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August 16, 2015 16:57:59
Rozzle Brilliant Cuckoo! Multi Map works perfectly on the AnalogFOUR with an external MIDI keyboard as well. For those with A4 and external controller, simply set the Performance Channel to match the channel of your external keyboard, and it works like a charm (Global > MIDI CONFIG > MIDI Channels > Perf Channel). Since the A4 doesn't have the AK's dedicated "MultiMap" on/off button, the best way to turn off multi map on the A4 is to change the Perf Channel setting back to a MIDI channel you're not using (e.g. 8).
August 16, 2015 20:20:42 · Reply
Olle Andersson Thanks Cuckoo! I am an AK user and I find it somewhat confusing with all the concepts of kits, projects, sounds, patterns etc. I guess it has its own logic but I dont see it yet :) So I would love a video on how you simply go about making a song from scratch and how you think about things like sounds, kits, projects and where to save this and that, where to start and so on. Of course this can be done in a dozen of ways but I think you know what I mean. Would be much appreciated. Thanx again!
August 19, 2015 00:02:33 · Reply
July 23, 2015 17:20:01
Homeless Balloon Nice! I love the courage you show when jumping into creating a tune without any safety net! The main reason why I chose the Analog Keys (I also have the Rytm and MonoMaschine), was the quality of the raw sound. I picked it instead of the Prophet 12 and Pro2, which both have digital oscillators. The analog quality of the A4 and Analog Keys is so inspiring. Thanks for this tune!
July 23, 2015 20:32:02 · Reply
Patrick Necighi ... another great Cuckoo-inspiration :) Thank you Keep on grooooooving
August 1, 2015 09:03:06 · Reply
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June 9, 2015 22:04:12
Josh Murray A great jam!! I love the synth sound along with the rhythm from about 6:20 - REALLY got my toes tapping!
June 9, 2015 23:33:44 · Reply
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February 21, 2015 01:32:02
Mark Harris nice sounds :) do you always play with 'rounding' off ... thats quite a challenge. on my soundplane I tend to use note quantisation, I can cope with it off for monophonic lines, but I find it really hard to play chords with it off. I love the sound of the continuum, its got this 'natural feel' to it, really helped by the fantastic Eagen Matrix.
February 21, 2015 14:14:31 · Reply
CUCKOO Hey thanks! Yeah the sounds on the Continuum are one of a kind. It's truly special. Most of the time I'm playing with rounding turned off. It's difficult, but it's where I feel the potential lies. It's where I want to improve. With percussive sounds though, I mostly turn rounding on. But as you're saying, it's really difficult to play clean with rounding off. I need loud and clear monitoring, with no latency, to adjust really fast - and when playing in a mix like this, it's really difficult. And especially when playing with other tuned instruments, like any well tempered keyboard, it's a tough test to pass :) I think it works best when there aren't too many tracks. Like just 2-3 tracks.
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February 11, 2015 10:05:48
Rodrigo Gutierrez whoa... i was your first patreon!!! i like the semi TEDx shout out :)
February 25, 2015 22:35:22 · Reply
Josh Murray Ahh, I was looking for this video when you said you'd done it... Just watched it now. Really inspiring stuff!
June 12, 2015 15:00:26 · Reply
Samuel Boucher this is incredible cuckoo! so good
August 1, 2015 03:07:27 · Reply
January 20, 2015 16:14:51
Tom Langford Another great video
February 2, 2015 22:06:12 · Reply
Nat Thomas Golder amazing
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January 30, 2015 17:52:54
Christophe Duquesne Nice ! I can try to have a look around (in France) ... what are your "conditions" ?
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January 27, 2015 20:52:52
Scott Shebby The POs look and sound awesome. I'm totally into the circuit board design too! Thanks Cuckoo :)
January 27, 2015 23:17:28 · Reply
Caleb Coppock Can't wait to get mine in the mail! Thanks for the interview!
