Bad Gear - Philips PMC 100
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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Philips PMC 100 Composer. This 80s groovebox/workstation thing and weird combination of an FM synth and a tape deck is the only Philips instrument that I am aware of. Will it replace your Yamaha DX7?
Watch Simon the Magpie's videos and circuit bending experiments:
• So PHILIPS Made A Synt...
• I Put A Knob Here And ...
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:13 Overview
05:07 Hate
05:35 Jam 1
06:29 Jam 2
07:22 Finale
07:50 Verdict 
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hey i have special request please do the Korg pss-50!! haha its a riot!
Please show the flash cards for long enough to read, not just to register briefly on my retinas.
Yes, I can try to pause it, usually fail, or try playing at a lower speed, but on the whole, I'd rather just be able to read them while watching the videos. Call me picky, but I'm just finding it irritating, today.
Hey for a challenge of REALLY BAD audio gear try to get your hands on a Jen Sound System. Trust me, it's depressing. I know what I'm talking about because I owned one. Probably it's out of place here as it is Apple-II based. But it's a desaster.
I want you to do this video and replace the dog with an Emax II ruclips.net/video/S95iNHkEuX4/видео.html
Do you review MIDI soundfonts? If you want a worse gear in terms of Soundfonts, try installing CrisisGeneralMIDI, Orchestra HQ Traditional Realistic Soundfont or ColomboGMGS2.
I'm glad that, considering the limited space for preset sounds, Phillips felt "bagpipes" were essential enough to earn a spot at #79.
I think it was just a copy paste from a Yamaha chip;)
@@AudioPilz Maybe. Or, perhaps it was actually an international endorsement of all things Celtic. ☘️🌧️🥃🐑
@@supakr115 Aye, son. 🏴
@@AudioPilz It probably was. I checked my humble collection of small Yamaha keyboards and most of them had a bagpipe preset - none of them on #79 though.
You need it for some acdc and iron maiden.
Dunno scorpions, probably
I remember a few serious glinging sessions back in my youth.
I remember a few sessions in my youth where I was glinging onto reality.
Behave!
@Aaron Foltz 3:41
They can't have been all that glinging if you still can remember them ;)
Gling Kong
I've binged 90% of your videos this week. This channel is a hidden gem. Thanks for the content.
Thanks for watching!!!
@@AudioPilz and see you next time
I'm still confused why it has only 50k+ subs.
@@vanibron same here, just found this guy, and his production is great, loving it so far
@@vanibron - It's a magical, but niche, channel but all the more for the true appreciators to enjoy.
It's funny (and a bit sad) how a 36 year old groovebox that AFAIK wasn't even that expensive has a sequencer that makes many modern ones look like toys.
Yeah, the seq on this is deep
Many old, or not so old, sequencers & grooveboxes blow modern ones out of the water
@@DarkSideofSynth I wonder if that's because people needing really powerful sequencing moved onto DAWs during the 90's
@@menhirmike Well, DAWs certainly played a role, but, besides older devices, I have devices from the early 2000s, when DAWs were already quite common. I think it's more a matter of workflow and the styles of music being played. TR-style step sequencing, MPCs and Ableton Live have dominated the market.
Just to name one thing, the fact that some products do not offer live transposability of sequences (something I could do with my Yamaha QY10 in 1990, or with any analogue sequencer) even with expensive products, says it all.
Now they can't compete with a DAW, so for the most part they try to make the hardware more focused, and not as deep. For deeper sequencing grooveboxes, you could look at Akai, Gotharman or Synthstrom products, more than Roland, Korg and Yamaha. The latest big 3 workstation sequencers aren't as thorough as the previous generation, either. And the newer Korg and Roland grooveboxes aren't as deep in sequencing as an old MV-8x00 or MC-909 or an RS-7000 or a Command Station. The MPCs and Force are good in that way. Maybe Maschine+, IDK.
