Pulsar 23: Unique Beats, Guaranteed

[@BennJordan]

Due to...laws, the sweepstakes can only be for those in the USA. I know. It sucks. We get an occasional synth, most of y'all get healthcare. 🤷🏻‍♂🤒🎛

[@cmd-c1426]

Yes... it sucks 😂. But I have my Lyra-8 diy kit still waiting to be built. So what...

[@DarkFutureConsolidated]

lol. Good point. I came here to whinge about not being able to enter, but yeah, I wouldn’t give up our free health care for all the synths in the world. I also got a DFAM, Monopoly and a Polyend Tracker with my numerous stimulus payments. My mate in Melbourne got one of these Pulsar 23’s too. So, I guess I can forgive you for your sponsor not accepting global entries. This time…

[@parboilrice]

Free healthcare is a farce. We still end up going privately because the public service sucks.

[@TORCHI909]

hahahah fair trade-off i guess

[@curcapsicum]

Awww shame, not even Canada eh? Fair comment about the healthcare lmao. Good luck to the winner!

[@andrewhuang]

nice work man you got some great sounds out of it!

[@jasongravely7217]

You and Benn would create some sick tunes!

[@GirlfightClub]

Do you feel it would be safe/easy to change the knobs to some shiny metal ones? Or is it best to not mess with removing and replacing knobs? Thanks

[@adriatic.vineyards]

​@@GirlfightClublol in what way could metal knobs considered more unsafe?

[@GirlfightClub]

@@adriatic.vineyards safe for the DEVICE, as in not affecting its tuning etc

[@finitesound]

Just bought this yesterday! SO glad you're covering it. I have a lot to learn.

[@NicleT]

“I had a lot of fun” For me this is the essential ingredient of Soma’s gear (and all gear in general). The same with the Lyra, when I start to play, it becomes a dialogue and it’s good not to be always controlling what emerge from it.

[@mellowgeekstudio]

The TikTok influencer voice over was really something unexpected lol. Funny thing is I can't tell if her performance was satirical or not.

[@chasewatkins3096]

I also found myself wondering if she was in on it or if Benn just went on Fiverr and found someone to do the segment

[@JapanoiseBreakfast]

@@AboveTheTrees00 ok boomer

[@jordanWAH]

Maybe it was a little bit obnoxious, but seeing how much it bothers people makes it even better.

[@maquettemusic1623]

@@AboveTheTrees00 This reaction is exactly why he did it

[@JeremyLotruglioMusic]

@@AboveTheTrees00 nah it was funny

[@bb-sw6ur]

9:00 "ok this sound is getting boring to me" me: *headbanging furiously*

[@devinbelangermusic]

This thing is such a cool vibe. Great video as always Ben!

[@software70DKR]

You deserve the biggest synth channel on KZbin. Your videos often go further to inform and entertain than channels with a million subs. Especially loving the science content lately and how you respect the audiences inteligence enough not to stop for the minutiae. Keep killing it!

[@RegebroRepairs]

Ah! Giveaway not in my region! I guess I just have to continue my plans of building a weird drum modular myself instead. 6:15 Instant Nine Inch Nails.

[@michaelkonomos]

Great video. People rightly focus a lot on the weird functionality of this synth, but the SOUND is just incredible to me. When you start getting a beat going around 7 minutes into the video, it’s just so rich and fat and full of character.

[@GeorgeL909]

The transition from TikTok vice tutorial to hardcore dystopian industrial drum beat was nothing short of brilliant. 👍 love it.

[@apostatatheprovost3041]

Best noise generator in the World. Vlad Kreimer is a crazy genius. There is so much flexibility. The Pipe and Ether are awsome Tools to find realy unique sounds. Soma love! ❤️✌️

[@grindedfranz]

this thing is really crazy.. probably the most interesting drum synths ever..

[@apostatatheprovost3041]

@@grindedfranz 100%

[@christopherpederson1021]

Or one of the hardest

[@apostatatheprovost3041]

@@christopherpederson1021 Thats true, Mate.

[@dialnfornick]

Yes! Spotted the orange pulsar23 in the background a couple of vids ago 😁 can't wait to see it getting the Benn Jordan treatment!

[@mikemmartin]

Wow, what an amazing piece of gear. Great video as always Benn.

[@low_rise5030]

aaawww I was secretly hoping for this to happen for so long! My thoughts were "this machine - not exactly my cup of tea but it'd probably really shine in the hands of an experienced IDM artist like Benn..." - and oh boy you delivered!

