Thank you so much, Benn. Very heartwarming video. And most importantly very musical. 🖤
@RichardCJohnson7 ай бұрын
Having a pretty rough time at the mo, but lost myself for 10 mins in the wonderful warmth of the music. Thank you.
@jerrycharles667 ай бұрын
Hang in there! Things have a way of getting better :)
@wave83627 ай бұрын
Same here. Huge thank you.
@124thDragoon5 ай бұрын
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.
@RichardCJohnson5 ай бұрын
@@jerrycharles66 thank you…they are getting there 👍🏻
@RichardCJohnson5 ай бұрын
@@124thDragoon thanks, will check them out 👍🏻
@DEC00427 ай бұрын
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.
@darrenbland7 ай бұрын
Them's some futuristic bagpipes you've got there fella
@SectorSevenSlumz7 ай бұрын
🤣🤣
@mju1357 ай бұрын
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).
@pickyyeeter7 ай бұрын
I think it's entirely possible that the omission was intentional. Not everything has to be about promotion.
@BennJordan7 ай бұрын
I updated it. This video was originally meant to just be a story and personal experience. But you're right. Promo =/= marketing.
@logamaguiar49707 ай бұрын
@@BennJordan haha holy God, they are the worst.....
@HeIiosphan7 ай бұрын
@@pickyyeeter Absolutely. That's a lovely video on its own btw
@artisans85217 ай бұрын
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.
@BenjaminFranceMusic7 ай бұрын
Benn, I could watch you zone out with this and the piano for HOURS!!!! SO tasty, so calming, and so beautiful!!
@simonedmondson76337 ай бұрын
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.
@shadeturret2287 ай бұрын
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.
@claytonromero137 ай бұрын
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!
@maurolongone31907 ай бұрын
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! 🙇🏻♂️
@mosesve17 ай бұрын
Can't wait for Oscillator Sinks 3 Hour long drone video on this thing ;-)
@ZetaCarinae7 ай бұрын
My thought as well - he's really talented at using this sort of sound.
@ChuckLeone7 ай бұрын
The range of sounds you’re getting from this instrument is phenomenal... with little to no patching. It’s incredible.
@tedstahl37947 ай бұрын
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.
@wickeddubz7 ай бұрын
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.
@silverstar126622 күн бұрын
I am not a crier but when the piano came in I was close to tears. One of the most calming and beautiful videos I’ve ever watched
@lefunghi61517 ай бұрын
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.
@Hardts7 ай бұрын
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.
@philippendletonmusic7 ай бұрын
"Zone Out With My Piano" sounds like something from the "Social Network" score. Very cool stuff.
@tvelruff88517 ай бұрын
yep, Trent Reznor
@K0r0n1s7 ай бұрын
Dude, the solar with the piano brought tears to my eyes 😢 Such bliss ❤
@darkeldarblade9167 ай бұрын
Wow this instrument is so killer. I bet if you added the analog heat to that it would sound even more massive.
@ottermods32127 ай бұрын
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!
@andivax7 ай бұрын
Thank you for support Ukraine❤ From Kyiv with love.
@Herfinnur4 ай бұрын
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!!!
@TyrasPiano5 ай бұрын
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
@ronaldjenkees7 ай бұрын
The zone out piano stuff at the end was super nice and inspiring actually
@tjordulf5 ай бұрын
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👍🏻.
@mystificateur3 ай бұрын
Wow that is an insane machine!
@touchthatdial6 ай бұрын
Beautiful instrument, beautiful track. Adding the piano at 11'18".... wow. Just wow.
@Jin-Hu7 ай бұрын
Stunning pieces Benn, as always your talent transcends the equipment you create with
@AKDanMusicManАй бұрын
I watch this video every few days while I'm waiting for my SOLAR 42 to arrive. Would love to see you make some more of these.
@rascaltwitch225 ай бұрын
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.
@kitstter5 ай бұрын
I've watched / listened to this video a couple of dozen times now. Love it....
@Alphonso_0267 ай бұрын
💙💛 the interplay with the piano is just marvelous
@do_happywork7 ай бұрын
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.
@systemG30007 ай бұрын
Well said, well said. Amen, brother. Btw can I buy LSD from you?
@enochroot94387 ай бұрын
wonderful! reminded me of Benns video with the Polybrute, a beautiful piece of art to play and soothe the soul
@CinematicLaboratory7 ай бұрын
Wow, what a beautiful instrument/sound/video/work.
