Iapetus - instrumental synth prog rock

[OrganBea]

Amazing...

[chromakey84]

so are you using a sequencer to play the music or an arpeggiator? or are you using some music recording program?

[teflontdgr]

Do you ever use your Virus KB for controlling MIDI? I'd like to play softsynths etc through mine but can't quite seem to figure out how. Out of the box it simply won't transmit MIDI in any shape or form. I guess it's something to do with the OS menus...? im so clueless, and the damn thing came without a manual to boot! any ideas?

[djomercohen]

nice playing

is it a virus B\C?

i own a virus TI 2 and i wish it could sound more analogue...

[FrenchClub1]

all this good synths for a only this!! mamamama .. quel gachi!!

[evil903]

damn. Nice work!

[Delgift]

Overwhelming, crafted, creative and heavy-sounding = AMAZING!!!

[eliezerkorevaar]

Muito bom!Já vi outros vídeos desse cara todos são nesse nível!

[duobomber2]

Dude! Wow! Excellent sounds. Extreme talent!

[brucewbowser]

very very cool... dude your good ! !

inspiring to say the least ! !

5 stars and a sub !

[catfaugh]

thats quite good.

theres this other guy like you... silver swordzman ya shud take a luk at him hes on youtube:)

[marBinvargas]

this is fucking awsome!!! men, great stuff, love the song

[glitch1]

ph'nglui mglw'nafh cthulhu r'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[CR00K]

This is great. I've been playing this videogame series called Tekken for years. This video definitely reminds me of it. You should search Tekken music on here. It's quite amazing.

Subscribing.

[IbanezRokr]

You should do a synth cover of metallica's call of ktulu

[countfuzzball]

Hey, what scale/key did you use for 2:22-2:28 or so?

[hamsterdunce]

C-minor

[zjenas]

man, I love what you're doing :D

[JMJarvinenStudio]

Ia! Ia! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fh'tagn! :D The Great Cthulhu rocks with synths 8D

[immasuperninja]

i subscribed bro i like your sound it would make rick wright proud

[flatpick4eadg]

Very creative and appropriate score to represent the mysterious Iapetus.

What is it?, where did it come from? how can one account for its strange physical chareristics?

Look at the craters, they have no detritus piled up around their periphery, they look more like the result of an internal collapse that allowed a section of the outer surface to fall leaving clean edges. Suggesting an artificial origin.

[flatpick4eadg]

And that nearly 10 mile high ridge around the equator, dividing the northern from the southern hemisphere.

And that black face! From whence it came?

Mysterious Iapetus quiet as silence can get but bursting to tell its story to the first venturesome explorer lucky enough to get there first. Things we cannot know yet, tax our patience and, feed the yearning to know.

[MorfGworfmim]

Sweet tone from the synths! Nicely done!

[RazorBeanMaster]

nice great skill

[skinnypuppy1]

yeah! more Cthulhu he's cool!!!!!

[MansightJoker]

This is awesome! I really love music, and I really want to play progressive rock on my keyboard. Mine is a Juno-D, and I think that I just scratched it's surface potential. Any tips that I could begin progressive rock with. If you do plz reaply

[Chumleh]

Dude, wankage+newgrounds+Cthulu. You have to be the most awesome guy alive.

[CamelTheLamb]

this is pretty rapetastic

[classicscenes55]

wow loved it did you teach yourself how to play ? just curios im about to by my first synthesizer microkorg looks like alot of fun :)

[buminbeer2]

I've played the boards more then 25 years (long live the 80's prog rock). You losers below who cry he has more money then talent, shut the fuck up. I'm sick of wanna-be's who blame their gear for lack of talent. This guy has both and he bought his gear along the way because of the love of music. In the 80's I wrote great music with a Juno 106 and a Sound Canvas. I'll bet most of you hammering this guy about gear could not play a rain storm on a $5000 Synth. Let's see your videos, idiots.

[ZJhontu1]

@buminbeer2 Tell 'em Brother! Took me 20yrs and my wife buying me toys I really don't need to get all this stuff I now have. Love your comment. Nail on the Head. Kraftwerk, Thomas Dolby, Duran2, Depeche Mode, and many many under appreciated talents. LONG LIVE SYNTH. Later.