[@benitoe.4878]

The jam sessions are massive. When I think back how Stimming struggled to get anything useful out of the Pulsar... this is a way better showcase of its possibilities. Great job!

[@fangan4770]

Indeed

[@bababooie9420]

Thank you for covering this! Such a cool piece of gear- keep up the great work Benn :)

[@Honeysmack]

Great video Benn. FYI: the jacks on the back of the unit are bidirectional they are both inputs and outputs, the pin adapters on the front panel complete the circuit. Amazing machine!

[@christopherpederson1021]

You can input amy sound into any voice

[@keltonfoster]

Dude that is so sweet, it's like I'm at a rave on the beach and some rich kids are partying. Now throw at catch phrase in that loop like "stars in my jar" or release the dark scare crow.

[@billysunshine9100]

Congrats on creating the best acid patch I have ever heard, just brilliant

[@babylonbroken]

great video. Fantastic run through that conveyed a huge amount of information despite just being presented as having a jam. Then pure awesomeness. Love this machine. Not sure I'm quite good enough for one.

[@rolandmdill]

I ordered my Pulsar the day it was announced, so I have it for quite a while now - and it is NOT my favourite piece of equipment. It certainly is a unique piece of equipment, but on its own it is neither as flexible nor cool sounding as it appears in the demos. It has its own sound, very distinct, but also way more limited than it seems. Every voice has 8 or 10 knobs to shape the sound (and yes some switches as well), but considering that two are to control the single very simple envelope, one is for volume and one is for fx send level, it shows that there is not too much else to control for each voice. The parameters for every voice are somewhat limited in my opinion, especially the hihat rarely works for me, somehow it doesn't have a sweetspot where it just sounds great. The clap filter is a very nice and colourful sounding filter, but at the same time it makes it hard to get a nice snappy and punchy sound. The Pulsar became way more usable for me when I paired it up with my modular. The envelopes on the Pulsar 23 are not the greatest for drums imo, so if I really want to use it for drums I take some snappy (& flexible) envelopes from my modular instead of using the internal ones. To use it in a production you might want to record everything individually, otherwise it might be rather hard to mix it with other instruments. It rumbles, makes noise, sounds dirty and industrial and brutal if you like, but still it's not very punchy - it takes work to shape the drum sounds in the mix, unless you are going for the pure Soma sound. The one thing I absolutely hate about this machine is the sequencer, I wish I could rip it out. How can a sequencer not be in sync with itself (even quantized it plays far from tight)? The workflow is a mess in my opinion - I thought it might be perfect for me as a skilled instrumentalist, but it is quite the opposite of inspirational to me, it kills my inspiration because I never end up with what I recorded and that is simply frustrating. But sequenced via Midi it is nice to work with. All in all, if I didn't like the machine I would not have kept it. The Pulsar is quirky as hell, seems very well built and despite all the issues I have with it I still love it very much. It is more like a rhythmic noise generator to me, which is fine because I have other options to get the drum sounds I'm looking for. It has its very own unique sound and is a fantastic experimental synthesizer, I wouldn't want to miss it!

[@Kypski]

It's my main drum machine and drumsynth - just finished my first beattape, using only the pulsar! what an instrument!

[@pawnotdaw4559]

I loved the P-23 at first. But I was constantly trying ways to not make it sound like the P-23. I was using Eurorack oscillators and stuff and getting good results but eventually I sold as I thought I can make much more personal drum sounds without it. But as a machine and interface it’s great. Don’t miss it.

[@pawnotdaw4559]

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[@pdubz1392]

this is the best synth I ever heard...right up my alley cuz I grew up listening to Aphex Twin and am very much into dark minimal dnb these days. I need this! or at least a VST for Fruity that would be so sick!!!!!

[@TheNimasan]

that you wont see, because its against Vlad's ( soma labs ) phillosphy. get the real thing. i swear you wont regert a single dime!!! from the moment you unbox it and put your fingers on this unblievable device, you are gonna fall in love forever. i will take mine into grave....no joke!!!

[@tecschooldropout]

Super cool drum machine, would love to see a diy version since the complete is so expensive.

[@anthonyrothercom]

thanks, great video about a great machine. I love my Pulsar-23.

[@Ulvens]

What a magnificent beast! Congratulations on the 100k! Very nice. :) The contest is only open to U.S residents? Ouch.

