The Digitakt looks like a pocket calculator next to the Matriarch.

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

It really does!

@matrix_zero2121

4 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking but it does almost all the work? or I'm wrong

@bobafat1830

3 жыл бұрын

@@matrix_zero2121 it does sequencing and drums here

I think I found new Charlie May and Sasha 😊 Man! your music anD sounds amazing ❤

Awesome stuff, this one was really cerebral but also kind of hypnotic. Like it was the soundtrack to your dialogue rather than the other way around. They're an oddity your videos, a new way for me to enjoy music in a different way, and for me personally a deeper way. I would absolutely listen to this if it were released on spotify but it would feel like something is missing, not inherently in the piece but maybe just my own association. I suppose because you yourself are on a journey when creating these compositions, that the words you're writing on screen are not merely a description of what is happening, but actual milestones along the journey that you took while creating the music. So the words themselves are as much an element of the music as the drums or the machines on your desk. There's some bigger implication here that escapes me but thank you for this. An excellent piece of music

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate you writing this, and honestly capturing something I've been struggling to put into words myself.

@MikkelGrumBovin

4 жыл бұрын

That was eloquent put - i have very much the same experience, the words elevates the listening experience to a deeper journey, trough the emotions this beautiful music ewokes,- really awsome , and unique music,-

@5amJones69

2 жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to put this into words so thank you! Glad to see Jay has read this also and agrees.

mid-section breakdown = sweet

this is so dope. saving up for this exact combo. thanks for the inspiration!

Awesome work as usual, sir!

Beautiful

that was sooooo beautiful

Magical tune.

Really nice!

Always a pleasure :) 🙏🏽

Woe you are always spot on

Man I just stumbled upon your channel from this video and subscribed so fast. Can't wait to check out more of your stuff, keep it up!

Very nice, these two do indeed go together beautifully

incredible

Amazing music❤

Man this so badass

Crazy poly rhythm! Love hearing this! Whooo!!!!

So many things happening in there... I specially noticed some brilliant transitions

Magical!!

thank you very much for this music. I didn't want it to end. very interesting to me to know what thoughts are in your head when you play it, even when you conceived it.

This is just beautiful bro 👏🏼👏🏼

It's so hard to get work done with these videos because i have to keep coming back to check what you have written :) Love your work!

Honestly, Jay, you never miss.

Epic, as always! I actually saw this go up on Patreon before KZread! Thanks for the files!! Added to the Hosking playlist.

Amazing

absolutely amazing , just picked up my matriarch, waiting on my digitakt to come in :D

Killer track! Upload this to bandcamp ASAP!

your videos are so god damned pleasant. the best.

Oh so want a Matriarch and one day! Great sounds and seeing the Digitakt doing the work is really interesting. Great groove.

Inspiring

Oh my god the random opening of the matriarch is GORGEOUS!! Proper sinnngss man.

The Professors at it again - Jay dropped a new tune - today is a good day.... 🤗🌹

Heavenly.

Awesome :).

dope

I’m speechless. 🤌💯💞

I hope you can show us more Digitakt videos !

Man I would LOVE to see a video of the individual parts and how you created them. Hard to tell what’s electron and what’s moog aside from drums, but very well done this is a jam for sure!

That filter randomly opening here and there is really welcomed. Really love the sound of that synth. Beautiful stuff here, man

Really nice video format (+music!) I especially like how you notate the things of particular interest throughout, showing nice features of the equipment, and techniques. Would you recommend DIGITAKT as first or only piece of ELEKTRON gear? Of recent things that I have checked out of late, the Digitakt, Syntakt, and the Matriarch were the ones that caught my attention and fancy the most. Matriarch seems really nice!

Badass!

another beast

love how you structured this video! looks like you've got 4 midi channels triggering the matriarch? are the chords coming from the moog or the digitakt? this is my current setup and i'm trying to learn everything i can about how to use it. enjoying the unique abilities as well as the limitations

nice lo-fi 👌

I ordered a Digitakt because of this

Oh man this is wonderful 🔥🔥 I'd love to learn how to sequence the four voices of the matriarch with the digitakt, I have the same gear but I'm really not near what you have done here !

❤

Wow. Just awesome. Would love to know how you worked the MIDI sequencing to get the four oscillators running different notes. Really smart pairing of these two great instruments. 👏🙏

i have the digitakt and big sky and i fell inlove with moog products, thinking of getting the matriarch or the semi-modular Bdl (mother-32, dfam, subharmonicon)

Tell me... which do you reckon is the biggest competition for the Digitakt now?

Beautiful music and thanks for your comments! Greetings from Russia.

Jay, not helping the Matriarch GAS! Absolutely love the sounds! Sequential still holding my wallet hostage tho!

@MikkelGrumBovin

4 жыл бұрын

I got the GrandMa´and lusted after the Hydra - BUT....after i saw Belladonna do her magic with both the Granny AND the Matriarch, i decided on the Matriarch , im still wobbely tho - it´ll be one of the two - i got the Deepmind 12 - so its not really the voices i need - but the SOUND - Those two MOOG´s simply sounds outstanding PhanTastick ! the gas....the gas :-O

@makes_synth_to_me9025

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like the Seq release isnt happening anytime soon. To celebrate theres an incoming Digi and Matriarch!

