Try adding a phaser and a touch of reverb to the strings.

All I will say is, don’t blindly follow trends. Work out what’s best for you. If your workflow gets killed, you’ll end up making no music at all

Digital is much better than analog.

the inspiration im getting from this video alone is crazy

only the lowest of IQ listen to music on their phone speaker

Excellent video, great playing and lovely laid back vibes. My first ever synth back in the late 80s was the DX21, it had the same sounds but you could layer 2 of them and there was also a great built in analogue chorus effect. I spent many happy hours playing and programming that synth and it always sounded great live too. It was the DX 21 that started my love of synths and sound exploration which is still continuing some 40 years later. Thanks for bringing back the sounds from my youth.

Well first of all Unison is not a good example of software or VSTs, they overhype and over charge for cartoon packaging of already available plugins in most DAWs.

You should have released this on VHS...

Model name of the cat??

I recorded my first music on cassette, and I recently DID open a 20 year old Ableton session - it worked!

people ARE appreciating analog again! But Digital... is rising exponentially in the 21c Gotta come to terms with it, and make something interesting with it - or better - both: DigALog!

Here's the thing. I'm not at all against using hardware to make music. But with the cost of pretty much everything being astronomically high these days, most of us have no choice but to do most of the work in the box. That's just how it is. I can't just go and record a 50 piece string section. I don't have a Steinway Grand Piano lying around. Hell, I can't even afford a basic 8 track tape machine. At the end of the day, a piece of music is done is better than one you try and perfect for days on end. If you can afford hardware, by all means go for it. If you can't just do it in the box. A finished song is a 1000 times better than a song you try and perfect for months, and years even. Get shit done.

Can you play a song ? Or anything the same way twice ? lol

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Love seeing tape Mello on master before going to reeeeeel tape. I do the same 😂

i do hybrid. make my music on hardware, goes through an analoge mixer that can stream all its channels into ableton, and then i do some processing. My arrangement is purely based on jamming patterns out live and record them in ableton. I find nowadays that plugins sound really good. But i dislike working in ableton, because its not tactile enough. Thats why i dont use softsynths at the moment, because most controllers only offer so much knobs. maybe 8 knobs for macro things. The MP midi controller is an exception, because that thing is revolutionairy in controller land. In the 90s i worked also with external synths, used cakewalk for midi sequencing. And it came together in an analog mixer. Because at that time i hadnt or couldnt afford DAT tape or anything else, so i recorded on cassette tape. I still need to digitalize some of it. I find that DIY workflow very inspiring, and hands on. I partly agree with you that having a physical thing with your music is nice. But then comes the question, can you afford it? I would very much like to record on a tape machine, but where do i go from there? Most music now is distributed digitally, so it has to come in the digital realm at some point. Lately ive been thinking about buying an old tascam portastudio, and record the track on cassette, and then digitize it. Non-linearity is great, but it is not cheap. But what i dislike in working in a digital environment, that plugin companies seem to think that more functions is better. I disagree with that, and i really like working within limitations, because i get more creative that way.

If this is engagement bait, it worked. I'll be checking out your drum sample pack

Yeah, not gonna spend 12k just to playback 8 channels on tape

lol bold statement

Whoever uses A.I Your not a real musician.

this is why i love listening to the radio with my old speakers, when i turn on public access and hear a song that matches the time period of one of my sound systems i cant help but to feel like its an experience

LOL! 'Digital is dying'?? What utter baloney! Film is still a specialist reserve for the wealthy and not the masses. However, in the realms of digital, what may be dying is the art of taking and producing a quality image without relying on gimmicks such as A.I.

this is satire right?

You look exactly like the guy who would say this

What, pray tell, is that out to song. It’s like heaven music

More synths please

Listening on this on Digital rn

I've got a TX802, which is basically a DX7II in a rack unit. The early FM synths are a nightmare to programme, but there are some amazing sounds in there. Love your video editing skills and presentation by the way.

This feels like a bit from Portlandia.

Think I have an idea how you lost your voice

KZfaq randomly put this video in my feed I’m glad it did awesome sounds you made and thank you for download I’ve subscribed too

As a music producer and music lover. I can confirm everything in this video. Digital music just doesn’t have that feeling. Analog may be more inferior but that’s what makes it superior the imperfections add to the experience and make it something totally different.

