I know when people listen to my music, they are always like, “Damn, I can really tell that this was made with plugins that have gorgeous GUIs”
@muzy87685 ай бұрын
😂
@X3Naudio5 ай бұрын
😄
@Turtlpwr5 ай бұрын
Good form sir. Good form.
@i-never-look-at-replies-lol5 ай бұрын
I know when people listen to my music, they are always like, "Damn, what the fuck is up with the recommendations in this playlist?"
@h.hristov5 ай бұрын
Thank you for being in the position of a “hater” and not selling out. We need a community voice like you to speak out what we all think.
@anattaevergreen41155 ай бұрын
And thats why we love him, for exactly who he is :)
@hrvstmusic5 ай бұрын
When you put more money into your graphic design than actual software engineering you get BEAM
@Alckemy5 ай бұрын
Not here to defend them, but something I like is that compared to portal having one grain and reverb engine you can have up to 3 of each node in serial or parallel. The mod system is pretty robust as well as the pitch Shifter being pretty high quality, as well as a built in clipper. I don’t think those demos were that interesting either, but it’s great for making a lot of layered sounds Definitely demo everything, but when they approached me for making factory content I really liked it.
@AirArtStudiosOfficial5 ай бұрын
No demo available!
@Alckemy5 ай бұрын
@@AirArtStudiosOfficial totally valid! Definitely understand if people don’t want to utilize the money back thing.
@DaveChips5 ай бұрын
If ShaperBox comes up with some sort of granular delay, gonna blow this out of the water 😅
@HazyJ285 ай бұрын
I would love to see a Granular effect by CableGuys. They make my favorite panning automation tool called PanCake.
@TheValueOfN5 ай бұрын
Come on Cableguys... granular delay next please. Blow this out of the water.
@whistletom5 ай бұрын
Shaperbox can only have one of instance of each effect. The curve editing is better than shaperbox in Beam. Also the routing is far more flexible. Shaperbox is also years old. They're going to be adding more FX and features to this.
@DaveChips5 ай бұрын
@@whistletom I never had any issues loading few instances of ShaperBox In waves rack... Mid/side, parallel, frequency splitted... U name it 😅
@koncreteto27585 ай бұрын
Dont be stooooooooopid , shaperbox curve editing is superior @whistletom
@X3Naudio5 ай бұрын
The BEAM interface is gorgeous, but is otherwise unimpressive and I get the distinct impression that the "Ecosystem" involves further and continued investment. It's a pass for now, thanks.
@Weaverbeats5 ай бұрын
Agreed, it has potential though.
@whistletom5 ай бұрын
It's such a weird take you guys have about this plugin. The interface is not only gorgeous but is easily the best representation of parallel/serial routing I've ever seen in any plugin. It makes ordering the processors a breeze. The processors are great. The granular engine can be a delay and even an audio arp.
@X3Naudio5 ай бұрын
@@whistletom Agree. But it fails to set my audio loins afire, I'm afraid.
@user-ll9xq4gb5y4 ай бұрын
@@whistletom just get portal dog. also no ones gonna care how cool your plugin looks when it sounds basic as hell
@GizzyDillespee5 ай бұрын
An IR of Venus Theory's fart is included in Beam, FYTMI
@GizzyDillespee5 ай бұрын
At least, according to his short. I didn't buy it
@i-never-look-at-replies-lol5 ай бұрын
see, i'll never be able to sit in his studio and smell his own farts with him, so beam is the next best thing for me!
@nongmar87835 ай бұрын
Beam and other plugin developers : without KZfaqrs hyping our stuff “totally unbiased opinions of course wink wink” we would be all out of business long time ago.
Beam looks like it will give your track a +40 Magic buff...
@Weaverbeats5 ай бұрын
Maybe that's what it is, they didn't want to reveal the secret sauce.
