Best Music Technology Quotes

"It's music, and I love music, so I feel like I'm just in the way technology is, I'm just starting to crack the code."

"Hologram tours, such as the Whitney Houston experience, start to raise some interesting questions regarding the future of music and ownership of an artist's identity."

"Digital audio workstations are musical instruments for the 21st century."

"Using Lynn's later machine the MPC 3000, Diller became one of the first to adjust the shuffle..."

"The functionality in the launchkey mini mark iii is miles ahead of the mpk mini mark iii."

"Why is this pedal awesome? Because it's one of the foundational developments of Envelope Filter in the guitar world."

"Roland's bold move into the low-cost portable instrument ring is a game-changer."

"The 808 is like a weird machine but it's something that we built our culture off of and then now most recognized."

"As soon as you see Connor the first time there is a really interesting thick idea that you hear and it's that's just made out of a Moog synthesizer but completely manipulated in multiple ways."

"Auto-tune doesn't make someone who can't sing, sing."

"I will never ever regret purchasing this for my first synth."

"We've built Pandora for SoundCloud, which is sure to polarize opinions regarding music discovery."

"AmpliTube 4 is not only does it sound wonderful those high-resolution models sound great."

"The idea is to make it so just one dial on your controller could actually control many different effects throughout your performance."

"It's pretty cool because you have different ranges and you can map different parameters on different effects to the same macro."

"This, in my opinion, represents one of the best synths that money just can't buy because it's free."

"It is incredibly impressive, TuneFish is pretty unique in the way it approaches making sounds."

"In terms of a standalone synth, there are no analog alternatives that compete with Tiger at this price point or even higher."

"Ableton link has now been added... great for any DJ's that want to put on a bigger live performance."

"It transforms the rev heads into essentially limitlessly customizable combo amps in the virtual space."

"It's less about the master volume and a little bit more about how much gain the amplifier has."

"No person should ever have to die like that."

"DW has taken another giant step forward into the world of electronic drums with this amazing dwe kit."

"Every coil split humbucker that doesn't have six individual slug magnets, like a single coil, is essentially a weak-powered P90."

"Amps don't just make the guitar louder, they change how the guitar sounds."

"Tube rectifier described as saggy or flabbier, solid-state rectifiers as tighter and punchier."

"A brand new day has dawned for Native Instruments."

"Amp designer allows us to configure a sound for the project."

"The Jupiter 8: an analogue dream with digital control."

"The d50 had the means to produce sounds that had never been heard before."

"The great thing about a really good sounding analog delay is that those repeats don't really fight the original sound."

"Delay stuff is always interesting but when you see it like this and you see all the options and the sounds available and all that stuff, you know it is wondrous."

"Spatial audio for music is going to be absolutely crazy."

"The exs24 is one of the deepest, most powerful instruments that comes with logic."

"Vocaloid: a computer program that lets musicians create vocals using fictional characters voiced by real people."

"It aims to bring the sound of the Fender Precision Bass guitar to your home studio."

"This plugin emulates the Watkins Copycat IC 400, which is a vintage tape delay unit."

"RCA also started manufacturing their own three-speed record players."

"It's kind of like in the 70s phaser was to guitar what that west coast whistle thing was to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg."

"So you could say without synths phasers wouldn't make any sense good one."

"Sampling keyboard players have access to everything."

"Octatrack has the ability to run a program sequence like this and then live loop while the sequence is running."

"The drip is the part of a spring reverb signal that just feels like the reverb spring is just kissing you on the cheek."

"I really just want to take a moment to honor the legacy of analog delay."

"Vocaloids are robotic synthesizers that can only be sung by producers. Said producer has the control of how they want their vocaloids to sing and what genre of music they should tackle."

"If you're just interested in a drum machine that can play samples, there are other options. But if you're interested in the drum machine with dozens of drum synth engines, both virtual analog and FM, this is pretty much the only game in town."

"The lock function is super powerful as a performance tool. You can lock the state of the machine, change parameters, and then immediately revert back."

"You don't have to make this unit look like the [ __ ] m17 just because it's a thing that has to do with music."

"The lightest all-in-one guitar amplifier that brings together vintage ideas, modern technology, and elegant design."

"The sequencing and modulation features here are top-notch and take things way beyond what you may have been used to with other analog monosynths."

"An all-in-one standalone two-channel battery-powered DJ unit, yeah I know it's crazy right? Well, let's find out some more here it is."

