Electribe 2 | Ambient XII

Published on Dec 1, 2016 r beny

Electribe 2 | Ambient VI

Published on Aug 22, 2015 r beny

"Sixth ambient jam on the Korg Electribe 2. Live from the Long Ridge Open Space Preserve in California. Was feeling a Deaf Center vibe from this one. All sounds Electribe 2, recorded straight to iPad."

Conifer | Eurorack Ambient

Published on Jun 30, 2017 r beny

"Summertime blues. Testing the Roland Go:Mixer"

Electribe 2 | Ambient 2

Published on Jun 28, 2015 r beny

"Another ambient jam on the Korg Electribe 2. I went to Big Sur yesterday and found some inspiration. All sounds and effects from the E2."

Electribe 2 | Ambient VII

Published on Sep 12, 2015 r beny

"Another ambient jam on the Korg Electribe 2. All sounds and effects are from the E2. Thanks for watching."

Écrins | Eurorack Ambient

Published on Feb 16, 2016 r beny

"Ambient track/patch for Eurorack. Heavily featuring 2 Mutable Instruments Rings and 2 Mutable Instruments Clouds."

OP-1 + Cocoquantus

Published on Jun 17, 2016 r beny

"Teenage Engineering OP-1 meets Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus"

Mother-32 x 4 Delays (Clouds, Warps, Chronoblob)

Published on May 23, 2016 r beny

"Mother-32 running through 4 delays. 2x Mutable Instruments Clouds in looping delay mode, Mutable Instruments Warps in Parasite delay mode and Alright Devices Chronoblob."

Electribe 2 | Ambient Electro Jam

Published on Dec 2, 2015 r beny

"Ambient electro jam for the Korg Electribe 2. Tried to combine the ambient stuff I do with glitch-y beats. This is the result. All sounds/effects from the Electribe 2."

Waldorf Iridium Ambient

r beny

"Can it ambient? Can it distortion?

Multi-layer patch with the Waldorf Iridium. Making heavy use of the Particle and Resonator engines. Sequences from Squarp Pyramid. It gets loud. Whitecaps of white noise.

Thank you for listening."

Mutable Instruments Clouds as a Lo-fi Tape Delay

Published on Jan 1, 2018 r beny

"Demonstration of Mutable Instruments Clouds Texture Synthesizer as a Lo-fi Tape Delay. Lovely warble and disintegration on the repeats. Reverb, filtering and diffusion for tone and texture control.

Note: works best on the Parasite Firmware pre-V2.0. To access the delay, it is the third mode known as Looping Delay. The quality setting should be set to one of the 8-bit modes. Position sets delay time. Texture is a multimode filter. Density adds diffusion, I personally like it at 0. Size has no effect unless the buffer is frozen.

Video starts with a simple monophonic sawtooth arp sequence from the Novation Peak. I slowly bring in the wet signal with the Blend control. I also bring up the feedback and reverb with the Blend control. There is a sweet spot for feedback. Too much feedback and things get out of control. Near the end, I take the incoming signal out and just let the repeats feedback into themselves before freezing the buffer and playing with that for a bit."

Sidrax Organ & Pocket Operators Jam

Published on Jun 21, 2015 r beny

"A jam between the Ciat-Lonbarde Sidrax Organ and the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. The PO-12 Rhythm, PO-14 Sub and PO-16 Factory.

The Sidrax is being run through an Old Blood Noise Endeavors Black Fountain Delay and a Digitech Polara Reverb into my mixer. The POs are running straight into my mixer."

Electribe 2 | Ambient

Published on Jun 17, 2015 r beny

"Ambient exploration/jam (jamsploration?) on the Korg Electribe 2. Was going for a Fennesz-ish sound, but ended up somewhere else. All sounds/effects from Electribe 2."

Novation Peak | Ambient II

Published on Mar 19, 2019 r beny

"Spring is almost here. Winter is gone too soon. Apologies for the dust.

All sounds and effects from the Peak. Sequence from Arturia KeyStep into a Squarp Hermod (both off screen)."

OP-1 | Ambient

Published on Apr 28, 2016 r beny

"First ambient track with the Teenage Engineering OP-1. Spent some time recording a track to the tape and played with some of the EQ/effects live.

All sounds/effects from the OP-1."

Drip Hop | Modular Beats Patch

Published on Oct 8, 2015 r beny

"Something a little different than my usual ambient/experimental stuff. Made this patch on my Eurorack system the other night and thought it was cool enough to document. I recently got a Beatstep Pro and have been loving the drum triggers.

