Video

What's that microphone you're using? It's proximity effect sounds awesome with your voice. I must have it!!! 😂

I’ve owned Behringer gear over the years and every single piece of equipment I’ve ever owned worked perfectly never had any problems, mixing boards, speakers, compressors, digital delay units, and now synthesizers. There’s lots of affordable synthesizers on the market but Beringer always gets a bad wrap. Watch my video on expensive synthesizers.

I don’t buy from asshats.

I see a dude with a stack of VCR's behind him, I listen.

Very insightful video, thank you for sharing your thoughts. When I saw the 'cork sniffer' thing and how people were saying behringer was being anti-semetic, it seemed like kind of a stretch, I thought maybe I was missing context, like Kirn being Jewish or something. It was helpful to hear your analysis of how anti-semetism affects culture, so people end up using anti-semetic signifiers as pejoratives without realizing it. It's still shitty what they did, it just doesn't have the same level of intentionality.

I own 7 Behringer A800 class D amplifiers due to how well they are designed, and perform. FYI -Music Tribe's portfolio includes Behringer, Cool Audio, Midas, Turbosound, TC Electronic and TC-Helicon, Tannoy, Klark Teknik, Lab.gruppen, and Aston Microphones.

Says the man into his digital recorder while making a digital video. lol

Good Video! I'm wondering what can be done to make the K2 sound more similar to the original. Boost/Tube/Overdrive/Distortion Pedal? Mic preamp (with or without a tube)? Psychoacoustic processor (Behringer SX3040 v2)? Or something completely different like an AMP simulation? Or plugins??? There must be something...do you have a tip?

I find DAW way too useful to not use it. I use it as an onboard mixer/FX. Hybrid is the way to go for me.

Very fascinating! When I heard the first turbulent recording, the low frequencies sounded like the overall large scale pattern of waves on the lake, and the clicks sounded like the chaotic bumps it’s gets from the surface waves. I think it’s exciting that the clicks were quieter on a calmer day. Would be really fascinated to see the spectrum and a Fourier transform of it. I think this isn’t too far from something really interesting and maybe publishable! I think there’s a formula out there somewhere that relates wavelength to things like wind speed and the size of the body of water…

i think you can get accelerometers and Arduinos and stuff for pretty cheap if you wanted to make a dedicated device. might even be some Bluetooth accelerometers that you could just link to your phone

I'll be honest... i don't really care what other people say about brands for the most part. People looooove Teenage Engineering. But I personally can't justify their price, and they feel like hipster toys (no offence). Behringer... they've done nothing wrong to me. They help introduce lower-budget potential musicians into the niche, who almost inevitably go on to spend more on other brands too (how many musicians SOLELY use Behringer products?) I think we should look at each brand/product based on their merits, and quit the fart-sniffing elitist views that many seem to fall into the trap of. Not everyone can afford a Moog... and those who start with a Behringer are a lot more likely to upgrade to a Moog eventually, versus someone who was priced out of the market right from the start

You need as many as you actually use. If you find yourself with gear sitting there for months and years unused, you have more gear than you need. Simple. Unless you are simply buying gear for the purpose of collection. Then when your collection is complete is up to you.

This video has left me with a feeling of insight, self reflection and the urge to buy a matrixbrute

ACTUALLY ROB!!! Check out my 1st Ever Video if you get a chance as it's a Great example of the MS20s Beautiful Growling filter used melodically,, it's been a Personal favourite of mine for years ❤😊jaffa

MENTAL!!!! I've pretty much the same story.... i was Told i should buy the Bass station & something like the mininova for my 1st synths after id finally saved just over £1000 but after witching loads of Y.T.vids id fallen in love with the mother 32 and the MS20. IT Did Take me a while to warm to the MS. As i Didn't know synthesis and really struggled trying to get decent sounds from it but just as i thought id made the wrong decision and was ready to sell it something clicked,, probably due to finding a Boss GT-8 Multi FX Peddle board in Cash Converters 😊 Now its my most Treasured synth ❤❤❤ Great Video as always Robby 😊jaffa Jenkins

You've got cool videos man, with way more philosophy than I expect from synth videos :) Plus I'm guessing your name is a Videodrome reference? Good stuff all round.