@Ed-davies7 ай бұрын
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
@bricelory95347 ай бұрын
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!
@BoBeats7 ай бұрын
Just excellent!
@SimpleTrax7 ай бұрын
Incredible machine. The concept of previous synth, Solar 50, has fruited, I am glad this exists.
@jeffryarchambeau54417 ай бұрын
Lucy has a cute coat! And the music box is nice. The music you made with it is even nicer.
@nopenheimer7 ай бұрын
I was all excited to hear what Lucy would play on it but it turned out really good regardless.
@freemusic7776 ай бұрын
Is Lucy wearing Teddy Fresh??
@travisfrazee92735 ай бұрын
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.
@engrane_music2 ай бұрын
Benn this is absolutly beautiful. My Solar 42 should be with me in the next few weeks. Stunning piece of equipment.
@mmattb5 ай бұрын
This is the best demo I've seen of this machine yet. Thanks a bunch for that.
@bmaassen7 ай бұрын
At first I wasn’t feeling it, but that “Zone Out with Me” section was absolutely gorgeous
@39XenonD7 ай бұрын
This video, your video, this is something special. It feels like a secret level you found in an already good game that just has the best parts plus a very personal part of the Devs in it. Your honest opinion and then zoning out with you was kinda... magical? Like massaging the soul. I'm bad with words, sorry. That's my closest approach to describe it. I've instantly got your latest albums from Bandcamp. Now I wish there were more. I love them and have listened to them more than five times at this point (not on repeat, mind you). I hope for more :)
@nickoricko45645 ай бұрын
That piano part is beautiful. Thank you.
@paulmacrae81677 ай бұрын
Solar 42 sounds amazing, but that piano piece at the end was stunning!
@thevoidscout7 ай бұрын
I love everything about this. Absolutely mind-boggingly beautiful. Thank you.
@smason147 ай бұрын
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!!
@nickhenscheid3695 ай бұрын
That last track with the piano was magical. So much depth!
@braincraven7 ай бұрын
This is absolutely wonderful and very much love ambient music. I believe you have found the perfect machine!
@DauvitAlexander7 ай бұрын
I have a Solar 50 and one of their Polivoks filters and they are astonishing beasts.
@rec.197 ай бұрын
That zone out went deep as the universe it self. Just closed my eyes and up i went. Thank you!
@anthonypalomba3517 ай бұрын
What a beautiful sounding instrument! Thanks for sharing!
@MH-rt9ts7 ай бұрын
I think you should do the occasional ambient video from now on, man. Good stuff.
@David.C.Velasquez7 ай бұрын
Very nice! The last piece reminded me of Harold Budd/Brian Eno stuff... wonderful.
@Pyroific7 ай бұрын
man that intro immediately pulled me in, i love ambient music so much
@edwingamesandmusic7 ай бұрын
Loving this style of video! Seems that music speaks louder than words. What a lovely machine.
@agerven7 ай бұрын
Very impressive. The introduction as well as the music and instrument impression. Unaffordable for me right now, but at a very high and lonely place of my wish list. And i seriously consider selling a major part of my studio to get and master this.
@ClearMountainProvisions7 ай бұрын
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.
@fabiovsroque3 ай бұрын
It looks clear to me that you know this box from the inside out. Very nice performances, very inspiring.
@tBdub207 ай бұрын
The last improv with piano is amazing. In my feels!
@The1910studios3 ай бұрын
Yeah this was AWESOME
@silentshadowdnb7 ай бұрын
Love your work, Benn! Thanks for the beautiful experiment. It was a nice way to start my day ❤
@aopaul7 ай бұрын
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!
@AlexMnemonic6 ай бұрын
That combat footage style intro is great writing. Love your videos, Benn
@scarymanmusic65527 ай бұрын
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.
@Pxrchi7 ай бұрын
Some of the greatest ambient sounds I've heard come from a single machine.
@bob-rogers6 ай бұрын
Awesome video! You make great sounds with that synth.
@sspiderandbee7 ай бұрын
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.
@straypacket6 ай бұрын
Ok, that made me get my music room back online after moving to a new place. Thank you Benn and Elta.
@wheatthicks6 ай бұрын
Wow. Just the sound of tuning the oscillators was incredible. It's hard to argue with that as a barometer for success when designing a synth.
@billB1017 ай бұрын
Nice, could fancy myself one of those. Love the sound of it with the filters closed down.
