Behringer DeepMind - Let's Build a... Sparkly Sequence Patch!

[@gnogtr]

Thank you so much for your content! I've been doing all my stuff inside the box for years and I wanted to start expanding out so I bought one of the deepmind 12 desktop modules. You've helped me learn so much more than reading a manual could do. That holding down the Mod button and choosing sources is a godsend! Thank you for that! I'm being more creative in the sounds I'm making now because of you!

[@ferment4life]

I am still a couple months away from being able to get a Deepmind and... wow, your videos just keep increasing my enthusiasm for this synth! The routing on the fx and, especially, that mod matrix... just boundless potential. That pitch wheel trick is really ace as well. Nice to know it can easily become something else. Thanks so much for this series 👍

[@Leerf-driftingpitches]

Just bought the DP 6 and your content is excellent -thank you

[@longfade]

Another exceptional, highly informative video. Every time I see a DeepMind presentation that goes into any depth at all I keep thinking, "Is there anything they didn't think of??" (11:00, eg) All of your DM posts are a treasure, but I feel like anyone who works their way through this particular one will learn at least 75% of this synth's capabilities - and that's huge.

[@OscillatorSink]

Really glad you enjoyed it and took some new knowledge away with you!

[@tahiche.]

You should do a tutorial to teach others to do tutorials. Such a pleasure to watch and listen to. I’ve never been close to a Deepmind and after watching your videos I feel like I know it. I obviously need one!. Was sold on the Minilogue XD but these videos have seriously switched me.

[@OscillatorSink]

That's very kind of you to say. Whichever synth you go with, I hope you enjoy it!

[@squareeyedgit]

Having been devouring as many Deepmind demo vids as I can, I think yours are definitely the most helpful and relatable. Thanks a lot, can't wait til I get one of my own!

[@OscillatorSink]

Thank you and I hope you enjoy your new synth when it arrives!

[@tahiche.]

“It’s a bit ravey…” 😂. Love your videos, very informative and clear. Thanks

[@poetryinanimation]

My deepmind is coming TOMORROW! I'm as beginner to the world of synths as they come, but watching your videos, I feel ready to dive in and make my own patches already! Thanks so much and keep making videos ✌

[@ambientzoneofficial]

Fantastic, thanks for this super video. Convinced the DeepMind is deep, sparkling and Big Time! 👍

[@radek1cihak]

Dude, I'd like to have you as a dad :-) What you are showing here restores my hope that perhaps I can still play with DeepMind. I was already afraid I would have to sell it because I don't understand it at all. Those sounds don't listen to me at all. Somehow I don't have to figure it out myself. Your videos are like a poem. I really like DeepMind as a machine, but without your help I would have stopped hoping. Only when I read the headlines, which is a terrible speed, I don't have time to see where you are going and what you are doing there :-) I will have to learn the videos by heart.

[@havelockveterini3160]

Thank you for this serie. Just bought a DM16 and it's so helpful for a beginner like me. thank you again.

[@OscillatorSink]

Glad you found it useful. Enjoy your new synth!

[@freddiesamples]

As a Deepmind owner here, this tutorial was great showing the mod and effects interaction on this synth. So much to explore on the Deepmind.

[@OscillatorSink]

"Explore" is the right word for it! It's an adventure in search for new sounds! Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for checking it out!

[@Thyrnheimr]

Cool! This Synth is much better than people think! I love it, the Quality is amazing like the sound. Thanks for this good Job. 👌👍

[@OscillatorSink]

I agree! Thanks for watching!

[@MrSergit]

One Shortcut for mod matrix when you want to find an effect as a destination is 'Put slider data entry all the way up' and you're in Fx Slots. Nice video btw ^^

[@ThePissso]

k oh ,...MasterSergit,good oOle bayBoy ,,,one turned off star tracking of James Webb clues views so sorly the FX slot MENTIONED SHORTCUTS ARE QUICKLY CHANGEABLE...! .CopIED that...

[@TheBassHeavy]

Wow. This is fantastic! Exactly what I wanted.

[@OscillatorSink]

Glad to help Mr. Circle (or can I call you Orange?).