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bro I can't even afford housing and you think I can afford going analog, crazy

I've been "stuck in the box" for about 25 years. Honestly, I spent a lot of that time convincing myself I wasn't missing anything. It was some sort of jedi self-mind-trick because I knew deep down that I was jumping through lots of hoops (plugin chains galore) and still not getting that sound that just comes naturally out of the real deal. Honestly I did this because I was functionally poor. I knew I'd never be able to afford what I considered the best analog synths (Minimoog, Arp, etc), and It makes sense I didn't want to hang that depressing fact over my head. But a couple years ago I noticed all of these analog synths hitting the market at an affordable cost, many of which carried those old sounds. Now I have 4 analog synths and I almost never use anything in-the-box synth-wise. It's no exaggeration to say I've never had more enthusiasm for creating sounds and music. I'm also now more keenly aware of what I'm probably missing across the board, particularly when it comes to saturation and distortion. All together, the difference is like a "convincing" CGI in a movie that you nevertheless know is not real. So long as you don't pay too close attention, it doesn't bother you. But as soon as you can spot it, the spell is broken.

I believe in FM superiority.

Yes, awesome video

I get all my phone synthesizer sounds (DX7 emulator) through a tube preamplifyer and all my clients believe it's the MS20 or Virus or Prophet 6 that I photoshopped into my back yard. There's something about the borromean knot in there, but I'm just an audio engineer.

And if it is the case that ‘digital is dying’ (it’s really not) then there will be a subset of individuals who posses an affinity that happens to be whatever the opposite of the ‘norm’ is in this hypothetical era. I would argue that there has been a cultural shift towards harsh mixes, those that are typically found in the digital realm of music making (consider: Brat). Dunno, man. Seems like a somewhat baseless accusation.

Agreed

Music on the phone is the equivalent of music on a transistor radio with a 2" paper cone in a plastic box. While I broadly agree with your deeper point about musical skill, your argument dies under emotive arguments (somewhat) invented to suit your feelings. My tape deck no longer works. Several of my hardware synths died. Since I went 100% DAW (Reason) my projects are backed up. While tech change will occur, as long as I care to, I will drag my project archive from SSD to FishTankDrive. 🙂

I sold my DX27 thinking that FM7 was just as good. Nothing beats hardware. The timpani patch on this has inspired so many songs for me. And of course solid bass.

I disagree with almost all statements in the video. It seems like music production is mixed up with mastering and rendering. You can happily create a song in your DAW, but render it to whatever medium you want to, that being a WAV file or an MP3 file on your disk, or you can target compact disc (although you also need to render it into a file first, hmm) etc. I don't see how recording directly to a tape reel is comparable with having a project in your DAW + be able to record it to the tape reel at any point in future.

Says the wanabee youtube content creator 🙄

"How many times have you adjusted an EQ curve that wasn't engaged and thought you heard a change?".... Stop talking directly to me.

I think that rendering all project to audio should be default practice. In ableton it is just one function. I bet in Logic it’s similar.

while this is a great video, i think it misses the discussion of art within production/electronic/digital production. ableton/logic/etc are instruments within itself, you can set limitations in those and "produce greatness". they are instruments just as a guitar is. i believe there's an art in "polished clean" sounds just as i believe there's an art in "analog warm" sounds too. one of the most pioneering electronic artists even said "pop music should be about who can make the loudest, brightest thing" and look at her. she's a staple to so much club, sound designing and electronic music even post-death. TL:DR: digital and analog art both great art forms and they both forms of arts that can have limitations and be treated as an instrument. its about taste and skill at the end of the day (in my opinion lol)

I just had a happy accident myself.

Great video, specially the clarification at the end. I agree that we should get better as musicians, practice more, and stop hyperediting/comping everything cause it does kill some of that magic that I look for in a lot of the music I enjoy. But... the Jodorowsky quote... man, I really can't understand how that guy is taken even slightly seriously.

There is a way not super expensive to have an analog studio? Like, i would love to have an SSL console but... I really cant afford it 😬