Speaking as a fellow left-hander, have you tried the obvious solution - just turning it upside down? It's what I do 🙂

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

I hadn't. I'll give it a go!

@davepegz

10 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps Took me over a week to think of it 😀

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

@@davepegz that makes me feel better 🤣

@leewightman8619

9 ай бұрын

That's what I was thinking

@Dylan_Stewart

7 ай бұрын

Another fellow left hander, I just made the cable longer.

I can't lie, that plant really did make a hell of a difference 😄

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

Hahaha it adds a bit of colour what can I say

Hi Joe! First video I watched from you... Wonderful entertaining! 😀 Beside the great musical demonstration of the super cool Stylophone Beat, I often had to laugh about your fun you are having while doing it! 🙌🏻 The build-up with the Korg Monotron Delay... Spontaneous plant to grab... 😅 Thank you for sharing!!

@JoeBleeps

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that 🙏

Thanks Mate. Great vid, jam at the end with the venerable Monotron Delay was Beyond Dope! 🙏🙏🙏💙💙🙏🙏🙏

@JoeBleeps

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Loved the video. I have the original Stylophone beatbox and the Monotron delay. My new Stylophone Beat arrives tomorrow. Can’t wait to try some of the stuff you did in video. Thanks and look forward to more videos. I’ll be checking your channel.

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the feedback! Have fun with the Stylophone BEAT!

Loved this video! Putting this on my holiday list!

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Just ordered one of these guys - This is the most helpful demo i’ve seen so far! Thanks

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the feedback!

@tommyagain38

Ай бұрын

I just got mine today and it's so addictive. My friends wanted to play it and couldn't stop.

Niiiiiiiice Mine arrives today Glad I didn't skip the ending That was EPIC!!!

@JoeBleeps

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!

love that, helpful review/demo, probs goin to buy one today!

The first video of yours I've seen. Very cool to see what these little things can do

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

wooooow. just got the d-x stylophone and was heavily considering getting tge beat too, i think this has sent me over the edge! LOL. awesome performance at the end btw

@JoeBleeps

27 күн бұрын

@@RamenSploosh thank you! For the money, it's so worth it

Great info again Joe! :D thank you!

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you for this great tutorial!

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

thanks for the nice demo, getting mines soon!

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

You'll love it

Bordering on some Squarepusher shit right there, great loop! 🖤

@JoeBleeps

3 ай бұрын

Oh thank you so much!

Great vid thanks. Gonna try all that !

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Your bass lines will give me nightmares THANKS A LOT

I just got the Stylophone Beat and Korg Monotron. Any stuff I like I record onto a Tascam DP-008ex so I can save it and add to it later. It's wild having these 3 things that take up hardly any space at all. Really great for spur-of-the-moment songwriting. You never know what you'll come up with. Thx for this instruction video Joe! Happy N.Y.

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

Glad you like! And yes, so many possibilities

nice. thanks

Thank you ❤

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Wait, nevermind the stylophone. Whats that ikea speaker!?! Thats awesome!!! 😂

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

It's from the FREKVENS range they did with Teenage Engineering a few years ago, they still pop up on eBay now and then

cool

So it's got more voices then the Roland t8. And the fact it doesn't quantise u can do drunk gritty boombap I'm definitely getting one I'm ok with it not having midi as I would record the patterns iv made right into the tascam then I can use other gear to add stuff on top...I'm actually really impressed with this especially for the price I'd run an fx pedal through it or the korg nts1

@JoeBleeps

9 ай бұрын

So much scope for all that. Nice big beat vibe with the sloppy beats too

You could turn it on the side, so that you have the cord for the stylus on your left hand. Or maybe even upside down. Might be easier that way 😊

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. I tried those but it's still a better interface when it's the right side up

Nice vid! I might do similar but with a pair of stylophone devices, just for "authenticity."

@JoeBleeps

2 ай бұрын

I've got my hands on a couple of stylophone units since, might be time to revisit this!