[@compucorder64]

That Acid Patch is well caustic, you caught the vibe. Reminds me of downloading tiny snippets of Polygon Window by modem in early internet days to try to mail order Acid vinyl from the UK.

[@ToyKeeper]

Would love to try one of these sometime. It seems like a great way to generate interesting, organic, evolving beats.

[@nohandle974]

Superb demonstration and a lovely machine! It does seem a little spendy, but that's our current situation. Keep up the great work, much appreciation.

[@Paul-uy1ru]

That Darkwave patch! Nice

[@tommyg5095]

A year later... is the Arturia Polybrute still your favorite poly synth???

[@JxhnNichxlls]

Man, I would love a Pulsar at some point. Fantastic weird machine, much like all of Soma’s stuff

[@lol-wc3ld]

yeah, too bad we prob wont get anything new for a while with this war going on

[@AdamsOlympia]

@@lol-wc3ld that's a shame. But they are based out of Poland too , so maybe they can continue to develop out of there instead of Russia.

[@MilesMalcom]

This is the sickest piece of music gear I’ve ever seen

[@EquestrianSport]

hey you can also use external LFO's and other sources. it makes it INSANE! there is a zillion sounds to get out of it.

[@christopherpederson1021]

I am content with just using the internal delay

[@elmowilcox]

You hooked up the clock and it immediately made Nine Inch Nails 😆 This thing looks like an incredible amount of fun and tinkering.

[@hemtet5500]

2:00 I would like to ask after listening a little bit can you patch anything to anything and is it possible to do some serious damage if you have absolutely zero tech knowledge regarding this type of thing?

[@paradiddle16]

Definitely would love to see a longer vid one day if ya pick one up. Sounded pretty cool! Cheers!

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Tremendous examples! Had me going cross ear’d in a great way :)

[@mikey303]

love the Jexus aesthetic for the acid demo section :D

[@demmykick]

7:38 "You let me violate you...."

[@marcuspearson6214]

"two little buttons to check your bodyfat"......that cracked me up, absolutely brilliant.

[@Ed-davies]

Hey Benn, this was awesome, just wish you had done a few more example patches, was really getting into it ! The Tik-Tok voiceover was very reminiscent of Valley Girl by Frank Zappa, loved it! Congrats on the 100k!

[@synthphilosophy]

Feeding my GAS with your absolutely fantastic skilled beats. Thank you.

[@midbc1midbc199]

I love that thing......I would basically disappear from public forever playing with that noise generator

[@curcapsicum]

When you said you hired a tik tok influencer to narrated the layout, I laughed and thought you were kidding, then when she came in I wheezed so hard I couldn't breathe for most of the narration. She did a genuinely great job though, much respect for her, it was just so fucking funny.

[@aqueous5099]

Same. It was such a great tbit 😁“…These little circle things…that you put your fingers on, that tell you your percentage of body fat! Wow!..”

[@CinematicLaboratory]

Super cool video, only Benn can make it as fun as this. Bu tthe Rabbit Hole is even deeper. The six outputs are also six inputs depending on your connection.

[@ArsyEins]

just came back to hear that idm sesh again... and to mention: this video is the reason i also call a pulsar my own :D

[@eriklee909]

Congrats on 100k!!!

[@dingleferry736]

Holy shit you're videos are too interesting for my own good ... I feel myself peeking into a rabbit hole deeper than the Mariana Trench!

[@JTPiano2011]

Lots of us synth geeks hanging out here at the bottom of the trench, welcome!

[@RoyBeerZ]

I understood less than 10% of the things being said in this video but I couldn't stop watching. I don't even know how I got here, but it made me sub anyways. You're a wizard, or something I guess.

[@danielpirone8028]

Great video- and have to say I love mine! Definitely not an 808

[@christopherpederson1021]

The opposite of an 808 really 🤣

[@Rollur1234]

This sounds so good!❤

[@kikkirow]

This machine can produce a lot of cool sounds, however, I feel like it is for the advanced user. I would rather invest in a different piece of hardware but I could see the modular or hardware enthusiasts loving this one. Loved your darkwave track.

[@memorycanyon2259]

Congrats on the 100k subs Benn

[@l1fef0rm]

You love it; why not keep it?

[@Hyper5nic]

Good luck to all participants! It would be fun for those who can't join the contest (because of outside the US) to participate in a 'samples/loops by way of the Pulsar 23' giveaway. Just a thought. 😉

[@mgmcdb7606]

Great jams Benn!

