My response wasn’t aimed at ‘you’ or your music , more to the idea of innovative instruments coming out , many launched at events like this …
Verbos made his first standalone piece of kit with midi control - wild it hasn’t gotten any coverage yet. Maybe bc they are out in the cabins? Is that far away from the main event space?
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True. And also not in the other youtubers’ videos. Bo made a video about lesser known companies, but compared to the mass of lesser known companies and inventors that have been there, it was really underwhelming and did not catch the vibe.
There was a huge hall/room full of one modular thing next to the other. In the Zeltstadt (next to the 10-EUR vegan gyros pita) there were the even smaller exhibitors and one-man-companies like Twisted Elektrons, Error Instruments, JoMoX (great to see Jürgen and that he is still doing what he’s doing - he also had his neural synth there) and many I didn’t know before.
In the other Zeltstadt (next to the Zirkuszelt) there were like concept tents. Acid booths with all kind of acid machines to have fun with in collaboration. A tent full of antique stuff and modular, a real MS20 etc. And a tent where the people from the school of fine arts of Katowice presented their impressive soundlab equipment which there is one of a kind and they brought it there! 
The youtubers’ videos also don’t catch the interaction between regular hobbyist visitors and the exhibitors and their machines as well as the fun they had with each other.
Example: I started the ballerina from Error instruments and then the guy next to me got excited (so great to see and and feel his excitement) and he started figuring it out, then another one came who really knew how to play the modular and there was a fantastic jam in minutes.
And there were a lot of people who took their time, sat at an instrument with headphones and were immersed into sound. At some places like SOMA there was some kind of hippie drum circle atmosphere, right next to it the Lyras and Pulsars and nice desks with preset manuals, many alligator clips, for the people who wanted a 1:1 date with these.
This year I could attend only one day (spontaneous decision) I am sure the workshops were great and I am planning to attend at least 2 days next time.
Also everything was so overwhelming that I didn’t catch as much sound as I had thought (with pulsar, the Zoom H2 was in standby record all the time 
) and made only quick photos. On the other hand I am happy about the true memories of the impressions and talks that are much more vivid, because I did not record it. (And I think some talks have been much easier because human-to-human about machines for human enjoyment but not through or to machines (like the camera).
I am happy to have found the 5twelve vector sequencer, and, by talking about it here, numerology software. That would have never happened on youtube where the algorithm decides what you see. In reality I went through the rooms and was drawn to the interesting for me stuff from the angle of my own eye.
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Beautiful write up. That echoes a lot of my feelings and experience.
I don’t think many videos will. They are far more rushed in the interest of being the first one to cover something, and some vendors are kinda on edge because they know this is the “interview” that thousands of people are going to watch and consequently use as the basis for forming their opinions of how everything sucks and is boring.
Copying my response from another thread: Most of the back and forth can be summarized as
looks at synth before any sound is even played
”Oh that looks niceee”
vendor starts playing
interrupted with a barrage of “OK, OK,” ,”YEAH”, “OH WOW…”
They just approach these manufacturers and with no value whatsoever start the conversation with show me the goods instead of demoing themselves like we do (while having an organic conversation at the same time). Very little focus on what makes an instrument unique/standout and instead focus on what the instrument has in common with everything else on the market - which is the opposite of what should be happening.
TL;DR a YouTube video is not necessarily going to give you the full picture/insight/connection. If you know you know.
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It’s in the links, $149 USD for the Solo Kit (bring your own Metropolix), or $699 for the Metropolix Solo
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I think the concept is too narrow. There are whole industries that produce just for hobbyists. Be it oil based colors, acrylic pens, special carving knives, home keyboards, motorcycles, camera equipment, or modular musical instruments.
Most buyers don’t produce art for commercial galleries or for sale. They don’t have races with their motorcycles. They don’t give concerts with their digital pianos. They don’t exhibit or sell photos made with their Leicas or Hasselblads.
It is about joy, interest, exploration, novelty, also sound, structure, and: machines
OT lengthy text personal gain from music machines and not making great music with it
For me, for example, the joy comes from the sound itself, from deeply understanding universal principles, like dialing in harmonies with analogue oscillators, or understanding FM synthesis, or understanding sequencer logic, or the mathematical principles of harmony and rhythm. I do practice the piano, to better understand Bach. But I am so bad with it. Nevertheless it helps me understand music better when I hear it. I love listening to live concerts with original instruments and original tunings (there’s a term for that, forgot). That’s why I love to listen to the sound of original machines. There is, for example, something to the original TR-707, that the TR-626 does not have (soundwise), no matter the specs. I love to recreate style, like complex polyrhythmic stuff or Detroit techno style. That practice very much increased the joy I had, when I again listened to the first few Axis records lately.
I am happy that I discovered I will never publish a record. And I won’t start a review youtube channel. I load up some stuff to have it available. And for social interaction with likeminded people. Most of my graphical stuff is not published. But I enjoy creating it in hyperfocus.
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Yo, thanks.
Hahaha 
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It’s okay, you saved the trimmings right? Can always glue them back on if the clean shave look doesn’t suit you.
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That prezel tho
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Thanks for this detailed look behind the surface we see from the videos. You may have singlehandedly convinced me to try attending next year.
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The Verbos Sawtooth Stack is a 5 osc synth voice based on the foundation osc with timbre control. It has 2 envelops. Waveshaper from sine to saw and ofcourse spread aka detune control … in stereo. (Now we need verbos stero modules too!). And its bigger then bark filter
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Im unfortunately struck down with covid so I couldn’t attend superbooth…
We had super plans hanging out with the great ex-elektron people, Fors release party, and many other things. Everything got crossed out few days ago after getting a positive test.
I love retro video game tech n music machines - but not diseases… (Bad joke) 
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OT
I think you mean HIP historically informed performance
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I’d really like to see a demo of this.
Oh no that totally sucks!! Hope you are getting better soon! And hope to see more from you as well.
My most favorite most watched YouTube video is you and Nick showing the history of Elektron on Sonicstate 
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Yeah, Cuckoo’s beard drop might be the biggest news out of Superbooth this year.
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same. somehow iam sick