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I feel like this should be an additional track for Animal Crossing when you’re just hanging out on someone’s island. Love this so much!

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah it has those vibes a bit. Nintendo, you know where yo find me!

@C2daF

Жыл бұрын

Made late on this but I couldn’t agree more. That last jam out section and it totally had Nintendo vibes! 👏🏽

amazing how simple some people can make this look, that is some groovy tunes my man

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah itll take several years of practice to be able to do this fast. But that said, the isle I get the faster the years go by so if you manage to just play a little every day, you'll all of a sudden be a pro :-)

so great to hear this product being used to demo a genre other than EDM or trap, i love the sound of your musical style!

@sanmarinojr

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

This is the reason I’m buying this little piece of work! Sure I had a few hip hop ideas but now after watching this I actually can make the jazzy/groovy music I loved making during high school!

This is by far the best demo vid I’ve seen. Good stuff man!!!

Thanks man. I just got mine today. It’s my birthday. It was a present. I just started producing music and this be my first midi.

Really enjoyed your explenations and the whole song. Real groovy little song! :) Thank you!

This video absolutely sold me on this midi controller! It reminds me a lot of one of my favorite bands and I’m so excited to start using this

What a beautiful tune man! Congrats! I'm waiting for my Launchkey to arrive. This is the first song I'm gonna play on that thing! ✌🏻

Thank you for being so honest. Appreciate it a lot ! Greetings from Germany

Omg, yeeeesss, this is exactly what i want to hear, and i never expected to hear such a thing, i love this

As always, very inspiring, thank you!

😲 I always wanted to play that groove! thanks for the "hidden" tip!!!!

Great song, loved the sounds 👍

Wow! This is impressive! Also looking at the other comments and your reply’s makes you the first KZreadr I’ve seen that actually speaks to their audience in a genuine way! You have my subscription!

@TheQuestforGroove

2 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks! If you ever have questions about finger drumming and groove, know that you can also ask on the messageboards on my website. I'm also trying to answer every question there and hopefully grow a little community over time. Have a great end of 2021! questforgroove.discourse.group

@gamingwithjeeves4804

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove Thanks from one 'Music Maker' to another! And have a great new year!

Very happy I’ve discovered your channel! Subscribed with a smile.

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Welcome aboard!

I do love the (for me) new setting in this vid. Nice character wall instead of the white door and wallpaper what I saw in the first three vids as a new subscriber

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

I moved to a new place, so I have this awesome brick wall now. Very happy with that. Oh and a new camera with a better lens and nicer colors. That also matters a lot :-)

i was NOT expecting that funk. great!

brilliant review, i think this is exactly what I am looking for !

That was great man. Thanks for the video

as a guitar player myself, I relate heaavily to that trick of yours! instant sub !

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha, sneaky guitar players :-)

Great Thing, super Melody and Drums

That was amazing. Looking forward to working with this midi controller!

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Feel free to share when you made some music with it.

incredible job!

this is great man!

Tbh you set this video up like a boss🔥 im subbing for sure💯

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Welcome aboard!!

'love the groove! excellent!

Sounds great Brother👍

That was great! I loved the way that lovely piano sound and the bass blended with the Porcaro shuffle. Very groovy!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I really like these challenges, trying to use "new" gear and new software instruments I dont know. It feels more like a game, which makes me create a song faster and just put it out there. You seem to have found a similar thing with your channel. Just challenge yourself and share. A great way to grow!

@TheJoyofFingerDrumming

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove Yes man, I love challenges, too, they are great for growing skills and creativity, like you said. Funny trivia: last night I was recording video for my next challenge and didn't finish it, but then saw you uploaded a video and watched it. Guess what? The Porcaro shuffle was one of the grooves in my next challenge LOL what were the odds. By the way, you play it really nicely with your technique. Nice chatting with you as always.