Just,put this on order should be here before the new year

@JoeBleeps

7 ай бұрын

Awesome, I hope you dig it

@DJWOLFLIVE

7 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps I’m sure I will i also have the regular Stylophone too.

It's actually quite cool for a "toy", isn’t it? Love my Stylophone Gen X1 so I'll probably get one of these as well😁 have a good one, mate!!!

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

It's really great fun, after playing on this I'm very tempted by the Gen X1 now

@CNTRRNDM

10 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps yeah, it's so much fun!!! So get it😁

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

@@CNTRRNDM you're a bad influence haha! Or a good one, from another point of view 😅

@CNTRRNDM

10 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps erm...sorry?🤣🤣🤣

@cavemanlawyer5608

9 ай бұрын

I have to figure out how to hook up my generator x1, this and an old yamaha keyboard to the same stereo lol

it´s a nice toy

@JoeBleeps

5 ай бұрын

It really is

i took mine to school and my spanish teacher took it away and when i came back to collect it he said "hold on first we gotta make a beat" so i let him cook

@JoeBleeps

7 ай бұрын

Ahhh brilliant

I want one! It's giving me ideas already 😎🔥🔥🔥

@JoeBleeps

9 ай бұрын

Get one!

The “BeatBox” was difficult to do much with until I sampled it up.. This looks a much better proposition…🤔

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

I agree! The original beatbox wasn't as much fun as this

Just got one. I dig it. Hooked it to the Delay. Awesome. Peace on earth.

@JoeBleeps

9 ай бұрын

So much depth to it with a delay!

you were laughing hard in this vid lol

@JoeBleeps

5 ай бұрын

I love it when something is fun and quirky and easy to pick up, this machine is exactly that 😁

Great video, Joe! What is the name of the Ikea small amp that you're using? thanks.

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

They did a Collab with Teenage Engineering a few years ago called FREKVENS

@reallivebluescat

6 ай бұрын

It was a limited edition run. You cant buy it anymore

I wonder if I could use it left handed if it was upsidedown? it's not like the orientation of the circular pad really matters that much, unlike on a regular stylophone's piano keyboard layout.

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

It's possible, still feels a little awkward just in a different way!

I'm all for budget gear Roland aira pocket operaters korg volcas nts1 so definitely grabbing one of these for the set up £30 is a bargain for something like this

@JoeBleeps

9 ай бұрын

It really is a lot of fun for your money

@reallivebluescat

6 ай бұрын

It has alot of drawbacks. Its only live. You cant save anything once u turn it off. No adsr. Loops are very very short etc. But hey, if u dont mind all that its worth 30pounds but not more. I suspect ill get tired of it in 2days

The Monotron makes everything sound better LOL

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

It's a wonderful thing!

For 35 Euro it's a no-brainer. Combine it w/ the Stylophone S-1 Analog (i.e. the "classic" Stylophone) or the immaculate underestimated Stylophone Gen X-1.

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

I've got a few vintage Stylophones but the Gen X1 is definitely on my radar after this

Cool vid. I imagine you can play it upside down as a lefty.

@JoeBleeps

7 ай бұрын

Upside down was strange, I've kind of got used to playing it the right way up now

Hmmmm...........just imagine if Roland had worked with Dubreq....... "Can you guess what it is yet?"...... Yeah an amazing 808 machine....😂

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

such a helpful in depth tutorial!! thank you for this! i hope these arent silly questions, but what kind of cord/cables did you use to connect it to the speaker? to connect it to the monotron? and what kind of speaker is that? thanks again c:

@JoeBleeps

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Just standard aux cables for connection, the speaker is from the FREKVENS range that IKEA did a while ago. They still pop up on eBay now and then

@okaykid

8 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps thank you very much! loved the music you were able to make. super inspiring to know you made those bops with just a little synth

@JoeBleeps

8 ай бұрын

@@okaykid it's incredible what it's capable of

Do a Sync mod 🤘😎

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

Definitely tempted to try

hello mate, the only question i have, is how do you take/transfer tunes you actually like that youve made out of that into external software like a laptop, in order to edit further :)

@JoeBleeps

2 ай бұрын

I would take the audio out signal and record it on my computer using Audacity. My old laptop had a line input but with my new one I got a usb sound card

Is there a way to save patterns and switch between them on the fly?

