Fugue Machine jam with Deckard's Dream, OB-6, Novation Peak, Dreadbox Abyss, Polymoon, Big Sky

A live, semi-improvised performance, all on hardware, and inspired by the maudlin moods of the holidays. This is something of a sequel to the last video, in that I'm using exactly the same hardware synths and have only swapped out the sequencer. My point: by simply changing how you sequence your music, you can radically change the kind of music you make. Fugue Machine's limitations (a single line of note data played in different ways by four different "tape heads") are really inspiring, and the constraints end up a major benefit to creativity.
Alexandernaut's Fugue Machine (via iOS) - Sequencing
Sequential/Oberheim OB-6 - Bass string thing
Novation Peak - Arp thing
Black Corporation Deckard's Dream + Meris Polymoon - High melody pad thing
Dreadbox Abyss + Strymon Big Sky - Fast arp
Written and performed within a 24-hour period, and uploaded as is, with only a little compression/limiting on the master.
jayhosking.bandcamp.com/

[@aptudo]

enchanting! Unrelated to the music, I loved that subtle touch of changing the word "limiting" to "inspiring". I wasn't looking at the words when you switched it, but when the sentence left the screen, I said, wait, did he say "limiting" or "inspiring?" I must have caught a subconscious glimpse. I had to rewind and check. :-)

[@Robert44444444]

This is really fantastic sounding… a standout effort/piece in an ocean of similar material I encounter from time to time that has't impressed me quite like this. I'm soon to be 58 and was passionate about working/writing/creating with synths using MIDI and hardware sequencers in the 80s (and a bit of the 90s). I still play mainly piano sounds/parts accompanying my own vocal, playing & singing songs from "my era". I own a ton of vintage and modern gear and enjoy it here & there (I have the OB-6 & Peak too for instance). I look at and listen to your vids and I wonder is that the kind of thing I'd be doing if I was 20 now. Probably. Anyway, really nice work… keep it up :-)

[@SpaceDisco1]

Honestly Jay, I think you‘ve become my favourite youtube channel. I just absolutely dig your sound aesthethic. It just completely clicks with me.

[@StephenMcLeod]

One hell of a setup!

[@kirkleblanc5899]

Fugue machine looks awesome, gonna get it!

[@BluffMunkey]

This is a masterclass in textural layering. Love it.

[@stevebragg7914]

You've brought me out to the edge of the Solar System. I need another jam to bring me back to Earth. Please Jay I'm stuck out here! Happy holidays :-)

[@JayHosking]

I'm looking forward to more earthly (and percussive) music soon!

[@stevebragg7914]

@@JayHosking For now your "High Energy Jam" will definitely to the trick!

[@omninuss6847]

Not only was this a perfect demo, but this song triggered some genuine emotion in me. Theres something kind of wistful about it... Beautiful work! :)

[@JayaLove]

Fabulous! I love your work. I’ve seen some of your super inspiring dawless jams. Well I just surrendered and got an iPad, breaking my “dawless” rule. Have been learning about fugue machine and good old YT algorithm brings me here. Masterful use of it and these great synths and effects.

[@gaspardguilbert728]

Wow. Each time I see a new jam from you is necessarily giving me strong good and beautiful vibes.... And I really appreciate the simplicity of your comments... thanks again. Greetings from the French lockdown day 23 !

[@danielpirone8028]

Fantastic!

[@lifesynthtance]

Man oh man this sounds totally gorgeous ! Serious goosebump material !

[@TheCuri]

ou man this was a really great piece of art that you brought into my mind. spacy, dreamy, medlodicly and the last words you had in conjunction with the music at that point....dude I think I just got something in my eye :) have a nice holiday too

[@dreamdealer]

this is so cool man, little app, huge results.

[@InkyDaCaT]

Awesome work yet again Jay!

[@tendingtropic7778]

Great stuff, as always.

[@janbrzezinski6558]

This is amazing man, well done 👊🏻

[@benread]

Great work - loved it.

[@vondoom2876]

Absolutely incredible

[@hakanl135]

Beautiful....Happy Holidays :)

[@rhampton1914]

absolutely incredible..thanks for sharing

[@sebastiannahrwold8588]

Thanks a lot! Inspiring

[@TheTemplarKnight]

That is a mighty fine piece of music Jay.

[@BenWellby]

Excellent work Jay! Really beautiful composition.

[@PhilanderingBastard]

Very atmospheric. Extremely well done.

[@RichardDenRooyen1973]

this bring tears... in the good way!! beautiful!!

[@Nilesong1]

So good. Thank you!

[@jangoalchemist]

Fine words and great tunes

[@Krog360]

Very inspiring and some nice sentiment at the end 👍

[@MarcWeertsMusic]

Very nice! Really love the arpeggio sound...

