modular-vania. lots of midi to CV, the M5n, SK1, Oberkorn, BLD's, Cwejman VCOS's, dark energy, voyager, couple of kenton USB's. yadda yadda. fun stuff.
TheDutchOwner's Tech Channel - Part of TheDutchOwner's Technology Empire its a joke, he said it because it looks like really advanced nasa like technology.
Alex Hatton I don't think it's possible to launch "shit" into outer space with that setup a setup to launch an object to outer space is much more complex
I come back to this video every year and each year I have a better understanding of what’s going on here and every time I’m just more and more impressed
I keep coming back to this video. I really admire Joel for never losing his touch with his child-like exploratory nature. There's a distinct difference between being childish and retaining "child"-like qualities such as just being curious, just having fun with what people deem as being "immature". People who insist on being oh-so mature and whatever will inevitably end up miserable. But look at him, he just did what he truly loves, not giving a fuck about what anyone else thinks. Fuck the people thinking this is a waste of time, this is him using tools that seem infinitely complex to others to.. just have fun. He grew from this, he learned, probably troubleshot plenty of things and became more familiar with those midi controllers, steppers, synthesizers and whatnot that most people think as being alien technology or some shit. Keep doing what you love doing!
+WolfyVolume once you know what type of module does what in basic terms all of the rest comes over time as in knoledge wise, study it a bit more and it will make sense... ps. this looks less confusing to me then fl studio lul i guess i just spend more time on my modular.
SAerror1 well of course they didn't have all that stuff in there lol. the original song was actually quite simplistic compared to this. I prefer deadmau5's version because HOLY SHIT THAT BEAT DUDE
@@gestoraintegralmatriculada4081 $1,000 would be an insane bargain for all the shit in this video. I wouldn't be surprised it it was near $100,000 or more.
It's really not THAT complicated, it just takes some in-depth music knowledge and some understanding of how to read English know what the labels above the nobs mean.
Stream of consciousness: This is pretty cool... This is really cool... Man, that's a lot of gear... I'd have no idea how any of this stuff works.............. Hey, a Tim's cup.
@player two wow, thats so amazing, you might want to check out a book i co wrote with suzanne Ciani, its called patch and tweak. You could have fooled me mr. modular. I wasnt speaking to you or telling you a thing, but glad you could chime in and school me on some old dead post. Thankyou merry xmass,
"...took me years... Payne · 1 year ago" Slight hyperbole there. Also when I read your comment, I hear it in Popeye's voice. "Well, BLOW ME DOWN! 'I took me years to figure' it out. Agagagagag! TOOT, TOOT!"
That sounds like music from a game from 1987 where you try to defeat Dracula by whipping your way through skeletons and shit but that's a very broad term though. :P
SeventyFour Productions The answer that you're looking for is the glorious Konami (just roll with it) game Castlevania Seriously, fuck Konami, but I love Castlevania.
Producers and sound guys just know.... I get asked all the time "Do you know what everything does?" even though synths are a little more complicated haha!
SoundPon3 Can you pls explain me what does all of this do? Couldn't he just play sound from the computer to the speakers? i2.wp.com/www.synthtopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/deadmau5-modular-synth-porn.jpg I better do some research too.
Rui Santos It's not fun with software synths. There's just something amazing about turning knobs, pressing buttons and hard patching. Also practice is probably the biggest thing. Practice and looking at some of the labels since most buttons and such are labled in a way. I'm not a synth expert though...
hardware is the coolest fucking shit, wish i lived in the days when this was the only way to produce music, as handy as DAW's and software synths etc are, seems so much fun
Well soft synths and the modern DAW's are amazing and what they are capable of doing I can't live without. But you are totally right. Especially when it comes to the sound design, there are just so many things you can't do with software and sounds you can't get without analog. But using both worlds interchangeably and knowing how to do so is the greatest part of modular synthesis.
