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Honestly, and I mean this, the best video on analog synths ( not just the Poly-D) on RUclips. good sound, good image, not too much blah blah blah, no attempts at humour.
@@XNBeatsMusic This is truly an in depth explanation. Thank you for your expertise and time. I am going to buy you a coffee, one at starbucks at least enough for a starbucks coffee! LOL
I have a Poly D arriving today. Second synthesizer in my life but it will be the first one I really try to understand. I am 16 minutes into your tutorial and it is fantastic. I bought you a coffee! Thanks!
Wow, thanks man I saw it on PP. Thanks man, all these videos are coming right out of my pocket so your help really makes a difference. So, congratulation on you new synth, hope you enjoy it. Make sure to pair it with good effect and you have an amazing sound machine :) Thanks for the coffee !!!!
@@XNBeatsMusic Welcome!! I am looking forward to the Poly. I had pretty much figured I needed a synth without menus to get the hang of how everything works together. Menus can come later. Watched lots of 30 minute overviews etc. The stumbled onto your vid. Yours is the most in-depth. Thanks!
@@Geddyfleaharris THanks man. Glad you could get some useful info on the PolyD. The video is going nowhere so can always come back and use it as reference. Cheers !!!!
I've had a MicroMoog I lucked into for cheap as a teen for an eternity. Absolutely love that Behringer is giving an affordable alternative to the MiniMoog I've wanted forever.
I recently bought your PolyD presets and am really digging it. Please do a deep dive into how to use the CV inputs, etc , basically all the back panel I/O
To enter save mode for the current sequence, hold shift and play for 3 seconds. Then select your pattern slot with the left right arrow keys and hold the PATTERN button if you’d like to change the bank as well. Then hit shift + rec to write to memory. If you reset your saved pattern with shift reset, it’s not actually deleted. You’d need to resave a new pattern over it. Also, turning it on holding d major/ minor chord will enable/disable your envelope retrigger when more than one note is held at a time in a poly mode. This is the least intuitive bit of information from the whole video so I felt the need to reshare it here. You are welcome 1:24:46
This excellent guide saved my Poly D. Just couldn’t be bothered with it and considering selling. Two hours of watching this tutorial and now I’m confident I understand all the controls and making my own sounds from scratch.
Yo! Thanks for this video! I am only 12 minutes in and I am very much looking forward to watching the rest of it. I was really confused about the keyboard control switches until now. Kudos 👏
I've only watched 44 mins so far but this video is amazing! I understand so much more about this thing and how it all works together. Thank you so much!
Really glad to hear that. You know, donation really help, of course. But knowing someone, someplace was able to boost because of your work, is just a fantastic feeling. Thanks for the comment and the contribution. Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but after I released the vid, I got really sick, like 2 complete days sleeping sick, that bad. I am still in a bad shape, but I can respond messages at least.
Waiting to receive my poly D, I was looking for a tutorial. I found your BIG helping one: well done, Thanks!!! (I've sent you a few coffees, well deserved man!)
Hey Alberto I Just saw it. Thanks for the contribution !!! It really helps A LOT to keep these guides and the whole channel going. Thanks again for the coffee :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to make and upload this. Making my journey in to the poly d and analogue synths in general a lot less painful! bought you a coffee, thanks a lot!
Your video made it so so so easy to get into synth bass. I’ve been playing bass for 30 years and I’m just now dabbling with synths. I wanna know what everything does on this unit and your video is perfect. Money well spent. Thank you.
Thank you so much, the sequencer chapter helped me a lot! Looking forward to watching the whole video to really get to know this beast of a synth I've acquired.
