I do like these plugins a lot - but one moan about sales, it makes people who buy at full price feel like chumps, to the point that really nobody should ever buy at list price unless they really need it for a paid project...
This seems like the kind of machine that you could compose masterpieces on, while under the influence, and then wake up the next day and delete the recordings.
NGL, I do this dance with some frequency with fantastic gear. Gin, in particular, seems to make everything I make sound temporarily epic, until the sleep reset that is.
@@defcreator187 did you even watch til the end because considering the sounds it was making, the track at the end was decent and showed that the synth is still useable. Plus, when you get a new synth or toy the first thing you do is mess around with it to explore what noises it can make. That’s clearly what Hainbach is doing here. He literally just opened the box.
@@defcreator187 I think you may be missing the point of what Hainbach does. You do not need to do cover versions and ‘complex’ sequences and song structures to be an artist. Art is different things to different people but someone can still be an artist even if you don’t necessarily like what they do. It’s not up to you. It’s still art even if it’s not your cup of tea. You don’t have to like everything. You simply go and find something else that you do like, rather than complaining about the things that you don’t like.
send it to vienna, sounds like this one needs the Bad Gear treatment 😄 edit: would love to hear it run through a filter with an envelope, like the one on the elektron analog heat
I would love to see Florian and Hainbach do a collab or temp exchange of synths, I'd be very curious what odd piece of gear Florian might have that would excite Hainbach to play around on
I don't see why people say it sounds like crap. I love it, honestly, it sounds very Italian prog rock to me. At 3:26 it brings to mind Le Orme's Felona E Sorona, at other places it reminds me of Goblin, and even some other great albums/bands such as Cervello and Alphataurus. Well, even some Canterbury prog bands used it, such as Caravan and Matching Mole. It has its own peculiar tasty sounds, IMHO
Exactly. I loved it. I wanna be a drunkard with 666 Euros in the pocket in Germany now. Well, I am in Germany but I don't drink and I have to still pay the rent this month so is not gonna happen :(
So glad someone said this. I immediately got excited when I heard it and was like "That's the Italian prog synth tone!!!" I've never heard of this thing until just now but it already has a place in my heart.
Before I play this video I wonder, "can this be worse than the Timbre Wolf?"..... The answer is no, this still sounds more interesting and you can make goblin horror music with it.
What a ludicrous machine! Do I want one? No. Am I glad it exists and has found a home with someone who can make use of its madness? Yes! Fantastic video, made me laugh out loud in a couple of places!
Also used by the late Klaus Dinger (NEU!, La Düsseldorf, kennen Sie natürlich) f.ex. the lead melody on "Silver cloud". Great video of an interesting keyboard.
Whenever i see a Davolisint, i think of a Polish progressive rock / fusion / jazz group called SBB, especially in their early years (until about 1976-1977). Their instrumental work (up until 1980) is extraordinary and futuristic (only 3 musicians most of the time) and you can clearly hear what that primitive Davolisint could do in hands of the virtuoso (Jozef Skrzek). In their early years, they didn't have the resources/means to buy more advanced synths so they used the Davolisint and Minimoog to their full potential. The Davolisint can be clearly heard on their first three albums and on "Nagrania dla WFDiF". I really recommend the latter one as it is much more outstanding and explorative than most of their official albums. The Davolisint also seriously got me into DIY synth making as i got to hear what 2 simple, low pitched, slightly detuned square waves could do. I'd buy the Davolisint for a reasonable price, drunk or sober. Loving Italian drum machines and synths. That dream box 15 drum machine is also GREAT, i'd really like to have it in my collection :D Sounds like it had a phaser processing all the hihats and snares
This is truly one of the most ear-piercing synthesizers I've encountered. For experimental, ambient, or possibly soundtracks this might be a useful tool, but for everything else....yikes!
too bad this cunning spring released "hand pedal" has never been taken up by any other manufacturer. In my opinion, iit's a killer and in many play situations way better than the traditional mod wheels or pads! And definitely perfect for any italo-kraftwerko. Toll !
@@ParkerP yes you could absolutely modify a mod or pitch wheel by adding some kind of damper. this could be as simple as fitting a spring washer (or some kind of felt or rubber) to your wheels potentiometer shaft or as complicated as attaching an off the shelf rotational or horizontal damper to your mod/pitch wheel with a mechanical linkage.
Brilliant - I remember buying one of these things when it first came out! I hooked it up to my WEM Copicat, and an Electric Mistress pedal, and got some fun sounds out of it. Amazed there are still some of these still around and working...
