This video alone adds like one year to the waiting list :/

@ModularLanding

4 жыл бұрын

Ha! This is so true!

@djbigben54

4 жыл бұрын

​@* AnimalHeadSpirit * Oh man, over a year and your number isn't up? I assumed all those early birds went out already. I only got on the list about 4 months ago and just hope I live long enough to receive and enjoy the thing (and I'm not about to die or anything lol).

@citizenkoen1

4 жыл бұрын

I got on the list May 15, 2019 and recently inquired about the wait and learned that there’s still 1121 people ahead of me. Another 3-6 months wait by their estimate.

@cl1xor

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Koenig so they are producing like 200 - 400 units a month, that’s actually quite impressive if it’s all handmade.

@djbigben54

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Koenig Thanks for the info! Not exactly what I wanted to hear but good to know at least. Assuming final assembly is done by hand, a few hundred units a month would be impressive by a small team.

South of the equator, crocodile clips. North of the equator, alligator clips.

@EBMZEQUENZER

4 жыл бұрын

In Arizona lizard clips

Cant wait to get mine and then never learn how to use it.

@LochNessAnthony

3 жыл бұрын

I’ll buy yours if you want

@McEnroe911

3 жыл бұрын

Lockness Anthony I’m still waiting to get it. Been on the wait list for almost a year now....

@LochNessAnthony

3 жыл бұрын

* AnimalHeadSpirit * whaaa for real? Are you buying yours or are you passing?

@LochNessAnthony

3 жыл бұрын

* AnimalHeadSpirit * well if it’s any consolation, if you DO end up forking over the cash and you decide against it later I could buy it from you.

@LochNessAnthony

3 жыл бұрын

* AnimalHeadSpirit * Or, if you decide not to I would totally straight up take your spot

the music in this video is proof that this thing is a future classic

@DanielDavissynthman

4 жыл бұрын

Eh....I think that's overstating it a bit. We'll see. For something to be a future classic, it needs to hit a critical mass, and be featured in many well-known tunes. Time will tell.

@scottsweatshirt9753

3 жыл бұрын

Cardi B already used this for WAP.

I'm damn happy to be seeing companies like this taking chances on cool new ideas. I'm hoping there's enough of an audience for them to continue doing what they do. And I can't resist orange hardware. Brilliant. ❤️

@nolasousaphone

4 жыл бұрын

there's a HUGE wait-list for this. I think SOMA is doing very well

@josecortez5213

4 жыл бұрын

I dont mind $300 dollar clone machines by you know who but this machine makes new sounds.

@liquidair1153

3 жыл бұрын

The Lyra-8 is already quite amazing and has a superb build quality. I simply had to place an order for this one as well.

Such an industrial dream machine ❤️

This is the first time I've ever heard Nick say "Ah my Gawd" in a pleasantly surprised and ecstatic way.

@gnarlysoundscapes7210

4 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is, that wasn't a reaction... those patch pins on the panel are actually labeled "OMG" and "WTF". xD

Always fun watching your reviews Nick!

OMG Batt!! I've never wanted a drum machine so badly in my life! Well done sir, well done!

Hi Nick. The component symbols up at the top left are: - triangle with line: diode. This is directional. You can probably use it to turn an AC signal into a straight pulse, but no idea what's implemented in there. - two plates: capacitors. These are not directional (based on the symbol used). Again, not sure how it's implemented, but it will likely add a slew or maybe decay. The amount/rate would depend upon the value of the cap used. This sounds a whole lot better than I had thought it would.

Buddy!! That was fantastic !! Thanks so much for sharing this, man!

I keep coming back to this review. I gotta give props to Nick for capturing the spirit of this machine so well.

It looks like a DS-1 that fell into a pool of toxic waste and gained super powers. I love it.

@ModularLanding

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome comment!

@vprice509

3 жыл бұрын

This DS-1? - starwars.fandom.com/wiki/DS-1_Orbital_Battle_Station

@danielelston7457

3 жыл бұрын

Great comment. It’s got definite superpowers.

Great review as always, Nick! Very interesting machine! Thanks

Waiting for mine! Thanks Nick for your wonderful reviews always so classic! I like how you program, it's similar to what I plan on doing with it:)

This perfectly captures the sounds I've always wanted to make.

There must be 2 hour Friday Fun session on the horizon..

Nick! I've never seen you so smitten with a machine! And I can see why. This thing i a beast, and I can tell, a really really deep instrument. Thanks so much for the demo. I can't wait to hear more!

Nick and Vlad are both at the top of their game.I ordered my Pulsar 23 yesterday.This organic, beautiful Soma 'Tank baby' will be ideal for my Industrial music.Thanks guys.Love.Reg Plasma .

