Let's get weird - GREAT CONJUNCTION

[@unfamiliarenvironments]

The designer of this was in the amazing late 90s/00s band Eureka Farm - their album The View was really enigmatic and surreal - been a favorite amongst my friends for decades 🎉

[@gordon7478]

Sounds hella interesting; thanks for the recommendation! They don't have much of an online presence, so I'll have to dig up a copy of The View, but I'm listening to Teleprompter off their previous album, Analog, as we speak, and they're definitely right up my alley.

[@unfamiliarenvironments]

@@gordon7478 glad you found it Worthwhile - hard to believe it’s not on KZbin yeah, maybe some label BS perhaps - but totally on Bandcamp. Analog is great too, but the View is on another level. A mystery why it flew so under the radar at the time - if you like that track check out Terraforming from the View

[@Bandojy]

Now ask...should weve left NATURE to go full circle?...

[@awmaas]

Your joy and genuineness is so infectious. Thank you for being a regular reminder to take a step back and just enjoy sound and experimentation :)

[@1111undici1111]

wow, this Cuckoo guy is a true mad scientist of tone! :D

[@truecuckoo]

😀

[@XtianApi]

What a lovely person you are.I've been a fan for a while. Enjoy the water/countryside.

[@CaleAnderson]

I love that the intro jam that came out of that thing was an absolute banger 😂💙

[@CaleAnderson]

This is actually amazing... Core memory from childhood unlocked 🎮🔓

[@phr3q]

the performance really touched me emotionally and gave me goosebumps! wow cuckoo, that was awesome o.o

[@SFAERSOUNDS]

Probably one of your most inspiring videos ever! Totally get the “loading the unexpected from tape” reference. Miss it too. Love the improvisation at the end!

[@truecuckoo]

🩵🩵🩵

[@martyv-lh5ip]

OMG!!!! I met Arman some months ago here in Portland. I honestly wasn't sure what was even going on with this thing when they were showing it to me, but I bought it anyway. It is one of my ALL TIME BEST impulse buys of my *LIFE*.

[@truecuckoo]

🩵👾

[@charlikasselback4565]

So happy to follow you on this little explorational jam. Some where around here, many years ago, is where I first found you and fell in love with your approach with the OP-1. Lovely to see you jam, play and reflect. Thank you mate.❤

[@gavinpeters9531]

Super happy to see this.. interesting that it comes to me now too. Over the last year I've been a bit lost. The past few years I finally had enough money to let my GAS go wild.. Then this year (and the end of last).. I reached that point some of us do where you realise it is just too much. I've been coming back to small and simple devices and finding myself far more productive, inspired, happy. I guess despite being a tech nerd, and being excited about features.. I never needed them. I am reminded of the time I got my first gear (an original SP-404), and every sound was an exploration into the unknown, rather than sitting down trying to 'plan' what I will do. I also feel like there is an ergonomic reason this is the case... Simply it is to do with arm length and eye sight. Despite trialling angled stands, shelves, desks, etc... If it is not right in front of me, there's a high probability that it isn't going to end up doing anything, and an even higher probability that I am going to spend the day rearranging and cabling things rather than making music....

[@pppfffggg]

Hey, I have very few music devices, but even then I had to discipline my self: I arrange and setup my studio with every cable etc and everything connected to only one power switch. I make music… never touch the setup until the work is done. Then I will rearrange the setup again for another type of sound, project…

[@KINZOisHERE]

This video was so inspirational, nothing to do with the instrument itself but the approach, let alone the Jam, thanks for being there.

[@helixrider]

It‘s a real cool device and you make it shine! 🤩🙏

[@SpeedyBunnyz]

Great little box Love seeing the gadgets out there - Great performance too, such a vibe.

[@MM-ib6qh]

So happy for you. Looks like such an amazing place to live! Can't wait to see all the ways this new place inspires you to create new music!