[mongobongoman]

anyway hamsterdunce definitely has alot of talent

[alanator]

who's to say this guy is rich? for all you know he probably saved up every extra penny he could to buy each of those synths because he loves it that much. that's how i got all of my equipment, just accumulating it over time.

[hamsterdunce]

This is pretty much it. Nothing I own is worth more than $1000. If you can save up & get something new every couple years you too can have a mountain of crap by the time you're pushing 40 (like I am).

[phartnauker]

i hate rich people. wtf i wish i had the many keyboards like WOW totally jelous:( and nice playing :)

[Greensmurf]

Haha. I know the feeling. I'm currently unemployed, and plotting to break into this guys house

[mongobongoman]

so basically you're saying that you hate people who are in a position you wish you were in.

[phartnauker]

nawh just people with more money then talent really.

[mongobongoman]

thats such a pig headed way to look at things poeple work hard for their money so it doesn't matter how bad they are if they've managed to make enough money to buy something then they deserve it whether they are talented or not, and it goes the other way round you could be the best musician ever but that doesn't mean you 'deserve' good gear you just need to work hard and earn some cash.

[phartnauker]

i didnt dis him up i just said more money then talent. i didnt dis his talent either. just not as much talent as money. and i do think that people with the biggest amount of talents (worlds greatest) deserve their great instruments because they have proved they have the talent to go with the money not the other way around.

[mongobongoman]

well I've realised that I really don't care what you think

[phartnauker]

lol good for you? i dont expect some random kid from the internet to care to much about my opinion whether im right or not.

[atranimecs]

Reminds me of "Star Ocean: Til the End of Time". I'm glad to hear your improved percussion, in my opinion the 80s sounding drum samples sounded cheezy.

[belzoboy]

Oh yes! You Rock!!

[mrrrks39]

you are my idol

[DanAlexNicholls]

You shred synths

x

[BrentMB79]

please dont put squid head in your vids, that little bastard gives me the willys!

[thedarkener]

That was BAD ASS!! So cool. I wish I could play kb like that. Awesome setup too.

[evergrey9]

incredible

[hamsterdunce]

Sorry to mongobongo man... accidentally removed your comment instead of clicking "reply." I HATE how the two buttons are right next to each other... crappy design, YouTube! Anyway, his comment was "where did you learn to play." I am self-taught. My parents had a big Lowrey organ and I learned how to play "Smoke on the Water" on it when I was 4 years old. Never learned how to read music, proper fingering, or even to use my left hand for much more than cupping my ballsack.

[BrentMB79]

Dave,

I think at one time I had Lapetus, and the doctor gave me some antibiotics to clear it up. Im not 100% sure but I think it comes from peeing in the bushes.

[buminbeer2]

Dude you rock and neing a board player of 25 years plus, I know talent when I see it. I'm self-taught as well and sure all my "fingerings are wrong" as well. I've seen some of your other videos and convinced to add a JD-800 to my collection (Only play Roland :) Thanks for your time and talent.

[tubellarbells]

Mmm...I don't think I could say anything else but what are you waiting to release put this together with a few other killers like this on a cd !!. I've been collecting and listening to electronic and prog. for ages now and this really brings back faith in the new prog. scene after so many boring copycats. This reminds me a bit of the power or russian masters like Artemiev or eastern- europe based Lazar Ristovski. Any chances to get this on a clearer copy for my radio shows ??? WE WANT MORE...

[JaHatschuKaschu]

furchtbar

[dafttv]

nice music

[Roddeo29]

Sweet dude! I love prog stuff like this

[solomusician24]

dude that was f*cking amazing you rock.... hey could you send that my way? i might be able to do some guitar work over it if it's cool with you. just curious was that piece mostly in C maj/A min cause i started jammin to it like hafway through cause of the groove you had setup and i can't play by ear but i just played through c maj/ and it's modes and it sounded tonally accurate? so i'm just curious for curiousity's sake. btw you rock to the max dude when ever you're in claifornia we can jam.

[kw231263]

Nice setup and great playing.5 stars

[rx321j]

on second thought. if you want some killer drums recorded to that awesome ditty, send her my way without the drum track. i can record at 44.1,48.0,96.0 24 bit. let me know, i have collaborated with musicians overseas...it is a really cool process!!!

