Bad Gear - Technox
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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most-hated audio audio tools. There are electronic musical instruments that are praised for their versatility: classic analogs showing up in almost every genre, the DX7 covering all bases from 80s cheese to industrial filth and what would music be without the seemingly unlimited catalog of modular fart sounds.
Today we are going to talk about Quasimidi Technox. The sole and only purpose of this German synthesizer from the heydays of actually making money with electronic music is very, very clear: showing up on Bad Gear 30 years later and giving me yet another excuse to annoy you with a truckload of half-finished meme techno.
Bad Gear - German Rave Machine
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:03 Overview Quasimidi Technox
01:32 Selected Sounds
02:15 MASS Engine, The Quasar, FM Synthesis
02:28 Access to the Engine (or lack thereof)
02:59 Filter
03:28 Multitimbrality
03:51 Perform Mode
04:03 FX Section
04:15 Menu Diving, Mod Matrix, Midi Control
04:40 Arpeggiator
04:50 What Else??? (Rear Panel, Thanks, Pricing)
05:12 Hate
05:36 Jam 1 ( 90s Techno #1 )
06:36 Jam 2 ( 90s Techno #2 )
07:31 Finale ( 90s Elektro )
08:01 Verdict - เพลง
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what's the movie in the intro?
@@DardanPalaj Berlin Calling, the guy you see is Paul Kalkbrenner
We talk about the gear, the jams and the memes but we never acknowledge the sharp, economical and funny writing. Florian, I see the hard work that makes your words seem effortless.
Thank you so much!!!
Florian should start working on a special Boxset of his masterful Bad Gear episodes with his sound libraries and instrumental jams and release them on BLU-Ray/DVD/CD and Vinyl and cassette format Boxset, out in time for Christmas Holidays!
In other words, he is ticking all the boxes
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These vids are niche but totally admirable in every way, must take hours and hours to make those 10 minutes. Comedy for male nerds basically.
If the filter is garbage... we'll make acid.
lol
One of the real heroes of this show is that small M-Audio midi keyboard
Ja, sozusagen der Gipfel des schlechten Geschmacks. Das understatement für die gute Musik.
@@Benutzer101 Ich spreche nicht das Deutsch, aber weit draußen Kumpel und danke Ihnen allen für Raum Penis Laser Fabrik Behringer
My precious!!!
Most modern simple equivilents you can't change the sent CC numbers from the unit, you need to use editor software on the computer. Ridiculous. I keep an old midi controler around (Evolution brand) for just this reason. - Oh, slightly related fact - one of the main guys behind the Evolution midi controllers, M-Audio ones, M-Audio Venom and novation controllers started the PWM company so the Malevolent and Mantis synths are from that same lines of... Evolution.
@@darwiniandude username checks out
That mc-303 guy will never get old
THE music tech meme!!!
Another cool one was Rich Formidoni who had a lot of enthusiasm for the Microsampler and looked totally stoned
the hardest-working man in geartube is back to grace us with more 90s rompler bangers, lets go
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All the people say, 'It's a drum, Mr. Pilz.'
The Technox!!! ...that was my first ever synthesizer. Cubase on an secondhand Atari Mega ST, a 303 rack clone that didn't sound like a 303 at all, and no way to record anything because I couldn't afford a Tascam.
Good old times 😀
Nice setup!!!!
Add a simple mixer, a basic fx box and a tape deck, and you got the average 90s Techno homestudio! Thousands of great records were made using exactly this kind of simple setup.
@@ropeburn6684 My simple mixer was a Y-cable that I soldered (and it would have given goosebumps to people who actually can solder). I added a Boss drum computer that didn't have any 808/909 like sounds. Basically, I was absolutely clueless, I was too late to the party and couldn't get any of the analog classics dirt cheap, and of course I lacked any real talent.
But I had a boatload of fun doing nothing substantial 😀
@@SycokayNobody did anything substantial! 😅
Same here. It was one of the first tools I got and where I started my sound design
Not unlike fashion, sounds tend to return to modern trends and it is always worth having gear like this to get the hands raised at the raves.
Agreed!!!
I close my eyes and hear the sublime sounds of the Emu Orbit the dance planet
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The '90s--'00s dark, electro-industrial/EBM stuff was the true center of my electronic music life. I still love it today.