I love the sound of this synth, in fact I wish there was more a market for off the wall horror sounds in the synth market, okay so I know why the easy market is going to be making synths for the club sounds of the day, but I do wish that some synth manufacturers would realise how many of us are complete weirdo's and would buy synths that help us explore that. It's an area of the synth community that has been there since day one of the synthesizer as well. I was thinking as well that since you did a tipsy purchase that you should do a tipsy jam on it too haha.
I had one of these as a teenager in around 1978 . Really great to see the little monster again. It makes me realise that I didn't have the vision to get anything out of it whereas now I can see it's potential....
some people make terrible music with good synths, think about that! EDIT: I take everything back, this is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life 🤣
when i went from grand piano into electronica around 1979 and years before i built my first proper synth (one of the first doepfers), i wanted to rent a "real" synth and was presented with either moog model D or Davoli's finest here. not knowing what to do i took the Davoli. Sick experience. should have deterred me from ever using synths again, but ... well, never stopped making music with synths from then on. pulse modulation, pure vibration, my ass... great song!
I LOVE IT!!! It may be just wishful thinking, but it even looks like the physical feeling of playing the keys would be fun. There’s something about analog that can never be replaced by digital (synthesizers, music recordings, cell phones…). Thanks for sharing this!
I think you got a great deal for the price! I'm jealous. I love rare synths. I'd love to loop some sounds washed thru a filter and effects module to come up with something unique. I can't believe the sounds you were able to get out of it. Edit: it sounds like Lurch playing the theme to the Munsters.
Even though it made my cat look up, that actually doesn't sound at all that bad but it may be the way you played it so well. Seems ideal for off the wall 1970s-style improvisation.
WHAAAAAAT 660 euro????? I either still have one in storage or it's been binned. Bought for £25 in 1985. Looks cool, sounds like cr*p. I only had two tape decks to do overdubs and only an occasionally borrowed delay pedal in terms of effects. It sounds better than I remember tbh but thats probably in my brain filed under 'things I hate' 😜. Sad to think that after the apocalypse there will just be the toughest of mutant cockroaches and Davolisint's left. Bands will be formed and aliens will look on in wonder, wondering why the entire planet wasn't destroyed.
@@candykrackenmysteryboutiqu388 I can’t begin to tell you how robust those things are. It’s 3/4 inch wood and steel. Ya know how things which might attract you to a synth might be, say, a good sound, flexibility, portability. The question needs to be asked, is there anything this ‘synth’ *CAN* do 😂. Poor post apocalyptic mutant roaches, it’s all they will have.
He paid 666 Euros! The synth is called Davolini and he offered the amount over silver that is known as the number of the beast. So it is only fitting he won.
I could imagine this sounding good buried under layers of analogue degradation like low pass filters, spring reverb and tape echo - that shrapnel storm sound. One synth I'd love to hear you work with is Crumar's Performer with the most beautiful, mournful synth strings I've heard. Sounds like a cyborg crying!
I would like to see some research on Reverb prices of weird, obscure synths before and after Hainbach videos on them. You must be fueling a whole second hand industry! Anyway, great video, as always!
When I hit the "like" button, the counter advanced to 665. Missed it by just *_1!_* The instrument has a sound that brings to mind, for me, music from a late 60s/early 70s Saturday morning children's cartoon about a group of low-powered superheroes who all live in a spaceship. Cheesy, but also unique and hard-to-replace. And better-than-expected. Congratulations on being happy with your drunk Reverb purchase.
I know this one only because of an old freeware VST, Davosynth by the polish developer Elektrostudio (possibly defunct by now, the last time I've checked their site, it was still there, but no updates for a few years already). This really throws me back to my early days of music production when I was downloading and testing any freeware I could find. Davosynth was, together with the other Elektrostudio plugins, one of those which stayed on my hard drive.
This sounds like it could be a really capable sound effect generator, on top of its “rave-synth” potential. I think it would really fit for something like an 8-bit racing game.
Love it! What an unusual machine. I can see it has it's own charm. If I had one I would keep it, but this is one synth I'm happy to admire from afar and not aquire myself. Love the 'extend' lever with it's delayed return. It's actually really nice to see some unique and unusual control methods. A low pass filter and envelop would really improve it a lot.
Memories - the 'keyboard' player (using term loosely) in my first ever band had one of these 'synths' - I remember that sound - we mainly did covers (Son of My Father was one if I remember correctly with the DavoliSint taking centre stage 🤣
Hallo Heinbach! deine Musik und Videos sind 1A😁👍🏼 - you can feel the 'fun n love' in creating this chanel... will recomend to others... viele Grüße aus Croatien
For the uninitiated, check out the Polish prog rock giants SBB - Silesian Blues Band. Frontman Josef Skrzek handled his davolisint quite well and to great effect. All their albums are great.
