I think you will find that the wrap-around Volume LED screens (1,326 of them) used on The Mandalorian virtual set cost slightly more than Colossus/Dave...
Thanks for taking one for the whole team! We've all been curious about the Colossus but would never be able to have a play - and few, if any, of the people who bought this amazing synth would ever show much of it to the public - but I'm sure we'll be seeing it used often here on your channel. And thanks so much for the Doom Drone!
I’ve been eyeing this synth for a while now. there’s so much potential in this system. Would take some time to understand it all but it really looks appealing to me. Will definitely follow your progress if you post more of these!
I don't have the synth ear to properly appreciate the finer differences in sound (this synth's filters vs. others), but the whole apparatus with the knobs and the dimly lit VU meters, and the grid with the pins... blimey... it makes me feel all tingly inside. PS: Thanks also for the sample. The synth version of "pulling out all the stops". Come to think of it, there are actually a lot of parallels between big church organs and a synth of this magnitude.
I thought at the beginning when he was sweeping the lo and hi pass filter with resonance cranked it was extremely evident how different and “more” this synth has... they sound like nothing I’ve heard.
Red pins are 10K resistors. Use them primarily for mixing audio and "multing" CV. For example, for all 12 oscillators, use red pins to the filter. Black pins are 0K and you can use them for CV and audio.
ive alwyas been a fan of Analogue Solutions. but this thing here is beyond words. not only the most beautifuly synth ive ever seen. it is also the most beautiful piece of ferniturte i have ever seen. absolutely tremendous!!!!
I was lucky enough to see the EMS Synthi 100 that probably inspired this beast. Tom from Analogue Solutions was restoring one, that if memory serves was acquired from a university music department. I assume the experience of restoring that monster is what lead him to create the Colossus. The EMS reminded me of that other analogue giant, the ARP 2500, that was also found mostly in university music laboratories. Fascinating to hear the Colossus in action - I can also recommend Alex Ball's video where he produces a brilliant track on an ARP 2500.
I am slightly envious of all the ridiculous amounts of fun you will undoubtedly have with that machine... and also very excited to use the samples.. I just discovered Labs samples and pianobook a few weeks ago, and it has opened up so many possibilities as an artist on a shoestring budget.. much love 🙏
Every video I watch from you tells a story. One of you being an industry professional, you being sincere in every aspect and I am lucky that I can watch you talk shop. Nice one Mr Henson
The Moog synth was something of an icon during my teenage years in the seventies. We nerdy types used to discuss the pros and cons of monophonic and polyphonic keyboards and listen for hours to the likes of ELP. I fondly remember our school buying a synth and going to the lunchtime demo in the music department. I did eventually see Keith Emerson and his monster synth in a live performance many years later. I ended up working in dentistry at an educational establishment and the University invested in a huge high tech teaching aid. It could be described as a 3D virtual phantom head and it allowed students to drill away virtually on 3D teeth with the full feel of doing it for real and I am almost certain it was manufactured by Moog.
@7:56 "drops $30K on synthi 100 clone, writes new Eurythmics hit" :D in all seriousness what a great piece of hardware, thanks for taking us in for a look and listen.
What a fat sound it has. Very cool. I like seeing you going deeper into the modular synth stuff as well as the support Spitfire is giving to more experimental music and sounds.
That is the most beautiful synth in the world. I must be thankful that I am not eligible for such an instrument and those who are may learn to express and share their stories. As human beings, it is the stories that we tell that shape who we are. The various waveforms, cycles, and changes that we go through all give us a different perspective to offer. It would be great to see in the future a video on a person who was able to explore their love of sound, learn to be creative, share their story with their community, and reaching far corners of the globe from this action.
I have nothing to do with music to be honest... but the visual design of this piece is so pleasing to me... I literally want my kitchen cabinets in this design.. everything in my office... the entire house..
I'm so glad people are still making these enormous synthesizers in the vein of the EMS Synthi 100 and the ARP 2500. Incredible machines. No way I'll ever own one but I'm glad they exist. I'm waiting for the day someone invents the pinboard where the deeper you push the pin in, the stronger the modulation/signal routing gets. Wouldn't that be something!