[@YQN2149]

the improv sounds like a sketch for an excellent radiohead song. wanted to hear thom yorke's voice over this lush music

[@truecuckoo]

Yeah, that's actually a really good point. The Radiohead gang is great at bringing kinda experimental sounds and bleeps into a compositional production process, and then ironing out a unique sound into every song.

[@Ancaja123]

Knew this one was right up your alley. I’ve been wanting one for so long, love the idea of small chip synths.

[@SONWU]

6:22 wow that could straight from MONKEY ISLAND. Also, great view you got there. I am thinking of moving to the sea myself, so this is a nice nudge ;)

[@KarlSadler]

Fantastic! Cool studio too!

[@oldmancolin]

So happy to see @armanbohn getting some well deserved love

[@davido3109]

Happy year to You Cuckoo!!!!!!!! thank's for your videos!!! always incredible good!!!!

[@armanbohn]

Thank you! This means a lot to me.

[@vraalten]

Love to see your joy and just experimenting! This device reminds me a lot of of Reaktor- based instruments that were made for exploring and experimenting.

[@EscapeLimitations]

Your music and exploration of the instrument are amazing

[@LouieTaylorMusic]

Awesome video, thanks Cuckoo. Bristol, ay? Exciting times, it would be great to hear you when you come.

[@DJDigitalJosh]

Great jam & synth Cuckoo!

[@DJ_Tabula_Rasa]

I love gear that looks like it sounds. As soon as you hit play I smiled

[@demodisc_]

Wow - that was beautiful! Brilliant video 👾💛

[@zaccy2hats]

This is RAD! Glad I was sent to this video!!!

[@DavidDeLuge]

This is a proper Cuckoo device. The sounds are perfect for you 👍🏻.

[@Y2F0]

WOW that music performance was SO good holy moly

[@truecuckoo]

Oh wow back, thank you so much! ❤️

[@severusnare]

Thanks for this amazing video!

[@EggZema_]

What a great little device and a fantastic jam!

[@truecuckoo]

Thanks!

[@pianobryguy]

Micro-USB saves me from my GAS once again 😅

[@ildarkinildarkin]

Hahaha...gold.

[@bonesnaps]

The haken completely overshadows this little box in the performance clip lol. It's basically being used as a metronome at that point, probably not the best showcase of it if I had to say. XD

[@linusmellstrom8550]

asså du har en grym röst.. riktigt bra på att spela live jag hoppas kunna se dig någon gång

[@ezekielchentnik]

Thanks for the video! I hope you enjoy the countryside 😎

That's a beautiful number 8 musical ball. It got enough amount of control over the random aspect of it to engage the user. FM is perfect for this kind of machine. Sometimes I miss 1 layer or 2 of modulation/randomisation in the DN...like overlapping trig conditions and at least 1 more LFO.

[@dertyp6767]

Cool one! Thanks for sharing the experience. :)

[@jasonfnorth]

This one looks super fun I might have to get one, if not sold out everywhere

[@jasonfnorth]

Just bought it! Great video as usual mate!! I hope you find lovely peace in that new place with beautiful view! ❤

[@CatFish107]

Fjordside view! Lovely.

[@celticdr]

Wow, cool jam! Had a real soundtrack of Bladerunner by Vangelis feel to it, awesome!

[@BrunoWiebelt]

super start. keep it let it go. come out

[@jaguarvssnake]

Yes! Join all of us in the countryside!

[@robotjack2193]

That continuum fingerboard is the keyboard I've always dreamed of! But I'm not even going to look to see it's price. It's just depressing. Awesome jam!

[@MrMosij]

Love it! Has anyone tried any other of distropolis devices? I have the prismatic spray - bytebeat synth. Tons of fun!

