🎹This is video 2 (slow). Watch video 3 (ultrafast & with more sounds): ruclips.net/video/8MA6zcaAszM/видео.html 🎹How to buy my 150 sounds + review & thoughts = sounds-for-synths.com/modal-cobalt-8 🎹Patches are compatible with desktop / rack (Cobalt 8M) and keyboards (Cobalt 8 & Cobalt 8X). You need to have OS ver 2.0 or higher. 🎹 Also in my collection of custom soundsets: Opsix / SUB-37 / Minilogue XD / OB-6 / Hydrasynth / REV-2 / Peak / Modwave / PRO-3 / Microfreak / and more! Support, extras, my story: 😁 FREE patches / presets: sounds-for-synths.com/jexus-synth-patches ▶ Patreon: www.patreon.com/jexus 🌍 Thomann (EUROPE): www.thomann.de/gb/synthesizer_keyboards.html?offid=1&affid=1639 🌎 Perfect Circuit (USA): www.pntrac.com/t/TUJGR0tHS0JHSUhMSUZCR0hMRUZL (use these links for shopping, a win-win situation for you & me - full explanation: sounds-for-synths.com/jexus-affiliate-links )
A zillion people go crazy about the new Behringer Pro800, but Jexus proves they're all wrong. The Cobalt simply is a top notch synth for a very affordable price.
@@JexusThank you. I dig that. 😁 I like the Modwave and appreciate it for its digital grittiness, the lof character and the softness you can achieve. It can be damn good for vintage VA too. For me it's a keeper.
Does it have memory? It's really challenging for me to make a video of a synth without memory. It would have to be a spontaneous-noodling sort of thing, or I would have to film it over the span of several weeks.
I've listened carefully to many synthesizer demos as well as owned quite a few. The Cobalt 8 *sounds* *great*. However, as my eyes have deteriorated with my age, The user interface to this synth seems would be frustrating for me to use. The front panel looks very plain. There is no contrasting between knobs of the various sections that other synths have - (osc section, filter section, envelopes) and text labels unnecessarily small especially around the knobs. Does anyone find editing patches uncomfortable on the Cobalt 8?
If you take a closer look at the architecture, you'll notice Modals have no levels mixer. It's impossible to "raise" the level of an oscillator - you can only "mix" it in relation to the other oscillator (in other words: you can "set a balance" between osc 1 & 2). What's more, any of the three FX, once used, reduces the output volume. So , for example, if you take a basic patch and you put some chorus on top of it, the volume of the patch will go down. And if you decide to use more FX (for example chorus + delay), the volume will go down even more. Also, detuning osc 1 & 2 lowers the volume. Modal people say this is for the sake of audio quality (=the synth has lower volume but sounds "better" than other synths).
There is an idiot who made a video gloating this was the best Wavetable synth around, when he was corrected that it was a VA, he changed his story then sent his 8X back. Could you imagine being so stupid? You make this synth sing, sounds great, I just don't have room for one lol.
🎹This is video 2 (slow). Watch video 3 (ultrafast & with more sounds): ruclips.net/video/8MA6zcaAszM/видео.html
🎹How to buy my 150 sounds + review & thoughts = sounds-for-synths.com/modal-cobalt-8
🎹Patches are compatible with desktop / rack (Cobalt 8M) and keyboards (Cobalt 8 & Cobalt 8X). You need to have OS ver 2.0 or higher.
🎹 Also in my collection of custom soundsets: Opsix / SUB-37 / Minilogue XD / OB-6 / Hydrasynth / REV-2 / Peak / Modwave / PRO-3 / Microfreak / and more!
Support, extras, my story:
😁 FREE patches / presets: sounds-for-synths.com/jexus-synth-patches
▶ Patreon: www.patreon.com/jexus
🌍 Thomann (EUROPE): www.thomann.de/gb/synthesizer_keyboards.html?offid=1&affid=1639
🌎 Perfect Circuit (USA): www.pntrac.com/t/TUJGR0tHS0JHSUhMSUZCR0hMRUZL
(use these links for shopping, a win-win situation for you & me - full explanation: sounds-for-synths.com/jexus-affiliate-links )
Lots to like about these sounds.
