Seeing Robert Henke, Hainbach, and David Hilowitz in one video playing with Göttsching's gear feels like a Christmas special of a fav show or something. And a plot twist of PitchLoop89 being inspired by Publison adds even more festive melodrama to the whole thing, ahaha
It's always wonderful to appreciate the personality that these instruments have, mostly caused by their technical limitations. This is something we've lost in this era of infinite possibilities.
What an amazing piece of kit! That's really impressive for 1978 - and it's remarkable to me that sounds that seem so modern could have been created nearly 50 years ago.
Ah, this was sublime! What a unique device- and using an analog oscillator for the clock was the kind of unique workaround that simply isn’t done these days. Love love love the phonic textures with this.
This is pretty inspirational instrument. Not just from the audio creation side, but from the engineering side. It's funny because I use PitchLoop89 all the time and was thinking it's similar as I watched this. Never knew the connection.
Your video exploration of vintage instruments is always so rich and interesting, I love that your music sensibilities shine through a full spectrum of genres
The interface of this instrument reminds me of PrimalTap, one of my favorite delays. I love the effect you get from alternating between different sample rates as the octave changes.
The "instantaneous display of memory reading position" at 2:45 is actually brilliant. a decade ago I build a pedal that sort of did that. not nearly as incredible as this is though!
STELLAR Wicked vid 🤘🤘🤘 Thanks to all. Love the Ableton device Henke made. It really is meant to be played,..I learned that as soon as I tried it with Push the first time. But it can also make fantastic frozen scapes that become drones. A multi-tool for sure.
The sampling quality on this is incredible. So clean for such an old unit. I only think it's been well maintained over the years. Would absolutely make for a great virtual instrument.
next up in the pipeline should be Klaus Fischers Barth AUDIOS unit! As far as he told me, he is actually working on a rerelease of this classic machine! Make sure to do an interview with him, great guy!!
Great video! I’ve been interested in electronic music and synthesizers since the late seventies and I simply wasn’t aware of this, big surprise 😱😀. Thank you!
Каждый раз при просмотре твоих видео хочется бросить все насущные, ничего не стоящие делишки и заняться тем, что на самом деле по душе, но реальность заставляет отвлекаться на пустое...😢
Wonderful that one of the Great Granular Greats™was on board, Mr Henke himself. No one mentioned the very Buchla styling, well at least the font? Such a marvel of technology ❤
Got this exact same combo here and it is nothing short of amazing!!! got so lucky to found it a few years ago directly from Publision, it was a demo floor unit that they had left. I dont imagine the price of of a combo like that today. I'm planning on having a CV panel that would control all of it's feature instead of the keyboard and control it with my modular. Thx for sharing, not a lot videos on the KB2000. I wonder how many there is in circulation.
This is so cool! At first, just seeing the title and thumbnail, I was a *little* skeptical. A granular instrument from '78? Really?? But yeah, apparently! Super impressive indeed.
Have used the rack mount unit back at AES as a student but primarily for the pitched delays.We had no keyboard with the unit.The beginnings of the Akai S612.
This kinda explains why some are now totally into the AKAI S-612 sampler…? Sure, it was way simpler than this groundbreaking tech. Still, it had (has) no menus, serious limitations, knobs for instant capture and overdub sampling, simple envelope and ditto filter, and two sliders for sample start-stop-reverse. And mono Input level, how could I forget… There. That’s a pretty complete manual for the 612 - and endless creative fun in late 1985. Come the S-900, and we had to start working seriously again…😅
Ahead of its time? I would almost consider it an musical “oopart” 😅 I was (positively) baffled by this unique device, impressive. Thanks to both of you for showing it to us!
I love this so much! The first thing I thought was "is there any software emulation?" and as it turns out I've known about PitchLoop89 for some time but I've been too busy to play with it. Gotta revisit it now :D. I can totally see how using an analog oscillator as part of the control loop for this thing would be interesting! ALSO: Some early digital delays had this sample feature too, albeit in a very primitive form. Check out Boss DE-200 for example. You can sample the delay buffer and then trigger it via CV. Dunno if you can control pitch via CV too, though - that would be killer!