@Kaenishk

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheJoyofFingerDrumming Hey people, I need a little help here. Just saw you guys talking a bunch of technical things here, thought you might be the right ones to ask. I have a bunch of doubts. Firstly, I think that the Launchkey mk2 had problems with Logic and i'm going to be using this with Logic if I buy it. Will it have complete functionality and seamless integration as novation says it has "scripts" for logic? And if not, should i be going for the Minilab mk2 or the Akai mpk mini mk2? I'm really confused, I need great pads and good keys, I heard the ones on the akai mpk mini break really easily. I'll go for the Novation launchkey mini mk3 if it works well with logic, else should i be going for the arturia mini lab mk2?

@TheJoyofFingerDrumming

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kaenishk Unfortunately I don't own any of the controllers you mention, maybe Rob knows anything about them.

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

I also cannot speak from experience. I gave away my launchkey mini to a patron and I also do not use logic. It seems to.me that the device should work if novation claims it does. It's not much more than a midi controller so how hard can it be :-). But yeah... not sure! Sometimes asking on reddit will help as well. Theres probably a reddit novation threat with lots of launchkey users!

such a great song!

Bro that song is so good!!!!

Amazing video! :) Thank you!

That was a nice happy song I'm not a keyboard guy nor do I play any instruments...I'm a choir guy... But I have a feeling I can work out something fun by trial and error. Thank you for the insperation ☺️

Bro, I think I was just your 10 thousandth sub. Dope video, I just bought this midi controller and hopefully I'll be able to get started on learning some more about finger drumming through your videos in a few days. Thanks for this vid!

@JESchomb

4 жыл бұрын

Would be sick to see another video from you using this!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Welcome aboard and I indeed believe you are my 10.000th subscriber! Wow! That's a nice Christmas present actually :-) I will make more song making videos for sure, but I gave this device away actually, so my guess is it will be with other (new) gear.

That's a great technique with bass/chords & for the mini it's in a good place to make that easy to do. I have the Novation Impulse, but the pads are on the right, so to do the same thing, I'd have to turn the Impulse 90 degrees perhaps...? Nah!!! I need to get a smaller Midi controller like the Launchkey.

damn u actually made a banger song. i was vibing

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That means a lot.

Awesome! Love it!

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

That was cool. I gotta get one of those !!!

Great stuff! :)

Turning the keyboard a different way to play a groove. Brilliant. Wouldn't have ever thought of that. The little ditty made me laugh, in a good way. Love the transition to Dm in the bridge.

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

thanks man! One of the nice things about this youtube channel for me is that it gives me a 'purpose' for quickly making short pieces of music with a deadline. It's a nice little creativity pusher / perfectionism crusher :-)

@free2muse

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove I love that description. "creativity pusher/perfectionism crusher." Yeah it's a perfect platform for that. Your vids definitely inspire me both for finger drumming as well as to think outside of the box on how to achieve musical ideas with various gear. I'm enjoying what you've put out already and looking forward to future vids.

Beautiful man

Excellent work it bro!

your trick is a GREAT advice :)

I'm actually starting on your finger drumming courses with this controller, I use it as a standard 4x4 layout but split in half, so when it's flipped like you used it on the video its a pretty similar experience just one hand in the top 4x2 and the other one in the bottom

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Oh hey... that's actually a clever idea! Thanks for the tip, I'll pin this comment so everyone can read it.

@Kaenishk

4 жыл бұрын

Can you shed a little more light in pad and key quality of the mk3? Like the velocity sensitivity and ease, feel and all that?

@AlejandroCaicedoPUJ

4 жыл бұрын

Well man it's really my first midi controller but I can just say good things about it and I have really no complaint about it, but I have not much to compare it

@Kaenishk

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlejandroCaicedoPUJ How do the keys feel?

@Kaenishk

4 жыл бұрын

@@AlejandroCaicedoPUJ Like quality wise, how does the keyboard feel? And specifically the keys?

