So, a few weeks after this review while using it every day the only thing I can do is to bow deeply to mister kreimer! Yes, it is difficult to play, yes, often its output is useless but it always sounds unique and it has the broadest horizon of any machine I have! Thank you sir for giving us a machine that finally makes a difference!

In an era when lots of machines are either clones or heavily influenced by products of the past. You've really got to admire a manufacturer creating something entirely novel and deep. It's depth, sound (and price) might not be to everyone's taste, but I bet it builds a cult following and people will be using it well into the future.

'Stimming reviews' is one of the best contents on the internets :)

I just want Stimming to explain hardware to me all day every day.

Thank you for this most creative and spontaneous review. Really highlights what Soma is all about. When I watch Vlad’s video it’s about the journey and discovery. Excellent presentation! I’m on the list, can’t wait!

Thank you for your review! I love how it sounds and you did a great job reviewing! This is very nice to watch as I wait for mine!

I got one quite recently. It is perfect for my experimental setup. Since I worked with the lyra for some time, the build and complexity of this feels familiar. Funny: I actually did not use drum machines at all, since my project concentrates mainly on ambient / ritual / noise.. but when I heard this machine, I was hooked. I am an admirer of Vlad’s “organismic” philosophy. It plays perfectly into my “naive” and deliberate subconscious approach to this. I also bought the pipe, a few days ago and combine it with selfstyled noiseboxes etc. This is a dream for experimentators. If I was looking for an easy - to - use machine though, with ready - made sounds, I would decide for something else. Luckily, I do not need this. So - hail the Pulsar!

What an amazing instrument!!! I'm totally stoked. Also Stimming reviews are so so so cool.

This is awesome 😎 I love the sounds you’re making. Very well explained. I’ve seen other videos where they talk a little bit them go on jamming with it and forget to explain what’s going on. Excellent 🤘🏻

The machine that has the spirit of Peter Christopherson/ Sleazy (Coil/ Throbbing Gristle). He would have loved it playing on this one. Thanks Kreimer, and thanks Stimming for yet another amazing overview.

So it's the final boss of drum machines. Got it.

Camp,amusing,honest, informative and compelling review as usual.Great test drive Stimming.

Explaining why i don’t need one of these in my life only makes it sound even sweeter than before. This thing has character.

Great stuff - been looking forward to this. A future classic machine here.

Beautiful instrument. Thank you for this demo🙏🏼

Some 18 months after ordering and 2 months after shipping, I received mine yesterday. After immediate fiddling about, I returned to this and the loopop video. It hadn't occurred to me until this moment that you two play it very differently. Looking at your final jam, you are approaching it a bit like the Lyra; as a unified single instrument. In contrast, Loopop seemed to approach it more like components on a Eurorack; patching each of the 4 synths into the composition. I appreciate that Vlad has taken conscious steps to create an instrument with such an inviting canvas for different mindsets.

Great review, as always! Video suggestion: Stimming showing how he achieved certain sounds in some of his songs (of our choosing lol).

Really cool description. I like how you are discovering as shoot the video. Feels like i am there experimenting with you. Thanks,

I’ve started listening to Stimming music because of these videos and I’m really enjoying it. Which is funny because normally I listen to Alternative stuff.

The Pulsar-23 is a happy accident machine. I've never owned anything more bizarre, beautiful, and unpredictable. You can't set out to do anything standard with it or truly duplicate what you've done before. This is the beauty of what Vlad has created: a machine that feels alive. Disobedient, even. I have a few videos on my channel if you're curious. :)

I ended up buying a Drumbrute Impact after your video on that... here I am, having pre-ordered a Pulsar 23 looking for more videos on it, and here we are again, I found you again. I feel like I've come full circle somehow :D

I have been waiting a year for mine. I just picked up the blackbox because I can already see that they will make a perfect couple!

It was very brave of Martin to wear headphones during this review. Always looking forward to the next one of these. Thanks!

Well, you did it! Thank you very much. Nice done Stimming.

