What You Need To Know About Working With Hardware Synths 🤔

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You're a good teacher. Doing an "advanced" version of this video would be a great idea! A couple ideas for things to add when you make your advanced video: 1. Ideas for patch management like sysex dumps, photos of knob settings, hardware integration plugins, etc. 2. What to do if you have duplicate notes going to the synth during recording (disable local control on the synth, or disabling midi monitoring) If I think of any more, I'll drop them here.

Seems like hugging a dog is an important part of making a track. It should be mentioned in the synth manual: "dog required for excellent results".

Just wanted to say that this is a prettry useful introduction, too, for someone coming at this from the opposite direction - years of working with hardware synths and multitracks (and a collection of over 70 various bits of synth hardware), and a relative newcomer to the world of the DAW.

With hardware synths becoming increasingly popular, I think a video like this explaining the basics was a much needed thing. Awesome video!

The second half about the midi data and how to record things is a valuable piece of information for beginners!

This is like the exact video I have been looking for and it came at the perfect time! Nailed it! Even better that its by one of my favorite creators.

First of all, I’ve learned so much about advancing my engineering and audio knowledge from you so THANK YOU for being upfront, concise, and simply a cool guy. Secondly, as a voice actor I can’t help but say (as I’m sure a million others have) that your voice is SO deep and resonant and perfect for these kind of explainer videos. Cheers!

Nice work, as always, Captain Cameron! A nerdy little point about balanced vs. unbalanced: a balanced connection (using TRS plugs) is only helpful if BOTH devices (the synth and the audio interface) have balanced connections. If only one of them is balanced, though, your connection will be unbalanced, even if you use a TRS cable. As you said it usually doesn't matter anyway, unless you're using really long cables, or you're in an environment where there's a lot of line hum.

I've had synths before and still enjoyed this video and clarified a few things. Thanks Cameron!

Thank you for this video. Especially the tips on recording and preparing tracks that will loop. I'm working up the nerve to spend a silly amount on a Hydrasynth Deluxe. It's rather big for a first synth, but I wanted something deep and powerful yet easy to navigate that doubles as a more expressive yet still very familiar midi controller. Something fun to just play around with on its own. I like the little touches like the front panel headphone ports too. And if you've seen their latest video even the single hydrasynth engine models can practically do a whole song with just one cleverly set up patch, so I can only imagine the patches possible with the Deluxe before even getting to doing anything to the audio output in a DAW.

Been messing with hardware synths (budget ones) for a while now, and this WAS helpful. Thankyou.

oh my god, I've been looking to purchase the Modal Cobalt 5s as my first hardware synth and this was so helpful. I'd hate to get the device without proper cords. thank you so much Cameron. I found you from the mindsets videos and can't believe how helpful your channel is.

Great video. One thing I would add is that in HW instrument if you click on the propeller icon, once you have your hardware hooked up, it sends a ping to estimate the latency in the system. It then compensates for that delay when recording audio.

Thanks Cameron - another great video, especially as I’m thinking of getting into hardware synths!!

This video fills a gap and is useful to me, kudos for explaining what setting in buffer size is good for what at 7:32. Keep up the good work.

Anyways happy to have your wisdom shared with us oh master of the Paul stretch 😄. I went from nothing to buying the asm hydrasynth keys, and still struggle with the whole concept of subtractive /additive synthesis and find it overwhelming trying to create 'good' sound simply because it can be so very complex.. Having stuff like this to watch at least gives the start of understanding to build on mate.. So you keep knocking these out, and I'll keep watching (I might even get to work out how the Paul stretch vst works properly.. Its a dark art!)

I don't know much about hardware synths... TIL that you can record both the audio and midi at the same time and that kind of blew my mind as it never occurred to me. Nice job!

Fantastic to see you do this kind of basic overview.

Thanks Cam. Yet another extremely useful and informative video.