January 28, 2015 05:36:38 · Reply
Lying Dalai I think you got the right sensibility to make a nice story/documentary on the developpment of these nice toys. Your approach is the right one :)
January 28, 2015 08:48:06 · Reply
January 25, 2015 23:10:01
joseph buczek This is certainly a killer tool for portable musicians. I hope they did something cool, like Teenage Engineering did with their computer interface where settings and such all appear as files to a USB connected computer (and it doesn't matter what kind of computer). Price seems a bit dear at $499, though. But if they open up their system to 3rd party developers for effects and such, it would be worth it (imagine the LADSPA open source collection as a starting place!). Thanks for sharing this, Cuckoo!
January 26, 2015 00:09:17 · Reply
Caleb Coppock Thanks for all the NAMM vids! You are asking great questions.
January 28, 2015 05:35:00 · Reply
January 23, 2015 18:54:11
Josh Murray Yep, Pocket Operators please! All three chained together :)
January 24, 2015 12:46:40 · Reply
joseph buczek Sweet jam!! You and Dataline need to put out an album. :-) I have to +1 a request for Teenage Engineering coverage, Pocket Operators. Perhaps you'll be doing those after NAMM here or on YouTube anyway? How about this: find other, small, interactive cool gadgets like the PO's, if there are any at NAMM? Thanks for the tunes!
January 24, 2015 17:31:35 · Reply
Homeless Balloon I like that it's improvised. Anything can happen. The human factor makes the music come alive!
May 22, 2015 15:31:54 · Reply
January 3, 2015 22:43:26
Christer Svensson Great video and what a fantastic instrument!
January 4, 2015 10:32:44 · Reply
Rob PT You are going to do some crazy stuff with this I can imagine. How much into the learning curve are you already? 5%? 10%? I already hear great conceptual ideas eeeeeeking it's way out without any mastery of this thing so I imagine it's going to become more massive and outstanding with more time using this instrument with it's beautiful sound design...
January 5, 2015 19:27:25 · Reply
CUCKOO It's massive! It'll take time learning to play it really well. I feel I'm perhaps 10% into playing it well. Anyone with a keyboard/ piano background will have an advantage. Anyone with cello skills will will probably have a big advantage too, since the concept of pitch is similar. But the EaganMatrix, the heart of the synth, I know about 0.1% of, ha ha. It'll take a lot of time understanding it. I think first I'm gonna focus on playing it really well. The presets are awesome, and they will last for a loooong time.
January 5, 2015 20:29:06 · Reply
November 24, 2014 20:20:20
Christer Svensson Looks and sounds like everyone had a lot of fun!
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September 12, 2014 13:58:53
Gustavo Bravetti Nice one Cuckoo, looking forward for te next one.
September 12, 2014 14:52:50 · Reply
Kevin Hannon That sounds friggin' great. Really nice sample quality. The piano riff reminds me a bit of something the Beatles or Phil Collins (Not to be confused with Phil Collin of Def Leopard ;) would create. I really wish this stuff was around when I was 16 and had more time. I would eat it up. Nice little Jam :)
September 12, 2014 14:55:58 · Reply
Christophe Duquesne Nice... it's always great to see the construction growing up at the same time we discover the features you are demonstrating.
September 12, 2014 17:11:28 · Reply
September 29, 2014 10:04:26
James Randazzo Great tutorial Cuckoo. I may not have a RYTM, nor Logic or OP-1, but I really enjoyed it all the same. This format sure beats reading manuals. My first Elektron purchase is just around the corner though. I'll continue to support you making this type of content...and any other partials you care to make. Cheers, James.
