Agreed on both points.
One of Lyle Mays’ instruments in the early days of Pat Metheny Group was an autoharp. Maybe someone will argue it held him back. Not me.
@SlickD75 Ableton has a free interactive music theory site here:
Agreed on both points.
One of Lyle Mays’ instruments in the early days of Pat Metheny Group was an autoharp. Maybe someone will argue it held him back. Not me.
@SlickD75 Ableton has a free interactive music theory site here:
I was in a fusiony jam band in the early 2000’s. There was this old poet that would come hang sometimes and do some vocals. One day he showed up with a strange device I had never seen before, plugged it into a delay pedal and took the jam to outer space. Turned out to be an omnichord.
That was my introduction and I’ve loved them ever since.
Damn. That actually sounds fantastic. And I have a version of ableton! Thank you!
I struggled with theory until I started using a MIDI piano roll, and then all the bits I had half-understood came together quite quickly.
I find it easier to learn with visual input as a rule so YMMV, but being able to see how intervals relate, and just stacking the notes of a scale vertically and then pulling the chords out horizontally made things much easier for me, and before long I was writing as fluidly as I was on guitar, and soon after I was doing much more complex compositions than I ever thought I’d be capable of.
Regardless of how you choose to proceed, just keep at it, read as much as possible even if it’s more advanced than you think you’re able to grok, you’ll pick up little things here and there that’ll work their way into your practice. And have fun!
Had one years ago, not worth the price they are going for now
The new Omnichord the OM-108 will be shown and launched at Winter NAMM on January 25th. It will be a fraction smaller, with a few new things, like an added chord, new sounds, and new patterns, but otherwise pretty similar.
No price yet.
ok, Meme time:
Me: Mom, Can we have Omnichord?
ElektroMom:No, we have Omnichord at home.
Omnichord at home:
Me: Thank You Mom. This is the most brutal, flexible and sexy Chord Machine ever created. What? it also has 6 tracks?..WhAt? All tracks can be Chord Machines!??.. This is the best day ever. LOVE YOU MOM!!!
that’s the most depressing (for the modelcycles I mean) implementation of an unformatted meme I’ve ever read. how about this instead
meh…
I will allow it this time.
want it to be:
150 dollars/pounds
will be:
500 dollars/pounds
Was it Phoebe Bridgers?
lol, the ad does not mention the drum machine section
$800?
I love the demo so much. I knew it was Let It Be, but I didn’t expect him to sing! Then he goes right into dropping beats without a breath! I really liked his earnest enthusiasm.
Omnichords are still sought after by people who just want to have a nice old fashioned sing-along so I think this captures the spirit of that really well.
Yeah, they definitely got the right guy for the demo job, what a legend!
800 freaking dollars?! Don’t even worry about it. I’ve been in the theory books ever since I started this thread, so I guess omnichord indirectly helped me out a lot with learning chords and stuff.
charlie hustle.
According to this article, the “analogue circuits” mentioned above mean the sounds are square waves produced by digital chips then run through a (presumably analog) VCA
KRM Music Systems - Omnichord Power Burnout.
Bunch of videos uploaded yesterday. Too many to post them individually so just go to the channel
https://www.youtube.com/@suzuki_music/videos
Ok, here’s one - comparing the OM-108 drum kit to the OM-84 kit