Crude Patch Notes

Kick: Make Noise STO with envelope from Maths
Snare: Bastl Noise Squre digital out with envelope from Maths
Percussion 1: Mutable Instruments Elements with mallet and strike timbre being randomly modulated by Make Noise Wogglebug
Percussion 2: Make Noise Mysteron with type being randomly modulated by Wogglebug, going into Elements resonator-in.
Percussion 3: Mannequins Three Sisters self-oscillating. Mutable Instruments Tides Parasite in 2-Drunks mode is randomly modulating frequency. High, low and centre outputs are going into the Make Noise RXMX where the Beatstep Pro triggers the strike input.
Chord drone: Make Noise Telharmonic H out going to the Pittsburgh Modular In/Out and then an Old Blood Noise Endevours Black Fountain Delay pedal and a Digitech Polara Reverb pedal.
Melody: Mannequins Mangrove formant out to the In/Out and into the same pedals as above. Enevelope from Make Noise Function.

All sequencing handled by the Arturia Beatstep Pro. I fiddle around with the release time on the melody (the fall time on Function) and the formant and barrel on Mangrove."

Florescent Dream // Novation Peak + Elektron Digitone

Published on Oct 21, 2018 r beny

"A dream of blooms. Live and extended version of the track Florescent Dream from my new album Eistla. Available at rbeny.bandcamp.com if that's yr jam.

Arturia Keystep playing Novation Peak arp and Elektron Digitone pads through Boss DD-500.

The album version is 3 different Peak patches recorded to cassette and a field recording chopped up by the Make Noise Morphagene. This version features the main arp patch on the Peak, and a variation of one of the other Peak patches recreated on the Digitone. There is also a new Digitone part added to add some low end.

DD-500 is used to create feedback textures. It is seriously a beautiful pedal (it reminds me of the Analog Heat, in that there are several algorithms to choose from, but there are a lot of options to customize the patch within each algorithm. Except the 500 goes way way way deeper than the Heat). For this video I am running everything through 2 custom patches in parallel."

Novation PEAK & Synthstrom DELUGE // Ambient Distortion

Dexba

"Introducing the first video of my new PEAK, oh boy, not so sure I was loving this thing before I started sequencing with the Deluge, the ultimate hardware sequencer/piano roll for dawless lovers.

I was stuck playing it via my Korg SV1, so no mod wheels, no pitch bend, nothing, and everything was static and sort of... lame? It is not the right word, but no excitement, no vibrant feelings like with the OB6 and the Lyra 8, I was getting always the same tones and sounds, and nothing too exciting for me to show you guys.
The reverb is and always will be one of my favorites, it just sounds TOO good, and I admit I am in love with the distortion possibilities.

But yes, yesterday something clicked, playing it with the Deluge, since the sequencer is completely missing (Why Novation? Why.) and I saw it from a new perspective.

All in all, we, Peak Owners, are here a little because of r beny videos with it, so: here it is an ambient track full of peace and some distortion, growling full of harmonics.

Enjoy!"

Sempervirens | Felt Instruments Blisko, Strymon Magneto

r beny

"Sempervirens - always flourishing or vigorous. (of plants) evergreen

Sound on sound performance with Felt Instruments Blisko and Strymon Magneto. Inspired by the recent forest fires here in California, specifically the sempervirens sequoias, which manage to flourish even in fire.

Felt Instruments makes beautiful virtual instruments in VST format. Here I am using their newest suite of instruments named Blisko, which incorporates Viola, Violin, and Cello recorded and modified in interesting ways. They are MPE compatible and that adds an extra layer of expressiveness. It feels like you are playing an actual physical instrument, as opposed to the normal multi-sample experience.

I am using my iPad as a screen for my computer to show the VST. The Analog Heat is acting as an audio interface for my computer, so I can send the audio from the VSTs to my eurorack. I use Strymon Magneto to make sound on sound loops and then feed that into Clouds in looping delay mode. The bass is from the Moog Subharmonicon.

Apologies for the lower than usual video quality. I didn't realize I wasn't shooting in 4k and this ended up being the best take. Sometimes you just have to let things be."

KORG Electribe emx2 Ambient Session 1

Published on Dec 12, 2017 014london70
Update: Re-Published on Dec 13, 2017

"First performance on the emx2, so a bit rusty, but starting to get the hang of it.
First Ambient track for me, inspired by a great electribe user 'r beny'."