SYNTRX II - Modular Synthesis Without Cables!

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  • Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
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    Stamps:
    0:00 - Hilarious jokes
    0:55 - EMS Synthi (Side Of The Moon)
    2:18 - Is the sequel better?
    4:00 - Patchin
    7:26 - Oscillator Feedback
    8:40 - Polyphony?!?
    10:51 - Crazy noises
    12:27 - The SYNTRX trio
    15:09 - About your fence
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  • @JustMikeH
    @JustMikeH Рік тому +62

    I know you are a great musician, but having that fact demonstrated occasionally really reminds me how much I appreciate your musicianship. Love the multi-instrument jam! That got my day off to a great start.

  • @BB69175
    @BB69175 Рік тому +28

    Yup, sounds like a synthesizer alright.

  • @olddecimal2736
    @olddecimal2736 Рік тому +5

    The royalty free tropical house joke murdered me. ❤

  • @suboptical2732
    @suboptical2732 Рік тому +28

    Damn, i think this is my favorite jam I’ve heard you do, I definitely wouldn’t complain if you made an album along these lines!

  • @rochefsky
    @rochefsky Рік тому +23

    OMG that multi-instrument at 14:00 must be on the next EP!! Awesome!

  • @fumarolas
    @fumarolas 10 місяців тому +3

    The "polyphony???" part is just so beautiful!

  • @gepmrk
    @gepmrk Рік тому +6

    The Synthi AKS had a touch keyboard built in to the lid. It also had a memory function so you could play something on the keyboard and it could play it back on a loop. People used to ridicule the keyboard because it wasn't something you could play Beethoven on but you must remember that synths weren't intended to be played in a traditional sense. Attaching a 'proper' keyboard came later with an eye on the commercial aspect.

  • @GeorgeL909
    @GeorgeL909 Рік тому +23

    Dude starting at 13:00 that jam got me. Sinister and melodic, then the drums and bass. Very year zero era trent reznor sounds but with a jazzy flare that makes it sound very unique. *Slow claps and leonardo decaprio martini toasts*

  • @oystercatcher943
    @oystercatcher943 Рік тому +4

    Really awesome jam at the end. The Syntrx II does sound incredible and I just love the experimentation you can do with at. At my skill level, space and budget software synths and a single controller are all I can justify for the moment but I loved seeing and hearing this

  • @joefilbrun
    @joefilbrun Рік тому +7

    Wow. That was one hell of a synth demo. Nicely done, sir!

  • @stellar_cartographer
    @stellar_cartographer Рік тому +6

    That jam was awesome Benn!! Made my day. Thank you so much for what you do!

  • @donoru
    @donoru Рік тому +6

    You teased this, but it’s finally happening! Can’t wait. Considering buying this and you’re the one person I was hoping for a review from.

  • @johndeluca-howard4442
    @johndeluca-howard4442 Рік тому +2

    That escalated quickly.

  • @JoshuaFricke
    @JoshuaFricke Рік тому +1

    First of all, I love you. Straight up you were the cool uncle I wanted to be like when I grew up. You are a part of some of the most beautiful moments in my life. A soundtrack to my childhood. Every album is a masterpiece. Every one. On top of all that your humility is loud and clear every time you open your wholesome mouth piece. You inspire creativity and learning and you’re not just helping us grow, but inviting us to join you every time you talk about something that you’re passionate about talking about. As long as you love what you’re putting on this channel, we love watching it from you. Thank you for being the person that you are. I’m confident that whatever content you put out will be an inspiration to somebody, the world needs more Benn Jordan. That’ll be your only real-talk love later I’ll give you. You are fellow musician from this point on. lol❤

  • @jon_gee
    @jon_gee Рік тому +3

    10:00 is magic!!!

  • @BigPlasticPlant
    @BigPlasticPlant Рік тому +1

    I love this channel so so much. That was fantastic.

  • @h2o1969
    @h2o1969 Рік тому

    Thanks for family time. I have wanted to hear these two together. And the trio jam was fantastic.

  • @LarcTald
    @LarcTald Рік тому

    I’m a sucker for those noise tone experiments you made. And what a cool jam berrynice Benn!

  • @jdaddyaz
    @jdaddyaz Рік тому +4

    I got a lot of respect for Benn, and his continued donations to the ACLU. You're the man. Oh I forgot, the SYNTRX II is a beast!

  • @moirot
    @moirot Рік тому +2

    Killer track at the end!

  • @Somewhere_sometime_somehow
    @Somewhere_sometime_somehow Рік тому +2

    Loved the para/poly demo!

