Ambient jam with the Moog Subharmonicon, Mother 32, Strymon NightSky, and Hologram Microcosm

[@intender3046]

Thanks for both the amazing sounds and the timestamps. Big youtubers with millions of followers cant give us basic timestamps on an hour long video and you gave us all of them which made it easy to find the parts I wanted to go back and re listen to. I am waiting for my microcosm to ship and already saving for the nightsky, and then maybe the chase bliss mood. I feel like with some combination of those 3 pedals I could get lost for years in ambient sounds.

[@BonasBuden]

With Microcosm and NightSky you can pick just about any synth and trigger some random notes and get some interesting results.

[@logimite7174]

you could put mic feedback through it and it would sound good

[@aljen9611]

​@@logimite7174 Ok, you can even tip on an end of a TS guitar cable and still get sth interesting. That's true. STill, not sure what BONAS intended to say with his riddle.

[@logimite7174]

@@aljen9611 yeah

[@jaysgood10]

I used my dog.

[@matteo8127]

in this environment what exactly gives more results between the big sky, the night sky or the microcosm? more answers and comparisons are much appreciated! thanks

[@ckjjclan]

Dude. This was like listening to what it might feel like to let go of a spaceship and drift off into the night… epic. I LOVED the ascend and out… I mean it was all great, but the intensity, loud in my headphones was just fan fucking tastic!!

[@jonathanulery1610]

Dude this is soooo fucking good you have to be the best synth composer on the planet rn....and I definitely mean that....

[@hieronymous7]

Subharmonicon as "inspiration machine" - YES!!! Not easy to make it bend to your will, better to jump in, swim around and explore, but ready to capture the magic if possible. As you have done here - nice! Looks like you posted this the day after my birthday, so I'll consider it a late birthday present 🎂

[@bobs906]

Great track and performance. I appreciate the comments in the video, it makes it a real learning experience.

[@MrJansteiner]

I love your live demos. They’re just brilliant. I especially really, really appreciate the short explanations. Super helpful and inspiring. Keep it coming 🚀👍🙏

[@Larry30102]

One word: WOW! This piece made my day. A big Thank You!

[@InvertedPopesMusic]

What a wall of glorious sound. The build was awesome. Nice work.

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Earthshattering Beauty Beyond ...... Thank You Mr.Hosking .. Now...i believe again....In what - i i have no clue ....but my faith is STRONG ! 😥💝

[@XTINCTIONation]

This is so beautiful, very touching! Thanks for sharing it 🖤

[@paulheskett8358]

Jay, it looks like I’ve been pre-empted with the superlatives. What a fabulous sound, and watching the process and reading the comments is instructional and inspiring. Thank you 🙏

[@Happyyz]

Aspiring, inspirative and educative at the samé time. such a marwellous setup 💫

[@loreladumbrava]

So beautiful, they make such rich sound with the reverb

[@TheNewNumberTw0]

This is such a great setup. I like how tonally focused it is.

[@medardfischer]

So, so good! Absolutely beautiful progression throughout, but my gosh does it ever get special in that build up. Just stunning. Bravo!

[@oaklandghosts0510]

Awesome. 👏

[@navnitbelur]

this is a jam for the ages! So good!!!

[@Psionetics]

You're a stand up kind of dude Jay! Love the tunes keep them flowingggg

[@jakedooom]

That was a pleasure. Thank you.

[@bobalee8194]

Amazing composition and performance.

[@cebedecebede]

Beautiful ;)

[@hughkremer4026]

Wow that took my breath away

[@SanderAnderon]

sweet coincidences galore, this beautiful soundtrack of yours evolving in perfect step with the underwater scenes of a quirky retro sci-fi film I've stumbled across on TV filling the rest of my monitor, sound muted ("The Neptune Factor" w/a bizarre cast including Ernest Borgnine and Ben Gazzara, circa early '70s.) An accidental Dark Side/Wizard of Oz sort of thing, thanks to your good sounds.

[@JayHosking]

I'll look it up!

[@SanderAnderon]

@@JayHosking its a goofy one, the closeups of saltwater aquarium fauna 'attacking' their vessel best sync w/your music. Better movie for syncing to is Fantastic Voyage, like every scene aligns perfectly w/synth explorations, cheers...