DAWs took over, and for DAWless, people today seem to want lateral fx, p-locks, probabilities etc more than a DAW-style linear or vertical sequencer (unless it's an arcane tracker, I guess), and to use a dedicated sequencer hub running a synth farm of small modules, instead of an all-in-one. But then, for so many of these focused synth and groove modules, it's like, it syncs fine as long as it's the master, which means "it can't sync at all, sorry, but it's steady under its own clock, which is also sent to the MIDI OUT port". With all-in-ones, you don't have to worry about sync, or latency compensation, or different jitter from different modules, and there's no serial bottleneck at a lone MIDI output socket that subsequently has to get split to 5 different modules on different channels, etc. But the less precise and percussive the music, the less any of that matters. I think most people doing that kind of precision stuff will be all ITB, to preserve their sanity, if nothing else. But not everyone, obv. My instruments are mostly still more precise than me, so it's okay either way.
The most amazing fact about this device is : someone made actual music with it.
It doesn't seem like it was built for that;)
Of course someone named Sony would dislike something called Phillips. ;)
@@thesadwolf XD
this dude and simon (magpie) could each make music with nothing but a wooden spoon and a broken coffee maker.
If yall cant make music with anything dont call yourself musicians!
Funny how this channel became something so awesome, tell us summary of synths history, ticking boxes with viewers, mixing genres like bartender, providing memes like real chad, getting reminded by people who want their genres back.
Overall awesome job to keep us mere mortals entertained for quite long time.
Thank you so much!!!
I'm starting to be convinced you take two rocks and make a _Proto-Tribal House-Deep Groove-We're Going to Party like it's B.C. 9999-Jam_ and it'll sound better than anyone could ever expect.
Great work as always. Keep it up!
Thank you so much!!!
I agree! I was just going to write that Florian can make better music with a piece of wooden board than I can make with my music instruments. He's crazy talented. Much respect!
Sounds like a good idea for april fool's jam 😂
Coming this April: Bad Gear - HomeDepot 2X8
You really pulled out all the stops for this little box. Perhaps my favorite episode so far. In a certain sense, it almost feels like a loss leader for the minimum-viable version of the kind of sequencing we would become so reliant on... It /only just/ works, and it's clear the designers had to compromise or were simply technologically limited in several places. A true engineering marvel!
Thank you!!! I liked the daring design language on that one too
This is the ONE thing I look forward to every week.
So did I;)
Another dungeon synth worthy workstation! I can imagine a bunch of people gathering to play 80s d&d and some dude busting one of these out and being like "check out this boss encounter music I made" then throwing on some shades and flexing because everyone was insanely buff in the 80s 💪😎
I'm afraid I'm that dude;)
People weren't insanely buff in the 80s, they just loved to pose. But yes, preferably with shades.
Great comment!!! 😅
I owned one for exactly one Saturday afternoon in the early 90s. During the week I had a holiday job, found this Friday evening in the second hand part of an electronics store. Biked 7km into town on Saturday afternoon, biked back home, connected it up. Holy noise, have to get rid of it! Biked back into town, returned it and got my first proper Sony Walkman instead. I got my next synth *years* later 😂
That would have traumatized me too;)
I guarantee that they're only 100EUR on Reverb now, by the time this video has been live for a week and the inevitable Alex Ball video the week after, they'll be the same price as a Juno 106 and honestly, the Latin preset on the PMC is good enough I'd happily pay those sort of prices. Although the lack of Polka and New Jack Swing patterns is a let down
The march preset is super Polka-worthy!
If we buy the synth before Florian put it on Bad Gear, will it be considered as insider trading?
@@min-yishen9324 I think there's a patreon tier just for finding out what next week's episode will be early 😉
It’s like an OP1 without the pretentiousness.
It's times like this I'm even more grateful you exist and do what you do, EVERY offbeat piece of kit deserves its chance to shine wherever possible. Between you and Simon they do, and in fine style! Nice one brother 👊
The memes are really hitting hard on this one. Perfectly, executed and I noticed Terry Pratched is almost always included, which makes it even better!
