"It takes wonderfully to both compression and distortion and effects" *proceeds to drop the most insanely badass distorted bass sound anyone has ever heard*
I gotta say I read your comment and thought, yeah whatever, some EDM drop or something. Holy crap was I wrong 5:30 on is an amazingly good dark plodding apocalyptic evolving rythym that puts some recent terminator soundtracks in their place, heck the original score even. Sacre bleur! Just epic and expansive through those pedals. I truly long for a somewhat accurate-ish/ballpark-ish plugin maybe doen the line.
Would honestly love to see you do a Soviet drum machine plugin with Audiothing, as a way to make these sounds more accessible, and for the sake of historic preservation.
I agree. Today, this machine would be an ambient composers dream. It is absolutely perfect for ambient style music! It was born before its time and should be revived!
1991 is transfer time from ussr to Latvia. When i was 6 years old i had one RMIF sinth, at this time i dreamed about yamaha sinth with modern drums paterns, when i grow i dreamed about real sinth like a RMIF :D to make cool elektro house whatever
I must admit, I tend to not be too interested in drum machines - especially vintage ones - but this has a real charm. Like you said, its tone works so well with compression and distortion. It is heavy and warm. It is also especially cool for being so rare! Thank you for sharing!
@@JairajSinghPatil dunno, but that sounds neat for a villain theme or some hacker scene. @Hainbach should try doing something like that. Myself I'm having fun with a 90's synth and will have to try doing some more vibes like that using it, but keeping that beat, that heaviness and darkness, also I'm tired of hearing >Sahara in every short
5:45 - such a Half-Life Opposing Force soundscape vibe. Love it! I always love your little composition examples of each instrument you feature - it really helps to get a sense of what the gear is capable of.
This machine is a beast & that's some serious sub bass it's putting out! I love old soviet technology. It has such character & the RMIF ES25 is a monster!
Hooooooooold up. the SR-16 has been in production since 1991? I had no idea! That's insane, a run of 32 years and still going strong. That blew my mind.
What a brilliant video, you really clicked with it. My jaw dropped when you mentioned it was made in the 90s! Miles behind the times, as you said, but somehow it has a brighter future.
There's something I noted with all my vintage ex USSR (or east European) electronics: the general labelling of functions, almost identical to the one found on organs and Japanese machines of the 60s-70s (like the korg "traveler" series) - or early west coast modular like Serge ones... a definite incentive to experimenting and curiosity!
I wanted to clarify that my like was indeed for Bartosz! What a gift people like that are that can help bring these machines to their former glory, you are certainly included Hainbach. Thank you for your work
Hainbach, tank you for sharing your music, experiences, and instruments on the internet! I am a young musician, and your videos and works inspire me to try more experimental music, and remind me that music doesn't always have to follow theory or formula. May God bless you!
wow I just signed up for your Patreon for loops from this, and I’m almost shocked at how much value and content you have up for download on there! So worth it
In the beggining of the video I thought that Ģirts from Erica Synths could know something about this and then suddenly you are telling that you contacted him already and showing his reply. This machine prove one more time that we had and still have amazing engineers here in Latvia ❤️
Oh man that sounds so cool its like an old Wurlitzer organ drum machine thats gone into outer space and got mangled up. Awesome machine and great work by your tech!
I think the softness actually makes it easier to add things to it. Like it hitting compression and saturation like you did make it sound huge, and there may still be headroom.
I watched this and then the Vermona video. Fascinating. These, old some would say outdated, machines that require a player not a button pusher. from the older musical styles such as the Baroque, we still hear 'original instruments', which in many ways could easily be dismissed as out of date and/or out of tune and while some don't like it, other do. More than enough to support multiple orchestras. I argue that these old obscure synths are of the same lineage. It is up to the performer to produce something from the instrument, not the other way round. Synths in particular have their own quirks, which any musician will tell you is the difference between instruments. I am quite impressed by the wide range of synths you have featured. Thank you for showing them to me, if no one else.
