I never knew I needed a hairy triangle until now.

@BeardslapRadio

8 жыл бұрын

Hairy triangles are the source of all pleasure.

@RedMeansRecording

8 жыл бұрын

Beardslap Radio ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@alialo9023

8 жыл бұрын

hairy triangles and a big wide knob, they've thought of everything

@WARDISWARD

7 жыл бұрын

Yes ,drink from the hairy cup and become immortal

@thetownwaites118

5 жыл бұрын

It compliments the meaty girth.

Dude that sequence at 16:25 melts my heart.

1:10 you can see the "missing" pink cable on the floor. That is priceless!

@xvoid1045

7 жыл бұрын

wut

@ProjectMoff

7 жыл бұрын

LOOOOL!

@garyabbot4659

6 жыл бұрын

😂

@andykandolf1948

4 жыл бұрын

:D hahaha

That melody/sequnce at 16:25 is one of the most beautiful things ive heard....gave me gooosebumps!!! Would love to hear more of that 🎶

@stephenjames4937

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed, as good as Mr Batt's reviews are, his music is even better. It's a shame there's so little of it on KZread.

@dandykaufman2

6 жыл бұрын

that was great

@thrownstair

5 жыл бұрын

It reminds me very much of the soundtrack of the original Portal.

@valdiskrebs566

5 жыл бұрын

Finally, a nice tone/sequence from the NoCoast... 🙄

@noizekiller

4 жыл бұрын

ae like melo

I appreciate the way in which Mr Batt's reviews are always sensible and informative, so I can see/hear the breadth of what these synths can do. I can then decide if I want to spend my money on them.

Another great review. Nick, you really nail it again and again! Thanks for the scope shots!

What a great review! Hats off. I had the chance to play one of these at the Make Noise table at MoogFest and it's really fun. They packed a lot into a small package. This may do for West Coast what the Mother 32 did for East Coast... Another gateway drug to modular. Really cool little system and this video starts to show how creative you can really get with this. Great value too!

God Nick, you're sequencing is always terrific!

"Just a simple line, this is just unaffected" Absolutely amazing sound. Thank you.

the most complete review of all, brilliant.

Thanks Nick - great overview! When this was releases I was trying to think if it was a bit of DPO, Optimix, Wogglebug etc. trying to get my head around how one would use it. You have eloquently demonstrated it is very much its own synth! Many thanks!

Great review and amazing synth

You Sir, are the master of youtube synthesizing videos! Hats off! 🖖

Been really looking forward to this review. Been looking at the 0-Coast as a gateway to modular maybe.

this review is pure gold from both a comedic and educational pov :'D

That patch at about 16:20 sounds great! Nice review.

What an extraordinary demonstration

Good review Nick. I want one!

great tune Nick!!! i'ld love to listen it in a complete track!

like a west coast Erebus. so many cool desktop semis out right now. top of my list.

The power plug is that the on the left, eg sticking out on the side ? Seems a bit odd placement.. also, it looks a bit protruded from the chassis. Was it wobbly, or was the plug just a bit longer spec, eg you could not insert it all the way in... id hate to see that one getting detached during the heat of the jam moment. Great demo as always, thanks !

Well done nick. I'm assuming this was a challenging demo.

Damn you Nick! You just sold me another piece of hardware which I'm gonna enjoy ;)

stunning sound!

Thank you very much, thats a very helpful review!

I'm actually impressed, quite a nice little thing

Great review man :)

Great review. A really interesting machine, no doubt. Any interest in reviewing the new Audiothingies synthesizer? It has such a good sound, feature list, and price. I'm surprised it isn't more popular as an entry-level synthesier! From what I've heard it blows most of the competition at that price point out of the water as a basic workhorse synth.

Up til 11mins I wasn't sold... but that envelope contour log/exp got me. Damn it. This is a pure pluck machine!

I've been afraid of the west coast style but this, this might be the gateway drug I've been waiting for

Nice overview. In addition to the ADSR another East Coast nod is the fast VCA. The O-Coast does not have a traditional LPG because it doesn't use vactrols, which impart the desirable tone and smooth decay but at the cost of fast response time. Apparently the O-Coast VCA is quite fast, meaning it responds well to fast modulation. I imagine it AMs like a champ. Good point about using it with other gear at the end. Pairing it with a MicroBrute or Mother-32 would be a very powerful and portable combo.

@danselmix

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, it´s fast enough for AM. And According with the manual the design of the Dynamics section "utilizes transistors in a topology that has more in common with East Coast instruments and perhaps even Far East Coast instruments" so maybe the Polivoks´design has some credits there

@Flohr

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Anselmi or Korg or Roland maybe?

@danselmix

8 жыл бұрын

haha ... you're right ... it makes more sense than the Polivoks!

