I Tested Ancient vs Futuristic Instruments!

Today, I'm testing ancient versus futuristic instruments, like the flute that went from being the very first recorded instrument all the way to this super sleek electronic wind instrument. Or the microphone that used to literally just be a cone that you would talk into can now make your voice sound insane. This is an old vintage megaphone. The megaphone was the first way to amplify your voice. Here's my voice without the megaphone. And here's my voice with the megaphone. Then in the 1800s, we got the microphone. Not only could this amplify your voice, but now with a microphone, you could actually record your voice or any instrument or sound that you want. Check one, two, check one, two, check one, two. This mic actually has that really old timey sound. Now this is our microphone from the future. I understand if you're confused, this is a helmet, not a microphone. But what's built into this Daft Punk helmet is actually a vocoder. Okay, becoming Daft Punk in three, two, one. This is what a vocoder sounds like, but I can make it sound even cooler. Now when I play on this keyboard, my voice will go through it. Check one, two, check one, two, around the world of blue, da ba dee da ba da, da ba dee da ba. Oh, it's so hot in there. Next up, the xylophone. Technically, this is just wood with metal plates laying across. Don't judge me, I'm using drumsticks instead of mallets. It sounds like this, but we're living in the future. We have a lot more than just wood and metal. This is called a mallet station. This thing is ginormous. It's basically a giant marimba that can play any sound. I haven't played the marimba since middle school, so this is going to take me back. This is so cool. So obviously, this sounds like a marimba, but you can also play super cool synth sounds. With the power of technology, this is now the fartophone. You can even load orchestra sounds on here. This ancient instrument is called the djembe drum, but if you're a fan of this channel, you probably know I'm not good at drums, and I don't know if I ever will be. So once again, I've invited my good friend, Aaron, to come help us play some drums. And as you know, I only have you on this channel when I have drums, because I'm bad, and so I just use you. That's fine. It's kind of weird, because you're touching goat skin or something. Ew. Yeah, it's a little gross. Yeah, that is gross. I guess this is not a vegan instrument. Ooh. Yeah, vegan instruments. I'm out of here. Have you ever played a djembe? I've never played a djembe, but every drum's the same. See, look. If I try to do that. Wait, I'm kind of popping off. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Why am I here? Yeah. The ancient drum is pretty simple. I think it's time we go to the futuristic drum. This is an electronic drum kit. Each pad on the drum kit has very sensitive impact sensors, which let you hit really soft or really loud. It even has an onboard computer with a ton of built-in sounds. And since these sounds are fully digital, you can play these silently with headphones on. It really sounds like real drums. Yeah, they're not bad. Man, I wish I could do that. Can you teach me? Sure. One, two, three, four. Hey. You're doing it. I am doing it. You're doing it. Sibbles, sibbles. Hey. You're going too fast. This is a grand piano. But before the piano, there was the harpsichord. In the 1300s, the harpsichord worked by a player pressing down on a key on the keyboard, which then plucked a string kind of like a guitar. The only problem was you couldn't actually play soft or loud. You could only play at one volume. Later on in the 1700s, the piano was born. The piano was similar to the harpsichord, but instead of plucking each string like the harpsichord does, the piano got hammers for each individual key, which let you play really soft or very loud. But pianos have come a long way. We now have insane keyboards like this. This is called the Roli Piano M. You can do much more than just pressing hard and soft on this keyboard. Obviously, this keyboard lights up, which is pretty cool. So now you can see your music in color. On top of that, this keyboard has aftertouch, which means you can actually press harder after you press the key. And you can even wiggle side to side. You've probably noticed there's not very many keys on this keyboard. Well, you can actually just connect another one. This is my favorite keyboard from Roli. This is called the Seaboard Rise. And yeah, your eyes are not deceiving you. This entire thing is made of rubber. The Seaboard Rise still has the normal key layout, so you can still play your notes. And I can still wiggle my finger. But with certain sounds, you can do even crazier stuff. Watch this. I really love that you can slide on the top and the bottom of this keyboard. Because sometimes you don't want to slide and hit all the keys. It's just nice that you can... This organ sound is very cool. Because you can actually raise the rotors. Ah, so cool. This is the earliest version of the guitar called the lute. The traditional lute dates back to 3100 BC. Look how many pegs there are! This thing has like 13 strings on it. I have no idea how to play this thing. Hey! That's kind of like a guitar. I'm playing like a A? No? I don't know what chord this is. No? Well, that's it. That's all I'm going to get. But you know who knows how to play guitar better than me? My dad. Alright, this is my dad. He's the one who taught me how to play everything I know how to play on guitar. We're going to try some different guitar stuff. I'll give it a try. It took me like 30 minutes just to tune this. So if it sounds weird, that's my fault. First of all, the lute is extremely light. Whoever came up with this design, I don't know if they knew what they were thinking. They were just trying to be different. Is there anything you can play that's the same as a real guitar on the lute? I don't think so. Because this is a D chord, and it doesn't sound like a D chord. So you have to find other fingering positions. Over time, the lute evolved into the acoustic guitar that we all know and love. Then eventually, electronics became involved. In 1931, the electric guitar was born, and pairing it with an amplifier made a crazy sound. And now we have a super futuristic guitar amp called the Lava Studio. This thing literally looks like it came out of an alien spaceship. It kind of looks like an Apple product. It literally looks like a Mac, and it even has this crazy 13-inch screen on it. It looks like a whole iPad. I know. Even the stand looks like an Apple product. Okay, I'm just going to plug it in. Okay, so right when we start up the Lava Studio, we already have some amp presets. We have like a clean sound right here. That's really