Thanks!!! Diskworld is a classic
Wow, I can practically set my clock by you. 11am Central US time? Bad Gear drops!
I have to wait until after work to watch because your work rewards attention. Kudos!
Yeah, time zones are a weird thing! See you after work;)
9am pacific, after the morning drop off
Noon Eastern. I'm watching this over lunch.
I'm CST time too. Holler from Minneapolis!
I have a gear suggestion. Zoom Sampletrak. It was one of my first pieces of gear. I got it for $60 at a pawn shop. Almost 20 years later...it still works and i still use it for ambient stuff.
Great suggestion, thanks!
I have one and a lot of the buttons are unresponsive. I've used it a whole lot though. I bought it new. I love that sampler!
Definitely a good contender for bad gear, in that it's bad/limited on paper, but has some great features which make it very usable, as well as some not-so-great features (terrible sequencer)
@@rorz999 i loved that you can also use it as an effects unit. It was perfect for a starter sampler.
CLASSIC!
I am an offended minimal house fan and I would like to use this opportunity to say that a clock ticking does not get me dancing like that. It gets me dancing even harder. (And then I add hi-hats in my head)
Maybe add a little reverb on the cymbal sound ;)
I always wonder if before FM synths, there was a faction of people really wishing they could make bell sounds on a synth. Looking for brass, piano and bass sounds make sense.
You nailed it on all 3 jams! Very well done!!
love the track you made with this
Car boot synth oddity……. Wow.
The first Jam (before the tape died) was awesome - very smoked out and chill.
Nice to see you going right to the back of a very dark cupboard and dragging some very bizarre bad gear into the light.
Keep on keeping on!
Awsome. I love Friday evenings.
Yeah!!!
Waiting whole Friday for you, now my weekend can start! Cool AF as always
Have a nice weekend!!!
might be my fav deconstruction of your theme so far. great show as usual
Thank you!!!
ive been watching Simon for years and years, dudes is so creative. REAL RECOGNIZES REAL
Simon is the GOAT
I love that the underlying conceit of this channel is that there really is no such thing as bad gear- just bad producers 😁 This dude can make anything sound good and he has fun doing it!! Please do the Roland Gaia SH-01 - I use this as my workhorse synth and many days I wonder why. Thanks and keep up the good work!!
Great suggestion, thanks!
Well done on yet another great video 👍
Thank you!!!
Yesss the funkadelic sample of "Good old music" for the drum break in the first jam. One of my all time favs, I knew you had good taste but damn that sample got me hyped.
That's a good fucking break
@@agit5270 Absolutely, I am already in ableton working on a track based around that break. Don't know how I never thought to sample that track cause I sample funkadelic all the time
@@SuperMonibuvy yeah, tomorrow i will make a tune using that break too, I've ignored it for too much
Thanks! It's a religious artefact for me!
It's like an enigma machine more than a portable multitask synthesizer.
True!
Ssssht! Don’t tell ze Germans! *look startled, exit stage left*
Man, how I lusted after that thing when I was… 11?
Thanks for scratching this particular itch!
It does Gregorian chants?
Holy mackerel, jam 1 is impossibly good... please drop a full 'bad gear' album. It will be a classic!
Thanks! Are albums still a thing? ;)
@@AudioPilz I'm expecting a vinyl pre-order by christmas!
I always liked those, I like most of the machines you show on here.
Wishing you well and continued success with your work and channel.
Thank you so much!!!
Loved the drum sound on Jam#1, especially the snare, though it clearly was not the work of the Phillips machine. Was also amused by Mr.Pilz's appearances in those 80's arcade classics. Excellente!
Thank you!!!