This is awesome, got your repeat views strategy down too, I'll be watching this start to finish many many times, thank you, my hat is off, it has to be, by the sequencer bit, every time you said "It's really simple", my head exploded a little more 🤯, gonna have to watch it over and over on slow speed 🤣, that's some _landline handset_ level menu diving, I'll watch slow so I can write it all out. Just got a Poly D, added a Model D (on which the PolyD's sequencer works), using it as my midi keyboard, can't play a note already, and the Poly D must have got dropped or something, it's got oscillator/keyboard issues, so not exactly conducive to learning pursuits if the kbd isn't working correctly. I suspect it's mostly oscillators, since the keys work alright with the ModelD, seven DO sound amazing, but I have to wait til the end of the month for the new one, I definitely want a new one, it's within 45 days of purchase, don't want a floor model, and sure, it could probably be troubleshooted, by why? So since there's not a new one to be had, I'm keeping this one til a new one's available. So while it's "sort of" broken, might as well learn all the other stuff too, Thanks a lot for this, I'll be coming back to it often.....
This is an amazing video but im still confused why oscillator 1,2 and 3 have LO, im sure they weren't mentioned, only 4 can be used as an lfo so why are they there?
Thank you SO MUCH for the BEST video ever on the Poly D. I bought you a few cups of coffee! It really helped me understand how everything works, and was a great general introduction to analog synthesis as well. Keep up the good work! I also watched your video on the Korg Wavestate, although that is much more difficult to understand (but very powerful). I'm going to start working on the Deepmind 12, and will turn to you first for that. In addition, I plan to get into Cubase, and would love an explanatory introduction to that, if that might be in your wheelhouse... :) THANKS!
Holy Jesus, more than a few !!! I saw it, well thank you, I don't know what to say. It really helps me to keep the boat floating. It all comes out from my pocket, but all the contributions make my life a bit easier. Thanks a million time . There is a POLY D making sound coming in a little while. I did that with the Minilogue and Cobalt, so POLY D and DEEPMIND are is next. Used a lot of DAW's throughout the years, never clicked with Cubase, don't know why. Anyhow, thanks for the coffee man.
Sorry to hear that you felt so bad over the last few days, hope you're getting better! This was the first time I made a donation through YT and I didn't see that there was an automated message. Otherwise I would have said more/something different than just "Danke" ;-) But the video really did a lot for my understanding of not just my Poly D but subtractive synthesis in general. I've watched a lot of tutorials over the last months, but always had questions at the end. I love that you went through every single knob and switch on the machine and not just talked about them but practically showed what they do. The part about the sequencer was just amazing and for the first time I have the feeling that I understand how it works. Hope you enjoy the coffee! Have a great day!
@@signwaveslandmarks Yeah, I'll be OK in a couple of days I guess. When I started to do all of this, doing another review of a synth or plugin was a little bit of a let down for me. There is a lot of that on YT. So I plan every video like you enrolled in course about a synth or a particular plugin, that way I can offer something else than a review. It takes a lot more time and effort but people seem to like it and it turned to be helpful for a lot of people. But yeah, what you watched is essentially a course about the synth. And yeah, understanding the Sequencer just gives you one more really cool tool to do more with the synth. Glad you got useful information and thanks for the coffee again :)
Thanks for this, I was totally new to the synth world and found your video to be the best. Sometimes you go really fast switching from one function to another so I was using the back button a lot (...wait what the fxxx did he just do! ). But overall I can't fault this, it's amazing. I bought you a coffee.👌
I baught the deepmind not knowing what to expect... Loved to use the arp and tweak but it was so much digital stuff there and now I realize that I should have baught a analog one. This feels more like an instrument and playing with the arp section just seems soo fun!!
Thank you The poly mode with the notes all going through the same filters is something I have heard before but thanks for your explanation because I didn't realise the second note you would drag the first note through the filter again 🤔😅
Hello. Well depends on what you are using, you need to configure the Poly D as a slave. Here is a link of a different video where I do that with an RD6. ruclips.net/video/Yg9eCK9WpSA/видео.html
Very very good tutorial I have a question. Is there any sign wave in this synthesizer? I just bought it and I don’t know how can I make it? Thank you very much.
Thank you thank you thank you. I’m not an idiot by my dyslexia makes it impossible for me to remember what just happened well enough to know how it works without help.
This is a gret deep dive, but would love to see a video of how to sync the sequencer / arp with a daw, clock sync iin playback s working but recording it breaks the arp into small chops, do you have any suggestion?