Hmm, you could do that in a eurorack systems with some force sensing modules connected to one of the matrix modules, such as the (much more sophisticated than a physical pin matrix) Alyseum MS Matrix. I’d say you would rarely need such a thing on every connection, a few force sensing inputs would suffice for when you need it.
For me personally, this is definitely the most beautiful synth of all time. It's not as retro as the synthi 100, but sonically it doesn't make a difference
Oh my! When they announced that synth it was made of unobtanium and priced like it. Congrats on getting one of those. It will be like the GX-1 and future synth that is rare and so very desirable. Can't wait to see you put it to use.
This is more I"ve ever dreamed of and so much more! The most beautiful oscillators I've ever heard, the most beautiful filters I've ever heard, the most beautiful spring reverb I've ever heard.... And all in STEREO (sometimes it almost seems like its binaural... simply incredible)
Sure they’re nice, but I can think of a half dozen oscillators off the top of my head that sound as good or better and do more in some cases in eurorack: AJH, ACL, Furthrrrr, MacBeth, Cwejman, Steffcorp..
I'm always happy when another Modular Monday comes along! (Whether it's Monday or not...) My modular journey started, in part, because of you! I hope to see loads more episodes in this series!
@Claudian Reyn Sure, keep telling yourself that. Digital has a come a long way and the chances you'll hear the difference *_in a mix_* is basically non-existent... Unless you're gonna tell me about your "amazing hearing" and how you can "hear the soul" or some shit.
Big fan of the products that Analogue Solutions put out. There seems to be a true love of analogue circuitry in the designs. And many of the people that dig such things seem to be able to make some really wild sounds that I most certainly can get down with. Looking forward to hearing what you do with this, good sir.
that slew rate limiter is a not-quite-filter-not-quite-distortion unit. it slows the rate at which a voltage can go up or down. its limiting the maximum slope angle of the signal. its part amplitude dependent filtering, and it re-shapes the input wave, the up/down slopes are 'slewed'. it has some cool features to it that normal filters don't have, like leaving some higher harmonics in tact while lowering the ''cutoff'', its also very amplitude dependent, unlike conventional filters. cheers
I was hoping that you'd be wearing a white coat and laughing maniacally as you fire up the final of those oscillators on the doom drone ... that looks like a mad inventor's toy box. Thanks so much for the sample pack - a definite must-download.
Dave is an impressive looking piece, and it appears to be very well crafted. I was in on synthesizers from the early days and spent a lot of time on an ARP 2500 with matrix patching. It's nice to not have the cable clutter. What fascinates me about Eurorack today, though, is all the developers making some truly amazing modules that I only have the time to partially understand and explore (and obviously, some digital spin is what makes these newer modules capable of doing some wild things). For me, the drawback of Dave would be having a lot of the same thing and less serendipity and magic, because I believe I would totally understand what everything in Dave does. I'm going to be really interested in seeing what you create with it. To me, even though it has a lot of iterations of various modules, I would think it might have sonic limitations. I hope you prove me wrong. Having logged in a lot of time years ago with the purist analog stuff, I do like the newly enhanced modules with some digital integration. I find I can take a couple of modules, a couple of patch cords, and quickly be in some pretty crazy and interesting territory. In the old days, with pure, basic analog stuff, it was harder to come up with something truly different, and it took a LOT of time.
That sounds LOVELY! It reminds me a little of my system 100 set (NOT the 100m), with the spring reverb in the mixer, lovely filter(S) and the serial parallel sequencer. This is obviously a grander, more complex, 12 oscillator beauty. Tom's a genius and i think he's based the design loosely on a synthi 100 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMS_Synthi_100 I think Daniel Miller (Of Mute Records) still owns his. I know Jack Dangers had one, and used it on an album, which is somewhere in my CD archive. The radiophonic workshop used them on a lot of things, such as Dr Who, and again, I have the DR WHO soundtracks on a specially compiled BBC CD in the archive too. The original system probably used a variation of the DK3 keyboard for the VCS3, and the keyboards on this look like something from a Buchla style system. I can remember Tom was recommended to me by another friend of mine, who sold me my first system 100 (Which ended up being sold to a guy who came all the way from france to buy it). I wanted to buy two of something he made at the time (cant remember which one it was...a SEM style thing? A vostok?) for live gigs AND for soundtrack use. I think that he only had one in stock, and the lead time was 4 weeks or something, and so i bailed. In any event, he was amiable and helpful. Lord knows what i bought instead :-D Thank you for sharing this & i hope you have enormous fun with it.