Oh my, that patch is beautiful.

i love that one of the first things you did was find a way to do PWM on it.

Great review as always...thanks for showing the full range of the osc. would have been nice if it had gone up and down more little more...but still as you say it can be reached via ext CV.

That patch halfway through is stunning.

Nice review

great review :)

12:43 = ace

@DivKid

8 жыл бұрын

indeed!

@boonman262

7 жыл бұрын

you're ace! love your videos dude.

Think I'm gonna pick one up.

Nice job!

I think at this point the beatstep pro needs a round of applause for MVP

Hi Nick...Where is your own (private) review of the Modulus 002 ?

How is the build quality? Looks like there is a bit of play on the knobs. I don’t have any experience with these devices so far, but really intrigued by this one

Is there a cv/gate out for the midi input as well? (Could I use this as midi to cv)

I was already sold on picking up a 0-Coast, but now I may need to grab that BeatStep pro...

Hummm... interesting stuff. Thanks for another great review! Is Sonicstate planning to do a review/presentation of the new unnamed Behringer synth? I'm already gagging for it. Cheers

*SOLD*

My next semi-modular to contemplate with my others... This will be great with Ants! and the Microvolt 3900.

Very interesting, its like the inverse version of the Kilpatrick Audio Phenol which has east coast oscillators and filters with west coast envelopes.

@Genshi

8 жыл бұрын

Exactly! (which is why I have both.)

@wolflegjon

8 жыл бұрын

I have a bunch of Make noise modules but this is very tempting for even more portability. Throw an OP-1 in with that and you can cover an amazing amount of ground in just one small bag. Just seen your krell video with the 0-coast which is great!

@Genshi

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate that!

Can this say send a synced lfo out to a CV in parameter on another piece of semi modular gear? And an audio rate lfo at that?

What's the official name of those splitter cables, like the blue one?

knobs are flimsy - will they last long? Are they mounted to front panel or directly to PCB?

I just ordered one 😎

Very good review, and very interesting piece of kit. Generally quite interested in semi-modular stuff, since it doesn't come with the same considerable pricetag on entry, or quite the same pitfalls, as full modular. But in a sense has the same level of expandability. And out of that market segment, this does seem to have the larger scope of possible sounds as a selfcontained unit. Though demanding some time to wrap your head around it, for those not in the know already. Looking at their list of dealers, here's another place where denmark is a 3rd world country, sigh...

To me it's def nicer than the mother 32, unless you really have no way to sequence externally. This with a microbrute will be super handy combo.

Ideally I'd want a full scope look at the waves with the Gate as open as possible. I haven't heard many clear bright sounds out of this machine.

12:01 unpatching like a pro

@andykandolf1948

4 жыл бұрын

hahahaha

How would anyone who's tried this and the dreadbox erebus say they compare to each other? It seems to me that the 0-coast is capable of much more interesting stuff but the I just love the sound of the Erebus (sadly getting both isn't an option at the moment)

Does some know if the 0-coast fits into a euro rack?

Exceptionally nice review of an exceptionally nice synth! 2 dislikes ...whaaat? ;)

Thanks for another very good review. Just a couple things: if your intention was to show the sound of the naked oscillator (with or without the overtone/multiply section) you should have the dynamics section completely open, because being LPG-ish it has a VCA + VCF behavior. So at the half setting you´re damping the high frequency content and got a darker sound. at 11:30 you open it up, raising the volume but also letting the sound pass through the "filter" part of the Dynamics section without affecting it. The other is just a detail: the Contour´s decay goes from linear (full counter-clockwise) to exponential, but can´t be set to a logarithmic response (like the Slope section)

@EdSoloUK

8 жыл бұрын

Surely the halfway point would be linear ?

@danselmix

8 жыл бұрын

according with the manual it goes from linear to exponential, so logarithmic is not included in this section...you have to use the SLOPE one to achieve this behaviour

I've never heard of this east and west coast approaches to synthesis. Well, I never stop learning^^

@BeardslapRadio

8 жыл бұрын

Very basically - East coast = Moog/boring traditionalists, West coast = Buchla/useless hippies.

@Genshi

8 жыл бұрын

Check out the documentary "I Dream of Wires" which explains in depth the hows and whys of the two different coast philosophies.

@K0r0n1s

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info^^

I was told the O-Coast did not interface well with the Beatstep Pro by a salesman. I see that is not true. How are the O-Coast and BPro connected? Are they connected by MIDI and /or CV,s? Sorry for the newbie question, I’m trying to understand and learn. Was the BPro used to create that beautiful melodic sequence? Thanks!

@fantasyproduct1042

3 жыл бұрын

Hi. You can connect with midi or CV

Its a good thing we have the lowpass gate...You don't want that hairy triangle to get to out of control :) :)

very animoog kinda sounds it produces. Like this extremely!!!! +1, Nick !!! (@8:02)

Even for someone that dislikes modular synths like me, this is a lovely machine!

