A Path Opens in the Bloom | Tasty Chips GR-1, Oto Bam, Marantz Cassette

[@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan]

Having watched hundreds of channels with hardware synth jams on YT, there is little doubt in my mind that your work is the strongest. The consistent musical identity you demonstrate across a range of gear points to your sound being first and foremost in your head and not your kit. Best wishes for the future, synth makers should be throwing gear at you.

[@topulyo]

this is a pretty strong case...

[@DochertyStephen]

This piece of music is what I want to be played at my funeral. Thank you so much. X

[@rickhopkinson]

A very beautiful piece of peaceful and reflective / introspective music… very well done 👏👌

[@chatolars]

Absolutely gorgeous. Being ambient music as undefined/subjective as it is , you managed to have your own sound. I can tell an r beny track inmediately Congratulations

[@techtalkmike4968]

Just picked up the GR-1 and I'm having a wonderful time learning this amazing instrument. THIS is what I aspire to create! What a wonderful, soothing, and vast soundscape you've created!

[@Dolle_Man]

How you like it so far? years later, really tempted to get one myself

[@CaalamusTube]

This is like the gentle, nurturing side of Winter :]

[@InvertedPopesMusic]

Some gear I have not heard of and loving the sounds that they create especially the GR-1 going to seriously have a look at that and add it to the bucket list. Wonderful soundscape.

[@calaveralove711]

I am speechless! Just blew my mind

[@RareBlood-gf3kh]

Very beautiful. I use Granulator in Ableton a lot and was thinking about a GR-1. I appreciate you sharing how you set everything up.

[@jericho2x2]

love the simplicity in this one and how you manage to express emotions though sound.

[@orbitalpatterns]

very dope. breathy textures & low-res atmospheres, love this

[@jorglehmann3892]

Outstanding! One of your best yet.

[@Nikos4415]

if memory serves , choral composer Eric Whitacre once said that human voice is the perfect musical instrument ever created. this demo turns his quote kinda proofs this statement in very unusual way, by adding imperfections of granulation and tape effects to this perfect instrument, changing it completly. but it is stil perfect. amazing perfomance, my friend. wish I could listen live perfomance of that!

[@rbeny]

that's really cool, need to check out Eric's work. thank you!

[@ahonoe]

This is some wonderful stuff. Literally reduced my heartrate by 10 bpm. Gorgeous.

[@Hausbuch11]

reduced mine to 10 bpm :)

[@benjamins.335]

Pure Beauty 😍 Thx for sharing!

[@Bananskuden]

Nice to see some equipment working together perfectly. The OTO Bam is just wonderful.

[@listan2804]

Mind blowing as always. I bought the GR-1 when it first came out, due to its tendency to “crash” I almost threw it out. I guess I am gonna get it fixed and start running it, thanks as always

[@lushlow]

Lot of bugs are fixed lately

[@rbeny]

they've released a lot of firmware updates in the last few months. much more stable now.

[@listan2804]

Great thank u ! I will get it updated

[@jaeryan1337]

You truly are a very special talent ❤️ thanks for sharing

[@edvinpedvin]

Great idea, nice creative Setup, sweet piece of music 👍

[@p-o-c]

Your music is absolutely mesmerizing, following you for a while .. keep them coming!

[@HenritheHorse]

Beautiful and serene after a sleepless night.

[@MAXR_MTB]

Very nice indeed, could listen to this for hours! Just bought a GR 1 myself can’t wait wait to get stuck in to it!

[@subradial]

Beautiful! so far I love everything I've heard created with GR-1, can't wait for mine...

[@Dolle_Man]

This comment made me check out your channel, you have a great channel!!

[@subradial]

@@Dolle_Man cheers, great to hear!

[@downofhares]

What a wonderfully warm, all-encompassing sound :)

[@discophone_6214]

One word: STUNNING!

[@Americaisplastic36]

This is one of my favorites of yours. Perfect 😍

[@levibillyattley9906]

Lovely sounds

[@Alesistx2023]

one of coolest demos I've ever heard

[@Sklang32]

The sounds they should have played when discovering Laura Palmers body. Very Beautiful!