WOW! What a beauty! 8:00 moment THE SOUND!!!! I believe I've travelled :) Thank you, Christian for sharing your experience with us. Can't wait to play with the sounds!
how is quality on patch board with pins? i shy away from modular stuff because i use quarter inch and i d like to be able to use some of it with my mixer via aux send... i dont like moving chords either especially 1/8th cords... never had a priblem with a quarter inch jack going bad, but 1/8th jacks go bad with constant use.
Amazing. Looking forward to all you do with Dave!
@@wellshouston2869 bruh
Great channel you have Andrew.
Il behave... I promise xD
£26k - not as expensive as I thought it was going to be. Beautiful
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That has to be THE most expensive new set back drop I’ve ever seen. :)
I think you will find that the wrap-around Volume LED screens (1,326 of them) used on The Mandalorian virtual set cost slightly more than Colossus/Dave...
@@MartinRuss Yeah, but they're digital. ;-)
@@RobFlaxMusic :-))
Stop it, i wet myself. Evil internet people joking all the time…
Thanks for taking one for the whole team! We've all been curious about the Colossus but would never be able to have a play - and few, if any, of the people who bought this amazing synth would ever show much of it to the public - but I'm sure we'll be seeing it used often here on your channel.
And thanks so much for the Doom Drone!
Love the shoutout to Afrorack here!
I’d never be able to sneak that in! 😂
True :))
Wonder how many get stolen during live gigs
9:24 - now that's what I call the 70's experience - the designers even included Milton Bradley's 'Battleship' game on the interface :D
this is such an underrated comment 🤣🤣😂
g7 major.. let the ship drop...
I’ve been eyeing this synth for a while now. there’s so much potential in this system. Would take some time to understand it all but it really looks appealing to me. Will definitely follow your progress if you post more of these!
Colin you would smash it with one of these things I'm sure! (Been really enjoying your system diaries recently)
It's just way to big in size for Me to ever have one even if I had the cash.
I don't have the synth ear to properly appreciate the finer differences in sound (this synth's filters vs. others), but the whole apparatus with the knobs and the dimly lit VU meters, and the grid with the pins... blimey... it makes me feel all tingly inside.
PS: Thanks also for the sample. The synth version of "pulling out all the stops". Come to think of it, there are actually a lot of parallels between big church organs and a synth of this magnitude.
I thought at the beginning when he was sweeping the lo and hi pass filter with resonance cranked it was extremely evident how different and “more” this synth has... they sound like nothing I’ve heard.
@@lucasdrake946 I'm sure it's obvious to anyone who listens to or plays synths regularly. I don't, so to me it's not.
I have no idea how this all actually works, but I'm extremely happy it exists.
Do a search for "no input mixing" and have your eyes opened. Maybe you can produce these sounds with what you have already.
Excellent video Christian!
That's awesome, have fun with it. Thanks for the samples, and taking the time to do that. Much appreciated. Cheers.
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Also the AS colossus is such a beautiful synth. Well done Tom
Red pins are 10K resistors. Use them primarily for mixing audio and "multing" CV. For example, for all 12 oscillators, use red pins to the filter. Black pins are 0K and you can use them for CV and audio.
took a few minutes to realize you wrote Black pins are Zero K, and not Black pins are OK
it twisted my stomach that he just heaved £30K at the machine and apparently didn't even read into what properties his goodies have. -.-
I’m so looking forward to hearing some ‘never heard THAT sound before’ stuff coming out of Dave. He truly is a beast!
WOW! Everything about this video is just WOW!
Thanks for the amazing sample,i will be busy with it as no doubt you will be busy with this synth!! lol
ive alwyas been a fan of Analogue Solutions. but this thing here is beyond words. not only the most beautifuly synth ive ever seen. it is also the most beautiful piece of ferniturte i have ever seen. absolutely tremendous!!!!
I was so touched by the message at the end. Good video
The Colossus is such an amazing machine! And yep... beautiful initiative the one by afrorack! Thanks for sharing.
