I guess this will always be the best Spectraphon walkthrough ever made. I've been working hard on 'my own' version, but your way of explaining, demoing, your sonic palette, your creativity, etc, etc, is just unrivaled. Respect!
I am very much looking forward to yours! Your musicality is unrivaled! While I appreciate this experimental approach, I prefer your harmonious compositions!
Yours will be good in its own way Robert I have no doubt. And I can watch both yours and Sarah’s to distraction in the seven months until I can afford to buy one!
@@HoveyKraft Sarah Belle helped me to find five huge bugs in my future video. There's nothing more frustrating than uploading and finding out later it has errors, and very pleasing to learn from Sarah Belle's art.
Man, you’ve become one of my favorite synth RUclipsrs. I love how quiet and focused you are in explaining everything and then we listen to your sound design and it’s this crazy off the wall noise shit. The contrast is hilarious but you’re a great presenter.
I agree, great presenter. Phenomenal!! I got inspired by Underworld - Thing in a book. Great track! Now I'm into synths! You can use combination of frequencies to heal the body with frequency/ sound application
Absolutely fantastic demo! This is the first time in a long time that something genuinely surprising and exciting has come along in euro. Hats off to you and the MN team!
Thanks for the demo/explanation! Great stuff! What an insane module, I think most of us that have been in modular for a while are stoked to see something fresh.
Never have I ever pre-ordered a module. The SECOND I heard the box sample thru this yesterday I stopped the vid and immediately went to my local synth store website and did the deed🤘I love resynthesis/additive synthesis but the hardware options have always been so limited. This thing is a game changer ! Edit: love seeing the hydrasynth in the background! Hail Hydrasynth🤘
THanks for the breakdown! Using large amounts of sine wav is also one of the ways that DAW implement timestreching with loops, to fill in the gaps. I was watching a video about that the other day.
thaks make noise for making something really cool that i don't need. it's not the sound i'm after but i'll enjoy hearing others make nice music with it. and thanks to sarah for making such a clear comprehensive demo. it's not only interesting to watch and hear such a varied soundspace but also as if i had read the manual now. somehow i got a feeling that the spectraphon would pair nicely with qpas.
My thoughts, this is clearly totally next level. For me, i have to catch up learning and using the last 50 modules i bought and will make equally interesting noise while doing that.
Got one of these, and with the new firmware, it is a beast ❤ Thanks for the wonderful demo, and best wishes for your continued fun/success with music 🎵 😊 🎵
Thank for the great demo. Excited to try one of these with an input that relates to the pitch sequence played through the oscillators and enveloped on the input Sitka related gate input. The possibilities of this thing are endless.
I ♥ your videos, because I can play back any one of them at a random point and my computer starting making awesome sounds, like an episode of Doctor Who mixed with Skrillex
Excellent blend of information and clever and creative demonstrations. You are doing a great job and I'm really looking forward to your future videos. Make Noise and their users are fortunate to have you. Awesome Sarah.
"sounds very, very cool." Indeed! Well done on the Fourier stuff. Great patches. Am I right in thinking this was more fun than a barrel of Walkers?" Thanks so much!
That's a great module and demonstration. I'm considering getting one someday, could be awesome with my JMT Synth NoisyMic... Cool plug for that radio channel at 26min...haha
Thanks for the detailed overview, I now know where my next $599 + VT tax + shipping is going and am merely waiting for patchwerks or perfect circuit to be ready to take my money!!
Great detailed review. If you would have to choose between the 4ms SWN, a Spectraphon or a 2nd hand ADI-8 for extra audio inputs for €550, what would you choose? 😂😂
A lot of these sound’s remind me of FM sounds available in IME/the Harvestman mk 2 oscillators. Not all of them for sure. This definitely is its own thing.
Awesome new module. Thanks for walking through it. One initial basic patch question I have is with the first few patch examples you are coming out of the odd and even outputs if the B-side of the module… but what are they being patched into? Is it directly being output clean or are those signals passing through anything else for processing?
I was running the odd and even outputs into the SSF Vortices mixer - then to a Joranalogue Transmit 2, then to my interface. Otherwise, there wasn't any processing applied unless you could see the processors on screen.
@@sarahbellereid nice, thanks for that. Yea this module seems super unique and a versatile “new” addition to my setup for sure. Tons of sonic possibilities
Which keyboard do you use for your ASM Hydrasynth? Asking because there aren't that many low cost keyboards that support polyphonic aftertouch, and the way you have the Hydrasynth racked up indicates that you either don't use its pads as input method or use them rarely. I currently use the CME X-Key for those of my synths which have PA capability, but I wish it came in at least a 4-octave format.
