Novation // Bass Station II Performance
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- Bass Station II analogue synthesizer performance
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Bass Station II is an analogue mono-synth based on the classic original Bass Station but re-worked for the 21st century. It has two filters, two oscillators plus a third sub-oscillator, patch save and a fully analogue effects section. Add a step sequencer, arpeggiator, full sized keys and a powerful modulation section and you have the makings of a synth that is built for bass, but capable of so much more.
Bass Station II key features:
• Analogue synth: brand new version of the classic Bass Station
• Two distinct analogue filters
• Load and save patches
• Pattern-based Step Sequencer and Arpeggiator
• Dedicated Tweakable Controls
• Two Oscillators plus an additional Sub Oscillator
• Analogue effects section
• Flexible modulation featuring 2 Envelopes and 2 LFOs
• MIDI I/O and USB connectivity
• Players 'synth-action' keyboard with aftertouch
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I was more excited to buy this synthesizer before watching this video
me too....... this guy does nothing for me....... weird pile o shit PA as well
It backfired. lol
Hahaha 100%!
i realize Im pretty off topic but does anybody know a good site to watch new series online ?
@Mark Maverick Flixportal :D
Funny, there's a shitload of videos out there of people just twiddling knobs on equipment or pressing pads on a bloody MPC, where most comments are along the lines of "awesome mate" "dude fuckin a" "you rock dude" and all that shite, and then this guy actually plays a couple of instruments and people like to rain down a load of abuse on him. People eh.
this is like a masterclass in how to patronize and insult your target demographic.
Can you elaborate?
@@adam.recording Synthusiasts are mostly just tweakers :p
@@fullmoonofus2683 ignorance is bliss, right? :P
I'm actually more interested in the guitar stand...
Chris just get a mic stand and some duct tape smh.
I thought the exact same thing!
That guitar st and !
Aw man, I must have one!
That settles it, I'm buying an Ibanez.
He is talented but it sounds like the dentist to me.
How tf do ik exactly what you mean by "sounds like the dentist" music makes too much sense and it ends up making no sense
what did i just watch? Did that guy just get off work managing an Olive Garden, untuck his shirt and start jamming?
Made me LOL!
You see his hustle? That's a man who is just on break. That explains why he has to play the guitar and synth at the same time and why they didn't have time to mount the cameras securely. You can actually see the part at the end where he remembers table 15 asked for more breadsticks.
Eric you made my day
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hahahaha too funny.
The Novation sounds great. Love the saveable patches. This video though is so cheesy.
I've yet to see an intelligent criticism to this video. I don't see why everyone is hating this. Sure, the guitar and video FX are pretty lame, but I feel it shows the synth in a decent way.
This is possibly the worst product demonstration I've ever seen, and they get REAL bad
James N So you're basically saying your decision on buying a new synth is based on the way it is presented in an advertising clip?
It's a demo, not an advertisement. I watch, I know more about what it can do. Job done.
I liked the part where he stopped playing.
Neddskorg
Exactly!!!!!!! LOL!!!! haha
Any guitar can do that if you tune it to open tuning and play and play the open chord as you let go..., sounds like this guy is in drop D here and did just that...
Hahahaha
But it can arpeggiate
omg it was utterly terrible - trying to appeal to drum and bass heads - but it sounded really bad..
To all the haters on the BS II, I just got mine today. This thing is freaking insane. The video may suck, but the synth is great. I will be trying to plug my guitar into it to see if it will give the sonic mayhem I am hoping to achieve.
lonzenator post video plz
+lonzenator Forget the damn guitar, nobody wants to hear that. Just play the synth for God's sake and post the video! :) :-P
This is the problem with the world today - the highly trained people who the big money to buy tons of expensive synths all use it for rock and electric piano and doing rush organ solos, oh yeah.. and that GoPro soundtrack stuff for skateboarding at speed. Poor synths.. I feel sorry for them.
And the synth fans and every other musician who wants to use synths for creating music/art and for making synthy and electronic music.. well.. can't really afford to buy everything we need.
Synths deserve respect. Please don't be playing muzaky dubstep for commercial ad jingles, etc...