Finally a demo that shows the great potential of this wonderful instrument. Thank you !

Its really an amazing machine. Vlad is a legit iconoclast in the music HW space. Maybe a legit genius.

best demo of the machine ever, finally kinda understanding what this is all about!

You make it sound really, really... really good

I have trawled reviews of gear for days and this is the only thing that really stunned me. The most organic, exciting creative sound tool in a long time. The price is high but very tempting.

Getting one for myself and my students at CalArts, so excited thanks to you!!!

I think I'm gonna be watching this over and over.

WOW.... but WOWWWWWW... this is just amazing. BTW that jam/test you start at around 14.00 is awesome

Great video, should finally have my Pulsar in next couple of weeks! Very excited to get lost in ut for a while and hopefully come out the other side making awesome sounds like Nick gets out of it here!

Very instructive review and very groovy dance move at 12:57. Thanks!

Awesome! Gassing hard for this. I love the Lyra8! Cheers! Edit, I made this comment at the start of the review, just WOW!

I didn't want one of these until I saw you hook it up to the KeyStep Pro. It really transforms this to something else entirely.

Wow! Sounds incredible!

Sounds great, good job, thanks!

DEEP! Thanks for that demo.

Nick, you are such an analog god ; thank you so much for demonstrating the MUSICAL capabilities of this thing ; thank you so much !

I love many synth designers (Dreadbox, 4ms, etc) but Vlad Kreimer is surely the mad genius of the synth world at the moment.

You know it’s a winner when it sounds incredible on an iphone speaker.

That's bonkers, crazy, mad, brilliant 😎👍

Vlad has given us a great gift, undoubtedly will inspire a new generation of instruments

Outstanding thumbnail, not to mention the machine!

Love the little dance at 12:57 brilliant demo!

This is going to fit amazingly with my latest side project under the moniker Kent Reznor, in which I assume the persona of the untalented older brother of Trent Reznor. Kent is a failed industrial rocker turned insurance salesman in a nearby suburb of Cleveland. Keep an eye out for upcoming online performances that will amass dozens, if not several dozens, of views on KZread and related platforms.

@Decoy303

4 жыл бұрын

Subscribing because I can't wait.

Great review, thanks. It's such an inspirational and fun box of tricks. For reference, you can quantise the CV loops to 16ths, but it's a separate mode of operation for the looper operation that stops all of the loops playing while it's doing its business. "If press-holding BANK+L+M and pressing ADD or DEL on one of the channels will perform quantisation of this channels by 16”."

@sonicstate

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, I figured that it was kind of not very useful to be honest so didnt make much of that feature

Love it. UPO (unkonwn percussive object)

I will never try anything shown in this video...But thoroughly enjoyed watching it...Kudos dadaji... From Pune city, India

Absolutely love this machine ...

This is a classic synth. It’s its own thing. This is a synth to go down in history and most that appear nowadays are not. A fascinating machine. An incredible instrument for truly creative minds.

15:10 I just realized his "oh my god, WTF" wasn't a reaction... those two pins on the Pulsar are actually labeled OMG and WTF.

@ANSWERTHECALLOFJESUSCHRIST

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Love it!

I wanted to hear that jam at the end go on for an entire performance! 😉👍

@7:55 what a banger sound! Amazing stuff, really.

What a fantastic machine and great review. Loved the outro music so much. Could you please share it with the world Nick? Really got into it!

@sonicstate

4 жыл бұрын

its gone. ....

Really nice review. Well done. I still hate the sound of this thing, and all the cables give me nightmares, but you made it sound the best I've heard, and you seem to enjoy it.

15:10 So we'll take another modulator and go into... OH MY GOD. xD Argh, I must have a Pulsar now. I could sit and jam on that for hours.

You could make a whole tune on this. Amazing.

I got on the waiting list last month after stumbling across this and was really taken by the sound. By the looks of it, I may be lucky to see the unit next year sometime. Anyway, the Pulsar 23 and the Erica Synth Syntrx sound like they would make beautiful music together.

Very refreshing and unique to see something like this hit the table. Hats off to the engineers for sure.

@HazeAnderson

4 жыл бұрын

Are you not familiar with Vlad? :) He is quite accessible.

@AdamTheAd-vanc3d

4 жыл бұрын

@@HazeAnderson No I'm not . I've vaguely heard of his name in the past.

@HazeAnderson

4 жыл бұрын

@@AdamTheAd-vanc3d kzread.info/dash/bejne/p3uqqM-dk8-xkto.html 😏🐋🐳

@AdamTheAd-vanc3d

4 жыл бұрын

@@HazeAnderson Thanks Haze

This just sounds so incredible.