I never knew there were samplers before the Fairlight (or Emulator? I forget which came first.) But I suppose once semiconductor RAM became cheap enough, it was sampler-building time and people would come up with them independently. Still, I’m impressed at the level of granular control in this. Was this before Curtis Rhodes wrote about Microsound?
Treating the Publison as a simple effect or as a mono sampler really misunderstands the device. Seeing this as a competitor for an Emulator does as well. It is a shame it was ahead of its time for the designers, but this tends to be the fate of any product that breaks new ground in any field. It is usually not the first of a kind that catches a wave. Successors, at some point, benefit from the efforts put into the original. Innovators need to persist and not to cling to the first iteration to benefit financially from their work, but in most cases, it is someone else who cashes the check written by the inventor.
As far as I know they did pretty well on this at first, selling the unit to many studios and developing a follow up, the Infernale Machine, in 1984. But they could not compete in the late 90s anymore.
Was it perhaps Publison, or a cheaper device, that was used in the Giddy-Up-Go-Go song by Ad Visser (Netherlands), and covered in their Affair-A-Go-Go song by The Cruisin' Gang (Italy), to produce the looping, and bending vocal part in the middle?
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Soundpack from this video and music: patreon.com/hainbach
Check out the new Monolake album, it’s fantastic: roberthenke.bandcamp.com/album/studio
The genius of the 1970's can to be matched in any era. Publison, Lexicon, Eventide, Ursa Major, and so many more.
Seeing Robert Henke, Hainbach, and David Hilowitz in one video playing with Göttsching's gear feels like a Christmas special of a fav show or something. And a plot twist of PitchLoop89 being inspired by Publison adds even more festive melodrama to the whole thing, ahaha
It's always wonderful to appreciate the personality that these instruments have, mostly caused by their technical limitations. This is something we've lost in this era of infinite possibilities.
The guy that is the last one left that knows how to repairs these needs to share his skills with the next generation- he could do a youtube series
It needs to be cloned too.
Call Doctor Bueche.
What a curious creation! Sounds incredible with the looping piano samples.
Thanks Alex!
Ludicrously amazing piece of kit for 1978!
Man, Hainbach & Monolake. I'm impressed. Thanks for everything you're doing !
Yeah this was a perfect day! Thank you!
@@Hainbach I can imagine that ! :)
What an amazing piece of kit! That's really impressive for 1978 - and it's remarkable to me that sounds that seem so modern could have been created nearly 50 years ago.
1978?! Im floored that this existed and sounds so good
Impossible to make a video about Publison without Robert Henke, nice !! I was not aware that this keyboard was designed to be used with !
Ask Rob why Ableton is a nightmare to use. It makes me never want to use a computer to make/record music
Just use a different DAW, there’s plenty of options out there.
@@CtDawG77no one is forcing you and there's plenty of different options, two of the best ones are entirely free
Man, your videos are so special, a real homage to electric music every time. Thank you!
Hainbach + Henke? Be still, my beating heart 😍
It's remarkable just how much this thing sounds like Monolake, especially the ambient tracks.
Imagine hearing this in 78. Must’ve felt like alien tech
Ah, this was sublime! What a unique device- and using an analog oscillator for the clock was the kind of unique workaround that simply isn’t done these days. Love love love the phonic textures with this.
Holy crap, it's a Morphagene from the 70s!
This is pretty inspirational instrument. Not just from the audio creation side, but from the engineering side. It's funny because I use PitchLoop89 all the time and was thinking it's similar as I watched this. Never knew the connection.
Hi Analog!!!
@@thestinkyweasel6297 Hey!
Sounds absolutely phenomenal.
This video made me go back and listen to a bunch of Gottsching’s work. Wonderful stuff.
Publison made the most batshit cool digital gear I have ever seen. Never seen anything like them before, or since.
Can anyone tell me what’s being played at 0:10? The blue and orange synth I mean
Great stuff and wonderful to learn something new today! 👍🏻
An amazing synth that I had never heard of til this vid.
I love the joy you two are having with this
phantastic instrument! thanks for this video.
1:00 - Summons Cthulhu. Cthulhu sticks around to provide background vocals.
Your video exploration of vintage instruments is always so rich and interesting, I love that your music sensibilities shine through a full spectrum of genres
The interface of this instrument reminds me of PrimalTap, one of my favorite delays. I love the effect you get from alternating between different sample rates as the octave changes.