Finally, make noise with the help of Tom Erbe grab the concept of resynthesis, had the panharmonium for a few months, it looked like a gimmick, but this one really looks like something really interesting, eurorack appears moving foward, thank you Sarah for you usual in-depth review and brilliant sound demo
Of course, this video needs a second look. My question: let's assume I have Steinberg's Spectralayers open on a file: is it possible to describe the behaviours of Focus and Slide knobs in terms of, say, cursor movement over the SL display area? Or by comparing those knobs to an edit zone in one or another of the SL edit modes? I listen to the effect of your moving those knobs and I don't derive an intuitive sense of what is going on; maybe a visual analogy or comparison will help. Thanks again for this very complete and useful information. (I realize the lore is to just hack away at it to develop a kinesthetic sense of how to predict results; not my mode of learning I guess. And quite expensive in terms of time.)
I came across quite a good high level answer to my question about Slide & Focus in an interview with Walker Farrell on the Sound on Sound channel; here's the link: ruclips.net/video/9EcR-ww0lKc/видео.html
I’m trying to wrap my head around how this works so I can try to rebuild it in Max/MSP. I’ve done some resynthesis before with phase vocoding and FFT processing, but that is a very different sound. Do you think this is using convolution as well?
haha "early unit" jk this sounds really cool, if it was in the strega form factor, i would definitely buy one really cool, really weird i did a presentation of eurorack stuff at a senior center thursday.............. it was horrible hahahahhaha
No. The tone is like that because of the resynthesis method it is utilizing. If you don’t like the sound, you should find another voice module. Plenty of great ones out there
You might wait for an example where someone is playing a musically related input, as that would fatten the sound. Like play both oscillators the same pitch sequence, slightly detuned and feed the module another oscillator playing the same pitch sequence also detuned, then run it into chorus… should fatter right up with a very complex wave shape.
The module has a really wide range of sound, depending on what sources you are analyzing and how you have things set on the module (for example, not turning "partials" up all the way would reduce the overall brightness of the sound); I personally really gravitate toward the types of sounds I shared in this video, but it's not an exhaustive demo of everything it's capable of! I'd check out other demos when they become available to see different musical approaches at work :)
completely agreed. I had a walkthrough of the module this superbooth. And I felt exactly the same, it sounds thin and like plastic. Maybe for some artsy ambient music or film scoring, nieche soundscaping...? I mean it's an interesting Idea and maybe that's part of the MAKE NOISE appeal, some weird bleepsy bloopsy machine, with a manual full of obscure language that sounds like some french professor in the field of modern continental philosophy. It's definitely great marketing - got me hooked several times, but the thrill never lasted for long.
@@andrewnancarrow Not what I had in mind, tbh. This thing is definitely a weird device not really meant for melodic music. I'm a classically trained musician who appreciates melody and harmony and this device doesn't really scratch that itch for me.
@@ScottofOakland yea then not even sure why you’d be interested in any modules by Make Noise. They aren’t exactly known for making “classical” sounds. I think maybe classical acoustic instruments or a standard polysynth like a Prophet or Juno would be more up your alley. But regardless the beauty found in “melody” and “harmony” are obviously subjective, and what some interpret as “dissonant” others find captivatingly beautiful.
i like how modular looks and feels but still can't get the point of spending so much money only to get the possibility to write only in ambient and power/rhytmic noise genres
I guess this will always be the best Spectraphon walkthrough ever made. I've been working hard on 'my own' version, but your way of explaining, demoing, your sonic palette, your creativity, etc, etc, is just unrivaled. Respect!
I am very much looking forward to yours! Your musicality is unrivaled! While I appreciate this experimental approach, I prefer your harmonious compositions!
Yah, waiting on your take as well. I’m more a rhythm guy, but your cinematic approach will be interesting. So many ways you can take this thing.
Yours will be good in its own way Robert I have no doubt. And I can watch both yours and Sarah’s to distraction in the seven months until I can afford to buy one!
@@HoveyKraft Sarah Belle helped me to find five huge bugs in my future video. There's nothing more frustrating than uploading and finding out later it has errors, and very pleasing to learn from Sarah Belle's art.
