The Sequencer With The Perfect Interface - Harmony Bloom Full Review

[@desoconnor7445]

Mario has definitely done his research and then with skill of mind and a lot inspiration produced a superb music creation tool . It’s hard on earth to find a “thing” which raises no critical thoughts ….Harmony Bloom is an exception…so if you buy nothing else this year get it.👍🙏🙏🏿🎶

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Great comment!

[@marionietoworld]

Wonderful review!!I loved it ! thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed video.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks Mario. Keep up the good work on the plug-in’s.

[@pascaljean2333]

Bottom left is a button to reverse the playback

[@rampapandiontinling]

Would love to see what it can do with drum rhythms too.

[@InsidesAndOutsides]

Like you, I have a tendency to program the notes myself. I actually bought Stepic (which I think is amazing) but still haven't used it, which is a shame. I guess I just have a "composer" mentality. BUT... I also bought HB, and the main reason is that I was looking for a way to get inspired about ambient. For me, HB looks like the perfect answer to that, and I think it will help me.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Yeah it’s actually nice to just let it play by itself once you get it set up with a nice patch. I’ll have to look into Stepic.

[@t33lo]

@InsidesAndOutsides I own both of them. Highly recommend to speed up the workflow with ambient/eletronic music and also as a source of endless inspiration and ideas creation. At this moment, together with Bitwig, these are my go-to tools.

[@glyph6757]

Could you review Rhythimizer Ultra? It's been the sequencer (well, not exactly a sequencer) that got me the most musical results. I'd be great to learn how it compares to Harmony Bloom (which I don't own).

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

I have a video on the original Rhythmizer but haven't had time to even look at Ultra. I did download it several months ago, just been too busy.

[@Apuat]

Ummm…do you have control over the length & volume of each note & can that be randomized? If you covered this story if I missed it.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

You can change length and volume, but I don’t think you can do it per note. I could be wrong on that though. You could do it in your DAW though if you play the notes and then let HB arpeggiate off of that.

[@ProFleer-ep4wq]

Once more showing how good the AI Synth Dreams pack for Hyperion is.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks Pro. Harmony Bloom is no slouch either!

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

There's a reverse button at the bottom left

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks Marcus.

[@PeteGunnShow]

I didn't need it but for $19.95 I couldn't say no. I have so many sequencers already but I really enjoy them. But you said 60 presets? I just downloaded today and checked and it was up to date, but i had like maybe 20 at most.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

That's weird. I've got way more than 20. Maybe there is a bug with the latest version.

[@PeteGunnShow]

@@arcticfoxstudios2018 I figured it out, I needed to go to his website and download them separately for whatever reason

[@stevew2724]

Don't let the shotgun style intro, overburdened with irrelevant clips and references and the AI-sounding narration turn you off. There's some very good, useful content here about Harmony Bloom. Comprehensive coverage of important features.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks for the feedback, both positive and negative. Still working on my style. FYI, no AI music or voiceovers are used on this channel.

[@alexex5513]

Please stop the irrelevant clips, unnecessary distractions, not cool

[@abrakadeep8810]

@@alexex5513Thats an irrelevant comment in my understanding of things. I think the style is something else, and something else definitely brings fresh air! And thats good!

[@Taeodoestech]

Thanks for pointing out Spectator mode; it’s easy to overlook!

[@MathHammer]

I knew I was going to buy this after my first 3 minutes or so watching one of Mario's streams that popped up in my feed. It is indeed a fantastic plugin that punches way above its price. My wife and I both like Go-Go Penguin. I am not targeting their sound, but I do like their music very much 🙂

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Yeah it’s a pretty cool plugin. So cool that you guys like Go-Go Penguin. I’m a big fan of jazz, but my wife, not so much.

[@Screenbience]

Interesting sequencer, never used any of them, may be will try this one...Thanks for great review ❤

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks Screenbience. It's pretty easy to get it to sound musical and the fun begins when you start stacking multiple instances.