Oww it has some crackles in the sound. It is pretty unique though. It would be good for Hardcore Techno as a Juno saw alternative. It has the perfect sound to cut through big distorted 909 beats. Beautiful!
I paid 7 quid for my 700 , got it from a charity shop , I destroyed it by trying to clean the keyboard with a solvent that melted the keys , good synth though and yeah I couldn’t save patches either
Brilliant interface. Like an old Kimball organ. A true secret weapon to dust off when you need that special tone. Thank you for showing me another instrument I want yet will never buy.... Much love, H. My you're synths multiply and flourish.
9/10 times people say they were drunk or high when they did something, they were perfectly sober, but don't want to be judged over it. Don't worry, we'll judge you regardless ;) Also, that is a wonderful little noisebox. My timbrewolf ran away scared.
Are you serious??! The whole of Harmonia's 'Deluxe' pretty much came out of THIS beauty! Not to mention the fabulous 'Clanger Disco', ‘Rote Rikki' from Cluster's Zuckerzeit!! I’ve always wanted one, but never had the funds. Lovely to have you demonstrate it. Thanks!
@@Hainbach yes I sort of put my foot in it there! LOL! I am also a huge fan of Cluster ever since I first heard Cluster II in the early 80's. And the two Harmonia LP's are absolute gems. I sort of think of Deluxe being the genius of Conny Plank when he got fed up with Kraftwerk for taking all the credit for Autobahn's production and only crediting Plank as 'engineer', and Plank then going off to create possibly one of the best LP's from that period, which of course was 'Deluxe'. Remarkable recordings.
Fun fact: on repairs leaky capacitors are not a literal term even though they’re usually literally leaky when they go bad. It’s referring to the capacitor leaking ac voltage.
time travelling Nintendo 64, transporter accident on the pattern buffer, comes back to the future as hybrid demented clone, takes over world single handed, screeching like a wobbly banshee, that's all i have, takes self off stage, turns of light, closes door.
The first synth demo that's made me want to learn to play the guitar ... that thing is hilariously bad. Damn, just how drunk were you? Great video though and congratulations on managing to make some music with it.
Also famously used by Dave Sinclair of Caravan in "The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again", for example. Video definitely available on YT. Therefore, not just a "Rave Killer Machine" :D
Wow!!! Thank you so much! I knew I loved that thing :) I just watched the Caravan video: gorgeous song and fantastic synth solo - the sounds he got out of it are beautiful - not a ghost in sight! Sinclair also really liked that Extend lever :) Thanks for introducing me to a great band, as well.
Italy is accordion country -- so many factories into the fifties. And they had supply chains all over the world, even before the war. So all 60s electronics by Italian brands are all using a lot of accordion parts in guitars, amps, synths and of course fx units. Why are Italian wah wah pedals a thing, even in the USA? Because the Italians had supply chains and contacts in place all over the world.
Sounds pretty damn good! It has to be said that I aren't all that familiar with Italian prog (although I probably ought to be), but this immediately made me think of the likes of Suspiria and Goblin, which can only be a good thing.
yes, bad synthesizer are very hard to find, if they exist xD I even know people who make great music with the akai timbre wolf ; Personnaly my favourite synth is a modded Korg EX800 which got lot's of hate for a long time before people actually changed their mind on it Great video thanks !!
the sound from this thing is really unique. around 5:00 I thought that someone played with the classic NES and Mario just had fallen into the flames :D and about a minute later you mention the chiptune stuff. this is where I see this synth. a chiptune monster!
Ist doch geil das Teil! Der Track am Ende ist 10.000 besser als alles was zurzeit im Radio gedudelt wird. Love your chiptune reference, because thats what I do most of my time, but real chiptune with the Commodore64 home computer ^^
The Davolisint was used by the krautrock "supergroup" Harmonia. It can be seen in various photos taken at the group's studio in Forst, and on the cover of the single De Luxe (Immer Wieder). I'm fairly sure the synth can be heard prominently in use on the track "Notre Dame", and it is a great showcase for synths like the Davolisint. While the features of the instrument are archaic and even silly by today's standards, the way the driving organ-like tones and chiptune clicks blend with the soft touches of more elegant, cosmic synths goes to show that any synth can sound great regardless of its limitations, if used creatively and imaginatively.
This was the first video of yours Hainbach that I couldn't finish. Please put this synth out of its misery. It sounds like it is screaming to be euthanized. Thanks for never being boring.
Interesting sounding one. Beautiful at least as a piece of hardware. For „discussable“ Synths in absence of a filter, I‘ll stay in budget with my Kawai K1 - which delivers musical interest in the limited pcm-samples-domain and rudimentary structure. May be a youngtimer in relation to that italian starship. (:
You could try putting it through something like a Korg FK-1 VCF pedal, I just happen to have a Korg FK-1 VCF pedal complete with the foot treadle so you can vary the cutoff frequency remotely so you could use it as a glorified Wah Pedal.