That's kinda possible now :) Build a massive gaming computer and hook it all up to that :) Plus the fact that hardware keeps getting more and more compressed, so setting a lot of stuff together shouldn't be waay too hard :)
It's actually more like Reason considering it's the closet thing to actual physical modular tools like he's using here. This is what people who wanted to make EDM a long ass time ago before computers HAD to use to make music. So he just sort of has it being a huge nerd and stuff wanting some of the older stuff, but if you get Reason it's basically like having a blank canvas for one of these cabinets and you just plug in whatever mods you want to use with such a realistic capacity that you actually can attach the things exactly like you would with a real one with virtual cables and everything. It's pretty remarkable. FL Studio is way more modern and IMO easier to use but this is just like a throwback to old school music production and he's rich/crazy enough to wanna mess around with it to begin with.
The day FL studio and Ableton literally let you route virtual cables amongst actual virtualized synthetic machines is the day I will agree it's the closest version. I mean Reason is literally this except versus having it in reality you're merely plugging cables around and building one of these racks, virtually, from the ground up. By the way I hate Reason, and the cable aspect of it is one reason I hate it so much, but that is why it's there and the reason it is that way.
he most certainly does, otherwise this would sound like literal cancer as this is a physical modular synth it is basically impossible to get anything even resembling music out of this thin if you don't know excactly what you're doing it shows how much passion and skill dm has
hey, are you being sarcastic? This was actually really impressive, i bet you cannot remember what all those knobs and switches do, let alone play the castlevania theme on them
duuno why but just the fact that all of those things work together to build a final product without fail makes this so much cooler, even though it should all work together considering its really just audio, still cool
Aaron Lukitsh yeah of course, but the djs you're probably talking about are actually producers (like Martin Garrix etc.)who just dj to promote their songs
***** Yeah, but it might be inappropriate to call someone "autistic" because of that. Even he would be, in this context it is an insult. Even though he seems to set heavily on modular hardware synths in production (which by the way is fantastic and not a common practice in todays biz anymore) I didn't seen him on stage performing something with his modulars. This would be just epic.
Приколы
NASA called, they want their shit back.
What the fuck would NASA do with a synth though? :P
Yeah, this didn't make any sense. You should have said doupfer
TheDutchOwner's Tech Channel - Part of TheDutchOwner's Technology Empire its a joke, he said it because it looks like really advanced nasa like technology.
its really not that complex, it just looks complex. Thats analog for ya!
***** My comment was a bit of a joke as well you know.
Neighbour: I normally hear this on sundays...
He doesn't even have neighbours dude.
Check this video of his studio with Linus Tech Tips: ruclips.net/video/dBiqFNNfudA/видео.html
@@SanicStudios Have you gotten your diagnosis yet?
@@SanicStudios Btw if you watched the vid he moved into that house around 2014/15, and this vid was posted 2011.
Then you realise he lives in a mansion in the middle of fucking nowhere 😂
Lol
When the professor says, "let's clear the basics first.."
The basics :
It's been 10 years and this has aged like fine wine.
Such a “killer” sound
is this room for making music or launching shit into outer space?
+Smaster1755 I think launching shit into outer space is much easier than this =D
+Smaster1755 both :D
+TheCoBBus no it's not its really fucking not
+ridleywolf11 damn bruh chill, you do know what chill is right? because it was a joke not a dick, dont take it so hard
Alex Hatton I don't think it's possible to launch "shit" into outer space with that setup a setup to launch an object to outer space is much more complex
Nice setup :) I have that very same screwdriver myself.
Stay classy
Haha
5:07 PM
8/26/2019
@@happyjohn1656 wow, you're right
Lol
Dracula called, he wants his demonic magic spell book back.
CASTLEVANIA
Paeh fuck you talking about? This is Vampire Killer from Castlevania
get your eyes checked out
Arctica Frostbite lmao
I love Castlevania from Undertale
modulars and gear worth hundreds of thousands = sunday-fun-toy
talk about living the fucking dream...
I like your username It comes from Pink Floyd the gnome doesn't it?
graham white
yup!
dont forget about the cigarette smoke
First Last
what cigarette smoke?
actually i watched an interview and this is one of Joel's most important synthesizers.
That's enough modular synths to fly to the moon
Lmao why isnt this the top comment
I think it's way too much.
And let him play among the stars
Until you see junkie xl
I come back to this video every year and each year I have a better understanding of what’s going on here and every time I’m just more and more impressed
Hell yeah dude! Get into synthesis! Buy a synth!
It’s great to have stuff like cardinal now
I don't understand what I just watched.
But I'm quite pleased.
