Hainbach

New Video: The Soothing Ambient And Microtonal Depths of a Decopunk Synthesizer

Added 2023-09-04 05:32:48 +0000 UTC

Hey Ipsters,

I set the premiere time wrong for some reason, probably because so many things on my mind, that the Terra vid came out at night, while I was fast asleep. So apologies for anyone waiting in chat. Uploading music after coffee, and the preset pack once I return to my home in Berlin.

"This is the Soma Terra, a microtonal digital synthesizer released just this year. Soma send it to me a while back for feedback, but I only got to play it now (sorry Vlad), as I felt this instruments deserves time and space to learn. And I was rewarded. Terra is a digital synthesizer in a shape that seems archaic, like a Decopunk harp straight from Bioshock. It has an interface that takes the touch keyboard experiments that Don Buchla pioneered further, making for a very responsive instrument. It uses specially coated sensor to translate touch into control. Terra allows a while range of tones, from soothing ambient to screaming microtonal noise, with an impressive range of expression. But it has its quirks that relate to directly to the minimalism of its design."

Love,

Hainbach