[@looprovisation1235]

This is just so beautiful, thank you for always being a constant source of inspiration. Can’t wait for your next video. Stay safe.

[@davidsobel3303]

missing your amazing blissful work. Hope you are well and finding time to create.

[@rbeny]

hopefully my intervals between videos will be less than 5 months going forward. just put a new one up this evening

[@Almanacs]

So god damn beautiful.

[@expensivenotes]

Beautiful sounds. Well done! Blissful...

[@ResAffolterSoundproductions]

Soooooo.... beautiful...... its a Dream and i can listen this masterpiece forever on my balcony when the sun goes down 🙏🏻🌿🕊🌈✨❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Peace!

[@Nemorosus]

Bliss! Absolutely beautiful..

[@ONOFFON]

Seriously gorgeous sounds. Love this !

[@hexial]

Beautiful

[@davidrothschild8913]

Outstanding thank you for putting your heart into this.

[@davidreina7997]

Beautiful mate! Good job 👌🏽

[@tybowesformerlygoat-x7760]

Beautiful, man. Thank you.

[@SyncdAlien]

Beautiful!

[@partirparlesarmoires]

Beautiful piece of music ! Somewhere between William Basinski and Brian Eno...

[@RonCavagnaro]

Real great rbeny as usual always inspiring

[@electrogarden4426]

Fantastic sound👍👍

[@TotallyFictional]

Outstanding. Granular is my fav synthesis method.

[@stebo5562]

Sounds like when you get to a new beautiful area of a video game

[@andyjey3126]

Thanks Man...I ordered one because of you :-) and take care...

[@XanderEwald]

This video probably doubled the waiting list for the GR-1 :D

[@rbeny]

seems the wait is 2 weeks now, which is not bad compared to months like it used to be!

[@XanderEwald]

r beny That’s good news. It’s a lovely machine :)

[@stefanschlemmer8067]

really nice work..

[@sp3ct3rsd3mos]

simply wonderful

[@MrLanka-ud8wl]

this is beautiful

[@SycamoreWillow]

Hi r beny. I wish there was a way to say "let's be friends" without sounding creepy on the internet. It would be so cool to hang out

[@Makebelieve123]

absolutely beautiful !

[@tomas_horn]

Incredible stuff.

[@secondlife5704]

Lovely, thanks!

[@DigitalAnalogNoise]

Lovely

[@andrewbird8624]

Thanks so much for this. :)

[@emptyvesselnz]

beautiful as always

[@PeteJohnson1471]

You never let us down . Cheers that was nice :-)

[@amuletsmusic]

R BENY DONE DID IT AGAIN! 🖤

[@FoundationStepper]

Crazy gear. The marantz loop is nice 👍

[@TerekkiTerekki]

Very nice Austin

[@christdolphin69]

dream setup

[@alexmusic2024]

Just fantastic! A „how to“ video would be great ;)

[@sinemountain]

Wonderful!!

[@DreamwareMusic]

So just so I understand, you're not playing back a pre-recorded tape loop or doing sound-on-sound recording. We're just hearing what got recorded in real time. That's super cool!

[@rbeny]

yeah! the beauty of 3-head cassette machines. essentially turns the cassette into an effect (similar to all those cassette vsts, but in real life)

[@noslowerdna]

very nice

[@SoundMediaVibes]

Great sounds! Subbed! :)

[@immersiveworlds]

Great!

[@josephwright5921]

Smoooooooth . . .

[@rbeny]

"Carlos santana smooth starts playing*

[@khole4598]

little portals in time

[@danielstartek1497]

Bennie you rockin baby! Can I call you baby?

[@asmr6773]

wOw aMaZiNg !!! I am like: i want to make sound like that.

[@gordonwithers]

was pleasantly surprised to just have an R Beny track show up on Apple Music's Ambient Essentials list.

[@rbeny]

oh right on! thank you apple!

[@thenarproject7186]

Just Discovered you WOW!

[@Digiphex]

Do you still use the BAM or have you found better reverbs? Love your content. Nothing lately?