How easy did you find the UI of the device to use? Since it certainly has a certain aesthetic to it :p Sonically its incredibly interesting though.

@sonicstate

8 жыл бұрын

Not really a problem, it was more that the individual sections are unfamiliar and the way they can interact is quite unique for someone more used to East coast

These are hypnotising. You'll patch it up and get lost in a sonic wonderland ... of course I have one.

Wish you would of takin' sometime to go over the "pages" as I've been a bit confused when trying to figure these out. Very similar to the Rene pages.

@sonicstate

8 жыл бұрын

I honestly couldnt get the hand of them, I think that MN are releasing some in depth tuts on how they work soon.

17:26 Lovely patch!

to me it is an impressive synth at a good price, but be sure to make it work and use it for musical purpose like to be able to create controled emotions with it will takes a lot of time, so to thinking about adding lots of modules until you really master this little beast like i´ve saw in comment below, from some very respected people here who think on adding things even before to they puts they hands on it. this unit alone is capable of a lots of creatives things. judging why i see/listen at this excelent demo and other demos from some advanced in synthesis guys that are in you tube IMHO

Wavefolding for all!

Hey Nick.. when do we get the *best* online review on the MatrixBrute ? ;-)

@sonicstate

8 жыл бұрын

When it becomes available, still waiting,

@alialo9023

8 жыл бұрын

Forget the matrix brute, where's the System 55 review?? No excuse there, it's been out ages!!

@ben-rosfeld

8 жыл бұрын

True or screw it and just review the emms

0-Coast can possibly be even more east coast with pwm & saw waveforms, if you have missed them. For pwm: patch square to slope trigger in, adjust width with rise, take pw out from eoc. For sawtooth: more or less the same, only use the regular slope output. In a likely manner you could optionally patch (a square) lfo in there, to get your bonus saw/ramp lfo waves. Pulse width and triangle skew could also be subject to modulation, if you patch into 'time', I expect. Go have a happy time!

@sonicstate

8 жыл бұрын

Hi I thnk I went over that in the EOC output of the Slope section, not so easy to scale the pitch of those waves over more than about an octave I found though

@radiokoala

8 жыл бұрын

Good to know! I didn't think about it. Shall still work for LFO's though.

Can anyone tell me where I can get a VST filter that has that old sound/feel like at 17:21?

Wonderful

Okay, that was a little more useful than watching videos by Buchla representatives describing sliders as brushes and sounds as colors. At least now I have some idea about what "West-Coast" synthesis is about in actual terms that make some sort of sense. But still it seems like a very backwards way of doing things, making things needlessly complex with no really good reason. You could have complex oscillators and real control over the contour and modulation, instead of this cumbersome way of juggling volume and timbre, modulation waveshape and -rate, etc.. I did hear some nice sounds, which I suspect is mostly thanks to the hard work and raw talent of mr. Nick Batt (I'm sure he could make even a Yamaha PSR keyboard sound lovely). But I'd rather have just those complex oscillators as a sort of wavetable generator, and none of the other Buchla weirdness, thank you. I know, it can be done using other modular stuff with this box, but really that would be wasting a lot of money for a lot of useless functionality just to get at that oscillator. I bet there are cheaper ways of achieving the same thing.

Great review as always - but I missed any comments on build quality... Elsewhere ppl are saying this is high, but in this video all the knobs seem to have a lot of 'give' when nick moves them around... any comments from those who own one of these? Thanks

@r3ijmsszf3bsrew7tw7o

6 жыл бұрын

Dan Haglund it's very sturdy

@myblueextremes1526

6 жыл бұрын

Dan Haglund I've had mine a year now and it's rock solid. I don't even think about the build quality. It just works.

What is the 'modular mindset'? Is it having a 5mm knob with a 5 octave range and no numerical output? Feel my knob width?

@ogasi1798

8 жыл бұрын

😂😂👌🏻

@sonicstate

8 жыл бұрын

it means, thinking more about routing and patching rather than the generally fixed architecture of a regular hardware synth which may just have only modulation slots

I feel so lack of knowledge listening to Nick... Great review as usual.

Can you connect it to the Arturia Minilab?

I haven't seen anything indicating if this is mountable. I'm thinking it's not, but why wouldn't it be? The Mother 32 is a desktop synth, but it's also mountable.

@Krung0401

7 жыл бұрын

It's mountable. Take it out of the metal case.

@mysticsailor9

6 жыл бұрын

It can come out of the case for sure.. but its length is not an integer of hp..so sliding nuts are needed

Sounds very nice. I think for about $1500 somebody could have one of these and a couple of Mother 32's and have a modular system that would/could rival many systems costing much more.

