Dude, the synth flute at 1:40 is magical

This is an anti-dote to GAS sufferers who drown in gear, but can't squeeze a half-decent musical track out of all their stuff. Restrictions.. simplicity, definitely helps to produce better music.

The microbrute is such a sick instrument. People who shrug it off as a toy are honestly just lazy and don't care to put in the work to get the sound inside of the thing OUT. absolutely loving these sounds man. Obviously limited in comparison to more expensive synths but this video just shows what an amazing studio tool this synth can be.

That flute sounds amazing! You should really do more Berlin School, especially with this sound.

you are providing some very useful and insightful information for composers, sound designers and engineers. Thank you for sharing the knowledge you have acquired over the years. you are very generous...i imagine a book...takes all these styles you are so familiar with.....you see all the settings and patches for every sounds....it also explains the fundamental of a style etc...and it comes with a vinyl of all compositions..i would certainly buy that! anyway...thank you!

Really deserved to be released as actual track...

This gives me hope that I have a chance to make something musically with only a MicroBrute.

Absolutely outstanding!!! You are truly old school. Keep making beautiful music.

Videos like this are a wonderful source of inspiration and a proof that you can do a lot with little.

i spent last 4 evenings just looking and listening... amazing guy you are

Every single time I watch one of your videos, I'm amazed at your incredible talent.

Ho scoperto i tuoi video, me li stò vedendo tutti uno dopo l'altro. Anche io sono vecchiotto ('77), e trovo certi strumenti "vintage" estremamenti affascinanti - e i tuoi video sono strepitosi

Fabulous work using just this simple setup! Well done. Love the music you made...

I love Berlin School. It's perfect for chilling and is the forerunner of many genres I like as well.

Really awesome work! I love videos like this where people take a few common cheap things and try to make something great.

I've been watching your videos since you started years ago and I'd say you are one of the absolute top synth reviewers on youtube at this moment in time. This video is no exception, makes me wish i had more time for my analogue gear!

Just beautiful! This just made my day! Thank you again!!!

Really cool what you get out of these two! Bravo!

Awesome composition! Love the sound also, has that real vintage thing going!

Now Tangerine Dream style, very impressive!

Your song reminded me of Carl Sagan's OG series "Cosmos". Thanks for that. ❤🎛

That flute is making me so happy.

Great Demo of this two little guys in a very musical context! sounds beautiful and authentic like early 70s !!!! GREAT!!!

Oh I really liked the flute melody!

Well done Paolo. This proves that when you've got much talent, you don't need much gear.

This is awesome !! I'm a huge TD fan since the early 70's and you make me wanna play Phaedra by myself :-)

damn the flute is so awesome. you got some damn feeling

Always love and appreciate your desire to share all of your knowledge of these old and new instruments amazing thank you so much I am actually in Berlin ;))

Nice Sound buddy! Beast of a Synth I have the Minibrute and i am only just scratching the surface with it's sound

It sounds awesome!

Excellent work. Added to my growing hardware synth demo playlist. :) Greetings!

It's not the tools but the artist...

Yes, sounds like tangerine dream!

Hi Paolo, great video - You and Phat Flavour Crew are my favourite artists at demonstrating and producing Oldskool styles.

Excellent job. Those Arturia synths are great. I have the MiniBrute and love it.

To me, it really doesn't matter if you're using small, inexpensive gear or a big pricey modular Moog or similar equipment to recreate that Berlin School style. It's how you do it and how effective the results are. Not everyone has the dough to afford a modular Moog but many more can afford a MicroBrute, Monotribe, and Monotron Delay. Norwegian electronic act Breidablik (Morten Birkeland Nielsen is the man behind this act) manage to create Berlin School style music on small, inexpensive portable gear. You can find out about Breidablik on Bandcamp. The music blew me away and the guy knows his stuff.

I've been using the MicroBrute in some of my incursions into Berlin School, but never tried to do one relying only (or mostly) on this little beast. This video opened new perspectives for me. Thank you! :)

Respect Beautiful sounds Skills- that tiny Monotron can cause big problems in the wrong hands Great music

nice work. the sounds take u on a journey

Great vid! That flute sound makes me think about one of Vangelis' Antarctica songs!

That flute tone really came through nicely, I e been struggling to get what I want out of my microbrute for years (mainly going for bass sounds) but This made me think about the lead frequencies. thanks

It is amazing to hear what one can do with cheap but powerful technology.

Wow, very impressive, I love that flute sound :) Keep up the good work !

awesome! I got a microbrute myself not long ago, as a funk guy I wasn't sure whether I'd like it but I think it's brilliant. nice to see a musical demo going beyond someone turning the brute factor all the way up...

Wow, awesome!! Somehow reminds me a lot to the "airwolf" soundtrack and background music.... :)

Brilliant!

