BEST SYNTHS & MUSIC PRODUCTION GEAR 2022

[@BoBeats]

thank you for 2022... see you in 2023 (or perhaps sooner if I get bored during the winter holidays!) ▼ GUESTS ▼ GO & SUBSCRIBE ▼ Accurate Beats: www.youtube.com/@AccurateBeats Starsky Carr: www.youtube.com/@StarskyCarr Jameson Nathan Jones: www.youtube.com/@JamesonNathanJones SanjayC www.youtube.com/@SanjayC VenusTheory www.youtube.com/@VenusTheory Nadia Struiwigh instagram.com/nadiastruiwigh?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Mylar Melodies www.youtube.com/@mylarmelodies OoraMusic www.youtube.com/@OoraMusic Sarah Bell Reid www.youtube.com/@sarahbellereid Molten Modular www.youtube.com/@MoltenMusicTech Mattias Holmgren www.youtube.com/@MattiasHolmgren PlayPM (Gas Therapy) www.youtube.com/@playpm Dave Hilowitz www.youtube.com/@DavidHilowitzMusic Modbap Modular www.modbap.com Dave Mech www.youtube.com/@Davemech Slow Haste www.youtube.com/@SlowHaste ▼ WINNERS & GEAR LINKS ▼ USE & SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ▼ BEST BUDGET FRIENDLY SYNTH EU: thmn.to/thoprod/543664?offid=1&affid=623 US: imp.i114863.net/e4P1RQ BEST SYNTH UNDER 1000 Arturia Minifreak EU: thmn.to/thoprod/553604?offid=1&affid=623 US: imp.i114863.net/7m2nLg BEST SYNTH OVER 1000 EU: Sequential OB-X8 thmn.to/thoprod/543501?offid=1&affid=623 US: imp.i114863.net/KenWdv BEST MIDI KEYBOARD Minilab 3 thmn.to/thoprod/553717?offid=1&affid=623 NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR PWM Malevolent EU: thmn.to/thoprod/531778?offid=1&affid=623 US: bit.ly/pwmMalevolentPC BEST HARDWARE FX Chase Bliss: www.chasebliss.com BEST GROOVEBOX EU: thmn.to/thoprod/543481?offid=1&affid=623 US: imp.i114863.net/vndEyd BEST DRUM MACHINE Erica Synths Perkons EU: thmn.to/thoprod/529121?offid=1&affid=623 US: imp.i114863.net/jWoB6M BEST EURORACK Modbap Modular: bit.ly/ModbapModularxPC StolperBeats: bit.ly/stolperbeats Make Noise XPO: bit.ly/MNxpoPC BASTL Pizza: bit.ly/bastlPizzaPC Best FREE software Deelay sixthsample.com/deelay/ BEST HARDWARE UPDATE Roland SP404 Mk2 2.0 EU: www.thomann.de/se/roland_sp_404mkii.htm?offid=1&affid=623 NA: imp.i114863.net/ZdKA6X ▼ GUEST FAVORITES OF 2022 ▼ Accurate Beats (MPC Keys) thmn.to/thoprod/541332?offid=1&affid=623 Starsky Carr (OB-X8) thmn.to/thoprod/543501?offid=1&affid=623 Jameson Nathan Jones (Vongon FX) bit.ly/vongonFX SanjayC (Minilab 3) thmn.to/thoprod/553604?offid=1&affid=623 VenusTheory (Malevolent) thmn.to/thoprod/531778?offid=1&affid=623 Nadia Struiwigh (OP1 Field) thmn.to/thoprod/544439?offid=1&affid=623 Mylar Melodies (StolperBeats) bit.ly/stolperbeats OoraMusic (Syntakt) thmn.to/thoprod/541892?offid=1&affid=623 Sarah Bell Reid bit.ly/MNxpoPC Molten Modular (Motion MTR) www.befaco.org/motion_mtr/ Mattias Holmgren (Summit) thmn.to/thoprod/465710?offid=1&affid=623 PlayPM playpm.gumroad.com/l/AASamplePlayer Dave Hilowitz thmn.to/thoprod/544471?offid=1&affid=623 Modbap Modular www.modbap.com Dave Mech thmn.to/thoprod/529121?offid=1&affid=623 Slow Haste thmn.to/thoprod/409950?offid=1&affid=623 affiliate links that support the channel at no cost to you

