Ahead Of Its Time: Publison DHM89B2 (1978)

[@Hainbach]

Soundpack from this video and music: patreon.com/hainbach Check out the new Monolake album, it’s fantastic: roberthenke.bandcamp.com/album/studio

[@mustakatu]

Seeing Robert Henke, Hainbach, and David Hilowitz in one video playing with Göttsching's gear feels like a Christmas special of a fav show or something. And a plot twist of PitchLoop89 being inspired by Publison adds even more festive melodrama to the whole thing, ahaha

[@mrotaveria]

It's always wonderful to appreciate the personality that these instruments have, mostly caused by their technical limitations. This is something we've lost in this era of infinite possibilities.

[@AlexBallMusic]

What a curious creation! Sounds incredible with the looping piano samples.

[@Hainbach]

Thanks Alex!

[@blaisebaileyfinnegan]

Ludicrously amazing piece of kit for 1978!

[@jason.martin]

The guy that is the last one left that knows how to repairs these needs to share his skills with the next generation- he could do a youtube series

[@suitandtieguy]

It needs to be cloned too.

[@oupahens9219]

Call Doctor Bueche.

[@ProjetHomeStudio]

Man, Hainbach & Monolake. I'm impressed. Thanks for everything you're doing !

[@Hainbach]

Yeah this was a perfect day! Thank you!

[@ProjetHomeStudio]

@@Hainbach I can imagine that ! :)

[@bricelory9534]

What an amazing piece of kit! That's really impressive for 1978 - and it's remarkable to me that sounds that seem so modern could have been created nearly 50 years ago.

[@kiviakinstruments9665]

Impossible to make a video about Publison without Robert Henke, nice !! I was not aware that this keyboard was designed to be used with !

[@CtDawG77]

Ask Rob why Ableton is a nightmare to use. It makes me never want to use a computer to make/record music

[@hollywood4834]

Just use a different DAW, there’s plenty of options out there.

[@Barefoot_Joe]

​@@CtDawG77no one is forcing you and there's plenty of different options, two of the best ones are entirely free

[@Sagaoas]

Hainbach + Henke? Be still, my beating heart 😍 It's remarkable just how much this thing sounds like Monolake, especially the ambient tracks.

[@memorycurse1342]

1978?! Im floored that this existed and sounds so good

[@AynenMakino]

Holy crap, it's a Morphagene from the 70s!

[@TheMachinesWon]

Man, your videos are so special, a real homage to electric music every time. Thank you!

[@ringsystemmusic]

Ah, this was sublime! What a unique device- and using an analog oscillator for the clock was the kind of unique workaround that simply isn’t done these days. Love love love the phonic textures with this.

[@benhlogs]

This video made me go back and listen to a bunch of Gottsching’s work. Wonderful stuff.

[@d.b.cooper5775]

Sounds absolutely phenomenal.

[@wilbo26]

This is insane for when it was made. Talk about ahead of its time.

[@Gazdatronik]

Publison made the most batshit cool digital gear I have ever seen. Never seen anything like them before, or since.

[@djshire1984]

An amazing synth that I had never heard of til this vid.

[@JoeMade.mp3]

Imagine hearing this in 78. Must’ve felt like alien tech

[@peterwhitehouse]

Your video exploration of vintage instruments is always so rich and interesting, I love that your music sensibilities shine through a full spectrum of genres

[@emperorbingo]

I love the joy you two are having with this

[@BerndScheurer]

phantastic instrument! thanks for this video.

[@DRP6812]

Wish this could be made into a virtual instrument!! I LOVE IT❤❤❤

[@GizzyDillespee]

Everything old is new again! What a fabulous instrument, and I had no idea it existed.

[@VladoT]

This is unbeliveable for 1978

[@Человек-ш4ч9ц]

Каждый раз при просмотре твоих видео хочется бросить все насущные, ничего не стоящие делишки и заняться тем, что на самом деле по душе, но реальность заставляет отвлекаться на пустое...😢

[@thruzero]

The interface of this instrument reminds me of PrimalTap, one of my favorite delays. I love the effect you get from alternating between different sample rates as the octave changes.

[@Hainbach]

I always wanted to play with one, looks so fun!

[@Reijerszen]

This is incredible!!! I would love to see more of the history of granular synthesis!

[@kgbinfo]

These sounds are unlike anything I have ever heard. What a cool machine! Thanks for showing it off for us!

[@nsjx]

STELLAR Wicked vid 🤘🤘🤘 Thanks to all. Love the Ableton device Henke made. It really is meant to be played,..I learned that as soon as I tried it with Push the first time. But it can also make fantastic frozen scapes that become drones. A multi-tool for sure.

[@nichttuntun3364]

Fascinating. It has a mellotron quality to it. ❤

[@curtishoffmann6956]

1:00 - Summons Cthulhu. Cthulhu sticks around to provide background vocals.