Awesome!

thanks for this amazing video , love from India

So nice ❤️

finger drum groove - immediate subscribed! ; )

Awesome :D

This is great.. this means this device is not only for electronic music!

Final product is SO CATCHY.

Man I'm so glad you admitted to doing that trick on keys I thought I was the only one and felt awful about it 😂

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

haha, trust me the most awful tricks are used by professionals all day. It wasn't until I actually spent some time in pro recording studios when I realised everybody's winging it :-) So don't feel guilty and just focus on making sure something cool comes out of the speakers, no matter what tricks you have to use!

Just too good

good stuff!

Dope 👊🔥!!!

You sound simple and professional

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I try and keep the videos as short as possible and cut out the unnecessary stuff. :-)

Always a super quality on your videos, thanks for all the effort.

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, I really like thos new camera I got. Nice talking shot :-) lots more to come!

Bravo bro!

I love it

What a groove, absolutely love the track. Is it possible for you make a detailed beginner tutorial on the Launchkey? That would be amazing.

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Hey my expertise is actually just finger drumming. I'm not the best person to make a tutorial on the launchkey specifically. I do have many courses on questforgroove.com about training your hands to play great rhythms on the pads so if you're ever interested in that I got you covered!

You're awesome dude.

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, right back at ya rutgertje!

dude i love you song its so sweet!!!!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

lol first off u cute and secondly I am just soooo happy I found this video. I really wanna get this controller but not because I’m a beatmaker really, but this demo you made is a little bit closer to the kind of music I’m inclined to make (a sort of fusion between pop but also just heavily influenced by jazz) so thanks for showing me this possibility! Stay awesome!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Darlene, First of all, a long time ago I got into music initially to try and impress girls :-) Even though my motivations have evolved into more noble and artistic ones, I must say that the fact that this channel has been attracting a 99,9% male audience over the past year, bummed me out a little bit haha. So thanks for that remark, made my day! My 15 year old me would high five me right now (well done bro) :-) with that said, I'm also very pleased to read that the content on this channel is in line with your musical plans and I want to welcome you aboard and let you know that theres a lot more over on questforgroove.com in case you're interested in courses and stuff. Cheers!

I know im insanely late but that was fuckin amazing. Man ive played with allot of these toys with fruity loops n have the hardest time composing a beat. It blows my mind how you just do it.

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. It takes some years of consistent practice but it's worth the effort!

youre a really good songwriter!! keep it up!!!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Bought one. The pads are pretty amazing for $110. My only complaints so far are that I have to quit Live to load a new map because the Components editor and Live can't seem to share the connection. This may be a setting. Also, the record button will only invoke Session clip record, not arrangement record. Edit: It's not a setting, the USB seems incapable of multiple instances. Windows 10. Haven't tried it on a Mac yet. Still love it.

@Balthazar2242

4 жыл бұрын

Could you do Shift-Record and have it do arrangement record? Just an idea. 🤔

@AlejandroCaicedoPUJ

4 жыл бұрын

Shift record moves the cursor to the side

nice dude

your fingerdrumming skills are sick O.O

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I teach my method on questforgroove.com with all the beginner stuff for free in case you're interested!

GRACIAS ⚔️🖤🔥

sooooo epiccccc.

super vidéo jvous kif !

Nice work! Subbed!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I will do my best to make this the best sub you ever subbed!

Amazing work... Hope that mk3 officially available in indonesia soon

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

I hope so too! If they released the mk2 there the mk3 will come as well!

Best video

bro, the music is nice! damn

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm planning on doing more videos like this one in the future. It was a lot of fun to make.

@JutassicPark

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove im personally using ableton for everything. And midi integration for me is so important, so i can make music without touching the computer. Im still looking for good midi debate about it. Though ableton push is the best for me now

thank you soo much

Great song. I don‘t know why but i had Mannfred Mann in my mind, when I heard it.

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! I wo ui ldnt be surprised if that's something I heard once and now it comes out :-)

Sad it's already sold out, I hope its will be available soon ! Great video !