[@rbeny]

I still use and love the BAM and would consider it my favorite "traditional" reverb. I'm currently also using the Tasty Chips Integral convolution reverb and the two make a lovely pair. I know I haven't been active lately. Life twists and turns in ways you don't expect and it's been difficult to find time, energy, and motivation at various points. All said, I have a new album coming out in October. I can't say for certain I'll ever get back to doing video stuff though.

[@Digiphex]

@@rbeny Will it be on vinyl?

[@unter3490]

nice👍

[@georgenada6413]

So beautiful. Do you still use the GR-1?

[@rbeny]

yep! a great instrument

[@AndyPawlakOfficial]

Quality.

[@Alpostol]

I love this track. Been listening to it over and over again. I'd love to hear some more ambient stuff like this. Can I download the track from somewere?

[@rbeny]

I have a release or 2 coming later this year that features this type of sound, more in depth. more details soon!

[@dreamwebspace]

Can I use any cassette recorder this way or it has to be Marantz PMD?

[@rbeny]

it has to be a 3-head tape recorder. the marantz pmd is the most common, but there are a lot of similar brands and typical larger cassette decks (for playing audio at home) will be 3-head. most multi-track cassette recorders like tascams are not 3-head

[@dreamwebspace]

​@@rbeny OK I got it. It has to be 3-head recorder WITH monitoring feature.

[@rbeny]

correct!

[@drouk22]

il faut faire quoi pour te faire réagir ?

[@asmr6773]

👍👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿

[@lunargarden]

Great concept, sounds lovely. It's a pity that 10 people forgot to turn on the sound.

[@rbeny]

the joke is on them, downvotes count as interaction with my video, which apparently youtube deems positive.

[@jiaquinnzenxin9900]

Hey Beny, big granular fan here too. As I've read in the GR-1 manual, it's possible to granulize a realtime input right? (I think you just need to hook up an audio interface to the host port). Anyway, I've got a patch idea for you. Record your voice sustaining C onto that tape loop. Run the tape loop into the live input buffer on the Gr-1 and then play from there. The interesting thing about this method is the processing you can do to the tape loop BEFORE it hits the GR-1. Chorus, phasing, and reverb are good choices. I often run this same patch from my Tascam 424 into iPulsaret (realtime buffer granular synth for max/ipad). Personally, I record 4 drones from 4 separate oscillators or samples onto the tape (like 10 minutes worth). This gives me 4 organic sound sources to mix and match as I please. Great fun to transpose the source by adjusting the tape speed too. You could just as easily do the same patch with a single synth voice though, just latch the gate open and sustain a single pitch on your VCO. Anyway, I'm stuck granularizing from my computer and ipad at the moment, but I really want the GR-1, if this concept actually works on it. The Waldorf Quantum also has a realtime granular buffer (with external input), but there is only a single demo online of this specific patch. Cheers mate, sorry for the wall of text! By the way, loved your performance.

[@rbeny]

yup, it's possible for realtime granular with a usb audio interface. I will say, that is not the strong suit of the gr-1. the interfaces I have at my disposal have worked just okay, and you will get clicks and pops if the recording head overlaps the playback head of the buffer. but I will say that would be an interesting patch to try out! I have loaded recordings from my cassettes before, but have not processed in realtime. and it just dawned on me that polyphonic playback should still be possible while processing in realtime. interestingly enough, the synthstrom deluge can do that with incoming audio, though it doesn't have the granular tools that gr-1 has. i'll try this out as soon as I can and likely post on my instagram if it works.

[@minksteekelenburg9314]

So beautiful!

[@rbeny]

I love the Bam. It can do very transparent reverb (so light you don't even know it's there until you turn it off), just as well as deep cavernous reverb. If anything, I wish the filters were smooth instead of having to just select between a few frequencies, but that's not a deal breaker. It's my favorite reverb I've ever used, and this is coming from someone who does not like hyperbole.

[@minksteekelenburg9314]

@@rbeny Thanks! I've been eyeballing it for a while now, I think it's time to pull the trigger :)

[@leejmalcolm1]

Awesome. As usual. Why was the Hermod involved?