"All the chords that would get you through the first 48 hours at Berklee" - LMAO. Signed, a Berklee grad
Nice!!! Did it pay off?
audiopilz ,thx for making me smile today
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I'm shocked at how good you were able to make this thing sound!! 🤔 Great work! 😉
Oh my guy, (imma get in trouble for this comment) it be really awesome to have a 3 hour video on RUclips of one lick from every musical equipment you have played and had the time stamps in the description of what the instrument is.
Great idea!!!
On the other hand though, they made pretty good light bulbs.
Probably more usable than this thing;)
@@AudioPilz They also invented the Digital Compact Cassette. Like DAT, but bigger and wonkier, and more likely to snap tape during supersonic ff and rwnd activities. The "pro" machines had great AD/DA converters, nasty loading mechanisms, and terrible recording heads. Bad gear nirvana.
@@secretelitemusic good choice of word "wonkier" - DAT was definitely wonky. I ended up replacing my DAT recorder with a HiFi VHS recorder to get away from the DAT drop-outs.
@@unclemick-synths I still have a functioning Tascam DA30 DAT recorder. It's useful for dragging 16bit 90s masters into the 21st century HD zone, but I wouldn't use it to record audio. Tape stretches, oxidises and sheds rust particles, and degrades to cellulose mush if stored in less than ideal conditions. It's also prone to death by nearby magnet.
I used Nicam stereo VHS recorders, for taping live gigs from a mixer aux or tape feed, because they were a lot cheaper and less fragile than DAT recorders or a Revox. Affordable and portable HD recording tech was a major bonus for live recording when it finally showed up. I still have a Nicam VHS recorder, prepped for the zombie apocalypse.
was NOT expecting that bass drop. stopped what I was doing to make sure it was the same video.
Yeah, you can coax out quite some subs out of that little FMs
With the slightly dusty black backdrop I kept trying to wipe my phone screen because I thought I got something from the kitchen on it. Then I realized I've been had once again by AudioPilz.
Well played Sir. Well played. 🌝
Damn it's dusty around here;)
Years ago around 2008 or so i was hanging around in a musicians forum and one of the members had one of these and was posting the demotrack inside this thing. I was hooked because i wanted exactly such a thing that sounded like a Sega Mega Drive or these OPL2 Soundcards for PCs, but coming with a keyboard and being an actual instrument. Couldn't find one anywhere and just opted for a Yamaha PSS 680 instead. Only because it was around for a good price :P I still kinda feel like wanting one of these FM Synth Cassetterecorders from that dutch company ^_^
These PSSes are great!
Another great video. Looking online I guess there aren't many of these in the US. Just as well. It's one of those cool 80s gadgets whose style is the main attraction rather than the substance. It's kind of sad that nobody makes anything like this today, mainly because nobody makes decent tape deck units anymore. With modern electronics and connectivity mixed with a good tape deck and retro styling this would separate many hipsters from their money.
Thanks!!!
You always get a great sound. Thanks for this one.
Thanks for watching!
Great show mate.
Thanks!
the timbre of the bass is really nostalgic for me. reminds me of playing dos games like tyrian and stuff.
Same here!
I still regularly use a couple of old Yamaha QYs to sequence stuff as they're pretty simple to use and quick to dive into. I don't think I'd go this far, but now you've made me aware of the word Gling, I feel incomplete.
I had a QY100 for a few years and the only issue I had was the cramped display, but its meant to be portable I know. Last year I bought a QS300 workstation keyboard for £150 (Ebay want stupid money like £300-£500) in perfect condition. There is a QY300 version of it with exactly the same sounds and sequencer. It's the closest thing I can find to what I had back in 1990 with the PSS-790, which was so fast and intuitive.
@@EgoShredder Yup, that's the thing - intuitive. I really love how simple they are to get something into them. I originally bought the QY10 when it came out and I generally keep that with me on the move. I also have the QY300 for the "normal" work. You're right about the display but of course once you get the hang of it, it becomes a brilliant little workhorse.
