Techno from scratch with the Benjolin Oscillator

[@joefiorini]

Very cool to see how far you could go without a single v/oct input. Nicely done!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@andrewfatman3734]

It sounds super complete using few resources, I love it!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@TheCyberkef]

Another awesome video, with another awesome module from Venom! I'm currently still exploring the VCO LAB but this one will join as soon as possible! Thank you Omri!

[@beguile302]

Love the insights to how you mix things! And everything about this patch! Cheers!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Awesome, thank you!

[@angrytoken]

Very good oscillator, very nice kick and technique! Thank you! It would be great to see a video about mixing and mastering.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Noted!

[@cedricgestes5759]

Thanks

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@Pheekofc]

Benjolin is your free pass to enter Berghain!

[@earlgrey2130]

We wish 😂

[@timnordberg7204]

even Sven puts some respect on the name Rob Hordijk

[@rickyphi922]

Superbly creative and inspiring!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@julienmarie7870]

This may be my favorite video so far! Such an interesting module, i'll go take it and test it right now! :)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@blitzkreiscollective520]

As usual... really nice flow of your video and great sounds :)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thank you very much!

[@adrianbourget7989]

Thank you for your work. It's very instructive!!!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bruhman0114]

Great work as allways!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks again!

[@JeremyWentworth]

Awesome stuff! Thanks Omri!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks again!

[@lui6623]

Beautifull. Tnx for sharing.

[@mtrkofficial8921]

Great tutorial Omri! More techno patches from scratches please!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

More to come!

[@X4n1c]

OMG! Thank you so much ! you are such a Multitalent! im a big Fan of you

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Wow, thank you!

[@markshark9162]

That was a lot of hoppolahs today! Inspiring as usual, can't wait to make some more beeps and boops!

[@Mxda14]

Great Patch!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@FlagAudio]

Amazing Content!

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@ThierryLalinne]

Very inspiring! Thanks 👍❤

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@CatFish107]

Oooh, I've been eyeing and GASing myself up over the after later audio hardware benjolin. Neat to discover there is a VCV version to play around with! Thanks for highlighting it.

[@CatFish107]

Is the rungler output bipolar? Or are you autopanning between center and right with the first voice?

[@DaveBenhamMusic]

@@CatFish107 All the outputs are bipolar - Rungler, XOR, PWM, triangle, and square

[@JHSynth]

I have the hardware ALA Benjolin is amazing. Plus it works with all the expanders from the Turing machine that ALA also have versions of. I also built a diy desktop Benjolin many years ago having the extra I/O and expanded functionality on the ALA version is great!

[@DaveBenhamMusic]

@@JHSynth I used the ALA Benjolin documentation as a starting point for my Benjolin Oscillator design. The next Venom release version 2.9 adds the expanders, which I call Gates and Volts - they are heavily inspired, but not identical to the ALA expanders. If you try out the Venom Benjolin Oscillator, be sure to check out the documentation - it includes a link to a patch of a full Benjolin emulation (it adds a Vult Unstabile filter and PatchMaster controls). The Venom Benjolin emulator sound and behavior compares very favorably to the ALA hardware - I was able to compare to a friends ALA Benjolin.

[@CatFish107]

​@DaveBenhamMusic That's super rad! Thanks for the modules, AND a big thank you for documentation. I love to rtfm.

[@theredtheatre]

Straight to the Oppela? Best bit to modulate. :P

[@richardsomerville5725]

Nice vid as always Omri.IMHO the first kick is a nice top kick with a clicky attack already ,perhaps needs a sub layer which would give you the option of adding a rumble if you choose to and work better on a big system.🙂.Also does the Rungler give you the option of space in the patterns or are they always constant patterns?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers! The rungler will indeed always generate patterns, but if you clock it with a sequencer, you can add more space to it I guess.

[@LinusPenzlien]

Ohh yeahh ❤

[@Only_music_0210]

Very very cool👍

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks!

[@GeorgeLocke]

Airwindows has some good saturating compression suitable for the main mix.

[@tzoltekaudio]

it will be very useful if you could explain how to fix the bug on the clock. everytime i try to sync my machines hardware with vcv i got problems with the clock and the sequencers , if vcv is master and it look like can-t be slave, or the sequencers not run , or vcv give out a very sloppy clock that not sync 4=4. i experience it also on a new m2 with very good cpu , so is not about it. on the community online there are many user with the same problems and no answer . you still can use outboard machine very well as sound modules , but if you want to track them with the sequencer it sounds bad . please ! >)

[@Monochord_ch]

Awesome Video. i now finally got into Modular Synthesis. did a few things in bitwig grid in the past but since a few days i am using vcv. but i stil lack a lot of knowledge. this Video comes very handy since Hyptnotic and Raw Techno is my Style of Sound. Maybe you can do a VIdeo on how to make that standard Modular Raw Techno fm melodies like cari lekebush and others do? i still struggle on how to achieve that sound and sequence those melodies. but that Benjolin is a nice tool Keep up the great Videos. I just subbed to your patreon because you do a lot of awesome stuff.

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Thanks! I will do some research :)

[@Monochord_ch]

@@OmriCohen-Music awesome. many thanks. in this video you will find a lot of those melodies i am talking about. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4WcoJZnd5WSfMU i also bought your modular cookbook and some of the video tuts on gumroad in hope to find what i am looking for :-) hope the book arrives soon. it's always nice to have a physical copy of something 😀

[@JakieWakieEggsAndBakie]

Are you on the most current build? When I updated the ctrl+click to duplicate wires got reversed and I dont know how to switch it back. So instead of duplicating from the same source (like to add clock to 2 different modules) it duplicates from the input of the module (like add 2 inputs to one module which doesnt work) like when you were connecting the resonance of Tangents to the feedback of Prince of Perception. I cant find anything in the manual to change it back. Did this happen to you? Would you know how to change that? Is it a new keybind?

[@JakieWakieEggsAndBakie]

@@pennywise5095 just tested it and you are correct. Thanks for your help

[@ArielBenichou]

חחח ״הופלך!״ יא מלך!

[@pipster1001]

Vcv master!

[@videkicsavo1978]

🤩

[@lawdviola]

the rung stops working when the clock is connected?

[@OmriCohen-Music]

What do you have connected to it?

[@masonictruth]

@@OmriCohen-Music Same here actually... Clock (Pulse 2) getting clock from clk1. When connected, Rung freezes cv.

[@masonictruth]

@@OmriCohen-Music nm, saw that you had Oversample active on the oscillator, that seems to fix it.

[@DaveBenhamMusic]

Hey everyone. For better or worse, the behavior you are seeing is by design. From the documentation - "Clock: This is the input that triggers the Rungler. It expects a bipolar clock input, with a high state detected above +1V, and a low state below -1V." You are using a unipolar clock, so it never goes low. It works just fine with a bipolar clock (all of the Benjolin Oscillator outputs are bipolar). Based on the comments, I think I need to provide an option to work with unipolar clock input as well. I will try to address this in the upcoming next release of Venom (should be very soon)

[@OmriCohen-Music]

@@DaveBenhamMusic Well, it works for me also in the video with Clocked, which is uni polar. But as @masonictruth mentioned, if you have oversampling off, it will not work. So I guess it has something to do with oversampling...

[@tzoltekaudio]

noiceee

[@justinhuffman2430]

You are a professor of vcv, yeh

[@OmriCohen-Music]

Cheers!

[@low_rise5030]

lol nice! sounds like psychedelic progressive trance from around the millenium!

[@pauljs75]

Maybe it's just me, but I think the oscillator doing the bass identifies as an attack helicopter.