[@benbowland]

According to the description, midi thru and looping duties

[@rbeny]

ben had it correct. I was using it to make a midi loop what I played on the keystep.

[@leejmalcolm1]

@@rbeny sexy...very sexy...

[@OnToffee]

Im trying to wrap my head around the signal flow, when the GR1 is running through the marantz, is the output of the marantz then running to the mixer?

[@rbeny]

iirc, the signal flow was GR-1 > Marantz > Oto Bam > audio interface (I think I was using a UA Arrow at the time)

[@drouk22]

je vous voie au centre entre Jean Michel Jarre et Klaus Schulze.... votre musique c est une caresse pour l âme.

[@pixelflow]

Really soothing! btw, where did you get that cute lil case for the hermod?

[@rbeny]

it's a 4ms pod. they make lots of different sizes of these small little cases. thinking about picking another up for some of my fx modules

[@pixelflow]

@@rbeny Those are nice. Thanks, keep rocking the casbah!

[@pascallengagne966]

Really good. So everything is mono except Oto Bam ?

[@rbeny]

correct

[@MrCowfood]

Love the monitor mode with tape loop! Did you crumple that tape as well?

[@rbeny]

didn't crumple it myself, but it's become a little crumpled from hours of use. lots of my loops have broken, so it was a race against time to record this

[@kenkaniff_]

Nice. Ps5 intro? Lol

[@waatchyourhead]

Great stuff! I noticed you said recorded your voice holding a C. Do you try and sample everything using C b/c you can accurately re-tune the sample on the GR-1 that way?

[@rbeny]

that is pretty much correct. gr-1's internal tuner is by default set to C. it can be changed, but it's much easier to just load in samples tuned to C

[@r.e.d.62]

This is gorgeous... Can I ask why you're selling the gr-1 now given how well it's served you here?

[@rbeny]

I'm actually not selling it, perhaps that's someone else?? it's definitely crucial to a lot of what I'm working on at the moment, I imagine the gr-1 will be a part of my setup for a long time.

[@r.e.d.62]

r beny. Thanks for the reply... Just saw one for sale from an r beny... Assumed it was you.

[@rbeny]

@@r.e.d.62 ah, thanks for the heads-up. could you let me know where? I hope no one is impersonating me

[@r.e.d.62]

r beny tricky as I have my eye on the sale...msg me on Facebook under romanes eunt domus

[@isaac.anthony]

How long does that tape "work" before you have to use a new cassette?

[@rbeny]

some have lasted for a few years, still working after hours and hours of constant use. some only lasted a few weeks. thankfully they aren't too difficult to put together or even fix. when they break, they seem to mostly break at where the loop was taped together.

[@isaac.anthony]

@@rbeny been thinking about finding a 3-head cassette deck. between this and using it as a faux tape-delay send...

[@faruambient]

great sound! could you explain how you use the tape loop there? does all of the sound run through it and its constantly recording?

[@rbeny]

exactly. essentially what you are hearing is the playback head of the tape machine, as you would any other cassette player. except with machines like these, they allow you to record as you listen back to the tape. essentially you are listening to the tape as it's being recorded to in real time, with latency from the time it takes the tape to go from the record head to the playback head.

[@iljagaev762]

Красавчик

[@lomond2246]

Could you technically achieve what the GR-1 does with a Digitakt?

[@rbeny]

not truly, in the sense of making dense grain clouds. with certain midi tools, you'd be able to make use of digitakt's 8 tracks to fake polyphonic playback and you could scrub it's buffers, but it wouldn't work quite the same.

[@danbanfield]

What power housing are you using for the Hermod? I was tempted to get one but I don't have a eurorack unit (just have a few desktop units). Seems what you have there is ideal just for the Hermod.

[@rbeny]

it's a 4ms pod they make a couple different sizes. really nice to have hermod standalone, pyramid would be cool too, but hermod has all those cv outputs and inputs.

[@danbanfield]

@@rbeny thanks for the info. what a cool product! Not bad price as well considering they include power. I was kind of put off by pyramid only having a couple of cvs.