[@roave_music]

Well done

[@THR-zf6ti]

Indeed crazy toy for adults who have retained a childlike curiosity - enjoy your summer at the sea Cuckoo 🤩

[@rp8564]

This was awesome. Gosh id like a continuum ❤

[@olivergavv]

so cool environment

[@truecuckoo]

❤🤍

[@justinhuffman2430]

Digging it Deeply❤

[@waldemar.golebski]

Nice synth and great review. This little thing sounds like One finger Cuckoo ;)

[@i_DONT_get_IT]

Cuckoo. I’m a new fan since I saw your video with Andrew huang using the microfreak. - just wanna say, I wonder if the natural light and the floral wall paper will create a new ambience and a new air of inspiration for your music. 👍 I won’t say the wall paper doesn’t look like grandmas tea and crumpet room, but who cares! 😊 lol. Keep up the great content.

[@prinzbach]

Super nice sounding! Still hoping to get a MegaFM one day but this is very very tempting too!

[@truecuckoo]

Yeah they're both super interesting in their own domains.

[@makeperceive]

congrats, new spot looks good

[@truecuckoo]

Thank you!

[@-.K.I.-11]

EPIC VOCALS TO THAT TRACK MY BRO

[@colourbox2095]

beautiful interior

[@BobSassafrass]

You are a real artist! Your musicality really pours out. Where can we get that shirt?!

[@truecuckoo]

Thanks! The T-shirt is sold out, I'm afraid. I did a limited number of screen printed t-shirts. Might bring it back, or create a new design next time. Keep an eye on my channel to know when they drop ❤️

[@gingerlady11]

Hi Cuckoo thanks for all your help and great work explaning all the equipment you show. I love where you have moved to I am in Berlin can I come for tea ? ha ha ha

[@truecuckoo]

Thanks! Let me know when you're in the neighbourhood :D

[@Willwesthouse]

Its like this was made specially for you!

[@nlego5153]

I've been doing stuff like this in the eurorack with Plonk + Marbles.

[@Sebastian-yc8vm]

I SEE Mod CYCLES FM ADDICTION PAIRED N SNARED with one of your fabulous ZENtasticle combosynthz 😊

[@richardjones2189]

What an entrance! 😅😅😅

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Nice. Elektron’s first box, the Sidstation, was very much like this tbh. It was a little wacky, especially compared with their later instruments. Have one of the early SN. It’s a machined metal box with a standard off the shelf alphanumeric keypad. And it sounds dirty and wild, because it’s got an actual SID chip in.

[@qbaxcpu]

good stuff.

[@truecuckoo]

Thanks!

[@liquidsakura]

you should check out the prismatic spay too, also very experimental and weird plus it has a trippy little visualizer!

[@truecuckoo]

Yeah, I've got that one too. I have a feeling the visualiser is actually a 1:1 representation of what's going on in the synth.

[@liquidsakura]

@truecuckoo I think so too, it's a really neat way to achieve that. The only other thing I can think of that is kind of similar is the orb on the bastl softpop 2.

[@politesociety]

Now ask what The Great Conjuction is, what's the Great Conjunction? The Great Conjunction is THE END OF THE WORLD.... or the beginning.

[@MASof1989]

I'm glad someone finally said it

[@politesociety]

@@MASof1989 Big change.

[@Deaphdot1]

Auhgra knows

[@armanbohn]

GREAT CONJUNCTION is available in DARK CRYSTAL & LIGHT CRYSTAL.

[@MASof1989]

@@armanbohn I feel like a bit of gold on both colour variations would have looked the part

[@anthonyrothercom]

Great impro

[@truecuckoo]

Thank you so much!

[@iamthetinkerman]

I love it

[@timdanyo898]

Great studio idea generator! It would be tough to recreate anything in a live world unless it’s sampled.

[@subhadeepdas3944]

Very interesting..It looks small but its huge inside ...

[@RealityShiftUK]

Very nice

[@truecuckoo]

Thanks 🤍

[@BsYtHandle]

The wallpaper is saying 'mum's spare room'

[@clifflexmiddleton]

Reminiscent of Low Roar. Very nice...

[@DJ_Tabula_Rasa]

Please make a video on the Tempura! Your style is easy to watch long form.

