Messeiver (SOMA Labs demo)

[@dillipphunbar7924]

Those images are priceless!!! Love this device.....it is the analogue to Radio Garden, and not dependent on internet connection .

[@music-jd]

Soma is the only 100% original company, no bs.

[@BrigitteHart]

… you should check out Shortwave Collective, who I’m pretty sure inspired this. They make their own diy device exactly like this but open source.

[@hexfxtriks]

Grew up listening to shortwave radio. Have used radio signals as sound canvases. This is just genius.

[@g3cd]

There's the Xaudiosystem Beats FM that allows for more bandwaves, more control, some LFO, excellent effects and *gasp* stereo audio in and out. So while I think it's a great idea to include radio transmission snippets into your work, I don't want total random chaos and record it with a microphone in front of the tiniest speaker 😖

[@hexfxtriks]

@@g3cd While the Beats Fm does play around with radio waves. The result is often a beat oriented soundscape. Yes I'm sure you can do more abstract pieces with it. And really it's a processor with a radio attached to it. The Messeiver as it's presented uses only the shortwwave spectrum to produce the ambient soundscape you're hearing. And if you read the manual there is an audio output. Honestly this sounds like it's just not your kind of thing.

[@Nardoleum]

Vlad Is the First Electro shaman of this era.

[@x.noybic7007]

You wish

[@microfx]

it's a radio....

[@Nardoleum]

@@microfx really? And the other machine Just Simply synth? I love synth since the 90's

[@Minisauro]

It’s your limited knowledge.

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

Wow, I had absolutely no idea how radio waves worked! Very interesting this lesson! The video then is magnificent, beautiful pictures! Of course the MESSEIVER is another great SOMA invention ✨📻✨

[@unduloid]

Radio waves work though _magic._ Duh!

[@BrigitteHart]

@@unduloidyou should check out Shortwave Collective as they have a strikingly similar (but DIY and open source) project and talk about this stuff very poetically.

[@TheMachinesWon]

You should stream a 24 hr channel using this!

[@bwest6275]

That would defeat the purpose of selling this 😂

[@TheMachinesWon]

@@bwest6275 not necessarily…some ppl might want to pick their own channels or physical have it. Others might just want to tune in and enjoy passively.

[@subradial]

Congratulations on another great device SOMA! definitely 'my cup of tea', looking forward to add it to my setups!

[@AbyssalReverberations]

Guaranteed purchase for me. I can't wait. This is gonna be the most used sound source I own for my granular rig.

[@ChainsawCoffee]

Oh, the Messeiver brings back so many memories. The Russian woodpecker, the sounds of national radio identification music, so much magic behind a lighted dial. A "look" into the perspectives of so many different countries. Dialing in a radio signal is more like invoking voices of the ether. What you hear is dependent on forces of nature, completely beyond your control. Make an offering of electricity to the spirits of the airwaves, and be thankful for what you receive.

[@XanderEwald]

Imagine Messeiver could not only receive radio waves but also communicate and interact with the other Messeivers in the area, creating a global network that becomes its own organismic super-instrument.

[@dmomcilovic9185]

Does it have polyphonic aftertouch ?

[@culturite]

😂

[@ingussilins6330]

Visas stacijas reizē....

[@theinvisibleman-e8v]

😂

[@swalectrix]

😂😂

[@damianwebzyx6613]

😋😂😂😂

[@macronencer]

7:00 I believe may be a crystal set. The photo kind of reminds me of my very cool uncle, who MADE a crystal set kit for me to put together myself (this was in the 1970s) and gave it to me for Christmas (he was a GPO (later BT) telephone engineer). I was astounded to hear such a variety of stations on headphones without even any batteries required. Such a lovely present :)

[@just_psy]

Can't believe how creative Vlad and his team are! I can't wait to see what Soma will show in the future! Flux is going to be mega cool too!

[@michaelbailot5479]

Your narration completely hypnotized me. Make it go away. Now I have signals in my brain.

[@SirSybian]

radio. its the future.

[@XanderEwald]

It sounds like the inside of my ADHD-rattled brain. I love it.

[@unduloid]

Of course,, some 20 years ago you could have received a lot more signals. Digitization made a lot of them disappear.