[@emixbase]

Thanks for the video ! Nice idea with fellows synth youtubers ! Cheers 🍻

[@magnuseriksson8081]

Hur fasen orkar du Bo? Jäkligt starkt jobbat att ta kanalen så här långt, den kommer rusa iväg i framtiden. Håll ut!! Du är grym med dina kontakter också, vackert!!!

[@christopherschalyo8972]

😊😊

[@ChrisSmout]

Don't forget to raise your glass to the memory of the late great Dave Smith, who we lost this year.

[@JamesRamboPearce]

RIP ❤️

[@codymccormick7317]

A true titan of music technology. So many of us would be lost without his achievements. May he rest forever in sweet lush Prophet clouds

[@nikolasvanegten3065]

When I was 13 in 1982 I read about this protocol called M.I.D.I. that would allow one synthesizer to control another. And while I could not afford to synthesizer myself for at least a couple of years I read up all I could about MIDI and its founder Dave Smith and when I could afford to I bought a sequential circuits six track. The six track was 6 note polyphonic and had six different tracks which you could record individual sequences on, and thereby ove dub. It was as though somebody had created a magical machine to compensate for my lack of technique, and allow me to put together songs that were in my head one pass at a time. Fast forward 40 years I am 53 years old and eternally indebted to the vision that Dave Smith had to create the MIDI standard. It has allowed me to express myself creatively as well as commercially. I owe my career in the large part to the vision of Dave Smith. My only regret is that I did not have a chance to thank him in person.

[@AuntAlnico4]

I wonder if he's a causality of the freedom jab ?!? Any one who died right after that is possibly a victim of big pharma/ big govt Tyranny !?

[@sub-jec-tiv]

He was also a sweet person who genuinely enjoyed people & talking with them. He will be missed. Picked up a Prophet X a week before he passed.. and that instrument has a special place in my heart, also because the synth is simply gorgeous-sounding (especially when you toss your own samples in!) Best filter i have ever had in a poly synth, and that’s saying a lot because i have a Jupiter 8.

[@AccurateBeats]

…And I got to end the video?! I guess I’m the headliner here, haha! Thanks for having me Bosse. Great video!

[@BoBeats]

Best for last!!

[@OoraMusic]

Thanks for having me Bo! Honored and humbled!

[@BoBeats]

Glad to have you!!

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Thanks for the invite Bo! An honor. Polybrute is still mad though.

[@playpm]

Thanks for having me! Never thought it would be this competitive in a single video😅

[@ferddd]

EVERYONE is here!!!! best synths of the year yet!

[@ModbapModular]

Lovely presentation. Thanks for having Modbap Modular as a special guest / honorable mention. Cheers! 🤜🏾🤛🏾

[@SlowHaste]

Thanks again for having me join this year Bo, ‘twas a great show as always!

[@mylarmelodies]

Thanks for inviting me Bo and mainly for getting so many creators together in one video. 🙌

[@AbstractBackpack]

I love watching this showcase every year! What a great cast of creators. Thanks Bo!

[@MattiasHolmgren]

Awesome video compilation Bo! Great work and congrats to all the collaborators! Thanks for having me Bo! And have great christmas vacation!🎉

[@straighttalk2069]

Hi Mattias nice video, Just a quick and friendly tip. Always keep a 1 inch unused paintbrush near your synths and keyboards, they're perfect for removing unsightly dust, just before that all important video shoot.

[@SanjayC]

Amazing roundup as always. Thank you for having me in your video!!

[@BoBeats]

Glad to have you!!

[@michaelkonomos]

ModBap! Didn’t know about him but now i do and I love what he is doing. Thanks for including him on this episode.

