Hello everyone. In case you didn't know, I'm from the Netherlands so I thought it would be cool to take a look at some (horror) movies from my own country. It took me a while to find five to cover haha, but I did it! Check out the video for the result, I think the video ended up being pretty fun. Cheers!

Hello Patron friends!

Thank you all newcomers for joining in the last couple of weeks! Deeply thankful! All the small donations add up, you know! It's really helpful. So thank you!

Here's a little jam using the Analog Keys and the Analog Rytm to jam out a tune, and make a live performance. I'm gonna play on a sort of conference tomorrow. I'm afraid it's not gonna be covered by any media, so I thought I'd share some of my preparations, at least :)

My thought with live improvs is to prepare a few great kits in advance. Kits that I know really well. Full of Performance Mode changes and Joystick action. Since I'm very much a melody guy, I need to focus a lot on the keyboard, not making full potential of the Rytm. But just muting and unmuting the Rytm tracks is very helpful in making things move a bit :)

If there are any questions about how i set this up, or anything, don't hesitate to ask right here, ok.

Cheers for now.

CUCKOO

Perhaps not the most interesting part movies-wise, but I still had fun making this video! So be sure to check it out, after this there's only two more parts before I'm finished with this series. It's become perhaps my favorite series on my channel, so it's a shame it's almost over. Anyway, thanks for all the support as always, and let me know if you've enjoyed this video!

What's up guys, here's yet another Video Nasties video. After this one there's only one more left, then I've covered all 72 of them. After that I'm thinking of making a 'top' video, basically just an overview of all of them really quick in one video, ranking from least to most favorite. Should be fun! In the meantime, check out this part, and I hope you guys enjoy it :-)

Here it is guys, the final installment in my "Video Nasties" series. It has definitely become my favorite series on my channel, so it's a little sad that it's coming to an end already. But hey, I very much enjoyed (re)watching the movies and making the videos, so I hope you all enjoyed watching the videos! Enjoy this final part, and I'll soon be back with some new series. Cheers!

Hello,

I've started to work on a collection of new patches for the Analog Keys. This time I want to explore rhythmical sounds, percussions and new types of keyboard sounds where I'm not using the filters.

The philosophy behind this is that I think the use of filters can sometimes hide otherwise lovely raw synthesis. There are ways to make soft sounds without the filters, and then you get to keep the rich overtones too! Mainly it's happening with the feedback and AM stuff.

So here's a little jam where I'm using a lot of these new sounds. It's one of those jams where I build up everything from scratch in one take.

I'm using stuff like Multi Map Mode, for the drums; Performance modulation for all of the tracks to make variations, Quantize, Swing etc. Also making frequent use of the reverb.

I know I just posted a video yesterday, but I haven't done any music for all summer, so I'm practially bursting with musical needs. I hope you don't mind ;-)

Cheers!

CUCKOO

The Analog Keys' keyboard can be split up into zones where you can play different sounds in each zones. One zone can be used for an internal sound, another zone could be playing an external synth, and a third zone could be playing an internal drum kit etc. A lot of people have asked how to set this up, so here, finally, I'm trying to break it down into (hopefully) easy to grasp steps.

I'm sure you can use it more creatively than what I'm doing here. But these are the basics. I hope you'll make use of it, if you've got an Analog Keys, or an Analog Four. It is possible on the Analog Four as well. You just have to find the menu in there first ;-)

OK, cheers for now!

CUCKOO

This weekend I booked a day in Propeller Music Division here in Oslo, together with incredible drummer Hans Hulbækmo. I've always had this feeling that there's some interesting ground in synthesizers and acoustic drums yet to explore.

I was playing on the Analog Keys as a master, and I set up an Analog Rytm to act as an always in sync click track, and then the Continuum Fingerboard, with its unusually rich sound palette.

Mostly I set the tone first with a sound, perhaps a bass. Sometimes Hulbækmo started grooving before me, and then it was easy to tap sync the Analog Keys and jump right in. It was a truly interesting, and less chaotic than expected, experience. Definitely something I want to explore further.