[@flopasen]

It's the synth my psychotherapist warned me about

[@terjepaulsen5583]

Wow, you’ve done it again! 👏

[@mattias_lindblom]

Reminds me of the beginning of the movie Contact.

[@degradedecho8397]

it's wonderful!

[@derrenleepoole]

Nice drop. Listening to this, playing chess on the iPad. Off out this afternoon with my Ether to do a video audio walk.

[@bahgo]

Same here! I lost :(

[@miguel_orama]

I honestly don't think I get it. It's a short-wave receiver with some sort of filter and volume control, picking up multiple frequencies. I'm not depreciating it, and I am possibly missing some of its functions, but I have to ask: for 550 eur is it all there is to it?

[@sfiche]

it's a piece of art, as well

[@miguel_orama]

@@sfiche the engineering is creative, the components are of high quality, but it is still marketed as 550 eur short-wave radio. I'm a Soma fan, but I'll gladly pass.

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

You are asking a rational question but it’s a tool for creating irrational sounds.

[@swalectrix]

Are there any others available on the market? Cheaper ones??

[@miguel_orama]

@@swalectrix well, yes, there are plenty of short-wave radios starting from as little as 20 eur. I guess if you multitrack a few broadcasts, you'll probably achieve similar results.

[@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n]

love this vlad

[@HappyQuailsLC]

Just like a regular SW radio without turning the tuning dial

[@BrigitteHart]

Yes, go and make your own by looking up “open wave-receiver”

[@frankjanssens5490]

Ik realy like Vlad’s voice and accent. They should use it in an instrument.

[@InFamousProductions]

an intriguing concept. can this be used as a CV source? are there CV out points. ? I would like to connect it to my Pulsar.

[@mrsulcus674]

I've been adding shortwave stuff to drone sets for a while now...hope I can get hold of one of these.

[@bahgo]

Hainbach is getting very excited right now.

[@theinvisibleman-e8v]

Looks great, I wish I could afford it.

[@StudioMagnetique]

God damn you Vlad... every time! 😍

[@mariorossi7225]

560 $ 🙂 you guys are really hilarious, believe me.

[@Edwardball]

OMG, this was made for me!!! For quite a few years, I have wanted to create an art project based on shortwave radio sounds inspired by Tod Dockstader's work on the Arial 1 album; it is ethereal and has the intrigue of otherworldly sounds, a wonderful album. I have been trying to find out what sort of shortwave radio and aerial to do this with and never really hit on the right one. The idea is to record and layer these ethereal sounds to produce a soundscape. Well, this naturally does this all-in-one beautiful-looking Messeiver box! Vlad, thank you for this!!

[@morpheoist]

the world needs 360° sound experimenters, we should find a way to share our ideas :🙂

[@morpheoist]

​@@Lil_Brayneyes, I also thought the same thing, today you can buy multiband radios, even portable ones, for very little money, something that thirty years ago, when I started using amateur radio, was impossible. However, I believe that as Soma has accustomed us, the instrument is more than just a receiver. I'll elaborate....

[@tadams1227]

Yup, a cheap shortwave radio and and Audacity. Geez you sure spread that BS really deep.

[@BrigitteHart]

You could go and make your own, since Shortwave Collective have a strikingly similar project called the Open Wave-Receiver… except you can make it for under $10 and the whole point is that it’s open and accessible to all : )

[@PeetiePeete]

There's something about AM/SW radio that puts me to sleep 😴

[@countenanceclear1191]

cool as always

[@xezazase]

Someone please post an 8 hour video of these sounds for me to fall asleep to. Thanks.

[@cemdasou]

Buy it and be connected to everything at present

[@BrigitteHart]

Shortwave Collective also make something very similar and have a 24 hour broadcast of these sounds… Their 4 year project is called the open wave-receiver and you can download the instructions and make this for under $10 : )

[@InFamousProductions]

oh I just looked on the site, yes it does

[@criptafarcio9125]

Gotta love Soma

[@maximummovementtheatre]

Wonderful!

[@oscilop]

So cool!

[@zemertz]

I love this ❤

[@erikalwill6328]

What do the 9 switches control on the front of the device. Messeiver looks & sounds beautiful.