[@kaislate]

I have been looking forward to this! Awesome job! I loved it! Really cool picks and the guests were awesome to watch and I loved the overviews of the devices picked!

[@JoshSemans]

“For synths that need extra bass…” - uses the Minilogue Bass 😅 Perfect!

[@jamesbond339]

I feel like this year has had stupid levels of drama in the synth community. This was the best way to just laugh and enjoy what a golden age of gear we are living in. Thanks so much for this Bo!

[@Daphoid]

That was wonderful as usual. A nice end to the year (surprising that it's already here). Happy Holidays Bo and everyone!

[@jonathanproduces]

Amazing video series! Please keep on with that!

[@DankePlace]

Welp, it's that time of the year Bo, thx for sticking round and providing us content that has gotten us through some seriously bad times, thx for sharing your own woes and allowing us to see the transformation too. You're an extremely positive person who interacts with your audience in a way that makes us feel like we do matter. Take your time, chill with friends and family, hope your little one is doing fine, I remember the vid you did with them in shot, how time must fly. Be safe, best wishes and see you when we see you.

[@BoBeats]

Thank you for the continued support! That is all I need to keep trucking!

[@AceeSoul]

Sanjay C looking dapper. Great video.

[@viciouspinkmusic]

Fabulous!

[@chasetaylor3173]

Genius video! I love seeing the synth KZbin community come together like this. You are doing awesome things mate. I highly enjoy your channel! Cheers!

[@Modrunnermusic]

Classic! Love all the contributions

[@SURCOlive]

Great stuff. Thanks Bo!!!

[@k-g-p]

This is always the peak of the year. Love this conclusion for the year and your great work for bringing the synth-youtube community together. Thanks and all the best to you all!

[@funkbungus137]

fuck yeah, Gas Therapy is my fave series on youtube atm, cool to see Micheal talking about his pick for free software.

[@carlbdfrd]

Thank you for all your hard work Bo. Your channel rocks. Thanks to all the guests. Happy Christmas and Happy New Year?

[@SuperChaoticus]

Wow. I can't believe it's already been a year since the last 'Best of' video. Thanks for another great year!

[@jasonsearle2512]

Awesome!!! Great production. Very entertaining and informative.

[@elwhagen]

An amazing show, Bo! Really a great way to bring alot of gear heads and musicians together!

[@alveydoug]

Excellent show! I will watch this many more times.

[@jefffuller3460]

You da man! This was great! Loved seeing and hearing from all of the guests. So happy the Polyend Play won its category! (Definitely my pick for the year:) Cheers!

[@desertrance]

Another one in the books!! Good Work lots of fun insights!

[@shankr]

This award show has become something to look forward to every year :). Thank you for the gas therapy and have a great holidays!

[@codymccormick7317]

Great picks everyone! Some super inspiring stuff here. And thanks to Venus theory for like the fourth existential crisis this week

[@ob1quixote]

Looking good, Bo. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year. ❤✨💖💜

[@nohandle974]

Epic year! Love all of your work and that of the creator contributors!!!

[@farawaytree471]

Thankyou Bo. Bringing together all the influencers, and more importantly, inspirations was amazing. This incredible community has kept me sane over the last few years. Yuletide blessings to you and everyone watching too. We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams.

[@Lo5292-z2i]

Amazing vid, thanks Bo! (& All the other legends❤)

[@Powhart]

It's amazing to see mo many of my favourite KZbinrs in one Video!!! Great Job Guys!!! Sanjay You've killed it!

[@christophervincent77]

This is the first time I've watched one of these... so great. Kudos to Bo and all of the collaborators. I'm now subscribed to all of you. Well done!

[@BoBeats]

Glad to have you as a new viewer on this series! Stay tuned for the next episode in 12 months or so :-)

[@mattborba1340]

This was great. Thanks Bo

[@raysubject]

absolute pleasure to watch this .. great that you put together so much great YTbers .. thanks !

