IMPULSE COMMAND Analogue Solutions synth - SonicLAB Review

[@stevetaormina573]

A great synth-it takes a bit to figure out the flow but when you do, it is a unique monstrous stereoized analog beast like nothing else out there. Mind blowing !!

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Looks like it functions alot like a Minimoog but with built in step sequencer.

[@dawlessstrolling5306]

What a beautiful sound it has! A treat for my ears...matter of personal taste as always...but yeah!

[@laynekeagan1605]

i know I'm pretty off topic but do anybody know a good place to watch new series online ?

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@laynekeagan1605 Spamming for a long time with your multiple sock puppet accounts.

[@MARS_118]

Lighted knobs are awesome - Would be pretty useful on my Mixer.

[@marcbrasse747]

Makes me think EMS VCS3, AKS, Synthi 100 in a good way, So not main stream but for those who like to experiment an / or love bleak Radiophonic stuff. Very nice!

[@shaft9000]

@7:20 _"Well if you're gonna dance with the Black Knight, you've got to accept risking a flesh-wound or two..."_

[@thesynthblog3743]

Thanks guys, i love hearing how much fun you're having on it.

[@badinibeats5939]

i love that theres a knob he didnt explain thats actually so genius its like a mystery flavoured oreo

[@Pulse2AM]

My cat is looking at each speaker separately and tilting her head. Who needs a manual, just turn knobs. Almost sounds like a Pro One on steroids to me.

[@kentkacs3140]

Nick, at 17:25 you say something that you've said many times before -- that triangle LFO's are more "musical." I wish you would explain this. In the acoustic world, things like vibrato are much closer to sinusoidal... when a violinist wiggles a finger, for example, that's a sinus motion, not triangular. Triangle waves can only be made by machines. To me, using triangles for vibrato and tremolo sound artificial. So I'd be curious to know why you think sines are 'unmusical.'

[@datenight9342]

isnt it an equally arbitrary assumption to base musicality on a violinist's finger?

[@kentkacs3140]

That was only a quick convenient example. Give an alternate. Triangle waves are not analogous to how masses normally move.

[@datenight9342]

@@kentkacs3140 well again you're unnecessarily tying musicality to physical phenomenon, which is fine, but its only one subjective opinion on an art form. A preference for triangle waves is another one, isn't it as simple as that?

[@7177YT]

I actually share Nick's sentiment. The thing with sines is that their rate of change changes, they are vary slower at the peaks and troughs and quicker in between which sometimes (!) interferes with the perception of tempo or rhythm of the rest of the piece, even if the frequency is locked to tempo. whereas triangles have a constant rate if change between the extreme points. It's therefore in a sense more evenly and predictably move whatever parameter they modulate. But hey if you don't feel it listening to sine and triangle modulation side by side.. that's fine too I guess.

[@fluxusmusic1642]

I would guess that the musicality is more to do with the oscillator's response to the modulation wave, rather than the wave itself - and would depend on which synth you are using. On some synths, to my ear, the sine sounds too 'pulsed' and less steadily changing.

[@PNovak87]

I would take this on the road... and never come back 🌝 🍄 🌞

[@buschovski1]

just wondering if u may have gotten one and took off and never came back.

[@athopi]

Would liked to have heard Gaz's presentation as he seemed to have come prepared... Maybe he can do that on his channel.

[@Jkeane1337]

This thing is pretty badass, wish it were a tad cheaper.

[@popcycles]

Wait! There's no adsr???

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

I can see and hear the Moog influences on this.

[@nezmirage9565]

Mixing this thing with the Pulsar 23 would be a crazy quirkfest!

[@jacco1967]

....I’m on it already.🙂

[@reason2910]

@@jacco1967 when's the pulsar 23 coming out? You get on the early pre order?

[@jacco1967]

BLVCKPOND I just ordered my second Lyra 8 and asked about the Pulsar 23. Production has started, so it won’t take long before the first are delivered. Pre-orders first ofcourse.😇

[@reason2910]

Yet to own the lyra8 but my shop has 1 on ice for me. I got on the pulsar list asap like the jomox thinky was in the first 500 batch. I was the only kid in the states that had it but sometime the earlier model have bug until the new firmware. Mine was just a sd card issue. Cheers to the coolest drum machine/synth ever.

[@markrowe8477]

You may want to fix that typo in the title. Or not, if you're feeling azy. Edit: And they did. Well OK.

