This is why I absolutely love antique stores. If you do enough research the value of pretty much everything in those places will skyrocket. Its always the story that sells.

I liked how you started playing the mandolin to the background copywrite free music haha that was kinda unique and unifying.

I used to have one of these that my dad got me as a gift. Nostalgic!!

Thank you for this wonderful video. If there is one regret in my life, that would be never learning to read music.

excellent work David !!

I recognize Dark Castle the moment I see it.

Great work!

amazing video.. thanx..

Sounds like something that depeche mode would have released.

I own a midi controller with usb and midi connections, and I want to know if any synth that has midi IN or OUT can be controlled by my controller or not. Like I see synths with no keybed but people use them on their own sequencing, but can you hook it on a controller and just use it as a mono or poly synth ? Just use the sound with the keys ?

Really very lovely, so thanks a lot!

oh my god, I remember I had one of those when I was a kid... man I wonder where it's gone now

kerb

long story short: bow bassing doesn't work properly here: a) if the strings are laid flat guitar-style, you can't bow the two centre strings without hitting the outer two strings. b) if you raise the two centre strings so you can bow them without touching the outer strings, the fretting goes all wonky: the higher you fret the middle strings - the more they go out of tune

Cornucopian goodness! This instrument may not stay out of my reach too long. Beautiful création! Emboldens so much of what I was loving since I bought my first album from Tangerine Dream in the 70's.

I mean caps can store energy, but you should have mentioned different types of capacitors are used for different things. Some for filtering, some for blocking, some for parts of timing circuits, etc, At 7:40 it looks more like the signal is just clipping, whether just through simple cheap design or how you're capturing the signal. Also, after spending the time with the wire experiment instead of just looking at the back of the board and drawing out a schematic to see what parts do what and what is connected to what, you should have done that anyway to then learn how the circuit is functioning. It looks fairly simple and like something you could recreate in all kinds of different ways with an NE555 or similar like cd4538, cd4098, etc. Learning some electronics, even simple stuff with components that have been used for so many applications such as those and others can lead to learning how to create some rather interesting and much more advanced stuff yourself. Pretty cool little project kit you came across, though, and I always love a synth in any form. I've got a wealth of parts both well over twice my age(30s) to modern and was given some old logic gate experiment kits I was thinking of doing something cool with. Considering I was already building Tesla coils and railguns at around 9, 'interesting' by now, especially mixed with my sciences and cybersecurity and computing background makes 'interesting' often very interesting. Fun to limit ones self to what's in the box and see what you can create, just like limiting yourself musically can lead to some of your best work (also musician among everything else....learning addiction hah)

I was wondering what "acoustic synthesizer" could possibly mean... so, it's a kalimba with a sequencer?

Excelente explicación

We still have one, although in a much worse condition. Yellow all over. Brings back good memories though

Excellent! Thank you.

8 years, and still going strong!

Quite amazing.....what a machine.

Love the concept, fascinating instrument, very playable

Experiencing new things while creating things, amazing! Those kind arp with tremolo, what a discovery!

Cool but 800 dollars!

Mmm.😮😮

bro, u should be careful with your ring, ur finger might swallow and it can cause imputation, take care

It took me to my childhood :)

Cool gadget in music classroom from 40 years ago. I always look at my friends with envy. Because I only have basic melodian.

I have the same model and it works in 2024. We bought it in 1982

I still have one of those in the case! Still works fine! Mine was from 1981

Ukrainian so he owes us one free

You've made me realise how versatile acoustic instruments are. People can find new ways of engaging with them for decades, while a lot of electronic instruments seem to be designed much more rigidly. I love the idea of this new Korg instrument, because its analogue elements make it a lot more versatile, without the designers needing to add any more features.

Your work is great dude! Think about what the people who made that toy would've thought if they knew it was sampled and used in contemporary music - decades and maybe centuries later.

Bro created the next nokia 3311 call sound

У меня есть такая штука, но не знал как её использовать,это видео интересное я не музыкант, просто она лежит без дела

Learn to play Star Wars theme on this.... The only tune I learn....

The Po(ng) and Pi(ng) is the annoying thing about the drum sound. White noise is produced by SHA!

Now I have to find out how the soundtrack for Tunic was made, the sounds coming out of the VL-TONE through the chain reminded me of it. Really cool.

n my memories, it only had a single track of course, if i had have a mood and delay it would have been better

7:00 - minecraft :P

I might end up buying that record preamp cuz goddam thats an amazing tone

I’ve still got mine. When I was a kid, I glued it to a larger Casio I had so that I could have a makeshift “keytar” lol.

Not that I have any experience with violins or violas. But when you did the secret test, I preferred the sound of the first one you blurred. So for me, the cheaper one sounded better. I am blown away either one could sound as good as they did for those prices! It shows that the talent playing makes up a big portion of the sound being coherent and what we would consider appealing.

this is my chilhood!

my god, i still remember this device

I remember Bontempi ads on German TV when I was a child (late 70's through to the early 80's), and their slogan was, 🎵"Spielspaß von 8 bis 80"🎵 - "Playing fun from 8 to 80" 😄

I SO had one of these. lol

I still have this with the cover and it still works well, it was great for that time

When pressing down a special key it plays a little melody.