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RichSelby
Великобритания
Добавлен 11 окт 2011
Er... what on earth are those things you're playing? No, they're not calculators. They're purpose-made small cheap synthesizers called Pocket Operators, sold by a Swedish company called Teenage Engineering. Each one has it's own speciality, e.g. bass, melody, voice samples... They can also be wired together to play in sync, which is what you mostly hear me doing here.
Before music, my hobby was Lego. You can also see an old interview I did with the BBC where I talk about the adult fan of Lego scene.
I live in London with 1 wife, 2 kids, 9 Pocket Operators and 1cat.
Before music, my hobby was Lego. You can also see an old interview I did with the BBC where I talk about the adult fan of Lego scene.
I live in London with 1 wife, 2 kids, 9 Pocket Operators and 1cat.
Sabre Dance | Pocket Operator + Woovebox
Who's up for an old Soviet Union propoganda tune? From a ballet?
"Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance is from his 1942 ballet Gayane. On a collective farm, the young woman Gayane’s husband is reprehensible (a kidnapper, arsonist and drunkard). The Red Army Border Guard helps solve the farm’s problems, and Gayane’s too, and she now marries the noble leader of the Guards. The marriage features celebratory regional dances." And one off those dances would be this, the Sabre Dance.
Wonder how the whole red guard marriage thing worked out?
There are so many great covers of this dance out there, Woody Herman's big band jazz from 1948 is one of the best.
My bleepy version is played mostly on 5 Teenage Engin...
"Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance is from his 1942 ballet Gayane. On a collective farm, the young woman Gayane’s husband is reprehensible (a kidnapper, arsonist and drunkard). The Red Army Border Guard helps solve the farm’s problems, and Gayane’s too, and she now marries the noble leader of the Guards. The marriage features celebratory regional dances." And one off those dances would be this, the Sabre Dance.
Wonder how the whole red guard marriage thing worked out?
There are so many great covers of this dance out there, Woody Herman's big band jazz from 1948 is one of the best.
My bleepy version is played mostly on 5 Teenage Engin...
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Big Noise From Winnetka | Pocket Operator
Просмотров 1122 месяца назад
My first back garden jam of 2024. The tune dates from 1938, and was composed by Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc. It started out as an instrumental jam, with double-bass, whistled melody and lots of drums. The tune caught on, lyrics were added, and it appeared in vintage movies etc. But just check out this brilliant Black&White version by the Bobcats here on RUclips ruclips.net/video/KfFBdViZHzk/виде...
Elizabethan Serenade | Woovebox
Просмотров 1812 месяца назад
You probably know this tune but can't quite put your finger on it. It was composed by Ronald Binge in 1951 as an instrumental for the Mantovani orchestra and became widely used on radio and TV in the 1950s and 60s. It also spawned a hideous pop version with lyrics as well as a much better reggae version. I've synthesised it on the amazing Woovebox. About time there was an electronic version out...
Bach Goes To Town | Woovebox
Просмотров 2272 месяца назад
Maybe you've heard this one played by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra? It's a jazzy fugue, with three voices twisting and turning, composed by Welsh composer Alec Templeton in1939. Lacking a 20 piece band, my version is played the Woovebox. I also used a Maker Hart Loop mixer. Even though there was only one soundsource, it was good to have 3 separate outputs from the one mixer (speaker, headpho...
Bird's Lament | Pocket Operator + Woovebox
Просмотров 2563 месяца назад
An electronic version of Bird's Lament, by Moondog from his 1997 album Sax Pax for a Sax. Good news, they play nicely together. The ostinato comes from the Woovebox, the rhythm, samples and melody come from 4 Pocket Operators (PO-33 K.O., PO-16 Factory, PO-12 Sub, PO-128 Megaman). The Woovebox can output PO sync pulses, so it sets the tempo and the POs follow. The vocal samples are taken from a...
Ace of Spades on Pocket Operators
Просмотров 4423 месяца назад
Bach Cello Suite on the Woovebox
Просмотров 1643 месяца назад
Bach Cello Suite no.1 | Woovebox
Просмотров 2553 месяца назад
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major. BWV 1007. The one Yo-Yo Ma plays. Except it's in D and entirely synthesised on the Woovebox. Programmed from scratch by myself, as I get to grips with this tiny little groovebox. Questions for the Woovebox community: I ran out of patterns, so had to split across 5 different songs then edit together in iMovie. Does anyone know - can you join fragments from diff...
Metamorphosis One Philip Glass | Woovebox
Просмотров 4754 месяца назад
My first recording on the Woovebox. It might look like a Pocket Operator, but the programming technique is completely different. The tune is Metamorphosis One by Philip Glass, released in 1988. I figured the repetitive structure would suit the Woovebox's fragment-based workflow.
Money For Nothing | Pocket Operator version
Просмотров 7474 месяца назад
Musical mash-up of Money For Nothing by Dire Straits and Money Money Money by Abba. Played on four Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators: PO-33 Knock Out, PO-16 Factory (2 of 'em) and PO-14 Sub. And one PO-99 Cat.
