William Jacobs

@wrnjacobs.bsky.social

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"""""musician""""" https://www.youtube.com/@william.jacobs

YT studio stats for my most recent video: the "Est. revenue" shows £0.01
a video export window: the file name reads "test render 1.0 hope final", to export to a location called "WiiMus"
a loaf of fresh-baked bread in a dutch oven
We are currently at a pivotal stage with our project and are looking to move away from traditional marketing. Instead, we want to invite a select group of **talented musicians** to explore the future of AI in music with us. We know the conversation around AI is complex. That’s why we aren’t looking for "promoters," but rather **collaborators** who can help us explore how AI can genuinely assist the creative journey. We’d love to see how someone with your professional ear interacts with our engine and hear your honest take on its potential.
Hi **William Jacobs** (in intense suspicious bold font)
These quirks feel like artefacts of an earlier, more excitable synth market, when mini-synths weren't trying so hard to be so serious all the time. With fun-size music technology, we're always whipping ourselves up into this debate about whether something's a real musical instrument or "just a toy". In a failure to realise that this is a false dichotomy (how about both?), a lot of newer gear following in the Volca's footsteps feels almost insecure in the face of this distinction, tripping over itself to be ever-more clinical, ever more "pro". It's refreshing nowadays, then, to use a synth with such a charming roughness about it. It's unashamedly toyish; joyfully imperfect - and what that means is that it's brimming with that ever-elusive quality among synthesisers: personality. And I don't say that just because of its sometimes strangely-conceived feature set: let it be known that the Volca Keys has a sound, and a unique one at that. It sounds almost brash, slightly metallic; maybe brassy, with this fuzzy, appealing warmth buzzing all around every patch. A pretty comprehensive array of controls allows for substantial shaping of this sound - in particular, the 700S filter is equally happy taming the oscillators as it is sharpening them to a screaming point - but ultimately the basic sound of the Volca Keys is an inviting and lovably rustic foundation for further sound design.