Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures an improvisation by synth designer Ken MacBeth, using three of his Elements synthesizers.
Here’s what MacBeth has to say about the video:
A facebook friend suggested that it might be a good idea to record what I’ve had playing automatically in the background while I work on Elements synths that are going out. Now I actually play them on this video- not so automatic!
For those following this -so far 16 units released, by the end of this week- 40- consult Analogue Haven or Schneidersladen. This recording done direct to my Canon 600D camera….audio is not bad….could be better….just a quick demo!
nice,
someone should make a movie, so this can be the soundtrack…
He’s simply doing one of the worst demos on the inet.
Time for others to put hands on it. 🙂
Well I enjoyed it.
It was a times a pleasure,also at other times frustrating.
Little things, like $15k worth of synths, then prop them up with cardboard boxes, to then record on a HDSLR – years of focus and dedication on designing and building a machine to then cobble together a performance in an afternoon.
He had an awareness of what the machines could do, yet seemed to lack a focused understanding the the sounds created, on a machine purposely built. So he would pitch up, over-pitching and losing the freq, rather than finding a biting harmonic and riding it.
Overall, I enjoying watching him enjoy himself – but I personally felt he owed these machines more than this – if that makes sense?
Wow. It totally does not.
I can’t disagree with you, I can only relate to you my own experience – both equally valid and invalid, depending on ones own subjective experiences.
What you are saying is, I didn’t experience what I did when I did, but I did?
I may not understand fully what he is trying to achieve, I may understand more than that – regardless, it was my subjective experience which is self-validating upon being experienced.
So I can’t agree or disagree – mostly as you build no defense or give any countenance.
More flapdoodle.
I can’t disagree with you.
As if anyone else can afford three of these…
I don’t dig the composition so much, but those elements sound great! Bravo, Ken. That’s been a long slog getting to here, but the sounds really hit the mark.
I very like the ending. It is pure and simple as it is. It really cuts in the middle!