[@blush_response]

really nice stuff, digging the IDM and darkwave patches especially. cheers :)

[@stixvane]

God I've loved this thing..... I've been wanting one of these since I've heard the thing!

[@donaldpriola1807]

Lucky owner of black #27. I laughed pretty hard at the "That's not complicated at all" comment. This thing bends space/time, I swear--and yeah, you can't help but make something unique on it, because god help you if you try to duplicate a patch--even when you photograph it, you can't duplicate settings. Trust me. I've tried.

[@Blindrage8387]

How does this only have 25k views. This was so interesting. Let’s see what else he has!

[@corticallarvae]

You can use delet in a subtractive manner

[@A3Kr0n]

Hey. I don't know where to start and certainly not where to end, but how many of these products do you think the world needs? Like guitar stomp boxes, do we really need 3000 choices that disappear and are replaced with 3000 new choices the next year? I want a timely product, a classic to be passed down through rummage sales. I guess I'm done now.

[@deepsynth3495]

It takes me three years to finish a song in Ableton. Now probably 30.

[@Doodsrsly]

Relatable

[@waveforthefrequencies]

That looks incredibly fun!

[@user-no7px7ed4m]

amazing demos holy shit

[@starsunderer]

What gear was it hooked up to on darkwave patch, that seemed like a great. combo

[@MelodicMethod]

that first cut had echos of Aphex Twin...very cool

[@blackmateriaofficial2383]

I read some things about audio out of the Pulsar being DC offset. Did you notice or account for this? do you just put a dc filter or is it a non-issue? Love the character and concept!

[@Goodberry1]

There is a show on HBO max that is called Raised By Wolves. In it the protagonist is a robot that has a weapon in the form of a scream. Would you make a video on fact vs fiction or if you think something like this could really be built and how deadly could we actually make it? Great content by the way, thanks.

[@BennJordan]

LRADs and sound cannons are already used as effective weapons for crowd control. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaTUeqmXoJJne80

[@UniqueOneShot]

Who won it, and did they make anything? Love to see people using it, it's so cool!

[@PhilippeGiron]

What's the grid sequencer in the IDM patch?

[@praticle]

I *love* Pulsar-23!! ♥️

[@BoogerBarn]

Stumbled on to this… F_CKING WILD!

[@raycschan]

New and come across this channel and the topic you talk about is very different from what I watch. I am wondering as a sound engineering, what do you think of those HiFi speaker. Do they worth that much different in price between high end to cheap speaker? Is it that much different?

[@keysthomas1966]

That IDM patch made my spleen itchy!!

[@mrblablablabla]

“I’m going to give away this machine. Now watch me get my spit all over it.” 😄

[@corticallarvae]

i would love to enter but im missing how to do so

[@KingCuba]

8:28 That gets aggressive quickly lol

[@dynamicfreqz1112]

This sounds and seems like something Trent Reznor uses.

[@strelokknoize]

It's a very interesting machine. But let's be honest. Does it sound like 2 grands?

[@Cybercowboy_69]

great video! the video effect during the acid patch looks sick. How'd you make it?

[@cubanheelsbeerbelly]

That darkwave patch slaps

[@dcraw3974]

Hey hey, I ended up trading a qmmg for the orange pulsar you gave away. Pretty neat.

[@RussArteaga]

Dang you approached some grimy Aphex Twin on that second patch. Respect

[@melter_rob]

Amaya did a great job!

[@NorfikOfficial]

This thing is so gnarly!

[@Unkraut]

when you said you passed 100k i was shocked since i was sure that by now you'd have a boatload more, as you'd deserve

[@EquestrianSport]

I have one, and it's an endless discovery . great vid. I love the influencer hahaha

[@BXLrules]

First decent Pulsar review.

[@chuckcrunch1]

i have a friend that would love this

[@Nokanmusic]

Aw, I’m not allowed to contest :(

[@Nokanmusic]

Fun video though :)

[@just-ask]

cheers for this!

[@corticallarvae]

The idm can burst just a thing that's done in the drum generes....

[@Strepite]

great, but with most analog drum machines I wish I liked the sound… Sounds too dark in the upper harmonics

[@musicdefinesgravity]

This machine sounds so mean I love it

[@chaich1421]

so would second hand units have a lot of saliva on them?

[@vaughn6371]

I wonder what the OMG and WTF? Buttons do?