@fUP420babe

8 жыл бұрын

add a few mutable intruments crazy things and you would be unstopable!

@ModularLanding

8 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same thing!

@benjarrell1122

8 жыл бұрын

It does sound nice, I just think the font and layout on all of these Make Noise modules are so hideous I don't think I could bring myself to pay money for one.

@chaselearkendall

7 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Isaac Miller that's interesting you guys didn't like the make noise interface style/look at first. Mutable instruments and others are definitely beautiful in their simplicity and minimalist art styles, very attractive. But I always though make noises' style reflected in their name, sound, and artistic layout. Always had a rough mad scientist / angsty teenager look, and sound. And their name compliments the style for the layouts (it's a very "noisy" design, looks super busy), AND their sound! (Always though make noise made some great instruments that were sort of more exciting and noisy :) always thought their look was a nice contrast from the minimalist look. Both are very nice though.

@hallorolf5070

6 жыл бұрын

chaselearkendall We share the same thoughts bro!

Can anyone recommend a software oscilloscope?

@els1f

7 жыл бұрын

The s(M)exoscope is pretty good (and free is a great price point).

Does anyone know where can we find a 3.5mm patch cable with "thru holes" like that blue one used throughout the video? Does it come with 0-coast or can it be bought separately?

@sonicstate

7 жыл бұрын

They are called stackables and most modular dealers should stock them

@artemisshaffer8654

7 жыл бұрын

Rogério Crispim google tiptop audio stackable cable. they have a page of dealers ...

When I first heard of this, I thought it's "0 cost". Too bad it's not that cheap...

Hi Nick, really nice review, this wasn't on my radar before this review but it seems to have some great functionality and unusual waveforms. Just one question: will it speak to an MS-20? Would love to hear how they would work together.

@ogasi1798

8 жыл бұрын

Yes all voltages will be fine, modulation from envelopes and lfo Etc but don't expect the pitch to follow the cv unless you use the ms20 via midi and use the midi in on the 0 coast

No pulse width Nick? ✌️

I LOVE ! 💜

Niceness

I dont know why, but the voice of this guy freaks me out. Its a really nice and smooth voice, but there is something I cant explain. I really like the voice, its so unique. Really nice video btw!

@iNuchalHead

7 жыл бұрын

He's British.

Comes with 6 patch cables actually

Fab review an tutorial!

I see those wobbly knobs! I've loved all the Make Noise stuff I've ever owned, but man those knobs sure are unappealing.

@andyq9669

7 жыл бұрын

my thoughts too. wobbly knobs are scary, you aways feel like your going to snap something off the circuit board

@nandoblondemobydick5438

7 жыл бұрын

yes at this price range, difficult to expect more due the lot of features it has, anyway i own a Phenol which use apparently wobby knobs and the results are pretty solid, the important at end are the pots

7:45 Hairy Triangle???... Said with such innocence :-)

How many of these will it take to make a sound close to an arp 2600?

@fantasyproduct1042

3 жыл бұрын

None

those pot shafts/knobs look a little on the loose side to me from watching this - will their longevity be questionable?

I thought the MIDI dongle follows the Korg standard to work with the SQ-1?

@Genshi

8 жыл бұрын

You can use the SQ-1 with the 0-Coast via CV, no need for MIDI. I've got a few examples of this on my channel...

@radiokoala

8 жыл бұрын

I have this revolutionary idea that with devices like these (which use midi on minijacks) you could connect them straight with 3.5mm stereo cables and forget about adapters. Can be real handy!

@andyq9669

8 жыл бұрын

+radiokoala I was going to ask that question, since Nick said that it's the same connection standard as arturia uses, can't you just use a straight 3.5 mm jack cables without the dongle? Has this been tried with the beatstep?

Nice review but to say it's the only game in town? What about Kilpatrick Phenol that actually is using the banana plugs?

@thisisprisma

8 жыл бұрын

he believes it is a bit more west coast, that's why says so...

@sonicstate

8 жыл бұрын

+Marek M thanks for the heads up, I don't know the Phenol personally.

@churlishbeardo

8 жыл бұрын

Phenol's always struck me as pretty "East Coast," really. To whatever extent those terms hold weight these days.

@tehnik333

8 жыл бұрын

+sonicstate Nick you really should not miss out on Phenol. Like Makenoise also Phenol is made by the people who love synths more then make money. I'm not sure about UK but Scneidersladen in Germany has a new shipment coming in.

Hmm... I can't really see, where much of the east coast resemblance is. Tri / Square osc: typically west coast Wavefolder and waveshaper: typically west coast Slope / Function generator: west coast ASR envelope: east and west coast Dynamics / LP Gate: west coast The 0-coast is practically a pure west coast synth a'la Buchla. So i guess, the name doesn't refer to east or west coast synthesis. But... great synth nonetheless. :)