Behringer Neutron & Arturia Keystep - The Best Analog Synth and Controller Combo?
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2019
- Behringer's Neutron and Arturia's Keystep are the perfect pair for analog creation and exploration! Behringer's entry into the semi-modular world of analog synthesis offers unlimited tone bending and patching, while Arturia's Keystep brings sequencing and a robust arpeggiator to an ultra-portable USB powered MIDI controller. In this video, we only examine the surface of this duo's potential, but fret not, as more is coming soon! Play A Note, Change Your Life!
0:24 Keystep overview
1:22 Neutron overview
1:51 Oscillators
4:29 Voltage controlled filter
5:23 LFO
6:50 Keytrack filter
7:32 Envelopes 1 & 2
8:42 Delay
9:29 Noise
10:08 Overdrive
10:27 Keyscape sequencer
11:56 Pitch, mod, and the Neutron
14:21 Creating a sequence
16:41 Final thoughts
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Between Behringer and Arturia, in the last year I purchased the Beatstep Pro, Keystep, Neutron and Model D. These two companies are apparently listening to their customers. I am in my late 60's but always wanted a Modular system. When researching modules the prices were way above my means. I was experimenting with VCV(great for learning) but it wasn't the same as having a real system.Enter Behringer and Arturia. Semi is better then none. Now I'm waiting for the Eurorack Go and Behringers Modules.
As a guitar player who is often lost in the basics, I really appreciate you going slow and explaining everything. Most videos people skip over the primitive concepts I actually tuned it to learn. Exponential gains in my understanding...🤙Cheers!
That was a super fun and informative video. I wasn’t bored ASAP like a lot of other videos. Thank you!
Great explanation of both products. They work great together. That Behringer look like fun!
Great vid! Appreciate the overview of the capabilities with the right balance of instruction and demonstration. Such a flexible control surface with all it's functional and intuitive usability. So much sonic potential out of the neutron! A marriage made in heaven.
I love this combo that unlocks so much expressive potential in a synth that already has very deep capabilities!
The Key-tron combo is absolutely amazing! So many possibilities in such a tight little setup👌🏾
Great review and tutorial, thank you! I was considering exactly this combo.
Good job giving us a little rundown of some possibilities with this combo. I've been messing around with some semi-generative stuff in modular lately and this video is really making me wonder about how the Keystep could fit into that, either as an element of stability to the overall patch or feeding its random arp into the patch flow, maybe making a whole randomized arp sequence of chords to get a little of both worlds. Super exciting to consider!
This is a fantastic exploration of both devices. The Neutron has caught my eye in the past, and seeing/hearing it used along with the Keystep has put the nail in the coffin! Speaking of Coffins - your sequencing during the last quarter of the video sounds like something straight out of a horror film. Very menacing! Also, I LOVE the bucket brigade delay in the Neutron - this will sound fantastic paired up with some reverb alongside the Behringer Model D (another great piece by Behringer, who have been hitting it out of the park!). Thanks so much for this video! Alamo all the way!!
I love learning about the key features in this video & the way the patch sequencing is showcased- nice frequencies! Behringer creates yet another neat, logical music device with a beautiful design that matches the sound, vividly capturing wave patterns. :)
Arturia's Keystep fits right in & blends nicely. This pair clearly goes hand in hand.
Simply Lovely. Thank You for sharing this video with us. Shoutout to San Antonio!
~Cecilia Satori
Perfect combo. Very informative video.
what a great combo! the sequencer on the arturia opens up a whole world of melodic possibilities
I love the possibilities with this combo. It’s perfect for my needs.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you! My gratitude for this video, much like the possibilities on this rig, is endless. I have been enjoying my Neutron for a couple of weeks now, but have to save up to get the Keystep. There's a reason why it was ubiquitous at the synth expo I attended recently! This vid confirmed that I'm making the right choice to wait till I can afford it. As a newbie to synths and sound design, I really appreciated the way you walked us through the flow on the neutron and really displayed its power as you changed the settings. I can't thank you enough for also explaining the basics so well - how the Neutron and Keystep talk to each other, how to set up a sequence, and that patch to work with the mod strip! I can't wait to be able to use all of these techniques in my music making. (Would be over the moon to have a second Neutron so I could have a slower drone on that one and mess around with sequences on the other one!)
