A Box Of Ambient [Solar 42]

I realized when editing that this may look like a thematic outfit. This is seriously what I wear when I'm cold.
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0:00 - Intro
1:53 - Making Synths During Wartime
4:35 - Zone Out With Me
8:50 - 24 Oscillators Playing C
11:18 - Zone Out With My Piano

[@mju135]

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).

[@pickyyeeter]

I think it's entirely possible that the omission was intentional. Not everything has to be about promotion.

[@BennJordan]

I updated it. This video was originally meant to just be a story and personal experience. But you're right. Promo =/= marketing.

[@logamaguiar4970]

@@BennJordan haha holy God, they are the worst.....

[@HeIiosphan]

@@pickyyeeter Absolutely. That's a lovely video on its own btw

[@artisans8521]

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.

[@ELTAmusic]

Thank you so much, Benn. Very heartwarming video. And most importantly very musical. 🖤

[@RichardCJohnson]

Having a pretty rough time at the mo, but lost myself for 10 mins in the wonderful warmth of the music. Thank you.

[@jerrycharles66]

Hang in there! Things have a way of getting better :)

[@wave8362]

Same here. Huge thank you.

[@124thDragoon]

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.

[@RichardCJohnson]

@@jerrycharles66 thank you…they are getting there 👍🏻

[@RichardCJohnson]

@@124thDragoon thanks, will check them out 👍🏻

[@DEC0042]

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.

[@darrenbland]

Them's some futuristic bagpipes you've got there fella

[@ComposerMichaelDow]

🤣🤣

[@BenjaminFranceMusic]

Benn, I could watch you zone out with this and the piano for HOURS!!!! SO tasty, so calming, and so beautiful!!

[@claytonromero13]

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!

[@mystificateur]

Wow that is an insane machine!

[@mr.electronx9036]

YES

[@shadeturret228]

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.

[@mosesve1]

Can't wait for Oscillator Sinks 3 Hour long drone video on this thing ;-)

[@ZetaCarinae]

My thought as well - he's really talented at using this sort of sound.

[@simonedmondson7633]

Sometimes I watch KZbin 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.

[@tedstahl3794]

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.

[@maurolongone3190]

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! 🙇🏻‍♂️

[@ChuckLeone]

The range of sounds you’re getting from this instrument is phenomenal... with little to no patching. It’s incredible.

[@Hardts]

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.

[@TyrasPiano]

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

[@ottermods3212]

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!

[@K0r0n1s]

Dude, the solar with the piano brought tears to my eyes 😢 Such bliss ❤

[@CinematicLaboratory]

Wow, what a beautiful instrument/sound/video/work.

[@thevoidscout]

I love everything about this. Absolutely mind-boggingly beautiful. Thank you.

[@bricelory9534]

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!

[@philippendletonmusic]

"Zone Out With My Piano" sounds like something from the "Social Network" score. Very cool stuff.

[@tvelruff8851]

yep, Trent Reznor

[@Alphonso_026]

💙💛 the interplay with the piano is just marvelous

[@andivax]

Thank you for support Ukraine❤ From Kyiv with love.

[@kitstter]

I've watched / listened to this video a couple of dozen times now. Love it....

[@rec.19]

That zone out went deep as the universe it self. Just closed my eyes and up i went. Thank you!

[@edwingamesandmusic]

Loving this style of video! Seems that music speaks louder than words. What a lovely machine.

[@braincraven]

This is absolutely wonderful and very much love ambient music. I believe you have found the perfect machine!

[@BoBeats]

Just excellent!

[@anthonypalomba351]

What a beautiful sounding instrument! Thanks for sharing!

[@tjordulf]

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👍🏻.

[@Ed-davies]

Holy crap this was beautiful ❤ I’m on a night shift on my break out in my car listening zoning out to this . I’m truly blown away by this synth

[@silentshadowdnb]

Love your work, Benn! Thanks for the beautiful experiment. It was a nice way to start my day ❤

[@mmattb]

This is the best demo I've seen of this machine yet. Thanks a bunch for that.

[@smason14]

Could listen to that for hours and hours - I just signed up for the Patreon :) Thanks Benn for creating amazing content and supporting great electronic music manufacturers. You're a good human!!

[@Jin-Hu]

Stunning pieces Benn, as always your talent transcends the equipment you create with

[@Pyroific]

man that intro immediately pulled me in, i love ambient music so much

[@enochroot9438]

wonderful! reminded me of Benns video with the Polybrute, a beautiful piece of art to play and soothe the soul

[@SimpleTrax]

Incredible machine. The concept of previous synth, Solar 50, has fruited, I am glad this exists.

[@DocTaTech]

Absolutely stunning! Speechless.. ❤️

[@ronaldjenkees]

The zone out piano stuff at the end was super nice and inspiring actually

[@CaidicusProductions]

I closed my eyes and just enjoyed this whole presentation. Thank you for sharing with us, Benn.

[@BinaryDad]

Drooling over this. Just blissful.

[@wickeddubz]

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.

[@touchthatdial]

Beautiful instrument, beautiful track. Adding the piano at 11'18".... wow. Just wow.

[@Winterdagen]

Incredibly beautiful, thank you!

[@Avaruuskettu]

This is truly inspiring in so many levels, thank you! Couldn't stop the tears. ❤ The sounds are so deep and that interface looks so inspiring. I have been waiting for something like this for a long time and just ordered one, looking so much forward to falling in love with an instrument again. 🥰

[@nickhenscheid369]

That last track with the piano was magical. So much depth!

[@nickoricko4564]

That piano part is beautiful. Thank you.