Great video, what a beautiful synth. Looking forward to all that you do with it, and thanks for highlighting such a cool charity
Wow! Thank you for letting us know about Afrorack.
I was lucky enough to see the EMS Synthi 100 that probably inspired this beast. Tom from Analogue Solutions was restoring one, that if memory serves was acquired from a university music department. I assume the experience of restoring that monster is what lead him to create the Colossus. The EMS reminded me of that other analogue giant, the ARP 2500, that was also found mostly in university music laboratories. Fascinating to hear the Colossus in action - I can also recommend Alex Ball's video where he produces a brilliant track on an ARP 2500.
I am slightly envious of all the ridiculous amounts of fun you will undoubtedly have with that machine... and also very excited to use the samples.. I just discovered Labs samples and pianobook a few weeks ago, and it has opened up so many possibilities as an artist on a shoestring budget.. much love 🙏
Every video I watch from you tells a story. One of you being an industry professional, you being sincere in every aspect and I am lucky that I can watch you talk shop. Nice one Mr Henson
that is maybe the best sounding osc>filter i've ever heard
The Moog synth was something of an icon during my teenage years in the seventies. We nerdy types used to discuss the pros and cons of monophonic and polyphonic keyboards and listen for hours to the likes of ELP. I fondly remember our school buying a synth and going to the lunchtime demo in the music department. I did eventually see Keith Emerson and his monster synth in a live performance many years later.
I ended up working in dentistry at an educational establishment and the University invested in a huge high tech teaching aid. It could be described as a 3D virtual phantom head and it allowed students to drill away virtually on 3D teeth with the full feel of doing it for real and I am almost certain it was manufactured by Moog.
@7:56 "drops $30K on synthi 100 clone, writes new Eurythmics hit" :D in all seriousness what a great piece of hardware, thanks for taking us in for a look and listen.
What a fat sound it has. Very cool. I like seeing you going deeper into the modular synth stuff as well as the support Spitfire is giving to more experimental music and sounds.
Fun demo of the monster synth, loved enthusiasm. And lovely bit at the end there, I am eager to find out more about them! Thanks for sharing that.
AS has outdone themselves with Collosus. A next gen Synthi 100, awesome.
Very nice looking cabinet.
Dude! Those samples are CRAZY! Thank you so much. Love them
Oh my. I just got a SYNTRX (synthi AKS) which is amazing. This is beyond all levels of amazing. Congrats!
Pin matrixes are absolutely the way to go. It is a shame that they aren’t really practical for most non-prebuilt systems
P.S. Incredible to see that you got this, sitting down to such a monumental work of art should feel incredible. Wonder what outputs it will gift you
Gift to US
I cant wait to play that 12 osc super drone!
That is the most beautiful synth in the world. I must be thankful that I am not eligible for such an instrument and those who are may learn to express and share their stories. As human beings, it is the stories that we tell that shape who we are. The various waveforms, cycles, and changes that we go through all give us a different perspective to offer.
It would be great to see in the future a video on a person who was able to explore their love of sound, learn to be creative, share their story with their community, and reaching far corners of the globe from this action.
Can you play Battleship on it?
Doesn’t Vince Clarke have one?
I have nothing to do with music to be honest... but the visual design of this piece is so pleasing to me... I literally want my kitchen cabinets in this design.. everything in my office... the entire house..
Good idea!
How did I miss this video? Fantastic Christian. Thanks! 👏
Sounds absolutely immense, congratulations on your new arrival!
I'm so glad people are still making these enormous synthesizers in the vein of the EMS Synthi 100 and the ARP 2500. Incredible machines. No way I'll ever own one but I'm glad they exist.
I'm waiting for the day someone invents the pinboard where the deeper you push the pin in, the stronger the modulation/signal routing gets. Wouldn't that be something!
Hmm, you could do that in a eurorack systems with some force sensing modules connected to one of the matrix modules, such as the (much more sophisticated than a physical pin matrix) Alyseum MS Matrix. I’d say you would rarely need such a thing on every connection, a few force sensing inputs would suffice for when you need it.
its coming With MPE and Midi 2.0 out now its only matter of time I use my ipad to trigger MPE currently
WOW What a sound🤯 - and what a beauty🤩
And I love the concept of AfroRack!