This was so much more helpful than trying to RTFM so far as getting started. Thanks!!
Of course! Thanks for tuning in!
Man I love this combo. Beautiful. So! Much! Fun!
This combo is amazing. I’ve been eyeing up the neutron for some time now. It would add a much needed layer to my music. And paired with the key step it’s a powerhouse!
Great connectivity between these two units! Love what Behringer has been doing recently to bring cost effective synths to the masses. Arturia has always been a staple in the software and hardware worlds. Great duo!
Thanks for sharing this. I actually have the Neutron and the Keystep already and found your demo and tutorial valuable. It is actually the first one that I could track and learn in real time, and get a feel for how to build up a sound. It seems that the combo is cheaper and more versatile than some of the more expensive units, and the keyboard has a good feel.
That is an amazing combo, especially for the cost. Love everything both those brands are doing.
As I write I have a Neutron on the way, with a sparkling new Keystep just waiting for it. This is a video to cut-out-and-keep, and thanks for the pace at which you did this- some of us are old blokes with failing eyesight who wanted the Synthi A back in the early 70s, but being 14 didn’t have the £329 it cost back then...
Great combo, endless possibilities of your final sound for any musical taste.
iSapien1956672 true!
The keystep has always been a great device, so to see it paired up with this synth is pretty awesome!
👊🏽❤️ please more vids with this exact setup !
Great demo! :)
Thank you!
Analogue and semi-modular combination with really deep LFO options is perfect for warm ambient feeling. And honestly Arturia's keyboards are the best to feel velocity organically.
I have this set up as well and love it! 👍
I just got the Neutron, It is quite amazing!! I currently, among other synthesizers, have 4 Behringer products. Deep mind 12, Model D, K-2 and finally the Neutron. The Neutron is fascinating!
you are doing gods work thank you sm
Perfect for a beginner who wants to get into synthesis but also modular. ☺️
I already obsess over synth sounds, but man oh MAN does this combo excite me! I can’t wait to give it a go.
Im obsessed with the power that analog synths can bring, this machine seems like it has endless possibilities for synth voices. I bet it has tons of hidden gems. The semi-modular patch bay seems like a great way for a beginner to get into modular type synthesis and patching effects. The combination with the Arturia keyboard opens the door to being able to create inspiring live sounds with these devices.
That combo is synthy-licious! The Keystep’s size and range is such a great way to harness all that analog goodness😄
Found this video the day that these are supposed to arrive. Glad I made the right choice!
Being that I enjoy these both already owning them, the only thing I could say is that I would love to have another set to give to my daughter so that we can share the amazing sound engineering experience together. She is already getting a Suzuki Q chord QC-1 this Saturday for her 8th birthday, but if I was to win this for her too, this would be a great setup to learn tone creations and a nice start into becoming a synth musician right.
The keystep really is the perfect balance between portable and functional, especially with it's sequencer. It really gives you room to tend to the knobs and patch cables on the neutron for some killer morphing licks. Dream team
With a little determination this combo could solve the suffering for all human kind,even if just for a second, for one person, in their room. The depths of space can be illustrated in the minds eye with this futuristic time toy.
This would really help me step my game up beyond the volca keys.
Thanks in advance ;)
These two companies make great products! I love the idea of getting vintage sounds without the upkeep of vintage hardware. Thank you Arturia and Behringer.
Great combination . The neutron opens up so many pathways for the arturia to materalize. Beautiful signals and sounds. As my house recently burned down with mostly all my music stuff and belongings ive been in a real pit of despair. Winning this giveaway won’t do much to aide my situation but it would be exciting nonetheless to win these two beauties
Get this man a glass of water ! Good info 🔥🔥
The Neutron is already so versatile and able to generate a huge variety of sounds just on its own as a semi-modular eurorack addition, but adding the key step really gives the Neutron a powerful performance quality. With this performance quality one could bring the neutron into any environment and find a way to enhance the sound of any kind of ensemble (except something like a string quartet of course). Behringer really blew it out of the park with this little synth, even without the patch bay it has so much sound-shaping potential and with the patch bay it becomes completely customizable to any individual performer's needs especially with the arpeggiator and sequencer. Absolutely love it!