@CaidicusProductions7 ай бұрын
I closed my eyes and just enjoyed this whole presentation. Thank you for sharing with us, Benn.
@DocTaTech7 ай бұрын
Absolutely stunning! Speechless.. ❤️
@bigman32747 ай бұрын
thanks for the story of a tortured man and his electronics. it brought a tear to my heart
@SecryttRecords4 ай бұрын
It's not often I think this about a synthesizer but I'd definitely say this is a remarkable machine
@thelanavishnuorchestra7 ай бұрын
Second Solar 42 video I've seen and yours was the one full of beautiful music.
@chrismock5 ай бұрын
I don't do many comments, but thank you for this video. This is an amazing instrument with a crazy story!
@noelswedzinski44987 ай бұрын
the vibes this machine make are immaculate
@neonblack2117 ай бұрын
that 24 C patch with the light modulation was something else! thats so damn cool
@anothercouture7 ай бұрын
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.
@robertusmaximus19114 ай бұрын
I love this! I just preordered mine at Perfect Circuit. Thank you, Benn Jordan!
@kw7706 ай бұрын
Okay that was amazing.
@gimmickmusic882711 күн бұрын
It feels insane to say that $2000 feels like a steal for something this feature packed. It’s also insane that I wanna take the plunge given that I’m primarily a guitarist who loves ambient synth music.
@ManoOne-Music-Production6 ай бұрын
So beautiful. Thank you. -Mano
@Eleni_Be7 ай бұрын
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.
@Avaruuskettu7 ай бұрын
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. 🥰
@veraha470621 күн бұрын
Thank you for this sonic experience .. no words ..
@Tech_Princess6 ай бұрын
That last but was enough to make me cry a bit This thing sounds so beautiful
@LesterHardcastleMusic4 ай бұрын
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.
@eduponte18577 ай бұрын
That was beautiful
@nsbd90now6 ай бұрын
Comment for the algorithm that I also have a Solar 42 by ELTA music (cream color) and it is fantastic sonic fun and wondrousness. I'm not a professional, just love synths, and if you love them too, you'll love this one. Interesting and amazing to hear the personal history of these brilliant genius engineers and Mr. Arseniy bringing this to life... yes.... the passion that went in to creating this musical instrument is quite obvious.
@ELTAmusic6 ай бұрын
Thanks. 😊
@tiggerdcat5 ай бұрын
If you don't mind me asking, how difficult did you find it to learn how to play/use this? I've played strings all my life but I want to dive deeper into music and, since my disability(s) have taken most of my passion projects away from me, I need something I can use a bit more simplisticly than a cello or a bass, and won't hurt me as much. I thought something like this would free me and my soul. I've also always just absolutely LOVED ambient & synth music and have felt those styles twisting at my heart from the inside for long enough, I thought it was high time I learn to take control of that and... idk, make myself cry for once, I guess, lol! I can use a PC, I learned to animate on an old Macintosh in the 90s (yeah, I'm old), Android phone (I managed to free my phone from itself so I can make it look and perform the way I want it to), play the piano and keyboard moderately well, and understand wiring faaiiirly well, I was a journeyman electrician for a few years in my youth while working for a construction company. I played the upright Contrabass or Double Bass in the Seattle Symphony for 4 years until my deployment and ultimately, my injury. For the last 20 years I've been on a journey of rejection, sadness, giving up completely, and staring all over again trying to re learn how to play all the instruments I used to play, and create art with the mediums I used to, realizing I am not going to be able to do either one as well or for nearly a long as I used to, and eventually, learning new ways of creating art and music, and ultimately, learning to be ok with that. It took ¼ or ⅕ of my life, depending on how long I feel like sticking around and annoying my children, to get my butt in gear and get over myself, and I find that really sad. It's time to get to making music and I think synths are the key to this!
@nsbd90now5 ай бұрын
@@tiggerdcat I am so sorry you're dealing with a disability taking so much from you, but admire your courageous existential stance, and yes, perhaps the Solar 42 can bring some of that back, especially since you already know music and probably have an ear for tuning, as given all the voices that part is important. I would suspect the capacitive keyboard would be welcomed to your fingers over a regular pressure or hammer keyboard. One thing that might be difficult depending on your finger dexterity is that the knobs are small, and close together. Large fingers would have a problem. Actually learning how this works and interacts is rather simple. You'll quickly grasp how intuitive and well-thought-out the interface is. This will bring you hours and hours of delight exploring wonderful soundscapes, finding endless sweet spots, and just being fascinated by synthesis. I would suggest getting some stackable patch chords, or a few patch chord hubs.