September 29, 2014 12:13:27 · Reply
September 30, 2014 00:37:52
Rob PT No thank you! You're creating great content and deserve it....On the off chance in the next few months, would you maybe ponder creating a walk through of the octatrack similar to the RYTM? I know, I'm the jackass basically asking you "Hey, you know, when you get a spare minute or two... do you mind doing a quick video summary of the Encyclopedia Britannica and details on the contents and how one would go about using each chapter of the 26 volume encyclopedia set...ya know....just for me... when you get a chance?" HA! But I'm in the market to pick one up in the near future and I'm doing tons of research on figuring if it will fit into my production set up, and have to yet run across the OT being used and explained in a way you did with the RYTM. Dataline is amazing and is ridiculously talented and fast, and my segway-running-out-of-battery-speed brain, at times, can't follow his mach-7 jet engine explanations...
September 30, 2014 01:06:40 · Reply
CUCKOO He he.. I was hoping to do that OT video this week, but I don't feel I know it well enough yet. I need a little bit more time before I feel confident. I understand it pretty well now, and to tell you the truth, it's not that difficult - there's just a lot. And to get everything in your fingers.. Only practise can do that. Dataline copied over a bunch of music projects, that he and others had done, and holy schmack they're so deep, yet there's nothing I don't understand about them. Just the deep preparation of live effects is brilliant. Apart from this week, there's two weeks in november that might be cuckoo friendly :) And from december and on, I think I'll take about every third week being Cuckoo.
September 30, 2014 01:15:16 · Reply
joseph buczek I really appreciate that you, at some point, just toss out the whole thing you're working with. Its great to see someone whose creativity I respect just acknowledge that, sometimes, you have to just scrap a creation and start over from scratch. Its very humanizing! Thank you! And thank you for not only the cool tunes, but for sharing your creative process with us. Since you asked a couple of times, I'm from the Silicon Valley area, northern California, USA. :-) Cheers!
October 1, 2014 18:09:10 · Reply
Svante Nice music and work! and fun to watch, thx for sharing u creative process! I wish u played a little bit more on u "treated" piano, blendes well with Elektron sound! And maybe a 2nd camera on u fingers!? Trying 2 figure out u process, but I probably have to watch the tutorials more carefully!
November 26, 2014 14:20:56 · Reply
October 1, 2014 23:06:50
Rob PT I'd definitely check out anything you toss up but all those ideas you posted could create good content. I'd say don't stick to a single format of a live show that way it's always fresh and never expected. That's why I dig your jam sessions, unexpected.... As for length of the videos, pick a minimal time and specifics of the videos that you feel is fair and state it openly so you can always feel good about getting paid by US for your art-music-creativity. I feel very good about paying for the content you put out, and I know exactly how you feel about being paid for anything you feel isn't fair, but remember that WE picked to pay for the output of your content over everyone else, so as long as you're creating, I'm happy to complete the exchange of something of mine for something of yours and I'd guess and hope everyone else feels the same. I do a little fist pump when i see a bump up in the amount per video folks are giving. I feel like we are getting to see the start of an exponential growth curve in the spread of your creative output to hundreds of thousands and beyond who already love your music and want to support you, they just haven't been lucky enough to find out about you yet.
October 2, 2014 02:59:25 · Reply
James Randazzo Brilliantly put Rob PT. I'm with you.