Man, I could emulate all sorts of vintage video game sounds with those two! Big C-64 deja vous from my childhood.
lovely combo. would love to win it. thanks!
I wasn't sure why I kept seeing Neutrons and Keysteps together in videos but now I get it. The Keystep is ridiculous, especially at that price point. I'm particularly interested in seeing what the possibilities are with the CV outs. My personal inclination is to patch it so that the mod strip controls the oscillator shapes.
great synth + great controller = amazing combo 👍
This is seriously the best combo. Allowing independent oscillator control by using midi and cv together at the same time makes it so versatile!
The key step and neutron are a power combo! Would be really cool to have as a setup!
Need these for my studio!!!
I've been super hesitant to get in to modular (or semi-modular) stuff, because it seems so complicated and the price-point is kind of insane for a new hobby, but the Neutron seems like a really low-committal entry point. This video made it seem really easy!
Wow so good
The Keystep is perfect for any synth! It has a ton of different ways to connect to different pieces of equipment, and the Behringer Neutron is a perfect compliment to the Keystep because of it unique sound and flexibility of sound.
I Already use Arturia's Beatstep Pro with my modular setup but I would love to add both of these in to my performance package
Beasts of both worlds. 9:27 says it all: “so much fun!”
Great starting points for modular synthesis and very helpful for understanding control voltages!
This might be the BEST analog synth and controller combo!!
Unsure if my modular is going to be buggy or not during an upcoming recovery... Heavily considering just getting one on amazon and just jamming with this.
It would be *so* cool to feed the keyboard MIDI into a modular sequencer too...
Great vid. We get shafted in NZ, a bit over $900 for that setup.
Wow, thank you for a very intuitive video. I just purchased both of the these. I can't figure out the correct setup to track everything I do with the Aurturia. I'm using Reaper as my DAW. Any chance you can explain the steps to accomplish this or maybe a tutorial video?
I want to use the Arturia for its features and want to record the midi from the nuetron so that I can manipulate the midi. I want to say thank you for your response.
@@asoundlab Once again I want to thank you for your response and appreciate the help. Now this makes sense to me on the approach I need to make.
I think the Neutron might be one of the best value synths ever made.
When you combine it with the Keystep - the closest thing to a perfect midi controller on the market, it’s a match made in heaven. I think that the Neutron is a great way to learn synthesis, dive in to semi modular, and along with the Keystep you’ll be sequencing and arpeggiating your way to music in no time. Naturally, I think they’re a perfect pair!
Read the first letter of each sentence to know how I’d feel if I had both of these synths!
Excellent combo guys!
this comment is more useful than the vid tbh
Those are run on sentences... failed
I've only began digital music about a year ago, but a midi keyboard like that would be awesome on its own, and more comfortable than a regular desktop keyboard, I've been spoiled by learning piano :( The analog synth would also be a great way to experiment with new sounds...
I’m very new to synthesizers, although most of my favorite songs use analogue synths! Recently, I’ve been obsessed with researching and wanting to get my first synth. I think the behringer and arturia keystep would be an amazing combo for my first synth setup!!! The crazy range of sounds that come from the semi modular behringer is insane.
I was in the same boat. This is my first standalone synth (I've previously owned a groovebox with a great synth engine) and I feel like it's great for a beginner to dive into sound design. I've learned a ton and had a blast! I think my gf hates it sometimes because I'll patch up a krell and just space out with headphones on for a while, haha. Great value considering what you get for the price! 👍
The neutron seems like it would pair well with my Model D and the key step is an awesome controller
What draws my attention immediately is the sharp and preciseness in sound. The moment you hit the key there is no lag between the two. It reminds me of being in the mountains hearing the echos ping off the cliff walls and river stones. Also, size matters! It’s a perfect travel or desktop size, extremely versatile.
The ability to tweak each sound so closely and quickly adds to an amazing list of reasons why I’d easily add these to my setup. Great review, keep it up!
I'd love to hear more about how to use this setup.