@JoeBleeps

Ай бұрын

No it's very much an improvised thing. And also one of the reasons it's so cheap, I guess

funny. good video

@JoeBleeps

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Hello, what cord did you use to connect the beat to the monotron?

@JoeBleeps

7 ай бұрын

Just a regular aux cable for audio pass through. I manually synced the timing with the flash on the monotron

Considering the tech behind this, though lite it is dicrib as professional use for high users of course everyone who isn't a professional musician and just loves playing around with music who is trained in music prediction is probably not musical or just like pretending they are usually good at throwing out a tune in their own style in private or not? It's definitely something this machine alongside the Switch with Korg Gadget and those korg minis.. Does anybody recall the old Game Boy a music maker it was limited, but there is a similar manner to the device here? Think there was a drum maker to?

@JoeBleeps

9 ай бұрын

Linking it with other units is a lot of fun

What’s that big yellow knob on your monotron? Some sort of volume hack?

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

It's a resonance pot, it' sounds pretty cool. It's wild how many unused solder points are on the motherboard for that thing. The tricky part is squeezing in the physical component!

@binsworth

4 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps that’s so cool!

Do you think its possible to get your own sounds into the chip?

@JoeBleeps

9 ай бұрын

For someone much cleverer than me, perhaps although I think it's unlikely. The stock sounds are good and varied and if you run it through some FX it can sound incredible

Novice here…could you tell me the two types of cords you’re using to link the two devices to each other and to the speaker? And what model speaker you’re using? Thanks mate.

@JoeBleeps

2 ай бұрын

Just a standard aux type cable in each case. The monotron has a line in and out so you can daisy chain it between an input and a speaker. The speaker is the small frekvens one that IKEA did a few years ago

What is the purpose of the Yellow extra Knob on the Monotron Delay ?

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

It's a resonance pot, just a mod that allows a bit more tweaking of the sound. Sounds great

@oldtoytrains

Ай бұрын

I was gonna also inquire about the Monotron mod. Cool! Great video! Just arrived yesterday.

It looks neat and I'd argue it's more than a toy. How many bars long can you loop, and how many patterns does this hold?

@JoeBleeps

2 ай бұрын

You can't save anything you've created and it's just one bar unless you set the tempo low and squeeze two in there. But with the improvisation options, the FX and such, you can add plenty of variety once it's running

Good demo, thank you. I had read that the Stylophone Beat quantizes, but it sounds like it does not. Can you confirm?

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

Do you mean it drops the beats to the nearest specific hit in time with the tempo? Because it saves them exactly as you tap them

@zurlocker1

10 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps Yes, that's what I meant and you have answered for me. THank you!

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

@@zurlocker1 although what it does do along those lines, is that if you have one pattern playing and you trigger another, it doesn't start until the other one finishes, so it's very easy to keep time when you're chaining patterns as well as playing with the filter etc

About how long do the batteries last?

Would it be easier for you as a lefty if you turned it upside down?

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

It still feels just as much of a compromise as when I use it right handed. I've pretty much got used to it now

💪🥁💪

can i connect it through an interface then into a DAW?

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

There's no sync but there's the audio out connector, so yes you could, depending what you wanted to do

Same reaction to the batteries!

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

We really are spoiled by modern tech 🤣

@onebigpeople

6 ай бұрын

@JoeBleeps love it still! I sneak around and use it at work as a way of interacting differently.... Usually the house beats start around Thursday. Monday-Wednesday we tend to be more depressing, and use the Stylophone Gen X-1...

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

@@onebigpeople I got the Gen-X1 this week!

What's the mod you've done to the Monotron?

@JoeBleeps

7 ай бұрын

It's a resonance pot. Was a very tight squeeze in there but totally worth it.

