This video really demystified Complex-1 for me. The most comprehensive and easy to understand tutorial I have seen on the subject!

boss presentation from a charismatic chill dude with knowledge.talent!

What I like about this rack is that unlike a hardware modular synth, it stays in tune, doesn't need to be calibrated, and doesn't have to warm up for 15 minutes before use. Also, alot of these hardware synths barely sound musical. This is fantastic.

I think Complex-1 is one of the best sounding synths I have ever heard!

Instant sub for this tutorial. Thanks for peeling back the curtain mate.

A really good tutorial on a really good synth. Thank you!

Brilliantly paced and edited tutorial. Going into this I was worried it would be long and windy, but literally every minute I'm learning something completely new about this synth and modular synthesis I had no idea about. Thank you so much for a stellar tutorial. Subbed.

Ten minutes in and I can see I'm gonna have a lot of fun with Complex-1.

Thank you so much for helping de-mystify this incredible plugin for me while introducing me to the fundementals of synthesis. fantastic :)

i bought the suite yesterday... and i think the complex is my new tool for single short sound fx

Thank you, I have a deeper understanding of what is happening now!!

this video is pure gold

Thank you very much. I have wanted to explore modular snyth for a year and recently got Reason. After discovering Complex-1 I found this video and it helped so much.

Thank you for this video, very inspiring.

What a great tutorial. I was on the fence on Complex but your video solved it. Thanks.

Ok, this is cool, awesome tutorial and awesome rack extension! Reason is becoming greater and greater

I wasn't sure about Complex-1 judging by the demos on the prop shop. They didn't sound like anything I couldn't do with Thor or my hardware analog synths. But your video gave me palpitations and made my palms sweaty, and I bought it immediately 😅 Thanks dude ❤️

Thanks, Ben. Great work - very welcome for those of us who don’t have as much hardware as we would like and those who use the software for ease and repeatability. This is good stuff.

i am pretty new to synthesizers and overwhelmed by the possibilities, terminology, and effect of these tools, but following along and copying what you did each time was actually helpful to a degree. i can't wait to come back in a few years when i really understand and can visualize what each tool does and see how much ore value i get from this - and thanks for the patches!

Thanks for the great tutorial! Nice and in-depth look at what Complex-1 can do. Looking forward to trying it out for myself, and referring beck to this for tips. Cheers!

3:18 this tone is so satisfaying

Love this video, for such a potentially complex subject, you broke it down really well so a n00b like me could get to grips with the basics. Well done sir.

Great tutorial! This was the Complex-1 tutorial I'd been waiting for :) Cheers!

Great I've been using complex 1 since it's release but I've learned some new things from your video. I'll be coming back to this video often to really digest everything thanks great work!

Thanks for this video man. Not had a lot of hardware fully modular synth experience, so I was completely lost on what some the functions in this are. I have a much better understanding now.

Marvellous tutorial. Really inspiring and amazing how you present all those topics by heart in a accessible way and in the right pace.

Perfect mate, buying Suite because of your review

Thanks for the in depth and educational video! Hope this message finds you doing well!

Lordy! Thanks so much for this- really helpful and clear. Would love to see more Reason content! Thanks again.

Thanks so much for this - great walkthrough. I’m a big Reason fan but have held off from getting Complex 1 - may have to rethink that..... :)

very good tutorial ! Thanks man

Fantastic explanation!

Awesome. Been hanging for this. Just off to work so will have to keep. Better than Netflix 👍

very heavy video full of knowledge ! I enjoyed it a lot ! please make more videos aboyt anything related to Reason or its Rack Extensions , Im sure alotta Reason user are waiting and looking for people like you to make these :)

Thank you so much for this tutorial! Super great, will come back and reference this a ton in the future I believe

This was a great intro, very clear, great pace, and some great ideas to start exploring Complex-1 from. Will check out some more of your videos

Really useful vid' for me, coming back to Reason straight from Reason 6. I was horrified to find out how much I'd been left behind. I also wanted to get back into Analogue synthesis, which I left in the eighties. This vid' was a great reminder / catch-up tool for me. Thanks very much for the clip and the way you presented the Complex, quickly but thoroughly. I can use this as a stepping-off point and leave out a lot of work I would otherwise have had to do myself. :)

Brilliant walk through! ty

Great job! Really helping me understand this insane system.

Great tutorial ! Thank you.

Awesome tutorial. Nice one.

Nice video! Lots of new ideas. :-) Also keep in mind that there's a 50 pages long manual for complex-1 that's worth reading and also contains tips&tricks on using the different sections.

Very cool! Thanks for doing this in-depth tutorial/review.

Excellent vid, thanks!

Forgive me if this is already somewhere in the video (haven't watched the whole thing yet, but I don't see it in the chapter list either), but you can add another eight modulation sources by putting Complex-1 into a combinator and mapping its eight CV inputs to whatever you want, then connecting any external device to those inputs. Want eight envelopes? Add four SubTractors and use their mod and filter envelopes. Connect a Pulsar for two more LFOs. Anything is possible.

Great tutorial, thanks!

Really helpful video. Thanks.

Very well explained, exactly what I needed. About to dive into complex-1 now

Thanks so much for this video, I've been wanting this and it's on sale this week and I learned some things watching your great video.

