The Behringer Syncussion is amazing for melodies | Winterdagen
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- I bought a Behringer syncussion for its weird s&h percussion sounds, which are very cool. But as it turns out, it's also a lovely synth for melodies.
For this piece I made use of a minimal music technique called phasing which I love. Check out a lovely @loopop video on doing it with samples here: • Sampler trick: Steve R... Both voices on the Syncussion play the same melody, but on one part the loop is one 8th note shorter, making the two voices drift further away from each other on each rotation. With some help from the Strymon Volante and Erica Synths Zen Delay this turned into a quite hypnotising little exploration.
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2 beautiful voices. Great machine for 2 part inventions. Nice playing, nice sounds, nice counterpoint.
@@spacemodular thank you!
This is bloody marvelous!!! And i don't say that often!!! 😂
Thanks a lot!
That thing has been sitting in my pre-order cart for months. Now I’m even more hyped for it! :)
@philaesfarewell im sure you’ll love it:)!
This was awesome, I'll have to take another look at the SY-1! 🎧🐀
I've just published my demo, too. Nice to see another one exploring the melodic capabilites of this one. Well done!
Ohhh that's a coincidence! Excited to check it out, always love your videos. And thanks for the nice words:)!
Very cool.Very cool indeed.
@@panelectric8460 thank you!
This is so beautiful, it would bring a tear to Thom Yorke's crazy eye ❤
@@anonymous_friend thank you! That may be the best compliment ever:)
ah so beautiful in headphones
@@vveetaleek thank you! 🎧💕💕
Best video for syncussion I found on TH-cam. So much soul in every second of your track. Thanks for these moments🎈🏆
Thank you very much :)!!
Tranquil track. Thanks, nice listen on an early mid December morning.
Thank you! ❄♥
Beautiful! So much respect.
Thank you! ❤
Definitely on my want list. Even more so after listening to this!
@@johnthecloud ❤️❤️
A beautiful piece, it shows all the equipment to be a very high standard for making lovely music.
Thanks a lot! I’m definitely lucky to have these kind of beautiful machines:)
Wry cool and inspiring. What are the other 2 pieces of gear?
@@grersfew-qx1zm Thank you! The other two pieces of gear are delay pedals; Strymon Volante and Erica Synths Zen Delay:)
Sounds fantastic... Thanks for posting
Thank you :)!
Very good!
@@134dabear thank you!
beautiful stuff as always!
Thanks so much :)!!
This was beautiful!!
@@AlchemicalAudio thank you! ❤️
Beauty and atmospheric sound! Amazing ❤
Thanks a lot! Happy Holidays!
Just bought one, this is very inspiring for its possible sounds
Thank you! And congrats, it’s such a fun and lovely quirky machine!
How did you sequence this? Keyboard controller or a dedicated step sequencer? I'm trying to understand how to sequence both sides of the SY1 using just one Keystep
@@brynlayton9032 The MIDI implementation on this is a bit hard to wrap your head around indeed!
As I understand you can either use it with a single MIDI channel for both voices (mode 1), a certain note triggers voice one, and another one triggers voice two (just go up and down the keyboard to find out which ones, probably middle C and D). In this mode, it's not possible to sequence the voices melodically.
In mode 2, both voices get their own MIDI channel. You select the midi channel for the first voice, and the next channel up will be assigned to the second voice. In this mode, you can sequence both voices melodically and separately.
As your Keystep can only send out one sequence at once, you could trigger the Syncussion as a drum machine in mode 1, or use one voice at a time in mode 2. Switching modes is done in the Synthtribe app. This info is also briefly touched on in the quick start guide, which you can find on the Behringer website:) Hope this helps!
@@Winterdagen hey thanks for your detailed answer, I've seen a few using an SQ1, but they're limited to 8 steps per midi channel, like an Edge. I don't have the budget, but I think a Polyend device will be a neater solution for dual voices and pitch control. .
