I really love it! Nicest keybed and highest quality sliders, buttons, and knobs of any polysynth I’ve tried (including polybrute12 and moog one!!). Those and a few other comparable synths have more features, but I actually like that the Gemini might be slightly less a jack of all trades, but really the best possible design for dual layer or split patches, and generally making and modifying sounds quickly and intuitively. Love that there’s no screen or menus and (almost) full controls for each layer right in front of you. I am a sucker for the old Roland Jupiters, so the fact that it takes the Jupiter 8 as the main design inspiration is perfect for me. Then add on the dual controls, poly aftertouch, and ribbon strip from the CS80, AND the modern idiosyncratic binaural signal paths, and you get the ideal big polysynth for my taste. Also doesnt cost $60,000. Looks like Star Trek. UDO gets an A+ from me.

@@ColinMarstonOmnisound thanks very much for sharing your impressions with the Gemini ... love the various waveforms for that Prophet VS kind style to and Jupiter's are my faves . I used to have them both when there where half the price of the gemini in 1999.

@@satarello I have many! Here’s the newest one: indricothere.bandcamp.com/album/extruded-nonlocality-immersion

yeah but they give you a perfect spot for a reverb pedal in the upper lefthand corner of the synth!

My free soft synth sounds better.

not on that piece actually. i think it's the G-Force Virtual String Machine plugin there. both the piece before and after that one are just Odyssey. i'd say about 75% of this video (which comprises our 2nd through 5th albums) is the Odyssey. the other quarter is the Virtual String Machine and the M-Tron Pro Mellotron. First album is all those 2 plugins. the most recent album is all hardware synths. same Simmons kits on all albums (SDS V and SDS 8).

@@ColinMarstonOmnisound thanks for your reply ... interesting out of space eerie and luminous sounds and chord progressions that one doesn't often here if ever....like the ones around 2:17 - 2:20 and all along ... that simmons drums can play notes at times ... that's cool ... ambient wave space jazz metal

@@ColinMarstonOmnisound this style could be called, (with your other group music) for lack of imagination on my part , Jazz Metal (taken from the 1980's jazz rock) because of the complexities of those chordings and intertwined melodic parts of each musicians ... so refreshing to hear an amazing bass tone that does complex lines to !

the age-old decision between knobs and sliders! thanks for listening

Haha!! Don’t worry, I agree about the lighting. Was kicked out of my recording studio after 18 years by new building owners. So I’m set up in my parents’ living room until I can find a new studio. Not ideal! But they are amazingly kind to allow my sonic invasion.

Glad you had a welcoming place to land after getting kicked out................

cheers! the stereo delay comes from the cheap NUX Duotime delay. some limitations, but love the super simple interface it has. the Gemini does all this idiosyncratic stereo synthesis with dual left and right oscillators, filters, modulation, etc. so some of the fun stereo sounds are coming straight from the synth as well. here's my newest (extremely long) ambient Indricothere album: indricothere.bandcamp.com/album/extruded-nonlocality-immersion nice witchcraft on your channel! enjoying the microfreak wavetable exploration right now!

the odyssey fits perfectly on a heavy duty music stand! (it's the smaller, cheaper korg one fyi). the music stand is a little wobbly, so i brace it from the back with a mic stand. not ideal, but i haven't yet found an angle-able single keyboard stand. btw, great videos on your channel! nice sound-design and i'm jealous of your back yard desert.

@@ColinMarstonOmnisound wow thanks!

Your concert was awesome! Glad the KZbin algorithm can sometimes actually do good things! The Roland boutiques are sick, but I only have the Juno one (ju06-a). Gotten a ton of use out of it though.

@@ColinMarstonOmnisound Thank you so much! Yes, enjoy the quick sound design of physical surface controlled synths, for digital this is very rare. Happy to have waved hi from my synth space ship portal to yours as we traveled the same course for a while.

@@LarrySeinfeldit’s improvised. On the records I almost always overdub more parts to deepen the texture and expand on things I land on. Occasionally a solo piece like this makes it to a record. Vangelis is iconic and amazing.

I agree with this comment.

@@necrolavigne yes, but only 15 were made for a special event. Too expensive to make more unfortunately. Can’t believe they exist at all!

@@ColinMarstonOmnisound I really hope you make more Urthshroud/ Demonic Wealth style music. I truly haven't heard anything with an atmosphere quite like those two records.

Thanks! I tend to make that opening patch again and again

Ha! I love the design and layout of the Odyssey so much. I always use a pedal to control filter cutoff (that’s how I’m doing all the swells on it). That way of playing makes it feel a lot like a guitar with fuzz and a volume pedal to me. The Odyssey is what got me hooked on hardware synths.