[@TrillianMilesMusic]

wow,.. perfect demonstration why I should not go on holiday but buy more synth gear..;)

[@SyntheticSan]

Thank you for telling every step. This helps a lot to understand.

[@djericray]

Beautiful rich sounding track

[@dodgedforgottenn]

So so good and educational too! Very well done on many levels

[@MidlifeSynthesist]

So beautiful 🙌🏻

[@SteveMc870]

Still working my way through your 'back catalogue' of videos. This is fabulous. Makes me think of "Sad Alliance" by Namlook & Hatwin.

[@kenobisboch]

This is outstanding.

[@jasonbesant4074]

This is a beautiful and very well done tutorial....

[@gadd1111]

This is both beautiful and inspirational

[@TheArtistisIrrelevant]

Man, this is absolutely stunning! It's crazy how dense it gets towards the end with just 2 synths! 👏👏👏

[@peyote.]

Beautiful, I feel calm and tingely

[@johnslater154]

Really nice jay! That subharmonicon looks and sounds like a lot of fun!

[@m.g.kroger]

Beautiful indeed man, see you can fly...

[@davidbetts2980]

All are in my wishlist or is it just you make every instrument sound amazing 🙂

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty good

[@ShakaLakaMTB]

WOW! My oh my, that was epic!

[@natevaeofficial]

dude you have to upload your jams to spotify...so fire

[@soundvandal3570]

Smooth and subtle..

[@alexsnarskimusic]

Wow, this is so perfectly awesome, well done!

[@kossfort1848]

So beautiful, thank you Jay !

[@brujua7]

Great soundscape, thanks for the upload!

[@michaelrutchik9906]

Spectacular

[@iookem]

Beautiful as usual. Thank you for sharing 👍

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

im dying , listen to this .....sometimes .....the beauty of your songs......can be .... too .... lugubrious , for a gentle soul to bear......

[@gary.solexa]

Very nice indeed...

[@Mbah_Dukun_Nyerutu]

Stunning Jay! Keep on!

[@mistergenerator5430]

Wonderful.

[@falazarte]

Love it!! I have your music while I am working and it's so relaxing.

[@jedgould5531]

1:32 Shakers of the future. Despite the Sub’s unpredictability, you came up with something that feels plenty musical. You got the cousins together! If you use a DFAM for hi hats, I’ve got a ton of stuff you should buy! Jajaja Sweet piece, plenty o’ chill.

[@Towy2012]

Great sound - but having the mother, dfam and subharmonicon too, I guess it's more due to the Strymon and the Microcosm :-)

[@JayHosking]

Hah!

[@RobertAdachi]

So silky, inspiring

[@neonether]

Very nicely done.

[@psmaulehlien]

Really nice stuff

[@lucaselmore3874]

Your best yet.

[@MrLindenstudio]

Just wow!

[@bhoky1012]

Inspiring 🙏🙏

[@IndieAuthorX]

Love all your stuff!

[@annimalinstruments8662]

I like your work!!!!

[@Bfredproduction]

Great 👍🏽

[@aboydallen5711]

Very nice!

[@MarcWeertsMusic]

Sounds great!

[@yahjason]

that was great. reminded me of Halo a little bit.

[@sonalsystem]

Beautiful 👍

[@Probbie]

Wow? That's epic 😎

[@peanutburn]

Thanks.This video has just made me try and find a spare £2000. Cheers, bro.

[@raymondjones4390]

excellent!

[@philippecornet1469]

MIAMMM 💜

[@chris.ambience]

love it

[@NateHorn]

Lovely stuff as always Jay! I find the Subharmonicon makes for a great accompaniment to the NDLR - often providing a steady chordy rhythm that interplays really nicely with the arps - would love to see how you work with the two.

[@JayHosking]

This is a great idea.

[@joeyalgorithm5082]

Dope!

[@chriswilliams-gd7xd]

Fucking amazing....