@ You’re very welcome! The Polyend stuff seems amazing indeed! When just using hardware I usually use my Synthstrom Deluge or Akai Force for shows, and for more modular/synth focused setups my Keystep pro or modular sequencers:)
Fantastic use of ThiS Lovely piece of Analog Goodness 😊❤🎉😊🎉..jaffa Jenkins Dawless jams 😊
Thanks a lot! ♥♥♥
I love your name, and this is beautiful.
Lovely❤
@@FakthorX thank you:)!
Very good performance and cool video Winterdagen 👌
Thanks Rick! Happy holidays! ❤
@@Winterdagen Thank you 🙏🏻 and the very same to you too!
Gorgeus!!!!
Thank you! ❤ Happy holidays!
I love this🌊✨🌊thank you
Thank you:)!
Just loveley!
@@andersolofsson873 thank you:)!
Incredible.
Thank you! 🥰🥰
Very nicely done ✔️
Thank you!
Ah this was nice, thanks :)
@@roffeyay99 thank you:)!
Amazing Video
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Wow
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Very nice, thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you very much:)!
very cool sound :)
@@adytech5788 thank you!
Molto bello ,complimenti👍👋🎶
Grazie mille, sei molto gentile! ❤
Fucking beautiful!
Thank you very much!
There is so much synthesizer stuff on TH-cam that is fairly bland and poor, this is neither. Good work.
Thank you very much, I appreciate that:)
Very nice and pleasant mellow "drift". Guessing the Syncussion has it's own two track sequencer then?
Thank you! Syncussion doesn't have a sequencer, it's like their other desktop synths in the sense that you'll need to sequence it externally:)
Does it have a midi input? @@Winterdagen
@@marcwalravens2611Yes
@@marcwalravens2611 yes one input with two midi channels
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Lovely. Absolutely lovely. Although I'd argue that what you've done is not really phasing as Steve Reich did it. I think what you've done is really polymeter. You've got one sequence running at 4/4 and one at 7/8 ... or something like that. Music theory is cuneiform to me. But basically 8 8th notes playing against 7 8th notes. Which, if we're talking about 20th century minimalist composers, is more a Philip Glass thing. Reich's phasing would be to take two identical musical or rhythmic lines of the same length, same number of notes or beats, and then slow one of them down by a fraction. THEN you get the classic phasing sound.
Pedantic? Me? Nooooooooo!
Thanks a lot:)! And thank you for the knowledge, I love hearing about music history. And I'm a big Glass fan as well for sure! Even though this is not phasing in the traditional sense indeed (that would take quite a long time to start hearing the actual phasing), it is very Reich like; I borrowed the technique from his piece clapping music, which is written in this same variation of phasing. About the polymeter thing: since only one bar of the entire melody has one 8th note less, this isn't technically a polymeter, since 7 out of 8 bars of the melody have the same meter. Confusing and fun stuff indeed :)
@@Winterdagen Ha! Like I said, music theory is a foreign language to me. I'm a huge fan of both Reich and Glass. I saw Reich perform almost his entire oeuvre from Clapping and Drumming up to Tehillim in Washington DC once. Totally magical experience. Music for 18 Musicians performed live with me sitting not 20' from the performers. Magic. I've also seen Glass perform on multiple occasions, including a performance of Einstein on the Beach at Brookly Academy of Music. I've actually seen Glass live more than any other artist.
I've mostly seen the phasing thing done with two samples by just slightly shortening the length of one of the samples
@@sooperheep Orbital's Brown album, song called Time Becomes.
Makes me think of my mother + fantasygames
Very sweet performance! What are you using to sequence it?
Thank you! This sequence is coming from Ableton, both voices receive their melody trough their own midi channel:)
It’s cool to build the same sound on the left and right channel and pan them
Yess I love doing that! It's also great for wide percussion stuff :-)!
what are the 2 above the syncussion?
The one on the left is a Strymon Volante delay box (for tape delay effects). I have no idea what the black thing is.
it sounds nice but really there are so many tools that make music a thing THE MACHINE made, in a world we need more humanity in
@CastleHassall a fair comment! To me, it does feel amazing to try to find the humanity in machines. In a world that could do with less machines indeed, but I doubt synths would be the first machines that deserve to go.