Great information many, many thanks for taking the time to share. Question, my mod wheel when pushed to the top feels like it is grinding is that by design?
The presentation is put together very well, with logical progression and information. However any person who has hearing issue and many musicians do, the sounds make the mono,log almost impossible to understand. having the sound demonstration so loud serves no purpose, just being able to hear it is all that is needed, the monolog or spoken information is very important. I miss about all spoken information when the sounds are playing.
Dude. I can’t afford to buy you a coffee but if this video helps me finish this record I’ll buy you any synth you want unless you’d rather have a Ferrari.
great video, just got one of these as a gift. I'm wondering how I adjust the pitch bend and mod wheel. Out of the box, I'm not getting the standard response from the mod wheel (it seems to affect filter cutoff or similar, I want it to control vibrato) and the mod wheel is set to 12 steps and I'd like it to be 2. Any thoughts from anyone?
For the EXT IN when you say "what ever you want" to put in there. I wanted to input my stand up bass and mod it to an 808 sound. Can I plug my Stand Up/8 String Guitar/ ANYTHING into it? When I tried I got no sound although I was designing on it with Oscilattors just fine. DO i need to run an instrument through a preamp/amp/some sort of controls before plugging into the back of the POLY D?
Is there a way to control damper/ sustain with a pedal? My poly D won’t respond to CC64 or when damper/sustain is being engaged on a midi controller that has a damper/sustain jack. My other synths don’t have this issue.
@@XNBeatsMusic seriously, great vids. i make and release a ton of house and synth music (under a different channel) and these indepth tutorials are just gold!!
The berhinger deepmind 12 has a minimoog. Inside , it’s the best synthesizer on the planet for a ridiculous price he has a oberheim too plus you can purchase some patches if IOU’s are not parient to built it
I don´t like, that the most important buttons are so mini. I wear glases. The sequencer manual should be more for intuition not for kognitive use and don´t be so mini.
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This is the most useful RUclips video of all time
Honestly, and I mean this, the best video on analog synths ( not just the Poly-D) on RUclips. good sound, good image, not too much blah blah blah, no attempts at humour.
thanks man, glad you liked it
@@XNBeatsMusic This is truly an in depth explanation. Thank you for your expertise and time. I am going to buy you a coffee, one at starbucks at least enough for a starbucks coffee! LOL
Just purchased a Poly D second hand for 450€, this video is pure gold for me. I also suggest NY school of synthesis
I have a Poly D arriving today. Second synthesizer in my life but it will be the first one I really try to understand. I am 16 minutes into your tutorial and it is fantastic. I bought you a coffee! Thanks!
Wow, thanks man I saw it on PP. Thanks man, all these videos are coming right out of my pocket so your help really makes a difference. So, congratulation on you new synth, hope you enjoy it. Make sure to pair it with good effect and you have an amazing sound machine :)
Thanks for the coffee !!!!
@@XNBeatsMusic Welcome!! I am looking forward to the Poly. I had pretty much figured I needed a synth without menus to get the hang of how everything works together. Menus can come later. Watched lots of 30 minute overviews etc. The stumbled onto your vid. Yours is the most in-depth. Thanks!
@@Geddyfleaharris THanks man. Glad you could get some useful info on the PolyD. The video is going nowhere so can always come back and use it as reference.
Cheers !!!!
Same here!
I've had a MicroMoog I lucked into for cheap as a teen for an eternity. Absolutely love that Behringer is giving an affordable alternative to the MiniMoog I've wanted forever.
I recently bought your PolyD presets and am really digging it. Please do a deep dive into how to use the CV inputs, etc , basically all the back panel I/O
To enter save mode for the current sequence, hold shift and play for 3 seconds. Then select your pattern slot with the left right arrow keys and hold the PATTERN button if you’d like to change the bank as well. Then hit shift + rec to write to memory.
If you reset your saved pattern with shift reset, it’s not actually deleted. You’d need to resave a new pattern over it.