nice. It's got some effects on it. Yeah, it does. The amount of bass coming out of this is pretty insane. And just like a real amp, you can actually turn these knobs and adjust your amp settings. Wait, I want to hear Crunch Rock. Hold up. I want to try something. Okay, Metalcore. So, I didn't want the delay effect on here, so I just turned it off. Okay, comment if you know this song. Okay, so if we go here to Lava Plus, we actually have a ton of backing tracks and all kinds of different keys, so you have something to play along with if you want. Let's try an E blues backing track. It's so fun. You can play along with the backing track and it shows you which chords are playing so you can play the chords or do a little solo lead on top. And if you play something with the backing track you really like, you can record it. What's crazy about the Lava Studio is it even has its own mini DAW. So, I opened up the mini DAW and we have one track here and we're just going to lay something down. So, you can lay down a bunch of sick guitar tracks and then export to your full digital audio workstation if you want. Okay, this is kind of insane. This thing has AI stem isolation, so you can separate all the different parts of a song like the drums, the vocals, the piano, and add or remove whichever parts you want. Oh yeah, that's crazy. It literally labels them all. We have drums, bass, guitar, piano. So, if I just want to hear the drums, or the guitar, I didn't even hear piano the first time, or the vocals. That's nice. That's kind of a big feature. Honestly, that takes a lot of horsepower. Here's where it actually feels like an iPad. You have apps. Lava Studio comes with Spotify, the web browser, Apple Music, and YouTube. So, you can watch all the Landon Purifoy videos you want on the Lava Studio. Hey, look. There's a subscribe button. It's right there. You guys should subscribe. I'm going to do it. And you guys should also subscribe to my YouTube channel. Also, in the Lava Plus section, you do have lessons. So, if you have the Lava Studio, you can learn how to play chords, you can learn how to solo, you can learn how to improv. The list goes on and on. Hey, it's like you're getting private lessons just at your house. Okay, I just found out there's also community sharing in the Lava Plus section. If you click on My Posts, you can actually post your own loops, loop jam, and improv that you've made. And there's even a draft section if there's something you're not ready to post. That's insane. There's over 300 backing tracks on here. Get lucky. What the heck? Yo, they have Daft Punk on here. No way. This is sick. Okay, I'm going to turn Get Lucky into Seven Nation Army. Okay, I'm just going to save. And right from here, I can post to the community. And people can add on to your loop if you allow them. Post. Cool. Having a subwoofer made this a 2.1 audio system, allowing you to listen to your favorite music. And it sounds really good. Personally, I use Apple Music, which it has on here, which is so sick. I wonder if my synthesizer will plug into this thing. The synthesizer sounds so cool through the amp. So really, you can plug in any instrument to Lava Studio. Thank you so much to Lava Music for sending out the Lava Studio and sponsoring this video. And thank you so much to my dad for making this thing sound good. My pleasure. This is the earliest recorded instrument in human history. Well, a 3D printed version of it. It's called the Neanderthal Flute. This flute made of bone was discovered in the Divyabab Cave in 1995 in Slovenia. The flute seemed to be made out of an animal bone with holes being carved out to control the notes of the flute. Okay, I'm going to try to play this thing to see what maybe the earliest instrument sounded like. Okay, I finally got this thing to make some notes. Here you go. And it makes you lightheaded. I don't think that sounded too terrible for being the very first recorded instrument in human history. But recently, the flute has evolved. This is the Roland Brisa. The Roland Brisa is an eewee, an electronic wind instrument. We've used eewees in the past, but they've always been in the shape of like a clarinet or a saxophone or something like that. But this is the first eewee that you can play like a flute. I've only played a real flute a couple of times and this is actually way easier. Instead of using the right embouchure, all you have to do is blow straight into this part. These breath controllers are great because you can blow really soft or really loud. On the back of the Brisa, you actually have a nice little screen and all the buttons you need to control it. I want to try some of these other sounds. Here's the alto sax sound. Oh my gosh, there's strings too. Oh, this sound is sick. There's a church organ. This eewee is very cool and pretty futuristic, but it almost costs $2,000. I don't know if this is worth $2,000. It is really cool though. This is a vintage phonograph. The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. The phonograph was actually the first way you could listen to music at home. All right, we have a vinyl record right here. I'm just going to place it on the phonograph. Okay, now the record is spinning, so I'm just going to drop the needle. It sounds good. That's music? Eventually, everything went digital. Now I basically have two vinyl records just on this DJ table. You've seen a DJ before. They're very skilled. I'm not a skilled DJ, but you can assign whatever you want. So I have this song playing right here. I can stop it. It's kind of like you're stopping the spinning of a record. And then you can assign things to these buttons. Pretty cool. And you can even mess with things like the EQ right here. But now we have the Sway by Automa Labs. This device lets musicians and DJs control music in a whole new way. You can literally use your hands. Look at that. That's so sick. So the Sway basically has these light sensors that can see where your hand is moving left to right and up and down. Yo! Dude, that's sick! Dude, that is so cool. Whenever I move my left hand through this grid area, and this hand modulates an effect. So apparently the guys at Automa Labs, they just noticed that DJs move their hands to the music all the time. So they thought they'd invent something that can actually do something from moving their hands. You can actually make this controller do anything. But the way that we have it set up here is I'll play the song. Those vocals come in. And you can actually control that bass line. And then if I go to the left and right, it's doing an EQ on the drum track. So I can go to this button and it's kind of like a DJ turntable effect. Super sick. Thanks so much for staying till the end of this video. 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