Best!!!
We want more 90s rack units! We want more 90s rack units! Do the X5DR next!
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll have a closer look!!!
Why not? He's covered every other piece of gear I've ever owned. When he covers the X5DR, that will complete my bingo card.
X5DR : ❤ !
Do it... do it!
If it's the 90's then it's a Korg Trinity or Triton.
would love a semi serious bts episode of bad gear with a break down on how much time is spent on jams, meme curation, after effects intros, and micro montage final jam and actually learning all the shit
Great idea, thanks!!!
Why ruin it?
@@brutallyremastered4255Because that's what the internet is all about!
We don’t want to pay any attention to the man behind the curtain thank you…. 😀
The jams in this one are absolutely timeless. Obscure Playstation game or underground rave club? Doesn't matter! It all sounds fantastic! :D
Thank you so much!!!
Quasimidi , a symbol of the 90's ! A timeless brand !!!
Agreed!!!
I met the two German guys who ran Quasimidi the same day I met Doctor Bob. They were also enjoying a synth-free vino-lubricated conversation at the opening of a synth museum in London.
They were nice enough guys, and they didn't mind admitting that they preferred the Rave-o-lution, musically and fiscally, because of the user interface, and the expansion options, which placed the unexpanded basic model in the right price bracket to make a small profit in a crowded groovebox market, then add fat margins on the expansions.
Yay for pragmatism.
Indeed 👍🏻
thanks a lot for continuing to jack up the price for mc-303s world wide
That was awesome, back in the mid 90's I convinced a music shop in New Zealand to import a Quasimidi TechnoX, at the time there was only Casio type home keyboards available, they became the supplier for Quasimidi on this part of the world, I still have the TechnoX, the FX work on mine and greatness is confirmed, especially the "Special-FX" and the Phaser
Nice one. I actually own a Technox. Got it as a gift many years ago. Finally brought it with me to London from Austria last year. Had a great afternoon playing around with it, having fun with how good it does THOSE sounds, just as you demonstrated. And ever since, whenever I work on tracks I'm too lazy to bother with all the effort that goes into using this thing. :D When there's plenty other machines or vstis around that are so much simpler to use. But one day it'll find a way into a track... maybe now that it's got the Bad Gear Seal of Approval!
Nice!!!
I wrote so many songs with my Technox 30 years ago. I will never sell it.
Every day that a new Bad Gear video does NOT arrive is a day that certainly will lack elation and verve. Thanks once again for a new "episode".
Thank you so much!!!
Haha, the editing and referencing are so good. I love the Trent Reznor-destroying-equipment bit -- ah, the memories!
Thank you!!!
I will never say « Welcome » without moving my arms ever again.
Bad Gear is this close to become my official religion.
Thanks for delivering everytime
Subtlety is for weaklings;) thanks!!!
@@AudioPilz true words from the only TH-camr worth watching. Cheers.
I sold mine recently and it went for 275. Went to Croydon so maybe the grime guys like them. The samples always sounded rough, part of its charm. Years ago I sold it and thisnguy accused me of trying to kill him cos it made a mild pop when it turned on. He was obsessed that I'd put a non standard screw in it which wasn't true. He also kept refusing to take it apart even though I never asked him. He ended up having to pay to send it back after 2 weeks of emailing me daily. Memories
Wow, there's a Technox in Croydon then...;)
@@AudioPilz Certainly is the mystical land of Croydon with its fields and forest. 🤭
I've said this in other videos of yours. Your analysis and humor are top notch, but dAMN MAN YOUR JAMS ARE OUTWORDLY
Thank you so much!!!
I had one too. Used it in a wider set up which included an Akai S3000, Juno 106, Korg M1 and an Alesis SR16 drum machine. All run via an Atari 1040. The Quasimidi provided the edgy / cheesy element. Still got the S3000, but everything else is long gone. My favourite part of the Technox user manual was the incredibly poor translation to English. It also said something like '...so you can sound like all the other guys, with their baseball caps.' Or words to that effect. Happy times :-)
good to see and hear the Technox again, always regretted selling that piece of gear back in the day.
I had one and sold it. Regretted it, bought another then sold that. I stil have a hankering after one.