Built in 1991, LOOKS like it was built in 1961. Since this device is VERY FAR out of production, it would be a tragedy if the last few were lost. All of its electronic functions could probably be emulated in software today... For the sake of historical preservation, I wish you (or an electronics inclined friend) could draw up complete schematics for its components and assembly.
Ha! I like the intro tune. It somewhat reminds me of early 80s seasons of Derrick; it would be perfect to a scene of the soon-to-be-victim stumbling home drunk from the Biergarten with blurry shots of suspicious people in Trachten. (Don't get me wrong, I know Horst Tappert fell out of grace because of his past, but I recently binchwatched some early Derrick seasons - since I moved to Munich a while ago, it is funny to recognize familiar places - and I noticed that its music score was really raw synth music. Later they 'normalized' it to more run-of-the-mill krimi music). Anyhoo, that's on the side. Another great Soviet device and I look forward to check out the sample pack.
I absolutely love the dreamy/eerie/depressing/nostalgic vibe that emanates from seemingly every instrument made in the Soviet Union, it's so uniquely heavy.
Very good description of the machine. RMIF drum synth was my first instrument. I got to choose from two available in the shop at the time and picked the one which produced a more pronounced kick drum on the first channel (the beauty of analogue machines). I used midi trigger pads that were available as an option with this synth instead of keypad sequencer and had a ton of fun with it. Its raw sound and straight forward control was way more fun to play with than Yamaha DX21's digital library when I paired it with RMIF later. I might even have some recordings left if 2-track tapes are not perished with time. Thank you for memories Hainbach. 😊
Good for you man 😜 I think your videos are awesome, and at the same time as a (financially) struggling artist the last thing I’m interested in is some rare piece of unobtainable equipment. You should obv continue to make these videos as there are many who love watching them. And they are well made. Thank you
Now that is Havy - sounds, in it's own way, better than the 808 IMO. Listening to it t, the images that come to mind are "terminators" "skynet" "dysoptia" and "wasteland" what a raw sound.
Cool ! Music is one of the bridges that bypass language the other is emotions . You put those two together and you have something to communicate with that bypasses any sort of language or speech . So yeah...everybody gets it ! :O)
This is a lovely machine. One understands how it could be viewed as "bad" in the context of the time, given that people would have viewed it as a primitive drum machine rather than a rhythm synthesizer with a distinctive workflow. Clearly, however, that would be to misunderstand the intent of the instrument. Maybe we can understand the the lack of support for the machine within RMIF as stemming from the apparent circumstance that this was a special project for Aivars and not an effort of the company as a whole. It would have to be marketed differently to find a place, if a place could be found for it in 1991. Commercially, you're right, the "drum machine" tag would kill the instrument. Old Rolands were having a moment in 1988-93, but only in rap, and only because they could do the big booms and clacks at a compelling price. At best, this thing would be very niche back then. Now, with Soma and many others getting into rhythm-synth territory in this very general sort of way, there would be a much more receptive audience. You left out of the video how you came upon this artifact of a long-ago moment. How did this come to your attention?
Amazing, amazing video. Wrtiing here from Latvia - my mom has been a music teacher (specifically, piano) for her entire life - so I've been around .... large boxes - let's call them that - some people call them "music instruments" - which were marked with RMIF - for the better half of my life. Never knew anything like this was manufactured in Riga. Wanted to translate all the writing on the machine - but hey, you got that already, watching further in the video. Funnily enough - there is what seems - at least to me - some sort of a defiance against the... huh, the machine - let's call it that - as almost all writing on the front panel are in Russian/cyrillic (except for the factory/model name) - because... well.. the machine/regime made you use Russian - whereas the back panel - and the technical specification/serial number plate - has writing only in Latvian/latin alphabet - in contrast to everything else. And here it clearly says - The Republic of Latvia - although it should have been Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LPSR) - but screw that. Awesome to see the guys who built this puppy - were on the same... note, huh - even then, though they technically weren't allowed to call the country for what it's name should have been. Either way - thanks for the video, well done for those who made the machine back in early nineties in Riga - best of luck from - as of late 1991 - independent Latvia.