When you start to sweep you can feel the cheap .

hello! I went the other way. Before recording an album, I play my music at live performances. The question of a pause between changing settings is very problematic if you are performing on a large club stage, and the DJ is playing before and after you.There is no way to communicate with the public in order to gain time for revision.The solution was found in the form of a rhythmic ambient with text and a Roland sx404. On which the necessary musical material has been recorded in advance. Of course, it had to be composed on purpose. And the club trend is that a musician playing live on hardware is more popular with the public than a DJ on a flash drive. That's because everyone can become a flash DJ, and a musician playing live is an exclusive and costs much more. I wish you good luck!

Robert, your content is truly excellent, in depth, inspires people to think!

For the table space problem... Back when I still played I had custom-built cases that you can put on tables(with the top lifting off and the front folding away), that also had appropriate hardware to take a stand under them in case you don't get the luxury of table space. I didn't make those myself, but I did have a good friend who just happened to be working with wood and undestood my needs after a bit of brainstorming. Custom cases deffo have benefits(apart from looking suuuper sweet), like allowing you to fix your gear in place while minimize wiring requirements when changing between venues and practice. Plus everything stays in the same place and you have to think less when playing. For switching between songs without dead air... For me personally that was always part of the challenge to play live - come up with an order for your pieces where you can actually just slowly blend between on songs' settings to the next. As in, try to play it as a set/one very long piece with parts, not as discrete songs. And even if you want to do some crowd work - for me personally that always worked better over a running arp or some basic soundscapes.

Cool video. This might not work for your current needs, but I've started working on a "suitcase set" that'll make it easier for me to travel with my gear. Basically, I got an old piece of Samsonite luggage, and I'm modifying it to fit everything I need to play a live set. The goal is to be able to show up, open the case, plug into a single power source and mixer, and be ready to play a show. It looks like a lot of your gear is on the larger side, but you might be able to figure out something similar to help streamline the setup and breakdown process.

This is an amazing video!! Really well made and super engaging

ABSOLUTLY ENGROSING STUFF Rob my Man Had to keep rewatching as there were so many Amazing Points and so much to take in just a MOUTHWATERING DISPLAY Of Hardware and all my fave synths makeing appearences , i Finally decided on the Pro 800 to go with my ms20 m. as its got some nice differences from the K2 , And Hopefullt soon will have a new DAW so i can connect my setup AND My alessis Drum kit FASINATING Section on Lighting and Visuals Rob , As That is Exactly what im Deeply Tangled Up in at the moment ,, as youve probably Guessed by Any of my Vids m Lights and Lazers play a crucial part ... I HAD To buy a new phone a couple of days ago To integrate with a Video Projector i got on E..Bay resently so i can make my own Visuals as i think it gives you another Dimension to your music as you so wisely stated Unfortunatly they sent me the wrong Wifi Dongle and cable so ill have to wait some more before my plan Bears Fruit FANTASTIC VIDEO Rob and will be rewatching it MANY MORE Times as youve manadged to Pack a Ton of Brilliant Tips in there .... LATER Bro ..

The actual big players in the synth world have not innovated in decades. The entire analog resurgence is nostalgia marketing, to which musicians are susceptible bc sitting in front of a computer is depressing. Innovation comes from startups and the big players copy those innovations. As an early adopter I feel like I should have just stared at my computer screen and waited for the corporate players to copy the real innovators. Uli is just beating everyone else at their own game

“They know this product is good and that ppl want it.” Which is why Roland has never reissued a real 303 but the TD-3 sells for less than $150. I don’t want Roland’s crap virtual analog & nostalgia marketing, I want a 303

My approach - write the music with performance in mind and/or accept - and embrace - the fact that the live music will be different. Or you could just mime to a backing track. It's worked for the industry for decades.

About changing patches between songs, maybe you can mix songs - change patches one by one and let some void filling melody transform from one song to another. FIRST you change k20 and ms20 while brute still playing some drone or sth and then ms 20 starts with some looped melody waiting for brute, next song can start from that loop or drone. Best of luck!