These are keepers!
You are fun to watch and listen to. I have to freeze the screen to read the memes. Most are worth it.
You make these ditties look easy. I'll bet they take even you an hour or two.
Vielen Dank!
Danke sehr!!!
I Like to enjoy your videos! Lots of synths I have never seen and others that I have not touched since I was a kid! Keep it up dude you great!
Thank you!!!
Sound alright with a bit of tinkering, some of these 'old' rack gems are well worth it! HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!
Have a great weekend!!!
I've been waiting for this one! 😄
Yay! You did it! Been waiting for this video and it was everything I hoped for! Now I wish you could do the Spectral Audio synths, like ProTone, Neptune 1/2 or Syntrack! Thanks in advance! :)
Great idea, thanks!!!
Your best jams so far. Ready to buy the Bad Gear album ;)
Thank you so much!!! Shameless plug: full tracks can be found on my Patreon;)
@@AudioPilz Sadly I am too old... addicted to vinyl LPs and CDs...
Hey! This was my first multi-timbral sound generator, back in the late 90s. Quite a lot cheesy sounds inside, but with a little tweaking usable, at least for making a quick sketch of a track.
I think the beauty of these romplers are the multitimbrality, layering sounds has always been my thing. It has some nice patches on the technox you did it proud yet again 😎👌
Agreed!!!
saw one of these on reverb for less than I thought it might be. Was tempted. Sounds great in good hands.
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"open to the public" tickled me. Great video as ever, many thanks.
Thank you so much!!!
Thanks for convincing me in buying this. This is awesome.
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I like it when we can tell you are having a lot of fun using the gizmo- skkeeeee!
SKWEEE!!!
Awesome episode! The jams are so good! The 90s was the best decade for electronic music! 😊
Thank you!!!
Thanks for blowing my ears out at 3:22 like only an MC-303/505 can, it was nostalgic
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nice, wanted to see this one. Love Quasimidi synths 😁
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So happy Quasimidi existed i have no idea if they went bankrupt i remember on the raveolution expansion board i had there was kraftwerk samples and kraftwerk used them live for a while
Woohoo!! Yet again a very fine episode! And yet another Quasimidi thru the wringer! It seems that you covered all the relevant Quasi's with this one!
Good thing too, almost forgot I have this thing too, needs a recap though, the output isn't that good. Something most Quasi's have about now, they need that maintenance.
And thanks, needed to wash the coke off the screen with that Tunke!
Keep em coming!!
Thanks!!! I'm still missing the Raven, the Quasar, the Polymorph and that old one with the Top 40 sounds;)
@@AudioPilz I got a Raven, bought as a temp until I could get my hands on the Sirius. It's a nice machine, all the same sounds, but as a workstation a bit underrated if you ask me.
Theres nothing better than watching Football and Mr. Pilz at the same time :D
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The high-pitched "skwee" was wonderful.
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Masochism in 2160p
idd!
That beauty! I was drooling when I saw the reviews in Future Music Magazine along with the Orbit and the one that was for Latin music... Conga! or something like that :)
Wasn't that the Carnival?
Another great episode .. thx! And yes please .. I totally want to have my Schnitzel with good old Tunke 🥸
Thank you!!!
Nice job as per usual! Yeah, some of the sounds you got out of it really weren't too bad at all
Thank you!!!
Yet another fab show
Thank you so much!!!
8:14 Then: the tape is bad, we'll have to record it again.
Now: The bad tape effect makes it sound cool.
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Wow ! The game video on the finale is spot on. I'm back in the mid 90's.
Thanks!
That last jam was sick.
Thank you!!!
Dang! That sounds surprisingly good!
Agreed!!!
I have a Sirius and I LOVE it....I've heard that The Raven was the only other good Quasimidi synth....kind of thinking that as well after this video lol. Reminds me of a MC-303 in it's lofi gritty sound.
Sirius is the GOAT!
Finally! I was waiting so long for this episode, because I love my Technox. Actually it is bad in some way, but I use always some sounds out of it and put some external effects on it and you got a imperfectly digital sound :-)
Nice, you got one!!!
interessant, dass gerade jetzt das Video kommt.