I just recorded this one little peace on video. I think it's a nice example of what we were doing. For the next time though I think I'll try to prepare a little more, and perhaps rehearse a few times, and explore dynamics a little more. It's easy to end up in high energy land when jamming, but sometimes keeping it sparse and quiet can be really powerful.

I hope this can serve as inspiration for some of you. It was a really kick ass experience for me!

cheers

CUCKOO

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PS. I have absolutely no experience in mixing drums, so this is more or less the levels straight from the raw recordings, with some minor adjustments. Mixing multi track recorded drums I think I have to give to a professional mixing engineer for now :)

Yo guys, 

Dan Brown, aka pogobat 

and I are starting a collaborative conversation on the topic of school, since it’s about that time of year once again where people are starting the school grind. This time, we’d like the hear YOUR thoughts! Send us video responses and we’ll discuss them in a video! If you want to send a video please do so by this THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD!! All the info should be in the video:)

For the next entry into the RE: series I discuss Kim Davis, a county clerk who has made headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, and was jailed for this. She cites religious freedom as her reasons, but as you might imagine, I don't but it.

(Sorry for posting this a couple of days late)

Here it is, the final video I'll be making about the infamous Video Nasties. Since I started working on the channel, I always had in mind to end it with one big overview. This is that overview, where I list all 72 titles from least to most entertaining. Based on my own preferences, of course. I hope you guys enjoy it, and have enjoyed the whole Video Nasties series. And now on to something new!

This video is not about Fat Shaming, I made 

a video about that

 a while back that you can watch. This video is about how the internet tends to respond to things they deem offensive or harmful. I made this video pretty fast so I’m not sure if my point comes across thoroughly, but we’ll see :)

In this video, we continue the conversation that we started with Dan Brown and his audience on the topic of Education. Be sure to check out Dan's video after you watch this one!

Almost done with the book! I'll be moving on to Prisoner of Askaban soon :)

I forgot to post this last week when I uploaded the video, so you've probably already seen it, but just in case!
It's the first part in a new series where I'll be taking a look at some of my favorite movies. And it's not just horror, it's gonna be a little bit of everything! And it's nice doing a series like this, after having to sit through quite some stinkers from the 'disturbing movies' and 'Video Nasties' series. Hope you guys like this new idea for a series! Cheers

I announced this series a little while back, but here we finally have the first part! Even though I never ever read a book, I still think this will make for an interesting series, since it's gonna be all kinds of movies. Not just horror, but besides that, it'll be lower- and higher budgets, well regarded and unknown directors, great and shitty movies, really a little bit of everything! Hope you guys will enjoy this one, and if you, I'll eventually continue this series. Cheers!

I made this video pretty quickly and there's no script so it's not as polished as a normal video. But I wanted to share this with you guys because I often get questions and comments about the topic :)

I finally finished the book! Gonna get started on Prisoner of Askaban very soon. I'm gonna try to make the next series of videos even better so I look forward to your feedback.

Hello, I made some more Octatrack progress today. My goal is to make several palettes of samples that are made to work together in groups. And then fill up the Octatrack with a set of pattern banks, ready for fast improv. I'm interested to know how fast, and how "live" you can play, and build up jams and tunes with the Octatrack.

I'm obviously still a beginner, but I'm getting into the workflow bit by bit, and I'm feeling more confident every time.

For this jam I didn't create any elaborate Scenes thought. It's a good thing to prepare the scenes. This is where you can get really creative.

Well, I hope it can serve as some inspiration :)

Cheers

CUCKOO

Again I almost forgot to post this one, my latest video where I start yet another series. It's not for everybody I've noticed, some do really like it, but others rather see more horror/exploitation/cult type of movies on my channel. But that's all good, I'm just trying out some new things to see what the viewers like!

Anyway, thanks for supporting, everybody, as always. And I'll be back soon with ONE MORE new series that I wanna start haha. See you then. Cheers xoxo