The top two loves of my life are food and music. I am relatively new to music production, however, I’ve been playing music for over 15 years of my life, and I’ve worked food and beverage as a chef for over 7 years. When I started learning music production, one thing that stood out to me are the similarities between culinary arts and music production. Everyone has their own style of creating (whether it be food, or music, or anything else that is creative) and people also become very specific about what they want and when they find something they like they never let it go (I have some knives that are over $200, but I still use the old trusty chef knife that cost me $60 daily). Whether you are operating your 9-5 or experimenting, something that will cross all sorts of barriers to allow to freely move throughout various cuisines (or genres) is a must! The Behringer's Neutron and Arturia's Keystep are definitely two pieces of hardware that can fill that gap in people’s hearts.
To continue my culinary example, certain “flavors” bring up memories or moods. What do you think of when you smell oregano? I bet you it’s Italian, however, did you know that oregano is present in so much of Latin cuisine? A good chef can blend flavors that you might not initially expect to go together, yet through experience and experimentation, they find new ways to merge flavors and cuisines to create something unique, yet familiar. Likewise, the sounds that Behringer's Neutron and Arturia's Keystep make are immediately attached to electronic music. However, they can be used for so much more! For example, Max Ritcher’s recomposition of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons includes a lot of music engineering that can be accomplished through a very similar setup.
When a chef is looking for a new product to add to their tool kit, they look for something that will not only add but expand their current capabilities. I think that the adaptability of Behringer's Neutron and Arturia's Keystep would create a space where you can explore and move through various genres with ease and for the price point, it’s hard to beat.
Nice viewpoint and comparison.
I think they go great together. Keystep is the best bang for your buck, for interfacing with modular gear. The Neutron is a beast of a synth and is on par in size and caliber of the keystep.
Haiku for the pair
I'd say they sound really nice
Touch all the buttons
Got the neutron with a ks37 even more fun, also have a crave, a model d and an actual Moog, a werkstatt01 which is a blast. For effects a Zoom cdr70 into the send & return on an Alesis multimix 8 mixer which also has its own effects. Joy bliss happily happily.
This actually sounds dope! Would be awesome to get some volcas and jam with these! Just got into synthesizers a couple months ago and purchased a volca fm and I have been having a blast! Do you know what a good starting synthesizer is? I have been looking at the minilogue Xd and some arturia products.
Hello I can´t get sounds from my Neutron without patching the vcf to the vca in. I would like to use it withoit that patch, I saw that you can get sounds without that patch. ¿Can you help please? I saw lot´s of videos but no one explain that and give a solution.
I've been eyeing up the Neutron for awhile now. I've taken a big interest in keys and synths since I've gotten into the London music scene. The Moog Mother-32 was a focus for most of the time, but this deal takes the cake. All I've been looking for is a way to expand my musical sensibilities, feeling that most music is stale nowadays; I'd rather do something new, something more with myself.
rumple Thompson check out Klaus schulze, harmonia, Steve Hillage, Tim Blake, there is so much extraordinary synth music from the last century.
M-32 sound ( Moog filter), tho’ … 🥰
When you talk about sequencing the mod strip in ableton, how would you go about doing this? thanks!
Hello how could you modulate vcd with MOD and PITCH of the Keystep with a manipulation of range?
It's a match made in heaven.
These amazing instruments are both powerful and versitile. They are capable of interacting with multiple instruments at once, via midi or CV.
The Nuetron is packed with 2 (3340) analog oscillators that can be played paraphonically Overdrive, Delay, and a digital LFO, 2 Pole filter, for synth sounds as heafty as you'd like. It's enormous 56 patch bay allows you to connect a CV step sequencer and reroute signals for more paramater control endless flavorful possibilities.
The keystep is a fantastic controller, if not one of the best ever made. It's way more than just a keyboard sequencer. It's mighty capabilities include live step sequencing and editing, arppegiation, and melodic feautures such as "Chord Mode". You can do so many things and make soo many beautiful, squelchy, tonal, ambiet, sounds with just this powerful, extremely versitile combo that I could talk about all day!
It is great place to start for anyone new, or a mighty fine addition to any setup for an unbeatable price.
The Neutron can tame the Trogotonic 679 and make it keyboard playable, even the envelopes work if you patch it right and dial in the Trog. This alone justifies it. The Neutron is also a great sounding machine in its own right. A keyed version with four oscillators and keys/sequencer/polyphony would be a dream machine.