  • @metricaldimensions
    @metricaldimensions 2 місяці тому

    Fantastic demo man. I don’t comment much. I have watched loopop demo as well but yours is better. You broke down real useful sounds as well as experimental stuff. I like to record both. You also play instruments behind it. I am so excited to get mine. I have been eyeballing this for a year or two and finally get mine in a few days. Fantastic price Sweetwater. I have not bought a piece of serious gear like this in a long time.

  • @mpstrgc112
    @mpstrgc112 Рік тому

    That was a really nice track at the end there Benn!👍

  • @hakonsoreide
    @hakonsoreide Рік тому +13

    Surely the plural would be Syntrces, not Syntri?

  • @kenb7540
    @kenb7540 Рік тому

    Great synth. Love the jam ! 👍👏🏻👏🏻🎶

  • @Rebel101
    @Rebel101 Рік тому +1

    Nice chops my man!

  • @walrtbstudios5430
    @walrtbstudios5430 Рік тому +2

    I’ve wanted a Synthi since 1973, but as I was 14 at the time and no way could I get my hands on £329 the dream got put on hold. However, I retire before the end of the year, and finally- after more than fifty years- I will get my hands on the closest thing possible to the Synthi A for less than ten grand. I cannot wait…

  • @user-bk4vc3ys9o
    @user-bk4vc3ys9o 5 місяців тому

    I've heard a lot of video endings, but this is SOMETHING!!! SUPER. THANK YOU

  • @paradiddle16
    @paradiddle16 Рік тому

    It sounds awesome!

  • @ingolf7411
    @ingolf7411 Рік тому +1

    It's like the "Wow" signal 😉. A great demonstration.

  • @michaels8607
    @michaels8607 Рік тому

    the 12 minute jam is all Benn...sickly funky..the 16 minute jam is amazing,reminded me of 'Vose In'....

  • @RedMeansRecording
    @RedMeansRecording Рік тому +2

    Hey benn is the last jam jazz? Is that jazz? Did you make jaZZ?

  • @jordans5218
    @jordans5218 Рік тому

    Great jam with the HD-01. I love mine ♥️ I'd like to see you do a video and use all the triggers as a concept. Thanks 😊

  • @morgennachwacken
    @morgennachwacken Рік тому

    i realy like your research- and opinion-videos. like the one about supersonic-weapons, i liked very much 🙂

  • @andivax
    @andivax 11 місяців тому +1

    nice sound! Trio track is very "Shpongle vibe" stuff, respect!

  • @RocketCurry
    @RocketCurry Рік тому +1

    heya benn, I'v just started learning bass and my evening treat has become jamming along with your gear demos, so when you did it in this vid too then that was real ace and nice and stuff lotsa love x

  • @jeremjerem
    @jeremjerem Рік тому

    What a beautiful instruments...🤩

  • @olddecimal2736
    @olddecimal2736 Рік тому +1

    Mad beauty @8:56. Very uplifting.

  • @dystopiannoise6782
    @dystopiannoise6782 Рік тому

    Sick drumming and video! Made me wanna jam

  • @michelvondenhoff9673
    @michelvondenhoff9673 Рік тому +1

    Gear that looks like laboratory equipment 😎 Imho the most interesting synth of the moment, not cheap but awesome 😀

  • @Paul-uy1ru
    @Paul-uy1ru Рік тому

    That jam man! Sick

  • @bobule
    @bobule 3 місяці тому

    Great jam at the end. Love the upside down guitar, thats how I learnt also but I relearned when I finally got some lefty guitars.. Comes in useful when I wanna play someone elses though!

  • @Winterdagen
    @Winterdagen Рік тому

    Oooohhh I love that melodic patch! Didnt expact that indeed:)!

  • @Genghis_Sean_
    @Genghis_Sean_ Рік тому

    That jam at the end was so rad

  • @kylerjones1007
    @kylerjones1007 Рік тому

    I love Benn Jordan like Benn Jordan loves Benn Jordan!

  • @proxymerchant
    @proxymerchant Рік тому +1

    damn it this RULES

  • @pedrogomis
    @pedrogomis Рік тому

    Thank you for this tutorial

  • @etherdiver
    @etherdiver Рік тому

    Holy shit this jam is NUTS. Love it.

  • @MattyWhens
    @MattyWhens Рік тому +3

    This video makes me want a fretless bass just as much as the Syntrx

    • @GizzyDillespee
      @GizzyDillespee Рік тому

      I've only seen the first minute, which really has neither instrument, but I already feel the same way as you. But I want an upright acoustic fretless bass. I don't even play one... how hard can it be? Probably by the end of this video I'll be over it. Or I'll go watch a Wasserman video. I haven't even seen him whip out the bass yet (presumably that's what prompted your msg?)