Thats a fucking spaceship
lol
Have you seen the new studio, THIS IS WAS I CALL A SPACESHIP.
you should check out the regular show webisode "Synth buttons"
Alex Shi :: no doubt, a spaceship I wish I was part of it's crew. where do we apply??
No.....it's
Castlevania
Killing Dracula has never been so badass.
Racoon in the closet haa
Simon Belmau5
The only original funny comment here
Yes!
@@Gyrbae I try.
I love how deadmau5 carefully turns only a couple knobs. I know that I would’ve touched everything 😂
NASA wants their shit back, Joel.
*WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE 1000LBS OF ANALOG*
Castlevania man!!!
I laughed way too hard at this!
NICE!
PFFFFT
I first watched this when it first came out, and I STILL GO BACK TO THIS AS THE BEST CASTLEVANIA JAM
When Deadmau5 secretly runs Chernobyl.
Completely normal phenomenon
NASA called. They want their control center back
XD
Perfect
Random 😂
Fake. NASA wouldn't be able to operate such complex machinery.
its not that complex wth you guys
Right after he said, "Waste of time," he and I both said simultaneously, "I think not." It was pretty great.
+Jaysog awesome ahaha
Dope
Neat.
era-appropriate speech for the musical setting
I wonder if he still does this...
I keep coming back to this video.
I really admire Joel for never losing his touch with his child-like exploratory nature. There's a distinct difference between being childish and retaining "child"-like qualities such as just being curious, just having fun with what people deem as being "immature". People who insist on being oh-so mature and whatever will inevitably end up miserable. But look at him, he just did what he truly loves, not giving a fuck about what anyone else thinks. Fuck the people thinking this is a waste of time, this is him using tools that seem infinitely complex to others to.. just have fun. He grew from this, he learned, probably troubleshot plenty of things and became more familiar with those midi controllers, steppers, synthesizers and whatnot that most people think as being alien technology or some shit. Keep doing what you love doing!
can you imagine if deadmau5 performances were done like this.
They are - the technology is simply newer and isn't nearly as large. Deadmau5 already calls out musicians who don't develop their music live.
+MeepTMW yeah I know that he mixes, sequences and stuff live. I meant if he had a bunch of synths performing.
Look up the band "Simian Mobile Disco" playing live, that's basically what they do.
just watch the streams :D
Yourveryowncarrot Chemical Brothers also perform like that, right?
My friends think a playlist in FL looks confusing, whilst I'm here trying to figure out the fuck does this shit work.
+WolfyVolume I've been trying to figure out how to draw into that fucking FL playlist for the last hour.
+WolfyVolume once you know what type of module does what in basic terms all of the rest comes over time as in knoledge wise, study it a bit more and it will make sense... ps. this looks less confusing to me then fl studio lul i guess i just spend more time on my modular.
So Not Amused Gaming
Thank you!
+WolfyVolume if you get fl, you can pick this up EASY
Just watch Varien's tutorial
1 its reccomemded
2 its Deadmau5
Soo i guess i gotta watch it.
Donald J Trump
1. Good taste in music!
2. Bing bong bing bing bong!
My god bro haha
Same
V9iu VIII cig
mu h vhuvuggg8
same
Dad: Why is the NASA here?
Aliens called. They say they want their probing machines and their engines back.
Ghostbusters called. They....messed that up too lazy to rewrite.
actually this is the steering wheel to transport transdimentionally& transport thru time
We can speak for ourselves Human.
😂
I used to play City of Heroes with this guy...holy shit.
You know, "this guy" is deadmau5?
Yes.
Are you absolutely sure about that statement sir?
Minib34ts Deadmau5 is a gamer you know?
***** HOLY FUCK MAN you still in touch?
I could listen so this all day, especially the bass.
I watched this the day he posted it 10 years ago and I still catch myself humming this melody every now and then.
The song is Vampire Killer, from Castlevania.
Still coming back myself
Nintendo must be hardware magicians to fit all that equipment inside the tiny grey NES box!
SAerror1 well of course they didn't have all that stuff in there lol. the original song was actually quite simplistic compared to this. I prefer deadmau5's version because HOLY SHIT THAT BEAT DUDE
SAerror1 it's cuz Deadmau5 IS in the nes box 😂
SAerror1 I don't know what's funnier. This comment or the fact that someone replied with an in-depth explanation.
