Amazing. Looking forward to all you do with Dave!

That has to be THE most expensive new set back drop I’ve ever seen. :)

9:24 - now that's what I call the 70's experience - the designers even included Milton Bradley's 'Battleship' game on the interface :D

I’d never be able to sneak that in! 😂

I have no idea how this all actually works, but I'm extremely happy it exists.

I don't have the synth ear to properly appreciate the finer differences in sound (this synth's filters vs. others), but the whole apparatus with the knobs and the dimly lit VU meters, and the grid with the pins... blimey... it makes me feel all tingly inside. PS: Thanks also for the sample. The synth version of "pulling out all the stops". Come to think of it, there are actually a lot of parallels between big church organs and a synth of this magnitude.

Thanks for taking one for the whole team! We've all been curious about the Colossus but would never be able to have a play - and few, if any, of the people who bought this amazing synth would ever show much of it to the public - but I'm sure we'll be seeing it used often here on your channel. And thanks so much for the Doom Drone!

I’ve been eyeing this synth for a while now. there’s so much potential in this system. Would take some time to understand it all but it really looks appealing to me. Will definitely follow your progress if you post more of these!

Love the shoutout to Afrorack here!

I'm always happy when another Modular Monday comes along! (Whether it's Monday or not...) My modular journey started, in part, because of you! I hope to see loads more episodes in this series!

I am slightly envious of all the ridiculous amounts of fun you will undoubtedly have with that machine... and also very excited to use the samples.. I just discovered Labs samples and pianobook a few weeks ago, and it has opened up so many possibilities as an artist on a shoestring budget.. much love 🙏

Fun demo of the monster synth, loved enthusiasm. And lovely bit at the end there, I am eager to find out more about them! Thanks for sharing that.

The Colossus is such an amazing machine! And yep... beautiful initiative the one by afrorack! Thanks for sharing.

Great video, what a beautiful synth. Looking forward to all that you do with it, and thanks for highlighting such a cool charity

Support for afrorack, instant like and subscribe! Also the AS colossus is such a beautiful synth. Well done Tom

@7:56 "drops $30K on synthi 100 clone, writes new Eurythmics hit" :D in all seriousness what a great piece of hardware, thanks for taking us in for a look and listen.

WOW! Everything about this video is just WOW! Thanks for the amazing sample,i will be busy with it as no doubt you will be busy with this synth!! lol

Dude! Those samples are CRAZY! Thank you so much. Love them

Sounds absolutely immense, congratulations on your new arrival!

WOW What a sound🤯 - and what a beauty🤩 And I love the concept of AfroRack!

I was so touched by the message at the end. Good video

What a fat sound it has. Very cool. I like seeing you going deeper into the modular synth stuff as well as the support Spitfire is giving to more experimental music and sounds.

I never clicked so fast before... These samples sound fantastic! :D Thank you!!!

I’m so looking forward to hearing some ‘never heard THAT sound before’ stuff coming out of Dave. He truly is a beast!

Every video I watch from you tells a story. One of you being an industry professional, you being sincere in every aspect and I am lucky that I can watch you talk shop. Nice one Mr Henson

ive alwyas been a fan of Analogue Solutions. but this thing here is beyond words. not only the most beautifuly synth ive ever seen. it is also the most beautiful piece of ferniturte i have ever seen. absolutely tremendous!!!!

How did I miss this video? Fantastic Christian. Thanks! 👏

Wow! Thank you for letting us know about Afrorack.

Thanks very much for the download, I am definitely going to be using the doom drone in my next mad amen jungle/d&b track

Sounds most excellent. Thanks for sharing Christian. You are having fun...lol.

Thank you for this video and for the Kontakt free insturment! Dave sounds amazing *__*

Excellent video Christian!

Red pins are 10K resistors. Use them primarily for mixing audio and "multing" CV. For example, for all 12 oscillators, use red pins to the filter. Black pins are 0K and you can use them for CV and audio.

Oh my! When they announced that synth it was made of unobtanium and priced like it. Congrats on getting one of those. It will be like the GX-1 and future synth that is rare and so very desirable. Can't wait to see you put it to use.

Oh my. I just got a SYNTRX (synthi AKS) which is amazing. This is beyond all levels of amazing. Congrats!

That is freaking awesome! You have a proper unit there!

Big fan of the products that Analogue Solutions put out. There seems to be a true love of analogue circuitry in the designs. And many of the people that dig such things seem to be able to make some really wild sounds that I most certainly can get down with. Looking forward to hearing what you do with this, good sir.

That's awesome, have fun with it. Thanks for the samples, and taking the time to do that. Much appreciated. Cheers.

