Sam is the missing link between the past and the future. I swear, this dude knows just how to take the best of retro and use it in such a futuristic way that it sounds brand new. His enthusiasm for what he does is bloody inspirational. It's people like this driving music forward these days; not generic pop stars and big labels.
Here we have Sam in his natural habitat, pressing buttons and plugging in cords. Watch as he creates futuristic sounds using a blend of primitive techniques and modern day tricks. Stay tuned for more on Animal Planet!
I play some instruments, guitar, drums, piano. Recently I discovered the world of synthesizers and I came across this channel by accident. It's a new world! You rock!
@@truthbydesign5146 that was just a response to deadmau5 daring someone to do it on a forum? Not actually physically meeting in person? Can't find any evidence of such thing on the youtubes..
Out of all the ambient mod synth sessions I’ve seen this is legitimately the first time I’ve seen a modular setup used as a real instrument and in an amazing way as well
Hi ! for me it's very difficoltous follow you because my schoolastic english dont permit me to understand all you say but I want to send my great admiration and compliments for yous activity in that you put a great energy and creativity. The genre of your music is not really mine but I have always enjoyed your videos. I have seen others from which I understand that you are the builder of all your equipment! Also I am a builder of sinths but yours are absolutely unconventional !. I try to build modules with a nice small panel, the same knobs etc. You draw the panels with a marker, but everything works beautifully! Very unconventional your modular where there is even the puppet that acts as a bell and another module - which I did not understand what it is - with eyes and false teeth! Even a module, probably an overdriver, showed an electronic valve !!. Truly unique! I will follow you in your videos since I will now subscribe to your channel. One last thing: if you were to ask for some schematics of your modules you would be willing to send them to me? Ringmodulator
Hey I understood this comment better than a lot that I see from native english speakers. Maybe reach out to him on Twitter, or pledge a small amount on Patreon to have a better chance at him answering your question about schematics. You can imagine with a following this large, he gets a lot of comments and cannot answer most of them sheerly due to the volume. Also, the way I understand it, the false teeth and eyes just move around while the music is going...purely an awesome visual add on.
That made me think if you got like a 3rd wheel camper but had this all set up inside, and some hydraulic thing opens the whole side so you can see everything...
I happened to find this video while researching modular synthesis. I fell in love with synths after years of free parties and listening to acid techno. This video is awesome and I want to start buying modules. I have a very addictive personality and I know that once I start I will not stop. Nice to see your videos and someone enjoying their passion and expressing their creativity :) thanks Matt
Respect! You're the most complex synth analog guy ever seen & heard and with the simplicity and no issues with explaining their magnificent work. Keep on the road folk. Regards from Mexico city.
Anyone else's left speaker stop playing back from11:55 to 12:15? Yeah thought something was wrong with my equipment lmao. Finally realized it was the video 😂🤣😂🤣. You're amazingly talented, man! I wish I had a setup like that!
I normally find this guy far too hektic, but he obviously knows what he ´s doing! ...and the idea to combine very-old-fashioned modular synth with modern sampling is brilliant and sounds faszinating!
Mate, I truly wish I could hate your guts for reminding me how little artistic passion I have managed to keep up over the years... But I can’t. You’re too cool not to deserve total appreciation. 👍🏼 I‘ll just console myself believing that you’re from another dimension where they don’t eat, sleep, take a shit and they have 1000-hour days.
hey! yeah sadly im on antisocial lockdown! gameboy synth style! would have love to have gone to CV freqs, but this gameboy megamachine wont build itself hahahah
We don’t care who lands on the moon, this took me to another galaxy through a few black holes millions light years away! Damn man this is out of the world! 💪🏼
WOW your enthusiasm and technical skill is very impressive but I am interested what meds your next door neighbour is using to cope when this bad boy kicks down!!! 😂🤙
Gotta love the #MadScience and hours ploughed into that synth setup and it really has to be more satisfying due to the fact that a massive slice of it was lovingly hand built that makes it all the more precious and enjoyable to engage with! Absolute great setup, mate and I only wish I had the electronics skills to built one myself but I guess I'll just have to stick with computers (boo-hiss) as that's my field of music making and experimentation! Maybe one day.. maybe one day..
how can someone be so good at this with all that synths looking complicated i love this world but its too damn complicated for me i wish i was that geek
Very impressive! I always used to look down on electronic music and musicians but operating these instruments is just as difficult and expressive as any other. I learned this when I bought my first moog haha. Even more impressive when you build your own wall of a set up, well done!
