Akai Rhythm Wolf - Deep Session (feat. Arturia Microbrute)

[@whiterottenrabbit]

This is one of those videos that prove that you don't need expensive gear to create kick-ass music. Great job! Also, fuck those guys who say that the Rhythm Wolf sucks!

[@blatendcrude7570]

Lol. I used to say that.

[@SPAZZOID100]

Well. It does kind of suck. 😎😎😎

[@PureAmbientDrone]

Best demo of the wolf I have heard yet

[@FunkTree]

I wish this dude started to post videos more of often ...we need great performances like this one don't we ?

[@scotttascarella2951]

Just wanted to say this composition has been in my head for like 2 weeks. I love it!!!

[@DarkTapes]

I love this jam. I keep coming back to it every now and then. I wish it was 12 minutes longer!

[@fullconsciousness1448]

Had to listen once more and ever again , so simple but everytime so great and better, awesome beat and fxs, notes, the Whole! Congratulations!

[@kiDchemical]

Sounds good. Nice job stretching the most out of a budget setup, very inspiring.

[@RenniefosterRF]

nice sounds and nice set up

[@markmckinney6129]

Fantastic. Hopefully getting one of these next week. Can't wait to introduce it to my Mopho. I think they will get along nicely

[@carpagevid]

great jam session! minimal meets soul.. fantastic please more

[@DarkTapes]

Seriously. this jam is so good, never gets old.

[@fullconsciousness1448]

Simple and GREAT, exactly how gifted genius do! Thank you.

[@a_nick_t]

This is really well done. Thanks!

[@КириллКоролев-ю7й]

Really good sound!

[@EarmonkeyMusic]

Rhythm Wolf can be a great tool in the right hands. I'm interested in one after this. Nice work.

[@harmonicres]

Microbrute a highly under-rated analog synth I used on a few recordings. Its a beast that has a nice analog tone that ISNT a Moog Roland or Korg! Nice jam executed with alot of creativity.

[@jarsamo]

This is very cool! Everybody's just bashing Rhythm Wolf all over internet, but after seeing this video I actually think I want one afterall :)

[@Flat8G]

jarsamo Its bashed by people who does not have a clue, with just a bit of knowledge the Wolf can sound awesome!

[@graphene1487]

excellent work man!

[@NickSBailey]

Very nice, like to hear more.

[@6H111G9]

Very cool !! you have a great talent. Thanks

[@ruigen8046]

at last a decent demo that shows the rhythm wolf does have some teeth - it goes to show that any instrument is only as good as the person playing it!

[@allroads8978]

Couldn't agree more / too much complaining / you get back what you put in ( es2 lover ) looking forward to the newest member of my famIly / no instrument sucks those who say that shouid be embarrassed / this dude just killed it on a so called "sucky" instrument

[@isobarxx]

I've found most of the Akai and Korg boxes need some good amplification and a filter to sound awesome. ie. Any instrument can sound good with quality FX on it.

[@bad_parent]

The rhythm wolf gets so much shit but I honestly love it

[@mikeharris4562]

I nice filter is all that’s needed. Maybe a delay too

[@Flat8G]

Very nice showcase both for the Brute and Wolf! Skillful signal routing as well!

[@jbeats2644]

Great jam! :-)

[@FunnFoto]

DUDDDDDDE !!!!! Freaking nice deep minimal and intoxicating you made me light up the spliff and rock my speakers. Bravo.

[@ndstrlsm]

Still one of the best live jams to date!

[@holadonkey]

nice session.sweet progression

[@TROGULAR10000]

i think i'll comment everytime i come back here: great piece, veryu subtle changes. the epilogue is just awesome

[@jeroenbrugman6081]

Amazing atmosphere! Love it!

[@francismanzella3527]

fantastic.. nicely done

[@kindreadproject]

nice jam, great sound deep techno dub...hypnotic effect! keep in touch ciao

[@ch8049]

Great video...👍🏻

[@higginsmusic74]

Good to see someone else using the Wolf. Nice job

[@analogsystem8015]

Superbe! Good job, great session !