[@icostarema]

Mark Rowe you might want to change the typo in your comment. Or not if you're lazy.

[@Enucentro]

Daniel Fitzgerald you might want to check out something called sarcasm.

[@fortheloveofnoise]

@@Enucentro Sarcasm is overrated.

[@overburdenunit7722]

why not show it with a drum machine at the end? it has a sequencizer

[@oscargarciavillegas7757]

Nick: "Please, Gaz, get away from my toy"

[@Johnsys359]

I always enjoy watching Gaz and Nick together on a product review

[@0bari]

Is possible to make kick variances with this thing?

[@CommunityGuidelines]

That thing is cool... definitely the type of synth that takes you down the rabbit hole for hours on end. Very wide sonic palette!

[@jrodohio]

So confusing, but it sounds so good.

[@zandergrinfeld6628]

sounds really nice... found the dynamic here pretty funny. Nick's pretty rude to Gaz. I don't think he let him finish 2 sentences. "here let me show you..." "no (slaps hand away) let me do something unrelated..."

[@MrStupidHead]

i was thinking the same thing. Gaz seems pretty unperturbed by it all though. If it were me though, hmmm. Especially since it seems like its Gaz's turn to be the lead.

[@edwardprue]

Before there was a Pulsar-23 or a Lyra-8, Tom was there...😄

[@Chevytravelleruk]

The best "Happy Accident" machine on the market by far..

[@Bombtrack411]

stereo filters: so hot right now

[@KiR_3d]

seems it's becoming a trend. But the filters of this one sounds really great!

[@Ragnarok540]

Mugatu, is that you?

[@ishkaiam6532]

nick says: please gaz stop

[@FursAndMasksMusic]

Two scientists trying to reverse engineer a piece of alien technology. Love it!!

[@platinumedgemusic9293]

....too many kids in one sandbox.

[@astrazenica7783]

That thing is bad ass

[@scientificshiv]

It's been ages and we're nearing the end of 2019.... Please start putting timestamps in your video descriptions!!!

[@7177YT]

Watching you two putting the thing through its paces made me think you should tape a session together und upload it here at some point. do it soon. (;

[@kgbinfo]

nick: "move aside Gaz, daddy needs to modulate the pulse - width now.

[@lolKbgTgm6621what]

Why bother talking if you're not going to let each other complete a single thought? Still don't know what Gaz was trying to say about the last two effects at 8:32. Congratulations on making a 26 minute video that somehow leaves me feeling like I know even less about the synth than I did before the video, I guess. Maybe this would have been great for the Friday Fun crew, but to people who look to your reviews as a way of getting a good overview of a synth's featureset, this is no better than watching some guy mess around with a music store demo model. And please, commenters, stop it with the sad "it's a complicated synth" excuse. Sonic State had no problem breaking down the Polyend Medusa and the Roland JD-XA.

[@MathHammer]

You guys are pretty good at sharing the toy :D I think you had lots of fun with this synth.

[@elliotdavidson7137]

these dual reviews are hilarious, still ultra informative but Nick and Gaz combo is funny for some reason. P.s. like the hoover sound 4:12 :D

[@BrunoWiebelt]

love this, my favorit synth dudes messing around ...nice synth

[@alfredgkj2495]

you guys make great techno begining from 21:00, cool!

[@Handheldsounds]

2 questions - Is it possible to run the sequencer synced to MIDI clock? Is it possible to transpose a sequence from a keyboard after it's been recorded as a MIDI loop into the internal sequencer?

[@VCOUSA]

Hello. Yes you can run the sequencer synced to MIDI clock. You can transpose the sequence via the global tune knob, but not transpose it in the traditional sense. I hope this helps :)

[@dionysiaex5538]

I wish Nick would let Gaz do the review and just ask good questions. He wouldn't dream of butting in as much as he does here if it were Cenk with something Elektron, for example.

[@MarkoDeLaVoota]

like kids on the Christmas day 😂👍🏻

[@kablehead]

That's the advantage of being a grown-up. You can have x-mas in july. :)

[@Deeplycloseted435]

Honestly, this looks really fun. I’m always looking for something with a different kind of workflow than standard subtractive synthesis. Seems like this can do bread & butter, or get really weird, which is nice. Ana Sol. makes undeniably analog sounding gear....along with Dreadbox, just no doubters in terms of analog or analog modeling. I never understood why more mono synths don’t implement stereo filters. It has long been my favorite feature on the Monoevolver keyboard.....although maybe it just has a stereo signal path, and not stereo filters....either way, while 90% of everything I record is in mono, sprinkling in some stereo patches at times works well. That reverb doesn’t suck. Not bad compared to a lot of thrown on digital reverbs.