That's a gorgeous piece of kit!
the second you switched all the oscillators on it felt like a door opened into space, just so much *room* in that sound
Loved this video!!! For the record, I was very much enjoying the sequence before you shut it off. :)
For me personally, this is definitely the most beautiful synth of all time. It's not as retro as the synthi 100, but sonically it doesn't make a difference
Excellent. Start to finish.
Wow! I remember seeing Deadmau5 drooling over this on a livestream. Sure enough he bought one!
That is freaking awesome! You have a proper unit there!
You know the oscillators are good when even my phone speakers can make my head vibrate.
Oh my! When they announced that synth it was made of unobtanium and priced like it. Congrats on getting one of those. It will be like the GX-1 and future synth that is rare and so very desirable. Can't wait to see you put it to use.
This is more I"ve ever dreamed of and so much more! The most beautiful oscillators I've ever heard, the most beautiful filters I've ever heard, the most beautiful spring reverb I've ever heard....
And all in STEREO (sometimes it almost seems like its binaural... simply incredible)
lol. Calm down
@@sonicindustries227 maybe i should
Sure they’re nice, but I can think of a half dozen oscillators off the top of my head that sound as good or better and do more in some cases in eurorack: AJH, ACL, Furthrrrr, MacBeth, Cwejman,
Steffcorp..
Sounds most excellent. Thanks for sharing Christian. You are having fun...lol.
Seeing how happy this makes you honestly makes my heart sing! 😂
Wau . This is crazy cool synth. What an elegance beast.
I'm always happy when another Modular Monday comes along! (Whether it's Monday or not...)
My modular journey started, in part, because of you!
I hope to see loads more episodes in this series!
I never clicked so fast before... These samples sound fantastic! :D
Thank you!!!
That actually gave me goose-bumps.
I saw this beast and thought "if there's one YT creator I want to see use it.."
And here you are!!
But if you want to lend it to heinbach and do a Collab that would be swell too 🙃
So are you also getting a GX-1?
Wow. Beautiful.
I'd love a studio tour of all the synths on your rack in the background.
amazing sounds, but that doom drone sound was just like any synth I could pull out of serum tbh
I don't think so! This sound is beyond any digital emulation.
@Claudian Reyn Sure, keep telling yourself that. Digital has a come a long way and the chances you'll hear the difference *_in a mix_* is basically non-existent...
Unless you're gonna tell me about your "amazing hearing" and how you can "hear the soul" or some shit.
Thanks very much for the download, I am definitely going to be using the doom drone in my next mad amen jungle/d&b track
So you get to make music AND play Battleship?! Love it
This is such a sweet sound! Love it!
Thank you for this video and for the Kontakt free insturment! Dave sounds amazing *__*
Big fan of the products that Analogue Solutions put out. There seems to be a true love of analogue circuitry in the designs. And many of the people that dig such things seem to be able to make some really wild sounds that I most certainly can get down with.
Looking forward to hearing what you do with this, good sir.
10:12
"Might as well JUMP."
Out the window. That is sinister!
Wow looks so much better in your vid than on analog solutions website!
Simply incredible.
Started drooling after 25 seconds :)
When are you planing the shed extension ?
that slew rate limiter is a not-quite-filter-not-quite-distortion unit. it slows the rate at which a voltage can go up or down. its limiting the maximum slope angle of the signal.
its part amplitude dependent filtering, and it re-shapes the input wave, the up/down slopes are 'slewed'.
it has some cool features to it that normal filters don't have, like leaving some higher harmonics in tact while lowering the ''cutoff'', its also very amplitude dependent, unlike conventional filters.
cheers
Christian, I love when you talk modular! I'm going to run this drone through my Eurorack! 👊😁🤓🙌
I was hoping that you'd be wearing a white coat and laughing maniacally as you fire up the final of those oscillators on the doom drone ... that looks like a mad inventor's toy box.
Thanks so much for the sample pack - a definite must-download.
Funny thing is it actually came with a white coat!
(Make sure you play with expression and mod!)
@@TheCrowHillCo That is unbelievable! 😂 Hoping that there will be a good reason for Spitfire white coat merch at some point!
BRAVO,
Outstanding 🎶👍
Hello what kind of Monitor do You use ... thank you
Used to live near Tom and bought his sample CD’s when he first started AS. He’s come a long way!! 🤙
Beautiful piece of kit.