Also, turning it on holding d major/ minor chord will enable/disable your envelope retrigger when more than one note is held at a time in a poly mode.
This is the least intuitive bit of information from the whole video so I felt the need to reshare it here. You are welcome 1:24:46
This excellent guide saved my Poly D. Just couldn’t be bothered with it and considering selling. Two hours of watching this tutorial and now I’m confident I understand all the controls and making my own sounds from scratch.
haha same! This really breathed some life back into mine, it's been collecting dust since I got fed up trying to figure out modulation
i think your videos are as valuable as loopop's. i hope your channel grows big.
Wow, thanks, love loopop. It will grow, it takes time and patience. Thanks for the comment :)
No voy a dejar de comentar por supuesto, creo que no existe un tutorial tan completo como este! , felicitaciones XNB! 🎹🎹🎹
Yo! Thanks for this video!
I am only 12 minutes in and I am very much looking forward to watching the rest of it. I was really confused about the keyboard control switches until now. Kudos 👏
You can create a "sample and hold" effect when using the "random" mode on the arpeggiator
Good tip.
Best tutorial I´ve ever watched. Thank you!
I've only watched 44 mins so far but this video is amazing! I understand so much more about this thing and how it all works together. Thank you so much!
Really glad to hear that. You know, donation really help, of course. But knowing someone, someplace was able to boost because of your work, is just a fantastic feeling. Thanks for the comment and the contribution.
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but after I released the vid, I got really sick, like 2 complete days sleeping sick, that bad. I am still in a bad shape, but I can respond messages at least.
Waiting to receive my poly D, I was looking for a tutorial. I found your BIG helping one: well done, Thanks!!! (I've sent you a few coffees, well deserved man!)
Hey Alberto I Just saw it. Thanks for the contribution !!! It really helps A LOT to keep these guides and the whole channel going. Thanks again for the coffee :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to make and upload this. Making my journey in to the poly d and analogue synths in general a lot less painful! bought you a coffee, thanks a lot!
Thanks!
Holy crap Richard. Thanks for the help !!! :)
Your video made it so so so easy to get into synth bass. I’ve been playing bass for 30 years and I’m just now dabbling with synths. I wanna know what everything does on this unit and your video is perfect. Money well spent. Thank you.
Thank you for these in depth lessons. You're a good and patient teacher. :)
Thank you so much, the sequencer chapter helped me a lot! Looking forward to watching the whole video to really get to know this beast of a synth I've acquired.
Exceptional video quality. Congrats.
This is awesome, got your repeat views strategy down too, I'll be watching this start to finish many many times, thank you, my hat is off, it has to be, by the sequencer bit, every time you said "It's really simple", my head exploded a little more 🤯, gonna have to watch it over and over on slow speed 🤣, that's some _landline handset_ level menu diving, I'll watch slow so I can write it all out.
Just got a Poly D, added a Model D (on which the PolyD's sequencer works), using it as my midi keyboard, can't play a note already, and the Poly D must have got dropped or something, it's got oscillator/keyboard issues, so not exactly conducive to learning pursuits if the kbd isn't working correctly. I suspect it's mostly oscillators, since the keys work alright with the ModelD, seven DO sound amazing, but I have to wait til the end of the month for the new one, I definitely want a new one, it's within 45 days of purchase, don't want a floor model, and sure, it could probably be troubleshooted, by why? So since there's not a new one to be had, I'm keeping this one til a new one's available. So while it's "sort of" broken, might as well learn all the other stuff too, Thanks a lot for this, I'll be coming back to it often.....
Thanks
You must have dislexia on your Dmin, Dmaj , lol Excellent video, thanks so MUCH !!!!!!!
This is an amazing video but im still confused why oscillator 1,2 and 3 have LO, im sure they weren't mentioned, only 4 can be used as an lfo so why are they there?
That's great man. Older MS Leslie gear meets great vintage synths. There is maintenance with every leslie.
this is such a great video, thanks a lot! Also really fun to watch and try.
A master class for beginners !