I just imagine you 30 years from now. The real mad scientist with grey hair in his hopelessly overloaded laboratory. As mad, as only an englishman can be.
WOW! Im "speechless", in "awe", and full of "respect" when i see someone this young actually making all these modules..! REALLY cool :P Liked, shared, and Subbed!!!
You are very very very cool dude. High energy and frantic but controlled, I absolutely love musicians because of the impeccable timing (which literally means the actual world) and I love synths and funk so this is really the perfect combination of content. Keep doing you because it’s great, peace
Incredible setup and your mastery of it all makes it exponentially more amazing. I’ve been loving your songs lately and was curious how you do it. I would love to see more gear videos
I sometimes open VCV and make fart noises (not intentionally but sometimes im like "man I want to distort the shit out of the sound and put some filter" and that happens)
Ah, good to know it's only the left channel that's missing, I was listening only on left (computer's right speaker currently defective) and I was surprised that the sound went off and nothing was done about it or mentioned on screen.
@@pasde2 thats deadly!!! I someday watched family guy, and havent heard what person A is saying, because the sound only got played on the channel i am not using xD Thinking like: what have i missed before in movies and music?! hahaha
these real synths are just amazing, as an audiophile i lissen to a wide range of musik but in the elektro chapter this kind of synth maid musik just sounds amazing and crisp clear compared to PC-maid musik! You doing the right stuff the right way!
hI Sam, when do you add a polivoks vcf module? If you're interested, I can send you the schematics (and do the RUssian2English translation): I have one Polivoks left (sold my second one two months ago) plus an Eurorack PVKS filter module...
Totally just discovered this channel yesterday and find it fascinating! Lots of brilliance and brains here This is basically Doc Brown from Back To The Future when he was a kid! 😁
this shit is awesome!! very inspiring man!!! i want to watch a talk show with you as the host and wacky guests then you jump over and make crazy ass music and everybody dances for a while
Imagine what he could do if he was an octopus.
best comment
Lmao
Don't kill me lmaoo
Michael Paul lol
A few robot arms perhaps? :)
This guy lives in the 1970s and in the 2080s
THIS MAN SPEAKS IN CAPS LOCK
LOL
nah man he thinks in caps lock
010001
And listens, too.
I think he's just a little deaf))
It’s like when your room is a complete mess but you know where everything is.
Daniel Heinley everything in it’s right place
Hey that's me!
It looks like pure chaos to the new eye, but everything has it's spot and I can find everything instantly.
And then your woman starts the house cleaning
a perfectly organized mess
Its not that your room is a mess, its that you have too much stuff
this is what chaotic good looks like
Sam is the missing link between the past and the future. I swear, this dude knows just how to take the best of retro and use it in such a futuristic way that it sounds brand new. His enthusiasm for what he does is bloody inspirational. It's people like this driving music forward these days; not generic pop stars and big labels.
Here we have Sam in his natural habitat, pressing buttons and plugging in cords. Watch as he creates futuristic sounds using a blend of primitive techniques and modern day tricks. Stay tuned for more on Animal Planet!
hahaha
lmao
rattus syntheticum britanicus
The greater spiked synth warbler.
"Stay tuned for more from Alien planet"
I play some instruments, guitar, drums, piano.
Recently I discovered the world of synthesizers and I came across this channel by accident.
It's a new world!
You rock!
Me too, just install and learn Vcv Rack and watch some Omri Cohen classes to get started. It's free and amazing!
his gf left him a year ago but he still doesn't know cause he's been down here all this time.
Eryk S 🤣
This dude must have been a telephone operator in his previous life.
Если бы он делал музыку, которая играет в режиме ожидания.. было бы круто
@@vadimevseev3105 you it seemed
Damn I was hoping to join the conversation.
Underrated comment fo sho
@@vadimevseev3105 не кажется
I need a lifetime supply of whatever you’ve got in your coffee, mate.