Liam H would get some cool stuff comming out of that thing. get your tec to re model it to have pitch key track. or a button to switch up to c1.c2.c3.c4.. or some thing . its sounds beastly.
I had an Alesis SR16 back in '91. I can assure you that if someone flopped out an ES-2-5 at a jam session, we wouldn't have laughed at this chunky piece of late 70s looking tech - we would've thought "COOL!!"
In your comparison to what's available now, that a person has access to so much, I feel like what you said can be summarized by: Being limited, _forces_ you to be creative. Which I think is very true!
A Soundpack is available for my dear patrons: patreon.com/hainbach
Is there a Bartosz channel?
You need more stable stands, my friend.
As a person who lives in Rīga and knows the factory, I have not heard of this thing! AWESOME! Thank you Heinbach!
I'm only saying this because I used to misspell it, but it's "Hainbach" :)
This is truly a unique drum machine. Thank you Hianbaech!
Thank you Heisenbach
I thought it HeyBach! 😊
I thought it was HayBag
Aw having a friend that understands how to fix the vintage equipment you are passionate about, such a wonderful feeling!! Bravo Bartosz bravo!!!
"It takes wonderfully to both compression and distortion and effects" *proceeds to drop the most insanely badass distorted bass sound anyone has ever heard*
That part inspired me to write a comment just some minutes ago. "It doesn't sounds brutal, it sounds brutalist." 🤣
It's amazing, out of this world!!
the most beautiful sound I've heard in a very long time... I was amazed
I gotta say I read your comment and thought, yeah whatever, some EDM drop or something. Holy crap was I wrong 5:30 on is an amazingly good dark plodding apocalyptic evolving rythym that puts some recent terminator soundtracks in their place, heck the original score even. Sacre bleur! Just epic and expansive through those pedals.
I truly long for a somewhat accurate-ish/ballpark-ish plugin maybe doen the line.
Agree
Would honestly love to see you do a Soviet drum machine plugin with Audiothing, as a way to make these sounds more accessible, and for the sake of historic preservation.
absolutely! those sounds are amazing!
Yes please
agree
I would love to use this sound
5:52 wow man.. what sound, what a flow. Im in love
you should record your repair sessions and upload them on a secondary channel
i'd love to see the debug/repair process for something like this
I have a whole recap session of my mixing board filmed - could be a good idea!
Yeah, I would definitely watch that. Would be really helpful and interesting.
Repair sessions and old hardware exploration with more tech details would be definitely interesting to watch
Same hear
Definately ! Report videos are important for owners ! 👍
ooooooh this looks funkyyyy! looking forward to it going live
Lookmumusinganalogequipment
Thx every trains potting character in one person
I agree. Today, this machine would be an ambient composers dream. It is absolutely perfect for ambient style music! It was born before its time and should be revived!
1991 is transfer time from ussr to Latvia. When i was 6 years old i had one RMIF sinth, at this time i dreamed about yamaha sinth with modern drums paterns, when i grow i dreamed about real sinth like a RMIF :D to make cool elektro house whatever
It's fascinating how much emotion you can squeeze out of just noises. You really make these machines sing. Love it! Thank you.
I must admit, I tend to not be too interested in drum machines - especially vintage ones - but this has a real charm. Like you said, its tone works so well with compression and distortion. It is heavy and warm. It is also especially cool for being so rare! Thank you for sharing!
5:32
that bass drop is just lethal.
@HAINBACH what distortion and reverb settings did you use for that sound?
@@JairajSinghPatil dunno, but that sounds neat for a villain theme or some hacker scene.
@Hainbach should try doing something like that. Myself I'm having fun with a 90's synth and will have to try doing some more vibes like that using it, but keeping that beat, that heaviness and darkness, also I'm tired of hearing >Sahara in every short
5:45 - such a Half-Life Opposing Force soundscape vibe. Love it! I always love your little composition examples of each instrument you feature - it really helps to get a sense of what the gear is capable of.
Thank you! The music pieces are the true core of every video and take as long as the rest of the process.
This machine is a beast & that's some serious sub bass it's putting out! I love old soviet technology. It has such character & the RMIF ES25 is a monster!