Thank you SO MUCH for the BEST video ever on the Poly D. I bought you a few cups of coffee! It really helped me understand how everything works, and was a great general introduction to analog synthesis as well. Keep up the good work! I also watched your video on the Korg Wavestate, although that is much more difficult to understand (but very powerful). I'm going to start working on the Deepmind 12, and will turn to you first for that. In addition, I plan to get into Cubase, and would love an explanatory introduction to that, if that might be in your wheelhouse... :)
THANKS!
Holy Jesus, more than a few !!! I saw it, well thank you, I don't know what to say. It really helps me to keep the boat floating. It all comes out from my pocket, but all the contributions make my life a bit easier. Thanks a million time .
There is a POLY D making sound coming in a little while. I did that with the Minilogue and Cobalt, so POLY D and DEEPMIND are is next.
Used a lot of DAW's throughout the years, never clicked with Cubase, don't know why. Anyhow, thanks for the coffee man.
thank you very much - took me 6 hours to go thru - its very helpfull!!!!
Great video! Thanks a lot. A complex topic perfect explained. Extrapoints for the visualisation with the oscilloscope.
Amazing! Thanks for a thorough video. 🙂
Thanks for this very good tuto ! The best i know on this subject
Danke!
Wow, Ian Danke to you !!! Today coffee is sponsored by you sir :)
Sorry to hear that you felt so bad over the last few days, hope you're getting better! This was the first time I made a donation through YT and I didn't see that there was an automated message. Otherwise I would have said more/something different than just "Danke" ;-) But the video really did a lot for my understanding of not just my Poly D but subtractive synthesis in general. I've watched a lot of tutorials over the last months, but always had questions at the end. I love that you went through every single knob and switch on the machine and not just talked about them but practically showed what they do. The part about the sequencer was just amazing and for the first time I have the feeling that I understand how it works. Hope you enjoy the coffee! Have a great day!
@@signwaveslandmarks Yeah, I'll be OK in a couple of days I guess. When I started to do all of this, doing another review of a synth or plugin was a little bit of a let down for me. There is a lot of that on YT.
So I plan every video like you enrolled in course about a synth or a particular plugin, that way I can offer something else than a review. It takes a lot more time and effort but people seem to like it and it turned to be helpful for a lot of people. But yeah, what you watched is essentially a course about the synth.
And yeah, understanding the Sequencer just gives you one more really cool tool to do more with the synth.
Glad you got useful information and thanks for the coffee again :)
Thanks for this, I was totally new to the synth world and found your video to be the best. Sometimes you go really fast switching from one function to another so I was using the back button a lot (...wait what the fxxx did he just do! ). But overall I can't fault this, it's amazing. I bought you a coffee.👌
I baught the deepmind not knowing what to expect... Loved to use the arp and tweak but it was so much digital stuff there and now I realize that I should have baught a analog one. This feels more like an instrument and playing with the arp section just seems soo fun!!
Thank you
The poly mode with the notes all going through the same filters is something I have heard before but thanks for your explanation because I didn't realise the second note you would drag the first note through the filter again 🤔😅
Thanks for the comment. Yeah, it's a mono or paraphonic synth. It is what it is, the fact you can play a chord is a bonus.
Great video. You're an excellent teacher.
How does it work to use the Arp/sequencer via midi triggered from another instrument ?
Hello. Well depends on what you are using, you need to configure the Poly D as a slave. Here is a link of a different video where I do that with an RD6.
ruclips.net/video/Yg9eCK9WpSA/видео.html
best explanation ever ! thank you a lot
Very very good tutorial I have a question. Is there any sign wave in this synthesizer? I just bought it and I don’t know how can I make it? Thank you very much.
Love this video, it is so informative.
Excellent job. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for so great video. Greetings from Medellin/Colombia
Brilliant video thank you so much.👍
Fantastic !
Awesome video!
Great video, thanks!
Thank you thank you thank you. I’m not an idiot by my dyslexia makes it impossible for me to remember what just happened well enough to know how it works without help.
This is a gret deep dive, but would love to see a video of how to sync the sequencer / arp with a daw, clock sync iin playback s working but recording it breaks the arp into small chops, do you have any suggestion?
