADC and preamps, and lighting fast to get the sampling job done and ready for performance.
Denny Zeitlin did whammy Clav back in the 60s. Very hip playing (but tuning suffered a bit). You’ll recognise him from the early 70s Sesame Street counting music
The number one big thing about Melbourne Instruments' motorized knobs is in the live performance experience. In an normal hardware preset synth, you always have to choose between either Catch or Snap, and both these knob behaviours have big drawbacks: With Catch, you're literally searching for- or guessing at which value a certain parameter was stored in the preset, and so you might not get the sound change you're looking for right in time or on beat when you're tweaking. With Snap, values will instantly change as soon as you touch a knob, which can sound very shocking if the physical position of the knob is very far off from the value stored in the preset. I'm sure we've all had the experience of reaching for a filter and being instantly deafened, or the sound suddenly (almost) disappearing. With the motorized knobs, everything is always exactly where it should be. You're always in "panel mode", yet you're using presets (if you want). Every knob change is always smooth, instant, and happening exactly when you mean it to. Of course this is also perfectly possible with LED rings, but normal endless encoders often just don't really feel quite right, or different anyway. One thing that's very interesting and not as often mentioned about the Melbourne Instruments knobs - though they are also essentially endless encoders - is that they have variable resistance, and will for example physically stop at appropriate min and max values like real pots.
Value-scaling is the third model, and it feels the best, because you turn a knob and it always does what you wanted/expected. And the Nord Lead 3 and Moog Slim Fatty had the encoder rings..
Here's a question for all of you. I had the good fortune to work with the Haken Audio Eaganmatrix for a brief period, and really liked its approach to modelling physical stringed instruments. Then, one day I'm watching a video of a cello or violin player, and noticed that, when they quickly bow back and forth, the sound was a little different when pushing the bow *forward* , as opposed to pulling the bow *back* . That got me wondering if anyone makes a synth, plug-in, or module that accomplishes such a dynamic change. That is, if one quickly played a monophonic run, or even an arpeggio or sequencer repeating one, would it *alternate* the model applied on successive notes? Admittedly, a niche market, but one that would approach realism a little more.
Ok so..I can answer your question about are the motorised knobs good for sound design and not a gimmick.. YES the Answer is YES they are fantastic! and I wish more synths in the future will implement them. way better than normal knobs. But hey.. for those who like modular Spaghetti cable plugging in with no chance to save patches.. well you do you.😀 VCV rack is great too.I just knew Robin was going to take a poke at Yoad speaking facts on VCV rack.. 🤣 He couldn't help himself😅
Wow Paulee-really bad Atari ST remark 😞 I know that you love your amigas but…. Atari ST was the first and only one with built in midi ports and was the reason why Steinberg Cubase was born.
This podcast/videocast is so good that I enjoy it, and learn from it, no matter how little I am interested in the specific items covered. And you have so many great folks participating. (Obviously, of course I am interested in all of Robin's modules, though!)
QQ for next week's show, big prize to any of the guests that can explain the new Presonus studio one pricing model! And maybe a discussion about the best value for money (non subscription based) DAW for both windows and Mac... please.
Softube Modular is my favourite of the software modulars. Not too unwieldy, good preset system, easy automation, heavy on cpu but due to the great sound, it feels worth the compute juice.
This Roland P6 is a great entry for the Volca studio lover, and another great product from Roland. But for a pro musician a sampler with a quick learning curve of a day and pristine pro audio and features, the 1010 Music Black Box is the most incredible product I have owned over the last 56 years as a musician. It is Sampling condensed to its purest form and made just for the musician. 6 outputs to be processed any way, stellar sound from the DACs and ADC and preamps, and lighting fast to get the sampling job done and ready for performance.
If Paulee decides to make a VCV rack module, it's going to need to be pauleephonic, surely? 🙂 Great show!