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

It will be for sure!

@AlejandroCaicedoPUJ

4 жыл бұрын

It is now

I've been using it in logic. I've been wanting to get one for a while. I recently bought Logic Pro and am really getting into it. This is going to take me a while! I have no experience with midi controllers!

god this is a banger

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

haha, thank you :-)

sorry this is off topic and may come off as rude but i certainly mean no spite, but its amazing how you look both young and old at the same time

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, you're not the first person who says that actually... I'm a weird hybrid :-)

Really good videos! Keep up the good work! Also really liked your drum comparison, glad to own a NI Mikro MK3 👍🏻 I as looking for a mini midi keyboard, so of course I am interested in the Launchkey MK3. But looking and hearing your great groove, I wondered:’ how do you record your music’. In which DAW? I tried looking at your internet, but could not find it, but perhaps I overlooked it. Again, looking forward to more content!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah its just Cubase as my DAW and then use Addicitve Drums controlled by a midi pad controller! The secret to the groove is first and foremost a lot of practice but I do try to 'unravel' every part of practicing and improving it. For example in my new funk course on questforgroove.com I analyse the midi notes and timing of my performances on screen just to see what is going on an teach other people what they should be hearing and seeing :-)

You’re like Bo Beats... with talent!

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

I recently had a fun conversation with Bo beats on twitter, where we made a plan to upload a video to eachothers channels and see if anybody would notice since we're lookalikes with more or less the same accent :-)

There is a driver, it just wasn't readily apparent. Works fine now.

The drums sounds like Toto's Rosanna🥁 Great video. 😊

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Haha yes that's exactly it! Jeff Porcaro is the name of the drummer. Great guy.

@jasonraplangrynjah

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove fav groove drummer for me too...🥁😁 cheers bro

@ZonaGreenTea

4 жыл бұрын

wait. Toto made other songs other than Africa?

you should finish this track! its awesome

@TheQuestforGroove

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! In the future I'll try and finish every song I make.

Shit!!! Your Rosanna shuffle was amazing.

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I worked hard on that one (not when recording the video but a year prior to that :-)

@gfm1496

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, let’s give credit where it’s due - Bernard Purdie!

Fruity loops got me crazy with how resource hungry it is.

ah! you can extend only 25 keys to pads. That's great realization and spot on advice to ones of us who only now chords! Beautiful uplifting song :) if i get the thing it will be The Quest for Groove credit, Novation!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

The only thing I did not like about the pad notes was that they were set up a bit weird. I was hoping left to right but they do 4 semitones left to right, then the row above 4 semitones and then the next cluster of 4×2 repeats that setup. So around the middle it gets confusing.

@samprock

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove That's good to know, thanks! but do the allow to reassgn to a different layout? i am missing on MiniLab those neat transport buttons. The way i work around is to assign transport and undo action to pads (so get very comfy environment when use difectly on iPad with Korg Gadget for ex). Would love to use MK3 with Arturia AnalogLab on mac/pc (is it possible, meaning assign push-know action to something to select patches)? But still most use for it would mobile. In particular I don;t see free button to assign Undo action to. Can for example Arp be reassigned or can i use pads for note and have 1 or two pads assigned to what i want (without Shift)?

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

@@samprock I actually got the device without the latest version of the firmware. What I know is that it's made for ableton and in ableton you can usually drag samples into a drum rack and therefore assign any sound to any pad. These types of things are always a little tricky because manufacturers will always tell you what their product can do and never in any way say what it cannot do. I always end up bij buying some device thinking it's perfect and then it isn't because it lacks some stupid simple functionality :-) I could not find the exact functionality you were looking for but that might be because I dont have ableton and in ableton you can reassign everything. I do think that the technical support of novation will know though. If you live in eu or us and there are some good return policies in place, you can also just take the leap, get the thing, and then return if it disappoints. That's usually my strategy.