Amarcord | Pocket Operator Version
Просмотров 1575 месяцев назад
The tune is called Amarcord, composed by Nino Rota for the film of the same name, directed by Frederico Fellini. I have arranged it for 3 Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators - PO-32 Tonic, PO-16 Factory and PO-128 Megaman. Whooshy hissy reverb c/o the Korg Monotron Delay. Originally recorded for #jamuary2024
Vivaldi Winter / Storm Isha | Pocket Operator version
Просмотров 1345 месяцев назад
Storm Isha brought servious havoc to the UK this January. As the storm raged outside, I sampled a BBC Radio 4 News bulletin warning of storm damage and combined it with bits of Winter from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Attention, gearheads: the melody is played on a pair of Teenage Engineering PO-16 Factory units (plural "Factories" sounds wrong), bass on the PO-14 Sub, and voices on the PO-33 Knock ...
New Teenage Engineering FP-1
Просмотров 3515 месяцев назад
I travelled to Stockholm, broke into the top-secret Teenage Engineering design bunker, and made-off with the prototype for the new Teenage Engineering FP-1. This revolutionary music-making device is targeted at a younger demographic than their previous products, but still has the same contemporary design-aesthetic. #jamuary2024
Bach Gavotte en Rondeau | Pocket Operator version
Просмотров 836 месяцев назад
A few bars of J.S. Bach's Gavotte en Rondeau, BWV1006, from Violin Partita No. 3.I don't have a violin, so instead I played it on 4 Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. I'm sorry, I was unable to resist the obvious gag. J.S. Bach. Bark. Groan. I'll get my coat. #bach #jamuary2024 #pocketoperator
This is a fun and wacky arrangement! I like it a lot.
@@mechantechatonne thanks, glad you liked it
better than the original
Praise indeed. Thanks
I just watched this through with my jaw open, and then had to watch again. I wish I had the wit to manage this kind of live sequencing setup. I love playing and improvising but one instrument at a time is just about manageable. This works really well and Axel F fits so well that I hardly noticed the change! Enjoyed it very much.
Thanks very much, I don't think it's half as good as what you do with your inventive weekly jams+ instrument design skills.
gosh, i love the format, hope the algo picks up on it.
Thanks very much.. You can give it a hand by sharing, liking, subscribing etc
I love the enthusiasm and energy behind this. So trippy and blippy. Awesome work!
Thanks, mutual appreciation going on here. Small world of people recording songs for multiple Pocket Operators in 2024
Damn... This is bumpin'. I like the flare and variety behind this work. Never fail to impress!
Much appreciated!
Awesome 👍
Thanks 🤗
Genius, Richard 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Angie, very kind of you.
🔥🔥🔥
牛逼
Very cool!
I feel the the urge to sing this song is just a whim away.
ok. not nearly as hard as actually playing the song on drums or bass, but ok.
Ace stuff! Sounds like star wars cantina music, a symphony for droids haha. Hope the guys at Teenage Engineering get to see this, I think it's what they had in mind when they designed the gear.
Thanks very much, symphony for droids is a great title. Sadly, I think TE are way past caring about Pocket Operators these days. They've forsaken the cheap end of the market.
groovy
So you're the new operator with your pocket calculator huh?
They only look like calculators
Guy just keeps pointlessly touching knobs that aren't even doing anything. DJ 101
Awesome! Bach works so well with these modern day instruments!
Do you have a Spotify page? I really love your covers, it would be awesome to be able to add them to my playlists 💛 Keep up the amazing work!
I'm afraid I don't. Clearing the rights with the publisher is a hurdle.
Ah, fantastic! (I think I noticed this a little late… maybe I should actually break my universal rule and actually click on the notification bell…) I didn’t recognise the tune at all but am going to seek it out. It works really well as an electronic thing, especially with the way you’ve chosen/designed such 70s-sounding patches! One of the main lead ones, with (what sounds like?) a filter envelope on every note, sounded 100% 70s-TV-theme to me - absolutely brilliant. I’m glad to see you’ve mastered the bizarre-fragment-length trick to get different timings, although I sympathise that you had to 😃 (And all of mine are .WAV exports as well - usually I just leave the wire connected to a speaker to trigger some sound-sensitive lights or something, and edit the WAV file in separately. Incidentally I have only ever found one (Mac) program that can interpret the exported WAV, which is Fission by Rogue Amoeba. I have to re-export from there to get a file usable in anything else. No idea why but I hope for a fix sometime.) There’s something brilliantly jaunty but understated about your arrangements - they’re always filled with interesting sounds and great arrangement choices, at the same time as being really delicately balanced and not overly in-your-face. In short, they sound like actual musical pieces rather than novelty performances. Fantastic.
Thanks for the kind words - and paying attention. Good to know the Mac/wav struggle is real. Must check out that Fission thing. I just uploaded to a random cloud converter. Your recordings sound fine, so it must be a better quality conversation. May I ask, what format do you convert to?
@@richselby7878 Usually 44.1kHZ 16-bit stereo WAV. At first I deliberately chose a different format just to be certain the software was actually rewriting it, but that ended up not being necessary. In Fission at least, as long as you press Export, it rewrites/rebuilds even if you choose the same format you're already in. It's a very simple program but surprisingly often more handy than my full-featured DAW - recommended!