I comment again, after a long break from my synth (I've got a grandmother) I'm back at it and I thought to myself who was that guy that I listened to a while back that on youtube and I forgot your name. You popped up on my alerts today and maaan, am I thankful that I subscribed to you. Your sounds come from a plane of genius. Keep on making them man, I wonder what dimension you're really from?

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

Canada

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

If you’re finding that your AR and OT make the Digitakt superfluous, you may consider trading it for a Digitone. You could do wonders with that FM synth engine.

Now that I've listened to a lot more of you videos, I'm wondering how much time you spend tuning all these lovely pieces of hardware? Tuning by ear? Find one pitch you like then tune the other synths respectively?

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

I almost never tune them. The Abyss needs a auto-retuning every so often, but most are very stable. The only exception is if I manually play the tuning, which is fun to do on the Matriarch.

cheap sounds with expensive gear is also fun;-)

Your videos and tracks are great my friend! Out of curiosity if you had to pick one synth today what would it be?

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

Synth would be the Matriarch. Machine would probably be the Octatrack.

so epic! It sounds like the bass patch from the matriarch is a totally different sound than some of the lead MIDI you're triggering. Am I understanding that correctly? How do you get the Matriarch to sound so different over 4 simultaneous midi tracks?

Love it Jay! How are you sending midi out from the digitakt to each oscillator? I only seem able to send out on channel 1 but it controls all 4, even in paraphony.

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

I’m just sending out to the same MIDI channel across the four tracks. I’m away from the Matriarch at the moment, but I believe there are multiple switches on the far right that need to be set so only a single oscillator is triggered at a time. Best of luck, and thanks.

Really cool! Are you gravitating to the digitakt or the rytm more these days? Considering trying to find a rytm now, loving my digitakt and I will probably keep it

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

I definitely prefer having the analogue voices on board with the Rytm, and the macros make it great for performance. Only drawbacks are not having the control-all function, and the pads being terrible in terms of playability and quality (they often trig each other, and they feel awful). Digitakt's a nice size, too. But for sound, I'd say Rytm for sure.

@jessejarrar

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking yeah, for whatever reason, the pads seems like the biggest downside to me. I want to midi sequence with the elektron sequencer, but seems like the digitone is the only option with 8 voices of polyphony. Always struggled trying to source samples that I don't feel are cheesy and I feel like an analog drum machine would remedy that. Mostly just to accompany guitar practice / sketching songs anyways

Hey jay! What audio interface/compressors, etc. are you using for your recordings?

Really enjoying your songs and videos. What do you use for EQ, Compression and Limiting? Do you always use the same gear to do that for your different synths? I have a x8p and want to do streaming live performances. I'd prefer to have a piece of hardware to adjust than a plug-in. Been looking at the SSL Six and just recently the Overstayer Modular Channel. Well done!

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

I do my mastering in the box, mainly using Waves plug-ins that I’ve been using for years. But I have use the Allen & Heath Qu-16 and love it, and it has a great comp and eq section. I’m just too cowardly to master live. Maybe in the future though! If they make an SSL bigger than the Six, I’ll be super interested in it.

@blindianajones

4 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking After talking to a few folks, I probably need a much bigger mixer (24 to 32 channels). You like the mic pres on the Allen and Heath? They have a 24 channel mixer that looks nice.

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

The pres are pretty transparent, which is mostly a pro for me, as I do a lot of tone colouring through the effects pedals or tape recorder. I really dig the unit. Best of luck!

after 3:40 - like

pretty amazing stuff! I assume you use 4 midi tracks from DT to control each OSC of Matriarch? Also, which one would you buy, grandmother or matriarch?

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, four MIDI tracks. And I'd go with Matriarch, though if you're looking for mono, the Grandmother will give you a lot too.

@davidavanesian1070

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking I have little phatty, so I really dont need mono. I understand that grandmother is very different and has that amazing reverb, but little phatty is very impressive synth. Would you say Matriarch is just a unique synth, not mono or poly, but just its own thing and worth getting?

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

I think the Matriarch sounds just beautiful. I’ve got a Subsequent 37, but the Matriarch’s sound is more 70s, classic, and leads to really interesting places thanks to its semi-modular nature.

Very tasty jam. Loving the versatility of the matriarch. Do you think the Analog Rytm is worth almost double the price of the digitakt?

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

I do, but "worth" is a really tough one. I think the analog engine can add a lot of great and unique sound, that it's awesome to be able to double the samples and analog voices on one pad, that the performance macros are really cool, and that it has dedicated outs if you need it. And thanks!

This is so good, keep coming back to listen lol! I got the Digitakt to go with grandmother, how do you have it connected?

@JayHosking

2 жыл бұрын

Just via a MIDI cable (out of the Digitakt, into the Matriarch). And thanks!