@tiggerdcat5 ай бұрын
@nsbd90now Thank you! I do have perfect pitch and timing, so that's not an issue. The knobs and whatnot shouldn't really be much of a problem, I have long, slender fingers on my massive, unladylike, gorilla hands. A rather fashionable, eccentric gorilla, to be sure, but a gorilla all the same. It did come in quite... *_handy_* , ahh ha-ha ahhh ha-ha, when playing the Double Bass and piano, tho, I do have to admit. Shoot, I got off track again! Where was I?.. Oh yeah; knobs, buttons, sliders... yeah, I don't believe any of those should be a problem. My range of motion issues starts at my elbow and radiates up to my shoulder, and down to my ring and pinky fingers, so things like; using a bow to play a stringed instrument hurts a lot, but turning knobs and/or pressing on the pad shouldn't hurt much at all. My ulnar nerve was smashed so hard it was crushed flat, like a worm smooshed between someones shoe & the pavement on a hot and rainy summers day, from being forced between the ulnar and the humerus, popping the gel sacs in the joints in the process. Hurts very much bad all the time. I've had an ulnar nerve transposition surgery to tried the nerve and it went fairly well, but after some time the nerve slid back down and got itself stuck in the middle of a mass of scar tissue, so back to hurting all the time. Oh well. If this is the worst pain I've to deal with, then the rest is easy mode. Now, did this little beauty come with a manual, _and_ is that manual in English, *_AND_* is it easy to understand, *OR* should I look up KZbin how tos to learn how to make it do *the things* ? I probably should have started with this question, but... is it terribly expensive, moderately so, or rather inexpensive, as these things go? I want some but I'm a veteran, so I might have to save up for it, if I want to keep my emergency cushion $$. Having that in the bank has saved me more time than I can count! Oh, my dog, I've written a novel again, I'm *_SO_*_ SORRY_ ! I don't know why I share so much in comments and online, lol! I'm actuality really shy and hardly talk at all, probably because I've got agoraphobia, CPTSD, AuDHD, and a bunch of other things. I'm a mess, lol! Get hit by 1 little enemy IED & it tends to traumatize and do harm to more than the physical. Well, I'm working on that, too, talking with my psych and all. Anyway, thanks for the info, and for your consideration, and for taking the time to read my garbage comments, lol! I swear... I actually went back and cleaned this up, too! You should have seen it before! Good lord! ✌️😺🖖
@nsbd90now5 ай бұрын
@@tiggerdcat Oh my music friend nah... it's a good place to express your trauma and discover ways to deal with it via music sound and art. You will love this musical instrument would be my guess, and it would help soothe you and move forward in response to those challenges that confront you. It does come with a minimal manual in well-written English, but... it is so well designed for the user in some ways you don't really need it. It is so new there aren't a whole lot of instructional videos. If you check my playlists I've collected a bunch before I got mine to help me learn it. I think that playlist should be listed as public and “Elta”. The user experience is incredible and so well-designed. You are in the center, and then all controls are arranged around you, left and right. Frankly, it's genius. Cost is kind of subjective as to if you have the cash... basically a bit under $2000.00 US. For something like this? I would not consider it expensive. It isn't some mass-produced instrument for the general consumer market. Kind of niche, for people who are already interested in and familiar with synthesizers, and then a drone type thing that doesn't even have MIDI. It's special and unique made by just a couple of brilliant sound engineer type people. Keep in mind it is the second generation... so, an advance on an already successful foray into it all by Elta. If you can afford it, and you think your disability won't make controlling it difficult I would totally say: get it. Get it right now. You have perfect pitch of all things?!? You are going to love this. You are going to create wonderful music on it. You are going to find yourself in it's ambient stream-of-consciousness experience of it.
@alexander-van-aken2 ай бұрын
OOOOOOOOO This is a must have. What a beauty!
@uncletonysfunhouse7 ай бұрын
Killer demos, man. I am sometimes bewildered by synths like this and the strange noises people make with them but wow. Thanks for the beautiful music. Considering picking one up.
@steffenbott707 ай бұрын
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.
@BlasphemousButler4 ай бұрын
Awesome video and music. I love it. Thanks Benn!!
@skymakai7 ай бұрын
@10:35 THAT SMILE
@chadb11767 ай бұрын
I think I could be at peace headed into the next life if I could create something like this. I would be complete. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.