[@morpheoist]

what a lovely place! it would be nice to come visit you to make music and maybe fish too. even though I actually live on an island 😅

[@dmks2146]

as a kid it was enough for me to play that c64 game. no need to clear anything.

[@truecuckoo]

👾👾👾

[@theorize999]

Haha I love OPL synthesis, I was like oh great another hipster bit of kit that does something cool that would just collect dust but you said yamaha chip so let see what we’ve got here

[@stevesm2010]

I think it should be called 'The Cuckoo Machine' LOL As soon as you started playing with it, I thought you'd find your sound :-) Maybe they could do a special edition?

[@truecuckoo]

ha ha ❤️

[@louis_reith]

full cool maritime vibes !!

[@VJFranzK]

20:00 It is a Genesis game about dinosaurs. Remember those days...!

[@kidkique]

fingerboard has talk talk vibes

[@zl0y]

Lucky America! 90% of the population lives their entire lives in rented apartments and dies in nursing homes! BRAVO!

[@kapitanlajby]

Listen, I follow all the news in music equipment, but I am rather prudent, I always think carefully and I don't buy anything that I can't achieve at the moment, but THIS IS AWESOME - it's a pity that it's so expensive currently (at least in my budget). I'm waiting patiently, but I haven't liked anything this much in a long time, the interface looks like you're programming the trajectory of an atomic bomb. During your presentation, I caught at least ten loops that resonate with me. Do you know any sequencer in VST that is so simple and crazy?

[@thmbones]

Wow man, with that view off the window daaaaamn! Where is that? Not the address, but at lest some hint so I could see the map :) live you videos bro 🫶

[@truecuckoo]

The west Norwegian Sunnmøre region. Nice here :D

[@thmbones]

@@truecuckooallright! My friend lives in Trondheim, and I was once comming from his place to Bergen, do can imagine the lsndscapes, super beautiful places, have fun mate!

[@MASof1989]

This would pair well with The Mystic from Recovery Devices wink wink

[@pheotus]

Can we take a money for that wall paper. Hmmmm❤

[@CashMattock]

That was f-n weird. Two icons though.

[@CarnuareVideo]

Unrelated but where did you get that shirt? I love it!

[@sonicultura]

@22:46 wow!! Beautiful!! ❤

[@Gabinferra]

It’s great fun! But already sold out 😢

[@georgesvaes1637]

Cool t-shirt! I never received mine :/

[@theorize999]

I would like just a straight up OPL4 groovebox, why can’t I get that?

[@theorize999]

not that it matters, since RAD was updated

[@djcuvcuv]

Cuckoo how are you recording into the tp7? is it one stereo image coming into one of the line in ports?

[@truecuckoo]

Yeah I recorded the intro and performance onto the TP-7. The top-down section I recorded straight to camera. Ready-made stereo. No room for multitrack correction after recording :D

[@djcuvcuv]

@@truecuckoo nice! beautiful sounds in this video as always :D

[@gaetanschneider54]

25:03 Radiohead is back !!

[@ADHDville]

Tell me the wallpaper is staying

[@truecuckoo]

Haha that’s a big YES! Although the acoustics is a bit boxy, so I might need to hang some absorbers here and there 🥲

[@rreeppeeaatteerr]

I watched the first few seconds like 30 times to figure out how you did that slide in. Still can't figure it out 😂

[@truecuckoo]

Haha. Magical powers 😂🧙‍♂️

[@rreeppeeaatteerr]

@@truecuckoo well, obviously. hats off to you, sir. 21st century Mr. Wizard...

[@husssamo]

I really love these glasses brother! great look on you.

[@truecuckoo]

Thank you!! Took me ages to find a model I was happy with!

[@annother3350]

When did the chip for this first come out?

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Early 1980's in arcade game consoles and 8 bit sound cards.

[@truecuckoo]

This chip is a low-cost version of the more complex chips. It has embedded presets, and very limited custom presets.

[@annother3350]

@@truecuckoo oh, it's probably not for me then. Thanks anyway

[@rattlededge-somemikeratled1630]

ace