Ukrainians are hard working, mostly knowing what they are doing (and sometimes insanely so, and can suprise you with both their attitude and work ethics alike). As is demonstrated here oh so elegantly. Ever used Prypiat Pianos Ben? The most insane, kaput pianos I've ever heard. And I don't care a bit for the radioactivity laden back story.
I recommend giving State Azure a listen - he has a huge library on youtube that goes back years. Another gem is Martin Stürtzer, who also has a ton of music on youtube; his livestreams from the past ~4 years are consistently fantastic, and quite varied in themes/vibes. Finally, if you want something a little more acoustic (though typically no less ambient), I'd recommend Acoustic Labs. He, once again, has most of his discography on youtube. His stuff from ~10+ years ago is especially great.
Oh wow... you've got some incredible sounds coming out of that synth; futuristic and nostalgic all at once! Would you ever consider doing an entire drone/ambient album like this one day? You've managed to capture so many different atmospheres and so much character and emotion in just one demo, I can't even imagine how good an entire record (or even just an EP) would sound.
I am so grateful that you continue to put stuff like this out, the video hit with perfect timing for a little gap of calm in a totally insane day. Thanks, Benn!
What an extraordinarily inspiring story of a manufacturer's passion to create an extraordinarily inspiring instrument. Thank you for sharing your insight and your playing, Benn. Beautiful.
Alright I know you're not trying to sell this thing, but do you have a Perfect Circuit affiliate link bychance? cuz I'm strongly thinking of snagging one and if I do you should absolutely get first dibs on that commission
Sometimes I watch TH-cam videos with synths in them to geek out and get all GASsy over the specs, and see the ins and outs of how it works. But often times what I’m *really* hoping for is to be surprised and also to be inspired. Thank you for making me surprised, astounded and creatively inspired today. It’s a nice way to end the day. Cheers.
I absolutely love this instrument. I find it to be a really intriguing microcosm. I would love to learn more what's under the hood - but like you said, there's content for that elsewhere. I am glad to hear you just playing this. I could see performing entire scores with this device , and of course adding other instruments like your piano are amazing as well. It sounds so good!
This is so cinematic that it doesn’t even need a movie! A beautiful complete emotional tale by itself. A work of art. Thank you for sharing this! 🙇🏻♂️
I remember my excitement when I brought Solar 50, when it was released. Great peace of equipment. The huge disadvantage of it - the sound. It sounds kind of digital (you can even hear it in this video). Like some kind of VST synth. I was comparing it to omnisphere or even Massive X. You can get same results with software synths with almost the same sounds and.. much faster. You need to spend "some" time to tune it's oscs. So it's a great maschine if you want toi perform with it. So people can see how it reacts to light and touches... But for producing it's just not worth it. IMO.
Ukraine did all it could to rub along with Putin’s Russia, by giving away its nuclear weapons…and Putin delivered his ‘reward’ in 2014, and again harder in 2022. Lesson learned, we all have to live through this painful phase of recovery and setting it right. That sad story, could easily have this as its soundtrack. Well done Benn, you coaxed a great score out of a box I’d just be frightened by! Good stuff, great weird wonderful, ‘out-there’ piece of kit. Gagging to be a movie score device. Take care all.
I had no idea the struggles they went through to produce this amazing piece of gear. And you made some wonderfully recharging music to relax to. Thanks, Benn!
Very Beautiful sounds & Instrument design, a pretty much fully featured intrument, sounds like a Caterina Barbieri patch to me 😅 wonder how organisimic the modulation can get .... and what about the cartridge does anyone knows if it's another one based on the Fv-1 chip like the Z-DSP or is it something else?
It’s been two months and I’m still hauntd by these sounds. I tell myself: "That's what it sounds like in the hands of Benn", but it's helping less and less. Waaaaant!!!
Yeah this is something special. Listened on my HS8's with the volume turned up while I had my dinner. I love how alive it sounds. Big sound! The first few seconds of the video, I was sure it was the Hydrasynth.
Well, I just commented on your Hum video, (1st time seeing your channel), as I was intrigued by your sexy outboard gear, I looked deeper, just watched this, Well, I'm sold, I love listening to ambient, I love making ambient, and I'm about to move countries and set up my studio again from scratch, so I was looking to upgrade and add a few nice toys, a Waldorf Iridium being one of them. One of these would make a superb accompaniment. I just totally blissed out to that, laid on the sofa with my Cans on. Watching someone do EXACTLY what I would do, and just immerse yourself in it's possibilities musically, is far more useful to me, than someone droning on (no pun intended🤣) about settings, and presets, and oscillators, and what this knob does, etc. Most Of which I'd forget anyway. My ears tell me what I need to know, my memory then uses that as relevant, useful data. So thanks for that, and I can't believe I've only just discovered your channel👍🏻.