Where did you get the tiny soeaker?

@JoeBleeps

2 ай бұрын

Got that from IKEA a few years ago. They don't do them any more but if you search eBay for FREKVENS speaker you might find one

There is different models of the korg monotron....which model is yours?!?!?!?...or is it modified?

@JoeBleeps

2 ай бұрын

This is the Monotron Delay with a resonance potentiometer added to it

@Hi-lb8cq

2 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps very cool...ty...I figured it was modified but wasn't sure

Why doesn’t it record the transpose?

@JoeBleeps

5 ай бұрын

Hmmm not sure. I'll see if I can experiment with that tomorrow

Not into gaming Joe, but have plenty of synths. I've just subbed so I hope you do more with cheap gear as your jam was excellent! This is more than a toy as you can overlay a drum machine on top of the "lo-fi" feel that the Stylophone delivers. My wife has just bought me one for my birthday so I'm hoping to create some loops by recording it into either my Cubase DAW or to a field recorder like a Zoom H1n, which is what I've done in the past with some of my Casio keyboard's rhythms from the 80s. What if you turned the Beat 90 degrees and have the drum at the bottom, then your left hand won't be in the way of the controls and you could manipulate them with your right hand? Just an idea. Ditch the plant mate, it doesn't work imho lol.

@JoeBleeps

9 ай бұрын

You can definitely make it more than a toy with the right approach! And yeah haha the plant was a joke really, I normally put random toys in shot instead 😁

@apislapis

9 ай бұрын

@@JoeBleeps I thought the plant could well be a joke. Personally I'd use retro-tech gadgets in a shot, such as Minidisc player, compact digital camera, tamagotchi, gameboy, Nokia phone to fit in with the tech stuff theme. Each to their own I guess? Do Ikea still sell that mini speaker that looks cool? I couldn't see it among their current wireless audio smorgasbord on their website?

@JoeBleeps

9 ай бұрын

@@apislapis no that was a limited thing. It's called FREKVENS if you want to try your luck on eBay

Monotron has been modded, you don't mention that?

@JoeBleeps

5 ай бұрын

Yes! I've added a resonance pot to it years ago. It was a tight squeeze but a great upgrade. Very noisy!

the record time is only 1 bar right?

@JoeBleeps

10 күн бұрын

@@mashterlloyd1904 yes but if you drop the tempo right down you can play it double speed and get a bit more time out of it

Really should have been designed with 2 stylus sticks stead of just 1.

@JoeBleeps

Ай бұрын

I'd love that. Definitely a potential mod there!

Theremin is coming

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

I saw the promo video! Looks great

@Urfinchannel

6 ай бұрын

I ordered @@JoeBleeps

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

@@Urfinchannel me too!

It's a little weird that they obviously made the device for right-handed people, when usually left-handed people are said to be more creative due to their right brain side being the strong one. That's only statistics of course, but seeing how many left-handed people already commented this video, I wouldn't be surprised if more left-handed people actually bought this drum machine.

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

It just seems a lot of the time designers don't even consider left handed use

@danielkrogh9748

6 ай бұрын

​@@JoeBleeps i noted over the years that British design be like that and obviously the gen x-1 have the same issue, I'm a leftie feel like they just don't like left handed people, i just got the beat and i love it only thing missing is a aux in, without it its quite limited when it comes to connecting it with other devices it feels like a missed opportunity

@JoeBleeps

6 ай бұрын

@@danielkrogh9748 I agree!

@annebokma4637

4 ай бұрын

Of course they build it for right handed people.. left handed people are creative enough to figure out a better way to use it 😂😂😂

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

@@annebokma4637 love this comment 👏👏👏

Re left-handedness, couldn’t you just turn it upside-down?

@JoeBleeps

10 ай бұрын

Someone else suggested that, it's a good idea but still a compromise left handers are having to make as a result of right handed bias in the design

The battery thing wasnt that funny.

@JoeBleeps

4 ай бұрын

Ahh you've ruined my day now