+lonzenator Forget the damn guitar, nobody wants to hear that. Just play the synth for God's sake and post the video! :) :-P
This is the problem with the world today - the highly trained people who the big money to buy tons of expensive synths all use it for rock and electric piano and doing rush organ solos, oh yeah.. and that GoPro soundtrack stuff for skateboarding at speed. Poor synths.. I feel sorry for them.
And the synth fans and every other musician who wants to use synths for creating music/art and for making synthy and electronic music.. well.. can't really afford to buy everything we need.
Synths deserve respect. Please don't be playing muzaky dubstep for commercial ad jingles, etc...
Lol at the comment about chords, it's a mono synth.
Directed by Eric Wareheim
best fucking comment oh my god
I was literally telling my girl how dope the music & video is! Totally inspiring. Then I c all the negative ass hater responses! So un-original to talk shit on people that actually put themselves out there & not just shit talk.
This fucking sucks to this day
omg this shit is hilairouss
hentai Not as much as your spelling... ;)
I literally come to watch this every time I want to feel better 😄 it's kind of a classic in its own right!
Badass synth though. Hopefully most people have figured that out by now.
Holy shit it's actually Zardonic
I was thinking about buying this. After watching this video I don't want it any more ;)
Bushcraft Beats So if anyone making a product presentation doesn't meet your exact personal taste in music, to you that's a reason to hate on the instrument and make fun of the person demoing it? You know, I'm not a huge fan of house music. If I were as narrow minded as you I couldn't have any synths at all (except for this one maybe) and would probably spend the rest of my life writing hate comments. To me this was one of the very few demos that actually make sense, too bad so many "critics" and "synth experts" just don't seem to get it. Has anyone ever wondered if this guy maybe had to follow certain instructions to keep the sound simple intentionally to give us a good impression of the raw oscillator sound and character of the filter? The performance requires precise timing on synth and guitar, nice arranging and mixing skills and has a great dynamic build up to it and the arpeggio ROCKS !!! Just what exactly is your problem, dude?
Why all the hate? He's just here to show the possibilties of the Bass Station. So there's the bass sounds in the beginning with the filter knob, running the guitar through the machine in the middle and the aftertouch in the last bit. Packed in a sort of advert type film on music that will appeal to a lot of people. It's not meant to be his greatest artistic performance. The guy works at Novation (and Ableton?) is featured in a lot of instruction videos. Lighten up!
Amen. I think people are a wee bit too down in the dumps..
but the bs2 can do so much more! he used only half the knobs and kept fucking with the cutoff and making generic bass sounds with no character. if his goal was to show the possibilities of the bass station he failed in my opinion. also, he's playing like some malfunctioning robot.
Eamon Campbell-June Haha! Well, I will accept your comment because you clearly love the bs2 and feel it has been wronged. But even you are a bit mean at the end. Maybe he IS a robot, how would you feel then?
Also I've just bought a Mininova; what would a Bassstation bring if I bought that too....
Just look at him, the way he dances as he plays looks like a father who just walked into a club that’s playing his favorite trance song.
I think it was a bit monotone and unmelodic so not everyone's cup of 🍵?
How to un sell a product. I think ill go buy a potato.
+ElectricMoose why the hate man? can u explain?
its a poor demonstration of what the synth is really capable of.
ayy mr 16 years old big boy cussing over the interwebs
@elecricmoose it is fuckin dogshit
hahahahahaha! that's the best comment i've ever seen in my life. !
Pretty fire if you ask me
Sure the song isn't the greatest, but the point of the video is to show you the full range of sounds that the instrument can produced, and all of the things you can do with it. That being said, this thing looks dope, and I can't wait for mine to get here.
Aphex saw this vid and was like "Damn, I need to get involved..."
lol
he'd turn this shit off in half a second
I don't see why people are ragging on this video so much. It's properly recorded and rehearsed, and does a nice job of showing-off the Bass Station. It's not the synthesizer to end all synthesizers; it's only two octaves, and relatively standard in its features.
If you like it, buy it. Novation has always generally produced decent gear at affordable prices.
Whenever someone online hates on a synth (or in this case a performance) I imagine it's because A.) They sit in front of their computer and make computer music and could never do this and B.) because they think their microkorg and pirated software sounds waaaaaaay better. In other words the people that suck at music production are the first to criticize. They suck at understanding subjectivity. They suck at online interactions. I have a BS2 and it's a good synth. Most synth heads that have played one agree. It's the youtube kids that haven't and what a surprise! They're the first to say "it suckz".