This was my introduction to synthesisers, bought around 1976 but soon replaced with a Korg 700S. Not a great sound but a “gateway” machine for further involvement with analogue synthesis.
Fantastic! Love the glitchy key contacts, and super edgy transistor organ tones. These tones sound very familiar, certainly this was used on some low-budget "experimental" film or TV show soundtrack 'cause I swear I've heard stuff like this before.
" This sounds exactly like a goblin horror movie" Goblin is an Italian prog rock band that made amazing soundtracks for Italian horror movies by Dario Argento and other lesser known Italian filmmakers.
I don’t know shit about synths (I’m a guitar person) but I know something special when I see it, and that thing is special. Great acquisition. The people who hate on it aren’t creative enough to know what to do with it. I bet you Bjork, Run the Jewels, LCD Soundsystem and Radiohead all have one of those in their jam rooms.
I found a bad screenshot of the schematic online. All discrete components, no ICs, and what I think are PUTs (programmable unijunction transistors) for the main oscillators. It uses the same oscillator design as the Dubreq Stylophone, but without the nice buzzy quality of the Stylophone which came from its little speaker and plastic case.
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I do like these plugins a lot - but one moan about sales, it makes people who buy at full price feel like chumps, to the point that really nobody should ever buy at list price unless they really need it for a paid project...
Need to replenish that $666. b4 the wife finds out? I love it. It’s got lotsa grit.
Got them all already.
@@spridgejuice you could just not buy it and wait for the sale
@@robertprice5839 But the Italian made a good video, so it's cost is justified.
This seems like the kind of machine that you could compose masterpieces on, while under the influence, and then wake up the next day and delete the recordings.
NGL, I do this dance with some frequency with fantastic gear. Gin, in particular, seems to make everything I make sound temporarily epic, until the sleep reset that is.
Id say 33% of us are guilty of this
Like a spanish guitarr?
@@5lip5pace that's a very low estimate.
😂😂😂
It's horrendous, painful, and inspiring all at once. Fantastic.
@@defcreator187 if they can make this thing sound great they could probably also walk on water and turn said liquid into an alcoholic beverage!
The epitome of a drunken purchase. Raw and painful but also lofi and grungy and just man - add drums and a bass line and bam.
I quite enjoyed his singing..
@@defcreator187 did you even watch til the end because considering the sounds it was making, the track at the end was decent and showed that the synth is still useable. Plus, when you get a new synth or toy the first thing you do is mess around with it to explore what noises it can make. That’s clearly what Hainbach is doing here. He literally just opened the box.
@@defcreator187 I think you may be missing the point of what Hainbach does. You do not need to do cover versions and ‘complex’ sequences and song structures to be an artist. Art is different things to different people but someone can still be an artist even if you don’t necessarily like what they do. It’s not up to you. It’s still art even if it’s not your cup of tea. You don’t have to like everything. You simply go and find something else that you do like, rather than complaining about the things that you don’t like.
That actually sounds like a unique synth. just add a couple of effects and you have something quite special there.
Some of those sounds sound like the Ultranova.
There are no bad synthesizers; just lonely ones that missed their micro-genre. This one was Born to Ravetasm.
Actually has some good bass and lead sounds.
Post punk, gothic, deathrock
There is a VST plugin version of It. It is called davosynth and It is great too.
Makes a great bass synth.
send it to vienna, sounds like this one needs the Bad Gear treatment 😄
edit: would love to hear it run through a filter with an envelope, like the one on the elektron analog heat
I bet AudioPilz would love to get his hands on it lol
@@caboosemusic123 He would make some sick jams with it somehow.
I would love to see Florian and Hainbach do a collab or temp exchange of synths, I'd be very curious what odd piece of gear Florian might have that would excite Hainbach to play around on
@@RCAvhstape "you can't go wrong with a Moog filter"
He already has enough.
This would be his worst nightmare.
The Davolisint is like a wild, drunk, disheveled, dissociated 70's teenager. Totally punk, I love it.
I don't see why people say it sounds like crap. I love it, honestly, it sounds very Italian prog rock to me. At 3:26 it brings to mind Le Orme's Felona E Sorona, at other places it reminds me of Goblin, and even some other great albums/bands such as Cervello and Alphataurus. Well, even some Canterbury prog bands used it, such as Caravan and Matching Mole. It has its own peculiar tasty sounds, IMHO
Exactly. I loved it. I wanna be a drunkard with 666 Euros in the pocket in Germany now. Well, I am in Germany but I don't drink and I have to still pay the rent this month so is not gonna happen :(
So glad someone said this. I immediately got excited when I heard it and was like "That's the Italian prog synth tone!!!" I've never heard of this thing until just now but it already has a place in my heart.