[@KiR_3d]

A decent analog stereo-filter is a lot of R&D. You can't just "tell it" that the other filter's cutoff is "a-knob", get "a" and "knob" as pots and send all these to filters easily. Then you need a digital math block + DAC section to each filter. That kind of stuff. OR you're making a tricky analog routing via analog components. Maybe they simply use double-triple pole potentiometers... But not sure that this will give an easy way.

[@ogasi1798]

tbf it is a bit of a bargain, that is a lotta stuff for 850

[@aseomg]

Nick & Gas doing exactly what everyone does when they get a synth with its unique architecture, turning nobs and seeing what sounds come out of it. All these comments about how this video is not a proper review. To all complaining..buy this synth and do your own damn review!

[@PaulBoos]

That groove at about 2:43 was really neat before you increased the speed.... That is some weird electronic stuff going on after patching the sequercizer into both pitches. (R2D2, please meet the Star Trek TOS computer when it is "working...") That attenuation limitation you mentioned around 23:30 will def give me a use for my Mutable Shades. I also loved that interesting idea of using the gate to advance the sequencer... errr... sequercizer.

[@KNHSynths]

A demo that is not as well done as usual, it's a bit a mess... but it was fun to see both of you playing like two kids turning the knobs (me ! no me ! I want to try this one ! No lets try this other !... :-) ) The machine is sounding good but it's really hard to feel the real potentiality. Not a real demo, kind of unpacking and quick and dirty review. You'll need to prepare a real in depth demo of this machine ... for the next time ! :-)

[@sonicstate]

Yep fair comment - we didnt plan on looking at this, but had to substitute at the last minute.

[@leNotstrom]

Nice Look into that Synth. You both seened to actually enjoyed it very much. It was nice to watch both doing that journey.

[@kosmikmusa]

Turn on, tune in, drop out.

[@crolodon8024]

I’m dying watching you two fight over which features to show first, really shows how fun this thing would be to play on with two people. So fun, great demo. I want one!!! I wish you would have had a little more time with it though, seems like here must be some way to attenuate LFO depth...

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Gong, Ozric Tentacles , Peter Gabriel, King Crimson,Eddie Jobson, Patrick Moras -Genesis - - THATS the soundpalette im looking for in a synth ! - and i have a feeling , im not alone with these notions , here in "Sonicstate" ;-)

[@ishkaiam6532]

i think that nick needs to do reviews really it is annoying having to listen to gaz he should do, um, dunno but not reviews

[@atsukoC-m9k]

I think they create a good balance. Nick can be very negative about things he doesnt like, and gaz is quite the opposite and can be too kind in reviews imo. Together I think we get the best of both worlds and it's always a fun watch too

[@kablehead]

I liked this review. Not every video has to be planned out and thought through all the way imo. This demonstration clearly shows that this device needs some time to spend on it to explore its full potential. I personally like to randomly twist knobs on new gear to see if i can come up with cool sounds easily or if i have to think a lot while tweaking it. This seems a bit like a happy-accident-machine but not too easy to get mind blowing sounds out of it. Maybe i'm wrong though. :)

[@thedrumunkey]

This, plus a DFAM... Maybe a Lyra8... Hours of sonic voyages to nowhere you’d find anywhere else...

[@ednasdiscomachine6049]

Love the idea of this!

[@LimbicTV]

"I think if we just dive in and have a wee explore" .... in other words the guy doesn't really know what he's on about

[@DJPrato]

Why does this have to exist? Want it instantly. Stereo signal coming in to a Daw from a mono analog. Does it do audio over USB? Because sampling long runs is all I do with my Boog D and Neutron anyway.

[@sodiumlights]

Spoiler warning; synth-fingering hard corners.

[@g.l.4972]

hmm...ah....oh....hmm...yea...nnn.....mm

[@FunkTree]

If this and the medusa has kids I'd buy them

[@annother3350]

You're looking to buy kids?! Filthy

[@modularoculistsynodexperim3158]

Has a synthi vibe

[@Jonhilsea]

Been really looking forward to you guys reviewing this bad boy. Thanks.

[@neuroactive3301]

Nice review... Great sounding device! Sequencizer brings it into life.