[@DenisGolovan]

Really enjoyed this (as always), thanks for the holiday message - same to you and yours!

[@JohnWells2014]

Man, thank you for the time and energy you've been pouring into this channel. Your music blesses me with only that which can soothe the savage soul. They have been a welcome aesthetic pick-me-up.

[@attorks]

Great performance.

[@howardanderson3061]

Wow giant sounds going on, thanks for another great one! You create such beautiful music , it's a gift.Thanks for sharing

[@greatlakestrader]

Very cool ways you integrate different synths. Takes a mature ear to harmoniously blend the different technologies. Beautiful works!

[@adroc9101]

Really interesting stuff. 👍🏽

[@markofthenorth9512]

Wonderful!

[@Digiphex]

Nice composition.

[@hissquiet]

Definitely got some Twin Peaks vibes at the transpose! So good!

[@chrislandon4629]

Very nice! The Fugue Machine is such an awesome sequencer. I bought it a while ago and messed around with it a bit, but I still need to make something with it. It takes skill to get all the synths layered properly and sounding good together like this.

[@fewminuteswondering275]

Very nice, thank you!

[@thomaseskelsen1362]

Wow. A buddy sent me here. I'm impressed. Awesome!

[@jimidemetriou6428]

Thanks for this

[@meandminespro7]

dope....really good stuff

[@coltranius]

Very, very nice. I am really drawn to this style. Hoping I can learn to make these live jams on my rig - pretty new to it.

[@92keys524]

Glorious

[@koendecroo]

thanks for these videos! really inspiring and hoping to see a lot more like these in the future! Happy Holidays! (@Curi I got that same thing in my eye there)

[@jmmesaaudio]

Nice setup!

[@TheRahsoft]

saw this on reddit quite beautiful

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Thank you, and wow! I believe this exact setup, maybe throw the octatrack in for seq., is the quintessential "Jay Hosking Sound" I wish you a fine Christmas and a hyper newyear ✨👌

[@cooperpitts3862]

awesome!

[@joesayle2213]

Wow that's really cool all being run by the ipad !

[@tede1092]

Thx Dito.. Love ur Account and so on

[@powermix24]

WOW, friend, this is beautiful I bought an IPAD just for Fugue Machine, it's unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can control VSTI's or Hardware synth in your DAW wirelessly within your network using rtpMIDI and that my friends is KILLER!

[@Renzsu]

Hey thanks for reminding me midi over wifi exists :) Was close to getting one of those irig thingies, but will give this a shot first.

[@powermix24]

@@Renzsu yes i control all my synths through Ableton using wireless midi and Fugue machine. If you get AUM on iPad you can do 4 separate instances of Fugue machine, output them to 1-16 midis channels and have a unique sequence!

[@powermix24]

Yes, i had 4 instances of Fugue running separate hardware synths and that's incredible!

[@kevinbatchelor9566]

Damn, you're good.

[@mikkelgrumbovin5533]

The Abyss has Taken the Dream of Decard,forever Etch’a Schetched the tumblings, swirlings.rollercoaster horseride galloping through the snow of a forgotten time -and also elves ! Im coming home.

[@kaboozle]

I disagree with your final statements: your jams are neither ridiculous nor an indulgence. They are awesome and inspirational! Happy holidays! On another note: will you add your albums to Apple Music? It is my preferred way of listening and your tracks are certainly worthwhile.

[@JayHosking]

Almost certainly I'll add them to Apple Music one day! For now, you can definitely pick them up at Bandcamp. And thanks so much for the kind words!

[@RadekPilich]

I recommend you to try to do similar thing with the SL. Map two parts to each of the four instruments and and play with patterns, sync rates, directions etc. A lot of fun :)

[@chandraiyer1710]

Wow

[@midnightpreacher2321]

I need an Ob-6 in my life

[@surferdargile]

Mr Jay I really love your sound !!! Incredible !! I must say that listening to your music and see your videos did push me a lot on trying to make my music and publish my own videos on #surferdargile channel. Thanks again for your music

[@angelventura1423]

Love your videos, you use electronics in a musical and inspirational way. I'd like to know what mixer or interface you use to play your hardware instruments at the same time

[@JayHosking]

I use a mixer / audio interface combo, the Allen & Heath Qu-16. It's great. And thanks so much!

[@z0OZ00OOO]

Thank you for this wonderful and inspiring video. Mind blown! How would you compare Fugue machine to the NDLR? Thanks again!

[@JayHosking]

The NDLR really rewards on-the-fly chord changes, so I like it for very improv/ambient stuff. Fugue machine creates these cyclical off-kilter compositions that can work surprisingly well with drums (there's one I did with the Vermona Perfourmer and Analog Rytm, if you'd like to check it out). Neither is better than the other, but they definitely lead to different end products (which can be inspiring). Thanks!