Thank you for sharing these obscure instruments. I love the raw and warm sound that this brings.
Hooooooooold up. the SR-16 has been in production since 1991? I had no idea! That's insane, a run of 32 years and still going strong. That blew my mind.
Just looked it up. Wow! The SR-16 was my dream drum machine in the early 90's but never could afford it. I might just have to spring for one soon.
What a brilliant video, you really clicked with it.
My jaw dropped when you mentioned it was made in the 90s! Miles behind the times, as you said, but somehow it has a brighter future.
Yeah its a thing out of time. Its like when I talk to Riccardo about the unfinished and never made Italian synths that must be in some basement still.
@@Hainbach That's where the gold is found, yeah!
@@HainbachBy St. Hoffman's Beard, that is the Legend!!???🙊🧠💢
Rare artifacts of our universe...::💚💛🧡
Like a less powerful, but radiation hardened widget for space travel; a beautiful milspec drum machine..:::😂💚
Yeah. We love that retro jank :D
There's something I noted with all my vintage ex USSR (or east European) electronics: the general labelling of functions, almost identical to the one found on organs and Japanese machines of the 60s-70s (like the korg "traveler" series) - or early west coast modular like Serge ones... a definite incentive to experimenting and curiosity!
I wanted to clarify that my like was indeed for Bartosz! What a gift people like that are that can help bring these machines to their former glory, you are certainly included Hainbach. Thank you for your work
Wow... quite seriously... that is the drum machine i have always dreamed of.... an 8 channel version would be the most fantastic live solo instrument!
Hainbach, tank you for sharing your music, experiences, and instruments on the internet! I am a young musician, and your videos and works inspire me to try more experimental music, and remind me that music doesn't always have to follow theory or formula. May God bless you!
That second track is pure nightmare fuel. What a peculiar machine!
wow I just signed up for your Patreon for loops from this, and I’m almost shocked at how much value and content you have up for download on there! So worth it
Thank you! It a huge archive now, hard to communicate how much there is
In the beggining of the video I thought that Ģirts from Erica Synths could know something about this and then suddenly you are telling that you contacted him already and showing his reply.
This machine prove one more time that we had and still have amazing engineers here in Latvia ❤️
I know it's a touchy subject and people get a little sensitive, but if some company would clone this, Id love to buy it.❤
This sound is monstrously terrific! Awesome groove/drum machine!
Oh man that sounds so cool its like an old Wurlitzer organ drum machine thats gone into outer space and got mangled up. Awesome machine and great work by your tech!
Dang, if ever there was a single object that tells so much about the time and place that it was made.
I think the softness actually makes it easier to add things to it. Like it hitting compression and saturation like you did make it sound huge, and there may still be headroom.
that is so cool sounding, funnily enough exactly what i imagined from the thumbnail. thanks for the inspiration hainbach!
Excellent highlighting of the opportunity that comes within limitations. Really love the music you created in this video.
I believe the wobbliness of the stand adds considerably to the instrument!
I found this a little hard to watch. Simply due to the wobbly-ass table.
@@poopoppy 🙂
Hainbach, Bartosz and the Soviet Drum Machine. This could be a movie.
Adventure movie with a happy end ❤
Your videos always put a big smile on my face. Thanks again my friend!
Incredible thanks for the video ; the distortion sound great and the link to Fusion Modules of Erica Synth made the video more great ¡
I watched this and then the Vermona video. Fascinating. These, old some would say outdated, machines that require a player not a button pusher. from the older musical styles such as the Baroque, we still hear 'original instruments', which in many ways could easily be dismissed as out of date and/or out of tune and while some don't like it, other do. More than enough to support multiple orchestras. I argue that these old obscure synths are of the same lineage. It is up to the performer to produce something from the instrument, not the other way round. Synths in particular have their own quirks, which any musician will tell you is the difference between instruments.
I am quite impressed by the wide range of synths you have featured. Thank you for showing them to me, if no one else.