People hate on it because it has been edited heavily and the song is actually not live but coming completely out of a DAW. It suggests you can do all that stuff in a live situation. In reality this video is a collage of separate performances edited in post to make it look like its waaaay more cool than it can be in a real live situation. It shows what you can do in a studio but not live. So i guess this ticks people off.
The synth is great anyway. :)
Wll i mean technically you could do this live it's just annoying, would take a lot of (unnecessary) practice and a fairly expensive set-up. As far as i can tell this is just a fancy way to show people some of the sounds of the Bass Station as well as the feature to use the filter section on another instrument. They are not hiding the laptop and launchpad but i think the bass station sounds themselves are "untight" enough to actually have been played live... albeit you can never tell if it's played right there on the spot. Probably it is a mixture of live performances stitched together and a fair amount of pre- and post-production.
This is aspiring! Thanks for the amazing video.
Dont know why all the hate, this f ing rocks
Thanks!
it's not hate...it is how musicians express themselves..... what they r saying is the mans set up is a million dollars to rich..... a huge dancehall sized PA and full stage to show off what? some pre-set noodling at best ......
Typical armchair internet musicians who know a lot but can't string a track together to save their lives. This guy has skills, and whether or not you like the music (which by now you must know is a subjective matter and your opinion is thus trivial), you can't deny that.
WTF are you talking about? This is only an advertising to show the features of these products only not to see how much wonderful is this guy.
He's really not great, coming from someone with limited experience, could understand everything he was doing and none of it was particularly hard or original.
"this guy has skills" as an actual musician I can tell you this is not the case
Well I've waded through some hate posts, and yours isn't that hatey, but it's monumentally condescending and assumptional.
'As an ACTUAL musician'? Seriously?? So this guy plays keyboards (of which you have NO idea to what degree) and guitar (of which you have NO idea to what degree) yet you pompously exclaim 'as an actual musician' YOU can tell it's NOT the case? Talk about, up your own arse!
yes, i can tell to what degree this guy can play keyboards and guitar based upon what he chose to play here. it is a limited degree.
imagine paying money to see this guy play.
I don't want to!
I would
Whats wrong with it? Just because he is not presenting Rachmaninoff-type virtuosity, what he played still sounded decent
I don’t know, I’d be down to pay like 5 bucks.
yeah we'd love to see what you can do
Truly a performance for the ages
Things get really butt at 1:02. No idea how someone could take the time to produce this commercial, play it back, and not think that sounds like straight up dogshit.
When the arp comes in at 1:18, all other music is made obsolete for all time.
Dafaq ur in the matrix
lol :D
Still enjoying this performance in 2023 love novation gear
Mine BS2 is coming next week! (2024) 🌴🌤
Amazing
The size of them speakers behind him are nice. The guitar on a stand is neo-euro-cheese. 'DIS IS HOW WE PLAY GUITAR IN HAMBURG , YA'
Yeah, that was pretty cool.
When your mom accidentally buys 2 bass stations instead of 1
Not understanding the negativity on this vid.. but I think it's pretty awesome. However, I am concerned about the hardware vs the software. I have the plugin version of the bass station, and it sounds pretty thin.. lacks punch... not my go to for bass.. before I buy the hardware version, I hope it doesn't sound as thin and lethargic as the plugin version.
I love the guitar part!!!! almost felt like he was going to play the mortal kombat movie theme before the guitars kicked in
I wonder how many times platinum have the albums of these critics gone...?? or at least how many world tours they've done w/ top artists...?? my guess? none. These clowns remind me of the guys at guitar center who know "eXACTly what you need". Clowns.
True. It's all going from the guitar into the Scarlett 2i4 which is treated via Live with some guitar processing plugins, then into the second BSII with a ext input mixed with synth. The beats are one continuous scene in Live triggered by the Launchpad. I create the first patch from an Init. empty patch, displaying a fair amount of the synth's parameters, then show off some of the filters / presets. I played it to camera a few times to get it right and we all went home. Love the BSII it's deep.
C'mon its was a good performance, i mean, its a bass synth, alone its sounds kindda empty, but it was ok to me.
