Stylophone Gen X-1 Walkthrough and audio demo for beginners

[@TheParadoxDestroyer]

Just bought one and cannot wait to get into all the sounds. Amazing little device.

[@MartinYamMoller]

👌👍

[@roterfuchs8201]

I wasn't getting a good enuff idea of this until i watched your vid. Was undecided but after i saw the delay im sold, great video.

[@MartinYamMoller]

glad you found it useful

[@Ponk_80]

Who needs a smartphone when you have a stylophone 😊

[@ArtOfShredYT]

I've been wanting to buy a Stylophone for years and I still haven't. They look fun, though, and this was probably the most thorough demo I've watched. Great sounds with the Multistomp added at the end! If you don't mind, what hardware and software are you using to film these videos? I'd like to film a couple like this but I'm not sure how. Camtasia?

[@MartinYamMoller]

Thanks a lot. I'm glad you found the vid useful. The Stylophone is definitely worth picking up... Since it's so cheap and since it's controlled with a stylus, it kinda makes you play differently from normal keyboard synths. I use a Fuji Xt3 and Panasonic S5ii to record my vids (sometimes a C920 webcam when I'm lazy or just livestreaming). Then I edit it in Adobe Premiere. Though if you want something free and super powerful, so that you can grow with it. Then download Davinci Resolve.

[@ArtOfShredYT]

@@MartinYamMoller oh great, thank you for that!

[@Nick-ft4dk]

Thank you for the amazingly helpful video

[@karsinokuuni3208]

This is such a fun little device to play around with and really my introduction to hardware synths. Bought one about a year or so ago, really fun incorporating some of the noises and effects it can make into some of my own music. Are you planning on using this within your lofi ambient sets? Great video ✨

[@MartinYamMoller]

It's a great way into hardware synth. Wish I'd got it years ago. Yeah, i might integrate it into my LoFi ambient sets. But mostly i was gonna use it to make songs and for fx noises on my 9 Odd sounds video series.

[@karsinokuuni3208]

@@MartinYamMoller nice! looking forward to seeing what you make with it!

[@CNTRRNDM]

Just love the Stylophone!

[@MartinYamMoller]

It's a fun little unit... Needs lotsa fx tho😉

[@CNTRRNDM]

@@MartinYamMoller it does, yeah! I found that the NTS-1 (especially the Cathedral reverb by hammondeggs) and the Gen X-1 are a perfect team if you wanna make lofi ambient stuff

[@markmiller1276]

That was brilliant, thank you Martin.

[@MartinYamMoller]

Glad you liked it

[@_-Marcel-_]

Thank you! Super helpful and fun! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@MartinYamMoller]

Excellent. Glad it was helpful to you

[@pessimisticnihilist7338]

Hey, I was thinking about buying a Stylophone but I don't have any knowledge in sound and music, which one would you recommend for a beginner ? The S-1 or the Gen X-1 ?

[@MartinYamMoller]

I wouldn't recommend a beginner to buy hardware. I'd say go for free software like VCVRack. Which is a great way to get into modular synthesis. Or Reaper and free VSTs like Helm

[@pessimisticnihilist7338]

@@MartinYamMoller Thank you, I'll check these out.

[@ant4307]

Nice demo, thanks!

[@MartinYamMoller]

🙏🤘

[@MrLewis-lk8us]

Very cool stuff!

[@MartinYamMoller]

Thanks🙏🤘

[@zombirk9927]

such a nerd instrument ... I love it

[@totallyfrozen]

It sounds good and looked fun, but does it have a sequencer or recorder or anyway to save your patches?

[@MartinYamMoller]

Nope... Nothing of the sort. Best to just record the audio

[@michawodarek3005]

nice video, thank you

[@michaelaisrael8505]

I'm getting the stylophone gen x-1 soon

[@Tongpooo007]

And what's up now??? Have you naked any Music with that

[@lellegrolle9495]

I have a Yamaha cheap keaboard could i plug it in from headphone out on Yamaha keaboard to aux on the stylophone and shape the sound😅

[@MartinYamMoller]

sure... why not

[@KingCrimson82]

Stylophone or Warhammer imperialis for xmas?