[@jsonchicas]

AMAZING VIDEO!! Cheers Bo 🎉

[@DATSound]

Great selections, Thank you for your great Channel. Keep in doing good stuff and all the best for you! 🙂

[@Trovarsi]

Love this selection of guests!!🎉 Happy holidays and NY Bo!!

[@SuperChaoticus]

One of the things that I love, is how many times I see a version of the Hydrasynth in your presenter's videos. I bought the keyboard when it was first released, and it's still my favorite piece of gear!

[@paulhannell500]

Hi BoBeats - thanks for a great video, I really enjoyed it & wondered if a category for best beginners synth would be a good addition for 2023. Many thanks Paul

[@rootsproduction7972]

Innovative and interesting video as always😁 Thanks!

[@gaborb6577]

Thanks for all the participants

[@CrescentRollCarl]

Everybody's a winner!

[@psysword]

Fabulous entertainment. So many KZbin stars altogether creating such bonhomie. Synths come and go but this charming atmosphere even rarer. Congratulations. I loved every moment and yes my fav synth this year was the op-1 field too.

[@nexuzeb79]

Enjoying these vids more and more every year Bo! :) Nice collab everyone!

[@pj.bridger]

Wahay thanks for the award bo!

[@mass-1128]

Strange that no one mentioned the Modal Cobalt 8x & Argon 8x synthesizers?? Definitely the best new digital synthesizers of 2022 in my opinion and it's under a $1000! It also received an incredible firmware update. Great video as always 🤟🏻

[@MsInstrumentalBeatz]

Great video, very entertaining!

[@knobsstrings]

Great as every year! 🎉

[@robmadgwick3364]

I'm new to the synth community having just recently jumped into my first groovebox - Circuit Tracks and having some fun. Thank you for your videos, have a wonderful holiday season - coming all the way from Australia...cheers Bo

[@verdammte]

Pretty entertaining, lots of gear I've never heard of that sounds nice, and lots of things I'm happy to see win awards (like miniFreak). Thanks for putting this together for us all.

[@ChrisWilliamslegend]

Much love to Accurate, the man is an inspiration

[@nexuzeb79]

Lovely cast list btw! Bringing alot of interesting tubers together like this, I really enjoyed this :)

[@krazywabbit]

Did not realize how tiny the Syntakt was. Or maybe it was Oora 🤷‍♂ Well done Bo. Enjoyed this. Thank you.

[@thx1138abc1]

Thanks so much Bo. You even include a free gear slot. You're really looking after us all, rich or not-so-rich. That was hugely enjoyable. Great insight from everyone. Thanks to your good self and the other creator/reviewers for making our community such a warm and inspiring place to be.....TO 2023!!! 🍾 🥂

[@OmniTorch]

great video!

[@bistrobmusic]

Molten hovering over two Molten modules and then pointing to the Pizza was good stuff

[@misswindy]

Congratulations to all our winners. Clap. Clap. My favourite gear this year has been software. I award Cubase for being just what I need it to be as my first DAW.

[@ktreier]

I’m about to embark on publishing my own KZbin channel and I know I’ll have made it when @BoBeats invites me to be a guest presenter. Great year end best of. I’m lucky to own many of the years past best of, my favorite being the Hydrasynth Deluxe.

[@lumm71]

Hopefully the DIY-Gear scene will grow and starting next year there will be a award for this.

[@scottharris7222]

Everything about this video is a reflection of your values. You share the limelight with your friends and make our worlds a little bigger in the process. You are a good man Mr. BoBeats. Happy 2023.

[@BoBeats]

Thanks Scott and glad to see you still being a part of the community after all these years. Happy New Year!

[@travymoto1]

Great show Bo and guests 🎉

[@en16ma_music]

Love this video every year and this year is no exception! You do an incredible job producing this and I love that you include other people in the synth community to include diverse insights and expose people to new channels! Personally I think it should have been Synthstrom Deluge for Best Hardware Update! They rolled out an OLED screen and are retrofitting old units!

