WOW! Amazingly well-done video, as usual. This time, the subject is a true marvel of engineering. This device is perfect for what I want to do and just the synth section alone sounds good enough to be sold by itself.
What a strange labor of love. There's a ton of madness stuffed into that little box with some occasional gems interspersed. Thank you for the great video!
At least there are companies out there willing to push boundaries, rather than just clone everything in sight, it's cool, edgy and refreshing. Hope you had a good Xmas break and looking forwards to your new year videos!!
Hahaha... Love it. Mental synth!!! Think you might be unlocking the new secret genre lol. Great stuff already brother. Just getting stuck in now! 🔥👊🧡👍🔥
I have the original SPEAK & GLITCH, minus the touchscreen. It does things that nothing else on the market can do. The creator also does regular firmware updates & adds new functionality. Definitely will buy the NEW version.
this thing is the first synth in a while that really peaks my interest. i love it when people do synths that do sth different than the usual va/analog/fm/wavetable synthesis.
After listening all the way through. It really sounds amazing. I will be saving my pennies. Definitely up my street. I think Richard did an amazing job. ❤
Yeah as a kid, i used to lick the expansion card and drop it in, which basically caused random circuit bends. 😂 not only do i have memories of great sounds, i also have a memory of the flavor of a Texas Instruments circuit board
@@sub-jec-tivHaha, yes exactly! I used to stick crumpled up bits of aluminum foil in the expansion slot, lmao. It is pretty amazing it never broke anything shorting stuff out like that. Very funny about licking the board. I don't remember the taste, but definitely the smell!
Bought almost no pieces of gear this year...one was a Plus3 for my birthday in August and the other a TallTimber crossfader pedal as a Christmas gift for my kid so she can cross fade between 2 drum machines or bass synths when we "jam". Happy Hanukkah Loopop
Great overview. This is going on my want list. I have a couple of speak & ____s (fill in the blank). This is a really cool concept; nice to see a synth developer doing something this edgy and innovative. That LFO mix idea on its own is pretty interesting.
Well I don’t know which one but the $30 controller doesn’t do anything on its own, you see, there’s an actual human who spent years writing the code for the synth
Thank you so much for this. I bought one a few months ago & quickly got completely lost. And the manual was NOT AT ALL helpful. After watching this I think you've confirmed my original feeling, which is that the drum part is kind of useless until/unless they decide to implement a more conventional pattern sequencer. But you've also made me more excited to dive into the synthesis settings!
this here is sorta has some of the power I would of imagined a KP4 would of. Coming from me thisnis about as big of a complement that can happen, a high level wow!
Honey I told you seventeen liters of eggnog is TOO MUCH but DO YOU EVEN LISTEN TO YOUR WIFE? Now next time you will NOT drink all the eggnog (and poor Jimmy was crying all night because he wanted some) Shame on you, Jay
seems like this is a 2nd version of a speech synth of his. maybe in a couple years, the technology will expand a bit so i can replace some of my circuit bent instruments. sounds like a few bugs to work out yet
Is it just me or has the synth market become “how much do we have to add to justify a $600 price tag” instead of “how much should this thing cost”? Seems like every little box is going for $600 these days.
I'm so curious to hear this through some external FX that soften the harsher frequencies - I imagine you could get something quite dreamy and otherworldly
strange and cool. love the fact that there is an integrated drum section that can be kicked off on any of the sounds.. I'm guessing there is not tempo setting on this thing, nor can it map to a tempo setting from an external instrument?
It does accept midi clock (and start stop). In fact, four sections of the synth (tempo, lfo, loop and drum) each have their own independent PPQN settings (per patch).
Hey mr loopop any chance of getting a updated video on the synthstrom deluge it's pretty much a different device since your last video, things like audio stem export and extra filters for the fm synth and dexed amongst others have given it a new lease of life for me would love to hear your take
Hello loopop, great review....like always:-) Me think that a midi keyboard is recommended to drive this machine. But is this machine also driveable in an...let's say....easy reasonable way without a keyboard? Or is a keyboard an absolutely must have? Background: Have a bended speak a spell.....so me sees this machine as an extended one:-) Thanks and greetings from Germany.
Thanks! A MIDI keyboard isn't a must, especially if you're used to a bended speak and spell - this is a major upgrade just on that. However, personally I love the "more regular" sounds in here as well, so a keyboard (or even a small controller/sequencer) will let you make much more out of it.
