Kip Rosser's "Complete Theremin" - Theremini 501, Part 1: Downloads, Updates, and Editor Fun!

[@snip3rm00n]

I just got a Theremini and I've been excited to learn it since I've never been really musically inclined with traditional instruments. I appreciate this series so much my theremini wasn't properly calibrated and I wasn't sure about certain practices. You've given a very Bob Ross-like approach to learning this instrument and its so helpful! Thank you for this series, Kip!

[@dnteuxurois]

Very glad you're finding the tutorials helpful and enjoying them. I'll take the Bob Ross comment as a real compliment. My dad (who was a fine artist his whole life) and I used to watch Bob Ross together!

[@TheFlax33]

thanks for your time here .... informative

[@emitindustries8304]

Thank you, Kip, for all of your invaluable instruction on this wonderful, yet complex instrument. I got my Theremini 3 years ago, and it took me a while to discover the the intricacies that I wish I had known earlier. Your video will greatly increase my enjoyment of the instrument. Last week, while jamming with some friends, one who had an electronic guitar, the Theremini began fluttering, like you mentioned. Now I know how to to correctly calibrate it to avoid that. I'll be using many of your tips to improve my skills. This is my second Theremin. I bought an Etherwave unit back in 2003. It was a signature edition, signed by the master himself, Robert Moog. I sold that one so I could afford the Theremini, which is much more fun and easier to play well. I'll be watching all of your videos now.

[@dnteuxurois]

You're very welcome, Emit. Yeah, the Theremini has a lot to offer, and the more adventurous you feel, the more adventurous you can get. This is particularly true when you take a deep dive into the Editor App. While it is admittedly a pretty time consuming enterprise at first - just to familiarize yourself with all the features - it can be a lot of fun every step of the way. The next tutorial, Theremini 501a, Part 2, goes much much further!

[@Nokanmusic]

We are now acquaintances. Great thorough run through of the theremini. Will be using these videos as a reference for years to come.

[@dnteuxurois]

Hello: Very good to be your acquaintance and have you as one of mine. Very gratified that find the tutorials useful. Just posted a new one on Monday the 23rd that goes even further into the Theremini Editor App and creating your own presets. I'm very glad you found it helpful.

[@elnickro]

Thank you so much for walking through this and all of the tips - this series will be SO helpful when I get everything set up.

[@dnteuxurois]

You're very welcome and I'm very gratified that you find the tutorial useful. This is just the basic run down. The next tutorial really goes into the depths. It's much longer, but the result is that everything's in one place in one tutorial.

[@bboomermike2126]

No, haven't used the Editor App because I had no idea how to use it. Now I know and will do it. Thanks

[@dnteuxurois]

Very glad you're going to get into it. You've made it worth creating the tutorial because I was hoping to encourage anyone who had yet to mess around with the Editor. For myself, it was quite a while before I made the time to dive in. Once I did, I had a blast. For these tutorials, I stripped everything out (since I can always load everything back in) to simulate a library that had barely been used. The next tutorial (coming soon) we'll twist every knob and push every button to see what's possible with the new Glitter Moose. Maybe it will end up being a preset worth keeping.

[@bubbechutzpah]

That is the coolest tshirt.

[@dnteuxurois]

It's one of my mushroom shirts! My wife and I are amateur mycologists, but when it comes to foraging edible mushrooms we're pros. Getting out into the woods, harvesting fungus (eeeeyew!) and cooking up something special at home is one of our favorite pastimes. Believe it or not, this evening I made a batch of buttermilk fried chicken with fresh-baked sourdough waffles (and real maple syrup, of course). However, the "chicken" was actually really fresh, tender Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus cincinnatus) mushrooms. You'd think it would be disgusting, but it was incredible. If you'd done a blind taste test, you'd bet you were eating chicken.

[@bubbechutzpah]

@@dnteuxurois well we have more in common. We also love mushroom foraging. Here in the Pacific northwest we fell in love with it. You are welcome anytime to Portland, we'll show you where to find chanterelles and boletes. Cheers!

[@dnteuxurois]

@@bubbechutzpah Carolyn, I'd very much enjoy pursuing the subject of mushroom foraging with you. However, we'd be getting way off track here in the theremin tutorial comments. So, if you're okay with this, let's continue our fungus fun via email. Since I've yet to have your email address, please contact me at: [e-mail] and I'm sure we'll have a lot to tell one another.

[@ricknorris1466]

Ridiculously complicated process just to update this thing. I have a few Arturia products that update with the click of a button from the Software Editor. The SE detects which version you are currently on, suggests the update, you then click a button and your done.

[@dnteuxurois]

Yes, Rick, I agree about the complexity of the update process. WIth the advent of the Theremini, the Claravox, and the newest iteration of the standard Etherwave (now more than double the price of the prior standards without being all that different from them), it seems everything from calibration to fine tuning of each of those three instruments has gotten progressively more complicated and more glitchy instead of simpler and more stable. There are workarounds, but it takes a while to figure them out.

[@matthewbell1181]

Thanks Kip, I posted at another of your tutorials- (apologies for the repeat). I've been having trouble trying to get the editor to open on my Windows 10 machine and was wondering if you've heard about any issues regarding that set-up.

[@matthewbell1181]

Ah- sorry; somehow the elves got it working for me! Thanks again for the tutorials!

[@dnteuxurois]

@@matthewbell1181 How did you get it to work? Since others are having this problem, please share with us. And you're very welcome for the tutorials. New one coming in a day or two.

[@TheFlax33]

can i install editor without theremi connected.. .thanks

[@dnteuxurois]

Hi: For some reason, I never saw your post, so apologies for my 10-month late response. the answer is yes. You can install the editing suite on your computer without it being connected to the Theremini. However, you'll be unable to update your firmware or do anything at all with the editor until it is connected to the Theremini.

[@abfmkarin]

Ah I got to give that a miss as I got no computer.

[@dnteuxurois]

That's a shame. It's a lot of fun messing around with creating sounds and sonic textures. But, with 31 presets, there's still a lot you can do.