[@jason.martin]

classic 70's sci fi soundtrack instrument, wow this is amazing to see

[@techlab7]

very cool kit, awesome sounds coming from it

[@NicStage]

This is pretty inspirational instrument. Not just from the audio creation side, but from the engineering side. It's funny because I use PitchLoop89 all the time and was thinking it's similar as I watched this. Never knew the connection.

[@thestinkyweasel6297]

Hi Analog!!!

[@NicStage]

@@thestinkyweasel6297 Hey!

[@tectonia2605]

Great stuff and wonderful to learn something new today! 👍🏻

[@kikkirow]

I could listen to you play piano for hours. When you put the mic to the piano strings, it immediately reminded me of an Aphex Twin track.

[@fernandoboin3265]

Great video! I’ve been interested in electronic music and synthesizers since the late seventies and I simply wasn’t aware of this, big surprise 😱😀. Thank you!

[@bassboomboing]

Wow what a unique synthesiser, a great review, thank you.

[@MirlitronOne]

Wow, never heard of this amazing device before. Thanks!

[@Synthetrix]

Wow! An incredible piece of gear that I never heard of.

[@veloopity]

Want ! Never heard of this. Amazing! This would be totally worth of writing a VST or iOS version of it

[@domeniquexander_]

It’s called pitchloop 89 inside ableton made by Robert Henke.

[@veloopity]

@@domeniquexander_ will check it out, thanks!!

[@Shaderdiceblock]

I love the world of synthesizers that are rare and mostly unknown it’s amazing

[@jackoshi8227]

Used one in 1994. Was amazed by the sound and the live modification possibilities. I always hopped to have one one day...

[@rccc5806]

Mad lads at it again.

[@brendanmohareful]

Ty for your work

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

The sampling quality on this is incredible. So clean for such an old unit. I only think it's been well maintained over the years. Would absolutely make for a great virtual instrument.

[@mudi2000a]

It is very well engineered. And of course it was extremely expensive. That’s what many people forget today. On few select people could use it.

[@b0d0p33t3rs]

Wonderful that one of the Great Granular Greats™was on board, Mr Henke himself. No one mentioned the very Buchla styling, well at least the font? Such a marvel of technology ❤

[@brianwilson49]

that is next level technology for 1978!

[@weave_of_k]

My goodness that sounds incredibly nice! ✌️

[@livid_snail]

The "instantaneous display of memory reading position" at 2:45 is actually brilliant. a decade ago I build a pedal that sort of did that. not nearly as incredible as this is though!

[@WrathOfWood]

blows my mind they had crazy stuff like this in 78

[@CuriousMarc]

Wow. This is incredibly advanced for 1978. You'd think it's a bit of digital sound wizardry from the 1990s!

[@Hainbach]

Yeah it’s peak tech for the time, and all by a small company

[@wutzerface77]

6:33 wow, this thing is freaking AMAZING

[@ottobeaf]

wow a video with the master Robert Henke Himself!

[@digitalsouthofficial]

thanks for the video and thanks monolake for the maxdevice! very cool

[@tihinter]

next up in the pipeline should be Klaus Fischers Barth AUDIOS unit! As far as he told me, he is actually working on a rerelease of this classic machine! Make sure to do an interview with him, great guy!!

[@Hainbach]

Oh I had totally forgotten about this!

[@kevinmichael8619]

That chittering sound at around 3:20 is amazing

[@Hainbach]

I got goosebumps a bunch of times when playing with the DHM89

[@martinnonstatic7435]

wow!!! together with robert the granular doctor!!!

[@gunnison1031]

thank you for sharing !!! i personally use granular synthesis all the time and it’s cool to see where it came from

[@Dancing_Data]

Ahead of its time? I would almost consider it an musical “oopart” 😅 I was (positively) baffled by this unique device, impressive. Thanks to both of you for showing it to us!

[@tripleraven]

berhinger make one of these i need it.

[@richardsomerville5725]

Have used the rack mount unit back at AES as a student but primarily for the pitched delays.We had no keyboard with the unit.The beginnings of the Akai S612.

[@DrivenCrane1]

Magic

[@slipknotboy555]

This is so cool! At first, just seeing the title and thumbnail, I was a *little* skeptical. A granular instrument from '78? Really?? But yeah, apparently! Super impressive indeed.

[@aurora3655]

That’s so cool. I wish I had one!

[@Hainbach]

Oh you and me both

[@aurora3655]

@@Hainbach that effects machine, is like the alpha and the omega. It’s truly amazing. Especially for film scores! Too, it’s fifty years old, wow!

[@senilyDeluxe]

I'm pretty damn good at fixing standard TTL IC circuits. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm able to fix those as well.

[@bertrandszoghy364]

Amazing.

[@DesertCow1000]

So it's like a hardware version of Serum? Cool! 😎🤘

[@chrisd5964]

Fascinating. Now, how about we add all these features to Fluss, ah well can only wish. Thanks for the video.