Thank you Mr. Stimming for your honest approach.. Watching you I’ve got a feel for the vast depth of this machine.. I’ve only had mine for a few days and it’s good to start from a place of truth..

Thank you Mr Stim! I thoroughly enjoy your videos...You make me smile X Come back to Australia, you are always welcome at my place! Come play on our Matrix Brute!

Stimming another master class in synths. Thank you sir for the great videos and education tutorials. You are a force to be reckoned with! Keep up the great work. A drink to world peace.....

hah love the honesty in this! it doesn't seem like an easy machine to review without owning it for some time

Something I love about the design of these Soma machines, so solid-looking, they have a very sexy heft to them. Always enjoy your reviews too Stimming, thanks

Great sound💥

beside lyra8 the most impressive instrument i've ever seen/owned. just got it couple of hours ago!!!

this machine is about as close as one gets (besides the other Soma synth) to an organic fusion between man and machine that I've really ever heard/seen. I have the Lyra 8 machine and I absolutely am floored by its sonic capabilities - alien and powerful. I've been on the waiting list for the Pulsar-23 since December of last year. I wouldn't be surprised if I have to wait another year before my time comes to get it - these are not mass produced machines by any means. Can't wait.

Best synth reviewer by far! Thanks again Stimming.

The way Vlad has Stimming flustered. Never thought i'd see the day. Sign me up

Great review!

We need Stimming to explain how magnets work.

I'm looking forward to the sampling and stacking video Stimming

Love the demo, I feel like I'll be the same way when I get mine. Fun to figure out, frustrating to master.

great honest review, I still need to see what people can do with this machine with it in the mix. for the price Jury is still out but I'm curious.

I know what you mean about the tactility / sensitivity of the machine. I have a Lyra. I would say it's a somewhat limited synth, actually. The Pulsar seems capable of a lot more variety. But I do love using it for its mysterious, instrument-like nature. i feel like I have to charm it. i feel like I'm using the interface from Existenz.

I'm currently selling modules to purchase this. I'm halfway there as of today (thank you Reverb) and this video is very helpful in confirming my future purchase. Seems like a great time passer and very fluid drum machine. I've been really looking for weird to add to my stack.

I'm gonna be one of "those" but... More Stimming forever please! Love these reviews

after couple of months exploring it and if i even know 3 % of it and dig the last rabitt whole on youtube to learn more: this mashine might arguably be one of the greatest instrumnets ever made by human being...imo of course!!

Dude, your ingenuity and honesty is a wonderful beacon in the haze of mediocrity! Much love London.❤️

Hi @Martin Stimming. I love your reviews. You should do a review of 1010 blackbox. The continous upgrades are great (If you don't have 1.5, you will appreciate it). What I think is more important than the features is how you include it in your workflow. I have two workflows. One is for tossing it in the backpack and making sketches, and the other in a live set. I'd love to see how you use it.

I think it's priced well. The fact is, anyone working could eventually save up enough to buy this if they didn't buy other synths for a while. We've become spoilt by cheap chinese clones of old synths and expect everything cheap, then when someone actually makes something decent people still complain.

you need to start a review and tutorial channel, love your work man big time

this goes on mine favourite playlist

impressive review

Oh how I've wanted this video. Can we get Stimming to review household products as well?

I've never seen a reviewer seem so genuinely scared of an instrument 😂 That says everything you need to know about the pulsar lol

Telekom Electronic Beats love it when stimming takes a frustration break! Gold!

Sounds great! :)

One of the coolest, craziest instruments on the planet. I've got some jam vids posted as I continue to learn the ins and outs of this beast.

I didn't knew such a thing exist :o ! Thank you everyone !

I purchased a used Lyra-8 that helped the seller fund his Pulsar-23. I am hoping to get one too some day. :)

According to Soma, Pulsar 23 prize is 1500EUR net + 23%VAT = 1845EUR, DPD insured tracked shipping from Poland 29EUR. Decksaver 60EUR +23%VAT=73,8EUR. Thanks for the detailed review.

