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The physical design of a piece of gear shouldn't be the main selling point on gear but IK seems set on making machines that look like grandmas dialysis machine.

Godzilla standing on his desk in Dead Poets Society is the greatest thing I will see all day.

Almost every week: "Yes, you are right, this is bad gear." After the awesome demotunes: "Screw this, now i want one."

In the comments at 5.02. "I'm a 20 something urban guy with a demibeard, I need to sequence basslines while doing parkour and drinking soylent and the city is my sample source and probably I wear fingerless gloves in my gear demos" I cracked up when i read that. Gold Jerry gold.

I didn't even realise I'm your fan, until just now when I dropped everything to check out your newest Bad Gear. Keep up the good work. You tick all the boxes.

You are such a good musician, every single video the music you play is absolutely fantastic. I know the video is about the gear, but man you are so talented I would listen to your music all the time if I could.

This is my new favorite channel. You do a great job demonstrating the character of all the gear you use. Thanks a lot :)

Bought this guy because thought it was what I wanted. Sold it immediately. Re-bought again because i realized was what I NEED.

The "patch skipping" bug is actually a software issue! I had the same problem, and a firmware update fixed it! The latest firmware also added some "shift" functions to expose more parameters to the knobs

Always a pleasure to see your videos Florian, really makes my Friday. I nearly bought this a while back and was umming and ahing over whether to or not. Glad to see it looked over so scrupulously.

Wow, just finally watched this, i now like this hw way better than i previously did. The really wonderful surprise was your Novation Circuit drives IK Uno section. That sounded beautiful, I think that deserves a special full video all on it's own where you just play that for 30 minutes or so....

That Godzilla section had me laughing out loud - didn't really notice the synth :D

Man these video edits keep getting better and better, with more creativity every time, great episode.

Seriously You are a great example that it is not the equipment that makes the great music, but your skills, you can wield just about anything and make it sound like a boss track.

This is the first episode where I realized compared to your old videos, your editing has improved a lot! Great job! I bet the uno synth pro will be here soon.

Your summation is wonderful! 🙌👏 These are indeed wondrous times for synthesists!

I KEEP COMMING BACK, NOT JUST FOR THE GEAR BREAKDOWNS. "THIS GUY" MAKES SOME KILLER JAMS. BUT ALSO YOUR VIDEO EDITING AND VISUAL DUBBING IS GODDAMN HILARIOUS!

absolutely love the genre title, I always laugh out loud at the humour of this channel, fantastic,love the windows sounds

Absolutely love your stuff man! Don't ever stop making this awesome content please....

Godzilla is just genius, brilliant

I was so excited to get this as my first synth, and the sound is ok. However I sold it after realising that they were never going to update the firmware with any user requested features from their forum. They instead packaged all of the requests up as the Pro, and demanded hundreds of moneys more. Inexcusable. The $20 license transfer fee was the final indignity. Top tip- if you buy one just say the seller wouldn’t transfer, and they will give it to you anyway. Worked for me. Love the vids, keep up the brilliant work 😎

First synth I've ever bought. Never going to give it away. It still kind of breaks my heart when all the numbers go crazy though. Great channel man!

Great work creating some nice tunes with the UNO synth. Definitely dig the sound of this synth. Need to use mine more often!

That was a real fun video!! You’ve mad it sound like it’s not that bad after all lol!! Thanks for lifting me before work tonight!!👍

Best channel on KZfaq!!! Love all your videos. Especially the dancing Godzilla!

I don't even play the keys, I'm here for the absolutely flawless meme utilization. Your videos are a good workout actually, even if one time I almost passed out laughing at one of the memes. Keep up the good work, son.

Interestingly, I think the sound demos you've made for the Uno are some of the best you've made so far.

The best show to wake up to! [Edit] Jam 2 as you labeled it is so sick... my type of jam!

Of all the things I love about your channel, and there's many, I really am super glad that you didn't go for the easy joke and use the pre-theatrical release rodentia-looking face for Sonic. Great video btw

Lol, loved it! Ticked all those boxes 😁 this synth sounds really good despite its let's call it "low cost" build quality I really like the tone and filter. Also the fact that is has MIDI CC for many parameters at this price point on an analog synth really is amazing!

The Uno synth is my favourite piece of kit at the moment, very happy this review wasn’t as bad as it could of been!

I've never taken a bad gear as personal as this lmao i love the uno but yeah the short 16 step sequencer is annoying lol great editing as always

Did I see a brief blip of the fabulous "D-Beam" in action?! You need to do a special episode dedicated to Roland's amazing modulation tool. As for the little IK - It is what it is, cheap & dirty, with a bit of analog goodness hidden under its plastic facade...