Thank you! 👍🏻
Awesome tutorial!
Thank you!
amazing turorial! thanks!
Great video, can you trigger the sequence from a foot trigger?
Great information many, many thanks for taking the time to share. Question, my mod wheel when pushed to the top feels like it is grinding is that by design?
Thanks, this is really helpful, I have bought you a coffee 😀
excellentttt thankyou. sweet that you can noise to modulate pitch or filter
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
Geart tutorial, Thank you!
The presentation is put together very well, with logical progression and information. However any person who has hearing issue and many musicians do, the sounds make the mono,log almost impossible to understand. having the sound demonstration so loud serves no purpose, just being able to hear it is all that is needed, the monolog or spoken information is very important. I miss about all spoken information when the sounds are playing.
Dude. I can’t afford to buy you a coffee but if this video helps me finish this record I’ll buy you any synth you want unless you’d rather have a Ferrari.
obrigado - gracias - very good -
blessings from SoCal, USA
You're a perfect teacher, thanks!
Thanks for the tutorial!
great job explaining everything, thanx a lot
What is the program called where you can save your sequences? And do the settings?
great video, just got one of these as a gift. I'm wondering how I adjust the pitch bend and mod wheel. Out of the box, I'm not getting the standard response from the mod wheel (it seems to affect filter cutoff or similar, I want it to control vibrato) and the mod wheel is set to 12 steps and I'd like it to be 2. Any thoughts from anyone?
How do I erase a sequence I just want it to play the 1 8 note sequence
My seq start button is not starting anything, is it possible that the former owner set it to some external clock?
it could be, connect it to a pc a do a factory reset. I guess you can factory reset from the synth, but you need to go to the manual for that.
great, great video. could you walk through adding vibrato with the pitch wheel. I don't think you covered it. thank you
I meant the modulation wheel
Do any of the other settings have a hold keys while turning on type feature?
For the EXT IN when you say "what ever you want" to put in there. I wanted to input my stand up bass and mod it to an 808 sound. Can I plug my Stand Up/8 String Guitar/ ANYTHING into it? When I tried I got no sound although I was designing on it with Oscilattors just fine. DO i need to run an instrument through a preamp/amp/some sort of controls before plugging into the back of the POLY D?
Is there a way to control damper/ sustain with a pedal? My poly D won’t respond to CC64 or when damper/sustain is being engaged on a midi controller that has a damper/sustain jack. My other synths don’t have this issue.
42:03 Dmajor* :)
My poly d doesn’t sound like other peoples on videos. Watched some patch ideas and mine sounds off, should I return?
How to create sine wave using Poly D?
Any suggestions for a good case?
Greta video tutorial, Thanks a lot! 🍻
amazing vid, thank you!
Thanks for the comment :)
@@XNBeatsMusic seriously, great vids. i make and release a ton of house and synth music (under a different channel) and these indepth tutorials are just gold!!
@@georgejackson8775 Thanks George, well I plan to keep on doing them, some big ones coming up like MPC, Maschine, Peak, Model 15 and a few more.
What are you using for the waveform display?
You have your majors and minors reversed on the retrigger section, BTW!
if this didn't have the Behringer brand on it and was released in 1978 it would be worth 10.000 dollars easy.
31:15
are the knobs midi mappable?
No, pure analog. Still I would love that.
It will take CV messages though!
Thanks
The berhinger deepmind 12 has a minimoog. Inside , it’s the best synthesizer on the planet for a ridiculous price he has a oberheim too plus you can purchase some patches if IOU’s are not parient to built it
Eh? It's impossible as the DM 12 doesn't have 3 oscillators.
3:03 pole position !
Great !
21:21
Excellent tutorial, thanks a lot. I've just dropped you some money for a couple of coffees (depending on where you live of course!) ;)
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I don´t like, that the most important buttons are so mini. I wear glases. The sequencer manual should be more for intuition not for kognitive use and don´t be so mini.
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play at 0.75, he talks so fast 😅