First time Stimming doesn´t follow a red line. Wonderful to see him so overwhelmed by the possibilities.

Waiting 1 year this machine!

I feel like they should add a panic button somewhere on this machine

It looks so pretty

sublime, this seems to be of infinite versatility. a video on the alpha base jomox?

It sounds glorious

watching again :-)

from 23:00 onwards it gets really interesting! nice thing to get space filled up in a rythmic construct - id like to hear it layered with a x0x device ..

thank you

Hey Stimming, please look at the Tanzbar 2. You mentioned somewhere that the Tanzbar was among your favourite gear. Would love to hear your take on the 2.

Thank you for your excellent insight into the possibilities of this extraordinary device and helping to identify that it really needs to be approached as an instrument that requires a particular amount of investment in time and dedication to really exploit its potential.

Long live Stimming reviews

Start time for main jam: 31:40 jam time

That would all fit quite nicely behind a Eurorack panel, saving lots of space. Regards.

very interesting

the cable salad would kill me

Great!

this sounds amazing… i would just sample out sequences and put it into a sequencer/sampler instead of playing it live (till mastered)!

The Chris Liebing Records hit maker! I'd like to see you review a Jomox Alpha Base, Vermona DRM III and Division Department 01/IV. With that thing on stage you'll be knocking crocodile clips all over the place!

Purchased 4 months ago, used it intensively every day, my actual response about P23: 50% love, 50% hate. Great creative potential (sounds manipulation) but some unconceivable strangeness too (looper instead of a real sequencer, no real quantizer, different voltage scale issues and more). Of course it's too much expensive considering all the pros and cons. Just my modest opinion.

Very cool. I’d love a cut down version of this that I could understand & afford.

who is this awesome dude, demo-ing a must-have mesmerising machine.

It kind of reminds of trying to learn flying a big jumbojet! - in this case aeroflot...

Stimming is the Morgan Freeman of gear reviews

Great honest review - so many others are just far too positive about what they are reviewing that it becomes hard to trust or get a true sense of what the product is like.

"...most of what you do sounds shit..." hahah! This is a very enjoyable demonstration. More like this with weird, esoteric machines and the awesome Stimming.

The sounds are absolutely my cup of tea :) Sad I'll never be able to afford it, and even if I owned it, never would understand how it works :D Anyways, I think it's quite an impressive device / combination of modules. In a way, I think the 'B Drum Kastle' is some kind of lofi, way way less powerful clone for a 100 bucks :D Don't take it serious ;) They can't be compared. But I guess, they somehow had the same inspiration...

stunning review! whats the recording device used here..?

imagine Czukay recorded by Conny on a free weekend and you got the idea but it looks much muchhhhh better in orange because orange is vitamine c.

Its kind of like the KORG ER1s more agressive insane analog older brother, this is going to be a classic just like the ER1.

Our gear would do well with more of those WTF Knobs!

Oh man. This is stuff of dreams :D

Hi Martin I love you!

Is there anywhere I can learn how to use synths like this and I mean for extreme beginners? I mean teach me about all the cables and knobs on the synth? I am curious about this stuff...

hypnotic

Stimming is stunning ♫꒰･‿･๑꒱

How do I unlearn the midi cc I learned the module to. Say I want to change it or have it not trigger that voice when I press that midi note?

Your way of talking always reminded me of someone but I never knew who exactly Now I just found out , it 's the villain Raoul Silva in the james bond's 'skyfall , played by Javier Bardem :)

even if the video is horrible because this time Stimming really has no idea what he is doing, i really enjoyed it, this just shows how interesting and good the Pulsar is!! If not even Stimming knows what he is doing, this is really a propper beast, you need to learn how to handle! :D

Crazy stuff but i like it !

I'm afraid that if I buy this synth I'll start smoking again. Feels like I'd fiddle with the knobs half an hour and would need a cigarette break immediately. But I NEED IT

36.33 I love this part

I can't wait to see what he does with it in 3 years.