The boosted high end is grating but I do like the sound nonetheless
Sounds good to Me, would make great Drum and Bass.
Before I play this video I wonder, "can this be worse than the Timbre Wolf?"..... The answer is no, this still sounds more interesting and you can make goblin horror music with it.
What a ludicrous machine! Do I want one? No. Am I glad it exists and has found a home with someone who can make use of its madness? Yes! Fantastic video, made me laugh out loud in a couple of places!
Also used by the late Klaus Dinger (NEU!, La Düsseldorf, kennen Sie natürlich) f.ex. the lead melody on "Silver cloud". Great video of an interesting keyboard.
Wunderbar! I tried hard to find more users, and I guessed there would be more kraut rockers than Moebius. Dankeschön!
Whenever i see a Davolisint, i think of a Polish progressive rock / fusion / jazz group called SBB, especially in their early years (until about 1976-1977). Their instrumental work (up until 1980) is extraordinary and futuristic (only 3 musicians most of the time) and you can clearly hear what that primitive Davolisint could do in hands of the virtuoso (Jozef Skrzek). In their early years, they didn't have the resources/means to buy more advanced synths so they used the Davolisint and Minimoog to their full potential. The Davolisint can be clearly heard on their first three albums and on "Nagrania dla WFDiF". I really recommend the latter one as it is much more outstanding and explorative than most of their official albums. The Davolisint also seriously got me into DIY synth making as i got to hear what 2 simple, low pitched, slightly detuned square waves could do. I'd buy the Davolisint for a reasonable price, drunk or sober. Loving Italian drum machines and synths. That dream box 15 drum machine is also GREAT, i'd really like to have it in my collection :D Sounds like it had a phaser processing all the hihats and snares
apparently the VST emulation of the Davolisint was also created by a Polish programmer!
I was listening to SBB decades ago and loved the synth parts. Another group that used the Davolisint was Caravan. Cheers
This is truly one of the most ear-piercing synthesizers I've encountered.
For experimental, ambient, or possibly soundtracks this might be a useful tool, but for everything else....yikes!
I definitely can see it used in rock and hip hop
Tekno gabba 🤩👍🏼
this could def be used in a lot of hiphop tracks
too bad this cunning spring released "hand pedal" has never been taken up by any other manufacturer. In my opinion, iit's a killer and in many play situations way better than the traditional mod wheels or pads! And definitely perfect for any italo-kraftwerko. Toll !
Could one mechanically modify a pitch wheel to move that slowly?
For plugins this should be easy to make, easiest with reaktor or similar software
@@ParkerP yes you could absolutely modify a mod or pitch wheel by adding some kind of damper. this could be as simple as fitting a spring washer (or some kind of felt or rubber) to your wheels potentiometer shaft or as complicated as attaching an off the shelf rotational or horizontal damper to your mod/pitch wheel with a mechanical linkage.
MY brother had an old dual manual organ that had a knee lever that did roughly the same thing. definitely could more things like this in synthland
I expected a trapdoor to open when he first used it. :D
I really like it. Powerful yet clean. It does sound quite Ravey (even gabbery). That’s not a bad thing in my book.
That "Extend" lever is awesome! It gives off a bit of a steampunk vibe. Fun demo of this rare (at least in North America) synth.
I love that you just embraced it and dialed it up to 11. It's limited, not bad. It just does different things. :)
An ultimate 70s-analog-urban-goth-horror-core machine. I love it!
Brilliant - I remember buying one of these things when it first came out! I hooked it up to my WEM Copicat, and an Electric Mistress pedal, and got some fun sounds out of it. Amazed there are still some of these still around and working...
From 6:36 I was getting Justice Stress vibes, even though that was a sample.
What a weird instrument, but that makes it perfect for you of course. :)
I love the sound of this synth, in fact I wish there was more a market for off the wall horror sounds in the synth market, okay so I know why the easy market is going to be making synths for the club sounds of the day, but I do wish that some synth manufacturers would realise how many of us are complete weirdo's and would buy synths that help us explore that. It's an area of the synth community that has been there since day one of the synthesizer as well. I was thinking as well that since you did a tipsy purchase that you should do a tipsy jam on it too haha.
You'll love a Hydrasynth
Circuit bending is your friend, you can make synths make crazy weird noises they were never supposed to. It is fun to do.
I had one of these as a teenager in around 1978 . Really great to see the little monster again. It makes me realise that I didn't have the vision to get anything out of it whereas now I can see it's potential....
All you need it to do is hold one sound at a time and sample it.
some people make terrible music with good synths, think about that!