I would love like an addon / mod that lets you get a 5.1 Signal / Surround. I'd jam with that in the middle for hours :D great vid, thx ben. I would love to know a little more about onboard effects? I've seen that there are loadable effects on a USB? How does that work?
I feel like there should be a standalone surround processor available somewhere. Like, 2 signals in, 4 or 6 line level signals out. Using simple decoding like ye olde Dolby Surround processing. So you feed it LtRt and get out LCRS. I mean, you probably could just look around for a secondhand surround decoder, hook up your synth to it with stereo cables and get 4-6 speaker level signals from it. But yes, I think a simple surround processor... There should be a market for that. :/
The effects are user programmable and loadable into the dsp (most everything else is analog) so you could probably build some 5.1 effects into the architecture already present and just send that to a surround decoder. It's a beautiful sounding machine, but at almost $3000 it should be
This is the type of video that got me into synthesis in the first place. Just an instrument played by capable hands making you zone out for a few minutes. If this is what we get from you instead of typical “gear” videos now, man is 2024 gonna be a great year.
Your politics are terrible and ignorant and frankly shallow but your music is really good and I genuinely appreciate you as an artist and experimenter of sound.
This is why i’m here. Musical instrument, history of the creator behind it, and nothing but beautiful music. Benn, thanks for healing me up a bit. Feeling better.
This video, your video, this is something special. It feels like a secret level you found in an already good game that just has the best parts plus a very personal part of the Devs in it. Your honest opinion and then zoning out with you was kinda... magical? Like massaging the soul. I'm bad with words, sorry. That's my closest approach to describe it. I've instantly got your latest albums from Bandcamp. Now I wish there were more. I love them and have listened to them more than five times at this point (not on repeat, mind you). I hope for more :)
Comment for the algorithm that I also have a Solar 42 by ELTA music (cream color) and it is fantastic sonic fun and wondrousness. I'm not a professional, just love synths, and if you love them too, you'll love this one. Interesting and amazing to hear the personal history of these brilliant genius engineers and Mr. Arseniy bringing this to life... yes.... the passion that went in to creating this musical instrument is quite obvious.
If you don't mind me asking, how difficult did you find it to learn how to play/use this? I've played strings all my life but I want to dive deeper into music and, since my disability(s) have taken most of my passion projects away from me, I need something I can use a bit more simplisticly than a cello or a bass, and won't hurt me as much. I thought something like this would free me and my soul. I've also always just absolutely LOVED ambient & synth music and have felt those styles twisting at my heart from the inside for long enough, I thought it was high time I learn to take control of that and... idk, make myself cry for once, I guess, lol! I can use a PC, I learned to animate on an old Macintosh in the 90s (yeah, I'm old), Android phone (I managed to free my phone from itself so I can make it look and perform the way I want it to), play the piano and keyboard moderately well, and understand wiring faaiiirly well, I was a journeyman electrician for a few years in my youth while working for a construction company. I played the upright Contrabass or Double Bass in the Seattle Symphony for 4 years until my deployment and ultimately, my injury. For the last 20 years I've been on a journey of rejection, sadness, giving up completely, and staring all over again trying to re learn how to play all the instruments I used to play, and create art with the mediums I used to, realizing I am not going to be able to do either one as well or for nearly a long as I used to, and eventually, learning new ways of creating art and music, and ultimately, learning to be ok with that. It took ¼ or ⅕ of my life, depending on how long I feel like sticking around and annoying my children, to get my butt in gear and get over myself, and I find that really sad. It's time to get to making music and I think synths are the key to this!
@@tiggerdcat I am so sorry you're dealing with a disability taking so much from you, but admire your courageous existential stance, and yes, perhaps the Solar 42 can bring some of that back, especially since you already know music and probably have an ear for tuning, as given all the voices that part is important. I would suspect the capacitive keyboard would be welcomed to your fingers over a regular pressure or hammer keyboard. One thing that might be difficult depending on your finger dexterity is that the knobs are small, and close together. Large fingers would have a problem. Actually learning how this works and interacts is rather simple. You'll quickly grasp how intuitive and well-thought-out the interface is. This will bring you hours and hours of delight exploring wonderful soundscapes, finding endless sweet spots, and just being fascinated by synthesis. I would suggest getting some stackable patch chords, or a few patch chord hubs.