[@adamsmith7058]

You can sequence the key of this, but can you sequence the mode or scale? So, as an off the cuff example, 2 bars of A Lydian, 2 bars C Diminished followed by 4 bars Eb Augmented. If it had that sort of functionality it would be great. Sort of unclear whether it does. I'll probably buy it anyway.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

You can, but you have to program curves in your DAW. You just change the scale and mode and the randomization will follow. You can do this with pretty much any of the controls which makes it super powerful.

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

I have Harmony Bloom and I love playing with it for hours... but I wish there was a way to make something more structured melodically while still maintaining that touch of chaos that makes the plugin so interesting to listen to. Most of the time I just get a mess... it can be a beautiful mess, but I still wish I could get more control while still maintaining some randomness. Or maybe there's something I'm missing

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Yeah, I totally get that. Only thing that I could offer is that less is more. I didn’t like some of the other videos I saw because it was just too many notes at once. Once I reduced the note output or dropped the probability by a lot, it seemed like I was getting more musical results.

[@Funkspace]

Great Review! I personally would use something like this for inspiration and also a core element in some music other than ambient. I’m sure that during the fun-time using this, there would be times when you stumble across some musical phrasing that would form the basis of whole pieces of music, or become part of an arpeggiated sequencer style of notes for an instrument that embellishes a track you could write around it. If there was a way to drag and drop the last X notes played, or a number of beats from the start with an offset, then that would be cool for taking ideas out quickly for developing later. Either way, directing the midi that comes out into a midi track and recording is the fallback method. I was so pleased to hear that the interface is the sort you don’t need to worry about forgetting. I enjoyed your review style. Excellent.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks Funk. I believe that you can record midi off of this, so you can let it play and then use that in a musical context like a hook or chorus or something. That’s actually a great idea and for $30, absolutely worth it.

[@Funkspace]

@@arcticfoxstudios2018 yep, exactly. Harvest the midi from section(s) that ‘sing’ to you and then adapt the chunks of notes you lift into whatever works for you. But even saying that, I’d probably still want to try 2,3, or 4 instances of Harmony Bloom to build up some polyrhythmic centerpiece of synths from which to hang some expressive bass synth work under (love me some raw, rasping bass that wants to growl)

[@garaughty]

Infinite possibilities... seriously awesome demo & review !

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks garaughty. Glad you liked the video.

[@els1f]

Update in the plugin! 🙌🔥 Fr, when I click the update button and the tab opens🤦‍♂️ I know i will not be running the latest version for a while lol

[@MattStevens9824]

Thanks for picking this one! I've been honestly on the fence on this plugin because I've been hearing too many sparkly demos. I was looking for something more controlled and then I saw you on the feed! Thanks for showing the customizable parts too. Mario is a genius for striking a tightrope balance on capability + UI design. PS: (I'm sorry I can't help it) Now I'm excited for Arctic Fox ambient/cinematic presets in the future, similar to your soundpaint ones. 😅

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Ha, yeah, I'll have to make some presets for it. And, yeah, Mario definitely hit a home run with the UI design.

[@MattStevens9824]

@@arcticfoxstudios2018 Thanks for being such a quality educator, man. I just bought this and imma play with it using Novum and PhasePlant tonight to see what I could come up with. It'll be a far cry from how you unlocked this but your vid pushed me to try. Thanks!

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Have fun dude. It is a pretty cool plug-in.

[@rayderrich]

You can never own too many sequencers. Thank you for this very good video.

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

They’re kind of like potato chips…and reverbs.

[@rayderrich]

@@arcticfoxstudios2018 Oh and LFOs hahaha, great stuff mate.

[@seoverus7805]

Video production - 10/10, Software - 10/10, Ideas in video for more exploration - 10/10, Joyful music creation & Happiness scale, Infinity ♾

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks seoverus!

[@tsmiguel]

Great video. I agree HB is a very creative tool for multiple uses. I use it also as an inspiration for composition ideas in my proyects. I always asociated music with numbers and geometry so i fill at home with HB. I sent an email to Mario talking about the possibility to modify the circle subdivisions not only to 10 but 7, 8 12, 16 for even more possibilities in pattern and rhythm creation but Mario didn’t answer me in this respect 😊

[@arcticfoxstudios2018]

Thanks Miguel, glad you liked the video.