As someone who absolutely adores synth with a deep passion, I'm so delighted to see you talk about a synthesizer!!! Always love your content, keep it up

"I'm sorry if I bored the pants off of you" I love nothing more than to hear people talk on and on about the stuff they're truly excited about. It feels like a gift to hear your enthusiasm every week.

0:39 fun fact: yamaha not only makes motorbikes, synthesizers, grand pianos and all that jazz, they also made engines for toyota (more specifically, the 1jz) and the exhaust system for the lexus lfa

8:02 *alien noises* dank:ÆÆÆÆHHHHHHH

Love seeing more people introduced to synths/electronic music. Its a truly endless landscape of styles and sounds.

I got to go to a music producer's studio and he had a CS-80 in his collection. It was insane! The thing was massive, and he had to pay a professional to get the thing tuned properly. It was the first synthesizer to ever be released with a touchpad aspect, which was a black bar above the keyboard that acted as the pitch shifter. Very cool video, glad to see you're doing reviews on synths now too!

As a survivor of New Wave, I remember when Synths were as common as apples at a green grocery. It's nice to see people are getting back into actually learning how to make music with them.

Mate, this is one of the best explanations of the features of synthesisers I have seen. As someone who is trying to get into producing electronica, your explanations are very helpful for getting my head around the steep learning curve. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Always love your material 👍🏼

As a music producer, I love that you made this video to get people into the idea of making music! Especially at my level there is a huge expectation of quality and ability, but dang it making music is meant to be fun and satisfying, even if you're just pushing buttons turning knobs and making goofy sounds. I have a plugin version of the CS-80, basically a software version, and even that is wild, there are tons of great little synths and music makers for not much money out there, as well as phone stuff. It's a mega exciting time to be an electronic musician.

The synthesizer is such an under rated instrument. A skilled person can create such cool tunes !!!!!

I'm an electronic musician (mostly) with a background in audio engineering, so I already knew all of this - but I watched all of it anyway. I love the enthusiasm you show for teaching people about new things, and I bet you manage to encourage people to throw out some of their preconceptions and biases away with vids like this. Keep it up!

Richard Tandy from ELO really deserves more spotlight in the synthesizer realm, the experimental noises and styles and skill he has were out of this world! He would end up using 6 or 7 synths if I remember correctly when they were on tour lmao

Why.....why is this only 12 minutes? We need like..AN HOUR of this! I wanna hear the funny aussie man with his slithery friend named Frank scream and tell me hilariously albeit informative stories while using a synthesizer.

I love that half of the sounds could be attributed to a sound effect or music we've likely heard in a movie or song. It was like pulling back the curtain on how they were made, but didn't take away the magic 😊

7:45 the audible recoil killed me 🤣🤣

5:24 you can't just play the most heartwrenchingly beautiful chord i've ever heard and then just Keep Going like you didn't just do that

This is unironically a great beginner's intro to programming synthesizers. Dank's ability to introduce people to things just keeps getting better.

Whenever I see UKposts DJ's do their best to remake Daft Punk's loops and stuff, it always amazes me what they have to actually go through to get a 98% close version of it. Thanks for goofing off with this synth and mystifying me a little, my man.

Man, this is easily one of the most entertaining videos you've ever produced. Making sounds is such a fun activity and having one of those would be heaven for me ahahahaha

This isn't boring at all! Its super fascinating to see this side of things! As someone who's never made music, but is wanting to kinda get into it, its nice to see!

This is genuinely the most fun I’ve ever had watching one of your videos. You’ve made me fall in love with drums, now you’ve gone and done it with synths. You’re the best, mate.

As someone who is addicted to electronic music and is in need of a midi synth, I love this kind of content.

This is my favorite synth. Music-making on it is immediate and fluid, and absolutely fun.

not even 4 minutes in and I already love this video!!! synthesizers are so cool... seeing the inside of the old analog synth is INSANE and makes me respect it all the more

4:51 man accidentally played the original Donkey Kong death sound

that is indeed a banana

This is a fantastic video!! It’s pretty comprehensive. We had a class or two of my contemporary music history college course dedicated to synthesizer history and how they work, and you have done a great job doing a similar thing!!

synths are incredible machines, anyone that says they don't play music is crazy... in the right hands, these instruments are absolutely nuts

I got the chance to play a yamaha cs80 in melbourne at MESS, and I have to say it's an incredible machine. For those that don't know, it has polyphonic aftertouch, which means after you play a note you can then press the key further down to shape the sound, and each finger can press down a different amount. It feels very organic in a way other synths don't often feel

I have both the Reface CS and Reface DX and these beauties are amazingly fun to use. They sound great and feel great under their toy appearance, I'd love to get the other two as well. The YC seems and sounds amazing.