EDIT: I take everything back, this is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life 🤣
hahaha yes its the worst
when i went from grand piano into electronica around 1979 and years before i built my first proper synth (one of the first doepfers), i wanted to rent a "real" synth and was presented with either moog model D or Davoli's finest here. not knowing what to do i took the Davoli. Sick experience. should have deterred me from ever using synths again, but ... well, never stopped making music with synths from then on.
pulse modulation, pure vibration, my ass... great song!
Having heard it, 666 euros seems appropriate. However, given that there must be at least one album of inspiration in there, it sounds like a bargain!
I feel like it wants to make really trashy filthy jungle/drum and bass
Thank you exactly what I think.
I LOVE IT!!! It may be just wishful thinking, but it even looks like the physical feeling of playing the keys would be fun. There’s something about analog that can never be replaced by digital (synthesizers, music recordings, cell phones…). Thanks for sharing this!
I think you got a great deal for the price! I'm jealous. I love rare synths. I'd love to loop some sounds washed thru a filter and effects module to come up with something unique. I can't believe the sounds you were able to get out of it.
Edit: it sounds like Lurch playing the theme to the Munsters.
Dude, that's a bad ass lil' toy. Some people just don't get it.
Same!
I love this kind of “review,” where nothing is taken too seriously!
Even though it made my cat look up, that actually doesn't sound at all that bad but it may be the way you played it so well. Seems ideal for off the wall 1970s-style improvisation.
Wow~ The "worst synthesizer" sounds pretty damned amazing! 🤣
“Drunk on Reverb” has to become a thing. Not advocating you get wasted on our account but this is great.
Nice track!
I'm surprised (and just a tiny bit sad) there isn't a subreddit.
Sounds like a great opportunity
Sort of like "Drunk History" with way more patch cables.
WHAAAAAAT 660 euro????? I either still have one in storage or it's been binned. Bought for £25 in 1985. Looks cool, sounds like cr*p. I only had two tape decks to do overdubs and only an occasionally borrowed delay pedal in terms of effects. It sounds better than I remember tbh but thats probably in my brain filed under 'things I hate' 😜. Sad to think that after the apocalypse there will just be the toughest of mutant cockroaches and Davolisint's left. Bands will be formed and aliens will look on in wonder, wondering why the entire planet wasn't destroyed.
Crazy lisergic best comment on RUclips. Ever.
@@candykrackenmysteryboutiqu388 I can’t begin to tell you how robust those things are. It’s 3/4 inch wood and steel. Ya know how things which might attract you to a synth might be, say, a good sound, flexibility, portability. The question needs to be asked, is there anything this ‘synth’ *CAN* do 😂. Poor post apocalyptic mutant roaches, it’s all they will have.
You probably got my old one!
@@andymcduffie5120 bought it in Bath, UK. Until this video I'd never seen another one. Oh how the world is absolutely not missing out :D
He paid 666 Euros! The synth is called Davolini and he offered the amount over silver that is known as the number of the beast. So it is only fitting he won.
I could imagine this sounding good buried under layers of analogue degradation like low pass filters, spring reverb and tape echo - that shrapnel storm sound. One synth I'd love to hear you work with is Crumar's Performer with the most beautiful, mournful synth strings I've heard. Sounds like a cyborg crying!
I would like to see some research on Reverb prices of weird, obscure synths before and after Hainbach videos on them. You must be fueling a whole second hand industry! Anyway, great video, as always!
When I hit the "like" button, the counter advanced to 665. Missed it by just *_1!_*
The instrument has a sound that brings to mind, for me, music from a late 60s/early 70s Saturday morning children's cartoon about a group of low-powered superheroes who all live in a spaceship. Cheesy, but also unique and hard-to-replace. And better-than-expected.
Congratulations on being happy with your drunk Reverb purchase.
What an absolutely terrible synth, 10/10 I love it
I think its great. It would make great Drum and Bass.
I know this one only because of an old freeware VST, Davosynth by the polish developer Elektrostudio (possibly defunct by now, the last time I've checked their site, it was still there, but no updates for a few years already).
This really throws me back to my early days of music production when I was downloading and testing any freeware I could find. Davosynth was, together with the other Elektrostudio plugins, one of those which stayed on my hard drive.
this seems the right machine to go with the cheesy "Giallo" thriller genre.
I actually love how this sounds, some nice phase cancellation and harshness, while sounding spooky as hell the entire time.
I want to hear it put through that crazy Princeton Research filter!!! Such a weirdly percussive instrument.
This sounds like it could be a really capable sound effect generator, on top of its “rave-synth” potential. I think it would really fit for something like an 8-bit racing game.
so that jam at the end was actually pretty fun!
cheers for the entertaining content dude!