[rx321j]

...cool man!!! i have a song named Iapetus also...rocking!!!!

[sumgie1]

That was pretty neat.

[they403]

Awsome stuff! Do you play your stuff out live anywhere? If not, GET OUT THERE!

[hamsterdunce]

Thanks for the vote of confidence... very cool & nice to hear. Nah, I don't play this stuff live... nobody local in CT wants to hear this bullshizz! Just me & you & YouTube for now, I'm afraid, but hey, that's better than nuthin' right?

[thecaptainshow]

humm!

[AirHendrix91]

Do some Mars Volta!

[ColinBobbyDartford]

The legacy of Rick Wakeman et al. Oh Lord.

Nerds with racks of keyboards churning out vacuous pap, desperately trying to emulate the 80's synth explosion in some new form.

How fast can you run up those scales? Those endless days of trying to match the prog wizards of old. Watch my fingers but don't listen to the actual shit I'm producing.

I'm suprised you didn't end it with an orchestral stab.

[akuma327]

Oh, another pretentious YouTube troll.

Show some sort of appreciation for the effort behind this video.

[hamsterdunce]

The fact that you watched my vid & had enough energy to write such an elaborate comment can be taken as nothing but a compliment. Thanks Colin Bobby! Let's race cars.

[ColinBobbyDartford]

No problem Jan.

How about a cover of the Miami Vice soundtrack given your 'special' treatment? You could use a strap on synth and everything! Imagine the hard on you'd get.

[rx321j]

...you are funny!!!!

[BrentMB79]

Cool of you to put down your super NES long enough to post cupcake

[ZJhontu1]

@ColinBobbyDartford two simple words of your choice so pick - You Suck. or Shallow Fool. Its about people being conductive to the flow of music thru the soul and out into the physical. I know I'm wasting my time cause ya just don't truly get it. Sorry for ya. Hell I can't play shit, but I really have a great time fucking around with it. Your life must be just full of perfect situations. Is that why your soooo cynical? Try some INTROSPECTIVE INVESTIGATION sad LITTLE LONELY mind. Connect.

[ColinBobbyDartford]

@ZJhontu1 It's called having an opinion and expressing it. It's what YouTube is all about. Don't agree with me? Well done, you've expressed an opinion. My life is full of imperfect situations - it's the imperfections that make it worth living. Having said all that, this piece of 'music' is still a pile of toss.

In my opinion. ;-)

[AssyNipple]

very nice work man! prog is the best

[keynoise]

Hi,amazing, is it the virus Ti under the Nord?

[hamsterdunce]

Nope, Virus kb... can be had for around $600 used on eBay... just gotta keep an eye out for 'em.

[keynoise]

Thanks,go on with Your fine music....

[ironman270]

it sounds like a crystal methad track of of there vegas album

[janling242]

.....nice

[revhard05]

syth is short for synthasizer which is a machine that makes artifical sounds

[animeanibe]

Sweet!

[Biopharmer]

Nikelbim Trippeldimenkyter Roffimineskaolde Gremin Bifferton Legmonde Beremium Forth Craduliez Bibbles

[hamsterdunce]

my thoughts exactly

[gacayana]

im a noobie when it comes to this stuff lol. what exactly is a synth?

[The777truth]

Mate. This is the beat I've been looking around for ages. Add some interesting percussion timing and you would have a tune many would be addicted to.

Seriously interesting!

[8888Tritone8888]

You have a lot of money to buy so many good keyboads!!!

[hamsterdunce]

Nah, I'm just old

[omez101]

lol

[AirHendrix91]

Do a Mars Volta song.

[hamsterdunce]

Their music is heavily dependent on their very unique singer. It would take big brass ones to try and cover those guys.

[NORFIE123456]

not to be a critic or anything (because exscuses my ignorance but i dont know the 1st thing about synths) but i reckon this stuff would sound a shite load better with FL player if you had that

[d3c2p1]

sick. That is impressive. You have phenomenal touch - explosive, but extremely light.

What do you do?? I want to get quicker fingers to match the pace of my mind.

[hamsterdunce]

Heh... thank. Yeah, I can't play on anything but a synth with this light fingering style. I sit down at a standard piano and feel like I've been in a coma for fourteen years, unable to exert enough pressure on those keys to even play Chopsticks.

