my son loves music
he found out how to work with garageband on Ipad
he loves Ipad and he loves Garageband (and he understands it better than I do. Pretty cool app, didn;t expect it to be like that).
He also loves MS20 (Ipad) and some korg fm synth I have on Ipad. Smpler is too complicated (also for me, never understood that app).
But he wants to make music with me on real machines
Unfortunately the digitakt is too complicated for him. MPC live way too complicated and A4 MK2 even more complicated.
What do you think? Good idea to buy Model:samples for my 5 y old son?
There are some cool machines (mainly kickstarter) for children that I guess are more suited as a beginning with hardware synth music. Even some of them that can be played together with you. I guess this is something children enjoy most.
On the other handā¦ A good excuse to get a model samples
M:S is way too complicated for a five year old, and really expensive too. Maybe just some iPad app? Or some traditional instrument?
I feel like with M:S, or with most of electronic devices most of the time would be spent trying to make some sense out of the interface instead of being creative and/or musical.
i know this Dato Duo, it is dutch (and I am from holland)
it is nice.
so too complicated.
hmm, thank you
but not what I wanted to hear, I thought āI buy something with my wife for our child, and then I can play with it all the timeā
I would get him the Pocket Operator Po-33. Itāll allow him to sample his surroundings (like all of his noise-making toys?), and Iām sure heāll have blast
In my opinion and experience, those āsynth for kidsā things arenāt all that great.
What does seem to be great are āknobbyā synths with keys that allow direct control over most parameters. This allows them to be played directly and it invites experimentation.
Minikeys work much better than full-sized keys for obvious reasons.
A sequencer is nice, but itās apparently more fun when the steps can be manipulated directly.
Think of something like the Korg Monologue of the new Minilogue XD.
Kids love sampling, but be aware that this will mostly be used as a gimmick to speed things up and slow things down because itās funny. It doesnāt seem to invite much music making.
My son has fun with a po:speak. You know, that you can talk into it and make funny voices. I would not invest too much money at first into synths for 5 year olds. Today this is cool, tomorrow that.
Iād second the Novation Circuit. My 5 year old daughter who has no interest in music, loved to play on it. She actually came up with some pretty cool stuff accidentally.
If your son can use GarageBand, he will fly on the circuit! Just might need your help importing samples!
the word āsuitableā does make sense 