@@AppleKid Yeah, the thing is, It’s not a vocoder, it’s a speech-synthesis chip from the early 80s. In those days, all the words and phrases (and sound FX) had to be hard coded into the chip. It wasn’t an AI parsing its own vocabulary like we have now, it was simple if-then logic playing back pre-recorded voice synthesis wave samples.
@@sub-jec-tiv Liked the loopop video. It explains the chip in depth. I like how when he slowed down, there was a pitch change. The video itself is almost as cool as the module.
@@loopopJust main important topics: Software plugin, sync quality and latency, Usb audio/midi, direct automation (without cc). I mean for every review. I think its very important chapter.
@@loopopDirect automation is when you turning the knob and automation lane appears in your DAW with correct name (like Cutoff). And you dont have to learn midi cc chart like CC09 - Cutoff).
Please I cannot take another simple analog waveform gen, please no sawtooths... Maybe tell us how we can make fm sounds .. Or do synclavier style resynthesis?
Thank you for this Amazing review , this supreme contraption would be my desert island synth along with soma terra…on a completely unrelated note Frank Zappa would LOVE this marvellous gadget.
@spdycar13 that and the stuff they do make is garbage and if you question why your RD-8 gets to 130°f on surface of unit within 30 mins of use on their FB the mods mock and laugh so their customer service is garbage as well.
You have no idea how expensive it is to develop and produce an instrument unless you’re Behringer. Behringer has insane economy of scale, and on top of that, overworks its low-paid employees until they get sick. Nobody is overpricing their instruments. Behringer is able to under-price their stuff for those reasons. Nobody owes anyone a cheap instrument. If you can’t afford an instrument not made by slave labor, don’t buy it.
@ well, it provided a consistent reference point as you went through all the different modulation options! Wonderful work as per usual - I enjoyed learning about this synth. I was more intrigued with the percussive and arp elements than the speech mangling, tbh. I would have marketed it as The Glitch Synth (with speech, rhythm, and mod matrix)
Would be great indeed! As proof of concept, I’ve been running the GND-1T LFOs, ENV, Loop start trigger and drum note triggers into Expert Sleepers FH2 for Eurorack integration. Eg, using the loop and/or drum triggers as seed input for MI Beads. Using the LFOs/env as modulation sources for FX (that the GND-1T is going thru) in the nifty keyz, which I’m using to play the GND-1T via MIDI. Recommended!
WOW! Amazingly well-done video, as usual. This time, the subject is a true marvel of engineering. This device is perfect for what I want to do and just the synth section alone sounds good enough to be sold by itself.
0:01 Must have!... 3:00 Maybe I want one... 5:00 ok, I'm over it already.
Me when I see any new shiny synth toy 😂
I’m still at the psychological state you were experiencing at 0:01 and I’m halfway through the video. Uh-oh…
RUN!!!@@ABC-bm7kl
I ordered it as soon as your video dropped! And it just arrived from Australia, today!
I know what I’m doing this weekend
Enjoy!
loopop, you are the only one who got the credebility. Mostly the synth youtubers seem more like fanboys. great channel. my gnd 1t arrived yesterday.
What a strange labor of love. There's a ton of madness stuffed into that little box with some occasional gems interspersed. Thank you for the great video!
Agree. It's magnificently eccentric.
At least there are companies out there willing to push boundaries, rather than just clone everything in sight, it's cool, edgy and refreshing.
Hope you had a good Xmas break and looking forwards to your new year videos!!
Thanks and same to you!
Lol wait until you find something called Eurorack.
There’s space for every aspect: people like clones, and people like innovation 👍
@@jocee2257 you mean *Eurocrack* ? Yes I heard it is very addictive.
@@jocee2257 Don’t remind me.. I haven’t bought any modules in a few years. I’ve been happy with my choices… oh no, *knocks on wood*
It’s so weird. I’m in love.
It would be great if a European retailer carried this.
Thanks for the introduction!
Thinking about ordering one. Call it an experi-mental synth-order
Are you an ‘oarder?
I've been waiting for something like this! Super cute!
What a beautifuly made machine!
Hahaha... Love it. Mental synth!!! Think you might be unlocking the new secret genre lol. Great stuff already brother. Just getting stuck in now! 🔥👊🧡👍🔥
I love it! 😊
That thing is worth the 600 I’d buy this over the mega fm anyday
Brilliant video! As always! Merry Xmas, Loopop!
This is just rediculous and brilliant at the same time. Merry Christmas!! 🌲
Have a happy new year loopop
Thanks, you too!
That's amazing piece of kit😮, the ultimate circuit bending toy for your music set up😊. I'll have to try and get one 🙏🤞😁
I ❤ this synth. Really, very useful video. Thanks Loopop.