:D
Love it! What an unusual machine. I can see it has it's own charm. If I had one I would keep it, but this is one synth I'm happy to admire from afar and not aquire myself. Love the 'extend' lever with it's delayed return. It's actually really nice to see some unique and unusual control methods. A low pass filter and envelop would really improve it a lot.
You brought a smile to my face.
Thank you Hainbach.
Also the video filter is beautiful
That sound reminds me of a lot of “retro house” songs that were popular in Belgium around the mid nineties.
Any chance of you recording a whole album of this stuff?.. It was wonderful!
Cluster/Kluster
Sounds like something "The Stranglers" would use. It's perfect for a Gothic Post punk Halloween themed party.
Memories - the 'keyboard' player (using term loosely) in my first ever band had one of these 'synths' - I remember that sound - we mainly did covers (Son of My Father was one if I remember correctly with the DavoliSint taking centre stage 🤣
Hallo Heinbach! deine Musik und Videos sind 1A😁👍🏼 - you can feel the 'fun n love' in creating this chanel... will recomend to others... viele Grüße aus Croatien
For the uninitiated, check out the Polish prog rock giants SBB - Silesian Blues Band. Frontman Josef Skrzek handled his davolisint quite well and to great effect. All their albums are great.
Oww it has some crackles in the sound.
It is pretty unique though. It would be good for Hardcore Techno as a Juno saw alternative.
It has the perfect sound to cut through big distorted 909 beats.
Beautiful!
My first "drunk buy" was a Casio HT-700. Would be a great little synth if it could remember patches.
I paid 7 quid for my 700 , got it from a charity shop , I destroyed it by trying to clean the keyboard with a solvent that melted the keys , good synth though and yeah I couldn’t save patches either
Brilliant interface. Like an old Kimball organ. A true secret weapon to dust off when you need that special tone.
Thank you for showing me another instrument I want yet will never buy....
Much love, H.
My you're synths multiply and flourish.
This has been used in the weird trippy italian ‘70’s horror movies, for sure.
This is such a fun video ! Never expected that final jam
Really digging the vocals!
Wow. I now require a whole dungeon synth album made on this beauty!
9/10 times people say they were drunk or high when they did something, they were perfectly sober, but don't want to be judged over it.
Don't worry, we'll judge you regardless ;)
Also, that is a wonderful little noisebox. My timbrewolf ran away scared.
It looks absolutely beautiful, and honestly I think it would make a pretty big bass!
Immediately made me think of Goblin and Italian horror. Superb. Had no idea Cluster used one.
Are you serious??! The whole of Harmonia's 'Deluxe' pretty much came out of THIS beauty! Not to mention the fabulous 'Clanger Disco', ‘Rote Rikki' from Cluster's Zuckerzeit!! I’ve always wanted one, but never had the funds. Lovely to have you demonstrate it. Thanks!
Watch until the end 😄
@@Hainbach yes I sort of put my foot in it there! LOL!
I am also a huge fan of Cluster ever since I first heard Cluster II in the early 80's. And the two Harmonia LP's are absolute gems. I sort of think of Deluxe being the genius of Conny Plank when he got fed up with Kraftwerk for taking all the credit for Autobahn's production and only crediting Plank as 'engineer', and Plank then going off to create possibly one of the best LP's from that period, which of course was 'Deluxe'. Remarkable recordings.
Fun fact: on repairs leaky capacitors are not a literal term even though they’re usually literally leaky when they go bad. It’s referring to the capacitor leaking ac voltage.
time travelling Nintendo 64, transporter accident on the pattern buffer, comes back to the future as hybrid demented clone, takes over world single handed, screeching like a wobbly banshee, that's all i have, takes self off stage, turns of light, closes door.
I love the "Extend" Lever. Wondering how I can mechanically modify a pitch wheel to do the same or other interesting behaviours.
The first synth demo that's made me want to learn to play the guitar ... that thing is hilariously bad. Damn, just how drunk were you? Great video though and congratulations on managing to make some music with it.
Also famously used by Dave Sinclair of Caravan in "The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again", for example. Video definitely available on YT. Therefore, not just a "Rave Killer Machine" :D
Wow!!! Thank you so much! I knew I loved that thing :) I just watched the Caravan video: gorgeous song and fantastic synth solo - the sounds he got out of it are beautiful - not a ghost in sight! Sinclair also really liked that Extend lever :) Thanks for introducing me to a great band, as well.
Sounds pretty good, it has character and certainly enough there to do creative stuff with
Italy is accordion country -- so many factories into the fifties. And they had supply chains all over the world, even before the war. So all 60s electronics by Italian brands are all using a lot of accordion parts in guitars, amps, synths and of course fx units. Why are Italian wah wah pedals a thing, even in the USA? Because the Italians had supply chains and contacts in place all over the world.