I always wanted to play with one, looks so fun!
This is unbeliveable for 1978
These sounds are unlike anything I have ever heard. What a cool machine! Thanks for showing it off for us!
This is incredible!!! I would love to see more of the history of granular synthesis!
The "instantaneous display of memory reading position" at 2:45 is actually brilliant. a decade ago I build a pedal that sort of did that. not nearly as incredible as this is though!
Everything old is new again! What a fabulous instrument, and I had no idea it existed.
very cool kit, awesome sounds coming from it
Wish this could be made into a virtual instrument!! I LOVE IT❤❤❤
Wow what a unique synthesiser, a great review, thank you.
STELLAR Wicked vid 🤘🤘🤘 Thanks to all. Love the Ableton device Henke made. It really is meant to be played,..I learned that as soon as I tried it with Push the first time. But it can also make fantastic frozen scapes that become drones. A multi-tool for sure.
I could listen to you play piano for hours. When you put the mic to the piano strings, it immediately reminded me of an Aphex Twin track.
This is insane for when it was made. Talk about ahead of its time.
Mad lads at it again.
Used one in 1994. Was amazed by the sound and the live modification possibilities. I always hopped to have one one day...
Wow! An incredible piece of gear that I never heard of.
Wow, never heard of this amazing device before. Thanks!
Want ! Never heard of this. Amazing!
This would be totally worth of writing a VST or iOS version of it
It’s called pitchloop 89 inside ableton made by Robert Henke.
@@domeniquexander_ will check it out, thanks!!
Ty for your work
berhinger make one of these i need it.
The sampling quality on this is incredible. So clean for such an old unit. I only think it's been well maintained over the years. Would absolutely make for a great virtual instrument.
It is very well engineered. And of course it was extremely expensive. That’s what many people forget today. On few select people could use it.
classic 70's sci fi soundtrack instrument, wow this is amazing to see
wow a video with the master Robert Henke Himself!
thanks for the video and thanks monolake for the maxdevice! very cool
6:33 wow, this thing is freaking AMAZING
next up in the pipeline should be Klaus Fischers Barth AUDIOS unit! As far as he told me, he is actually working on a rerelease of this classic machine! Make sure to do an interview with him, great guy!!
Oh I had totally forgotten about this!
My 1978 brain would have exploded if I knew about that device.
Great video! I’ve been interested in electronic music and synthesizers since the late seventies and I simply wasn’t aware of this, big surprise 😱😀. Thank you!
Каждый раз при просмотре твоих видео хочется бросить все насущные, ничего не стоящие делишки и заняться тем, что на самом деле по душе, но реальность заставляет отвлекаться на пустое...😢
that is next level technology for 1978!
Fascinating. It has a mellotron quality to it. ❤
My goodness that sounds incredibly nice! ✌️
That chittering sound at around 3:20 is amazing
I got goosebumps a bunch of times when playing with the DHM89
thank you for sharing !!! i personally use granular synthesis all the time and it’s cool to see where it came from
Wonderful that one of the Great Granular Greats™was on board, Mr Henke himself.
No one mentioned the very Buchla styling, well at least the font?
Such a marvel of technology ❤
wow!!! together with robert the granular doctor!!!
Wow. This is incredibly advanced for 1978. You'd think it's a bit of digital sound wizardry from the 1990s!
Yeah it’s peak tech for the time, and all by a small company
This is insane
Hainbach at 5:26 lmao
I love the world of synthesizers that are rare and mostly unknown it’s amazing
A detailed emulation of this would be another great Audiothing collaboration...
Got this exact same combo here and it is nothing short of amazing!!! got so lucky to found it a few years ago directly from Publision, it was a demo floor unit that they had left. I dont imagine the price of of a combo like that today. I'm planning on having a CV panel that would control all of it's feature instead of the keyboard and control it with my modular. Thx for sharing, not a lot videos on the KB2000. I wonder how many there is in circulation.
Wow, you got lucky!
blows my mind they had crazy stuff like this in 78
This is so cool! At first, just seeing the title and thumbnail, I was a *little* skeptical. A granular instrument from '78? Really?? But yeah, apparently!
Super impressive indeed.
Have used the rack mount unit back at AES as a student but primarily for the pitched delays.We had no keyboard with the unit.The beginnings of the Akai S612.