I've been getting into making music these past few years mostly with samples and my own vocals, this is exactly the introduction I needed for getting into physical synths, thankyou Dank

The audio in this video is awesome. Like I love this kind of sound where you just bang out some notes and it sounds like a beautiful retro game or some music from sonic R. It's so cool.

im a part time solo music producer and seeing ol danky explaining how a basic synth works is just really awesome.

As someone who heavily uses wavetable and FM synthesis it always makes me happy to see the early forms of additive and granular synthesis still getting covered and especially still getting physical iterations. I might have to waste some money on one of these, thank you for covering it :)

7:59 The pain behind that muffled scream

At 8:50 the subtitles say “thank you” to Yamaha for being cool ᵐᵃᵗᵉ

awesome to see you talking about synthesizers, i started working with VST synths a while ago and these kinds of subtractive synths are actually surprisingly intuitive and fun to use despite how complicated they may seem. i think anyone that doesn't like electronic music needs to realize how fun and easy these are to work with on top of how you won't find another instrument so capable of making such diverse sounds

I bought one of these a few years back and I still love using it to this day. Awesome little thing!

The shear speed the Patreon names have to go in order for them all to fit is astounding! Great job man, the video was actually really engaging!

1:59 gets me every time.

I'm a young(ish) classically trained musician and I've always loved electronic music. It wasn't until after college that I really started getting into analog synthesis and really understood how complex and intricate of an art form it really is, all on its own! It's been years now since I've been fiddling with synthesis and I've still only scratched the surface. I've only released one song, but it's still been a ton of fun learning a new world of music. Thank you for making this video! I've been around here since the start and I've been waiting for the day you would make a video about synthesizers :) so many people are going to be exposed to it thanks to you, and for that I am very excited! I'll definitely be recommending your video to some of my students. Give Frank a big 'ol "WAAAHHH" on that CS for me. I'm sure she'll love it 😉🐍 Also, Wade mentioned Yellow Magic Orchestra in the video but I just wanted to second that recommendation! They were a group that truly evolved with electronic music over the years and they're a great listen every time.

Hey Frank! I really just wanna say your channel is one of the best nostalgia reviever I've ever seen your videos make my day

you've perfectly described why i love making electronic music. most of the fun comes from just messing with the sounds you can make even if you dont use it in a track.

I love this synth so much. Atomic Dog bass to brassy blade runner leads in an instant. The programing is so straightforward but it does not hold back with it's capabilities. Plus 8 voices is a must have for any synth owner and this will get you there affordability lol

This episode was amazing. Talking about music stuff is an amazing avenue for the channel. You could even talk about old sound cards, or even the history of how we recorded media.

i love this style of video man! its like a video essay but youre just infodumping about music stuff its great

Bro please do more of this type of thing, I'm a massive electronic nerd, seeing you cover this warms my stupid heart

I'm really happy to see you broadening your scope with instruments. I'm glad synth makers have started making new versions of their classics. gives people like me a chance to own something real that can emulate that old school sound without having to have one million VSTs. Now if only I had room for them all.

8:38 Yamaha takes this a step further on their flagship synths like the Montage. Every preset has an "audition" song, (which seem to be unique for every preset) that give you an idea of what the sound is like when played in a song by a professional musician.

i got one of these for christmas because of this video. best gift i’ve ever gotten thank you wade

I picked up the cs reface a while ago and it’s been a blast being able to recreate so many effects and sounds in literally hundreds of songs

Neat tax write-off I mean video! I love that you're expanding to synths and instruments with your show and tell style, it's a perfect complement to AudioPilz's Bad Gear series. I expect a crossover episode any day now!

The sound this produces is amazing, and it's so perfectly laid out! Everything is in almost exactly the order it applies in the chain of effects, and it's just so simple and clean, I love it.

Oh, yeah! Synths are nuts and it's amazing that people have learned how to get the sounds out of them that they do. I remember seeing in the credits of cassette and CD jackets the synth "programmers". Yeah, it took someone who knew what they were doing to get those cool sounds we heard in the 70's, 80's, and onward. Thanks for sharing - this was so cool!

i've never touched a synthesizer in my life but this is absolutely awesome, the noises it can make are hilarious

Analogue synths are awesome. The size of it is due to it going from wire wrapping to PCBs. Analogue synths are easy to DIYa and a fun rabbithole, kinda remind me of tracker music.

I've been making songs in BeepBox for years now, just as a fun thing to do on a slow Tuesday, but this video is honestly convincing me to take the next step and get a proper synth. You also explain this stuff so well, almost like you have experience in it or something

Electric instruments are really cool and fun. I don't think I could ever stop loving them.

u the type of person that describes what u like in an entertaining format, nice

3:47 THX THEME

There is something about the "Physical control" that is so fun, even though we can do this all with software modeling these days. Thanks so much Wade!