Ich bin gerade dabei meinen alten Technox zu reparieren. Neue Encoder, Speicherbatterie etc.
Dabei dachte ich mir: das wäre was für den AudioPilz! - und da sehe ich dieses Video.
Geiles Projekt!!!
I feel it was a missed opportunity to put Nick Batt's face on P.W.M. Bach's face. LOL!
So true!!!
Loved the memes, enjoyed the jams. :)
Thank you so much!!!
all those twists and turns gonna give you carpel tunnel
Risk that comes with the job;)
cARPal tunnel 2600
excellent video! i've been interested in this, but honestly after hearing it i think the emu xl-1 is better
Thanks!!! Probably...
I like the dusty Quasimidi stuff but for years its been ridiculously priced on used market, not too many of them in existence. Takes a lot of discipline to release 1-2 of these a week, I salute you.
The Brits love them... I don't know exactly why, but whenever I mentioned I came from Germany, they often replied with Buzzwords like Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Porsche, Bosch, Miele ...... and Quasimidi 😄
So rare, thanks!!!
2:42 Is that OSC? Of course it's not, this being a 90s device, but my heart sure skipped a beat!
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Great video that catapulted me straight back to the beginnings of my sound design! Thanks for this feeling :-)
Quasimidi was an interesting company back then. As well as the Technox, I also had the Quasar (including the T. R. E. module) and the Cyber 6. There are also pictures of them on my website. I also programmed sound sets for the Technox and Quasar. You could get a lot of useful patches out of both boxes. Just listen to the demos on my site. The good old days :-)
Cheers,
Oli / Sounds of Revolution
Nice!!!
it has the llok and sound of a 1990s era device. That's not bad, but it needs doctoring up as you did to set it apart of that. Thanks for showing it has use today.
Agreed!!!
That hi-hat sounds great! Found them for over $600 delivered in the US. Frankly, I'm waiting for some new Behringer clones for my rack space for about half the price. Sure they require 2 rack spaces, but the rack can be just 1/4 as deep.
600 might be a bit costly...
What a fun little box. Enjoyed this one :) Along similar lines and you'd probably enjoy it for the channel is Akai's SG01v - They had three little half rack units with LED display, three parameters per sound, little romplers. There was the SG01p piano, SG01k (k means GM, dunno why they didn't call is G) and the ultimate - the SG01v, V is for vintage. It's full of vintage synth sounds. Fun little box released at a time not far from when Jupiters were cheap and unwanted, and people didn't want vintage synth sounds. :)
Classic vintage setup
Now that is some truly bad gear :D The two encoders...LOL. Can't imagine working with that
It's an acquired taste;)
I remember wanting one of these back in the day.
Same here!!!
Loving the channel dude. I would like to recommend the Roland Juno G workstation keyboard for bad gear. Its cheap and cheerful full of retro Roland sounds .
Great suggestion, thanks!!!
Even before I hit play I knew what the theme would sound like. Wasn’t disappointed.
Spot on!!!
Oh snap rompler techno is my jam! LOL I was just looking at one of these on Reverb this week. 😂
Nice!!!
> half finished meme techno
love your videos and your meme techno
Thank you so much!!!
It’s almost 45c in California right now but it’s AudioPilz who’s on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's San Diego weather here too;)
Hi! The uknown specie to me ) Thanx for the BG review!
Thanks for watching!!!
I have an E-Mu Vintage Keys "rompler" that has a similar looking workflow. These sorts of things are good collections of the eras, but are really just good sound banks with some synthy features baked in and a bit thin on sound despite style. You made it sound great though, of course!
Thank you so much!!!
Had one back home in Australia and loved it.
Wow, it made its way to down under!!!
@@AudioPilz yeah… you’d see a few stores selling Raven, Rave-o-lotion, Sirius and Quasar but you had to look for them. Not every music dealer sold them
@@AudioPilz Yes. We shipped it nearly everywhere. But in Australia there was no official importer, only some shops.
I love the german Quasimidi family and Scoootah too of course!
Hyper Hyper
I love the Snap-thing (used for "Rythm is a dancer") on my Technox
Have a great Sunday!
😀😀😀Thanks!!!
I like mine. I don't use it much, but when I do, I always think I need to use it more.