This is the synth to make the music to your nightmares.
Used by Tangerine Dream on Force Majeure
Hey Andy!
6:24 god, i miss that stretching aliasing effect. used to run a looper script that did that.
It would be interesting to see this on iOS one day
Yeah I agree
I'm pretty damn good at fixing standard TTL IC circuits. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm able to fix those as well.
This kinda explains why some are now totally into the AKAI S-612 sampler…?
Sure, it was way simpler than this groundbreaking tech. Still, it had (has) no menus, serious limitations, knobs for instant capture and overdub sampling, simple envelope and ditto filter, and two sliders for sample start-stop-reverse. And mono Input level, how could I forget…
There. That’s a pretty complete manual for the 612 - and endless creative fun in late 1985. Come the S-900, and we had to start working seriously again…😅
I love the 612 - mine is kitted out with gotek, midi control and filter defeat, sounds so good
Ahead of its time?
I would almost consider it an musical “oopart” 😅
I was (positively) baffled by this unique device, impressive.
Thanks to both of you for showing it to us!
Fascinating. Now, how about we add all these features to Fluss, ah well can only wish. Thanks for the video.
Amazing.
thats incredible. I wonder if anyone was using it in this way back in the day?
😂Sheeeeeesh. So dope 7:10-7:38🤯
That’s so cool. I wish I had one!
Oh you and me both
@@Hainbach that effects machine, is like the alpha and the omega. It’s truly amazing. Especially for film scores! Too, it’s fifty years old, wow!
"digital glitch campfire" would be a perfect band or album name!
Too Cool!
Isnt this eerily similar to Chase Bliss Mood pedal? The microlooper and its main clock specially? Insane, everything repeats, and repeats and repeats
Wundervoll!
0:10 - what is that amazing green keyboard with many orange knobs?!?
An Avant-Garde Synthesizer From 1960s East Germany
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My Infernal Machine says hi 👋
I love this so much! The first thing I thought was "is there any software emulation?" and as it turns out I've known about PitchLoop89 for some time but I've been too busy to play with it. Gotta revisit it now :D. I can totally see how using an analog oscillator as part of the control loop for this thing would be interesting!
ALSO: Some early digital delays had this sample feature too, albeit in a very primitive form. Check out Boss DE-200 for example. You can sample the delay buffer and then trigger it via CV. Dunno if you can control pitch via CV too, though - that would be killer!
PUBLISON... Who remember this French synthesizer now ? They had another one called "The Infernal Machine 90", IIRC
tres cool !
Merci!
Magic
I never knew there were samplers before the Fairlight (or Emulator? I forget which came first.) But I suppose once semiconductor RAM became cheap enough, it was sampler-building time and people would come up with them independently. Still, I’m impressed at the level of granular control in this. Was this before Curtis Rhodes wrote about Microsound?
Curtis Roads starting publishing on Granular at about the same time
So it's like a hardware version of Serum? Cool! 😎🤘
Treating the Publison as a simple effect or as a mono sampler really misunderstands the device. Seeing this as a competitor for an Emulator does as well. It is a shame it was ahead of its time for the designers, but this tends to be the fate of any product that breaks new ground in any field. It is usually not the first of a kind that catches a wave. Successors, at some point, benefit from the efforts put into the original. Innovators need to persist and not to cling to the first iteration to benefit financially from their work, but in most cases, it is someone else who cashes the check written by the inventor.
As far as I know they did pretty well on this at first, selling the unit to many studios and developing a follow up, the Infernale Machine, in 1984. But they could not compete in the late 90s anymore.
thumbnail worked 100%…. vintage granular??? hello???
Ooooowkay!....make a plugin of this dude!!!!!
Does anyone know how many notes can be played at once with the keyboard?
Was it perhaps Publison, or a cheaper device, that was used in the Giddy-Up-Go-Go song by Ad Visser (Netherlands), and covered in their Affair-A-Go-Go song by The Cruisin' Gang (Italy), to produce the looping, and bending vocal part in the middle?
Hainbach has all the best toys … ☺️ Was that the AMS-3 alone that you were using for ‘drums’/percussion up until 0:32, and then again from 9:42 … ?
That was the Eko Computerhythm too