Very Dr Who console looking. If you get the pin combination just right does it travel back in time?
this video makes my day!!!!
Just one of Tom’s oscillators is freakin’ incredible.. I can’t even imagine what it’s like standing in front of twelve of them.
Dave is an impressive looking piece, and it appears to be very well crafted. I was in on synthesizers from the early days and spent a lot of time on an ARP 2500 with matrix patching. It's nice to not have the cable clutter. What fascinates me about Eurorack today, though, is all the developers making some truly amazing modules that I only have the time to partially understand and explore (and obviously, some digital spin is what makes these newer modules capable of doing some wild things). For me, the drawback of Dave would be having a lot of the same thing and less serendipity and magic, because I believe I would totally understand what everything in Dave does. I'm going to be really interested in seeing what you create with it. To me, even though it has a lot of iterations of various modules, I would think it might have sonic limitations. I hope you prove me wrong. Having logged in a lot of time years ago with the purist analog stuff, I do like the newly enhanced modules with some digital integration. I find I can take a couple of modules, a couple of patch cords, and quickly be in some pretty crazy and interesting territory. In the old days, with pure, basic analog stuff, it was harder to come up with something truly different, and it took a LOT of time.
You are incredible!
Thank you!
"I'm going to sample the bejeezus out of this." woo-hoo, thanks Christian!!
The sound😍😍😍. So warm
What a beautiful instrument! Peter Zinovieff would be proud.
Lol, I was thinking the same thing. We should be able to use it too. We paid for 5 percent of it.
That sounds LOVELY! It reminds me a little of my system 100 set (NOT the 100m), with the spring reverb in the mixer, lovely filter(S) and the serial parallel sequencer. This is obviously a grander, more complex, 12 oscillator beauty.
Tom's a genius and i think he's based the design loosely on a synthi 100 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMS_Synthi_100
I think Daniel Miller (Of Mute Records) still owns his. I know Jack Dangers had one, and used it on an album, which is somewhere in my CD archive. The radiophonic workshop used them on a lot of things, such as Dr Who, and again, I have the DR WHO soundtracks on a specially compiled BBC CD in the archive too.
The original system probably used a variation of the DK3 keyboard for the VCS3, and the keyboards on this look like something from a Buchla style system.
I can remember Tom was recommended to me by another friend of mine, who sold me my first system 100 (Which ended up being sold to a guy who came all the way from france to buy it). I wanted to buy two of something he made at the time (cant remember which one it was...a SEM style thing? A vostok?) for live gigs AND for soundtrack use. I think that he only had one in stock, and the lead time was 4 weeks or something, and so i bailed. In any event, he was amiable and helpful. Lord knows what i bought instead :-D
Thank you for sharing this & i hope you have enormous fun with it.
Btw, I love how you're supporting afrorack. That's giving forward a gift that can't be bought; the gift of sound, music and joy.
Very nice. Any chance release doom drone for decent sampler please?
“A bit floppy down there” Oh Dave 😂
Boy in a band Dave will remember that.
hey Dave, thoughts on the Mixturtrautonium featured from Alfred Hitchcock's the Birds?
Can I have a go? Looking forward to hearing more of that wonderful machine.
WOW! What a beauty! 8:00 moment THE SOUND!!!! I believe I've travelled :) Thank you, Christian for sharing your experience with us. Can't wait to play with the sounds!
how is quality on patch board with pins? i shy away from modular stuff because i use quarter inch and i d like to be able to use some of it with my mixer via aux send...
i dont like moving chords either especially 1/8th cords... never had a priblem with a quarter inch jack going bad, but 1/8th jacks go bad with constant use.
funny seeing this after getting aperture the stack...Dave is a beast!
Great synth and video! What computer screen is this at 10:25 ?
yeah but does it have soundgoodizer?
Christian you are right about what the most beautiful synth is. That is a really cool thing!
Wow!!! Keep up the amazing work!!! Love and light from Khao Lak, Thailand 🇹🇭 ☀️🏖🌴🥥🐘🌈
No. Fucking. Way. You got THAT. You know, deadmau5 has one of those too, but for the price of 25k...man that gotta hurt