Because he sounds like a british army surplus Vince Offer.

Because he sounds like what you'd imagine a short-lived character in a Charles Dickens novel would sound like.

typo: hipsters *saying* shit

ps. If a hi-hat sample is used then I guess its not a modular mix anymore

I know what you are getting at, but I don't think this guy thinks analog is like 'better' than using computers, it's just he happens to enjoy tinkering with the analog stuff. Once you start actually messing with the electronics, analog is a really different experience and skill set than digital.

If you watch his other videos he sequences stuff with MIDI and he obviously edits the videos on a computer. It's just fun to make your own instruments with steel plates you found on the side of the road and cheap discrete components.

Yeah I am very pro tinkering. I think less I'm disapproving of this guy, and more just generally rankled by hipsters with their "no, its a *modular* mix, that means its better"

Hipsters are like the boogeyman on poetv and have been defined in many ways and accused of many heinous things. But here is another one; They're cultural / disciplinary tourists. They think that by buying the 'correct' things and saying the 'correct' things they are now a practitioner of a certain discipline, without having really investigated it at all for themselves.

I was going to say, this is basically the Furby Gurdy remade by the sort of person who can afford $10,000+ of synthesizer modules and support hardware (unless he built them all himself including the racks and that keyboard, in which case maybe $3000-$4000).

A sure way to get attention on Youtube is to own a bunch of stuff your viewers can't afford.