I have the original SPEAK & GLITCH, minus the touchscreen.
It does things that nothing else on the market can do.
The creator also does regular firmware updates & adds new functionality.
Definitely will buy the NEW version.
this thing is the first synth in a while that really peaks my interest. i love it when people do synths that do sth different than the usual va/analog/fm/wavetable synthesis.
*piques
How about chompy?
please make a eurorack version so we can put it in a rack..
I own it and it’s the coolest thing ever.
Post a video of you playing some actual music with it then! I would love to hear it used in an actual song.
@kingtrance307 I don't think it's for playing songs. It's for having fun.
@@kingtrance307 everything must be musical arghhhhhh this is not musical argggghhh everything must be function argggggh this is not functional.
@@klonewavverr2909 Its not that it MUST, it's that most people dont just want utter madness -- they want to see if it can be tamed a little
@@annother3350klone was being sarcastic
Great Thats awsome!
I think have to buy one. Its the maddest thing I have ever seen.
15:40 The part breaking down how it synthesizes speech is fascinating.
I'm in❤
I used to glitch my S&S when i got it back in the day. It's very cool to see something like this after all these years. Merry Christmas. 🎄
After listening all the way through. It really sounds amazing. I will be saving my pennies. Definitely up my street. I think Richard did an amazing job. ❤
Yeah as a kid, i used to lick the expansion card and drop it in, which basically caused random circuit bends. 😂 not only do i have memories of great sounds, i also have a memory of the flavor of a Texas Instruments circuit board
@@sub-jec-tivHaha, yes exactly! I used to stick crumpled up bits of aluminum foil in the expansion slot, lmao. It is pretty amazing it never broke anything shorting stuff out like that. Very funny about licking the board. I don't remember the taste, but definitely the smell!
@@jumpstar9000 I eventually broke mine, but it took years 😂
awesome !
It's cool but I'd rather have the Loupé. ;)
Very original performance device. Top!
This may be the coolest gadget ever!! ✨️👌
You buy it then.
@kingtrance307 it's next on my list of things I don't really need
Bought almost no pieces of gear this year...one was a Plus3 for my birthday in August and the other a TallTimber crossfader pedal as a Christmas gift for my kid so she can cross fade between 2 drum machines or bass synths when we "jam".
Happy Hanukkah Loopop
Great overview. This is going on my want list. I have a couple of speak & ____s (fill in the blank). This is a really cool concept; nice to see a synth developer doing something this edgy and innovative. That LFO mix idea on its own is pretty interesting.
Just thinking on some of the stuff you showed off in the intro, there seems to be a tilt towards drum and bass and IDM type genres…
One of my old friends bent a Speak & Math many years ago, and sent it to me.
What's inside there, a raspberry pi?
In this? A Teensy
@loopop Gotcha. So a $30 microcontroller does everything. Do you know if it's a 4, or 4.1?
Well I don’t know which one but the $30 controller doesn’t do anything on its own, you see, there’s an actual human who spent years writing the code for the synth
@@loopop Obviously. Take it from somebody who worked for years in both Reaktor, as well as in the Nord Mod G2.
Thank you so much for this. I bought one a few months ago & quickly got completely lost. And the manual was NOT AT ALL helpful. After watching this I think you've confirmed my original feeling, which is that the drum part is kind of useless until/unless they decide to implement a more conventional pattern sequencer. But you've also made me more excited to dive into the synthesis settings!
TI didn't realise what they had created when they bought out the S&S. I bet Florian Schneider would have loved this, may he rest in peace.
Nice.
this here is sorta has some of the power I would of imagined a KP4 would of. Coming from me thisnis about as big of a complement that can happen, a high level wow!
Putting a couple chase bliss pedals into the mix will likely alter the trajectory of the Universe for the better. I’m in.
Yeah, Chase Bliss is the only thing I can think of as mad as this.
instantly gave me gastrointestinal distress
Honey I told you seventeen liters of eggnog is TOO MUCH but DO YOU EVEN LISTEN TO YOUR WIFE?
Now next time you will NOT drink all the eggnog (and poor Jimmy was crying all night because he wanted some)
Shame on you, Jay
Donna would love this. IYKYK.
Cool. I think I need to wake my modded speak & spell ASAP :) I love it, the only issue is that it hangs so often when I use the mods...
seems like this is a 2nd version of a speech synth of his. maybe in a couple years, the technology will expand a bit so i can replace some of my circuit bent instruments. sounds like a few bugs to work out yet
Joyeux Noël. Feliz Natal. 🎉
Is it just me or has the synth market become “how much do we have to add to justify a $600 price tag” instead of “how much should this thing cost”? Seems like every little box is going for $600 these days.