@ZenMountain

Жыл бұрын

You’re here too! Cheers! Hilarious!!

Great machine, great review.

There is a quantization function - a bit esoteric but it’s in the manual. I’ve mostly sequenced mine from MIDI and used the pins for modulation, but I need to give the CV looper another crack. “BANK + L + M + one of the sensors (ADD or DEL) of the desired LR channel - will quantize the content of the channel to 16 notes. The LR will stop when this operation is performed. To start it again, use the start function. For the quantize function to work cor-rectly, please make sure that the LR is aligned with the clock dividers!! To do this, press the RST button on the CLOCK module before recording, and\or connect the LRST pin to the 0.25 output of the clock divider, and use a metronome during the recording! “

@Barefoot_Joe

4 жыл бұрын

I was going to say this, but you said it better ;)

@sonicstate

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I guess it sorta works but only if you stop the sequence. And only to 16ths.

Great walkthrough!!! Getting the credit card out NOW!!!!

I want one. Amazing.

Great performance

9:00 in and already sounding bonkers

This looks like the fun machine of the century.

Those Hi Hats’ are a Mega Bag of Ultra Crispy Salt & Vinegars’ Nick, perfect time to pull out the Dominion-1 and get 'Jiggy'

This thing is next level madness, in a positive way! So different an innovative.

Nicks Loving this!!

@annother3350

4 жыл бұрын

And I'm loving the thumbnail

at 15:x you had an awesome tune going!!!! Bring it back!

it sounds so kick ass it's just awesome. I have my name on the list. But what are everyones thoughts on this VS the Tempest? is it possible to get the same sounds out of other machines?

such a cool device 👌

Soma stuff is so dope!

Wow! This thing seems to have the ability to take you on long journeys.

That ‘little resistor thing’ is a capacitor. It blocks any DC (a stable voltage) but passes the AC (a moving voltage).

Great performances very inspiring. I want one but I feel like I would never understand how to use it.

Wow that sound quality jumps out of the speakers!!

@annother3350

4 жыл бұрын

It sounded good but do you not think a little woolly?

@scottsweatshirt9753

4 жыл бұрын

Ann Other - *woody

@annother3350

4 жыл бұрын

@@scottsweatshirt9753 Woolly - like the speaker is under a woollen jumper. But possibly woody too

@danielelston7457

3 жыл бұрын

Not woolly at all.

OH MY GOD !! LIKE seriously WTH ! LOOOVE

@ZenMountain

Жыл бұрын

What??? Are you drunk??

Cosmetic question : the orange color seems to differ from YT videos from a red/orange to pale orange. How is it actually? Or did it change regarding the actual production? Cheers!

I'm pretty sure you can quantize the cv recorders.

NICK,COULD YOU TELL,ME HOW YOU PATCHED THE ATTENUATOR,TO GET THAT FORMANT-LIKE FILTER EFFECT ??

I cannot wait for my turn on the wait list to come up! #1617 on the US list...waiting patiently!

Sick that was like a flylo beat...damn nick

@PLA.net-DANTE

3 жыл бұрын

Thought the same , it's like those brainfeeder drums in a box😁

That’s a funky meatball. Very punchy sound. Looks like an electronic circuit kit I had when I was a kid you could wire up to make doorbells and heat sensing alarms and stuff.

19:50 love this bit!

Its going to be hard waiting for the Jam.

Very sick sound 🤪

Nice color much better than the usual black.

Wild.!

The tunes coming out of Nick + this device are awesome!

I might be interested if it didn’t require cables and clips to get the variety.

Actually you CAN quantize your manual recordings. Quantizing is accessed via the mode switching pads that you referred to as confusing lol. Quantizing cannot be applied during playback, but otherwise definitely not the strike you had mentioned near the end.

Drooooooolllllll. Want this so badly.

yesss!

That thing is wild.i am guessing in a live setting you could get some crowd participation with connections between posts and people.unfortunately that will be hard today with the no touching and six feet apart.so I guess scrap that idea till life returns to how it was.

Another video please. Do a deeper dive and jam a little bit more. Release a sample pack for us ^u^

I can't imagine buying this. Then again I said the same about the Lyra 8.......which is sat on my lap right now !!

@ModularLanding

4 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly how I feel! And I love my Lyra8. It is truly unique.

Excellent! Anyone hear Tony Levin in the back ground near 14:13?

Sounds so good from 14:30 onwards.

I need another lifetime to get all these wonderful instruments,

And the Grammy for the best music technology review video goes to

@sonicstate

4 жыл бұрын

Aw thanks. If only!

Pffff - that SOMA gear is great \0/