"The vocal track that plays while you're unwrapping your card decks sounds like someone is trying to channel 1990s rap after they bought their first vocoder."

"Now one feature that's very cool and very useful on the P 125 is the ability to layer two instruments together."

"Soft pop 2 is a refreshingly original synth with some pretty cool default cross mods that make for lovely organic textures and plenty of surprises along the way."

"There's your crash course in how to do recording inside of Studio One."

"This goes beyond like an even tide reverb plug-in or something like that you know they're awesome but this is the sound of being in that room."

"Polyphonic aftertouch is when you have individual after touch control on a per key basis."

"Without a doubt, the Captor X at five hundred and fifty dollars is such a better value than the Ox."

"Guitar Rig is like one of the best things that has happened to music."

"It's kind of a tuned filter, that's interesting."

"And what's really awesome: the LFO depth is equivalent to semitones."

"So what have we learned today? LFOs are super useful, and Elektron should put like two or three or ten more of these on each track."

"We could trigger these from midi and as we play this now instead of playing straight linearly through."

"It's so cool. This is the future of Music technology."

"It really makes you feel like you're in the future of Music technology."

"This plugin literally changed the entire audio guitar space."

"...maybe certain scenarios like maybe if you're like, 'Yeah, I'm like part-time volunteer worship leader and I can only allocate like, you know, five minutes a week towards setting up my tracks rig well, look at Playback and Prime. I think those will be great options.'"

"helix floor is just crazy good I mean it's you know here we are you know almost almost five years after its release and it still holds up with anything on the market does so extremely well"

"Nothing quite does it like the original Eventide H2000."

"...by ripping out his traditional guitar pickup and replacing it with a midi pickup...this was a real leap of faith, a step into the unknown."

"The whole point of Sunday guitar was just to give you a ton of flexibility and control that MainStage doesn't have programmed out of the box."

"Performers could pull those drawbars to different positions in order to change the relative volumes of those harmonics, and as it turns out, the relative volumes of a note's harmonics is basically what timbre is."

"The plugin that I'm going to talk about today has the potential to completely disrupt the music production world."

"This MIDI routing is useful. It's not just useful for routing keyboards, it's useful for routing any kind of MIDI you're sending."

"If you want a pedal that will have a dialogue with the sounds you put into it and completely transform them, the H90 is the best game in town."

"Hello and welcome to Sonic Lab today."

"The Universal Audio Apollo is probably one of the most popular interfaces on the planet."

"You can build your own custom devices, instruments, and effects."

"The NES has five channels: two that produce pulse waves, one that produces a triangle wave, one that produces noise, and a DPCM channel which can playback samples."

"Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the synth; it's got a lot of great features and it sounds like an analog synth."

"I really want a Sustainiac, not only to have it to check it out, to do it, but also share it with you guys on the channel."

"It'll gradually change each parameter of the voices from your original select pattern to the target pattern that you can also select."

"It sounded realistic because it played actual recordings of real instruments."

"One of the most notable features of the T4 is its ability to control DAW software and virtual instruments."

"The T4 and T6 come ready to work with several DAWs that give you a deep integration."

"Once you understand the user interface and how to do things, it does become very quick and very powerful."

"I think this is a really cool piece of kit, and I definitely would recommend running the MPC platform."

"MIDI with no USB is how physical hardware instruments talked to each other before computers ever entered the picture."

"With most VST plugins, your DAW can control and automate the plugin is an either host automation or MIDI automation."

"This tool is not just a fun gadget; it's a peek into the future of music where AI helps bring your creative visions to life."

"It's quite minimalistic with a play/pause button and volume controls in case you're near your amp and you want quick control without needing to open the Sonos app."

"What a brilliant thing, I mean, I think the Moog really hit upon what's great about these little semi-modular synths."

"Ableton Live is hands down the most powerful for running a click in tracks and worship."

"One of the most powerful features in Fourscore is the ability to mark up your digital sheet music just as though it was on paper."

"The MODX I believe, as far as a performance synthesizer, is the best value for your money that you can get today."

"Europa, they call it a shape-shifting synth, and that's because it does a whole bunch of trickery and algorithmic interesting things."

"Thor has become a classic over the past decade; it is a super powerful and versatile synth."

"Now is as good a time as any to master the technology and transition your face-to-face music lessons online."

"Literally go on all day about the FM9, this is, in my opinion, the crowning achievement of Fractal Audio's roadmap."