Actually people always hate synthesizers performances, independent of the performer skills, just show me a gear perfomance's video that got love, people love to hate, it's simple.
A great example of how that synthesists cornball favorite 'overwinding the filter knob' gets extremely bloody annoying.
awesome O.o
what is this Rubbish, im sorry but all he did was used the pitch bender on the novation bass station. This is Terrible, I mean terrible. Sorry :(
Perhaps this is a really shitty product seeing as NI manage to produce the most beautiful demos with their Maschine products.
Trop bien ! Envie de l'acheter tout de suite !!
I was literally telling my girl how dope the music & video is! Totally inspiring. Then I c all the negative ass hater responses! So un-original to talk shit on people that actually put themselves out there & not just shit talk.
indeed.
Man this comment thread.... standard youtubers I guess.
I can't explain why but it looks crappy. It seem like everything is right there: some cool gear, bald guy with damn beard, and even guitar which rocks the planet, but it doesn't work
This is, how do you say in America, "tight".
The hate this synth gets is hilarious, are you people really expecting a clean lead sound from something called the Bass Station? It's supposed to make bass sounds and does it very well, it's not supposed to be the centerpiece.
i serisously had no idea you could plug a guitar in and use the filter. sweet
This guy is great I want one of these because of his artistic talents, even though I own a lot of synths this one is hot.
gross. just gross..But still, the BS2 is a pretty good synth
I really just want to put 1:02 through 1:31 on repeat and/or make a whole musical piece out of it.
why so much hate i think he is great
OH MY GOOD ............. :/ NO COMMENT
this is super sick efforts, loving the guitar/synth play, tasty.
Microbrute it is...thanks for narrowing decision
🤘🎹🤘
This sounds awful. Is this meant to sell the synth? My god.
I could programme better with an egg box and some and a tub of butter.
Soulonaut Do it.
Not challenging you, I honestly would like to hear a song made out of those.
Soulonaut You know it's one thing to say you don't like something and another to become disrespectful and arrogant towards things you don't like. You should at least try to point out exactly what you don't like about this demo. Simply claiming you could have done better seems rather pretentious to me and I doubt it. There are basic rules of respect, too bad you don't seem to follow them. I can tell you exactly what I like about this, would you mind saying what you hate so much about it?
what stands are you using for bass station and launchpad?
people who have looked this up or came across this video, rather than to spend your energy in reading these pointless critiques, look up actual reviews. i like this keypad controller. all the things someone with a mix of brains and soul could make.
Decent performance, but did not really show off the Bass Station. Considering the amount of hate I am reading here below, I must be in the company of a bunch of Juilliard graduates who like bullying!
Wow novation how did he do that thing where he made the camera shake every time he played the guitar
sooooo awesome. when the guitar dropped i got tingles down my spine!
When he dropped the guitar I got fractures on my foot
I don't give a damn what anybody else says - I LOVE THIS !!!
There's a few comments about how a monosynth can't handle chords here. Well, if the Novation has an input so that you can filter external sounds, then whatever goes in that input will be available to the Novation's filter and be outputed with the synth effect added. It just treats the audio inputted as a waveshape, one note, chord, entire orchestra - it doesn't know the difference.
I only like my synth demo videos with corny chorus guitar.
No wonder my garlic bread and caprissiosa pizza was late.....
You'd think the company making these synths would find a famous producer who's using it and get him to do a product demo, this demo was awful and it sounded terrible. Why no effects or anything, just sounded really weak. Sorry for the negative comments and I'm sure you spent a while putting this video together however if everybody here is giving bad feedback hopefully you'll take it on board for the future. Afterall you want to be making videos that will make people buy your product. I used to make music and I remember a novation bass station was something that everybody wanted.
Hi Novation,
I have my BS2 set up in Live 9 and I would like to make a whole track using BS2 patches only.
So far every time I create an arp and then make a new track for a bassline the arp patch changes to the bassline too.
What am I doing wrong?
Do I need to render the arp to audio first and treat the tracks separately or is there a way of getting the patches sent on separate channels so that I can jam and make real time changes as the track progresses like you would with VST's?