Built in 1991, LOOKS like it was built in 1961. Since this device is VERY FAR out of production, it would be a tragedy if the last few were lost. All of its electronic functions could probably be emulated in software today... For the sake of historical preservation, I wish you (or an electronics inclined friend) could draw up complete schematics for its components and assembly.
Amazing noises! Such heaviness and sadness it carries. I d love to have something like this in my arsenal, sad to see it be so rare
Hey didn't expect to see my country on your channel, nice!
Wow , it's a beauty , I make industrial music and I love it .I think Vlad took a few concepts from the RMIF ES--2-5 for the Pulsar.
this sounds amazing wow
5:32 That bass!!!
Holy crap this is an industrial dream machine!
Still amazed how you can read any language the equipment is made in and explore it further! The soundscapes you created rock
This carries a pretty terrific sound, love this, love the gear that you find, pretty dang good Dude.
What a masterpiece of track and video 😊 thanks dude
Damn, this thing surprised me, great job !!!
That is pretty awesome (and a bit), nice catch!
With Maestro is a hell of a track, please some day release the tunes in some streaming platform, and keep them coming! This device fits you very well
Awesome, especially the third track! I always appreciate when it's time for a little Haindark.
When you added the FX this lady really shows her voice.
Ha! I like the intro tune. It somewhat reminds me of early 80s seasons of Derrick; it would be perfect to a scene of the soon-to-be-victim stumbling home drunk from the Biergarten with blurry shots of suspicious people in Trachten.
(Don't get me wrong, I know Horst Tappert fell out of grace because of his past, but I recently binchwatched some early Derrick seasons - since I moved to Munich a while ago, it is funny to recognize familiar places - and I noticed that its music score was really raw synth music. Later they 'normalized' it to more run-of-the-mill krimi music). Anyhoo, that's on the side.
Another great Soviet device and I look forward to check out the sample pack.
Can't say I'd rush out and try and find one.
wow, never thought I will see it again, once I had a chance to buy one but had no money that time
Third track is a bomb! Would love to hear the full version somewhere ) thNk you for the video brother!
I absolutely love the dreamy/eerie/depressing/nostalgic vibe that emanates from seemingly every instrument made in the Soviet Union, it's so uniquely heavy.
The lovely metal enclosure gives a tone too
@5:32 that is a (great) track right here. Seriously. Crazy mood you got there, lovely video
Amazing machine and nice demonstration! 👍
Very good description of the machine.
RMIF drum synth was my first instrument. I got to choose from two available in the shop at the time and picked the one which produced a more pronounced kick drum on the first channel (the beauty of analogue machines). I used midi trigger pads that were available as an option with this synth instead of keypad sequencer and had a ton of fun with it. Its raw sound and straight forward control was way more fun to play with than Yamaha DX21's digital library when I paired it with RMIF later.
I might even have some recordings left if 2-track tapes are not perished with time.
Thank you for memories Hainbach. 😊
Très intéressant comme d’habitude merci beaucoup 👍
Right now I am recovering RMIF ELSITA analog trigger drumkit for our shows, this video was really useful!🔥
That first beat was absolute Trip Hop.
Very nice, thanks for sharing!
Good for you man 😜 I think your videos are awesome, and at the same time as a (financially) struggling artist the last thing I’m interested in is some rare piece of unobtainable equipment. You should obv continue to make these videos as there are many who love watching them. And they are well made. Thank you
Artefact of High developed civilization. Factory created such sounding beauty and bankrupted in that year. Thank you for your archeology.
Now that is Havy - sounds, in it's own way, better than the 808 IMO. Listening to it t, the images that come to mind are "terminators" "skynet" "dysoptia" and "wasteland" what a raw sound.
That bass is nuts
Cool ! Music is one of the bridges that bypass language the other is emotions . You put those two together and you have something to communicate with that bypasses any sort of language or speech . So yeah...everybody gets it ! :O)
This an awesome find!!!
At first , the sound reminded me of Ultravox.
Great job on thr slavic melodies.