[@didfffreedomfighter-sm5nw]

Bravo à vous ! Vraiment pas mal !

[@dicefall9]

I would like to see a video of an evolving pad with a sequence that takes advantage of the programable sequencer to control various aspects of the synth like filter cutof, resonance, note pich etc

[@junoandtheechodog]

nice patch! I've never looked into the deepmind. Looks simple to program with.

[@OscillatorSink]

Considering the depth of sound design possibilities in there, the user interface is really well thought out. It's only taken me a couple of weeks to feel like I'm fluent, so they've done a really good job there. Thanks for checking out the video!

[@78fenderPbass]

Great vid. I love my DeepMind 12!

[@OscillatorSink]

Thanks!

[@Angelstarscotland]

nicely done and explained I don't have a deepmind but I'm going to now try and do something similar on my Studiologic Sledge

[@OscillatorSink]

Thank you! Yeah, a lot of these ideas translate to any subtractive synth (especially if there's also a mod matrix). Much of what I'm trying to demonstrate is more of an approach to the process rather than something that's all about the DeepMind (although all of that deep editing potential surely helps!).

[@Angelstarscotland]

Some I won't be able to do on the Sledge as it only has 3 modulation sources and the FX are not great but I'm sure I'll get a similar vibe, great work your stuff on the monologue was great too (I have one) I learned so much about the monologue from you thanks again.

[@Angelstarscotland]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3LFZIGmetOkpZo I gave it a try

[@OscillatorSink]

Sounds great! Good work!

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

Beautiful, and a lovely process walkie walkie talkie talkie - i learn a bunch from watching your stuff,- I had a couple (2 !) microkorgs, as they fitted in to my bassplayer rack/set ,- (you know , the lazy bassplayer -no time for deep learning - i need two sounds - in one set - i buy 2 synthezisers that can perform JUST those two sounds - without noodeling or fuzz - and -Vupti ! "Happy Bassplayer"That worked - as intended - what i did NOT intend , was , me, falling in DEEP love with the MACHINES ! Darn it ! - So - now - besides my 4 basses, a Chapman 10 str. Stick AND an upright - i cant leave the "House" without my Micro´s,my Roland JD-xi , my Akai ax73, my Moog Grandmother, my DeepMind 12, and ....wait.....wait for it my brandnew Digitone from ELEKTRON !!!! :-O now i love my life - BUT - i NEED , i BETTER get, it would be such a fine day,even if it rains,- if ... i can JUST get an OCTATONE or a Virus Ti - hell , they cost the same 1200,- usd - Second(cough cough)hand that is - they both handle samples and have that FM magico, that got into me more and more , after the initial Analog-Rush(no pun) i dont really know where im going with this tirade though, so let it be an example on, what your video´s ALSO can do to a semi young musician who were semi old in the 80és and still loving every second of it - you know life - with music in it - Good music in it ! Life too short for small shoes and bad music ! There comes Jesus !? -look busy...... :-)

[@ookthomas]

14:26 Getting heavy Zelda vibes here

[@OscillatorSink]

A little trip to the Fairy Fountain.

[@stevenroberts4956]

Awesome 👏

[@OscillatorSink]

Cheers!

[@patch002]

Great tutorials! thanks

[@tepetti]

Somethibg about this beautiful sound reminds me of Spyro the Dragon

[@megacosmic6507]

Great video

[@OscillatorSink]

Thanks!

[@Tigrar]

Amazjng! This is one of my fav. Keep up the good work. Rogue cant buy it and I dont have the time to work with it. I wonder what u would do with 12 voices... If one thing has come clear is that you are a sorcerer of the deep mind

[@RichardOlpin]

Nice one (again!) :-) Future patch requests? I'd like to see a really deep and lush evolving pad for ambient excursions. Lots of modulation and a deep shimmer reverb (fx algo 9 is your friend, drive in slot 3, reverb in 4, pitch shift on 1 or 2)...

[@OscillatorSink]

Funny you should mention you want a deep ambient pad... You'll never guess what I'm planning to record tomorrow night!