[@k10131]

Excellent!!! Brilliant job!!!

[@vileguile4]

Wow, this was amazing!

[@analogsystem8015]

Excellent, hypnotic sound, great sequence. The new Rhythm wolf seems have a good sound.

[@krakou2]

+Jean-Bapt Respublica beware it's heavily processed

[@leakso1]

@@krakou2 Any 808/909/707 and so on, All only sound "good" with heavy processing. I'd suggest that you are the one that needs to BC. As u are coming a cross as some what ignorant to what you are talking about. This video shows what a "creative mind" has done with what some other " not so creative" minds call weak/limited and in some cases crap. I think this video, puts all that to bed, and quite fuckin nicely at that. 😉

[@toddglacy1161]

Great Job! Thanks for sharing.

[@madmac66]

Really liked this. Man I wish I bought one f those vintage phasers before they were discontinued. Best 25 bucks can spend

[@StarsWithScars]

Pls do another vid with that gear and I subscribe!

[@algorithms66]

Keep things simple. Very much a philosophy of mine. This track works really well good balance! Kudos :)

[@MicroBanshee]

Cool session, thanks for that

[@mattsynth]

Sounds great, Bravo.

[@Psychlist1972]

Really liked this!

[@Grauskegg]

awesome tune!

[@DarkTapes]

This jam is really inspiring. It's pretty badass. I have the same combo of rhythmwolf and microbrute and make videos as well. It's amazing how different you can make these instruments sound. Hope to see more of this!

[@XtremeJake]

Sweet stuff!

[@iamyourfuture808]

possibly hard to believe (after looking at other demos of this machine) but this is a future classic .... snap em up while they are cheap !!

[@zagazaa2571]

this is just beautiful!!!

[@chiefthomson]

that's a really great session. keep up the good sound mate

[@musician-74]

Very nice track!

[@darlakein]

Yeah ! Minilogue style ! Very inspiring :D

[@AngelGabriel-rg7vl]

totaly awsome stuff !!!

[@OldIronRC]

Wicked man. Thanks for sharing.

[@MattGreerMusic]

Very cool. Nice to see another quality demo of the Wolf. Sure, it takes a lot of external processing to show it off properly but they're cheap enough that you can afford some pedals to go along with it. Nice job.

[@matschmatte]

Just WOW.. very nice!

[@existjuana.g.e.8566]

very nice song.

[@cojack5865]

nice sound

[@renedescartesmethode9196]

Bon groove, bonne techno

[@TROGULAR10000]

I keep coming back to this awesome track! :-) :-) :-) i tried syncing my Mini Brute to RW by configuring MB as you said but then the send clock switch on the RW didn't seem to engage- I'm sure it was me doing something wrong.

[@Motone]

MiniBrute or MicroBrute? The MiniBrute (not SE) has an arpeggiator, not a sequencer. The arpeggiator will do nothing, unless you press some keys. Have you set the RW's MIDI Out/Thru to OUT (SHIFT + 12)? If set to THRU, it will not transmit MIDI clock.

[@TROGULAR10000]

Yeah I'm clear about that, want to sync arpeggiator to RW. I'll check the MIDI Out/Thru switch. thanks again. i'll soon be sequencing the minibrute anyway with the help of a Novation Circuit, which i'm thinking might replace the RW, although i like it. I saw the very cool new drum machine from Arturia too but will probably try the Circuit drums for a while. are you gonna make more and more tracks like this or what? dreamy electro with CODAs, that's what i need

[@tomblaze2]

sounds epic

[@ChrisRamis]

Love it ! Instantly.

[@petervdveenmuis]

My wolf is expected tomorrow. Can't hardly wait....

[@stossbeats]

That smooth deep kick on the RW ❤️

[@SkeetRadar]

I like how this setup is like 80% mixers and pedals, 20% synth and drum machine

[@SynthMagic]

Awesome track. I have the RW and think it is great.