This is a lovely machine. One understands how it could be viewed as "bad" in the context of the time, given that people would have viewed it as a primitive drum machine rather than a rhythm synthesizer with a distinctive workflow. Clearly, however, that would be to misunderstand the intent of the instrument. Maybe we can understand the the lack of support for the machine within RMIF as stemming from the apparent circumstance that this was a special project for Aivars and not an effort of the company as a whole.
It would have to be marketed differently to find a place, if a place could be found for it in 1991. Commercially, you're right, the "drum machine" tag would kill the instrument. Old Rolands were having a moment in 1988-93, but only in rap, and only because they could do the big booms and clacks at a compelling price. At best, this thing would be very niche back then. Now, with Soma and many others getting into rhythm-synth territory in this very general sort of way, there would be a much more receptive audience.
You left out of the video how you came upon this artifact of a long-ago moment. How did this come to your attention?
A viewer alerted me to it being sold on classifieds as broken, and I bought it from the Netherlands.
good work man, thank you and bravo
That third track is some wonderful dark industrial.
Just discovered your channel via RUclips rabbit hole. Glad I did.
Amazing machine, thank you for sharing.
I think you used it well, it's sometimes difficult to use machines from another era
What a frying, moody vibe. Lovely track, Hainbach! Nice work Bartosz!
jesus this sounds amazing
There is something nice about seeing how people abroad are now discovering the sound of Soviet synthesizers.
sounded great, very interesting sounds
RMIF made a number of interesting synthesizers and drum machines, so hearing and learning about this one is really nice!
2.45 woooaahh quelle merveille !!! (un ptit côté "cor de chasse bavaroise" ^^) c'est tres beaux !
Love this machine, wish I had a vst for it lol.
I always get nervous about your precious gear when I see your table wobbling 😅Wonderful sounds here!
Amazing, amazing video. Wrtiing here from Latvia - my mom has been a music teacher (specifically, piano) for her entire life - so I've been around .... large boxes - let's call them that - some people call them "music instruments" - which were marked with RMIF - for the better half of my life. Never knew anything like this was manufactured in Riga. Wanted to translate all the writing on the machine - but hey, you got that already, watching further in the video. Funnily enough - there is what seems - at least to me - some sort of a defiance against the... huh, the machine - let's call it that - as almost all writing on the front panel are in Russian/cyrillic (except for the factory/model name) - because... well.. the machine/regime made you use Russian - whereas the back panel - and the technical specification/serial number plate - has writing only in Latvian/latin alphabet - in contrast to everything else. And here it clearly says - The Republic of Latvia - although it should have been Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LPSR) - but screw that. Awesome to see the guys who built this puppy - were on the same... note, huh - even then, though they technically weren't allowed to call the country for what it's name should have been. Either way - thanks for the video, well done for those who made the machine back in early nineties in Riga - best of luck from - as of late 1991 - independent Latvia.
I always wait till I am at my computer with good headphones to watch your videos. and it's worth it
How cool is that!
Amazing sound!
I would love to see this be remade with a few updates. Its such a unique instrument and it sounds amazing
Beautiful!
This thing seems haunted, superb! Great rundown as always
Liam H would get some cool stuff comming out of that thing. get your tec to re model it to have pitch key track. or a button to switch up to c1.c2.c3.c4.. or some thing . its sounds beastly.
"Made in 1991" and I'm like "well, that's quite a new piece of equipment" 🤣
That third track certainly rocks.
I had an Alesis SR16 back in '91. I can assure you that if someone flopped out an ES-2-5 at a jam session, we wouldn't have laughed at this chunky piece of late 70s looking tech - we would've thought "COOL!!"
In your comparison to what's available now, that a person has access to so much, I feel like what you said can be summarized by:
Being limited, _forces_ you to be creative.
Which I think is very true!
"It takes wonderfully to both compression and distortion and effects" - What a very ARGENT thing to say...
It made a lot of sense when I first read the name of your channel as LAIBACH
5:32 - That bit is the deepest stuff I've heard in a long time from anything, let alone a drum machine! Wowww.......
I bought an RMIF Elsita and Lell UDS because of the Ruskeys site. Quirky, limited but very characterful machines
That describes them pretty well!