For my electronic duo, Last Dance, we have two primary "stations" for live performance. Station 1 uses a classroom mobile desk (Luxor STAND-WS30 Three-Shelf Adjustable Stand Up Workstation). This desk allows for a clever "under the hood" organization for hardware that does not require immediate access during song performance. There is a pull out keyboard tray that can be used to keep, for ex a laptop, to be used only when necessary. Our laptop is used for samples, tracks, and instruments from ableton and remains closed the entire performance (controlled with Push 2). There are two additional shelves under the tabletop and keyboard drawer. For our purposes they are used to keep a power strip and an audio interface (we route all inputs into daw for fx processing then to FOH) on the middle shelf and the bottom shelf for a small speaker for projecting as a stage monitor or towards an audience if needed. Everything under the tabletop is concealed to the audience with black foil fringe doorway curtains that warp around the sides and front of the tabletop and cut to length down to the floor. The wheels can be locked if needed and is very easy to set up and then roll wherever it needs to go. I understand your routing is more complex but I'd be happy to share pics and other bits of info if helpful! Let me know the best way to get in touch!

I really love the full length video this is from. I really related to your journey from start to finish

I started with DAWs, then started messing around with analog, about to get the required equipment to record with, thanks for the help men 😅

Surprised you didn't make a comparison to drug companies and generic drugs. Seems like ubiquitously everyone loves generic drugs - they are 1/10 the price and exactly the same chemical. They took none of the risk - just copied the active ingredients, etc.

Uli has a ton a Chinese people working with him daily, but yeah giving a long winded deeper explanation of the Holocaust honestly offends me more in this video, than a cartoon on a piece of gear. They took it down, wasn't even up for a day, but here you are making a buck off a negative thing to gain views and line your wallet

I can't wait to buy my next Behringer synths!!! Anyone know where I can score a VCR too?

Subgenre is definitely where individual expression starts to die. It's fine to approach composure with a loose template. I'm a lifelong metalhead/musician and love Death Metal. It's nearly impossible to create music with other musicians without someone being a stickler for specialization. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of dependence on gear.

Genre isn't for the musician! It's for the audience!

I don't play the genre game. But if you want to sell your music there's not much getting away from it.

Good takes! Sticking to a genre is HARD huh? Also a huge fan of using favorite hardware & physical instruments to define limitations. My monkey brain loves physical knobs and buttons so it works out 🙈

Back in the day, when I started dabbling with music, there were a few "experimental" genres, like IDM and Breakcore, which were more of a throw-away labels that were so loose in their meaning, that the general consensus was that they represented almost anything, though had some stylistic characteristics that brought a lot of stuff that was made under one roof. For example, "breakcore" was distinguishing itself as a form of a punky dance music, which was loosely relying on sampling, wild breakbeats and "hardcore" (often loud and distorted) sounds. Interestingly enough, lots of people were concerned that the experimental nature of these "genres" might become lost in time due to people overcategorizing and iteratively copying ideas. It kind of happened, though. Most of the "breakcore" that I found in the last few years sounds like something I would rather call "turbojungle", than keeping the labels to myself and just let the the vast variety of music I discovered just suck in. EDIT: And yes, I am aware that if I kept digging, I would have found more interesting and diversified stuff. :))

Genre is being substituted by “mood”. We are emotional beings and with the constant fusion of different genres and creation of endless new sub-genres, kind of makes it easy to search for a specific “mood” playlist, instead of a genre. Not that genres will disappear, but they could ironically become THE sub-genre, when searching for music online 🥸

The correct number of synths anyone needs, is N+1 where N is the number you currently have. It's the same with bicycles, guitars, Dewalt tools, etc...

Boring bro... get that matrixbrute into gear and finish some songs ... And enjoy you dont have to pay 1000 dollars for a mother 32 and make yourself think you bought anything else than a silly fart machine. Swing? Buy keystep nothing stops you... And yeah, they the good guys who stepped up and helped people stop paying tens of thousands for 60s tech...

my guy has three vcrs but cant afford a de-esser whack.

