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Honestly, and I mean this, the best video on analog synths ( not just the Poly-D) on CZcams. good sound, good image, not too much blah blah blah, no attempts at humour.
I've had a MicroMoog I lucked into for cheap as a teen for an eternity. Absolutely love that Behringer is giving an affordable alternative to the MiniMoog I've wanted forever.
I have a Poly D arriving today. Second synthesizer in my life but it will be the first one I really try to understand. I am 16 minutes into your tutorial and it is fantastic. I bought you a coffee! Thanks!
Wow, thanks man I saw it on PP. Thanks man, all these videos are coming right out of my pocket so your help really makes a difference. So, congratulation on you new synth, hope you enjoy it. Make sure to pair it with good effect and you have an amazing sound machine :) Thanks for the coffee !!!!
@@XNBeatsMusic Welcome!! I am looking forward to the Poly. I had pretty much figured I needed a synth without menus to get the hang of how everything works together. Menus can come later. Watched lots of 30 minute overviews etc. The stumbled onto your vid. Yours is the most in-depth. Thanks!
@@Geddyfleaharris THanks man. Glad you could get some useful info on the PolyD. The video is going nowhere so can always come back and use it as reference. Cheers !!!!
I recently bought your PolyD presets and am really digging it. Please do a deep dive into how to use the CV inputs, etc , basically all the back panel I/O
This excellent guide saved my Poly D. Just couldn’t be bothered with it and considering selling. Two hours of watching this tutorial and now I’m confident I understand all the controls and making my own sounds from scratch.
To enter save mode for the current sequence, hold shift and play for 3 seconds. Then select your pattern slot with the left right arrow keys and hold the PATTERN button if you’d like to change the bank as well. Then hit shift + rec to write to memory. If you reset your saved pattern with shift reset, it’s not actually deleted. You’d need to resave a new pattern over it. Also, turning it on holding d major/ minor chord will enable/disable your envelope retrigger when more than one note is held at a time in a poly mode. This is the least intuitive bit of information from the whole video so I felt the need to reshare it here. You are welcome 1:24:46
Thank you so much, the sequencer chapter helped me a lot! Looking forward to watching the whole video to really get to know this beast of a synth I've acquired.
Yo! Thanks for this video! I am only 12 minutes in and I am very much looking forward to watching the rest of it. I was really confused about the keyboard control switches until now. Kudos 👏
I've only watched 44 mins so far but this video is amazing! I understand so much more about this thing and how it all works together. Thank you so much!
Really glad to hear that. You know, donation really help, of course. But knowing someone, someplace was able to boost because of your work, is just a fantastic feeling. Thanks for the comment and the contribution. Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but after I released the vid, I got really sick, like 2 complete days sleeping sick, that bad. I am still in a bad shape, but I can respond messages at least.
Waiting to receive my poly D, I was looking for a tutorial. I found your BIG helping one: well done, Thanks!!! (I've sent you a few coffees, well deserved man!)
Hey Alberto I Just saw it. Thanks for the contribution !!! It really helps A LOT to keep these guides and the whole channel going. Thanks again for the coffee :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to make and upload this. Making my journey in to the poly d and analogue synths in general a lot less painful! bought you a coffee, thanks a lot!
Thank you SO MUCH for the BEST video ever on the Poly D. I bought you a few cups of coffee! It really helped me understand how everything works, and was a great general introduction to analog synthesis as well. Keep up the good work! I also watched your video on the Korg Wavestate, although that is much more difficult to understand (but very powerful). I'm going to start working on the Deepmind 12, and will turn to you first for that. In addition, I plan to get into Cubase, and would love an explanatory introduction to that, if that might be in your wheelhouse... :) THANKS!
Holy Jesus, more than a few !!! I saw it, well thank you, I don't know what to say. It really helps me to keep the boat floating. It all comes out from my pocket, but all the contributions make my life a bit easier. Thanks a million time . There is a POLY D making sound coming in a little while. I did that with the Minilogue and Cobalt, so POLY D and DEEPMIND are is next. Used a lot of DAW's throughout the years, never clicked with Cubase, don't know why. Anyhow, thanks for the coffee man.