@Chris Cheltenham Yup, I bought my first QY10 back when I was at uni studying audio engineering. Got used a hell of a lot. Then I saw that documentary about her third (?) album with her using the SY as well, and thought it was brilliant she was into it. They are lovely little things to get notes down on. I don't think there's anything better.
Got a QY10 here. It's my last resort piece of gear in case supply chain breaks down😀
@@AudioPilz Yep grab some rechargeable batteries and some solar panels!
All Your reviews make me wanting an album release!
I feel the exact same way;) Thanks!
@@AudioPilz You are a true PRO! Knowing MIDI messages, waveforms, filter parameters etc. I think today kids don't know what is all about. Consider it I'm a guitar player, not an synth maniac like you!
That pre-mortem jam was fantastic!
Thanks!
How about a Video of : Mirari Pop! Pop! Piano - The Wonder of Making Music! The Musical Peek-a-Boo-Player (Press the keys to hear a sound and see a ball pop up)....Really Bad Gear haha
Lol, I have to google that!
I love it to make weird ambient, hooked up to as many stomp boxes and reverbs as I can chain together.
Way to go!!!
At the first glance.You are kicking the boxes.
You are simply the best :D
Thank you so much!
That jam was awesome!
I unironically like the bass sound. It sounds fresh after years of dubstep wub wub sounds.
2OP basses never get old!
First I was like "man, it's going to be a chore to get this clonker to sound like anything."
But then Florian was like "hold my uncanny ability to match gear to style and watch this @5:36 "
Thank you so much!!!
I immediately thought of the magpie when I saw this! Cool that you got the same one from him!
He's such a nice guy!
I'm glad you found a way to get some interesting sounds out of it even if you had to use external devices.
The basses are really nice, even unprocessed. Thanks!!!
Wow, I was surprised by how good Jam 1 sounded.
Thanks!
I love your Synth Lovers Circles Of Hell.
Those had me rofling too!
What's the source for this?
@@joweiser2460 it's an 8 bit take on Dante's Divine Comedy that was edited for a FB meme group
As soon as I saw the thumbnail I had "What in the Simon the Magpie kind of device is this" queued up to comment and then sdkfopsdfds
Yup
Haha, Espen Kraft cameo was amazing!
Yeah, he's the Indiana Jones of synths
Phillips isn't a brand I associate with music machines, good video! I would love to resurrect the use of the word "supergling"
Supergling revival NOW!!!
They used to make home organs under the "Philicorda" name.
The only thing I'm calling BS on in this video is anyone getting that far into Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts.
Gotta use the Audiopilz hack;)
Nice tracks, man! :D
Your computer game style track reminds me of Dune 2 music, I loved that shti!
The fact that you integrated this into ANY setup is super commendable.
Thank you!!!
It’s got that sought after LucasArts adventure game sound
Wouldn't this be the Roland MT32?
Wow....finally a piece of gear I’ve never seen or don’t remember. What a piece of crap. Great video.
Thanks!
What great sounds you got out from this.
First jam was as hot as 90s Cindy Crawford!
7:45 Wardner?! You truly are a man of culture!
Thank you!!!
Day 420 of me asking AudioPilz to plzzzzzzz make the “Rad Gear” series
It will probably take another 69 requests;)
@@AudioPilz Nice.
Are you selling that old Yamaha home keyboard? I'll give you 30 dollarpounds!
Chances are there is one near you;)
I remember these being sold at a Philips hifi store here in The Netherlands in the 80's.
I don't think they made it to Austria;)
My humor is broken, the "one water, please" bit always kills me
Same here!!!
Hmm, hideous membrane keyboard, sounds like an 80s Volca! Behringer are releasing a whole lot of $50 synths soon that look like they're inspired by this abomination!
Uli would never dare to cover this!
@@AudioPilz Well at least they are making a whole new line of mini-synth that will keep Bad Gear going for years to come... anyone for a $49 JP-4000? I wonder what synth that is mimicking. Oh yes, its 4-note poly and paraphonic, terrible!