Great, Give me new ideas and keep the quality high. There are plenty of options for the poor and the unimaginative
It’s just you
I'm so curious to hear this through some external FX that soften the harsher frequencies - I imagine you could get something quite dreamy and otherworldly
that's exactly what i do with the MI Braids engine on my Dirtywave M8. Don't forget huge amounts of reverb and delay madulations.
Can you imagine this combined w the BASTL THYME? Ultimate glitch badge achieved. Aphex Twin mode unlocked. 🏆🏆🏆
very interesting and useful for electronic music and film score
Sounds awesome. A bit $ but still tempting
WOW!
🥇I am writing to inform you that you have been awarded the medal for the best RUclips video title on synthesizers for December 2024. Kind regards
Folks, I’m here to help you out. You don’t need this.
We don't need this, but we may want it, like we don't need your help but may want it?
But I want it.
@@xfghffhfg cry harder
@@401dB troll harder
Lol I like your humour!!
For anybody into oddball soundscapes or soundtracking, I don't see how this isn't a must-have device.
I love seeing new gear that my current gear can’t do.
Would’ve been funny if this was an original little desktop module synth that was circuit bent, and became a Speak and Read!
JUMP TO 32:20 THE REST OF THE REVIEW CAN'T COMPARE
This seems nice for people who can't get their hands on a monomachine. 😇
How do you link stuff?
strange and cool. love the fact that there is an integrated drum section that can be kicked off on any of the sounds.. I'm guessing there is not tempo setting on this thing, nor can it map to a tempo setting from an external instrument?
It does accept midi clock (and start stop). In fact, four sections of the synth (tempo, lfo, loop and drum) each have their own independent PPQN settings (per patch).
Owch, over CAD$800 😮 I'd have a lot of fun with this, but holy cow.
Agreed. Very cool, but pricey.
Would be a cool collectable
Hey mr loopop any chance of getting a updated video on the synthstrom deluge it's pretty much a different device since your last video, things like audio stem export and extra filters for the fm synth and dexed amongst others have given it a new lease of life for me would love to hear your take
My take is that it's awesome :) there's a chance but I don't want to promise anything
@loopop fair ,love the diligence you show on here ,thanks for responding
Hello loopop, great review....like always:-) Me think that a midi keyboard is recommended to drive this machine. But is this machine also driveable in an...let's say....easy reasonable way without a keyboard? Or is a keyboard an absolutely must have? Background: Have a bended speak a spell.....so me sees this machine as an extended one:-) Thanks and greetings from Germany.
Thanks! A MIDI keyboard isn't a must, especially if you're used to a bended speak and spell - this is a major upgrade just on that. However, personally I love the "more regular" sounds in here as well, so a keyboard (or even a small controller/sequencer) will let you make much more out of it.
@@loopop 🤞
On the left hand side; Change the color of the chapter your at
Thanks!
is there a way to spell words and make sentences with the vocorder ability?
No
Casio ct-s1000v does that, you can import custom sentences with an app onto the keyboard
@@mostrengo thats cool but I was thinking of something that could do it with the speak and spell chip
@@AppleKid Yeah, the thing is, It’s not a vocoder, it’s a speech-synthesis chip from the early 80s. In those days, all the words and phrases (and sound FX) had to be hard coded into the chip. It wasn’t an AI parsing its own vocabulary like we have now, it was simple if-then logic playing back pre-recorded voice synthesis wave samples.
@@sub-jec-tiv Liked the loopop video. It explains the chip in depth. I like how when he slowed down, there was a pitch change. The video itself is almost as cool as the module.
Man, there is an idea - to add "DAW integration, sync & automation" chapter. Would be extremely useful.
What would you like me to cover specifically? What do you find difficult?
@@loopopJust main important topics: Software plugin, sync quality and latency, Usb audio/midi, direct automation (without cc). I mean for every review. I think its very important chapter.
@@n.l.541 noted. what’s direct automation without CC?
@@loopopDirect automation is when you turning the knob and automation lane appears in your DAW with correct name (like Cutoff). And you dont have to learn midi cc chart like CC09 - Cutoff).
@@n.l.541which synth does that without a VST that knows its CCs?
I use bitspeek when i need this sound :)
That was the name. I used it a long time ago. And was thinking of it the whole video, but couldnt remember the name
Looks like a more extensive version of Error Instruments Speak and Glitch unit and much more expensive.