Justus Gash, Brother do you not see what he's on? The intro track he plays is unbelievable, a kind of good frequency anarchy.
@@jodo1219 I can't find better words to describe it, thank you so much
he drinks tea, mate.
@gridsleep lol, he set himself up for that.
Adderall
dust and cables is my aesthetic.
plz just a 2 hour noise video
When the aliens come, I want you to start the dialogue.
it already has. they're on their way. they'd like to purchase the furby synth.
This is a lost art. Think of the keyboard stacks from the 70s and 80s before MIDI and sampling. Props, my dude!
You seriously need to turn that opening jam into a full track. The hooks are addictive.
this guy should make some soundtracks for cyberpunk 2077
and be one of characters
wauww indeed !!!
NO
The fact this monster is DIY makes it even more valuable than a Moog 55.
Never meet deadmau5 he will kidnap you and force you to make him synths in his studio dungeon
Mike Devey It's already basically happened once
The blasphemous beastly bent bible?
@@truthbydesign5146 that was just a response to deadmau5 daring someone to do it on a forum? Not actually physically meeting in person? Can't find any evidence of such thing on the youtubes..
@thing guy person You're joking. Deadmouse is a tool his music is uninspired middle of the road pop shite.
who that?
The Collin Furze of music
good analogy
I actually discovered this channel when one of his songs was on furzes video
@@Xandalfo same
I agree. Even kinda looks like 'em as well
@@Xandalfo which one?
Moral: Never judge someone for having a safety pin for an earring
Except when it's in the wrong ear.
Out of all the ambient mod synth sessions I’ve seen this is legitimately the first time I’ve seen a modular setup used as a real instrument and in an amazing way as well
Bill Nye the Synth Guy. Best channel on youtube.
man i wish that was my youtube channel name now
Hi ! for me it's very difficoltous follow you because my schoolastic english dont permit me to understand all you say but I want to send my great admiration and compliments for yous activity in that you put a great energy and creativity. The genre of your music is not really mine but I have always enjoyed your videos. I have seen others from which I understand that you are the builder of all your equipment! Also I am a builder of sinths but yours are absolutely unconventional !. I try to build modules with a nice small panel, the same knobs etc. You draw the panels with a marker, but everything works beautifully! Very unconventional your modular where there is even the puppet that acts as a bell and another module - which I did not understand what it is - with eyes and false teeth! Even a module, probably an overdriver, showed an electronic valve !!.
Truly unique!
I will follow you in your videos since I will now subscribe to your channel.
One last thing:
if you were to ask for some schematics of your modules you would be willing to send them to me?
Ringmodulator
Hey I understood this comment better than a lot that I see from native english speakers. Maybe reach out to him on Twitter, or pledge a small amount on Patreon to have a better chance at him answering your question about schematics. You can imagine with a following this large, he gets a lot of comments and cannot answer most of them sheerly due to the volume. Also, the way I understand it, the false teeth and eyes just move around while the music is going...purely an awesome visual add on.
You're like a mad scientist, but in a good way!
Thomas dolby
A lab coat would be appropriate...a true synthscientist...
Mad Music scientist. Fair play I love it though. I love that early mid 80s sound.
Well, he made the Solar roadways useful for something. ;-)
I love the fact that it's very portable, live gigs made easy. Love the gear man. Keep up.
Thats a small detail
Complaining drummer's get sent to help him for one gig. They never complain again!
That made me think if you got like a 3rd wheel camper but had this all set up inside, and some hydraulic thing opens the whole side so you can see everything...
Always enjoy listening to you jam. Makes me want to get on my gear everytime.
13:40 "...I've just recorded some Furbie into it"
wait, what?
tompw3141 imagine if he still had that circuit bent bible and it was attached..
Dude, your sound is getting much more complex. Love those delayed arps, grinding drums and gritty overdriven synth lines. Cheers!
I happened to find this video while researching modular synthesis. I fell in love with synths after years of free parties and listening to acid techno. This video is awesome and I want to start buying modules. I have a very addictive personality and I know that once I start I will not stop. Nice to see your videos and someone enjoying their passion and expressing their creativity :) thanks
Matt
the enthusiasm is infectious
Respect! You're the most complex synth analog guy ever seen & heard and with the simplicity and no issues with explaining their magnificent work. Keep on the road folk. Regards from Mexico city.