The drum samples are more than decent
Agreed, proper drums
That last tune was a total 80s sci fi movie chase scene banger!
Thanks!!!
Thanks. One hastily flashed image sent me down another rabbithole and now I want to go to Luray Caverns to hear the Great Stalacpipe Organ. Anyway, back to the bad gear at hand....is it just me, or is this thing basically Lords Of Acid's Lust in a box? Darling, come heeeeeeere....
When the meme hits harder than it should;)
Get your hands on a MC 909. I love mine. The time stretch and vinyl simulation are amazing.
Great idea, thanks!!!
Nice one 👍
That's a nice Skweee ya got there.
Thanks!!!
I managed to snag one of these from a bulk load of synths I bought on Facebook a few years ago. It won't boot and stays stuck in the startup sequence. Changed the firmware chip and still had the same issue so it was relegated to the cupboard. Watching this now and I'm going to have to dig it out again and continue my quest to get the thing fixed, sounds great!
Definitely get it fixed!!!
4:50 The rusty cruddy screws is awesome! Like skeleton parts from the 1990ies dinosaur era!
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Yeah the princess Lea joke 🥳
Brilliant vid. Love the little mem flashes ✅
Thanks!!!
Uh, yeah, that one is up in my attic somewhere.
It was the only rompler I ever owned.
What I remember most about this thing are the thoughts I had about it. They were something like 'Should have bought a proper synth' :D
Proper synths were in short supply in the 90s;)
Thanks but no thanks for unlocking memories about Mr. Mister existence. Now "Take this broken wings/And learn to fly again" won't leave my head for a next few hours.
Bad Song;)
OMG OMG OMG. One of my nicknames on LunaticOutpost (don't go there) was MrMisterMissedHer. Probably because of my shitty aim.
Used to sing that at karaoke all the time, and the key change after the instrumental/Michael MacDonald break ALWAYS catches me across the knees. I can NEVER hone in on it, and I don't know why.
Kyrie eleison down the road that I must travel
@@APMTenants Straight and narrow. I wish you good luck. I've been at this since forever.
It sounds really good for having just one button to press ngl
I know nothing about 90s romplers but I, too, have to admire the burgeoise hi-fi style surface of rusty screws.
Best!!!
Duuude get a video doing a breakdown of that san francisco song from global deejays, loved that one when i was young
Great idea, thanks!!!
All right, time for a more serious comment. With this one, honestly, I feel like - and especially back in the day - it's a great tool for getting a job done. You literally could do the entire soundtrack for a PS1 game, particularly a PS1 racing game, on this thing, and you could honestly get away with this and nothing else quite far into the PS2 era... and perhaps a bit beyond. Listen to some of Namco's early Wangan Midnight soundtracks to see what I mean. Same with Unreal Tournament 99: a bunch of that stuff could have been done quite credibly on this. I really like it, and I really like what you did with it. Definitely hits a certain nostalgia spot for me, and hard. Realistically, I heard a lot more of this kind of music on video games, CD, and certain TV shows and films, than I ever did in clubs, because I just couldn't afford to go to clubs for the most part, but this is still very much of its era, and sounds great.
The PS1 is strong with this one!!!
Cool, my second Rack Synth back in the 90ies after the MKS-50. I actually produced some nice Trance tunes with the Technox. Very underrated Rompler ;-)
Nice classic setup!
Ram slots had me hollering! :)
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0:55 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant!
Thank you!!!
That brought memories when I owned the Quasimidi rave-o-lotion 309 😂
Classic!!!
I don't have any racked gear, well kind of I do, three Behringer synths, but they aren't racked. This thing for whatever reason gives me DX7 vibes. Great vis as always. Fabrik im Deutschland, always gut..good.
Oh, I got a Pro 3 this week. It's awesome.
Nice, thanks!!!
I saved so hard for one of these back in the day - then missed out on it.. so I bought an Alesis QS6 (if you haven’t already done one - probably should consider for bad gear )
Alesis QS6 is tight!!!
What a modern version looks like: Roland AIRA compact. The menu looks similar and it seems to be combination of J-6, T-8 and S-1
True that!
Happy to hear Skweee get a shout-out. One of my favorite genres that was far too short-lived.
Legendary!!!