[@votekmendo6485]

Got this exact same combo here and it is nothing short of amazing!!! got so lucky to found it a few years ago directly from Publision, it was a demo floor unit that they had left. I dont imagine the price of of a combo like that today. I'm planning on having a CV panel that would control all of it's feature instead of the keyboard and control it with my modular. Thx for sharing, not a lot videos on the KB2000. I wonder how many there is in circulation.

[@Hainbach]

Wow, you got lucky!

[@kurtwestphal2513]

Too Cool!

[@brentsmith9411]

A detailed emulation of this would be another great Audiothing collaboration...

[@cablevamp3163]

This is insane Hainbach at 5:26 lmao

[@reggiep75]

This is the synth to make the music to your nightmares.

[@farbton2341]

Wundervoll!

[@blx9321]

thats incredible. I wonder if anyone was using it in this way back in the day?

[@rudetee]

My 1978 brain would have exploded if I knew about that device.

[@svggod7583]

It would be interesting to see this on iOS one day

[@Hainbach]

Yeah I agree

[@Projacked1]

Ooooowkay!....make a plugin of this dude!!!!!

[@mooseyard]

I never knew there were samplers before the Fairlight (or Emulator? I forget which came first.) But I suppose once semiconductor RAM became cheap enough, it was sampler-building time and people would come up with them independently. Still, I’m impressed at the level of granular control in this. Was this before Curtis Rhodes wrote about Microsound?

[@Hainbach]

Curtis Roads starting publishing on Granular at about the same time

[@brucebennett5338]

tres cool !

[@Hainbach]

Merci!

[@musiqtee]

This kinda explains why some are now totally into the AKAI S-612 sampler…? Sure, it was way simpler than this groundbreaking tech. Still, it had (has) no menus, serious limitations, knobs for instant capture and overdub sampling, simple envelope and ditto filter, and two sliders for sample start-stop-reverse. And mono Input level, how could I forget… There. That’s a pretty complete manual for the 612 - and endless creative fun in late 1985. Come the S-900, and we had to start working seriously again…😅

[@Hainbach]

I love the 612 - mine is kitted out with gotek, midi control and filter defeat, sounds so good

[@jussikuusela7345]

Was it perhaps Publison, or a cheaper device, that was used in the Giddy-Up-Go-Go song by Ad Visser (Netherlands), and covered in their Affair-A-Go-Go song by The Cruisin' Gang (Italy), to produce the looping, and bending vocal part in the middle?

[@tomahzo]

I love this so much! The first thing I thought was "is there any software emulation?" and as it turns out I've known about PitchLoop89 for some time but I've been too busy to play with it. Gotta revisit it now :D. I can totally see how using an analog oscillator as part of the control loop for this thing would be interesting! ALSO: Some early digital delays had this sample feature too, albeit in a very primitive form. Check out Boss DE-200 for example. You can sample the delay buffer and then trigger it via CV. Dunno if you can control pitch via CV too, though - that would be killer!

[@AndyKing1963]

Used by Tangerine Dream on Force Majeure

[@Hainbach]

Hey Andy!

[@eandresc]

Isnt this eerily similar to Chase Bliss Mood pedal? The microlooper and its main clock specially? Insane, everything repeats, and repeats and repeats

[@tubelectron1667]

PUBLISON... Who remember this French synthesizer now ? They had another one called "The Infernal Machine 90", IIRC

[@kierenmoore3236]

Hainbach has all the best toys … ☺️ Was that the AMS-3 alone that you were using for ‘drums’/percussion up until 0:32, and then again from 9:42 … ?

[@Hainbach]

That was the Eko Computerhythm too

[@mudhoney110283]

"digital glitch campfire" would be a perfect band or album name!

[@synthnerd4539]

@3m20s "digital glitch campfire" is the next album title, then?

[@Hainbach]

Has to be a track name at least

[@JoeMade.mp3]

Can anyone tell me what’s being played at 0:10? The blue and orange synth I mean

[@justawatchin2]

6:24 god, i miss that stretching aliasing effect. used to run a looper script that did that.

[@yotrakzproductions7324]

😂Sheeeeeesh. So dope 7:10-7:38🤯

[@TestTubeBabySpy]

Wow, now that is advanced for '79. Can a sample be reversed and recorded simultaneously with delay, then played backward again for a "reverse echo" effect?

[@MonkeyMarc]

My Infernal Machine says hi 👋

[@synthmaven]

Sounds as if this might have been used on For your Pleasure by Roxy Music, but of course I have no idea. I just listened to that album a lot.

[@Kkidzz]

I might be wrong but I think Sonic Charge’s Permute8 VST is loosely based on the Publison…. ??? Seems to do similar things. Great plugin… super fun.

[@Hainbach]

One of my favs!

[@Kkidzz]

@@Hainbach Sehr Spass und geil!! 😬 😈

[@morganfisherart]

0:10 - what is that amazing green keyboard with many orange knobs?!?

[@Hainbach]

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