"What I would really recommend is to get a great pickup and preamp system, learn that, learn the nuances of it, really get it to sound good."

"We're going to talk about the clipping stages of pedals and how that's become such a thing nowadays."

"We built a Tele with an aluminum top... they were the quietest guitars ever made because it was just a huge shield."

"The guitar featured spruce top with maple back and sides, bolt on maple neck and 2 DeArmond golden tone pickups."

"The ability to have all those sounds stored as presets, control with MIDI, and then just press and hold the footswitch for infinite... that was a game-changer."

"These are amazing times, man, and we are going through a huge shift in guitar tech."

"What a buffer does is it changes a high impedance signal to low impedance so the tone of your guitar does not get lost with long cable runs or going through multiple pedals."

"If you do want your electronic drums to essentially mirror your acoustic drums but with less volume, the F Note Pro kits could be up your alley."

"I just taught Bob Moog how to do something, so it was a pretty special day."

"The MIDI protocol is quite old, it was developed in the early 1980s, but is still a standard in studios today."

"Lay down a wicked beat and have automatic accompaniments to help play your favorite song, whatever you're seeing, it has your sound, Yamaha."

"The SPD-SX PRO takes performance possibilities to a new level with its onboard 16-step pad sequencer function."

"I am playing the settings on this tone model as it was originally captured."

"I can now recall that tone model at any time with my settings."

"These sound identical, so now you guys can also have a Doctor Z Z-Rec Junior amp captured just beautifully for your Tonex software and Tonex pedal."

"If they can incorporate this into a Rain One Mark II or Rain Two, whatever they're going to call it, and have all this stuff with just the moving platters, I think you're going to knock it out of the park."

"One of the first units that takes full advantage of the Revolutionary Serato stems 3.0."

"The capacitive six inch jog wheels are a highlight."

"The more you use it, the more you understand the thought process and how they designed this mixer."

"Thank you Technics for including the 78 function on your new turntables."

"There's so much you can do with it, far more than I can show you in this 40-minute video."

"It's got phenomenal treble extension... not a lot of earphones in this price range that has treble extension as solid here as the Timeless."

"I've always been intrigued with MIDI because of the things you can do with it."

"We want to make sure that it's something that it's a technological challenge, it's an inspirational experience playing it."

"Wow, what a fascinating point in synthesizer history."

"David Joseph Smith is a legend in the world of Music synthesis."

"The Digitone is a four operator synth."

"You've got a really sophisticated arpeggiator."

"What's really exciting about ANA 2 Ultra is Slate Digital is so pumped that they're going to keep releasing preset packs and libraries every month."

"It's one of the great things, you don't really need to read the manual, you'll get more if you do read the manual, but very quickly, you're up and running."

"In 1990, they produced the award-winning SR-16 drum machine, which is still in production and selling well as of 2020."

"Technology directly influences music, which is why we have the musical instruments that we do and the eras in which we have them."

"Having streaming capabilities on DJ controllers has become so important."

"Hollywood Orchestrator is essentially a complex arpeggiator."

"What is the Cobalt 5S? Well, essentially, it is a five-voice polyphonic version of the Cobalt synth engine."

"The Push 2 is an amazing instrument, it's an amazing controller for all sorts of things in Ableton, but it is also a killer sampler."

"A compact polyphonic six voice analog synth from Dreadbox that might also be the most interesting monophonic or duophonic synth I've seen recently."

"Nymphs can store 49 presets in seven banks of seven presets, banks A through G."

"What do you mean they don't have to be linked? What do you mean I can have all those triggers here, all those notes here waiting for a gate? That's the coolest thing ever."

"The amount of synthesizing power you have on this machine is pretty extraordinary."

"That's how a vocoder works, you know. You play the keys, send it a different signal than what you're generating with the keys, and the vocal becomes the synth."

"It's an incredible sounding stomp box if you're after authentic recreations of vintage effects with no compromise sound quality, then Astra makes the perfect choice."

"Each individual voice or Kurzweil call it a program can be made of 32 different layers of sound."

"Noisemaker is a simple but powerful synth, and its easy-to-read interface makes it a great platform for learning the basics."

"The pitch modulation wheel was first invented by Robert Moog in the early 1960s and is a great way to add expression and depth to your performances."

"There's tones that I've been able to dial in using this unit that I never would have been able to dial in using traditional gear."

"What Mike was really looking for was to make that circuit do more of what guitar players needed at that time."