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tsuchan Hi Lorenz... yes, I think it would be hard to make a solid defence against that charge. The West, under the auspices of the UN, planted Israel in a country that has been occupied by another country for the past 1900 years. It seems the UN felt that Jewish people deserved something to make up for various sufferings history had smote them. But that action has destabilised the whole of the Middle East ever since. I gather the West helped Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party to power, then later removed him - finally on the false premise of holding Weapons of Mass Destruction. ISIS ('Islamic State of Iraq and Syria') filled the power vacuum. Whichever way you cut it, the West had much to answer for. Whether the Middle East would ended-up just as unstable by their own efforts and without Western interference is uncertain, but I think they would have had a damned good try! Would it be fair to suggest that the bigger player here are the factions of Islam, all of whom have God on their side (!) and therefore cannot be wrong? Anyway, for the sake of argument, let's say the West is at least 50% responsible for the refugee crisis and we're obliged to dig deep into our pockets to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees. Does that also mean we have unlimited responsibility to resettle an arbitrary number of refugees within our own countries? Does it mean we have no right to refuse entry to anyone we perceive as a threat? Is it even the best solution? I mean, the population of Syria is 22 million people. If 4m come to Europe, what about the other 18m? And what of 34m Iraqis and 30m Afghans, and then other countries that might be taken over by ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or the Talleban... ? Aren't our deep but not inexhaustiblely deep pockets better used to fund some solution at the root cause? (More interference from the West.) At the end of the day, many people ARE going to die because of the perceived wishes of a non-existent God, the same mythical figure to whom many of most of the refugees continue to commit their lives. And if that was our country under attack, wouldn't we have to somehow take up arms and fix it? What is the choice... to let ISIS take over one country after another until the whole world is under their dominion?
September 20, 2015 17:57:10 · Reply
Lorenz Zahn The way Israel “introduced“ itself and handled foreign policies with their neighbors wasn’t especially great, but by far not the only reason for tensions. I’m personally thinking of the impact the west (and east) had while securing their geopolitical interests. Might it be through actions such as Operation AJAX, proxy wars or the prevalent support of questionable groups and authoritarian regimes.
September 23, 2015 07:50:36 · Reply
tsuchan "Operation AJAX" I could look-up, because you named it. "Proxy wars or the prevalent support of questionable groups and authoritarian regimes" is too general to reference easily. Operation AJAX seems to have been executed in dubious authority, but the outcome resulted in decades of stability, increased secular and women's rights, etc until the Shah's overthrow by the "Islamic Revolution". The West wouldn't have sponsored that, I'll wager. But I've already accepted your general point that the West's interference in the Middle East has probably done more harm than good. Do we soon get to the point where you give a view on the issues I raised? - Number of people suffering in Middle East and potentially refugees far too many to integrate into Europe - Right of European countries to reject people who oppose the laws in the countries where they seek asylum - Refugees being fervent supporters of the same religion and worshipping the same imaginary being which are driving ISIS, Al Qaeda, The Taliban and any number of other murderous, cruel regimes - The question of who rises up against the regimes if the people who are suffering under them give up and run away v. whether those regimes are allowed to annexe country after country until they take over the whole world. These seem to be the problems at hand.
September 23, 2015 08:20:06 · Reply
Lorenz Zahn Short word on AJAX: What you mention was one side of the coin. At the time, Iran was a parliamentary democracy heading forwards. The reason the operation was pushed through was because the Iran tried to gain sovereignty over their resources. This was ultimately prevented by reinstating an authoritarian monarch, who suppressed his people. Now to the point of “how many people are we supposed to take in?”: Aside from the moral obligation of being partly blamable for the situation by sitting on our hands doing hardly anything for the last couple of years and pointing fingers at Russia, we haven’t done much by improving the situation of refugees currently located in the countries next to Syria. Putting some pressure on the Gulf States could also help for a start. And please… Don’t come with religion again. Would I assume someone wearing a cross to be a Mormon and having twelve wives? No, that would be silly. So let’s not do that. Finally to your point of people rising up: We are speaking of people trapped between the fronts. Imagine a civil war broke out in your own country. How many people would try to get away from there, because they have no partaking in it?