@nsbd90now Thank you! I do have perfect pitch and timing, so that's not an issue. The knobs and whatnot shouldn't really be much of a problem, I have long, slender fingers on my massive, unladylike, gorilla hands. A rather fashionable, eccentric gorilla, to be sure, but a gorilla all the same. It did come in quite... *_handy_* , ahh ha-ha ahhh ha-ha, when playing the Double Bass and piano, tho, I do have to admit. Shoot, I got off track again! Where was I?.. Oh yeah; knobs, buttons, sliders... yeah, I don't believe any of those should be a problem. My range of motion issues starts at my elbow and radiates up to my shoulder, and down to my ring and pinky fingers, so things like; using a bow to play a stringed instrument hurts a lot, but turning knobs and/or pressing on the pad shouldn't hurt much at all. My ulnar nerve was smashed so hard it was crushed flat, like a worm smooshed between someones shoe & the pavement on a hot and rainy summers day, from being forced between the ulnar and the humerus, popping the gel sacs in the joints in the process. Hurts very much bad all the time. I've had an ulnar nerve transposition surgery to tried the nerve and it went fairly well, but after some time the nerve slid back down and got itself stuck in the middle of a mass of scar tissue, so back to hurting all the time. Oh well. If this is the worst pain I've to deal with, then the rest is easy mode. Now, did this little beauty come with a manual, _and_ is that manual in English, *_AND_* is it easy to understand, *OR* should I look up TH-cam how tos to learn how to make it do *the things* ? I probably should have started with this question, but... is it terribly expensive, moderately so, or rather inexpensive, as these things go? I want some but I'm a veteran, so I might have to save up for it, if I want to keep my emergency cushion $$. Having that in the bank has saved me more time than I can count! Oh, my dog, I've written a novel again, I'm *_SO_*_ SORRY_ ! I don't know why I share so much in comments and online, lol! I'm actuality really shy and hardly talk at all, probably because I've got agoraphobia, CPTSD, AuDHD, and a bunch of other things. I'm a mess, lol! Get hit by 1 little enemy IED & it tends to traumatize and do harm to more than the physical. Well, I'm working on that, too, talking with my psych and all. Anyway, thanks for the info, and for your consideration, and for taking the time to read my garbage comments, lol! I swear... I actually went back and cleaned this up, too! You should have seen it before! Good lord! ✌️😺🖖
@@tiggerdcat Oh my music friend nah... it's a good place to express your trauma and discover ways to deal with it via music sound and art. You will love this musical instrument would be my guess, and it would help soothe you and move forward in response to those challenges that confront you. It does come with a minimal manual in well-written English, but... it is so well designed for the user in some ways you don't really need it. It is so new there aren't a whole lot of instructional videos. If you check my playlists I've collected a bunch before I got mine to help me learn it. I think that playlist should be listed as public and “Elta”. The user experience is incredible and so well-designed. You are in the center, and then all controls are arranged around you, left and right. Frankly, it's genius. Cost is kind of subjective as to if you have the cash... basically a bit under $2000.00 US. For something like this? I would not consider it expensive. It isn't some mass-produced instrument for the general consumer market. Kind of niche, for people who are already interested in and familiar with synthesizers, and then a drone type thing that doesn't even have MIDI. It's special and unique made by just a couple of brilliant sound engineer type people. Keep in mind it is the second generation... so, an advance on an already successful foray into it all by Elta. If you can afford it, and you think your disability won't make controlling it difficult I would totally say: get it. Get it right now. You have perfect pitch of all things?!? You are going to love this. You are going to create wonderful music on it. You are going to find yourself in it's ambient stream-of-consciousness experience of it.
Thanks for our flag ❤❤❤ such support so important for Ukraine ❤ Just want to mention that not exist eastern or western Ukraine, we are unitary country. So correct to say east of Ukraine. )
This thing sounds absolutely incredible... I like to do a lot of my scoring in Ableton but this looks like the cinematic sandbox I'm looking for. I wonder if it does more gritty atonal horror-core type vibes, it's got the moody, nostalgic tones locked in, especially when that piano comes in. Good content as always.
I wish I could stay in this place all the time, but I guess this is not what real life sounds like. I like the zone better. Solar Fields is where I would like to live. I try to explain it, but some people just don't get it. I am glad some do.
It's cool as hell and I wanted to learn so much about frequency therapy . It started giving me anxiety 6.30 minutes into it🤷♀️ I'm very sensitive to sounds but I always need them to drown out tinnitus in my ears... 24/7!! 🤯 It has gotten so bad also higher pitched now😪 👍Enjoy your videos excellent subjects and in-depth research well done✌❤🙏
It feels insane to say that $2000 feels like a steal for something this feature packed. It’s also insane that I wanna take the plunge given that I’m primarily a guitarist who loves ambient synth music.
I love the sounds you’re getting out of this beautiful synth, Benn! Do you have any videos (YT or Patreon), on the how you approach ambient music, and get the sounds you get? This is really inspiring. Thank you for the eye opening video.
Oh wow, so cool you are filming this near Atlanta. I loved living there so much.... I miss it. I was in Alpharetta. Working at L3. Such a fun time circa 2005. Can you tell me where these scenes were filmed?