Brilliant review as always. Saying 'but' then flashing the peaches pic was genius. I read a blog about Sound of Music by too Austrian ladies, it was hilarious, and apparently not Austria's favourite film.

awesome episode , so as for korg 707 , finally catched all shows since i was absent :P somehow glad that you had technical issue today :P which you will fix soon !

God damn your video editing has always been great but the Godzilla music video at the end was hilarious. And if you are outsourcing the video editing (no shame if u do it’s a whole other world of discipline, just staying a competent musician day in and out is hard enough) than please give your man a shout out!! Bravo!!

I always get excited when I see the xr20..its like seeing a friend on local news or something

One of the most analog sounding mono synths, thumb up!

This channel is a bomb, man, tear further !!)

2:24 retro look, nice :-). There is something a bit 'Big Track' about using the front panel. Love it.

Finally with circuit and uno episodes all of my synths and drums are officially bad. Hoping for some good gear episodes;)

I love the UNO synth, it's nice and compact mono synth that is a lot of fun to use on its own for first timers and it shines as part of an ensemble. But I do agree the knobs and the pots attached are pretty flimsy. I had to replace my original because the cutoff pot broke. If you do buy one, do NOT travel with it unless you have a case for it to protect them knobs.

We need these videos to be premieres so we can chat about it :)

I thought peachbutt was pretty good but Godzilla in the memejam was gold 😆 love this review too, you do such a great job of mixing humour with being really informative in an entertaining way.

It sounds really nice in the mix, subtle filter with nice resonance.

Killed it, as usual!

I had the feeling once I saw the Pro that the original UNO was basically a publicly sold prototype that used the hype of miniaturized synths to pass off what could be seen as a late beta test.

Looks like a nice partner for my rhythm wolf. Uno Lobo jam coming soon!

The Godzilla clip made my day!

Near the 50.000 my man 💪✌️

I had to play it twice, because I laughed so much the first time from the memes and jokes, and didn't get all the info. Thanks again for your insane humour. I mean - Godzilla on a school desk? Who would have thought of that but you? No one!

Bros before Pros.

Lovely price for a 2 OSC at least. It's time USB-powerable/ed devices start bringing built in DI circuits, I use IKEA's LADDA which are ENELOOP factory goodness, but that noise floor rises so high I need a stepladder the moment I get the bad idea to also control things over USB. Blech!

oooh, your intor sounds really warm this time

How do you only have 50k subscribers? This channel is epic

Another wery good wideo! Keep up the good verk!

Good review. The original Uno Synth is good, with the limitations that are noted. The sound is cool, the sequencer though limited to 16 steps is very powerful. Lots of good presets, good software editor. Also available these days for $150 or less. Think of it as a more modern take on Korg Volca.

As a Moog Source owner, i would never buy another synth, or anything else for that matter, that uses touch panel controls. It's a really serious flaw on the Moog...it makes operating it so slow. If i wasn't so emotionally attached to the synth, i would have sold it years ago! Great video, as ever. 👍🏻

Great episode! Especially because this week's hardware won't risk harm to my bank account. ;)

When I bought my first synth in 2018 I was deciding between either a Monologue or the UNO. I'm very glad today I spent a little extra then and went for the Korg. Needless to say I spent multiples in the following years when the GAS kicked in :D

I love my Uno. Bit short sighted of them only giving it 1 bar when the Uno Drum as 4. Agreed the delay is weak. I get better delay FX farting into a mic in my bathroom.

Awesome tunes this episode! :D

UNO was really really nice for me. Especially if controlled via the VST in Ableton. and using the Push as knobs and its mapping. Just great sound overall for 90Euros second hand

Can’t wait for the Stylophone episode… only because I want to hear you jam out on one! 😉

nice tracks as usual - the unit sounds pretty good and was an easy purchase for the price when it came out, but it definitely has those limitations the performance does seem better on this one than the drum version it's nice to have more portable DC-powered stuff to carry around Sound Machines provided some of the audio goodness inside and they make great modular stuff of their own, even that cool EEG 'brainterface' for MIDI and CV :-)

Erik Norlander was the main designer for IK Multimedia for the Uno. I remember seeing videos of him demonstrating it at (I think) a Superbooth show and being impressed by the features at such a low price point. If I were to guess, he tried to pack as much as possible into the thing and keep to whatever budge he was given.

So good as always. I've always wanted to see you cover this synth, so glad you did! Do you think you'd ever cover the Novation Mininova? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it

The hills are alive... I use my Uno as an external oscillator input into my "vintage" Korg R3 - now there's a Bad Gear episode.