[@magevers59]

very nice !

[@OscillatorSink]

Cheers!

[@ezassegai4793]

is this suitable for making reese basses and stuff for dnb and neurofunk?

[@OscillatorSink]

It maybe wouldn't be my first choice, but you've got two oscillators to detune... So that's the main trick accounted for?

[@ezassegai4793]

​@@OscillatorSink thanks will check it out

[@damiensimper]

Brilliant!

[@OscillatorSink]

Cheers!

[@KitKalvert]

Great video! I cant seem to select the Sawtooth when I start a new patch. The Square wave will work as will the combo of both but for the love of god I cant seem the just have the Sawtooth running without forcing it in the software. The button works on some of the factory patches like brass and some other factory patches again it doesn't. But as I say I just want to init and then disable the square and use sawtooth. Please help if you know what is going on here?

[@OscillatorSink]

Sounds like a bug honestly... Do you have anything plugged in to USB/midi that could be sending a messages that's messing with it? Are you running the up to date firmware?

[@KitKalvert]

@@OscillatorSink Its really frustrating. Ive tried everything. At least I know its a bug. I do have a Nektar P4 plugged into another USB on my PC but its not even switched or hasnt been...

[@seth4766]

soooooo nice

[@OscillatorSink]

Thanks Seth!

[@tommymandel3326]

That was really ACE. Thank you. There were a few times you chose a different area to edit, and, as a new user, I couldn't tell how you selected it. I think part of it was hitting edit (eureka!) but how did the DeepMind know which section you wished to target? Once you said "Poly" and I think the other time, earlier, it was OSC 2. Please explain that, if you don't mind. Thanks again.

[@OscillatorSink]

There is an edit button for each of the sections of the panel - so an edit button for each of the LFOs, one for the oscillators, for the filter and so on. Each of those edit buttons accesses the menu for that area of the synth. It's a very nice system in that regard - no menu diving, just hit the correct edit button on the front panel and you're right there! If there's more than one page to the menu (like the Poly menu you mentioned) you just hit the same edit button a second time to page through the settings. It's a bit weird to see so many buttons marked "edit" on the panel, but when you start using it, it's completely intuitive; the designers really thought it through. Hope that explains things, let me know if you need clarification on anything.

[@tommymandel3326]

Thank you, that explains it perfectly. Cheers. I learned of the Sledge first, and, selling a barely working MiniMoog, (to a fine MiniMoog restorer whom I'd be glad to recommend,) I was able to 'trade down/up', whatever one might opine, for a consignment v.2 Sledge and an old MiniKorg from the 70's. Only after that, did the DeepMind begin appealing to me, so with the differential in prices, I'm awaiting a refurbished DM12keyboard's arrival: it'll be another week. All I have now are your excellent videos: so I should hit the ground running should it appear. ;) To my ear, although I personally adore the Sledge's filter and (limited but great sounding) effects, the DeepMind has more play in the midrange, perhaps in part due to the HP filter? A wider 'sweet spot?' Or more headroom. I don't know what it is - maybe you could explain (well, real analog, in part maybe); and of course, tons more modulation routing. Did you know that "DeepMind" was the name of the world's biggest computer in one of Douglas Adams' (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) books? Do you think that's what this instrument is named after? EDIT - there's a Preset named VOGONS, who are the villains in the above-mentioned 4 book Trilogy, so I guess it's no surprise! :0

[@azwep]

Your videos are a great source for me to learn synthesis and how to get the most out of my Deepmind. When I try to (more or less) recreate this patch, I have the impression that I have to set the LFO triggers to mono instead of poly to get smooth evolving of PWM and tone mod. Is that correct, or am I missing something else? Anyway, thanks a lot for this tutorial!

[@OscillatorSink]

It's probably a taste thing - the difference between having the LFOs set to poly or mono is in mono mode the LFOs for every voice move together, whereas in poly they will all have their own phase (and with some mod matrix routing can actually move at totally different speeds). There's not a right or wrong answer, it'll depend on the patch, but if you want the modulation to apply to the whole "sound" and be a single, cohesive movement then mono is probably what you want. A good experiment starting at an Init patch is to put a bit of pitch LFO on (maybe 10 cents), play some chords, then switch to mono mode. Poly mode will sound a bit more washy and chorus-like, mono should sound more like a vibrato across the whole patch.