LS EightyEight True
I think I saw a telephone in there but it's probably used to make music too...
yes, my master.
+VXRUN no, It was probably literally the mastering for the song.
+codyisland1 haha!
+༼ つ◕ω◕ ༽つ Wise Sage Doge That's how Faxing Berlin was made
haha
RUclips recommends this to me every Sunday
Machine called, they want their alliens back
NASA called they want their shit back for the next star trek movie
For those of you wondering, the song used is "Vampire Killer" from Castlevania for the NES
Gerardo Garcia guess who's in smash!
Life savior
Why do you know this ?
@@tashikrtv6878 because the game is awesome
@@joeda900 k
All of this, just for making dope Keygen music
lmfao I knew I've heard this style somewhere
XD
For real
keygen is mostly tracker/amiga music, not modular synths
Razor 1911 :v
The ministry of sound called, they want their equipment back
who needs friends when you have synths
MIDI sequences and $1.000.000 wasted for a lot of things to make music***
Jk
@@gestoraintegralmatriculada4081
$1,000 would be an insane bargain for all the shit in this video. I wouldn't be surprised it it was near $100,000 or more.
The Institute would like to know your location
Freddy Frank That sounds like a great title for a track.
@PC Random deadmau5 spends on both
People say this is a spaceship, no, it is too complicated to be a spaceship.
It's really not THAT complicated, it just takes some in-depth music knowledge and some understanding of how to read English know what the labels above the nobs mean.
When it comes to Deadmau5, sometimes spaceships get complicated
Soulren, I would really like to see your set up then, and your in-depth music knowledge and how that applies to this scenario here.
Aidan Kukosky he's mostly right - it's a complicated signal path, but once you understand how analog synths and VCAs operate it makes a lot more sense
Nigerian Prince lmao you made my day
Stream of consciousness:
This is pretty cool... This is really cool... Man, that's a lot of gear... I'd have no idea how any of this stuff works..............
Hey, a Tim's cup.
I remember watching this many years ago (when YT had just released 720p HD videos, plus Strobe and The Veldt were still big hits)... Never gets old.
I want a whole channel that's only deadmau5 making covers of videogame songs on this equipment
aha yes
Ditto
Hes just playing midi files through his patch bay
@@derrickforeal really? I dont know shit about modular. could've fooled me.
@player two wow, thats so amazing, you might want to check out a book i co wrote with suzanne Ciani, its called patch and tweak. You could have fooled me mr. modular.
I wasnt speaking to you or telling you a thing, but glad you could chime in and school me on some old dead post. Thankyou merry xmass,
Rocket science 101: the control room...
*Get ready to enter the next room*
how du u UNDERSTAND DAT
@zygardecore
That what? The wall of modular he's got? Not that hard to understand..
Unless you're a rock musician 🙃
Alaska1925 yeah lol😁
P.S.
Not to be taken as an insult, just a meme in the music industry
i normally watch this on Sunday
deadmau5: *grabs water and bring it to this room
random cable: *hEHeHEHehe*
Dont mind him guys, thats just deadmau5 being deadmau5.
But its deadmau5
Martin Bernath EXACTLY!
shit i wasn't looking -.-
'Deadmou5', lol
DOGE™ maybe Deadmous3 then :D
I took me years to figure out this is castlevania
Daniel Bebop a
Payne i was wondering and scrolled pages of comments. Thank you sir😂😩
THANK YOU OH MY LORD
honestly I knew I heard this somewhere
"...took me years...
Payne · 1 year ago"
Slight hyperbole there. Also when I read your comment, I hear it in Popeye's voice. "Well, BLOW ME DOWN! 'I took me years to figure' it out. Agagagagag! TOOT, TOOT!"
That sounds like music from a game from 1987 where you try to defeat Dracula by whipping your way through skeletons and shit
but that's a very broad term though. :P
*1986...
sorry, thanks for correcting me, I was only thinking of the copyright at the title screen which said 1987 :P
SeventyFour Productions The answer that you're looking for is the glorious Konami (just roll with it) game Castlevania
Seriously, fuck Konami, but I love Castlevania.
G-Luck r/whoooosh
Is it in a castle though?