[@tom-541]

Jay, re: iOS apps - are you familiar with Drambo? It's an electron style sequencer with the octatrack style scene select, plus a modular synth, AUv3 host, and sampler. It can also be an AUv3 plugin itself. So I imagine you can have Fugue Machine sending midi in to a sequence and have parameter locks and conditionals on the notes fugue is sending in. It does all sorts of stuff. I can recommend you have a play with it.

[@JayHosking]

Heard of Drambo a couple of times but never tried it. I’ll look into it.

[@arp_eg2158]

Im a big proponent of the fugue machine and have done similar experiments with hardware. How are you handling the midi. I see the irig but are you using a midi merge as well?

[@JayHosking]

MIDI out of the iRig is going to the Kenton MIDI Thru, yeah.

[@taratantara]

Jay Hosking so you have your master mix going to the iPad in AUM (or similar?) via the iRig? where in the chain is the Kenton box connected assuming the midi out is from the iPad as well and you only have one lightning port? lightning to usb splitter?

[@JayHosking]

@@taratantara No, all audio is going in through a mixer/audio interface into a computer. The iPad is simply handling MIDI sequencing (iPad --> iRig --> Kenton MIDI Thru).

[@taratantara]

Jay Hosking thank you for the quick reply, appreciate!

[@shawnsaul7759]

Jay Hosking Very inspiring Jay!! Could you briefly explain how you are using the iPad to sequence all these synths? How is everything synced and connected?

[@rawpiano]

OMG

[@chriskelvin248]

Just before around 3:00, I was thinking about Dr. Who Christmas Special.

[@TheGreatPanicker]

How to dohave the audio of the devices going into the ipad and then controlled by fugue? Thanks.

[@makiszeg5745]

killer Ring!!and expensive..

[@Subtronik]

I wish Alexander would add the ability to import wavs into Fugue Machine, but he told me in an email it’s probably never going to happen 😕

[@mastermachetier5594]

Quick question ? How did you hook up all the midi to the iPad for it to control the synths ?

[@JayHosking]

iPad to iRig Duo Pro, then to a MIDI Thru box, then out to each box.

[@cellardoreproductions]

I want to do this with my hardware, but how are you sending the midi to each synth? I've yet to fully explore myself outside of using it inside the ipad.

[@JayHosking]

MIDI goes out of iPad to iRig Pro Duo, then out of there to a MIDI thru box (the Kenton MIDI Thru), then out to each device. Best of luck!

[@cellardoreproductions]

@@JayHosking thank you. I was hoping I could do it via usb and logic, but that doesn't seem the case.

[@Johnnyhaag79]

how do you connect your iPad to all these sweet synths????

[@JayHosking]

The iRig Pro Duo!

[@Jegkedermigmega]

Lovely as always. I recently began looking into the Abyss (no pun intended) and to my horror saw its out of production. Yiaks. What's your thoughts on it vs the Erebus? Did you part with that one as of yet? Stumbled upon this video from another gifted guy, and its purely Abyss - I think you might like it :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6CVk3lqn7B5mas ... and merry Christmas. May the holidays infuse you with a bunch of good food, cheers and inspiration.

[@JayHosking]

Thanks so much for the holiday cheer! And yeah, out of production, and yeah, I love the sounds in this skrapadelix vid (stumbled across it a while back). The Erebus is cool, I like its variable filter, and the newest iteration is paraphonic. But I found myself spending more time than I'd like tuning it (compare to the Abyss, which you can set to auto-tune itself, and also doesn't go out of tune as much), and there's something about the Abyss that the Erebus v3 didn't quite capture in terms of its oscillators. So yeah, I parted with the Erebus ultimately. If they ever make a stereo Nyx, I might try that. And the Hades, that thing is a beautiful (and admittedly simple) synth, and also out of production. All the best!

[@AppleKid]

Its all good for the ambience and technology. But I like samples and Breakdancing. Just me.

[@alsxdb4735]

Great! But no drum no party!

[@JayHosking]

Hah, true! Drums on other tracks coming soon. I like to alternate between arrangements of music.

[@modgrip805]

Hi Jay. It is literally fucking impossible to set up Logic via midi control centre to receive midi from my iphone. How did you do it!?!?

[@alaskaonpause]

This is wonderful. How do you get midi from the Ipad into a hardware synth, do you need some sort of interface? I'd love to know as I'd like to get Fugue machine driving my nords and korgs.

[@JayHosking]

I used the iRig Pro Duo plus a MIDI Thru box. And thanks!

[@GStev-qf1zl]

juzEvenCorlMoo6?!..0..th0

[@rainbowdash1203]

Mozart is crying

[@codforlife]

You coulda made it 11 mins :)