The Synth That Could Change Electronic Music
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@BenedictPopescuFolk
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Excellent demo, showing the capabilities of this synthesizer. Bravo and… greetings from another… Ben (Benedict Popescu) from Romania – having similar concerns!
@ezranixon7699
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
"why anybody would wanna do 96 semitones is beyond me" looks side to side
@Apuat
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
I really wish this company would make a slightly more affordable 37 key, mini keyboard version of this using the same technology.
@edenhunter9904
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
12 months down the track and it has changed very little and is not selling particularly well.. people are only interested in the next synth – the one that will make their shit compositions sound less shitty …
@danieldemayo6209
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
I kinda like how separate the tweeting and playing are on this. Probably really let’s you focus on playing….or you constantly have to go back to the computer because you think you can make the sound better. Hmm
@splashfreelance2376
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
This looks amazing. But I've been burned by Roli. I bought a whole setup of their products, a keyboard, a touch pad controller and a transport controller. But it stopped working on Windows and the company moved on. This is why I'm not going to buy a modelling amp. They are great and all, but what happens when the BIOS needs an update for some reason and the company no longer supports the amp? I'm far from a luddite and I love the idea of a more expressive keyboard controller. But if I can avoid it, I'm not buying anything musical that exists in part in the cloud or even on a local computer. Or rather, something that requires a computer or 'net connection to work properly. Sitting here at my recording setup, I have a guitar from 50 years ago, an amp from 30. I have the Roli stuff, now acting as a paperweight saying – hah, we got you sucker! And a MIDI keyboard that is still useful, but a big chunk of it's features requires software running in the background on my PC (Automap). The software has been updated, less and less frequently as the keyboard gets older, but it still looks like it's from 2004 or whenever I bought the keyboard. This software already causes problems and, at some point, it will no longer be updated. I also have a Native Instruments Kore 1 controller. Unusable. As a sample of what else I have, there's also a Kawai K1 Mk II, A JX8P, a TG-100 and VL-70. Even though this stuff is digital (well, mostly in the case of the Roland) it is standalone. My biggest worry is having to replace the battery that holds the presets in some of these. But more contemporary stuff is basically disposable and most of it will be junk in maybe a decade, maybe sooner if I'm unlucky.
@justsomeguy8385
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Didn't know Roli went under, but it makes sense. Playing keys feels good. Playing touch instruments trying to emulate keys does not. The expressivity is usually not worth the tradeoffs, and Roli was selling a premium product that seemed more like a gimmick people might use for a month than it did a game changer. I'm not sure if they thought they had something good enough to change the market, or if they were just trying to sell to elitists and influencers, and not the average musician. Whatever the case, thanks Roli for trying to innovate, but the direction your keyboard went didn't catch on.
@MarkMeador-y2e
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
MPE…has 6 points of control. RISE 2 has 'em all. Seems like EE is missing LIFT and GLIDE. Probably I'm wrong. I wonder on OSMOSE, how would you glide3 up the keyboard with a touch/hold of a single finger.?
@bonatoc
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Can’t wait for Benn playing on the Polybrute 12 keyboard…
@NEKRWSPHERE
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
I keep wondering how sturdy it will prove to be. See, devices like the Light Block and capacitive keyboards contain no mechanical parts, so it's difficult to see them fail quickly due to repetitive use alone. Roli Sea Board has a little more, Osmose on the other hand appears to be highly mechanical which is why I would be less likely to invest into it. Also 2 important points, – devices which I mentioned are highly portable, lightweight and are a little more likely to survive a very occasional accident. I would be far more wary of bringing Osmose which costs over 2K (second point) with me to performances. It's time someone found a way to fit the same expressiveness into something smaller, lighter and much less expensive, – then it will be a real gamechanger.
@rproctor83
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Can you share your thoughts on it after a year now? I'm uncertain if this would be a gimmick or something I would actually play every day. There isn't a lot of content regarding long term use, how it's changed, where it falls short, where it improves, etc etc.
@omnidirectional1
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Honest question ben can you compare this thing to the pollybrute I know you've used both. What do you think. Love mine but expression wise quality of sound and control is it close or are they really 2 different synths
@Italliving
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
if i hear it and see it i still prefer the Haken continuum even if it is twice the price it is just much more capable for me
@inmitch
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Believe it or not I'd kinda like to see what your mom could do with it. I'm a former DJ, and current Groove Box person who is planning on taking piano/keyboard classes, and am considering this as a four octave keyboard. Pricey? Indeed, but I think this might be my bucket list keyboard and I am retiring tomorrow.
@ondasonora6625
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Is it possible to use with third part plugins?
@KimBrown900
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
This is a micro tonalist’s wet dream!
@jospehbloseph7172
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Hey Benn, been a fan for a long time, never wanted to bother you with a ton of questions, until now I have two. I am a sort of musician that plays by ear and makes electronic music after a wrist injury left me unable to play my bass. I do everything on an ipad, I have an OXI one sequencer and a cheap little 25 key midi kb. I wasnt going to buy a synth, I was looking for a midi keyboard. I was looking at the NI kontrol s61 mk3. Then I discovered the osmose. So my 2 questions are, 1. Do you think the osmose would be cool with an ipad pro 2021 and all the cool apps? 2. I am having to learn to play the keys above the level of a tinkerer, I am taking some lessons with the applicable theory and music reading. Can I use the osmose to practice learning keys? The goal is not to be a concert pianist lol, but just to compose electronic music more effectively than I do now. Thoughts?
@everestjarvik5502
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
I didn’t know Roli went bankrupt! That’s sad, I’ll never be able to afford an osmose but some roli stuff is pretty cheap and I never got a chance to get something from them
@antinomicus
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Yo dude could you help us figure out how to get that sick metallic synth sound at 19:35?
@bobmason1361
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
As good as this is, I prefer the Roli Seaboard Rise 2.
@zakaroonetwork777
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
While there at it 49 Keys is a wast of time…
@katiebarber407
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
wow i cant believe the roli seaboard company collapsed .. LOL
this is just another keyboard with the keys controlling pitchbend which is cool but should just be standard on every modern midi controller soon enough
@slapdisgaem6601
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Another ad with clickbait title from Benn.
Nobody really needs this shit.
@mcmSEA
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
What a fantastic walk through. As a longtime guitarist and shabby keyboardist, I don't expect the Osmose to turn me into a much better keyboardist, but certainly a more expressive one.
The EganMatrix engine in the Osmose is of course also also available as a module from Haken.
@vjrei
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
You can not change electronic music if you do not know music. Is not the hardware. People are buying equipment and they are producing meaningless noises because they do not know music.
@Sylkis89
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
What does it offer that Seaboard or Lumi don't?
@ckatheman
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
The tools and sounds just continue to get more and more amazing. So explain why the songs keep getting worse and worse?
@nateblack972
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Wow! 😮 I was incredulous reading the thumbnail but after watching and listening, totally blown away!
@itsd0nk
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
So the stabilization settings are basically like setting the dead zones on a game pad analog sticks. This thing is really nice.
@paullebon323
September 28, 2024 at 4:09 pm
Mom can do as she pleases. She's the Queen!