Thank you The poly mode with the notes all going through the same filters is something I have heard before but thanks for your explanation because I didn't realise the second note you would drag the first note through the filter again 🤔😅
I baught the deepmind not knowing what to expect... Loved to use the arp and tweak but it was so much digital stuff there and now I realize that I should have baught a analog one. This feels more like an instrument and playing with the arp section just seems soo fun!!
This is an amazing video but im still confused why oscillator 1,2 and 3 have LO, im sure they weren't mentioned, only 4 can be used as an lfo so why are they there?
Thanks for this, I was totally new to the synth world and found your video to be the best. Sometimes you go really fast switching from one function to another so I was using the back button a lot (...wait what the fxxx did he just do! ). But overall I can't fault this, it's amazing. I bought you a coffee.👌
Your video made it so so so easy to get into synth bass. I’ve been playing bass for 30 years and I’m just now dabbling with synths. I wanna know what everything does on this unit and your video is perfect. Money well spent. Thank you.
Thank you thank you thank you. I’m not an idiot by my dyslexia makes it impossible for me to remember what just happened well enough to know how it works without help.
Dude. I can’t afford to buy you a coffee but if this video helps me finish this record I’ll buy you any synth you want unless you’d rather have a Ferrari.
@@XNBeatsMusic seriously, great vids. i make and release a ton of house and synth music (under a different channel) and these indepth tutorials are just gold!!
The presentation is put together very well, with logical progression and information. However any person who has hearing issue and many musicians do, the sounds make the mono,log almost impossible to understand. having the sound demonstration so loud serves no purpose, just being able to hear it is all that is needed, the monolog or spoken information is very important. I miss about all spoken information when the sounds are playing.
Hello. Well depends on what you are using, you need to configure the Poly D as a slave. Here is a link of a different video where I do that with an RD6. czcams.com/video/Yg9eCK9WpSA/video.html
Great information many, many thanks for taking the time to share. Question, my mod wheel when pushed to the top feels like it is grinding is that by design?
Very very good tutorial I have a question. Is there any sign wave in this synthesizer? I just bought it and I don’t know how can I make it? Thank you very much.
The berhinger deepmind 12 has a minimoog. Inside , it’s the best synthesizer on the planet for a ridiculous price he has a oberheim too plus you can purchase some patches if IOU’s are not parient to built it
For the EXT IN when you say "what ever you want" to put in there. I wanted to input my stand up bass and mod it to an 808 sound. Can I plug my Stand Up/8 String Guitar/ ANYTHING into it? When I tried I got no sound although I was designing on it with Oscilattors just fine. DO i need to run an instrument through a preamp/amp/some sort of controls before plugging into the back of the POLY D?
Sorry to hear that you felt so bad over the last few days, hope you're getting better! This was the first time I made a donation through YT and I didn't see that there was an automated message. Otherwise I would have said more/something different than just "Danke" ;-) But the video really did a lot for my understanding of not just my Poly D but subtractive synthesis in general. I've watched a lot of tutorials over the last months, but always had questions at the end. I love that you went through every single knob and switch on the machine and not just talked about them but practically showed what they do. The part about the sequencer was just amazing and for the first time I have the feeling that I understand how it works. Hope you enjoy the coffee! Have a great day!
@@signwaveslandmarks Yeah, I'll be OK in a couple of days I guess. When I started to do all of this, doing another review of a synth or plugin was a little bit of a let down for me. There is a lot of that on YT. So I plan every video like you enrolled in course about a synth or a particular plugin, that way I can offer something else than a review. It takes a lot more time and effort but people seem to like it and it turned to be helpful for a lot of people. But yeah, what you watched is essentially a course about the synth. And yeah, understanding the Sequencer just gives you one more really cool tool to do more with the synth. Glad you got useful information and thanks for the coffee again :)
great video, just got one of these as a gift. I'm wondering how I adjust the pitch bend and mod wheel. Out of the box, I'm not getting the standard response from the mod wheel (it seems to affect filter cutoff or similar, I want it to control vibrato) and the mod wheel is set to 12 steps and I'd like it to be 2. Any thoughts from anyone?
Is there a way to control damper/ sustain with a pedal? My poly D won’t respond to CC64 or when damper/sustain is being engaged on a midi controller that has a damper/sustain jack. My other synths don’t have this issue.