Somehow he reminds of Doc from Back to the Future.
Great one mate!
Anyone else's left speaker stop playing back from11:55 to 12:15? Yeah thought something was wrong with my equipment lmao. Finally realized it was the video 😂🤣😂🤣.
You're amazingly talented, man! I wish I had a setup like that!
electric sheep have dreams of this guy.
Androids dream of him
I was happy to see that the thumbnail was not click-bait, but the actual content of the video.
Yeah and we see it in all the video, not only 10 seconds.
This is called “Dedication” 👌🔥
This is my introduction to this INSANE art form & I love it!! SO COOL. Thanks for walking us through the functions!
OMG so much lovely stufffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The LynnDrum with the other drums sounds just fascinating!
"Look Mum".... unlimited creativity.
Beautiful video,Thank You!
6:27 Starting up 1944 moped for first time since 75 years
dude i love all the sounds you can create with the tech that you assembled and how creative you are
This some of the most
wickedly cool shit I've
ever heard/seen.
F***n' brilliant.
Subbed and telling...👍
This video is a tribute to the beautiful platform of RUclips 🙌🏽
I normally find this guy far too hektic, but he obviously knows what he ´s doing! ...and the idea to combine very-old-fashioned modular synth with modern sampling is brilliant and sounds faszinating!
He properly understands what's going on with thqt system, signal paths, the electronics and so on - he would make an amazing recording/mix engineer
My wife and I were talking last night about your cool projects like the furby organ ect. We challenge you to make a modular synth Christmas tree
Hey if u need money to get awesome to punk the impossible I'm down !!!!!!!!!
Love your channel. I haven’t subscribed to anybody in ages, but you sir are more than worthy
i'm the operator of the pocket calculator. analog baby.
Mate, I truly wish I could hate your guts for reminding me how little artistic passion I have managed to keep up over the years... But I can’t. You’re too cool not to deserve total appreciation. 👍🏼 I‘ll just console myself believing that you’re from another dimension where they don’t eat, sleep, take a shit and they have 1000-hour days.
Wow! Such amazing sounds. Looking forward to Christmas when I get my own soldering iron. You've inspired me to try and make a synth. Best channel!
But wait there’s more! It’s slices it dices it discombobulates! And if you act now will even throw in a Furby! Love this video thank you!
Fascinating. Loving the signal path and how you patch it. Great insight into this. Was hoping to catch you at CV Freqs last Saturday :)
hey! yeah sadly im on antisocial lockdown! gameboy synth style! would have love to have gone to CV freqs, but this gameboy megamachine wont build itself hahahah
We don’t care who lands on the moon, this took me to another galaxy through a few black holes millions light years away! Damn man this is out of the world! 💪🏼
You are hilarious AND brilliant at the same time!
Controlled chaos - good name for a band 😀
Has mum been round? The studio looks tidy! :D
I have absolutely no idea what or why I'm watching this but it's cheers me up
WOW your enthusiasm and technical skill is very impressive but I am interested what meds your next door neighbour is using to cope when this bad boy kicks down!!! 😂🤙
Phil Roberts lmao true
that se still oversees everything is incredible
no wonder deadmau5 likes this guy, his projects are amazing
!!! Bigger than a family van, and sounds much better!
Gotta love the #MadScience and hours ploughed into that synth setup and it really has to be more satisfying due to the fact that a massive slice of it was lovingly hand built that makes it all the more precious and enjoyable to engage with!
Absolute great setup, mate and I only wish I had the electronics skills to built one myself but I guess I'll just have to stick with computers (boo-hiss) as that's my field of music making and experimentation!
Maybe one day.. maybe one day..
Some day, when your equipment goes to that sythie museum in Switzerland, they need to build an extra building just for you.
Awesome!
even NASA could't recreate his mad setup..
Those analogue Filters are insane sounding! ❤️
how can someone be so good at this with all that synths looking complicated i love this world but its too damn complicated for me i wish i was that geek
Very impressive! I always used to look down on electronic music and musicians but operating these instruments is just as difficult and expressive as any other. I learned this when I bought my first moog haha. Even more impressive when you build your own wall of a set up, well done!