I didn’t think you could do it, but you actually made it sound good.
Expect the unexpected;)
Full fun! Have a great day 🍻
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OMG I love skateboarding Simon! Knockout vg montage! Well done.
Thanks!
I've been waiting a while for this episode since I seen Simon's video on it.
I really enjoyed that last jam as it's pretty much the motivations behind a lot of my vaporwave.
Thanks for the patience!
@@AudioPilz You're welcome and I've enjoyed the content you've come up with in the meantime.
This a great machine to get down ideas and quick demos
I was waiting for this one😁
It was about time!
@@AudioPilz yeah man, what you said at the end is true.. Just gotta have it
Damn man, the break you made at 5:31 is amazing. I'd absolutely play it out.
Thanks you so much (shameless plug: extended jams&full tracks on Patreon;)
Your channel is a gem for audiogeeks such as myself!
Thank you!!!
Magpie crossover was such a pleasant surprise!! Always love seeing that guy
Simon is such a great guy
Really love the Genesis/Mega Drive vibes of this video
The video game editing with you and Simon was fantastic. Doing these weekly can't possibly involve any sleep..
I kinda preferred the warmth of a well mastered tape on a good tape deck to CDs for a long time too...
Thank you so much!!! I like coffee;)
Also big ups for mentioning the PortaSounds. I’ve been working on an Ableton sample pack of sounds from my PSS-570. I have three of them (all different models), have used them on my albums for like twenty years, and forgot the third thing I was gonna say.
Recently saw a Pete Cannon video of him using a Portasound - great stuff!
Wow I had no idea this thing existed. What an awesome deep cut! I too want more tape saturation in my life.
We all need more saturation;)
@0:37 came for the bad gear, stayed for the memes
The FM Keith call out was a deep cut. Well done
Thanks!
I love the pastel colored buttons
These are so 80s FM!!!
that first jam slaps so hard
Thank you!!!
Nice episode with the Op-1 predecessor. Super Trip Hop Track, a pleasure of music drop synth badgear top rock!
Thank you!!! The OP1 is strong in this one (or is it the other way round?;)
It has the TAPE!
Do you guys know those intuitive and natural musicians? Like a u.f.o. crashes on earth, scientists discover a fully unknown and complex and weird instrument that requires at least 19 fingers, 2 mouths, a doctor grade in experimental gardening and a deeper knowledge of quantum physics. They drop it in the lap of one of those natural talents and within 7 seconds those guys find their way to make that odd thing from outer space play Beethoven. Even those guys (i think) would not have achieved anything better than our most loved bald beat banger.
What does that say about this Quasimodo of an instrument? Yeah, right, screw it! But props to FlowRyan for forcing this massacre to sound okayish. Lots of
I admire these people too! I only speak electronic musical instruments...;)
The jam before nirvana was epic . I will probably not buy another tape appliance ever . The heartbreak of the tape knot is just too much , unless i buy something that has a four wheel drive transmission for transport
And SD card back- up . I do have 85 hours of original music stored on cassettes plus 250 store-bought prerecorded "albums" . Great show
as always, and good luck with the aforementioned issue of delicate and diplomatic resolution.
Thank you!!!
I can't believe you got a hold of one of these! I thought these were a myth! Amazing!
The Magpie made it possible!
A billion bonus points for the Rainbow Islands footage. Childhood favourite of mine!
Thanks!
The look of this thing gives me 90's PocketPC flashbacks
It was ahead of its time then;)
2:38 no SUS2 chords tho that's weird
I've seen that magpie video xD I'm so glad you too exchange gear from time to time ^^
Thanks :)
That's SUS
Liked before watching, I know it's gonna be good
all the preset sounds and built in tunes sound like midis you'd find in early custom doom WAD's... I love it.
Raclette tonight!🤣🤣🤣 great what you squeezed out for the 1 jam session
Thanks! May the cheese be with you!