[Bassoonandsax]

Yeah they are no substitute for each other, I like the light touch bords But some times a piano is needed for the right feel. Good job that is really cool.

[Bat0u89]

so you think it would be difficult to master both types of keyboards? i play standard but i also have a m-audio midi controller, on the midi i play have the speed i play on the standard piano

[rdwnensleepnpils]

this is good but your drums are too loud in the mix

[xxc3lld4m4gexx]

agreed

[TenThousandFeetTall]

no, I think the idea was to get a live sound, which works fine for this

[locobeis]

same lead tone as vitalij..

[dWintermut3]

Reminds me a little of Edgar Winters Group. Great, great song, I love it.

[k4nnun]

sounds like this should be a tekken stage song or something... really good!

[666SaImoN666]

your music like the Dream Theater music xD

[bongierastaman]

Great music =) (and cute cuddly-Cthulhu too =P x)! )

[deluge71]

Excellent...reminds me a little of Kevin Moore's work with OSI. You've got a great thing going. Keep it up!

[RossTehBoss]

Awesome song.Thanks for the link and nice Newgrounds shirt.

[audiotrax2000]

Once again...brilliant stuff! You should be a trend :)

[Spaghettaboutit]

Eh, sorry if you said this else where, but how do you like your Virus kb, I was thinking about getting one on eBay.

[hamsterdunce]

One of the best deals on eBay are for older Viruses like the kb or Indigos. Definitely recommended.

[Spaghettaboutit]

Yeah, hear Tool uses a Virus B(not kb), and I normally use those as recommendations for something I know little about. Eh this would be my first keyboard/synth...but hell why not....hmmm does the kb have all the same inputs/outputs as the b? Cuz I heard the only difference is that the kb just has a keyboard.

[shevy56]

Woah..nice one!!

I'm thinking about getting a synth for Crimbo..maybe a MicroKorg...could you post me a link for a good one?

[JingleJoe]

microkorgs are overrated sure thay CAN sound good but there are other synths for around the same price that are so much better! I recomend any Roland SH [inert number here] just go to a good piano/keyboard shop and ask if you can be shown and try out some good synthesizers!

[DTGuitarX]

Whoa, sick! Subscribed after watching this one and your "Devil Went Down to Jupiter" and microKORG (which I now own) videos.

One question though, how on earth were you able to make a prog piece such as this with Garageband? I didn't think that it allowed time sig changes...

[hamsterdunce]

It ain't easy... but you can lock measures' beginnings and endpoints to eighth and even sixteenth notes in GB. Once the loops are the correct length, they can then be looped as usual. It's just the measure numbering in the timeline becomes sorta arbitrary then... :o)

[DTGuitarX]

Aha, brilliant! So you kinda just set the click as a smaller subdivision and ignore the measure counts then for changes?

[hamsterdunce]

Yessir! That's what I do, anyway...

[DTGuitarX]

Awesome, thank you so much! I'm going to start writing some basic wanky prog stuff myself now with the microKORG...someday hopefully a moog little phatty!

[Freedomcall82]

you rock man! sweet synth song!

[fischek]

I am glad the Nord didn't go away after all ;)

[hamsterdunce]

It did, actually... but I bought another one last month. Just couldn't deal without it!

[fischek]

hahaha - even better! :D you know, I was contemplating the idea of selling it in order to buy the Virus TI - I won't do it though ;)

[MM1982]

I've been wondering ever since I've seen your videos and covering Hot For Teacher. Do you know any other guitar oriented songs on keyboard that you can record for us? Also just curious but can you play any Dream Theater stuff as well?

[hamsterdunce]

I've been practicing Erotomania (off their Awake album) lately but, as usual, just as a goof.

[MM1982]

Thats cool, keep up the good work man probably one of the best keyboardist I've seen here on youtube or hell in general.

[accordionsfrommars]

Good job, Dave

[nigznigz2]

I can do cart wheel

[Godz3839]

fantastic. =D

[codybird34]

newgrounds shirt! :D

[Jskeli]

Wow, you just don't like to be bored do you? Good stuff. Liked the "tug on the stuffed Cthulu for the hell of it". Good stuff.