42:00 Thank You Mr. Hand... What you gonna do for the remaining 12 minutes?
Pretty cool.but i wonder if its nessesary to have it as hardware
There's no software version of this (it would be nice!)
@loopop yes it would be! I mean the software is inside. Would just need a digital interface or maybe just to be setup to a controller
Necessary? No.
Unless it's a very resource-intensive process no digital hardware is "necessary" today. It would be great to have it as a plugin
@xfghffhfg exactly
@@RPS3000 But it doesn't take away from the hardware, which looks fun and I would be happy to own it as well
It works for music. See 2:30
42:20 YAY!!!! PRESETS
Hi Loopop❤
Interesting. Similar to the Synthesis Technology E950 Circuit Bent VCO + E951 Looping Expander eurorack modules, with lots of obvious differences.
Same idea as the Gibber v3 by biyiblip, isn't it?
I wouldn't call it the same, but I wouldn't say it's totally different either
16:04 Kraftwerk's "Home Computer" intro
Please I cannot take another simple analog waveform gen, please no sawtooths... Maybe tell us how we can make fm sounds .. Or do synclavier style resynthesis?
Its cool, but out of my price range atm
Thank you for this Amazing review , this supreme contraption would be my desert island synth along with soma terra…on a completely unrelated note Frank Zappa would LOVE this marvellous gadget.
Yup, I was in glitchheaven till 42:00. But still love the idea. I prefer firmware updates like Arturia..😅
nice!
I COULD DO THIS WITH MPEG AUDIO FRAMES
I bet I can have UDIO dial in speak and spellwith a clever prompt..
Probably. Not sure you are going to get it to do what this does, but it would be cool to try. I am astounded by what Udio produces.
This is nice, but can nobody make anything synth-related that isn't extortionately priced?
Go right ahead!
Behringer does, but you never actually get anything due to perpetual backorder.
@spdycar13 that and the stuff they do make is garbage and if you question why your RD-8 gets to 130°f on surface of unit within 30 mins of use on their FB the mods mock and laugh so their customer service is garbage as well.
You have no idea how expensive it is to develop and produce an instrument unless you’re Behringer. Behringer has insane economy of scale, and on top of that, overworks its low-paid employees until they get sick.
Nobody is overpricing their instruments. Behringer is able to under-price their stuff for those reasons.
Nobody owes anyone a cheap instrument. If you can’t afford an instrument not made by slave labor, don’t buy it.
I am using external terrestrials
interesting
Getting some heavy AFX vibes! 🙌🎶
🎉
life is short
Now spell… now spell… NOW SPELL… Nowwww -boop- S P E L L -beep-
Stop - I’ll give you whatever you want! 😂
ha as I was editing the video I told myself that I'm going to get a hard time for not swapping phrases in the comment section...
@ well, it provided a consistent reference point as you went through all the different modulation options! Wonderful work as per usual - I enjoyed learning about this synth. I was more intrigued with the percussive and arp elements than the speech mangling, tbh. I would have marketed it as The Glitch Synth (with speech, rhythm, and mod matrix)
This looks so cool. I guess you have to pay $$ for innovations.
The screen reminds of that new Synclavier
God I wish it had CV
Would be great indeed! As proof of concept, I’ve been running the GND-1T LFOs, ENV, Loop start trigger and drum note triggers into Expert Sleepers FH2 for Eurorack integration. Eg, using the loop and/or drum triggers as seed input for MI Beads. Using the LFOs/env as modulation sources for FX (that the GND-1T is going thru) in the nifty keyz, which I’m using to play the GND-1T via MIDI. Recommended!
$600, holyfuq! better price, suggestion: $175
I would by for $300, but not $560.
Maybe I will get one next year, if I can get a deal on a used one.
I do like weird noise toys.
@@TheScreamingFrog916 or get a better job :)
And then import… it will be 800 euro to get it home. Naah thx
@@klinkske Complaining about the price of a product as an excuse for not being able to afford it. We get it, you are poor :)
You need really good toes for this Loopop❤❤❤
I love it, but $560 for a toy instrument 😳
Как продать Pi4 за 560 $
Well they sell Nano Lemondrops for not much less.
LCD Soundsystem bought twelve of them already
New game for gear collectors it's called guest that price
still and always was the game of the poor
Is this the TE-effect ? Fun, but horribly overpriced.
can you make one for cheaper?
Kling Klang
NÔŴSPĒLL!!!!!