Very impressive. The introduction as well as the music and instrument impression. Unaffordable for me right now, but at a very high and lonely place of my wish list. And i seriously consider selling a major part of my studio to get and master this.
ambient with no Hologram, Chase Bliss or Strymon in sight? How can it be? ;) Yeah what a really compellingly beautiful sounding instrument, something you have a journey and a conversation with rather than just playing it. A great showcase Benn. 🧡
It sounds beautiful but how does it operate? The interface looks wiiild. It has a cartridge slot and oscillators 1, 2, 6 and 7 have these honeycomb looking orbs like wtfff. Can you demonstrate what makes this synth so special?
Just stopping by to say how much I appreciate this style of video. It's clear, to me at least, that you're getting to know the instrument by seeing how it fits into your normal creative process. That's just so much more interesting and useful than the usual YT gear review, but probably requires the viewer to know a little bit about you and your approach to music. It's nice.
Beautiful stuff. I noticed all the music has one single note/chord pedal note Is the synth not designed to be easily able to change key/root note/pedal note etc? Do you just always have to play around that root?
Can't decide between this or the Osmos from Expressive E? They're both the same price ($1,700) Question is; which one will sell at the lowest price used? I think that will be a determining factor. 🤔
Shows once again that our true connection to happiness is not through tools but through emotional depth experienced in passion. The fascination that I share with Benn here is not in the machine, but in what it stands for: Resilience, vision, drive, self sufficiency and self inspiration. I am happy to know that his spirit lives within this machine as a spiritual concept and I hope we will know more than reducing his work to the product itself but be inspired by the symbolic weight to inspire our own journey.
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Thank you so much, Benn. Very heartwarming video. And most importantly very musical. 🖤
Benn, I could watch you zone out with this and the piano for HOURS!!!! SO tasty, so calming, and so beautiful!!
It's called the SOLAR 42 by ELTA music (just helping making this video discoverable through YT search as it's not mentioned in the video description).
I think it's entirely possible that the omission was intentional. Not everything has to be about promotion.
I updated it. This video was originally meant to just be a story and personal experience. But you're right. Promo =/= marketing.
@@BennJordan haha holy God, they are the worst.....
@@pickyyeeter Absolutely. That's a lovely video on its own btw
Ukrainians are hard working, mostly knowing what they are doing (and sometimes insanely so, and can suprise you with both their attitude and work ethics alike). As is demonstrated here oh so elegantly. Ever used Prypiat Pianos Ben? The most insane, kaput pianos I've ever heard. And I don't care a bit for the radioactivity laden back story.
Them's some futuristic bagpipes you've got there fella
🤣🤣
Having a pretty rough time at the mo, but lost myself for 10 mins in the wonderful warmth of the music. Thank you.
Hang in there! Things have a way of getting better :)
Same here. Huge thank you.
I recommend giving State Azure a listen - he has a huge library on youtube that goes back years. Another gem is Martin Stürtzer, who also has a ton of music on youtube; his livestreams from the past ~4 years are consistently fantastic, and quite varied in themes/vibes. Finally, if you want something a little more acoustic (though typically no less ambient), I'd recommend Acoustic Labs. He, once again, has most of his discography on youtube. His stuff from ~10+ years ago is especially great.
@@jerrycharles66 thank you…they are getting there 👍🏻
@@124thDragoon thanks, will check them out 👍🏻
Oh wow... you've got some incredible sounds coming out of that synth; futuristic and nostalgic all at once! Would you ever consider doing an entire drone/ambient album like this one day? You've managed to capture so many different atmospheres and so much character and emotion in just one demo, I can't even imagine how good an entire record (or even just an EP) would sound.
Thank you for support Ukraine❤
From Kyiv with love.
I am so grateful that you continue to put stuff like this out, the video hit with perfect timing for a little gap of calm in a totally insane day. Thanks, Benn!
Can't wait for Oscillator Sinks 3 Hour long drone video on this thing ;-)
My thought as well - he's really talented at using this sort of sound.
What an extraordinarily inspiring story of a manufacturer's passion to create an extraordinarily inspiring instrument. Thank you for sharing your insight and your playing, Benn. Beautiful.
Bro, how did you patch @9:20 onwards with that voice!? Intent on buying this device and would LOVE to recreate that!!!!
Alright I know you're not trying to sell this thing, but do you have a Perfect Circuit affiliate link bychance? cuz I'm strongly thinking of snagging one and if I do you should absolutely get first dibs on that commission
Whilst apologising for your pronunciation of someone’s name you pronounced pronunciation incorrectly. Good video.
Sometimes I watch TH-cam videos with synths in them to geek out and get all GASsy over the specs, and see the ins and outs of how it works. But often times what I’m *really* hoping for is to be surprised and also to be inspired. Thank you for making me surprised, astounded and creatively inspired today. It’s a nice way to end the day. Cheers.