@HazyJ285 ай бұрын
Whats up guys, Massive Gooner here
@notnoaintno51345 ай бұрын
Beam looks like another one of those VSTs that tries to bs you into thinking it's good by having a unique UI, when it does nothing new or interesting. I'd rather use Infiltrator, it doesn't try to bs me about what it is
@Weaverbeats5 ай бұрын
My dream plugin would be this combined with infiltrator
@whistletom5 ай бұрын
Name me another plugin that has routing that is this easy to use and so well represented. As well as being beautiful it also gives you really phenomenal feedback on what's haappening and where it's happening.
@DSWL_5 ай бұрын
BEAM is basically the same as Arturia Refract they gave away for free not too long ago
@Grant82gc5 ай бұрын
That's the vibe I got immediately from the visuals
@cludinsk5 ай бұрын
Not super fond of Arturia’s UI in their new FX plugins either, would much rather seeing the waveform and the effect on the waveform instead of abstract graphics
@tearperth5 ай бұрын
10:05 I think that's the hardest you have ever made me laugh holy crap 😂
@Six2Nine5 ай бұрын
11:15 the hair of this guy's shadow! he balances a book on his head!
@Pheekofc5 ай бұрын
All KZfaqrs who sell strong this plugin are dropping affiliate links in their description…
@Beatsbasteln5 ай бұрын
i love the concept of beam, which is making complex parallel routing easy. i'm literally using bitwig because of that. but the lack of unique and outstanding effects is what made me feel a bit meh about it too. if you're right that they are going to add more nodes to this at some point it could become srsly good
@-Deena.5 ай бұрын
No trial, no way.
@Arcessitor5 ай бұрын
I don't think $60 is a lot for just granular and reverb? I would just call it a 'space' plugin rather than a multi-effect hyperdimensional patcher field, or whatever their marketing buzzwords were.
@Weaverbeats5 ай бұрын
Fair. I like the idea of the modular multi effect plugin I feel like they released it early though. I want more nodes. I agree at the sales price it's not too much.
@Arcessitor5 ай бұрын
@@WeaverbeatsYeah it seems to be a bit more ambitious than it has currently realized. If the idea is just a plugin suite with custom routing, and they wanna be the next all-in-one company for effects, I wish them luck for the future. The hype is unwarranted so far for sure.
@AirArtStudiosOfficial5 ай бұрын
Soundtoys done this better years ago!
@user-ll9xq4gb5y4 ай бұрын
i would say that portal did this but way better years ago but if im not mistaken i was doing monthly payments on portal for a long time... 60$ for portal that looks very nice doesnt sound bad. knowing that the company spent most of the budget on the visuals instead of making more modules for it doesnt speak well for the future of it though.
@thelanavishnuorchestra5 ай бұрын
You could do that in your DAW -- yeah, and when I really want to create a unique signal flow, I fire up VCV Rack. It's got modules for pretty much anything. All kinds of ways to split a signal and subprocess the branches and modulate anything in the process. I didn't hear anything it was doing that I couldn't recreate in VCV Rack. And I can use VCV Rack in my DAW. The stupid visualizations of that plugin add zero musicality, just wasted processor cycles.
@thelanavishnuorchestra5 ай бұрын
Oh, and who the f is Deezer?
@SpencerJhay5 ай бұрын
About Beam: You said it best at around 3 min, “If you close your eyes, you wouldn’t be as excited about it.” While this plugin LOOKS cool, I agree that there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of innovative audio modulation here unfortunately. Also, +1 for the Infiltrator node/module system idea with this-I’d also buy in if that were the case.
@hcl88365 ай бұрын
Totally agree with your opinion on beam. A plugin should be aimed at audio first not on visuals.
@Frikoppie5 ай бұрын
I bought my mom a very circular volleyball and net set coz she wanted a rebounder/trampoline for some ungodly reason. Okay maybe it's not circular, maybe it's spherical. I don't know if a high carbon steel volleyball is good yet though, I'll have to test it first.