I don´t like, that the most important buttons are so mini. I wear glases. The sequencer manual should be more for intuition not for kognitive use and don´t be so mini.
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This is the most useful CZcams video of all time
Honestly, and I mean this, the best video on analog synths ( not just the Poly-D) on CZcams. good sound, good image, not too much blah blah blah, no attempts at humour.
thanks man, glad you liked it
Just purchased a Poly D second hand for 450€, this video is pure gold for me. I also suggest NY school of synthesis
I've had a MicroMoog I lucked into for cheap as a teen for an eternity. Absolutely love that Behringer is giving an affordable alternative to the MiniMoog I've wanted forever.
I have a Poly D arriving today. Second synthesizer in my life but it will be the first one I really try to understand. I am 16 minutes into your tutorial and it is fantastic. I bought you a coffee! Thanks!
Wow, thanks man I saw it on PP. Thanks man, all these videos are coming right out of my pocket so your help really makes a difference. So, congratulation on you new synth, hope you enjoy it. Make sure to pair it with good effect and you have an amazing sound machine :)
Thanks for the coffee !!!!
@@XNBeatsMusic Welcome!! I am looking forward to the Poly. I had pretty much figured I needed a synth without menus to get the hang of how everything works together. Menus can come later. Watched lots of 30 minute overviews etc. The stumbled onto your vid. Yours is the most in-depth. Thanks!
@@Geddyfleaharris THanks man. Glad you could get some useful info on the PolyD. The video is going nowhere so can always come back and use it as reference.
Cheers !!!!
Same here!
I recently bought your PolyD presets and am really digging it. Please do a deep dive into how to use the CV inputs, etc , basically all the back panel I/O
i think your videos are as valuable as loopop's. i hope your channel grows big.
Wow, thanks, love loopop. It will grow, it takes time and patience. Thanks for the comment :)
You can create a "sample and hold" effect when using the "random" mode on the arpeggiator
Good tip.
This excellent guide saved my Poly D. Just couldn’t be bothered with it and considering selling. Two hours of watching this tutorial and now I’m confident I understand all the controls and making my own sounds from scratch.
haha same! This really breathed some life back into mine, it's been collecting dust since I got fed up trying to figure out modulation
No voy a dejar de comentar por supuesto, creo que no existe un tutorial tan completo como este! , felicitaciones XNB! 🎹🎹🎹
To enter save mode for the current sequence, hold shift and play for 3 seconds. Then select your pattern slot with the left right arrow keys and hold the PATTERN button if you’d like to change the bank as well. Then hit shift + rec to write to memory.
If you reset your saved pattern with shift reset, it’s not actually deleted. You’d need to resave a new pattern over it.
Also, turning it on holding d major/ minor chord will enable/disable your envelope retrigger when more than one note is held at a time in a poly mode.
This is the least intuitive bit of information from the whole video so I felt the need to reshare it here. You are welcome 1:24:46
Thank you so much, the sequencer chapter helped me a lot! Looking forward to watching the whole video to really get to know this beast of a synth I've acquired.
Yo! Thanks for this video!
I am only 12 minutes in and I am very much looking forward to watching the rest of it. I was really confused about the keyboard control switches until now. Kudos 👏
I've only watched 44 mins so far but this video is amazing! I understand so much more about this thing and how it all works together. Thank you so much!
Really glad to hear that. You know, donation really help, of course. But knowing someone, someplace was able to boost because of your work, is just a fantastic feeling. Thanks for the comment and the contribution.
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but after I released the vid, I got really sick, like 2 complete days sleeping sick, that bad. I am still in a bad shape, but I can respond messages at least.
Thank you for these in depth lessons. You're a good and patient teacher. :)
Best tutorial I´ve ever watched. Thank you!
Waiting to receive my poly D, I was looking for a tutorial. I found your BIG helping one: well done, Thanks!!! (I've sent you a few coffees, well deserved man!)
Hey Alberto I Just saw it. Thanks for the contribution !!! It really helps A LOT to keep these guides and the whole channel going. Thanks again for the coffee :)
Exceptional video quality. Congrats.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make and upload this. Making my journey in to the poly d and analogue synths in general a lot less painful! bought you a coffee, thanks a lot!