[@Snaggletoothsound]

Really love these year end videos Bo! It takes a lot of work to produce content like this and I'm very grateful for all your work and the work of all my other favorite KZbinrs who contributed! 😉 Thanks again and happy holidays 💜

[@straighttalk2069]

Nice video. Always keep a 1 inch wide unused paintbrush near your synths and keyboards 5:30 they're perfect for removing unsightly dust, just before that all important video shoot.

[@FernandoLins]

Happy Holidays, Bo!

[@bistrobmusic]

SQ-64 price did just drop to $130 and it did get a big update. I just bought one to see what it's all about.

[@ruffark]

Best update for me was the Roland mc 101, they gave us the whole freaking synth engine in a small package

[@combobreaker449]

ah hell yeah, love this award show

[@sidhenihilist]

Bo seems like one of the most wholesome people on KZbin. Congratulations on another year everyone.

[@mattytrane]

This video is a true victory for pipe organ!

[@JPChastain]

Cool channel, the algo gods blessed me this day.

[@RichardFriendartist]

wow the intro is blowing my mind!!

[@JakeG]

Cheers to six years. Best show yet!

[@BoBeats]

♥️♥️

[@szaja7104]

Bo's "Oh Deeeer: led hat ought to be in it's own category of party gear as well! :D Thanks for great vid anyway, cheers.

[@Visual-artist]

Best award to the guy with a cat on his lap, the total stillness of the cat initially confused me it was a kind of cute cat pillow, but then I noticed the cat is a really cute living cat doing his thing - RELAX. What a beautiful creature - the cat.

[@MrDaigoRiki]

Syntakt seems very interesting, I might get one in the future. Erica synths drum machine is like a future classic. Thanks.

[@ebiii5686]

Perkons, Perkons, PERKONS!!!!

[@RySobi]

So happy to see the east beast get love. For 250 USD, it is packed with a ton of amazing features and sounds incredible. If you don't have it, pick it up. If someone asks you what you want for Xmas it is a great gift.

[@Pracemusic]

thanks for all!

[@bennethos]

what a nice synth community show

[@wwlittlejOfficial]

BobEATS, thank u for all u do.

[@MatteoAgosti]

Great job Bo! Thanks for bringing all that talent in one really well thought through video! Really appreciate the hard work

[@entropybentwhistle]

The guest intro started off as a tribute to “These Are The Daves I Know I Know.” Got a good chuckle from Robin’s subtle advert for his molten modules.

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

I bought a new Elektron Rytm MK2, Digitone, Analog Heat MK2 and SP 404 MK2 and really enjoy these synths a lot!

[@urniurl]

Best find for me this year was Micheal from Gas Therapy who showed that most hardware and dawless equipment can be duplicated in software for much less cost. (17:53)

[@derekliljequist1086]

I have to say I'm not surprised at the OB-X8 for winning synth of the year over 1000 euros. I pre-ordered one just based on my love of the classic Oberheim sound found in so many songs of the 80s I love. I knew at that time it was going to be good but I had no idea how good it was going to be when it arrived. It immediately blew my mind when it arrived and is now my favorite synth I own. I look forward to what Tom Oberheim has up his sleeve next.

[@sinanhalim8554]

23:45 this is sick as fuck i feel like u could use generative patches from modular synths to make crazy ambient expirmental beats

[@Symmetriad]

Great video as always! It's too bad Emilie didn't release her new Plaits firmware until the last few days, it's so massive I imagine it could have made the update list. Also a bit sad Elektron didn't release that Digitakt update until after I sold mine. The lack of a song mode was a big part of why it didn't work for me, and that update might have changed my mind about selling it.

[@LiquidDysfunction]

Another great vid... Loved those Vongon fx pedals(affordable as well).... The Erica Synth drum machine(mmmmm). ^_^

[@caxtnova]

Would have loved to see the Softpop 2 get a shout-out! I know it's weird and unpredictable, but that's what I enjoy about it. I find it's the one piece of gear that never makes me think, "Well, it would be easier to do in a DAW" because I never really know what I'm going to end up with.