[@brossmixing]

really good!

[@curebdc]

Ah man jealous of this setup! I want that line6 delay so bad! I need a mixer like u have too. The brute seems like a great little guy too. My music is more punk industrial, and another project is more prog rock but it's stuff like this that gets me inspired to push it even more to dance.

[@GandaMelgao]

Not my style of music. I got here following Microbrute Links. But.... to my surprise..... it is very interesting. It captured my ears. Sounds very good to me. I Liked it :)

[@beincheekym8]

GandaMelgao acid gets you, acid is like this guy you've never met before but becomes instantly your best friend as if you grew up together.

[@johnnycosta145]

Complimenti, bellissimo :-)

[@Beefy1Time]

I was looking through some videos to get a feel about what the Wolf can do, and I can't say I have been impressed. I came across your video, and this is a freaking jam!!!! I've always said, its the man in front of the machine and not the machine in front of the man. Excellent work there buddy. I'm certain you could have banged that out with any drum machine. Keep up the great work!

[@bobbywizdum5248]

Only real knock on the wolf is that there are no independent outs. Its build is solid, sound is unique but the inability to track the kick/snare /hats seperate limits the dynamic range of all 3. Still a cool unit though.

[@thefumigator]

Danelectro rocks! Also its nice that the wolf has its own output for the bass only, so you are able to connect, lets say, a distortion pedal right from the output of the bass and make some 303 acid bass lines

[@michaelmcclosky1142]

Fantastico!

[@chinmeysway]

love it. could you explain how they’re midi’d together? which controls which. thank you!!

[@Motone]

RhythmWolf and MicroBrute are only MIDI synced (RW=master, MB=slave), each device is controlled by its own sequencer.

[@LittleFoilFish]

awesome!

[@Mobiluks]

what a great bass sound out of the rythm wolf! Ok, compressor, effects... who cares? The final sound, organic, pumping, just awesome. Will buy this little cheap synth next time.

[@AdnanAlsannaa]

AMAZING!

[@suti211]

I Need more music like this ! :(

[@HardtekStudios]

Very kewl man! Love the evolving sound of this tune. The Rhythm Wolf can sound epic with some good processing. You got it sounding very smooth and liquidy. When I process it, it normally has the opposite sound. Rough and crunchy.

[@PatrickDiAngelo]

You're very good, bro..Yeah, this is a very nice presentation/example that the man factor is obviously more important than the gear factor..IMHO..and i think that a lot of people agree with me..Well done, bro...!!!

[@DJREN2]

Well played ...

[@reazallykhan]

I bought a wolf and I'm loving it

[@maximiliandigregorio]

good grove , i like :-)

[@-thirteen]

Very nice. can the akai sequence the arturia synth while being a drum track?

[@Motone]

Yes, you can sequence any MIDI sound generator with the RW. The Bass Synth part sends MIDI notes on channel 1. Unfortunately you cannot program legato notes.

[@-thirteen]

+Mo tone (motone) Thabks. no legato seems tough

[@Motone]

+modcraft13 Well, you can tie notes in the RW's sequencer, but this will result in the first note having a length of 2 (or more) steps. There's no way to program a glide (a transition between two different notes). Strangely this works with the internal bass synth, but not when sequencing external sound generators via MIDI. See also: community.akaipro.com/akai_professional/topics/rhythm-wolf-tied-notes-are-not-played-via-midi

[@palantireye11]

Ey dude pretty nice! I want to start building my own set up to achieve something like yours, where should I start?

[@Knardsh]

Im a newb to sequencers.. can anyone help me understand what is the brute doing here? How are the two interacting? Is the "synth out" jack commanding the brute in place of the wolf's bass? trying to figure out how to use my wolf with my dsi prophet....