I have never had a more serious case of GAS in my entire life...
thanks for 🇺🇦
The end bit where you accompanied it with the piano was strikingly beautiful, got me genuinely emotional. Thank you for putting this video out Benn.
"Zone Out With My Piano" sounds like something from the "Social Network" score. Very cool stuff.
yep, Trent Reznor
Wow, what a beautiful instrument/sound/video/work.
I absolutely love this instrument. I find it to be a really intriguing microcosm. I would love to learn more what's under the hood - but like you said, there's content for that elsewhere. I am glad to hear you just playing this. I could see performing entire scores with this device , and of course adding other instruments like your piano are amazing as well. It sounds so good!
This is so cinematic that it doesn’t even need a movie! A beautiful complete emotional tale by itself. A work of art. Thank you for sharing this! 🙇🏻♂️
This is one of the best channels on TH-cam that I've found recently! And the Solar 42 is such a masterpiece!
I remember my excitement when I brought Solar 50, when it was released. Great peace of equipment. The huge disadvantage of it - the sound. It sounds kind of digital (you can even hear it in this video). Like some kind of VST synth. I was comparing it to omnisphere or even Massive X. You can get same results with software synths with almost the same sounds and.. much faster. You need to spend "some" time to tune it's oscs. So it's a great maschine if you want toi perform with it. So people can see how it reacts to light and touches... But for producing it's just not worth it. IMO.
wonderful! reminded me of Benns video with the Polybrute, a beautiful piece of art to play and soothe the soul
Wow this instrument is so killer. I bet if you added the analog heat to that it would sound even more massive.
Ukraine did all it could to rub along with Putin’s Russia, by giving away its nuclear weapons…and Putin delivered his ‘reward’ in 2014, and again harder in 2022. Lesson learned, we all have to live through this painful phase of recovery and setting it right. That sad story, could easily have this as its soundtrack. Well done Benn, you coaxed a great score out of a box I’d just be frightened by! Good stuff, great weird wonderful, ‘out-there’ piece of kit. Gagging to be a movie score device. Take care all.
Wow that is an insane machine!
I had no idea the struggles they went through to produce this amazing piece of gear. And you made some wonderfully recharging music to relax to. Thanks, Benn!
Just excellent!
I think you should do the occasional ambient video from now on, man. Good stuff.
Wow, that didn’t take long, at all …
You can’t keep a good gear shill down! ✊🏼😅
It is produced by a Russian company that once made Polyvox.
This is so beautiful I could cry. The passion behind the making of the synth and your playing of the synth really comes through. Thanks for sharing
Lucy has a cute coat! And the music box is nice. The music you made with it is even nicer.
I was all excited to hear what Lucy would play on it but it turned out really good regardless.
Is Lucy wearing Teddy Fresh??
Very Beautiful sounds & Instrument design, a pretty much fully featured intrument, sounds like a Caterina Barbieri patch to me 😅
wonder how organisimic the modulation can get .... and what about the cartridge does anyone knows if it's another one based on the Fv-1 chip like the Z-DSP or is it something else?
It’s been two months and I’m still hauntd by these sounds. I tell myself: "That's what it sounds like in the hands of Benn", but it's helping less and less. Waaaaant!!!
Yeah this is something special. Listened on my HS8's with the volume turned up while I had my dinner. I love how alive it sounds. Big sound! The first few seconds of the video, I was sure it was the Hydrasynth.
💙💛 the interplay with the piano is just marvelous
Beautiful instrument, beautiful track. Adding the piano at 11'18".... wow. Just wow.
The zone out piano stuff at the end was super nice and inspiring actually
Well, I just commented on your Hum video, (1st time seeing your channel), as I was intrigued by your sexy outboard gear, I looked deeper, just watched this, Well, I'm sold, I love listening to ambient, I love making ambient, and I'm about to move countries and set up my studio again from scratch, so I was looking to upgrade and add a few nice toys, a Waldorf Iridium being one of them. One of these would make a superb accompaniment. I just totally blissed out to that, laid on the sofa with my Cans on. Watching someone do EXACTLY what I would do, and just immerse yourself in it's possibilities musically, is far more useful to me, than someone droning on (no pun intended🤣) about settings, and presets, and oscillators, and what this knob does, etc. Most Of which I'd forget anyway. My ears tell me what I need to know, my memory then uses that as relevant, useful data. So thanks for that, and I can't believe I've only just discovered your channel👍🏻.
I would love like an addon / mod that lets you get a 5.1 Signal / Surround. I'd jam with that in the middle for hours :D great vid, thx ben. I would love to know a little more about onboard effects? I've seen that there are loadable effects on a USB? How does that work?