Man! That was just beautiful and inspiring!

Your patches are excellent!

Great video! really nice patches

WOW! You have inspired me... simply AWEsome! Excellent!

Très grande maîtrise des générateurs... Programmation impeccable...

Oh wow I have those and never thought of connecting them like that!Actually using the Monotron through a phone mic and it actually works...good tips!☺

Tops. Lots of great uploads lately. Subbed.

Really nice! Its amazing what can be done, or what you can do, for under $400. I have a feeling my attempt would not sound so good. I would love to hear you step up with an eventide space or big sky.🖖🏻

This just made me wanna get a monotron to use w my MB.. incredible

Bravo 👏 Edgar Froese would be impressed!!!

Fun track, bro! My Monotron loves you. It was looking for that flute patch for days. Wicked feedback in that Monotron Delay!

Fantastic piece of music.

That was awesome!

Amazing done 👍

Oh man I've never seen your face before and I just realised that the whole time i've been imagining you as the keyboardist from Spinal Tap

Love your videos man! Take care! :)

Brilliant. Just bought a Monotron!

I just bought a micro brute a few weeks ago its my 4th analog synth I love its simplicity and many times 1 LFO beats 2 tbh my Bass Station 2 LFO 1 I absolutely can't stand... the micro brute is a beast nice work!

Great demo.

Simply amazing!

I feel like I'm on a mission in Mass Effect

Restrictions are good for creativity! Love the monotrons! Really understated super small instruments! I recently used them with the Korg Gadget app on iPhone for weird effects, gorgeous filter sweeps etc. Check out JUPITERBARNEN - SPELA FORTNITE HELA DAN on Apple Music & Spotify to hear the monotrons in an old school synth pop mix (with my kids screaming/singing on top of it)

Thanks for another great video, would be great to hear you jam on a full setup like inclusive of a drum machine and whatever. Having said that you produce a lot of magic with just the Brute and effects so I'm not dissapointed.

Wow, this is a really great video! After watching just two videos, I hit subscribe. Keep these videos coming, they've amazing quality value!

Nice man I love your videos I want to ad the 70s and 80s electronic sounds to my modern tracks I have a Roland Jupiter 6 and a jp8000 I also get great sounds from my electribe

Amazing work! Would love to hear it with some drums too 👍🏼

This is great !

Awsome videos man, you are really skilled :)

Amazing!!!

Fantastic! :-)

this is fantastic, thanks!

this is extremely cool. thanks for posting that.

Oh man, that was great

Awesome!

Hay, thanks. Been trying to get someone to lay out instrument parts. The strength of the synth is how well it can do a flute, right ! Sub for this vid alone

Nice. It makes me wanna buy a micro, or another mini...or another Volca keys...;)

just suscribed amazing content!!

And now - some wind effects by routing radio static into the MicroBrute and playing around with the filters!

another great demo from SynthMania, it sounded really great but would have been great if we had see you actually playing it :-o

Nice vibe, thx!

i repeated this arpeggio on Dune 3. But this monotron thing is awesome

Excellent . wow very very imspiring !!

“And now let’s put it all together” could you do a video on that part? I am curious what this looks like in your multitrack setup...is it four (or so?) continuous audio tracks? Or do you record say 1 measure of the bass then copy paste a hundred times through the song? And the buzzy / noises sounds...same question, juts an 8 bar buzzy sweep dropped in or is that its own continuous track?

The composition above reminds me very much of the German Soundtrack (incidental music) for Captain Future, by Christian Bruhn, from 1980....: Very nice!

A probe lands on a dead planet, and starts taking measurements. It finds another probe, which is almost inoperable. The new probe offers to repair the old one in exchange for some information.

You Stuntman!

I think Edgar Froese would have approved :-)

Awesome. Not just because you did it on the microbrute but even more so because the composition really again has some classic tangerine dream style. It's not kitsch but a few chilling themes that provoke fantasies in the listeners mind and some athmosphere. TD would have added some percussion sounds probably but the core is there. Oh and of course the track rather would be 30 minutes long than just 5 ;-)

Insane 😍

Great video and tutorial, did you use any DAW for recording it or its the Microbrute and monotron alone? Thanx

That's awesome buddy, Monotron Delay it's really a must have for all Synth-lovers...I recently made a piece for the Monotron for my Thesis at collegue. It written down to paper(graphic sheet),...you know what, I could send it to you, and you could give your own interpretation... buonanotte!!!

Hi, SynthMania, first of all, thank for your your so explainatory and creative videos, those are being jewels to me. After DJing, I'm beginning into the producing world, and I have a question... Do you think the Monotron will do good for Dub? (Not Dub techno, but Dub) Thank you!

Klaus Schulze love that.

this is beautiful, thanx