Thank you for the kind words; I'm looking forward to your demo and seeing your unique approach with this module!!! :)
Man, you’ve become one of my favorite synth RUclipsrs. I love how quiet and focused you are in explaining everything and then we listen to your sound design and it’s this crazy off the wall noise shit. The contrast is hilarious but you’re a great presenter.
Haha, thanks! Just being myself :)
I agree, great presenter. Phenomenal!! I got inspired by Underworld - Thing in a book. Great track! Now I'm into synths! You can use combination of frequencies to heal the body with frequency/ sound application
Absolutely true. I think I need to leave a sub here ...
omg the way the shutter speed and string frequency align around 24:54 is just magical.
Can't believe I'm only discovering this channel now, what a goldmine !
the some very BoC sounds at 21:12 area, dig it!! thanks for sharing
That ending vocoder patch was AMAZING, as was this entire video!
This is quite possibly the best demo of spectraphon (that isn’t explicitly in a song)
Absolutely fantastic demo! This is the first time in a long time that something genuinely surprising and exciting has come along in euro. Hats off to you and the MN team!
Thanks for the demo/explanation! Great stuff! What an insane module, I think most of us that have been in modular for a while are stoked to see something fresh.
Never have I ever pre-ordered a module. The SECOND I heard the box sample thru this yesterday I stopped the vid and immediately went to my local synth store website and did the deed🤘I love resynthesis/additive synthesis but the hardware options have always been so limited. This thing is a game changer !
Edit: love seeing the hydrasynth in the background! Hail Hydrasynth🤘
Coming back to this video now after I got my spectraphon . So much learned from this video! Also your presentation style is very soothing haha
THanks for the breakdown! Using large amounts of sine wav is also one of the ways that DAW implement timestreching with loops, to fill in the gaps. I was watching a video about that the other day.
If your stats show I left partway through thats only because I had stop to breath. I’ll be back ! Fantastic. Much love all round .
Great video, the ending bit with vocals is my favorite part! Like a lovely mixture of Robert Ashley and Laurie Anderson!
Thank you!
I ordered my Spectraphon after getting an introduction of Walker on the Superbooth and watching this video. Thank you Sarah, well done. 👏👏👏
thaks make noise for making something really cool that i don't need. it's not the sound i'm after but i'll enjoy hearing others make nice music with it. and thanks to sarah for making such a clear comprehensive demo. it's not only interesting to watch and hear such a varied soundspace but also as if i had read the manual now.
somehow i got a feeling that the spectraphon would pair nicely with qpas.
My thoughts, this is clearly totally next level. For me, i have to catch up learning and using the last 50 modules i bought and will make equally interesting noise while doing that.
Holy moly just the first 20 seconds alone has me giddy for the sonic possibilities of this
Just picked one up! Thanks so much for the overview! 💪🏽
Got one of these, and with the new firmware, it is a beast ❤
Thanks for the wonderful demo, and best wishes for your continued fun/success with music 🎵 😊 🎵
Thanks, you too!
I am very impressed by your description of additive synthesis. thank you!
thank you!
Thank you for the vocal demoing, super helpful.
My pleasure! Glad you found the video helpful!
Bravo. That was a very inspiring walkthrough of what, after all, is quite a complex module.
Thank for the great demo. Excited to try one of these with an input that relates to the pitch sequence played through the oscillators and enveloped on the input Sitka related gate input. The possibilities of this thing are endless.
excellent video and breakdown. appreciate the up-front context as there are a fair amount of newer synthesis concepts represented in the module.
Great walkthrough, always enjoy your demos!
I ♥ your videos, because I can play back any one of them at a random point and my computer starting making awesome sounds, like an episode of Doctor Who mixed with Skrillex
I like the explanation of the theory behind the module! I find that stuff really interesting.
glad you found it interesting! :)
Excellent blend of information and clever and creative demonstrations. You are doing a great job and I'm really looking forward to your future videos. Make Noise and their users are fortunate to have you. Awesome Sarah.
Awesome demo Sarah. This looks like some crazy module, will take a while to really wrap my head around it.
I like that it is with a small modules setup. I is more easy clear this way. Thank you
"sounds very, very cool." Indeed! Well done on the Fourier stuff. Great patches. Am I right in thinking this was more fun than a barrel of Walkers?" Thanks so much!
Fantastic demo and explanation. I have to agree with other posters, one of the best overview/demo vids I've ever seen.