[@marcoagius6926]

Hi! I have a deepmind 6. Should i but a behringer crave for sequencing or can the deepmind 6 do it all? I mean the crave seems much less complicated to create a sequence. Thanks

[@OscillatorSink]

The Deepmind "sequencer" doesn't sequence notes really, so you'll want an external sequencer. If you're looking to do polyphonic sequencing of the Deepmind I'd probably look at one of the Arturia Keystep series instead - it'll be one note at a time on the crave which isn't really where the Deepmind shines.

[@marcoagius6926]

@@OscillatorSink thanks for your reply 🙏

[@triplebacon1]

Amazing machine ;-)

[@GB3770]

i want this and the korg minilogue xd, the novation peak, the ob-6, dave smith poly evolver, alesis andromeda, moog sub 37 and some volcas....:)) and maybe a tb-303...SANTA????? Why have you forsaken me?

[@bernardheckmandwike5226]

it was a bit ravey up there :) great vid. thanks for uploading. can i afford it thats my issue. it looks absolutely stunning but so far it does much the same to some other synths. i'm confused now

[@TaiWyban]

Loving the videos! I am a synth noob and wanted to ask: Why do you frequently try to match your decay with the release?

[@OscillatorSink]

Great question! It depends on the patch, but generally if you're creating a sound that doesn't sustain when you hold down the key (so, like a percussive sound rather than an organ), having decay and release set the same makes the patch have the same decay characteristic whether you hold down the key or play staccato. Of course you might not want that to be the case in some patches - sometimes it's nice to have, for example, the decay set shorter than the release; that would make the sound decay faster if you hold down the key, which could emulate the feel of resting the beaters on (for example) a xylophone, which would choke the sound, rather than striking cleanly and letting it ring out. All these little considerations are what makes a patch feel different to play, not just what it sounds like. Sound design is awesome, isn't it? (side note - on the Deepmind you also have the Sustain curve functions which can make a sound fade out even when the note is held. This is incredibly powerful because it lets you still make use of the decay portion for other sound design.) If you haven't seen this video yet, you might find it interesting: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXvVZHeemrGLjq8

[@robbystafford8273]

I love this video. why do you call it a sequence patch?

[@OscillatorSink]

Thank you! I mean as in a not a lead or a bass - rather the sort of thing you'd use with an arpeggiator or on a repeating sequence part. Does that make sense?

[@HomeCinemaJunkie]

This synth really looks nice, but im afraid I will be put off by all the meny diving?:(

[@OscillatorSink]

The menus (if you even go into them - and you don't need to for most of the raw synthesis functions) are really well thought out. Button to enter a menu is in the relevant section of the physical interface (eg the LFO menu button is by the LFO controls) and none of the menus related to the actual synthesis is more than 2 pages long (most are just 1) and there's no "diving" - you never 'go deeper' on the menus - they're all flat.

[@HomeCinemaJunkie]

Oscillator Sink Ok thx! Im was first leaning towards the minilogue, but this synth looks like its more bang for the money. Only concern I have is the build quallity?

[@OscillatorSink]

Build quality is generally good for the money. The keybed is the only point of contention - it's "fine", but it's not luxurious.

[@kodocreek6355]

Can you record sequence on deepmind12 ?

[@OscillatorSink]

Not note sequence per se, but there are tricks with chord modes and arpeggios you can do.

[@IHavePrblemas]

Thank you //heart emoticon//

[@OscillatorSink]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@Tigrar]

If I d wish something from the sorcerer it woul be mellow sound like wish you where here. Or some SFX like JM Jarre. I dont know if you would like to show hat trick

[@ronsteffans8107]

i want al the synths

[@OscillatorSink]

Yeah. Me too.

[@Conforce]

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[@wilsonjaksetic6009]

The velocity sensitivity was far better at 69

[@OscillatorSink]

Nice