    • @markhermann
      @markhermann Рік тому

      @@GizzyDillespee upright bass is an extremely challenging instrument to play "well". But if you don't care about actually being proficient, then sure, it's easy!

  • @deastman2
    @deastman2 Рік тому +2

    Can’t believe no one has commented about you playing what appears to be a right handed bass upside down and left handed!

    • @markhermann
      @markhermann Рік тому

      Right?! I was thinking the same thing.

  • @chambre466
    @chambre466 Рік тому

    such a good synthesist, I d love though electro drums. anyway thanks for the music. Finally

  • @rrigs8075
    @rrigs8075 Рік тому

    One word - Fab!

  • @DrSynth
    @DrSynth Рік тому

    Nice overview and great use examples -- when is your jam battle with Alex Ball ?😜

  • @zedwhyex
    @zedwhyex Рік тому

    Sweet jam at the end - reminded me of Lemon Jelly a bit :)

  • @rickyspanish4792
    @rickyspanish4792 Рік тому

    What a magical device

  • @NGC0Music
    @NGC0Music 14 днів тому

    Who cares about the synth when you are shredding the shit out of that bass and drums lol what a legend

  • @Lantertronics
    @Lantertronics Рік тому +6

    Your studio equipment videos are great, but I'd also encourage you to keep up the science content. There's lot of people making studio equipment videos, and for that matter there's lots of people making science content, but there's no one making science content with *your* particular vision.

  • @timwoodruff
    @timwoodruff Рік тому

    1:29 I was sitting here going, "wait, why do I not remember that song?"
    1:35 "Whaattttt?"
    1:43 🤣 Well played.

  • @slm896
    @slm896 Рік тому

    ‘Polyphony’ demo is a beautiful melody

  • @chameleonblockstudios
    @chameleonblockstudios Рік тому

    Damn that last jam was so fucking cool, total instrumental prog rock breakdown vibes.

  • @arpaddanos9416
    @arpaddanos9416 Рік тому

    Great Jam, neat instrument from erica. Lame that youtube does not respect fair use, there should be some kind of class action lawsuit to address that. The EMS synthi is on lots of 70s stuff but then I don't know much of the 80s that it gets used on. I guess especially back then people were really focused on keeping up and using the newest tech, quickly moving on from the 70s stuff to the Jupiter 8, then MIDI, then the digital FM and LA synthesis and sampling, then onto VA. Now integration of the old and new tech is what lots of us are into, with like a Juno 106 next to a Hydrasynth in the studio, along with some 90s VA or whatever else. Looks like this Syntrx integrates old and new pretty well actually with MIDI and CV. I'll probably keep this on my radar as something to consider in the next years.

  • @Ed-davies
    @Ed-davies Рік тому

    Yeah totally over the fence! Not wanting to pigeonhole / compare you but your jams of late have reminded me of the versatility and skill of Frank Zappa, the last portion of the jam was just epic!

  • @thomashoffend4299
    @thomashoffend4299 Рік тому +2

    Do you miss being able to punch the unit to play the spring reverb? 😛 The synth is definitely cool to me; not sure I will buy it due to being covered by a wall of modular gear plus other stuff, but I can imagine owning it or maybe the Das Klein fusion system.

  • @johncarter2741
    @johncarter2741 Рік тому

    Oooh that end jam. I was Michael Knight pursuing bad guys with a righteous purposeful expression. Then you went all crazy and Michael headed into a tail spin and Devon didn’t come to save the day. No trailer. No ramp. Nothing.

  • @wbmatter1
    @wbmatter1 Рік тому

    +1 on all the comments praising jam. Just fab.
    Slight clarification on buying directly from Erica: VAT depends on the country you're importing into; in the case of the US that's 5%.

  • @davidRios622
    @davidRios622 Рік тому

    Love the Perkons and own one , but the Syntrx never convince me , great to see them together nevertheless.

  • @jessetoews2446
    @jessetoews2446 Рік тому

    This was rad! .. Too soon for a reverb pedal challenge update 😹🤠 ? H90 CXM Meris7 vs Empress 😵‍💫😶

  • @gabsauvage
    @gabsauvage Рік тому

    Alsays loved that sidechained pad on the Pink Floyd songs. Real Ibiza bangers

  • @danielmartin2000
    @danielmartin2000 11 місяців тому

    the groove around 14 really reminds me of Ozric Tentacles :)

  • @ElectronicMusicOpenMic
    @ElectronicMusicOpenMic Рік тому

    @13:28 love your music

  • @pongtrometer
    @pongtrometer 7 місяців тому +1

    Can you sequence patch /matrix changes alongside the note sequence for some mangled synth / percussive beast mode stuff ?