That's a great module and demonstration. I'm considering getting one someday, could be awesome with my JMT Synth NoisyMic... Cool plug for that radio channel at 26min...haha
Very cool sounds and your very informative on how to create those sounds, great performance 🎼🎶👍👍👍😊
this sounds surprisingly unique. very cool. and I love the makenoise design. ❤
Make Noise has the best eurorack system , i think this would pair perfectly with GHOST
Dude, Erica synths has better "systems"
Something Wicked This Way Cones 🔮
I feel like I should pay tuition to watch your product demos.
hi Sarah Balla! this is the best Spectraphone vid!!!
Another excellent Sarah Belle Reid video. Informative, inspiring, GAS!! I'd like a Spectraphon ;-) Very cool module.
Rad Ma'am!
Thanks for the detailed overview, I now know where my next $599 + VT tax + shipping is going and am merely waiting for patchwerks or perfect circuit to be ready to take my money!!
Great video! Spectral synthesis can do so much so tWally appreciated. 👏🏻
This thing sounds AMAZING and I will have it. Well done make noise
The Spectraphon, isn't it also very similar to Rossum Panharmonium..?
A million points for that demo.
Can we talk about that monster wood case at the end? Who made that?
Oh and the spectraphon is cool I guess?
Thanks, this was super interesting!
Incredible vid.
21:06-46 sounds like you're referencing Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2 on vocoder very lit
Great detailed review. If you would have to choose between the 4ms SWN, a Spectraphon or a 2nd hand ADI-8 for extra audio inputs for €550, what would you choose? 😂😂
A lot of these sound’s remind me of FM sounds available in IME/the Harvestman mk 2 oscillators. Not all of them for sure. This definitely is its own thing.
Hello,Great demo about the instrument,I saw some toys like this with Russian craft musicians,The device was design in US?,Nice to meet you👍🌌👋
I'm 5 seconds into this video and this is the first I'm learning this thing exists and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to buy one =\
Awesome content!
Great explanations. Love it.
appreciate the detail - ty
I wish my studio was that neat
Awesome new module. Thanks for walking through it. One initial basic patch question I have is with the first few patch examples you are coming out of the odd and even outputs if the B-side of the module… but what are they being patched into? Is it directly being output clean or are those signals passing through anything else for processing?
Like at 9:45? When you say “external panners+ LFO “
I was running the odd and even outputs into the SSF Vortices mixer - then to a Joranalogue Transmit 2, then to my interface. Otherwise, there wasn't any processing applied unless you could see the processors on screen.
@@sarahbellereid nice, thanks for that. Yea this module seems super unique and a versatile “new” addition to my setup for sure. Tons of sonic possibilities
Can't help but think Maths, Morphogene, Sprectraphon and Mimeophon could be a very full and happy system.
Great video, thanks :) Im just wondering what are the maximum amount of partials per oscillator?
64 sine and 64 cosine (64 complex partials) - in SAM mode there is a second set of 64 complex partials for analysis.
Really cool sounds great instrument 🎼🎶🎶😊👍
Yeah. Running Morphagene through this is gonna be fun.
Spectraphon through QPAS at full filter resonance? Yes please!
Sarah talking👼
Sara's music👹
And it's wonderful!🤘
this looks great! any VST that can do something similar?
Thanks for this great demo.
You're welcome!
Which keyboard do you use for your ASM Hydrasynth? Asking because there aren't that many low cost keyboards that support polyphonic aftertouch, and the way you have the Hydrasynth racked up indicates that you either don't use its pads as input method or use them rarely. I currently use the CME X-Key for those of my synths which have PA capability, but I wish it came in at least a 4-octave format.
Finally, make noise with the help of Tom Erbe grab the concept of resynthesis, had the panharmonium for a few months, it looked like a gimmick, but this one really looks like something really interesting, eurorack appears moving foward, thank you Sarah for you usual in-depth review and brilliant sound demo
you're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
was going to comment; hey this is sounding like things I wanted to get out of my panharmonium :9
Making noise! Don’t know how I will fit one of these on my EM desk, though I will give it some thought!
Great video. Subscribed.
ill never get to this level of understanding
Amazing!
I cant seem to find if any of the knobs on the Spectraphon are assignable or controllable via MIDI controllers.
This video was wicked awesome
thank you!