Great video! Thanks a lot. A complex topic perfect explained. Extrapoints for the visualisation with the oscilloscope.
You must have dislexia on your Dmin, Dmaj , lol Excellent video, thanks so MUCH !!!!!!!
Thank you SO MUCH for the BEST video ever on the Poly D. I bought you a few cups of coffee! It really helped me understand how everything works, and was a great general introduction to analog synthesis as well. Keep up the good work! I also watched your video on the Korg Wavestate, although that is much more difficult to understand (but very powerful). I'm going to start working on the Deepmind 12, and will turn to you first for that. In addition, I plan to get into Cubase, and would love an explanatory introduction to that, if that might be in your wheelhouse... :)
THANKS!
Holy Jesus, more than a few !!! I saw it, well thank you, I don't know what to say. It really helps me to keep the boat floating. It all comes out from my pocket, but all the contributions make my life a bit easier. Thanks a million time .
There is a POLY D making sound coming in a little while. I did that with the Minilogue and Cobalt, so POLY D and DEEPMIND are is next.
Used a lot of DAW's throughout the years, never clicked with Cubase, don't know why. Anyhow, thanks for the coffee man.
Great video. You're an excellent teacher.
That's great man. Older MS Leslie gear meets great vintage synths. There is maintenance with every leslie.
Excellent job. Thank you.
Thank you
The poly mode with the notes all going through the same filters is something I have heard before but thanks for your explanation because I didn't realise the second note you would drag the first note through the filter again 🤔😅
Thanks for the comment. Yeah, it's a mono or paraphonic synth. It is what it is, the fact you can play a chord is a bonus.
I baught the deepmind not knowing what to expect... Loved to use the arp and tweak but it was so much digital stuff there and now I realize that I should have baught a analog one. This feels more like an instrument and playing with the arp section just seems soo fun!!
Amazing! Thanks for a thorough video. 🙂
This is an amazing video but im still confused why oscillator 1,2 and 3 have LO, im sure they weren't mentioned, only 4 can be used as an lfo so why are they there?
Love this video, it is so informative.
best explanation ever ! thank you a lot
Thanks for this, I was totally new to the synth world and found your video to be the best. Sometimes you go really fast switching from one function to another so I was using the back button a lot (...wait what the fxxx did he just do! ). But overall I can't fault this, it's amazing. I bought you a coffee.👌
Great video, thanks!
Brilliant video thank you so much.👍
amazing turorial! thanks!
Awesome tutorial!
Thank you!
Thanks!
Holy crap Richard. Thanks for the help !!! :)
Your video made it so so so easy to get into synth bass. I’ve been playing bass for 30 years and I’m just now dabbling with synths. I wanna know what everything does on this unit and your video is perfect. Money well spent. Thank you.
Thank you thank you thank you. I’m not an idiot by my dyslexia makes it impossible for me to remember what just happened well enough to know how it works without help.
Geart tutorial, Thank you!
excellentttt thankyou. sweet that you can noise to modulate pitch or filter
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
Dude. I can’t afford to buy you a coffee but if this video helps me finish this record I’ll buy you any synth you want unless you’d rather have a Ferrari.
Fantastic !
Thanks a lot for so great video. Greetings from Medellin/Colombia
You're a perfect teacher, thanks!
great job explaining everything, thanx a lot
amazing vid, thank you!
Thanks for the comment :)
@@XNBeatsMusic seriously, great vids. i make and release a ton of house and synth music (under a different channel) and these indepth tutorials are just gold!!
@@georgejackson8775 Thanks George, well I plan to keep on doing them, some big ones coming up like MPC, Maschine, Peak, Model 15 and a few more.
Thanks for the tutorial!
Thanks, this is really helpful, I have bought you a coffee 😀
The presentation is put together very well, with logical progression and information. However any person who has hearing issue and many musicians do, the sounds make the mono,log almost impossible to understand. having the sound demonstration so loud serves no purpose, just being able to hear it is all that is needed, the monolog or spoken information is very important. I miss about all spoken information when the sounds are playing.
How does it work to use the Arp/sequencer via midi triggered from another instrument ?