I feel like there should be a standalone surround processor available somewhere. Like, 2 signals in, 4 or 6 line level signals out. Using simple decoding like ye olde Dolby Surround processing. So you feed it LtRt and get out LCRS.
I mean, you probably could just look around for a secondhand surround decoder, hook up your synth to it with stereo cables and get 4-6 speaker level signals from it.
But yes, I think a simple surround processor... There should be a market for that. :/
The effects are user programmable and loadable into the dsp (most everything else is analog) so you could probably build some 5.1 effects into the architecture already present and just send that to a surround decoder.
It's a beautiful sounding machine, but at almost $3000 it should be
@@jmalmsten yes like Nugen Audio "Halo" but in a box.
I am not a crier but when the piano came in I was close to tears. One of the most calming and beautiful videos I’ve ever watched
This is the type of video that got me into synthesis in the first place. Just an instrument played by capable hands making you zone out for a few minutes. If this is what we get from you instead of typical “gear” videos now, man is 2024 gonna be a great year.
Your politics are terrible and ignorant and frankly shallow but your music is really good and I genuinely appreciate you as an artist and experimenter of sound.
Said the same thing.
I have a Solar 50 and one of their Polivoks filters and they are astonishing beasts.
This is why i’m here. Musical instrument, history of the creator behind it, and nothing but beautiful music. Benn, thanks for healing me up a bit. Feeling better.
Dude, the solar with the piano brought tears to my eyes 😢 Such bliss ❤
Dude I enjoyed the shit outta the zone out section. You have my full support if u ever start making/selling this kind of music I loved it.
dude, i thought you were going to stop making gear review videos that give me the hard GAS?
:)
...but this is clearly special. clearly.
Now look what you made me do😂 this Is a machine that very clearly fits my sensibilities
I literally just downloaded the audio for this video to my DAP. You should considering releasing your own EP.
Stunning pieces Benn, as always your talent transcends the equipment you create with
The range of sounds you’re getting from this instrument is phenomenal... with little to no patching. It’s incredible.
WTH happened to I'm Done w/ Gear Videos & Reviews?
I guess the Pulsar23 isn't my next big purchase after all...
This video, your video, this is something special. It feels like a secret level you found in an already good game that just has the best parts plus a very personal part of the Devs in it. Your honest opinion and then zoning out with you was kinda... magical? Like massaging the soul. I'm bad with words, sorry. That's my closest approach to describe it.
I've instantly got your latest albums from Bandcamp. Now I wish there were more. I love them and have listened to them more than five times at this point (not on repeat, mind you). I hope for more :)
Comment for the algorithm that I also have a Solar 42 by ELTA music (cream color) and it is fantastic sonic fun and wondrousness. I'm not a professional, just love synths, and if you love them too, you'll love this one. Interesting and amazing to hear the personal history of these brilliant genius engineers and Mr. Arseniy bringing this to life... yes.... the passion that went in to creating this musical instrument is quite obvious.
Thanks. 😊
If you don't mind me asking, how difficult did you find it to learn how to play/use this? I've played strings all my life but I want to dive deeper into music and, since my disability(s) have taken most of my passion projects away from me, I need something I can use a bit more simplisticly than a cello or a bass, and won't hurt me as much. I thought something like this would free me and my soul. I've also always just absolutely LOVED ambient & synth music and have felt those styles twisting at my heart from the inside for long enough, I thought it was high time I learn to take control of that and... idk, make myself cry for once, I guess, lol!
I can use a PC, I learned to animate on an old Macintosh in the 90s (yeah, I'm old), Android phone (I managed to free my phone from itself so I can make it look and perform the way I want it to), play the piano and keyboard moderately well, and understand wiring faaiiirly well, I was a journeyman electrician for a few years in my youth while working for a construction company. I played the upright Contrabass or Double Bass in the Seattle Symphony for 4 years until my deployment and ultimately, my injury. For the last 20 years I've been on a journey of rejection, sadness, giving up completely, and staring all over again trying to re learn how to play all the instruments I used to play, and create art with the mediums I used to, realizing I am not going to be able to do either one as well or for nearly a long as I used to, and eventually, learning new ways of creating art and music, and ultimately, learning to be ok with that. It took ¼ or ⅕ of my life, depending on how long I feel like sticking around and annoying my children, to get my butt in gear and get over myself, and I find that really sad. It's time to get to making music and I think synths are the key to this!
@@tiggerdcat I am so sorry you're dealing with a disability taking so much from you, but admire your courageous existential stance, and yes, perhaps the Solar 42 can bring some of that back, especially since you already know music and probably have an ear for tuning, as given all the voices that part is important. I would suspect the capacitive keyboard would be welcomed to your fingers over a regular pressure or hammer keyboard. One thing that might be difficult depending on your finger dexterity is that the knobs are small, and close together. Large fingers would have a problem. Actually learning how this works and interacts is rather simple. You'll quickly grasp how intuitive and well-thought-out the interface is. This will bring you hours and hours of delight exploring wonderful soundscapes, finding endless sweet spots, and just being fascinated by synthesis. I would suggest getting some stackable patch chords, or a few patch chord hubs.