18:04
"so lovely choply , that make sense"
"suuuuure"
"Don't be scared to try it!" is my favorite catchphrase now. Not because it's some good phrase, but because it's (probably/arguably) THE Life Motto.
I just imagine you 30 years from now. The real mad scientist with grey hair in his hopelessly overloaded laboratory. As mad, as only an englishman can be.
WOW! Im "speechless", in "awe", and full of "respect" when i see someone this young actually making all these modules..! REALLY cool :P
Liked, shared, and Subbed!!!
Spread the love
15:34 goodbye telephone XD
This might just be your best "serious" video. So chock full of the information I was curious about. Thanks Sam.
Fruity Loops manual mode :)
Have fun going on tour with that!
you need to run some workshops dude.... me and a ton of people would come ...
You are very very very cool dude. High energy and frantic but controlled, I absolutely love musicians because of the impeccable timing (which literally means the actual world) and I love synths and funk so this is really the perfect combination of content. Keep doing you because it’s great, peace
Good stuff Sam
Incredible setup and your mastery of it all makes it exponentially more amazing. I’ve been loving your songs lately and was curious how you do it. I would love to see more gear videos
What is your electric bill like?
He pays bills centurly.
It's probably not much. Most synthesizers run on a tiny amount of power. It's an eco-friendly hobby. :-)
He could have some tube amps in that rig, high-voltage transformers (not unlike those in a microwave oven) can suck a lot of watts.
@@gnarlysoundscapes7210 LOl. I ran a full analogue studio near the South bank in London in the late 90's, our electricity bill was enormous.
@@billB101 Interesting.
When I've got my whole synth collection running at once, they use less watts than my shop light.
Discovered the channel a week ago and am already addicted
I sometimes open VCV and make fart noises (not intentionally but sometimes im like "man I want to distort the shit out of the sound and put some filter" and that happens)
Yeah everytime I use VCV I make fart noise
@@w0udo6yv4o4 playing with raw sound is so much fun
I really enjoy it. You make my rest after dinner better than it usually is. Thank you very much!
Brilliant, inspirational and on it.
your going to need a ladder soon,lovely unit Sam,looks like a place that you could get lost for days&never realize it
Great stuff. Lost the left audio channel 11:55 to 12:15 though.
oh yeah. god damn!!!!! always miss this stuff! ooopzzzz my left tweeter broke the other day, hence missing that hahah
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER It still jizzed the jazz, I just wanted to help a brother out. This channel is one of my favorites.
Ah, good to know it's only the left channel that's missing, I was listening only on left (computer's right speaker currently defective) and I was surprised that the sound went off and nothing was done about it or mentioned on screen.
@@pasde2 thats deadly!!! I someday watched family guy, and havent heard what person A is saying, because the sound only got played on the channel i am not using xD
Thinking like: what have i missed before in movies and music?! hahaha
yah from those molded end cords he is using
these real synths are just amazing, as an audiophile i lissen to a wide range of musik but in the elektro chapter this kind of synth maid musik just sounds amazing and crisp clear compared to PC-maid musik! You doing the right stuff the right way!
Back to the roots...
Kraftwerk is watching you....
Maybe. .☺
Good to see some old school mixed with new school. Keep creative.
hI Sam, when do you add a polivoks vcf module? If you're interested, I can send you the schematics (and do the RUssian2English translation): I have one Polivoks left (sold my second one two months ago) plus an Eurorack PVKS filter module...
Totally just discovered this channel yesterday and find it fascinating! Lots of brilliance and brains here
This is basically Doc Brown from Back To The Future when he was a kid! 😁
I see guitar pedals hiding here and there. Makes me curious:) Are there any Look Mom no Computers pedals around?
Most practical setup for a live dj set!
must be Jean Michel Jarre's hidden grandson
Or Isao Tomita's, they could have had much fun.
This is awesome, never stop what you are doing!
This is so incredible. How did you even go about learning this at the beginning?
this shit is awesome!! very inspiring man!!! i want to watch a talk show with you as the host and wacky guests then you jump over and make crazy ass music and everybody dances for a while
This guy deserves a brain scan for research purposes
I love these living off grid self sufficiency videos 👍