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

@@samprock I actually got the device without the latest version of the firmware. What I know is that it's made for ableton and in ableton you can usually drag samples into a drum rack and therefore assign any sound to any pad. These types of things are always a little tricky because manufacturers will always tell you what their product can do and never in any way say what it cannot do. I always end up bij buying some device thinking it's perfect and then it isn't because it lacks some stupid simple functionality :-) I could not find the exact functionality you were looking for but that might be because I dont have ableton and in ableton you can reassign everything. I do think that the technical support of novation will know though. If you live in eu or us and there are some good return policies in place, you can also just take the leap, get the thing, and then return if it disappoints. That's usually my strategy.

@samprock

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove I would not change Ableton drums kits to match controller and especially mobile apps that can't do that, if any controller is not like everywhere :) I feel you vary much with trying/returning to lend to something that matches your personality. It is fun to some point, we all love that, but indeed too many underdesigned or strangely lacking of obvious devices do not work to many. And truth many musicians, focusing on music aspect and not able to return on time, so we all have plenty toys turning dust collectors on shelves :) I just returned Akai Force, well $1.5K is too much for a toy, and you would think for that money you get ultimate?!?! Not even close. Besides bugs and undelivered promises only later you understand deeper issues and the design shortcomings. So on this nice thing, which is also smaller, it would be great to have Atrturia MiniLab customization. But devil in details, only when you start using/digging you find more fun and frustrations 4 sure :) Thanks Rob for bringing some light to the thing and overall inspiration, fun and passion share!

Very nice and instructive video! Also, nice groove! What are the chords for the solo section?

@TheQuestforGroove

3 жыл бұрын

So the main part is just Cmaj7 and Fmaj7 and then its Dm7 for a long time, G7, Cmaj7 A7 and then Dm7 G7 back to Cmaj7.

Dude you need to do NIN - Only finger drumming tutorial! Thats such a cool disco style riff and it has those little cool fills there too and a hi hat open close dynamic thing.

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Ok I'll write it down!

@mihkeljurima1007

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove Hey thanks!

Looking into buying for my son he's 11 but techy what else will I need to go with it to set him up pleasen

you should post this on apple music of a longer length on youtube

the chord change is a BRILLIANT cheat omg this is a game changer.

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, welcome to the world of midi cheat piano!

So I got the thing and I can turn it one but I can not hear it? So can you hel me out?

Nice tune, a bit Yacht Rock? I'm interested in one of this but have to try pitch and mod in person, seems well speced out though! thanks for review!

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

Yacht Rock... that's new to me! It does seem fitting :-)

@davetbassbos

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheQuestforGroove Oh man, be prepared to go down an endless rabbit hole!. Yacht Rock is a relatively new term for 70's soft rock, all those albums with a sunset, yacht and martini on the cover? Porcaro shuffle and Rhodes with a phase shifter are key elements! There is a Yacht Rock(where the name comes from) mocumentary on KZread that's full of all sorts of music nerd trivia

@TheQuestforGroove

4 жыл бұрын

@@davetbassbos hahaha, I'm gonna go check that out!

How would you loop each section to then add additional sections on top playing together allowing you to improvise live along with it. Does this keyboard allow that or what do you recommend to loop the sounds from this keyboard.

@TheQuestforGroove

Жыл бұрын

I record everything in my DAW (Reaper). That way you have unlimited lanes to play over each other. The keyboard cannot loop things for as far as I know, it's just a controller, like a midi keyboard.

@cloudfall2157

Жыл бұрын

Bro thanks! 😀

I have the 61 keys version, but I still can't make the additional software (addictive keys) work with my windows laptop. Seems like only MacBook users get to enjoy it. Great video, loved to see how much you can accomplish with this device.

@TheQuestforGroove

2 жыл бұрын

That's odd, I made everything you see and hear in this video on a windows laptop. The problem with windows ofcourse is that there are many different configurations and sometimes you'll end up with compatibility issues. The software does work on windows though.

Nice shirt, bro.