Very fun ! Thanks for the tech description, I like this little insight on your music journey.
like the homage to Woody Allen. Nice touch.
Thanks but no idea what you mean.
This is great! 👍🏻
Thanks very much, Mr DeLuge, for being the first to comment. I think I'm going to like your synthstrom tracks a lot
Thank you. I’ve registered for a Woovebox and think it’d really suit my workflow and I do like small, powerful DAWless music production gear 😀
@@DavidDeLuge After coming from the Deluge, I think the small buttons and cryptic screen abbreviations might take some getting used to.
I’ve watched a number of videos and the UI does seem to be very intuitive. I’ll definitely give it a go 😀
Loved everything of this!😮 Moondog and Pocket Operators?!? Great playing skills btw! Thank you so much for sharing! 👍
Thanks very much, I love it when somebody takes the time to comment
@@richselby7878 Pleasure! So glad to found your channel! 👍
This reminded me of the cover of this song made by Moog Cookbook - but this was way cooler! Great stuff
Nice setup!! Check your volume levels boss. Seemed like your channels could be better balanced for volume <3
For sure. This was my first time using the Maker Hart mixer. Gotta get used to it
Pretty cool. I hear the theme from "Get a Move On," by Mr. Scruff. :-)
Indeed. You'll find Moondog in Mr Scruff's record collection, for sure. Check out the original on Sax Pax for a Sax, it's terrific.
Oooh love it! Reminds me of the Alabama 3 version ✌️🥰
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This is the first time I’ve seen a video of Hotel California stay up a whole year. Usually the Eagles are militant about copyright strikes.
Tempting fate! Or perhaps it's different enough?
@@richselby7878 Either way your work is EXCELLENT!
@@EverettVinzant thank you very much. Do check out some of the other stuff too
Unbelievably sick
That's a sweet jam. How are you liking the Woovebox?
Thanks very much. Although you have to spend time programming both systems, when I'm ready to record, I feel like I'm playing my Pocket Operators but with the Woovebox, I feel like I just press play. However, much greater flexibility on the Woovebox with chords and patterns. For my next tune, I've combined the two systems. Fortunately, the Woovebox outputs PO sync pulses and even comes with a splitter cable, meaning it's easy to wire into my PO desk. But now am waiting for a new mixer because the WB is, shock horror, stereo, which sounds bad through my mono Bastl Dude mixer.
Cool 😊👍🏼
This is my request for more SPEAK PO 35 doo wop!
This is just amazing! It's got a very 1960s vibe to me - I think because the sound design evokes space-aged ambient stuff at the same time as retro electronic organ, plus there's a whole Switched-On Bach thing going on :-) (also I detected the moment of 'sheep may safely graze' in there, which my wife has been urging me to do a Woovebox version of...) Such a creative arrangement. Amazing range of sounds and moods and was very hard not to dance to. On your questions: - joining fragments of different songs together - no, I'm certain this isn't possible. I suspect it never will be because the different songs contain different effects parameters, delay lengths, sound patches etc, and moving from one song to another would potentially mean releases/reverbs from song 1 would still be playing once song 2 took over -> more processing than the device can handle. - adjusting tempo within a pattern - no, no way to do so. I am confident in my answer to that because I asked the developer. I was checking for software updates every day until I finally achieved it by exporting at 5 different BPM settings and editing them together! - vibrato - yes indeed. On the Pitch page, you can set an LFO with a triangle or sine wave shape to affect the pitch, by how much and at what speed. And on individual steps, you can adjust the behaviour to implement or ignore the default LFO.
Well you found it eventually. I figured it was unlikely to pass without a decent comment when you did. Thanks for the kind words and answering the qs. I've not yet worked up the courage to enter the LFO pages. Modular synth gobbledegook here I come.
WoW! That’s Awesome! Have a great week!
Thanks Juan
Lets hope its better than their «record cutter» 😂lol
Great!
impressive !!
How have I only just noticed this, a month late? Pure joy - congratulations! Your showmanship increases every time! Also, I feel it important to say: you’re doing important work. Never doubt it.
Fantastic! Welcome to the club :-) Some lovely sound design there - and this piece works perfectly. I could totally imagine it looping forever, with some kind of generative algorithm turning the parts on and off almost at random. Great stuff indeed, and a challenge to raise my game…
You found that quickly! Sound design pretty much involved random filter settings.
Terrific! Made my night!
you rule
Awesome PO setup and sound! You are skilled at programming these devices!! New sub! Stay in touch fam! 🎧🔥💯
Thanks, for sure
I cud by one because it’s very expensive and there ist you
Great vibe’zz thank ya!
nice job, im curious do you have them all taped down? would love to see a rundown of your setup for these pocket operator renditions
Lego baseboard prevents the POs and other gear from skating all over the place. Gravity plus studs. When i play live I add a bit more lego and velcro straps so it can even be turned upside down
That's such a fantastic solution; modular, cheap and effective. thanks for sharing and replying on an old video. I might steal this idea 💡@@richselby7878
Hotel Castlevania!
What da
holy fuck! this is great! keep pushing!