"MIDI 2.0 exists and it's infinitely more blendable and it's got way more dynamic range."

"The Chroma Console has two different lo-fi algorithms that both sound amazing."

"You can shape pretty well every aspect of any sound on a synthesizer."

"We've put a lot of time into developing this and making it a truly world-class drum sampler."

"I actually got to see the introduction of the DX7 here in Portland, Oregon."

"Artificial intelligence... controls certain frequency ranges that you would hear in most songs."

"I really think it is a very powerful granular synth that is both budget-friendly and doesn't take up too much real estate on the table."

"This is an amazing compact granular synthesizer with so many cool features."

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"And this is why Shaper MIDI is one of my favorite devices, Max for Live devices inside of Ableton Live."

"So there you have it, that is a quick overview of one of my favorite and one of what I think is one of the best Ableton Live Max Live devices there is, Shaper MIDI."

"Max is this kind of programming language that lets you build musical tools, audio effects, instruments, media effects."

"One of the things you'll start to notice about Max devices is they tend to be really creative and interesting."

"One of the cool things about Max is you can build these devices yourself or edit devices that other people have made."

"The Delta button lets you listen to the difference between the original and the compressed signal."

"The German acoustic drum company made the Sonar Mahmood's Digital Drum System in 1987."

"This product is not only a breakthrough in electronic drums but will literally change the world of drums and percussion as we know it."

"The kidney bean that we call the POD was a revolution for engineers and players alike."

"The Helix featured a new modeling engine and dual DSP for those complex ambient Tosin Abasi signal chains."

"The GP200 also expands on the original effects and amp and cabinet library of the original GP100, making it much more broad in terms of tonal palette."

"The addition of the encoders on the front of the unit that allow you to quickly edit an amp's parameters are a really great idea."

"For the first time ever in a midline V-Drums kit, we can bring our own sounds."

"MIDI has been around since the early '80s, initially for synthesizers to talk to each other."

"It was a very polished, capable drum module."

"The Whammy is a pitch-shifting pedal that was developed by Digitech in 1989 and it was the first widely used pitch-shifting pedal."

"Scale awareness lets certain devices be aware of the global key and do certain things based on that."

"It makes sounds many analog synths can't."

"The sound of the DAC is far more important than the actual resolution of the music."

"In 2014 I became a product specialist for Ableton, and ever since I've been teaching at various schools around Europe."

"It's quite a complex synth, but some of the basics are quite straightforward, actually."

"If you're writing a plugin, it will be supported in VST and VST3."

"MP stands for multi-dimensional polyphonic expression; it's a new industry standard."

"For the processed mid to late 2000s kind of sounds, the X3 excels."

"I think that James Brown did a great job doing an updated version of this amplifier with the iconic."

"The Poly Effects Bibo is basically a virtual modular synthesizer in a guitar pedal format."

"The fact that Apple music puts so much effort into spatial audio gives me hope."

"Augmented Strings, innovative instrument combining sampled strings with state-of-the-art synthesis and deep morphing controls."

"Is the D50 really that good, or should I buy a DX7 for my nostalgia?"

"The MU series was Yamaha's attempt to get a share of the lucrative home computer music market."

"Offering a ridiculous amount of content for their cost, they were some of the earliest devices that supported Yamaha's new extended General MIDI standard."

"Launching in 1994, the MU80 set the stage for every succeeding unit."

"The MU1000 amps things up quite a bit by offering 128 voice polyphony, 64 part multitimbrality."

"It's got pretty much everything you want as long as you're happy to DJ with two channels."

"Phase really caught the imagination of a lot of DJs."

"Harmonic tremolo is really, really interesting, and you can sort of fake filter movement without having to waste an LFO."

"The CV Rack is a free virtual Eurorack environment where we can do all the fun stuff that we would do with hardware modular on your computer for free."

"It's an amazing resource for people that are interested in getting into modular."

"Pack your bags and let's fire up them rockets and explore the exciting world of hierarchical variational autoencoders for music."

"Fractal does those sounds extraordinarily well."

"It's impressive what you can put in a preset."

"We've barely scratched the surface on what you can do with the FM3."

"With a unit like this, with the exceptional AD/DA conversion and the very low latency, you've got the same instantaneous response and feel that you would get with a tube amp."

"It's the best of all possible Roland sounds in one box."

"One of its primary functions has a very useful ability to serve as a play-along device; it has a built-in rhythm section that we can use on any of the songs that are in the catalog."