[@ClearMountainProductions]

What an incredible instrument. I can't even imagine the struggle to bring something like this to the world with that kind of back story. Definitely want to add this synth to my collection.

[@billB101]

Nice, could fancy myself one of those. Love the sound of it with the filters closed down.

[@robertusmaximus1911]

I love this! I just preordered mine at Perfect Circuit. Thank you, Benn Jordan!

[@tBdub20]

The last improv with piano is amazing. In my feels!

[@Herfinnur]

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!!!

[@laylahassomethingtosay]

Okay, you convinced me to get one. I had been hesitant about the polivoks filters in this type of application, but I'm already starting to love the way the resonance peeks through a washed out reverb. Now I'm just waiting to see what the other colors look like! This is the most excited I've been by any gear in a long time😋

[@bloopsonic]

You're really good at what you do! Thank you for sharing this and for the beauty in it!

[@BlasphemousButler]

Awesome video and music. I love it. Thanks Benn!!

[@paulmacrae8167]

Solar 42 sounds amazing, but that piano piece at the end was stunning!

[@bob-rogers]

Awesome video! You make great sounds with that synth.

[@garethkirby2630]

Oh my god what an amazing bit of kit

[@smartbart015]

Best demo so far of this machine! Excellent work Benn

[@scarymanmusic6552]

Thanks for the insight into Elta’s story. It’s small companies like this that produce such incredible instruments that are at the heart of electronic music. People with passion that think outside the box. They have vision and no matter what struggles they face the determination and dedication to the cause is admirable to say the least.

[@rascaltwitch22]

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.

[@anothercouture]

Such a beautiful illustration of what you can do with this thing, can't wait to give one a try. A great price of work Benn.

[@aopaul]

So glad to see someone finally using all the available oscillators the way this instrument was intended. So many demos seem to be hesitant to 'push it' and end up just sounding like an 0-Coast. Excellent demo and I hope to find one in cream color!

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

Second Solar 42 video I've seen and yours was the one full of beautiful music.

[@jeffryarchambeau5441]

Lucy has a cute coat! And the music box is nice. The music you made with it is even nicer.

[@nopenheimer]

I was all excited to hear what Lucy would play on it but it turned out really good regardless.

[@freemusic777]

Is Lucy wearing Teddy Fresh??

[@sspiderandbee]

You are amazing. The synth is great, but what you were able to pull from it was simply transcendent. I could listen to that for hours.

[@noelswedzinski4498]

the vibes this machine make are immaculate

[@omnidelic-silvereye5759]

Brilliant I'm ordering one this month

[@AlexMnemonic]

That combat footage style intro is great writing. Love your videos, Benn

[@steffenbott70]

Hi Benn, watching your channel for some time now but have to say this session knocked me down. Amazing soundscape, so intense....I´m totaly inspired. Thx sharing this with us.

[@do_happywork]

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.

[@systemG3000]

Well said, well said. Amen, brother. Btw can I buy LSD from you?

[@supernatural802]

Dude. This sounds absolutely gorgeous!

[@e-conrecords4665]

Well that was freaking lovely. Thanks Ben! ❤

[@kikkirow]

Absolutely brilliant

[@knobula_synths]

Sounded gorgeous, love the piano accompaniment

[@k2thah286]

This is incredibly cinematic. Thanks for sharing about this piece.

[@dystopiannoise6782]

I am literally about to set up my touchscreen controller while vibing to this and changed my opinion from using faders to using xy-pads shaped like faders. Very inspiring session, thanks!

[@lefunghi6151]

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.

[@bigman3274]

thanks for the story of a tortured man and his electronics. it brought a tear to my heart

[@artysanmobile]

Fantastic music, Benn. Just another green world beautiful.

[@rickhopkinson]

Oh my GOD! 🙏🏻 Instant subscription from me! What an amazing piece of kit and it sounds truly awesome and then you played it with the piano!!!!!!

[@LesterH25]

I’ve ordered this based on this absolutely beautiful 14 minutes and 20 seconds. It is musical. I know I’ll get along just fine with this wonderful machine. I owned the Lyra which is a noise device, I liked it but created very little. The Solar 42 is a dream come true. Thank you again.

[@travisfrazee9273]

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.

[@fabiogood]

so good to let sink pure love of sound... thanks for sharing

[@karttavaya]

Beautiful! Moving! Inspiring!

[@chrisleeramsden2077]

Wow! I totally zoned out. Wonderful music on a fabulous machine...

[@DauvitAlexander]

I have a Solar 50 and one of their Polivoks filters and they are astonishing beasts.

[@martinnonstatic7435]

its almost may and just checked my fav sound demo of the year already, and nice story too!! thx a lot

[@JumpingCow]

That was inspired! Thank you.

[@PCoyte]

Extremely inspiring thank you

[@fabiovsroque]

It looks clear to me that you know this box from the inside out. Very nice performances, very inspiring.

[@Eleni_Be]

thanks for continuing making this kind of videos. sitting here with my dog. i like the music and Lilli watched Lucy. that's what makes life great.

[@TadDoylemusic]

This is pure love. Thanks Benn.

[@neonblack211]

that 24 C patch with the light modulation was something else! thats so damn cool

[@SoundsMick]

I think this is my favourite demo of yours I daydreamed through it and now I want the instrument. Job done haha

[@CoderCoronet]

This sounds great! My goodness!

[@David.C.Velasquez]

Very nice! The last piece reminded me of Harold Budd/Brian Eno stuff... wonderful.

[@Pxrchi]

Some of the greatest ambient sounds I've heard come from a single machine.