[@markyyyy7]

Very good info:)

[@MartinYamMoller]

👍

[@A3Kr0n]

Too bad you can't get a PAIA Gnome kit anymore. I had one of those in the 1970s

[@karlc9773]

Hi, nobody mentions you can't easily play tabs on the gen x-1 as the numbers are different kids is 1 2 3.5 5 6.5 7.5 6.5 5 3.5 2 ?

[@MartinYamMoller]

Tabs?

[@karlc9773]

@MartinYamMoller google stylophone tabs it will be easier than explaining

[@MartinYamMoller]

@@karlc9773 aha! I had no idea there were tabs.... then again, I've not really been interested in doing covers on the Stylophone. But kinda wild that there are lots of people doing that

[@karlc9773]

@MartinYamMoller I've no back ground in music creation so I enjoy just learning them

[@sth8453]

How do you tune it??

[@MartinYamMoller]

There's a tune knob on the back.

[@Aven_Ultra]

Mine is staticy as hell can’t record anything without hearing a huge buzzing noise is this normal? I know it’s not my cord bc when I plug in my stylophone beat it records clean

[@MartinYamMoller]

Nah, that doesn't sound normal. Might be a faulty unit

[@Neitag1]

2:57 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟

[@zurbadoz]

What is this OPZ device - day tripper?

[@MartinYamMoller]

OPZ device?

[@robinskuykendall5976]

I'm wondering same thing. It's before the multistomp, hard to understand what you said, but it's labeled "daytripper". Great sound ideas.@@MartinYamMoller

[@urbo425]

It's the OP-Z from Teenage Engineering

[@heidis.2743]

Sounds like a Moskito...but Im gonna get one 👍👍👍👍

[@MartinYamMoller]

👍

[@davidm3569]

😁👍

[@_Super_Hans_]

Shame it's battery powered only

[@MartinYamMoller]

Never thought about that actually

[@MonsieurC64]

But nobody seem to be bothered by the very crappy intonation of this instrument. It's too much out of tune for a professional use. Too bad, cause it can produce some nice sounds.

[@chrisnunley114]

And yet Bowie used it... 🤔

[@MonsieurC64]

@@chrisnunley114 Not the Gen X-1.

[@chrisnunley114]

@MonsieurC64 doesn't matter the model. They're built by the same company and ALL of their products sound great. You should stop being an arrogant prick... but you can't cut you're French.

[@MartinYamMoller]

Ok guys... Easy now.... It's just a 100usd synth. So, yeah, it's not gonna be played in symphonies... and yet via Bowie, it's been used on some of the greatest recordings ever made. Only the Sith deal in absolutes! Right?

[@chrisnunley114]

I just can't stand arrogant comments made about art, ESPECIALLY from the French.

[@peterjf7723]

The now disgraced children's television entertainer Rolf Harris served for several years as the Stylophone's advertising spokesman in the United Kingdom and appeared on many "play-along" records sold by the manufacturer.

[@MartinYamMoller]

I'm not following your point?

[@peterjf7723]

@@MartinYamMoller In the UK in the 1970s and 1980 the Stylophone was heavily advertised by and so kassociated with children's television entertainer Rolf Harris. After the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal broke in late 2012, Harris was arrested as part of the Operation Yewtree police investigation. He was questioned in May 2013 regarding historical allegations of sexual offences. He denied any wrongdoing, and was bailed without charge. In August 2013, Harris was again arrested by Operation Yewtree officers and charged with nine counts of indecent assault dating to the 1980s, involving two girls between 14 and 16 years old.

[@MartinYamMoller]

So now, 50 years later, no one in the UK uses a Stylophone?... I'm honestly still not following the point of your comment🤔

[@peterjf7723]

@@MartinYamMoller OK. There wasn't any point to it.

[@MartinYamMoller]

Well, it's good to be aware of the history of things.... So thanks for that👍