[@somasynths]

somasynths.com/messeiver_specs/

[@GNeuman]

Thomas Jerome Newton approves...

[@quantum_ocean]

Good luck at that price. Might sell a couple.

[@iplaywithsound]

Quite Sublime

[@martingrieco]

❤

[@wajobu]

Phil Collins at 5:51 on WMAS in Springfield, Massachusetts.

[@conker187]

Very very exciting Keep going…this is what the World Need

[@BrigitteHart]

You should check out the work of Shortwave Collective who have been working with strikingly similar tech called Open Wave-Receiver… it’s open source and accessible

[@jimmywhyte7181]

The white mans glory. Radio is cool.

[@Bfredproduction]

Brilliant !

[@colinhamilton2217]

Each time a different sound....i am finding this out using the lyra and ornament

[@gladlawson61]

Theres also a eurorack module called the rf nomad though i never got more than static and noise.

[@floydhopkins7901]

Yes, thank you

[@sethmilk]

When this video when you are high to

[@dutchbeef8920]

Be cool to experiment with a loop antenna if there is a ferrite in there.

[@willswitchcraft]

WHAT?!!! Another brilliant and original offering Vlad...............Can't wait to hear more from this device..............Unfortunately, my explorational experimental set up is buried underground, in a bunker, and I'm not sure how many signals would be receivable in that setting............

[@mattbrown-mb]

🧡Soma👌

[@ryanmanning1185]

You are a genius

[@dutchbeef8920]

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a 3dq crystal radio that can switch to a regenerative mode

[@supercompooper]

I wonder if it automatically fades like it does in this video or do you have to tune it and maybe this was just sliced together?

[@somasynths]

No, no all the breathing of tunes is the MESSEIVER work guiding by the global natural parameters. No post production or multitrack layering. I just stick together interesting parts of gotten sound one by one.

[@supercompooper]

@@somasynths that's very well done guys

[@BrigitteHart]

@@somasynthssounds like you’ve been very influenced by Shortwave Collective’s Open Wave-Receiver project. You should get in touch with them as the whole point of what they do is build tech community in open source and accessible ways.

[@RababaInc]

if i sample audio from this device, would this be legal to use in my songs?

[@btmtv]

⚡️ 📻 🎛 ❤ = WoW !!!!

[@ingussilins6330]

Līdzīgu efektu es guvu no detektora rādio ar sliktu selektivitāti... naktī stacijas mainījās - spēcīgākās "uzpeldēja" un vājākās "nogrima" patstāvīgajā fona murmoņā..

[@stepsons589]

I love it but is it auto-layering these signals, or was that done in post?

[@BrigitteHart]

Probably not, but maybe as this is kind of an ad… you can also just make your own device if you look up Open Wave-Receiver.

[@bubibatzemann]

Dude dont do this .. i clicked on this while stoned

[@erosiondesertmusic]

Omg😮👍👌

[@tubasco504]

my first first! can't wait for another winner from Soma!! 🎵

[@VocalChainsStudio]

❤🙂

[@WalkingHeadPro]

....why?

[@XanderEwald]

Why not?

[@BrigitteHart]

You could make your own for under $10. Shortwave Collective published their instructions in Make Mag a while ago for their open source and strikingly similar project Open Wave-Receiver

[@IndigoBassNotes]

I own LYRA 8 and I am.a big fan of SOMA products, unique in many ways and beautiful. Now I can say this device is over priced. Look at the Siluria synth that also uses radio but in a more shapable and controlable way. Siluria costs less and does MORE. 300 euros is a more competitive price , I mean its mostly radio parts in a wood box isnt it ?

[@somasynths]

Messeiver is an European handmade with brass inlay, wide range vintage speaker, custom coil, NOS germanium diodes, vintage neon bulb and other things which make the impression and vibes of it unique. Hence the price, sorry.

[@FloChai]

Wonderful 🤍📡 🌎📻

[@Soul_Equaliser]

yes 😁

[@DALTRON666]

Biggest question is. Can you even legally use this in your music? Since its others music from all over the globe? Im not sure about sampling from radio or its legality but thats the first thing that popped in my mind.