I always chuckle when Americans say "Polysynths" because it sounds like "Pauleesynths" :)
@@magicalsynthadventure3216 😀
Don't you have code with c++ to actually make new modules within VCV rack?
Denny Zeitlin did whammy Clav back in the 60s. Very hip playing (but tuning suffered a bit). You’ll recognise him from the early 70s Sesame Street counting music
The number one big thing about Melbourne Instruments' motorized knobs is in the live performance experience. In an normal hardware preset synth, you always have to choose between either Catch or Snap, and both these knob behaviours have big drawbacks:
With Catch, you're literally searching for- or guessing at which value a certain parameter was stored in the preset, and so you might not get the sound change you're looking for right in time or on beat when you're tweaking.
With Snap, values will instantly change as soon as you touch a knob, which can sound very shocking if the physical position of the knob is very far off from the value stored in the preset. I'm sure we've all had the experience of reaching for a filter and being instantly deafened, or the sound suddenly (almost) disappearing.
With the motorized knobs, everything is always exactly where it should be. You're always in "panel mode", yet you're using presets (if you want). Every knob change is always smooth, instant, and happening exactly when you mean it to. Of course this is also perfectly possible with LED rings, but normal endless encoders often just don't really feel quite right, or different anyway. One thing that's very interesting and not as often mentioned about the Melbourne Instruments knobs - though they are also essentially endless encoders - is that they have variable resistance, and will for example physically stop at appropriate min and max values like real pots.
Value-scaling is the third model, and it feels the best, because you turn a knob and it always does what you wanted/expected.
And the Nord Lead 3 and Moog Slim Fatty had the encoder rings..
I'm a big fan of Voltage Modular software! (it's really saved me thousands and thousands, scratching that modular itch in software)
Think of how much of a pain it is to tune a guitar with a Floyd Rose. And a clavinet has 60 strings.
Polybrute needs a whammy bar.
@paulee, don’t you have a spring reverb? That classifies as an electro mechanical piece of gear, IMO.
You're right!
Here's a question for all of you. I had the good fortune to work with the Haken Audio Eaganmatrix for a brief period, and really liked its approach to modelling physical stringed instruments. Then, one day I'm watching a video of a cello or violin player, and noticed that, when they quickly bow back and forth, the sound was a little different when pushing the bow *forward* , as opposed to pulling the bow *back* . That got me wondering if anyone makes a synth, plug-in, or module that accomplishes such a dynamic change. That is, if one quickly played a monophonic run, or even an arpeggio or sequencer repeating one, would it *alternate* the model applied on successive notes? Admittedly, a niche market, but one that would approach realism a little more.
So far, the only people uploading Roland P6 videos are dudes making boom bap that sounds the same as it always sounds.
Regarding the Deli, I always thought Melbourne Instruments should have licensed the tech to Yamaha or Korg instead of making their own synths.
Don't know too much about the Delia but the Nina is a great sounding synth.
Ok so..I can answer your question about are the motorised knobs good for sound design and not a gimmick.. YES the Answer is YES they are fantastic! and I wish more synths in the future will implement them. way better than normal knobs. But hey.. for those who like modular Spaghetti cable plugging in with no chance to save patches.. well you do you.😀 VCV rack is great too.I just knew Robin was going to take a poke at Yoad speaking facts on VCV rack.. 🤣 He couldn't help himself😅
32:39 the HydraSynths and... the AstroLab, if we could use it as "proper" (i.e. fully programmable) Synth :)
Eric Bristow is dead.
Yes thats true
Obvious title: look dad no hardware!
I'm happy for that one to be the title, given that my wagon wheel thing didn't happen lol
Wow Paulee-really bad Atari ST remark 😞
I know that you love your amigas but….
Atari ST was the first and only one with built in midi ports and was the reason why Steinberg Cubase was born.
It was a playful comment, taking in the tongue-in-cheek rivalry between the two systems 😁
It didn’t sound like it…
And if that so, where is your Atari ST setup..?
23:50 - yeah, Granular used to be rare, lol