Good energy on this one

great feature as always, but i'm most compelled to say: REALLY flattering use of the EHX holy grail verb - i never wanted one until now, it just never impressed me and until the premium reverb pedal boom with empress/eventide/etc i felt like i could never trust guitarists and guitarist-marketed gear when it came to reverbs (not a complete snob just that i could trust alesis a lot more for budget verbs). but it was perfect on the IK uno there and i'm curious about possibly having it as an insert for other mono-output synths. damn i bet yam FM + holy grail sounds spooky, i'm off to search for it. thanks again for bringing us along with these!

Cheers Florian, still a great sounding little synth ... with some grating design and software issues, nearly IK, nearly. Really enjoyed the Good Gear jam, just missing some JJ Abrams lens flare off the 'ol disco ball. :)

Bad Gear is the greatest channel in the history of synth videos!

Its Friday... its Bad Gear Day! ... the Godzilla video had me in stitches

That Windows error sound when talking about the IK web site. :D

YASSS! Bad Gear Friday never disappoints! Bad Gear 4 Life!

There is much I don’t like about the Uno, and yet I keep drifting back to it and don’t regret buying it.* It’s not going to sound like much of an endorsement either but especially the matrix layout, it makes a good beginner synth for grasping what the different filter/envelop/lfo stuff does. Every time I think I’ve had it with the Uno, something crops up and I say ok let’s see if the Uno can add something…and I’m happy with the results. *after updating the firmware so it would stop jumping presets.

Your videos are very funny..........I laughed at the knob sound and those leaky batteries!

Yep i got this one. I'am patching Kee bass style bass on this divice i'am close though and that's because off the fat low frequenties this thing is putting out. Thanks for the video

great sounding filter and pulse wave

I hope that glass of water never leaves the shelf. It's the highlight of every episode seeing how full it is.

It’s the most digital looking analog synth I have ever seen.

I like mine. Was my first analogue synth. I think it can also be viewed as IK's test the market entry for hardware from them. Obviously they'd have wanted a successful first product, however they wouldn't want to bet the company on it. As a first analogue synth for somebody, and as possibly a first synth, it provides a lot of learning opportunities.

The Godzilla mash-up gave me a laugh - well done.

Thanks for reviewing unit I actually have on my birthday! I don't like: - it's power source unit with all that WTF's (ground loop hum, battery noise hum, being picky about power bricks) - losing presets changes while pressing up/down buttons in bad time - touch keyboard - that you are not able to sync with volca while using arpeggiator - needing to register for using software editor But I like: - UNO's sound and some of the presets (I added few from Synthmania) - arpeggiator - this is very powerful and user friendly thing - Godzilla!!!!

great video! would it be possible to trigger other instruments with the sequencer?

For the intro alone you get immediate thumbs up.

I nearly spat out my SQ-80 when you introdunced that last track!

Fun little box that is what it is. Got mine on sale with 0% int. for 48 mos. Nice first synth.

Just saw one on the local ebay, thought the design “ticked all the boxes” for a bad gear episode and apparently I wasn’t wrong

Stop putting all my gear on this series! Ok you can, it raises the value

I'm just gonna go ahead and comment here about what a cool and fun video this is, before I even hit the play button... and I'm not even psychic... but I'll be right...

For the price, especially used, the Uno blows any other analogue out of the water. The amount of flexibility is really incredible. Those morphing waves are something you'd never find on a volca and a modulation matrix for $200... Incredible. But I think I'd rather save up for the pro version so I wouldn't feel like I was missing out on the better interface and expanded feature set

Another flaw is the filter keyboard knob is only exist in the software... They can definitly make that in the parameter matrix in the future firmware updates.

That godzilla montage was fucking epic btw!

I got the Uno Synth and in my opinion is a good synth, the sound is big for the size, construction is not that good but is acceptable, I got mine for $130 brand new 2 years ago. Did they have space for better options I think so but the real analog sound is definitely there and I like it. PS: I got the Uno Drum too!

I'm no pro by any means, but I like the UNO synth. I sold it when i needed a little $ but then i bought it again recently. I really like the arpeggiator and the scale quantization. It sounds pretty good and would be great for synthwave.

Dude, I would love to see a Carperter's Godzilla movie. I will be thinking about that all day

I haven't firmware updated mine on a bit. I've always had issues with the bpm changes "slipping" past where I want them to be. Any fix for that? Or any trick I missed?

I wouldn't mind getting this bad gear as a Christmas present.