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Thank you! I do have perfect pitch and timing, so that's not an issue. The knobs and whatnot shouldn't really be much of a problem, I have long, slender fingers on my massive, unladylike, gorilla hands. A rather fashionable, eccentric gorilla, to be sure, but a gorilla all the same. It did come in quite... *_handy_* , ahh ha-ha ahhh ha-ha, when playing the Double Bass and piano, tho, I do have to admit.
Shoot, I got off track again! Where was I?.. Oh yeah; knobs, buttons, sliders... yeah, I don't believe any of those should be a problem. My range of motion issues starts at my elbow and radiates up to my shoulder, and down to my ring and pinky fingers, so things like; using a bow to play a stringed instrument hurts a lot, but turning knobs and/or pressing on the pad shouldn't hurt much at all.
My ulnar nerve was smashed so hard it was crushed flat, like a worm smooshed between someones shoe & the pavement on a hot and rainy summers day, from being forced between the ulnar and the humerus, popping the gel sacs in the joints in the process. Hurts very much bad all the time. I've had an ulnar nerve transposition surgery to tried the nerve and it went fairly well, but after some time the nerve slid back down and got itself stuck in the middle of a mass of scar tissue, so back to hurting all the time. Oh well. If this is the worst pain I've to deal with, then the rest is easy mode.
Now, did this little beauty come with a manual, _and_ is that manual in English, *_AND_* is it easy to understand, *OR* should I look up TH-cam how tos to learn how to make it do *the things* ? I probably should have started with this question, but... is it terribly expensive, moderately so, or rather inexpensive, as these things go? I want some but I'm a veteran, so I might have to save up for it, if I want to keep my emergency cushion $$. Having that in the bank has saved me more time than I can count!
Oh, my dog, I've written a novel again, I'm *_SO_*_ SORRY_ ! I don't know why I share so much in comments and online, lol! I'm actuality really shy and hardly talk at all, probably because I've got agoraphobia, CPTSD, AuDHD, and a bunch of other things. I'm a mess, lol! Get hit by 1 little enemy IED & it tends to traumatize and do harm to more than the physical. Well, I'm working on that, too, talking with my psych and all.
Anyway, thanks for the info, and for your consideration, and for taking the time to read my garbage comments, lol! I swear... I actually went back and cleaned this up, too! You should have seen it before! Good lord!
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@@tiggerdcat Oh my music friend nah... it's a good place to express your trauma and discover ways to deal with it via music sound and art. You will love this musical instrument would be my guess, and it would help soothe you and move forward in response to those challenges that confront you.
It does come with a minimal manual in well-written English, but... it is so well designed for the user in some ways you don't really need it. It is so new there aren't a whole lot of instructional videos. If you check my playlists I've collected a bunch before I got mine to help me learn it. I think that playlist should be listed as public and “Elta”.
The user experience is incredible and so well-designed. You are in the center, and then all controls are arranged around you, left and right. Frankly, it's genius.
Cost is kind of subjective as to if you have the cash... basically a bit under $2000.00 US. For something like this? I would not consider it expensive. It isn't some mass-produced instrument for the general consumer market. Kind of niche, for people who are already interested in and familiar with synthesizers, and then a drone type thing that doesn't even have MIDI. It's special and unique made by just a couple of brilliant sound engineer type people.
Keep in mind it is the second generation... so, an advance on an already successful foray into it all by Elta. If you can afford it, and you think your disability won't make controlling it difficult I would totally say: get it. Get it right now. You have perfect pitch of all things?!? You are going to love this.
You are going to create wonderful music on it. You are going to find yourself in it's ambient stream-of-consciousness experience of it.
Very nice! The last piece reminded me of Harold Budd/Brian Eno stuff... wonderful.
I've watched / listened to this video a couple of dozen times now. Love it....
Man that intro... You literally gained a new subscriber in 10 seconds.
I had no idea about the Ukrainian aspect of ELTA either. I just thought they were from Latvia. Amazing gear, in any case.
They were from Moscow.
@@noizekiller I thought the stuff was just manufactured there.
@@NicStage ELTA music, a young boutique company, was founded in Moscow in 2017 by Arseniy Tokarev, a musician from Donetsk, Ukraine.
Thanks for our flag ❤❤❤ such support so important for Ukraine ❤
Just want to mention that not exist eastern or western Ukraine, we are unitary country. So correct to say east of Ukraine. )
Perfect. Love this thing. Something actually different. Light sensitive keys? Thats a new one. Obviously created by artists, not suits.