A zillion people go crazy about the new Behringer Pro800, but Jexus proves they're all wrong. The Cobalt simply is a top notch synth for a very affordable price.
I miss the wild visuals.
Me too.
Time is money
@@sariorodriguesable Time is sickness.
watch an old one, they're still up. they were of a time and remain very special. I'm thrilled we're getting new stuff at all.
@@Jexus Can't wait to watch your 50 years of jexus compilation 😃🥳
wow! real snappy envelopes and nice filters! im in..
I love my Cobalt8. Now everybody knows why
Instanty has that deluxe and shiney Argon 8 vibe. Super polished and clean. Sounds great though!
Really nice set, I wish I kept mine now, but I wasn’t gelling much with it
Shapeshifters was so cool..
wow very cool presets!!!
Excellent
Siiiccckkk sounds 👌🏻
Thanks!
Nooo... cobalt to chyba jeden z najtańszych tak uniwersalnych synthów o poly analogowym brzmieniu
Hallo Jexus TOP
You get extra points if you take the screen protector off ;) . Nice presets I esp like the Textures
I will never take the screen protector off, even if you throw me onto burning coals!
TOP
It reminds me of a Waldorf sorta. Same kind of flavor.
Yes, the sound of this thing takes me back to my Q & Blofeld days.
Hi Jexus, how do you like the sound compared to the Modwave. Modal8 seems to have more punch, it's clearer all over, in a good way.
My personal preference is for the Modwave, which I find more nuanced and grungy. Modal sounds a bit too clean and "solid", if you know what I mean;)
@@JexusThank you. I dig that. 😁
I like the Modwave and appreciate it for its digital grittiness, the lof character and the softness you can achieve. It can be damn good for vintage VA too. For me it's a keeper.
Are You planning on checking out the Syntrx 2?
Does it have memory? It's really challenging for me to make a video of a synth without memory. It would have to be a spontaneous-noodling sort of thing, or I would have to film it over the span of several weeks.
I've listened carefully to many synthesizer demos as well as owned quite a few. The Cobalt 8 *sounds* *great*. However, as my eyes have deteriorated with my age, The user interface to this synth seems would be frustrating for me to use. The front panel looks very plain. There is no contrasting between knobs of the various sections that other synths have - (osc section, filter section, envelopes) and text labels unnecessarily small especially around the knobs. Does anyone find editing patches uncomfortable on the Cobalt 8?
I don't find the font an issue, I would rather wish more parameteres were displayed on the screen.
you have a software that comes a long with it, which reveals more direct access. Software + gear knobs -> close to zero menu diving....
Hi, why my cobalt it s so low volume?
If you take a closer look at the architecture, you'll notice Modals have no levels mixer. It's impossible to "raise" the level of an oscillator - you can only "mix" it in relation to the other oscillator (in other words: you can "set a balance" between osc 1 & 2). What's more, any of the three FX, once used, reduces the output volume. So , for example, if you take a basic patch and you put some chorus on top of it, the volume of the patch will go down. And if you decide to use more FX (for example chorus + delay), the volume will go down even more. Also, detuning osc 1 & 2 lowers the volume. Modal people say this is for the sake of audio quality (=the synth has lower volume but sounds "better" than other synths).
You can raise the gain in the settings menu. That helps a lot...
2:10+ #046 = BOC much ;-)
Are you using a sustain pedal?
No, I want the viewers to see everything I'm doing so I rely on my hands. Sometimes I'm using an external midi sequencer, but that's it.
@@Jexus Cool man I'm going to be getting these sounds from you tomorrow
There is an idiot who made a video gloating this was the best Wavetable synth around, when he was corrected that it was a VA, he changed his story then sent his 8X back.
Could you imagine being so stupid?
You make this synth sing, sounds great, I just don't have room for one lol.
Maybe the person was getting too excited and buying too many synths too quickly and they all got mixed up in his / her head?
Jexus... is your sigh Aquarius? ♒️ ( sorry for asking personal things in public* )