[@Psychlist1972]

I ordered one of these earlier this week. No idea when it will arrive, but now I'm extra excited to get it. Thanks for the cool demo and explanation.

[@Zinfidel1]

Analogue Solutions should send one to Bon Harris! Sounds like he would dig it.

[@pokerdealer2003]

I would like to see gaz with nicks haircut and shaved face he would probably look about 30

[@BURG]

intriguing piece of kit this one, not 100% on board on the layout / design.. but it tickles the GAS a bit due to the very interesting work flow, specs and sonic capabilities. Thanks guys.

[@Jimmy_Sandwiches]

Thought I was watching Blake’s 7 with bloody ORAC in the background 18:40

[@blakecasimir]

Surely this is a good thing?

[@mikegeary8056]

This is hilarious.

[@fedesartorio]

Wow what a messy device! Looks fun but maybe for the price you could go the extra mile and buy something purposefully weird

[@rezfilter]

What you call messy, I call ingenious. And admittedly, the boys might have spent a few moments with IC prior to shooting vid - but it was fun nonetheless ;)

[@KosmoDeuz]

whts the price?

[@jacco1967]

Loved the review. My Impulse Command was already on its way. Cheers

[@thetanil3702]

These two together is definitely greater than the sum of the parts

[@mCKENIC]

Great video you two! Thanks for the demo - really looked like two mates interested to see what this thing can do. Very enjoyable! I know Im going to get slated for this but this thing *seems* to me to have a British quirkiness to it reminiscent of a certain Synthi - to me... VERY interesting (waaayy outa my price range tho!

[@wakeupFFS2012]

Like watching the opening scenes of 2001.

[@thechronicnoizeco.6675]

That’s a wide spread.

[@gnarlysoundscapes7210]

We need a Nick and Gaz fun friday video.

[@ChrisP3000x]

Sounds amazing!

[@nellsonogmore5938]

Tongwynlais!

[@BulldogFrancky]

18:15 bobbing heads says it all...

[@BulldogFrancky]

26:09 and thats why i bought it.

[@sirgashmbe_nwa5397]

People complaining about the review. Too knob touchy etc lol

[@Nonpartisanmusic]

Lots of knobs to play with. Fab.

[@BeholdJesse]

This thing sounds really interesting. Love how you guys reviewed it too, always enjoy this sort of stuff

[@GaitaPonto]

for 1000 USD they will need luck.

[@jr6786]

I almost want this more than the summit I preoedered..hah

[@neuztec]

No keytracking? why?

[@rezfilter]

Because it currently achieves all of its dreams.

[@kabood777]

Thank you guys ... this was a funfair trip 😊✌

[@MUNRO13]

Sounds great, wish it was a bit smaller. Pretty massive for a table top synth.

[@KiR_3d]

It sounds very cool! BUT it seems like somebody's hobby's work that did came to serie before full R&D was completed. So I mean it seems a bit incomplete. There could be made a better interface, a preset system (which can take a lot of efforts of course!), more features like more LFO shapes, few attenuators, filter note pitch tracking. BTW, it's weird that it wasn't made because it's about 4-5 small components + a potentiometer. I would love to have it... but according to it's state vs price - I will not buy it. Don't have spare 2k $ (about that, right?) for a cool sounding single voice synth.

[@JayKaufman]

That non-standard wet knob would drive me absolutley mad!

[@reginaldbowls7180]

What are you talking about?

[@kaostrip]

wow sound really good

[@Marsden12001]

Gaz is literally the worst co-host to have on a product review. When it's just Nick it's so much more informative and smoothly flowing.

[@GazWilliams]

Marsden Meyer boo to you

[@annother3350]

Nah, it was just because they didn't know how to use the machine. Like nick said, they were floundering

[@zpinkLondonBelow]

Great review! A lot of randomness there, may be perfect for someone like me, not knowing what we're doing! :-)

[@nathankirklambo1986]

Something is so funny about watching two grown men making silly sounds on this fancy toy!

[@GertBoers]

Price? --> :O --> next...

[@beigela]

Too much imo.. over 1000

[@badx001]

Instant WANT!

[@motoboy6666]

Designwise it looks like a prototype, strange it got in to production looking like this.

[@SendyTheEndless]

Proper squidgebox.

[@MXVDJ]

Lovely review! Although its not £750, its over £1,000 .... :(

[@d.b.cooper5775]

Recreating crispy bacon by accident

[@thanhson.csqt.audio.]

👍👍👍👍

[@ProfessorSynth]

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