I was lucky enough to see the EMS Synthi 100 that probably inspired this beast. Tom from Analogue Solutions was restoring one, that if memory serves was acquired from a university music department. I assume the experience of restoring that monster is what lead him to create the Colossus. The EMS reminded me of that other analogue giant, the ARP 2500, that was also found mostly in university music laboratories. Fascinating to hear the Colossus in action - I can also recommend Alex Ball's video where he produces a brilliant track on an ARP 2500.

Wau . This is crazy cool synth. What an elegance beast.

This is such a sweet sound! Love it!

Christian, I love when you talk modular! I'm going to run this drone through my Eurorack! 👊😁🤓🙌

That's a gorgeous piece of kit!

WOW! What a beauty! 8:00 moment THE SOUND!!!! I believe I've travelled :) Thank you, Christian for sharing your experience with us. Can't wait to play with the sounds!

Loved this video!!! For the record, I was very much enjoying the sequence before you shut it off. :)

that is maybe the best sounding osc>filter i've ever heard

Seeing how happy this makes you honestly makes my heart sing! 😂

Excellent. Start to finish.

P.S. Incredible to see that you got this, sitting down to such a monumental work of art should feel incredible. Wonder what outputs it will gift you

Sounds really amazing!

Anticipating some great evolutions, good luck Christian!!!

AS has outdone themselves with Collosus. A next gen Synthi 100, awesome.

One of my first synths was an Analogue solutions, I used it too much, so I was thinking, nah man, I will sell it and get something else for my sound palette . One month later, I missed it so much I had to get a new one. Got a really good deal. I dont intend to make that mistake again. Just wish ASOL had legato over midi. Wish the Nyborg12 was still available to purchase, would love to own one. Such a shame that UK is not in the EU anymore, the prices has gone up and I can no longer afford to support ASOL :( I asked Tom a million times if he could please do the Telemark filter in euro, and suddenly one day it was there, this is my favorite filter in my euro case, it doesnt have all the bells and whistles, but the sound, mmmm wow. Congrats on this beast, as a sound designer this makes good sense to own. I would like to hear more patches and demos in combination with drum machines... if you are up for that? I found that I could get some really good dnb basses out of the Telemark when I had that, not that these are the sounds I am particular interested in but it impressed me quite a lot. Not a big fan of the MN aesthetics, I can understand that some people like it, and also its a completely different synth than this one.

10:12 "Might as well JUMP." Out the window. That is sinister!

The Moog synth was something of an icon during my teenage years in the seventies. We nerdy types used to discuss the pros and cons of monophonic and polyphonic keyboards and listen for hours to the likes of ELP. I fondly remember our school buying a synth and going to the lunchtime demo in the music department. I did eventually see Keith Emerson and his monster synth in a live performance many years later. I ended up working in dentistry at an educational establishment and the University invested in a huge high tech teaching aid. It could be described as a 3D virtual phantom head and it allowed students to drill away virtually on 3D teeth with the full feel of doing it for real and I am almost certain it was manufactured by Moog.

This is more I"ve ever dreamed of and so much more! The most beautiful oscillators I've ever heard, the most beautiful filters I've ever heard, the most beautiful spring reverb I've ever heard.... And all in STEREO (sometimes it almost seems like its binaural... simply incredible)

That is the most beautiful synth in the world. I must be thankful that I am not eligible for such an instrument and those who are may learn to express and share their stories. As human beings, it is the stories that we tell that shape who we are. The various waveforms, cycles, and changes that we go through all give us a different perspective to offer. It would be great to see in the future a video on a person who was able to explore their love of sound, learn to be creative, share their story with their community, and reaching far corners of the globe from this action.

BRAVO, Outstanding 🎶👍

Dave is an impressive looking piece, and it appears to be very well crafted. I was in on synthesizers from the early days and spent a lot of time on an ARP 2500 with matrix patching. It's nice to not have the cable clutter. What fascinates me about Eurorack today, though, is all the developers making some truly amazing modules that I only have the time to partially understand and explore (and obviously, some digital spin is what makes these newer modules capable of doing some wild things). For me, the drawback of Dave would be having a lot of the same thing and less serendipity and magic, because I believe I would totally understand what everything in Dave does. I'm going to be really interested in seeing what you create with it. To me, even though it has a lot of iterations of various modules, I would think it might have sonic limitations. I hope you prove me wrong. Having logged in a lot of time years ago with the purist analog stuff, I do like the newly enhanced modules with some digital integration. I find I can take a couple of modules, a couple of patch cords, and quickly be in some pretty crazy and interesting territory. In the old days, with pure, basic analog stuff, it was harder to come up with something truly different, and it took a LOT of time.

Wow looks so much better in your vid than on analog solutions website!