Some of the sounds remind me of C-64, which has a special place in my heart, so it's cool.
Sounds pretty damn good! It has to be said that I aren't all that familiar with Italian prog (although I probably ought to be), but this immediately made me think of the likes of Suspiria and Goblin, which can only be a good thing.
yes, bad synthesizer are very hard to find, if they exist xD
I even know people who make great music with the akai timbre wolf ;
Personnaly my favourite synth is a modded Korg EX800 which got lot's of hate for a long time before people actually changed their mind on it
Great video thanks !!
Of all the synths I've ever seen....
This really is one of them.
Such mixed feeling.
It's amazing how it carefully tip toes the thin ice line between horrendous and astounding
the sound from this thing is really unique. around 5:00 I thought that someone played with the classic NES and Mario just had fallen into the flames :D and about a minute later you mention the chiptune stuff. this is where I see this synth. a chiptune monster!
Ist doch geil das Teil! Der Track am Ende ist 10.000 besser als alles was zurzeit im Radio gedudelt wird. Love your chiptune reference, because thats what I do most of my time, but real chiptune with the Commodore64 home computer ^^
That thing is ripping my head off in a really cool way...it's so brash and blasty...pretty cool!
The Davolisint was used by the krautrock "supergroup" Harmonia. It can be seen in various photos taken at the group's studio in Forst, and on the cover of the single De Luxe (Immer Wieder). I'm fairly sure the synth can be heard prominently in use on the track "Notre Dame", and it is a great showcase for synths like the Davolisint. While the features of the instrument are archaic and even silly by today's standards, the way the driving organ-like tones and chiptune clicks blend with the soft touches of more elegant, cosmic synths goes to show that any synth can sound great regardless of its limitations, if used creatively and imaginatively.
This was the first video of yours Hainbach that I couldn't finish. Please put this synth out of its misery. It sounds like it is screaming to be euthanized. Thanks for never being boring.
Interesting sounding one. Beautiful at least as a piece of hardware.
For „discussable“ Synths in absence of a filter, I‘ll stay in budget with my Kawai K1 - which delivers musical interest in the limited pcm-samples-domain and rudimentary structure. May be a youngtimer in relation to that italian starship. (:
You could try putting it through something like a Korg FK-1 VCF pedal, I just happen to have a Korg FK-1 VCF pedal complete with the foot treadle so you can vary the cutoff frequency remotely so you could use it as a glorified Wah Pedal.
This was my introduction to synthesisers, bought around 1976 but soon replaced with a Korg 700S. Not a great sound but a “gateway” machine for further involvement with analogue synthesis.
Fantastic! Love the glitchy key contacts, and super edgy transistor organ tones. These tones sound very familiar, certainly this was used on some low-budget "experimental" film or TV show soundtrack 'cause I swear I've heard stuff like this before.
It's so capable of creating horrific sounds. It would accel in composing scores for horror movies.
the davolisint was matthias becker's first synthesizer (according to "synthesizer von gestern"). he didn't like it and got rid of it after two weeks.
"Drunk On Reverb" could be an entire item category. Genius!
You should post the clip at 5:00 to r/synthesizers like "check out my new dawless jam"
Ha, ha, a Davolisinth! I had one of those 40 years ago. Not really a ‘synth’. The only cool thing with it was the pitch bend.
That's some Emerson lake and Palmer tones right there!
there used to be a free vst plugin version called the Davosynth by Elektro Studio inspired by Davolisint a rare Italian keyboard created in 1972.
you could deffo make jump up drum'n'bass bass with this thing.
Hainbach goes minimal wave :D love it!
The track at the end sure has strong Kraftwerk vibes to it. Love it! :D
kraftwork in an armani suite ,you never fail to suprise EPIC Hainbach for sure
Hainbach may be the only person in the world who can make this sound good.
" This sounds exactly like a goblin horror movie" Goblin is an Italian prog rock band that made amazing soundtracks for Italian horror movies by Dario Argento and other lesser known Italian filmmakers.
I don’t know shit about synths (I’m a guitar person) but I know something special when I see it, and that thing is special. Great acquisition. The people who hate on it aren’t creative enough to know what to do with it. I bet you Bjork, Run the Jewels, LCD Soundsystem and Radiohead all have one of those in their jam rooms.
Could totally imagine this on a Prodigy album.
I found a bad screenshot of the schematic online. All discrete components, no ICs, and what I think are PUTs (programmable unijunction transistors) for the main oscillators. It uses the same oscillator design as the Dubreq Stylophone, but without the nice buzzy quality of the Stylophone which came from its little speaker and plastic case.