September 23, 2015 09:11:46 · Reply
tsuchan Thanks for the reply Lorenz. Thinking about refugees then, I suggested that if we take all the people in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan who are in legitimate fear of their lives, we have already over 80 million+ people. Then should the policy be to accept refugees up to the point where Europe's economy completely fails, and we have reached an equilibrium where it's no longer attractive for someone to come to Europe because the situation is no better than at home? All I'm trying to do is look forward just a little bit and suggest that this isn't sustainable. You said that we're not doing much to help other than pointing fingers at Russia. But isn't it a case of damned-if-we-intervene, damned-if-we don't? Some Western countries do intervene even when blocked by one or more UN permanent Members. But that is the strategy that was followed in the disastrous intervention in Iraq. You say we should put pressure on Gulf States to take refugees. I'm not very sure whether that would be a kindness. If I were in Saudi Arabia, for example, I think I'd be happier if I could escape to Syria. About humanitarian relief, that's certainly the proposal that I'm putting forward: that we expend much more effort and investment in safe refuges near the border of Syria and Iraq which could help many more people than the relatively token numbers who are admitted to Europe. We are seeing people who are leaving Syria because their houses, their towns, their cities have been flattened. They have nowhere to live, there is no water, no electricity. And in the mean time we seem to be tickling the surface of the problem pretty much ineffectively by giving a select few people the chance of settlement in the EU. If the scale of the situation is such that we can't solve it simply by settling refugees within the EU, isn't it better that we resettle as many as possible close to Syria with a view to helping them return as soon as possible, and taking the most vulnerable, the most sick or injured, the orphaned kids with nobody to look after them? Sure, these are not the doctors and dentists, builders and electricians (etc) who are an instant benefit to the adoptive countries: they are the people who need most commitment to look after. But after all the fit and educated people race to the EU, who is going back in the medium term to rebuild Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan? I was really surprised to read in your reply "Don’t come with religion again". It was in informative reaction, because it demonstrates religion is really no part of your concern at all. But I admit that I hadn't anticipated that. I think I gave a rationale cause for concern in my first contribution, when I quoted the BBC/ComRes poll of British Muslims, which suggests a truly scary number have sympathy with Charlie Hebdo attackers, preaching violence against the West, etc. I never said that all Muslims have extreme views as you suggest. I asked whether countries should have the right to refuse entry to people they perceive to be a threat. (For example, do you see a right to refuse people who - when asked - say they will disobey laws of the country to which they are seeking entry if they believe they are in conflict with the demands of their religion?) As a rationalist, if I'm labouring under a misapprehension, I want to be be corrected. If the information upon which I'm basing an opinion is unreliable, I want to be shown why. I don't want to take a view that is misconceived in fact. It's true, of course, that I need to be shown a convincing argument of my error; but I certainly welcome correction. I will concede: I think that belief in most religions is a weakness roughly proportionate to their devotee's willingness to accept without question their holy scriptures. There is a steady stream of people leaving countries across the EU to fight for ISIS. People with friends who are utterly surprised that friends who they have not even thought of as devout Muslims but have left to become ISIS fighters or their consorts. My submission would be that their religious belief makes them more vulnerable to brain-washing. So I do very much think it's about religion, and I do think the evidence of the proportion of Muslims who feel alienated from Western mainstream is alarming, but I certainly don't believe that a majority of Muslims are a threat. So the final point was about people trapped between the fronts of a civil war. Sure, I imagine many people would try to get away from there if it happened in my own country. Who wouldn't? But when nasty people take over one's country, who will fight them if all the nice people exit the stage? That was my question. Who will stand against the evil of ISIS, of the Taliban, of Al Qaeda if all their natural opponents declare themselves not a part of the conflict? Of course people need rehousing temporarily if their homes and cities have been destroyed. But it's a practical question: what stops ISIS from annexing every country, if they meet with no opposition because the people who hate them do not fight them?
September 24, 2015 16:43:20 · Reply
Zimbardo's Everyday Heroes Fantastic work you guys are doing!
October 2, 2015 14:29:46 · Reply
QoL-X Wow. Just discovered your videos and will find time soon to binge. Very impressed with how yu do what yu do and LOVE what you did with this! I now feel far more informed and my desire to help support refugee assistance programs just jumped up several more notches (it's on our list of causes to learn more about so we can figure out how to help). Thank you for doing what you do!! ~ Dr Mel, Quality of Life eXperiments
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