Good explanation!

You are a absolute beast. 💕

This was a really informative and so well explained overview complex-1. Cheers :)

great video thanks for walking it through - I'm in!

thanks chief, this helped a lot!

Very well explained. Thank you 👍

Thank you so much for this! Extremely useful!

Thanks, very thorough

Thanks so much for this video. You're very good at explaining things. Can't wait to jump in!

Yeah, thanks a lot for this nice video. Really helpfull here.

really useful tutorial - many thanks for this.

Thank you so much for this tutorialwalkthroughdemo! Learned a lot!

Greetings from London! Thanks for the comprehensive video brother! Appreciate you taking the time to share you knowledge. Would be great if you could show how to automate functions in a DAW (Logic) for the C-1 as well. Have you done any other vids for the Rack plug in version for Logic? I'm particularly interested Dr. Octo Loop Player, Grain Sample Manipulator and the Advanced Sampler. Thanks again.

Surprisingly convincing sound, the Buchla stuff seems to be really difficult to emulate. I use Arturia's Easel V and it sounds great as a synth in general but really different from the original to my ears

WANT ! Really nice rundown. I wonder if this will ever be a VST... or even just a standalone program, it sounds niiiice.

100 times thanks!

ABS is "Absolute value" and not abstract. More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_value. Otherwise a really good tutorial for starting out with modular synthesis and you actually managed to do a deep dive in 45 minutes. Well done!

I wish I had the money (and to be totallly fair, a use for it), because that looks like a very interesting toy !

Great tutorial. thank you

Thks Ben!

Excellent Video!!

Brilliantly informative for the robotic digital nerds, but for me as a human. Gosh! Seems a good way to traverse retirement.

This is awesome.

Looks fun, even though I don’t use Reason.lol Great demo/tutorial.

Thanks for the great tutorial and explanation of Complex-1's modules and features. I am not seeing a link to extra patches anywhere. Will you be adding this to the description? Thanks!

Just had my first play around today, I’m used to other modular synth stuff. But something I found weird was I plugged something into the audio in on the back and it changed the sound without being routed anywhere in the front, any ideas? Also I wish there were more cv in and outs on this so you could more easily daisy chain together to make giant modular synths with many parts etc

This is an awesome video, thank you so much!! I've used Reason for years so sorry for this basic questions but I cnat figure out how to get my SEQ from Complex-1 into the Reason SEQ as MIDI notes. There is no copy pattern to track type of feature, i've tried hitting Record on Reason and letting Complex-1 playback my SEQ (it doesnt record the notes). Does it just have to RUN the whole time and automate when to turn ON Complex-1 and Off? I know im missing something simple. I'll reach out to Reason if I need to. Thanks again!

Great run down. Do you think they'll be any video focusing on patch creation?

Can you patch between 2 complex-1 instruments? Let's say if I wanted to patch the ADSR of one complex-1 to the filter or pitch of another complex 1. Can that be done?

Would love if you would do a Bazille (U-he) mega tutorial

awesome thx! (:

Nice explained, Man. Do I need a MIDI-device for this? Would I then be able to use an Arpeggiator connected somehow to change frequency (&) modulation at the same time?

@DivKidVideo is it possible to route cables from one complex-1 to another, or to connect multiple Complex-1's?

Hi, excellent demonstration. You did some patches for the new valhalla supermassive plugin, if you did a bank for complex 1, I'd pay money..

Nice basic tutorial on the Complex. Too bad most Reason instruments are impossible to use when zoom in more than 100%. All gets blurry and pixelated. It's why I stopped using Reason years ago, most of us have 2k or 4k screens, so using software with high resolution graphics is a must!

More of this

How are you,,,,I love all of your videos but what you did not show is after you create all this sounds then how would you trigger from a keyboard,,,,,what I mean is hit any key on the keyboard and the sound play,,,,,cause when you create the sounds patching cables the sound keeps going ,,,,I want to be able to hit any key to control it with a midi keyboard

Is there really no Keyboard Mapping for the knobs on C-1??? I neeed this.

god this looks comlex, hence the name - complex 1 haha, great tutorial, the manual doesn't explain almost anything, but can you actually make any sounds you can use in your music, only sounds i've made sounds like they're made for an old school video game like mario

BTW it doesn't map to Nektar Panorama series. But the cabling is probably the issue :/

17:09 That kinda sounds like the intro to Deep Purple's "A200".

Waiting for the VST version. Will they release it ?!

Awesome intro to Complex-1, cheers! But is it just me, or is there a certain "oops, running out of time" vibe from around 30 minutes onwards? :D

idk why this video have low view .. thanks.

at 43:14 R2-D2 speaks

do feedback loops next time

AM *is* RM

for some reason even when I intialize the patch it still has 4 wires pre patched in?

It's amazing: you're speaking English, but it's all Greek to me.

wow, software? come to VCV Rack side)

I try not to be a yank all the time, in that I try to recognize different uk accents... Liverpool? Most americans think NI actors are scottish and wouldn't understand a Welshman, but I'm pretty certain that is Liverpool. Also, thanks for the vid. I'm using complex as my entrance to modular.