Hello. Well depends on what you are using, you need to configure the Poly D as a slave. Here is a link of a different video where I do that with an RD6.
czcams.com/video/Yg9eCK9WpSA/video.html
You have your majors and minors reversed on the retrigger section, BTW!
Great information many, many thanks for taking the time to share. Question, my mod wheel when pushed to the top feels like it is grinding is that by design?
Very very good tutorial I have a question. Is there any sign wave in this synthesizer? I just bought it and I don’t know how can I make it? Thank you very much.
Greta video tutorial, Thanks a lot! 🍻
Great video, can you trigger the sequence from a foot trigger?
obrigado - gracias - very good -
blessings from SoCal, USA
if this didn't have the Behringer brand on it and was released in 1978 it would be worth 10.000 dollars easy.
great, great video. could you walk through adding vibrato with the pitch wheel. I don't think you covered it. thank you
I meant the modulation wheel
Great !
Thanks
How do I erase a sequence I just want it to play the 1 8 note sequence
The berhinger deepmind 12 has a minimoog. Inside , it’s the best synthesizer on the planet for a ridiculous price he has a oberheim too plus you can purchase some patches if IOU’s are not parient to built it
Eh? It's impossible as the DM 12 doesn't have 3 oscillators.
For the EXT IN when you say "what ever you want" to put in there. I wanted to input my stand up bass and mod it to an 808 sound. Can I plug my Stand Up/8 String Guitar/ ANYTHING into it? When I tried I got no sound although I was designing on it with Oscilattors just fine. DO i need to run an instrument through a preamp/amp/some sort of controls before plugging into the back of the POLY D?
My seq start button is not starting anything, is it possible that the former owner set it to some external clock?
it could be, connect it to a pc a do a factory reset. I guess you can factory reset from the synth, but you need to go to the manual for that.
What is the program called where you can save your sequences? And do the settings?
Danke!
Wow, Ian Danke to you !!! Today coffee is sponsored by you sir :)
Sorry to hear that you felt so bad over the last few days, hope you're getting better! This was the first time I made a donation through YT and I didn't see that there was an automated message. Otherwise I would have said more/something different than just "Danke" ;-) But the video really did a lot for my understanding of not just my Poly D but subtractive synthesis in general. I've watched a lot of tutorials over the last months, but always had questions at the end. I love that you went through every single knob and switch on the machine and not just talked about them but practically showed what they do. The part about the sequencer was just amazing and for the first time I have the feeling that I understand how it works. Hope you enjoy the coffee! Have a great day!
@@signwaveslandmarks Yeah, I'll be OK in a couple of days I guess. When I started to do all of this, doing another review of a synth or plugin was a little bit of a let down for me. There is a lot of that on YT.
So I plan every video like you enrolled in course about a synth or a particular plugin, that way I can offer something else than a review. It takes a lot more time and effort but people seem to like it and it turned to be helpful for a lot of people. But yeah, what you watched is essentially a course about the synth.
And yeah, understanding the Sequencer just gives you one more really cool tool to do more with the synth.
Glad you got useful information and thanks for the coffee again :)
Any suggestions for a good case?
Do any of the other settings have a hold keys while turning on type feature?
My poly d doesn’t sound like other peoples on videos. Watched some patch ideas and mine sounds off, should I return?
great video, just got one of these as a gift. I'm wondering how I adjust the pitch bend and mod wheel. Out of the box, I'm not getting the standard response from the mod wheel (it seems to affect filter cutoff or similar, I want it to control vibrato) and the mod wheel is set to 12 steps and I'd like it to be 2. Any thoughts from anyone?
Excellent tutorial, thanks a lot. I've just dropped you some money for a couple of coffees (depending on where you live of course!) ;)
Is there a way to control damper/ sustain with a pedal? My poly D won’t respond to CC64 or when damper/sustain is being engaged on a midi controller that has a damper/sustain jack. My other synths don’t have this issue.
3:03 pole position !
I don´t like, that the most important buttons are so mini. I wear glases. The sequencer manual should be more for intuition not for kognitive use and don´t be so mini.
What are you using for the waveform display?
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21:21
are the knobs midi mappable?
No, pure analog. Still I would love that.
It will take CV messages though!
play at 0.75, he talks so fast 😅