I still come back to this ever so often. I just love it so much!
How the FUCK does he know what does what?!?!
#Jlo4661 alot of practice and memory
TECHTREK (OSSpecialists) and labels
Producers and sound guys just know....
I get asked all the time "Do you know what everything does?" even though synths are a little more complicated haha!
SoundPon3 Can you pls explain me what does all of this do? Couldn't he just play sound from the computer to the speakers?
i2.wp.com/www.synthtopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/deadmau5-modular-synth-porn.jpg
I better do some research too.
Rui Santos It's not fun with software synths. There's just something amazing about turning knobs, pressing buttons and hard patching. Also practice is probably the biggest thing. Practice and looking at some of the labels since most buttons and such are labled in a way. I'm not a synth expert though...
Castlevania!!! I recognized it!!
Me: Pass me the AUX...
*_Looks at Musical NASA Terminal with 300 AUX Cables_*
Deadmau5: Which one...
I normally listen to this on Sundays :P
Can I be your neighbor?! 8D
It seems that everyone thinks that he just presses a button to make a song LOL
I clicked on the video for the gear, I stayed for fucking Vampire Killer being pumped through it.
DRACULA is somewhere noding his demonic head to this sick song
hardware is the coolest fucking shit, wish i lived in the days when this was the only way to produce music, as handy as DAW's and software synths etc are, seems so much fun
Well soft synths and the modern DAW's are amazing and what they are capable of doing I can't live without. But you are totally right. Especially when it comes to the sound design, there are just so many things you can't do with software and sounds you can't get without analog. But using both worlds interchangeably and knowing how to do so is the greatest part of modular synthesis.
Gatchi Tater Tots yeah but theres no voltage or unlinear harmonic distortion..
thiisnewgenBIG
and you can't modify the phase variance! and this is to say nothing of the flux capacitor and quantum refuckulator
Yeah but when we were in those days we just wanted more hardware, or a computer that could do it all.. :D
That's kinda possible now :) Build a massive gaming computer and hook it all up to that :) Plus the fact that hardware keeps getting more and more compressed, so setting a lot of stuff together shouldn't be waay too hard :)
Castlevania called, they want their song back.
Cheers man!
vampire killer
The 90's called and want their lame ass insult back lmao
literally says modular-vania in the description >_
Ah thanks... I thought it was from Megaman
I don’t won’t to see your energy bills 😅
Electricity
@Astral Shelter hes not wrong tho
Electricity is energy
In Canada where deadmau5 is from we call it energy and those in Ontario call it hydro because of how its generated
We have found Dexter's laboratory.
LOL
Castlevania!! :D This is my jam..
physical version of FL Studio/Ableton?
FIERCEDINO080 Xtreme videos
Ableton*
*Reason or VCVRack
A physical DAW.
It's actually more like Reason considering it's the closet thing to actual physical modular tools like he's using here. This is what people who wanted to make EDM a long ass time ago before computers HAD to use to make music. So he just sort of has it being a huge nerd and stuff wanting some of the older stuff, but if you get Reason it's basically like having a blank canvas for one of these cabinets and you just plug in whatever mods you want to use with such a realistic capacity that you actually can attach the things exactly like you would with a real one with virtual cables and everything. It's pretty remarkable. FL Studio is way more modern and IMO easier to use but this is just like a throwback to old school music production and he's rich/crazy enough to wanna mess around with it to begin with.
The day FL studio and Ableton literally let you route virtual cables amongst actual virtualized synthetic machines is the day I will agree it's the closest version. I mean Reason is literally this except versus having it in reality you're merely plugging cables around and building one of these racks, virtually, from the ground up. By the way I hate Reason, and the cable aspect of it is one reason I hate it so much, but that is why it's there and the reason it is that way.
now the real question is, *Is he still doing these up to this day?*
I don't think even deadmau5 himself understands what he's doing.
blue pokemon I think he does
That's why he has it because he dosent know how to use it
@@DEMYBU The wise words of all of us that own too many synths...
he most certainly does, otherwise this would sound like literal cancer as this is a physical modular synth it is basically impossible to get anything even resembling music out of this thin if you don't know excactly what you're doing it shows how much passion and skill dm has
His new setup has stuff you can’t even buy
soon(tm), "Deadmau5 - He Usually Does This On Sundays"
SkyEye Music this soundtrack comes from a game called Castlevania, I don't think he can sell this in an album.
hows the song called doh?