  • @im5341
    @im5341 10 місяців тому

    9:40 made my day

  • @thundergate4438
    @thundergate4438 9 місяців тому

    Love the harmonic melodic patch on this. Almost like a Catarina Barbieri type of feeling. Don't make us get a Syntrx II - the Perkons just cleaned me out haha!

  • @WARDISWARD
    @WARDISWARD Рік тому

    DUde can play the drums pretty decently !

  • @ramdynebix
    @ramdynebix 11 місяців тому

    Having played at one time with one real VCS3 and two 80s clones this thing is really interesting. I did succumb to the modular problem. I pulled one pin from the matrix and couldn’t get my 5/4 drum pattern backt that I somehow concocted. I went all scientific and tried all pinholes but couldn’t get the sound and pattern back :-(

  • @CybershamanX
    @CybershamanX Рік тому +1

    I LOVE the VU meter. I'm a sucker for all things analog. 😉 I've wanted to get into synths/electronic music making for quite some time. Sadly, I've been bedridden due to medical issues including severe chronic pain. But something like this looks like I could use it in bed! 😎🤘☮️

  • @topofthemornintoya
    @topofthemornintoya Рік тому

    BEN AND GEARRRRR

  • @gordon7478
    @gordon7478 Рік тому

    Jesus i love watching this guy play guitar. The world needs more upside down players. So easy to follow cause it's the same view as looking down at ones own non-upside down fretboard.

    • @gordon7478
      @gordon7478 Рік тому

      More importantly the playing is always just fucking incredible. This jam was stunning.

  • @1ajs
    @1ajs Рік тому

    gives me ideas i should try on my mtrixbrute i barly touch but this is cool

  • @Pablo668
    @Pablo668 Рік тому

    Very nice bit of gear. Works out to be about 3k in Australian Pesos though. I'll just have to sit here with my Polybrute and feel sad.

  • @noisetheorem
    @noisetheorem Рік тому

    I really, really don't need one. But damn it.....I really, really want one.

  • @oliverpilatiz5533
    @oliverpilatiz5533 Рік тому

    Producer, Composer, Musician, Nerd....❤

  • @teshbrady
    @teshbrady Рік тому

    That jam was tasty af my boi

  • @T.H.W.O.T.H
    @T.H.W.O.T.H Рік тому

    14:04 Very shiny bass!

  • @klinikat5313
    @klinikat5313 Рік тому

    sy mkI or sy mkII ? which one would you recommend more ? thnx for the vid ^^

  • @altogethernow
    @altogethernow Рік тому +1

    Can you make a mental note to make more fretless bass and eccentric synth jams plz? That was sumpn else.

  • @GizzyDillespee
    @GizzyDillespee Рік тому

    2:03 the copyright not sees indeed

  • @phed
    @phed Рік тому

    Digging your drum groove there, I've been trying to learn and I'm stuck on wanting to play open hand - but crossed feels more natural, just doesn't fit with my weird kit and grooves I want to play.
    How did you develop your open hand technique? Are you a natural lefty / ambidextrous as well as a dedicated and diligent musician?

    • @Arkansya
      @Arkansya Рік тому

      he is a lefty playing on a right handed kit

  • @sn1000k
    @sn1000k Рік тому

    11:15 WOW

  • @rochefsky
    @rochefsky Рік тому

    BOTH old and new Benn Jordan things are great... and those Pink Floyd picks were... uh...

  • @MrSharps02
    @MrSharps02 Рік тому

    channeling drexciya a bit in the demos

  • @donaldpriola1807
    @donaldpriola1807 Рік тому

    13:59 equals pissed off Bruford outake, circa 1979.

  • @DirtleTilbury
    @DirtleTilbury Рік тому

    Mono neon upside down bass licks

  • @Rompler_Rocco
    @Rompler_Rocco Рік тому

    AAAWW!! The previous video was way too quiet, so I just cranked my earbuds to full blast...
    I can not believe that a Benn Jordan "Hey!" just forever damaged my hearing 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

  • @zapphoddbubbahbrox5681
    @zapphoddbubbahbrox5681 Рік тому

    fretless. respect.

  • @randomaztec2208
    @randomaztec2208 Рік тому

    Holden vibes off the polytonic patch

  • @RoboticusMusic
    @RoboticusMusic 4 місяці тому +1

    I hope you're joking about supporting the ACLU lmao

  • @timbeaton5045
    @timbeaton5045 Рік тому

    Plural would probably be Syntrices

  • @helpmeiaminhell
    @helpmeiaminhell Рік тому

    How do you learn all of this? I bought one and I'm having a hard time learning how to use this.

  • @ElectronicazMusic
    @ElectronicazMusic 9 місяців тому

    Treeeee-mendus!