I like the new module :)
Of course, this video needs a second look. My question: let's assume I have Steinberg's Spectralayers open on a file: is it possible to describe the behaviours of Focus and Slide knobs in terms of, say, cursor movement over the SL display area? Or by comparing those knobs to an edit zone in one or another of the SL edit modes? I listen to the effect of your moving those knobs and I don't derive an intuitive sense of what is going on; maybe a visual analogy or comparison will help. Thanks again for this very complete and useful information. (I realize the lore is to just hack away at it to develop a kinesthetic sense of how to predict results; not my mode of learning I guess. And quite expensive in terms of time.)
I came across quite a good high level answer to my question about Slide & Focus in an interview with Walker Farrell on the Sound on Sound channel; here's the link: ruclips.net/video/9EcR-ww0lKc/видео.html
I’m trying to wrap my head around how this works so I can try to rebuild it in Max/MSP. I’ve done some resynthesis before with phase vocoding and FFT processing, but that is a very different sound. Do you think this is using convolution as well?
no - just lots of sine waves
Great sound⚡⚡
Underworld probably has one of these in their music gear.
Why…?
umm... that thing is MASSIVE real-estate... LOL! Hope it's as cool/fun as it is WIDE.
how are the pressure points connected without Brains?
BRB, gonna make a dogsnot knockoff version with a bunch of distings and APCs. Might still need a Khyber Pass Rampage, and about a thousand extra hp.
I'm new to modular. What is that piano like instrument?
If you're referring to 3:37 it's the Buchla Touché
Ty very much.
Works well to kill mosquitos 😂😂😂😂
how u have use a mic in the imput?
do you actually own one of the four touche's made?
It reminds me the Mindphaser from Hexinverter, am I right?
20:24 cool
haha "early unit" jk
this sounds really cool, if it was in the strega form factor, i would definitely buy one
really cool, really weird
i did a presentation of eurorack stuff at a senior center thursday.............. it was horrible hahahahhaha
Weirdo
I already have enough harshness in my life
somebody put this thing in a desktop polysynth!
or an 0-ctrl format thing
The concept is very interesting but I find the general sound to be thin and harsh. Can they improve that?
No. The tone is like that because of the resynthesis method it is utilizing. If you don’t like the sound, you should find another voice module. Plenty of great ones out there
You might wait for an example where someone is playing a musically related input, as that would fatten the sound. Like play both oscillators the same pitch sequence, slightly detuned and feed the module another oscillator playing the same pitch sequence also detuned, then run it into chorus… should fatter right up with a very complex wave shape.
The module has a really wide range of sound, depending on what sources you are analyzing and how you have things set on the module (for example, not turning "partials" up all the way would reduce the overall brightness of the sound); I personally really gravitate toward the types of sounds I shared in this video, but it's not an exhaustive demo of everything it's capable of! I'd check out other demos when they become available to see different musical approaches at work :)
completely agreed. I had a walkthrough of the module this superbooth. And I felt exactly the same, it sounds thin and like plastic. Maybe for some artsy ambient music or film scoring, nieche soundscaping...?
I mean it's an interesting Idea and maybe that's part of the MAKE NOISE appeal, some weird bleepsy bloopsy machine, with a manual full of obscure language that sounds like some french professor in the field of modern continental philosophy. It's definitely great marketing - got me hooked several times, but the thrill never lasted for long.
Kind of sounds just like everything else
great walk through, still hate this thing.
38:46 🫠
Sounds like lfo/fm farts 💨
My only real question is Can it make beautiful melodic pieces? That's all I"m interested in. I'll watch the entire video with that question in mind
Go to around 21:25 for your answer
@@andrewnancarrow Not what I had in mind, tbh. This thing is definitely a weird device not really meant for melodic music. I'm a classically trained musician who appreciates melody and harmony and this device doesn't really scratch that itch for me.
@@ScottofOakland yea then not even sure why you’d be interested in any modules by Make Noise. They aren’t exactly known for making “classical” sounds. I think maybe classical acoustic instruments or a standard polysynth like a Prophet or Juno would be more up your alley. But regardless the beauty found in “melody” and “harmony” are obviously subjective, and what some interpret as “dissonant” others find captivatingly beautiful.
@@andrewnancarrow I found some use for the Telharmonic! That thing could really make some beautiful sounds
@@ScottofOakland cool. Yea everything Make Noise makes can make beautiful sounds… just depends on your personal definition of “beauty”
i like how modular looks and feels but still can't get the point of spending so much money only to get the possibility to write only in ambient and power/rhytmic noise genres
40:20 that is insanely cool