Ulli Behringer styles himself the Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos of the synth community. He took the authoritarian technocrat mentality of Silicon Valley and applied it to making music gear. This is also apparent in the voracious acquisition of niche companies to create a Walmart of music production gear. Like the aforementioned techbros, he displays megalomanic and sociopathic tendencies, possibly even narcissistic given how viciously he has to punch down - using the megaphone of his corporate voice - on any even moderately known personality who criticizes Behringer. Normal people don't do that shit. It's interesting how passionately his defenders defend him. Evangelist is usually a paid job title in a marketing department, and yet Behringer has managed to turn a significant slice of their customer base into unpaid evangelists. That's quite a coup. I get that some synth nerds feel a need to defend Behringer when they perceive it as the only way they can acquire a stack of hardware. I don't entirely understand it. It's like having hardware has become a weird status symbol or something, and the more you have of it, the greater this "status". It seems to have very little to do with what that hardware is supposedly for: self-expression and creativity through sound. There are plenty of options, new and used, for people to accumulate gear and maybe even make music, without supporting by far the biggest bully in the space. A healthier community would exile his ass pronto.

Dude! Who cares how you feel it’s not about you it’s about the people who uses their gear. 😅 is your life so empty…man get a life.

Great and thoughtful video. Behringer still needs to be called out about this. Churlish and juvenile behavior for a major manufacturer that does great stuff when they aren't sinking to unnecessarily low levels. But I'm not sure I agree with your charitable supposition that Behringer's anti semitic undertone was accidental. I did a quick google search for "anti semitic imagery" and the first link listed had an example of a caricature that was strikingly - eerily - *extremely* similar to the cork sniffer caricature. The grin, the hairline, the facial hair, the exact angle looking at the face. I won't post the link here because the page in question heavily references issues around the current Israel/Palestine conflict which I think is a complex situation and too polarizing for a synth page. But if you do the search I did you'll find the image easily. I understand Peter Kirn isn't jewish, but whomever did the art for cork sniffer created this image as a derogatory depiction, and it is very odd that such a specific similarity came out of that person's mind. Who would even agree to produce that awful piece of media? Maybe Uli did it himself. I sure wouldn't obey direction to do something like that. Again, great video. Sounds like you know a lot about the subject.

You know I'm tired of ppl making a career and platform of airing all of Behringers dirty laundry. Dan at tiger arcade already makes a living doing it for years now, every detail. What of Behringers products do you own to speak for? Plus, I don't know how I feel about the credibility of of guy that still owns 3 VCRs lol. Make videos, but be original...stop kicking the horse everyone else already has please

The Mk2 filter on my FS is fantastic when you do feedback distortion. Gives you all sorts of additional control.

A few years ago I would have felt differently but I’m seeing the big name brands starting to put their support and quality control on pause, while still trying to charge customers a premium for their name brand. The trend is a lot about being bought and exploited by private equity. This has a bait and switch effect on their loyal customers. I see Behringer as a brand that’s gaining steam in value because they are an alternative to this horrible situation that the big names are going through. I don’t think Behringer is a great brand, it’s just gaining appeal because everyone else is becoming 💩. I have a few Behringer products that work really well and I appreciate the value. I don’t love Behringer but I’m not going to 💩 on them. Their stuff does the job and the quality is on par with anything else. They’re useful to have around.

Re-creating a minimoog in digital form, from analogue form, does require R&D. Just not at the level of Bob Moog, who pioneered the development of analogue synths. Moog became very successful until the rest of the world caught up. Behringer has a engineering team with the digital & analogue toolkits which they are applying to quickly re-create these vintage synths. If you have the toolkits and a massive production facilities, you must continually innovate to make use of that production capacity. When Behringer stops issuing new synths, be they vintage clones, kinda new, or totally new, they will certainly reach their end of life. It's all part of the never ending business cycle. On the Anti-Semitism side. The Kern graphic is it. Anyone remotely associated with life, let alone marketing should know better. Decrying that depiction as a "mistake" is a mistake. Someone did that. A company's culture allowed that to happen. Would I ever put any caricature of a brown skinned man with suggestive features, expression, or dress on my product. You'd be nuts to do so. To actually target an individual, Peter Kirn, a person, and a tiny competitor? Don't get me started. People are individuals, who like to group together. Individuals make mistakes, as do groups. Society can usually correct an individuals behaviour. It's much harder to correct the group. Behringer appears to have such a group... who are behaving badly. The Peter Kirn and Loopop incidents are disappointing. However, I'm now much more aware. Thanks for the video.