The synth is on the market for quite some years now. I know about most of it's features en I've seen numerous reviews of it. Yet, the way you explain the simple features (like the reverb) almost childlike with great enthusiasm got me cracking up. Honestly one of the best reviews if you ask me!

i can definitely see wade being a legit teacher in his past. this condenses the basics of synths in an entertaining and easy to understand way that i find so many videos dont achieve, hat's off to ya!

As someone who absolutely adores electronic music(especially Synthwave), this just shows how much dedication/effort/skill is needed to make some good tracks. Love this.

I’m a music producer and I’ve been trying to wrap my head around learning sound design with synths for the past 5 years. It makes me so happy to see you talking about them!

So this semester at my college, I took a class on electronic music. Its honestly so cool to dive into it, and your video couldn't have had better timing. Sythesizers and elec music as a whole are something else

I worked as a music shop clerk that sold Yamaha stuff and when I got shown the series of these at a product briefing session I was gobsmacked at how cool these were.

personally i absolutely love synths and keytars and to see someone enjoy and appreciate it makes ke really happy

A synthesizer is the last thing I expected you to cover, but being enthusiastic about music hardware, this is a very welcome surprise! I loved this video!!

Far from boring, I absolutely loved this. I love synthwave music and I find synthesizers incredible.

Synth, on Dankpods?! Not sure how I managed to miss this one. That Yamaha reface line looks so nice. I’ve had my eye on the the DX one for a minute

This is one of my favorite synths and i always wondered why on demos nobody showed all the wacky fun sounds you could make (: thanks for making this video, I'd love to see you play with the MS-20 mini!

Man I truly thought this wasn't going to be the most interesting episode but wow can't believe seeing an electric piano being played like that is very entertaining, makes me almost want to buy one!

This wasn't boring at all! Watching you explain something you're passionate about is not boring and will never be boring!

God, I need to get one of these! You need to do more videos like this, I love looking at instruments!

probably my favorite dankpods video in a while

As someone who is a REALLY big fan of chiptune, I gotta say I'm shocked that this is my first time seeing this, and I'm more shocked I don't have it. I need this in my life! 😂

YES! I am so on board for synthesizer content. Excited to watch this!

You did not bore me AT ALL; I'm actually very glad that DankPods is run by a musician with lots of experience and passion to share these instruments to the masses. I've been itching to make my own music, so seeing this video along with a demonstration was such a treat to watch, I lowkey wanna buy this (once I have better understanding on chords and music theory lol)

That was by far the best AA I’ve ever heard watching you. I almost did a spit take because it caught me so off guard 😂

Thank you for the AAs! They always make my day. As someone who learns to play keyboard with a synth, big appreciate this episode.

i think dank decided that the point 8:00 is designed to be memed

Love to see this content from you sir!! Best regards to you and Frank!

Not only the synth keyboards, but sound chips as well. Like the Yamaha YM2612. That one meant serious business in the Mega Drive/Genesis. Go listen to the Streets of Rage series' OSTs, people. Yuzo Koshiro doing bangers in the 90s. That's ART.

As someone who has at this point become pretty dang knowledgeable about synths, it was very nice seeing you so excited about them as I am. I hope this inspires some people to give a try to electronic music, cause it has a pretty low floor of entry nowadays and it's a ton of fun.

watching the videos you make on instruments genuinely makes me want to try my hand at making some music for fun. I have very little experience, but I think having fun with it and making things that sound nice to me is a good start.

Oh my gosh that thing sounds beautiful. I need one

4:06 TONY THE FIAT 126P BE STARTIN UP

The synth is literally like my fav instrument of the band. You can do just so much stuff with it and it can make some music sound AMAZING

Bought the Reface CS day 1, also the Reface DX. Great pieces of gear that will keep you creative and entertained for hours!

Since Horse The Band is one of my favorite bands, and I’m a musician, this makes me really happy. I’d gladly listen to you talk about any electronic gizmo or gadget on this channel.

9:09 getting some Gran Turismo vibes from that

Dank - "Theres only 12 notes." King Gizzard - "Hold my Microtonal Banana!"

One of my fav dankpod video, keep creating

Absolutely love Howell's Doctor Who theme - It's one of the sounds of my childhood. It always brings a special little joy to find it mentioned in the wild 😄

Not boring at all, this is very cool! The '80 have my favorite sound, and how you played around with that synthesizer was fricking awsome!

6:41sounded nostalgic for some reason

Oh this is gold 😍 you doing what I do every single day makes it look that much less boring 😂 love you made my day 🙌🏻

This is one of the coolest musical instrument I've ever seen. Amazing.

My dad has an old keyboard that I used when I was learning piano. Hated learning regular piano, but man was it fun just pressing every single button and seeing what funny sounds would pop up. I'm back into piano thankfully, but it's really tempting to get a keyboard like this, and just start messing around and seeing if I can accidentally stumble into making a song. By far the most versatile instrument in the world. Some of my favorite game soundtrack pieces were made from them, like 'Falling Down' from Megaman Zero 4 and most of the Risk of Rain 2 soundtrack.