@10:35 THAT SMILE
This thing sounds absolutely incredible... I like to do a lot of my scoring in Ableton but this looks like the cinematic sandbox I'm looking for. I wonder if it does more gritty atonal horror-core type vibes, it's got the moody, nostalgic tones locked in, especially when that piano comes in. Good content as always.
I wish I could stay in this place all the time, but I guess this is not what real life sounds like. I like the zone better. Solar Fields is where I would like to live. I try to explain it, but some people just don't get it. I am glad some do.
dang.... it costs 2 grand lol
Something missing...oh, yeah, an intro to the music bit by Stephen Hill. Wonderful stuff. "Safe journeys, space fans, wherever you are."
It's cool as hell and I wanted to learn so much about frequency therapy . It started giving me anxiety 6.30 minutes into it🤷♀️ I'm very sensitive to sounds but I always need them to drown out tinnitus in my ears... 24/7!! 🤯 It has gotten so bad also higher pitched now😪
👍Enjoy your videos excellent subjects and in-depth research well done✌❤🙏
So beautiful. Thank you. -Mano
Cool overview and background story. What hard case is that at the beginning? I’m looking for something to tote it with. Thx.
Perhaps this may be a must have since it has the answer to "Life the universe and everything" printed on the case???😜🎶🎹🎶
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It feels insane to say that $2000 feels like a steal for something this feature packed. It’s also insane that I wanna take the plunge given that I’m primarily a guitarist who loves ambient synth music.
I love the sounds you’re getting out of this beautiful synth, Benn! Do you have any videos (YT or Patreon), on the how you approach ambient music, and get the sounds you get? This is really inspiring. Thank you for the eye opening video.
Oh wow, so cool you are filming this near Atlanta. I loved living there so much.... I miss it. I was in Alpharetta. Working at L3. Such a fun time circa 2005. Can you tell me where these scenes were filmed?
Very impressive. The introduction as well as the music and instrument impression. Unaffordable for me right now, but at a very high and lonely place of my wish list. And i seriously consider selling a major part of my studio to get and master this.
I don't do many comments, but thank you for this video. This is an amazing instrument with a crazy story!
Trent Reznor meets Thomas Newman meets Benn Jordan! Add a little Pat Metheny and it would be a Super Group for the ages.
I love everything about this. Absolutely mind-boggingly beautiful. Thank you.
This is absolutely wonderful and very much love ambient music. I believe you have found the perfect machine!
ambient with no Hologram, Chase Bliss or Strymon in sight? How can it be? ;) Yeah what a really compellingly beautiful sounding instrument, something you have a journey and a conversation with rather than just playing it. A great showcase Benn. 🧡
It sounds beautiful but how does it operate? The interface looks wiiild. It has a cartridge slot and oscillators 1, 2, 6 and 7 have these honeycomb looking orbs like wtfff. Can you demonstrate what makes this synth so special?
i wish this was longer :'(
Just stopping by to say how much I appreciate this style of video. It's clear, to me at least, that you're getting to know the instrument by seeing how it fits into your normal creative process. That's just so much more interesting and useful than the usual YT gear review, but probably requires the viewer to know a little bit about you and your approach to music. It's nice.
I am in love with this machine!❤! Don't imagine it coming at a very affordable price though?😢
great, great music!
SLAVA UKRAINI
Beautiful stuff. I noticed all the music has one single note/chord pedal note
Is the synth not designed to be easily able to change key/root note/pedal note etc? Do you just always have to play around that root?
Can't decide between this or the Osmos from Expressive E? They're both the same price ($1,700) Question is; which one will sell at the lowest price used? I think that will be a determining factor. 🤔
You also butchered the word “pronunciation.” There is no such word as “pronounciation.”
I love irony. 👍
I love to produce, but I have the most fun pulling up ambient pads and just playing for hours.
Loved the last chapter with upright piano, but what is has to do with the postcards of Latvia? Just wondering...
Shows once again that our true connection to happiness is not through tools but through emotional depth experienced in passion. The fascination that I share with Benn here is not in the machine, but in what it stands for: Resilience, vision, drive, self sufficiency and self inspiration. I am happy to know that his spirit lives within this machine as a spiritual concept and I hope we will know more than reducing his work to the product itself but be inspired by the symbolic weight to inspire our own journey.
Well said, well said. Amen, brother. Btw can I buy LSD from you?
11:37 sounds like something out of a movie. Absolutely Stunning quality that this little synth can push out!
Yeah this was AWESOME
Great video. I am impressed. Very hard to get this kind of sound just from software instruments. Great work.
Woow synth, sound incredible..... 1800 euros :(
Okay that was amazing.
I accidentally took a double dose of my amphetamines today and the vibes are bad so thanks for this zone out track.