Thanks
My piano schools guitar teacher has one of these and theyre pretty loud
Wow, in awe of the number of armchair musicians negatively commenting here, who've probably never released anything worthwhile in their life. If you're not one of them, my apologies. But I don't see any memorable names like Geddy Lee (now there's a man who can play bass and synths) commenting here. Maybe because that kind of empty bile is beneath them? Seriously, if you can't say anything positive and constructive, move on and do something positive with your life.
Yu can make very wild rockin bass/guitar sound leads with this thing, it is a very versatile machine. here's a pretty solid Bass sound I got from the Bass station II it can get a bit wild. Check it out. It can get you some amazing sounds. It's very worth the purchase for those that like to sound design, for sure.
@o
How to successfully promote a musical product. Hire someone with aspergers/add and let them do the rest.
There are 2 things that make me wonder if this was all recorded live (besides the drums) ...
Chords @1:36 are not played but are still coming out from the bass station.
The guitar chord keeps hanging @1:30 even if he let off the guitar
He probably triggered it on the Launchpad with his left hand around 1:35, so it will play on the next bar.
And the guitar is tuned to Drop D, so the first few strings played open will sustain a D power chord.
***** Hello Esteban! He cannot trigger clips from the launchpad as all 6 clips are already playing all along the song (see @0:46 and at the end @2:12). As for the guitar, have you ever seen such a perfect fade with an open power chord? But maybe you are right for the guitar chord... I found another one. Look at the patch numbers between 1:54 and 1:59. At 1:55 he changes to patch 73 but at 1:58 you can see that the patch in the keyboard is 71. This video is clearly an edition between different takes. As for the audio, I also think that this is not a truly live performance of the synths and the guitar.
Pablo Arias You're right! But it's still a good video showing off an awesome piece of equipment!
just bought one brand new and the arp doesn't fully work,it only works in up mode play mode and sequencer mode but no down, or up/down 1 n 2,any ideas before i take it back?surley these should be working fully out of the box?
Anybody know what that two tier keyboard stand is?
+Dana Sullivan Sorry, Dana - we can't remember. This video was done quite a while ago.
+PriVacy Matters I think this is a Quiklok QL-642. There is also a three tier version, the QL-623.
This is an unrealistic performance. It would be more relatable if it was a 14 year trying to “sync it to my DAW” for 3 hours then returning it
why do so many manufacturers insist on demoing a new synth with such awful muzak ;(. Sounds like Linkin Park and some fake DnB.
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Got my month ago and already use it in every my new productions.
Same as I use my Mininova
I hope Novation didn't pay this guy for doing this. WTF is he doing? If I need a good laugh I come to this video and laugh my ass off....Bwaaa ha ha haaaa ...this is some funny shit
Some ppl call this music today, and I still can't see how and when that happened? When did I enter this foreign infernal dimension?
For those moaning about the guitar. Hes actually got it routed through the 2nd BS2 on the left as he faces us and is controlling FX through that.
anyone knows a video link to a Mainstream Band playing,
the BS II live, and sounding Good link a funk style, not just techno?
If you want to hear Bass Station IIs funky side, you should check out the work of Darrell Freeman: ua-cam.com/video/OlbbvTGNw6o/v-deo.html
Him playing the guitar isn't to show he can play the guitar but to show you that you can run external instruments through the bass station.
Yo, the Bass Station is great
Buy it and make music to get some bread
DUUUUDE
Music is getting worse every year. While soul-sucking gadgets get smarter, people become stupider.
Good video. But please disable comments so all the haters cant hate...
Of all the sounds they could have advertised, they used a simple fucking sawtooth. Wtf.
Gross...
Novation, trying to copy Arturia's "live" dual-synth + guitar product demo. And doing hilariously worse. Pretentious, cheesy, less fun, less demonstrative of any sonic range.
And it's not hard to believe that Arturia's demo could have been done entirely live on two minibrutes, a guitar, and a looping pedal, even though it wasn't.
Honestly i can only see 1 real problem with this: There's nothing that makes me think i want or need this more than my MiniBrute. Otherwise it looks and sounds like a quite capable synth.
Should've ditched the cheesy guitar-bit - you're trying to sell a synth...
I don't say this often about things I watch but that was incredibly like for real incredibly
HAHAHA. TERRIBLE!!!! Appleby's night manager got home to jam! Trying to stay slightly irreverent with his little beard.
Thanks, man.