Back when I picked up my Odyssey they were going for dirt cheap, since everyone was dumping them for Pro 1 or later modules.
So getting a hold of 2 and chaining would of probably worked better than a 4 osc module.
Don't know how they're holding up in the used market now...
I would love to win this set up!!
Hello dear alamo music center . thank's for your intuitive review .
i've read some comments that talked about tuning issue after the synth warmed up . Do you know behringer solve this issue or not?
@@asoundlab THANKKKSSSSS :) i apreciate you
I am Neut; you can twist me, turn me, plug me, patch me. Saw me in half; send pulses to my body. Feel free to cut me off if I get too jarring. I've many shapes, many widths. Flavors abound for you to experience.
I am Keys; I'm with Neut. I control Neut like no other. I tell him to stop, to start, to speed up, to slow down.
Together, we form a beautiful triangle, with YOU being the third point of connection.
I have these as my main mono synth. I also have a Crave. These three together is a blockbuster. You can send the sequnce out to the Crave on one MIDI channel, then switch MIDI channels and play the Neutron on the keys without interfereing with the sequence,. The Arturia is a great keyboard for the Behringer synths.
Hey man... Do you have any channels or resources you can suggest? I have an arturia keystep and a korg sq-1 step sequencer and i been trying to figure out how to setup midi channels to do what you are saying.
Could you use the Neutron as a midi-toCV converter to play notes on a Eurorack oscillator if you don't have a Eurorack VCA or ADSR module? Would be a huge bang-for-buck if you can, with the added bonus of an additional synth!
The possibilities for this set up is so compact yet so limitless. Fantastic pairing for all kinds of sonic explorations.
Intense sound design!
Can you change individual note lengths in the Keysteps sequencer?
Dang!!! I have had my eyes on the neutron for a while now and it looks like the Arturia keyboard really helps unleash all of its power. I mostly use soft synths in my techno productions under the name billywyldestyle but I have a serious craving to create something dark and beautiful with these fat analog vibes.
Cool
Great
Woah! Check out this mutha loving gorgeous synth we have right here! And, and what’s this ... is that the best step sequencer ever created? Two greats sounding like they were made for each other. That’s love at first sight If I’ve ever seen it! And now I can’t look away! Is this wrong? Oh, sweet oscillator!!! The patches! Good lord, those patches!! I... I shouldn’t. Please forgive me, UA-cam synth tutorials, but I found the love of my life. Just don’t tell my wife. 😉
Is there a way to tune BPM more precisely on Keystep, or is it strictly tap-for-tempo?
What a magnificent combo with many possibilities! If I acquired this I might just have to sequence a phone CV to my pal Jimmy Neutron so he can modulate some VCOs and invent a cure for sawtooth decay. Eventually though I’d want control of the synth back and I’d tell him I am bored because there is a cutoff for how long I can self-oscillate. Then we would sweep through the motions and say our goodbyes. He would say “Bye!” and I would say “Oscillator Jimmy!”
Probably not the best combo evveerrr, but it is super dynamic and gives you a ton of options. Plus, the price point doesn’t make you weep...
I think this combo its basically like a cereal ... it dosen't matter what time in the day is it you can always snack with it 😍😍😍😍
I have my Keystep plugged into my Neutron and both connected to Ableton. Am only getting sounds from the Keystep though, nothing from the Neutron. Any ideas where I am going wrong? Driving me mad
A Haiku
Neutron and Keystep-
I won’t leave my room again,
harmony so deep
Behringer is a German name and means someone from two places, and the Neutron being classified as a Baryon (which is also classified as a fermion) that have a half-integer spin; I think the Behringer Neutron model name is clever being that there are 2 VCO's and 56 patch points. A sine wave that comes from two places or more.
Alamo Music Center - Pro Audio 5.39 x 10^-44 s = 😎
Bro how to set the dip switch position for the bouth of the device
Please
Can you accent the sequence somehow? I cant seem to find how..
I've ordered my Arturia Keystep already, but I'm going for Waldorf Blofeld instead for the synth...
Nice video though, thanks.
You’re choice I’m more inspired by this machine and the pro 1
Love my neutron. Really want to get a keystep to go with it. Pick me so i can poly chain!
I bought my model d from the 410 location, I wish I had bought a neutron!!