You are incredible! Thank you!

I'd love a studio tour of all the synths on your rack in the background.

Not gonna lie I subbed to see u play this more, a bunch more!

Simply incredible.

“A bit floppy down there” Oh Dave 😂

That actually gave me goose-bumps.

Can I have a go? Looking forward to hearing more of that wonderful machine.

I'm so glad people are still making these enormous synthesizers in the vein of the EMS Synthi 100 and the ARP 2500. Incredible machines. No way I'll ever own one but I'm glad they exist. I'm waiting for the day someone invents the pinboard where the deeper you push the pin in, the stronger the modulation/signal routing gets. Wouldn't that be something!

Analog Solutions makes some nice sounding gear. I'm glad to see they are still pumping out some pretty respectable gear.

The sound😍😍😍. So warm

I have nothing to do with music to be honest... but the visual design of this piece is so pleasing to me... I literally want my kitchen cabinets in this design.. everything in my office... the entire house..

Used to live near Tom and bought his sample CD’s when he first started AS. He’s come a long way!! 🤙

Greetings from London! You lucky man! Dave is indeed the 'second' synth in the world. I used to have DigiSound 80 ( modified by AS...I used to live in Penzance). I had to sell it 15 years ago, one of the most regrettable thing I've ever done. I may get it back though......

this video makes my day!!!!

funny seeing this after getting aperture the stack...Dave is a beast!

Pin matrixes are absolutely the way to go. It is a shame that they aren’t really practical for most non-prebuilt systems

So you get to make music AND play Battleship?! Love it

Very nice looking cabinet.

Wow!!! Keep up the amazing work!!! Love and light from Khao Lak, Thailand 🇹🇭 ☀️🏖🌴🥥🐘🌈

Wow! I remember seeing Deadmau5 drooling over this on a livestream. Sure enough he bought one!

This thing reminds me a little of the EMS synthi 100 to look at but it's certainly something else altogether - More musical for a start!!. One of these must cost a bomb !! A lovely synthesiser, mate :-)

Hi Christian, fabulous! I can hardly believe that a colossus lives so close. Please, please, please can I come and worship at the altar of Dave? ...and to think when I first met you, you thought that modular was just a trendy hipster effects box. This is a pure monumental electronic musical instrument. Cheers, jONi

"I'm going to sample the bejeezus out of this." woo-hoo, thanks Christian!!

Hot DAYM, cannot wait for the coming videos

I got goosebumps listening to this machine of pure distilled fucking brilliance. Might be my new dream synth

the second you switched all the oscillators on it felt like a door opened into space, just so much *room* in that sound

That sounds LOVELY! It reminds me a little of my system 100 set (NOT the 100m), with the spring reverb in the mixer, lovely filter(S) and the serial parallel sequencer. This is obviously a grander, more complex, 12 oscillator beauty. Tom's a genius and i think he's based the design loosely on a synthi 100 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMS_Synthi_100 I think Daniel Miller (Of Mute Records) still owns his. I know Jack Dangers had one, and used it on an album, which is somewhere in my CD archive. The radiophonic workshop used them on a lot of things, such as Dr Who, and again, I have the DR WHO soundtracks on a specially compiled BBC CD in the archive too. The original system probably used a variation of the DK3 keyboard for the VCS3, and the keyboards on this look like something from a Buchla style system. I can remember Tom was recommended to me by another friend of mine, who sold me my first system 100 (Which ended up being sold to a guy who came all the way from france to buy it). I wanted to buy two of something he made at the time (cant remember which one it was...a SEM style thing? A vostok?) for live gigs AND for soundtrack use. I think that he only had one in stock, and the lead time was 4 weeks or something, and so i bailed. In any event, he was amiable and helpful. Lord knows what i bought instead :-D Thank you for sharing this & i hope you have enormous fun with it.

I was hoping that you'd be wearing a white coat and laughing maniacally as you fire up the final of those oscillators on the doom drone ... that looks like a mad inventor's toy box. Thanks so much for the sample pack - a definite must-download.

Oooooh - I saw Dave (or one of Dave's twin siblings) at SynthFest 2019 in Sheffield! AWESOME!

Started drooling after 25 seconds :)

Wow. Beautiful.

That was really cool.

That is one gorgeous instrument

Awesome!

For me personally, this is definitely the most beautiful synth of all time. It's not as retro as the synthi 100, but sonically it doesn't make a difference

OMG this is awesome! A lifetime of synth music could come from this. I would buy studio time on this puppy. How many have they made?

Afrorack, what a beautiful idea! ❤️

Amazing synth

You’re a madman!! 😍 (Slew limiter - portamento)

Awesome synth