@Indianabones007

2 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking Thanks mate!

@Indianabones007

Жыл бұрын

I sold GM and now got Matriarch 😊🤟

I've had the same reserve about getting a digi, got the a4 and ar(and super happy with them), what changed your mine? What do you like about it comparatively ?

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

a) There was one local for a very good price, and b) a friend of mine (who's a great musician) had one offered to him but couldn't figure out what a live workflow would look like. So I thought I'd pick it up, give it a spin, and then resell it for the same price if it was redundant. I really like the Digitakt's control-all (possible on AR but a little more setup) and fast revert-pattern, and also the Digitakt's size. Also nice to have the sequencer in a pinch. But ultimately, with AR, you're not missing much from the Digitakt.

@Johnnyhaag79

4 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking Cool, thanks for your response, I love the AR, wish it had one more lfo though. Just made 2 full albums with the AR only, it's so much more than a drum machine! Keep up the great videos!

Epic stuff. How do you find the digitakt for sequencing synths?

@JayHosking

2 жыл бұрын

It's good! Fast to set up, easy enough to work with.

So the DT controls the matriarch via midi? How do you pick the notes/arpeggios?

Haven’t seen you using the Launchpad Pro MK3 in a while. Did you keep it? Would love to see more jams including it.

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

Kept it. Love it. More coming soon. Going to put the Keystep Pro through its paces first and see if it’s a keeper. And thanks!

@DanielHatadi

4 жыл бұрын

Jay Hosking I was close to choosing the Keystep Pro as well, but it takes up a lot more space and the Launchpad has polyphonic after touch which works great with the Peak, I have a feeling that both products will mature with firmware updates. Hard to know what will work better in the long run. Looking forward to more vid!

Please tell me that you bought the Empress Reverb JUST for the pun and I will be SO impressed. :-)

@logimite7174

3 жыл бұрын

which pun

Like Aphex Twin

This is fantastic! I have both a Digitakt & Matriarch. Can you please tell me how to output the bpm to the Matriarch? I want to make sure I am doing it correctly without screwing everything up. Thank you!

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

I simply sent 5-pin MIDI out of the Digitakt to the Matriarch and used the Digitakt for all sequencing. Best of luck!

@keepitreal811

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking Thank you very much for your response! Cheers to you!

I've been looking at getting some Elektron device to pair with my matriarch. Are you still using it (Digitakt) in your workflow? I want to be able to sequence, and potentially do multi-track stuff on it. I just feel like if I got one, I might as well sell my TR-6S, and I like it a lot. Could I have your thoughts on this?

@JayHosking

Жыл бұрын

If you like the TR-6S, don't sell it until it's redundant or you're sure you have something that does exactly the same job as well or better. I'm not using the Digitakt these days, but only because I'm using the Octatrack in the same way (plus its other functions). The Digitakt, Syntakt, or Octatrack would be a great complement to the Matriarch for sequencing and extra sounds; just depends on what sounds you want. Best of luck!

@Tyler-Nagle-Productions

Жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking OK, great to know. This helps! Thank you for your response, I appreciate it!

I heard there were midi issues of some kind with the matriarch. Have you had any problems?

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

None.

The text commentaries in the video are little bit too fast to disappear in quite a few cases.

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

Really good to know for future videos. Thanks!

Would really love to know how you have this routed? I noticed you do not have the sequencer on for the Moog , is all the sounds coming from the digi and your processing it all through the Moog ?

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

Digitakt is sending MIDI information to the Matriarch. Matriarch audio goes to the pedal, and then out to the mixer. Digitakt audio goes out separately.

@ivictortorres1388

4 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking that's really awesome ! Is the digitakt connected into the matriachs instrument in?

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

@@ivictortorres1388 No, they're each running into the mixer separately.

@ivictortorres1388

4 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking I have matriarch and the digi running into separate inputs on a uad arrow . Do you think that's good enough? Sorry for all the questions 🙌🏼

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

@@ivictortorres1388 Yeah, that's basically all I'm doing! And no worries.

Jay, you have to keep one, sell one, Matriarch/SS37?

@JayHosking

3 жыл бұрын

Keep Matriarch, sell SS37. Unless in this scenario, I'm suddenly going on tour or playing in a loud band, and then it would be the opposite.

@makes_synth_to_me9025

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayHosking thats what I'm thinking. Now to find a Matriarch!

How do you like that Digitakt, btw?

@JayHosking

4 жыл бұрын

I think there’s a little too much overlap with the Rytm to easily justify having both, and I’m often missing some of the features of the Octatrack, but the control-all and quick revert-pattern make it fun and fast. Not an essential addition if you have Rytm or Octatrack, but would be a great first performance sampler.

@LukezyM

4 жыл бұрын

I would just keep the Digitakt and the Octatrack, sell the Rytm, buy the Digitone.. and still have some money left.

What does p-locked mean?

@JayHosking

2 жыл бұрын

Parameter locking. A particular step can have its parameters locked to certain values, while going back to the default values otherwise. It's part of the Elektron workflow, but also shows up on other devices.