@@crzypyromaniac6406 r/Woooosh
Our music generation in a nutshell. So proud
well, other artists just load a preset and its done..
hey, are you being sarcastic? This was actually really impressive, i bet you cannot remember what all those knobs and switches do, let alone play the castlevania theme on them
MooseRawwr what? no you don't assign things to them. that's a modular synth, every knob has its own function.
it's not a fucking midi controller.
even though this is a song from the 80s?
Yeah I fucking hate guitarists lol like ok you pluck some strings that's easy
Definitely takes me back to the 70’s hanging out at the penny arcades lol.
Imagine all this stuff just not working ...
what a horrible night to have such a curse
This sounds like it should be music in some sort of gameboy game xD
oh.
My brain just hemorrhaged.
Erza Scarlet he recreated it using modular synths.
aj6223 Look here, it's from another older Nintendo system.
Get your crap together.
ThatWeirdQuilava ???
imagine his electricity bill...
Are you fucking serious?
I was talking to I Am a Taco...I know it uses barely any power...
learn to take a fucking joke ppl
Learn to make a proper joke that is actually funny and not stupid.
so harsh
I desperately want to hear deadmau5, Mr. Bill, and Igorrr, on one track.
Pure and beautiful chaos.
duuno why but just the fact that all of those things work together to build a final product without fail makes this so much cooler, even though it should all work together considering its really just audio, still cool
Lol, and I read some article today saying modern DJ's don't know how to use all of the equipment they have.
Aaron Lukitsh don't confound djs with producers
Aaron Lukitsh yeah of course, but the djs you're probably talking about are actually producers (like Martin Garrix etc.)who just dj to promote their songs
Modern people dont know how to do anything these days thats why we are people so we pry into everycrack and do what we can
now match the chords in key along with the tempo
Deadmau5 is much more than a dj
Could you image the price of that eurorack. Oh my god.
CuffRox probably tens of thousands of dollars gone
How much technics do you want?
Deadmau5: Yes
RUclips recommendations nails it for the first time.
this sounds like heaven
How cool would it be to see Joel release an album completely made up of these kinda songs :D
Synth maker: how big do you want it
Deadmau5: yes
This guy didn’t need VST he is the VST
How do you possibly remember what all of the knobs do
They are labeled lol ;D
You learn how synths work
labels.
faux And then you kind of just wing it from there.
How do you remember what all those words mean?
Deadmau5 vs Celldweller - SYNTH BATTLE! FIGHT!
MineOf ZeDead Introducing: Epic Synth Battles of History! Next time: Depeche Mode vs. Kraftwerk... oh wait... you decide.
derLPMaxe - Generischer Name, Generischer Kanal. xD
This shit reminds me of MEGA MAN!
***** ...I'm not autistic
***** Yeah, but it might be inappropriate to call someone "autistic" because of that. Even he would be, in this context it is an insult.
Even though he seems to set heavily on modular hardware synths in production (which by the way is fantastic and not a common practice in todays biz anymore) I didn't seen him on stage performing something with his modulars. This would be just epic.
If anyone had a childhood and played some type of Sonic Adventure game, this sounds like music from a level in those games lol.
Bro that was one of my favorite castlevania
The category fits this video.
Comedy ;D
peytN lel
peytN :D
It is all a joke (insert badamtuss joke here)
It's the fucking Death Star
Never was a fan of your music but this.. I respect yu for this. I love Castlevania
Omg. Thanks for taking me back to my childhood. What a hard game!!!!
You should release this as a song, heck, I would buy it!
It is a song -_-
BarbarianParty i know it's castlevania, but he should do his own version and upload it
plagiarism?
Jackson Borghi remixism
Im addicted to this
That ending. Just kills the last brain cells of any hater watching.
The best thing he understands the whole machine or whatever it is .
SO MANY BUTTONS....O_O
ask him, how am i supposed 2 know, he knows wat EVERYTHING on that does.
Epic! You need to do more of this
Keep in mind the average small 7-12hp module costs starting $200-$300 and can costs thousands individually and he has THOUSANDS JESUS
Amazing 🔥🤘🏻