[@sactownchad]

It doesn't matter when nobody listens to it anyway right?

[@DALTRON666]

@@sactownchad LOL good point

[@sactownchad]

@@DALTRON666 Sorry that probably came across wrong. I just mean, for most of us, we put stuff up on soundcloud or band camp and maybe a few friends and a few bots trying to sell us subscribers listen to it. I think it would be a nice problem to have if we needed to clear samples and stuff. As for your question, the band negativland has gotten by with a lot of their found sound music (not all of it!) by claiming for use. They even wrote a book about it.

[@bunnyman2112]

Ether 2 on steroids!

[@unduloid]

Of course, you can't use anything you receive in your own works because it's probably all copyrighted.

[@somasynths]

In my biggest surprice YT recognaised just ONE track from the whole demo video. So this is a realy abandoned world.

[@unduloid]

@@somasynths I am already anxious to use anything that vaguely sounds like voices or music I receive with the Soma Ether.

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

If you get big enough to be sued; congratulations! You’ve made something that has a commercial impact.

[@unduloid]

@@hardcoreherbivore4730 You don't need to make anything commercial in order to be sued or to have your music removed from sites like KZbin.

[@hardcoreherbivore4730]

@@unduloid May be removed from KZbin, but to be sued without any commercial success is pointless. They can’t ask for a percentage of zero. 😆

[@YourFatherSiegfried]

is it me or it is a ghost box ?

[@colinhamilton2217]

Or you can do it the long way....3 reel to reel recordings of SW then spliced and put through multi delays.....about the same price actually for 3 used machines and the reels.....but remember each time this is used it can be sound processsed and multi tracked...

[@lonecrow1577]

I would like to say something.. but ..I have no words.

[@hellf.o]

SOMA is the future

[@Algoritmarte]

... or they are simply trying to sell you the past as the future :-) (joking)

[@BrigitteHart]

@@Algoritmarteyou should experiment with making your own. Shortwave Collective have a strikingly similar project that was published in Make Mag but it’s free and open-source…

[@waynemasters8673]

Put 110 V AC through an isolation xformer and got 109V. Put it across an electrolytic cap and got 169 enough for these 12AX7 plates. 220 would give me 340 Don't try this.

[@epignose]

Once again, the revolution come from Russia and once again Vlad is a genius!

[@carlosbernabei636]

!

[@fedesartorio]

I own Soma Labs equipment and I love it, but I’d like to know how Vlad feels about the war against Ukraine before buying more stuff

[@ex-alpha]

Typical propaganda troll, pathetic.

[@ladobarnovi221]

aka 800$ noise machine

[@FranchiseCityOnline]

Good name for a band

[@dasczwo]

hmm, sounds similar to my schaub tube kitchen radio i found on the road. seems a bit TE to me. tbh. maybe there is a use case, i dont get it.

[@bwest6275]

The use case is ambient noise.

[@dasczwo]

@@bwest6275 i open the windows for that....luv from berlin! check out nyfida soundbox for a different flavour of ambient noise!

[@Александр-й7б9и]

But you have to choose manually interesting parts from recording. It would be really cool when you figure out and integrate some algorithms to automate content evaluation, sorting, filtering and mixing

[@morpheoist]

and now who explains it to the flat earth conspiracy theorists?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 who knows what sounds it can reproduce on the moon or in any case on a planet where there is no radio wave pollution....🤔

[@108ganbao108]

Shut up and take my money!!!!!

[@Musicninja007]

first

[@matthewsumma]

No gIobe. Earth is "round" like a coin.

[@XanderEwald]

😂

[@JumboDubby]

Sure, Jan

[@matthewsumma]

@@XanderEwald Take a glass of water, is the surface of the water flat and level? Now take a pool of water, is the surface level? Now take a lake, and now an ocean, are the surfaces level? Water always finds its way to level, it never curves.

[@matthewsumma]

@@JumboDubby Who’s Jan?

[@XanderEwald]

@@matthewsumma 😂

[@gribblyrob8542]

@TheReportOfTheWeek

[@EdwinDekker71]

1:10 it's not a globe.

[@XanderEwald]

😂

[@wheatthicks]

👌

[@alekseykobzar318]

❤