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

You have to control the start/stop on each units independently? Doesn't the M32 start when you start the Subh? Also, thank you for re-igniting my previously faded interest in the Subharmonicon... haha. That NightSky sounds incredible too... It's amazing how important good effects are but it's hard to prioritize them over fun sound making devices...

[@dartmore10]

Jay, great work! One question - what are you using for note generation?

[@JayHosking]

The Subharmonicon and Mother 32 both have their own sequencers, which are running here. I've just tweaked them to taste. And thanks!

[@flomoller6096]

This some gourmet shit

[@AL-yd8qm]

Wow! Really love the soundscape! Which mixer or audio interface did you use?

[@JayHosking]

I use the Allen & Heath Qu-16 for most of my recordings, unless it's a small/portable setup. And thanks!

[@therandomguy1315]

Holy fuck

[@arnaldodavillanova]

This is wonderful, for real!! Can I ask you something? i see when the low part starts you say it's the fourth oscillator for the subharmonicon but i see you're mostly moving a knob from the mother32. Can i ask you why? I love the low part and i'm looking for a synth with such a beautiful low sound from a while... so basically i want to know if it's the sub to do that or the m32, because i want to buy something with that beautiful low sound... thank you!

[@JayHosking]

The low parts are definitely the Subharmonicon, with the deepest bass introduced from the last oscillator around 2:30. To introduce them, I need only turn up the volume of the oscillator, which is why I don't have to spend much time fussing with them on the Subharmonicon. Hope that helps, and thanks!

[@arnaldodavillanova]

@@JayHosking helped perfectly! Thank you very much and again, keep going with your music!

[@soundmapper]

I have the full lineup of moog semi modular, but all I make with it is ear candy. Not one song!

[@tobcom3542]

Nice deep dimensions! Beautiful. Question: i never understood really if it's also possible (possible of course, but if the quality is the same) to route the sound into daw and then use a vst reverb, like valhalla. Or do you think there is a problem with the latency? Or are those pedals way better for analog gear? Greetings.

[@SourMoonBlues]

You will more or less get the same sound with way less money. Analog gear is just more fun.

[@benoitbayol6341]

It is possible. If you have an external soundcard like a focusrite you can connect the mono output of the mother-32 and the mono output of the subharmonicon into it via input 1 and input 2. Then in you DAW you create new audio tracks that are linked to input 1 and input 2 of your soundcard. Then you add the VSTs on your track and you can experience quite the same thing I think. If you have a midi controller then you can map midi cc to some VSTs parameters and you will have quite the same physical experiment. For the problem of latency I do not have experiments or figures that would say it is unreasonable to do it. Depends if you want to hear the raw signal of synth at the same time as output of effect I will say. (I mean outside of the dry/wet mechanism of effects)

[@JayHosking]

You'll introduce some latency, but not necessarily that much, and not anything that can't be easily fixed. Valhalla sounds great. Use it if it's for you! The main reason I use pedals is because they're fun and you get direct, hands-on control. But do whatever works for you! And thanks for the kind words.

[@tobcom3542]

@@JayHosking Ok, thanks for the answers, i appreciate it. Cheers.

[@plantigradeplanti7678]

Parfait pour l'univers d'Eve Online

[@tendingtropic7778]

Hi Jay, lovely, I also have the subharmonicon+m32 duo and looking for some good pedals for it. What's your opinion on the nightsky? you say its unpredictable, is this a good thing? The nightsky doesnt have a delay right? did you also try adding delay to the subharmonicon or is it already so poyrythmic that its a bit 'too much'?

[@JayHosking]

Yes, unpredictable in a good way. It does not have a separate delay, although you can hear delay lines baked into the reverb algorithm. I really love the NightSky's sound. It's dark and warm and complements analog synths like the Subharmonicon well. I'm sure delay on the Subharmonicon would sound great, but you're right that it would get a lot busier. Best of luck!

[@tendingtropic7778]

@@JayHosking thanks for the reply! I also have the volante, will try it on the subharmonicon soon.

[@tweakingtuesday1743]

Really lovely, thanks - don’t listen to that ranting Zaffin 😉 call it a jam if you want to

[@edmc2]

🍺

[@kay3261]

hi, wonderful! :thumbsup: =kAy=