[@Motone]

The Microbrute is synced to the Rhythm Wolf via MIDI (Rhythm Wolf MIDI OUT to Microbrute MIDI IN), that's it. The Microbrute has its own sequencer.

[@Knardsh]

Ok. So the Microbrute is just playing a sequence that was programmed on it..? I'm confused what the bass synth of the wolf is doing? I thought it was controlling the brute somehow..

[@Motone]

Nope, the bass synth does whatever a bass synth does: Bass! '(°(00)°)`

[@kaostrip]

Hmmm😍 Really good !

[@markusbergh]

Thank you

[@luposlip]

Oh man this is just awesome! Makes me wanna buy the microbrute and combine it with a launchpad and BitWig! :-)

[@TROGULAR10000]

Hi man I have come back to this very nice jam because I now have the RW and the Minibrute, just tried to send clock only through MIDI from RW to MB and thought I did everything right but somehow it was triggering notes which I didn't want to do at this point. basically i wanted to get an arpeggio going on the MB and vary its speed with the RW. Do you know what I need to do?

[@Motone]

+TROGULAR 10,000 I think you need to set the Minibrute's MIDI channel to some other than 1 or 10 (that are the RW's channels for Bass and Drums). And you need to set the MiniBrute to external MIDI sync. IIRC there's a software that you have to download and run to do those settings on the MB. As an alternative you can try to trigger the MiniBrute via the Gate-Trigger-Out of the RW.

[@TROGULAR10000]

+Mo tone (motone) thanks! gonna listen to your song again now

[@iFranOne]

excuse me, anyone knows whats the name of that green looper in the middle?

[@Motone]

+iFranOne It's a Line6 DL4 Delay Modeler.

[@abregoja]

hey man.... whats the deal!!! look up, i wanna buy this one akai rythm wolf and i have a yamaha s08... can i plug my yamaha s08 if i wanna do a great samples and loops with the bank... do you know what i mean? give me some help... thank you...

[@Motone]

+Jair Abrego You should be able to sequence one synth sound and four drum sounds of the S08. Just connect a MIDI cable from RW MIDI-OUT to S08 MIDI-IN and make sure the MIDI channel of the S08's synth part that you wish to control is set to 1 (drums are on channel 10 by default).

[@fonostorigile]

Wow, great! Can you play a synth through guitar pedals right away or you need some precaution because of the line level signal?

[@Motone]

All fx pedals I used are directly connected (or at least fed with line level).

[@RosalvoParadella]

Que som insano !! Muito bom !!

[@mickproper1969]

big up! 👍

[@jonnyj46]

this is the "shiz" as my kids used to say :-) Good jam.

[@WillFehlhaberMusicOfficial]

as much as people complain about the rhythm wolf, i actually like it :/

[@benjaminheyndrickx]

Impressive work, thanks man! Question : could we sync a MB to a RW (or tomcat) just with the two of them? Or a midi clock is mandatory? Thanks for your help

[@Motone]

Yes, you simply need a MIDI cable. Rhythm Wolf and Tom Cat both can transmit MIDI clock and Micro/MiniBrute can be synced to it.

[@benjaminheyndrickx]

Hey Mo. Thanks a lot for your help, I've managed to sync them and it's on now :) I had a few syncing problems at the beginning as the MB was playing the disco toms of the Tom Cat, quite weird, but I've finally changed the channels selection with the MB software and it now works perfectly. Thanks again!

[@septemberSE7EN]

Wolf sounds great through the effects. Just goes to show its not what you got but how ( with skill ) you use it ........ oh and don't listen to a word of what bashers or fan boys have got to say ;)

[@dustinatoms]

i want to buy some stands like your using to hold your gear. what do i search for?

[@Motone]

+SINISTER survival I have these: www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_laptopstand_dock_white.htm

[@Tooufbrush]

how did you connect the microbrute and the wolf? and do you sequence via the brute or the wolf?

[@Motone]

The Rhythm Wolf syncs the Microbrute via MIDI. Everything else is done using the internal sequencers of each device.