@whitex46525 ай бұрын
I hear "cutting edge granular engine" and I'm out. Never ever heard anything decent with "granular" in it's name. 😢
@whenelvescry26255 ай бұрын
granular synthesis is fine, its just that you can use the granular samplers that come with fl or ableton and get the same sound
@amp41055 ай бұрын
Huh?
@i-never-look-at-replies-lol5 ай бұрын
granular is the next big wave the market seems to be following for whatever reason. i'm beginning to think they just listen to small but vocal pockets of the internet that convince them to put some sort of crap out. i keep getting recommended some sort of new & expensive boutique granular synth or something, but given price and being only granular, it makes me think who is buying these things and how are these small companies staying afloat? how are some of these companies able to focus on and only sell niche synth products? it's either hype or we really are entering into the era where music really does need & want that many sounds & engines. i mean technically at some point we get to the point where we have to stop because we've basically discovered every way to manipulate sound and we're still probably far away from that. at some point it for me it was "oh cool, i could use something with that kind of synthesis and that kind of synthesis" and always felt like you need something analog, something digital, something that does FM, something that does waves...but now we're just making every niche sound design tool there is. i do not feel like i need "granular" anything and it's probably just the type of the iceberg for what's to come
@eddfromearth5 ай бұрын
Seems like we're on the tail end of granular hype. Sikass story tho 👍@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol
@izsvemira5 ай бұрын
Beam is Output's Portal
@Weaverbeats5 ай бұрын
I'd say it's portals cousin
@izsvemira5 ай бұрын
@@Weaverbeats southern cousin
@Marcustrh5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂 💀
@thespacekyd5 ай бұрын
The only reason I use Deezer is for lossless quality reference tracks for my tunes. So I can understand my speaker response better for mixing and mastering my own tracks.
@haslo_5 ай бұрын
I'm really happy they made a video about the speakers, I was easily able to hear how they sound when I watched your video on my phone. And thanks for being the bad guy about that plugin.
@sapiotone5 ай бұрын
Beam? M'eh. Show me what it can do that can't already be done with either effects racks or blue cat patchwork.
@Weaverbeats5 ай бұрын
Agreed
@whistletom5 ай бұрын
"we've got beam at home, dear". You could technically make most effects with a bunch of delays but what would be the point. The whole selling point of plugins is how you interact with the interface. Beam is one of the best because it makes FX routing ridiculously easy and flexible.
@HomerNarr5 ай бұрын
Nah totally get you. I just started dabbling with DAW and VST synths and have not created something consistent yet, far from calling anything "music". Beam is just beautified routing in your Softsynth / DAW. And when the base costs 99 bucks and any more pluggins extra? I just want to understand my routing options better than throwing money on a cutsy gimmick
@MathHammer5 ай бұрын
Technically there are four or five effects in Beam because the grain node has a granular processor, pitch shifter, and a delay. I had a similar reaction. It is just a modular effects processor with only a few effects. I would be more interested if there was feedback and the pitch shifter + delay were separable . My YT feed was filled with all the hype videos.
@kitsunefreya5 ай бұрын
Beam is just shitty Fruity Patcher
@stereokuuji5 ай бұрын
Oi Don't out hate weaver
@HazyJ285 ай бұрын
I swear to god Patcher is the greatest thing in any DAW ever. I love it so much. You can make chains with like 30 plugins and only use up one mixer insert. You can put FX VSTs on the channel rack. You can do parallel processing without routing to another mixer track (or using sidechain with fruity send like I do. This way, you can mute the dry signal and still hear the wet signal only. If you route to the mixer track rather than sidechain with fruity send, when you mute the dry, you also mute the wet. But with Patcher this doesn't even matter). Its fucking nuts.
@Pxrchi5 ай бұрын
@HazyJ28 yep, shits crazy. Beam is garbage until they add something unique, just 60 dollars for visuals, you can recreate the entire plugin using other free plugins. Got Komplete 14 awhile back and have been using reaktor, which is like patcher on steroids( or max/msp).
@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy5 ай бұрын
What's fruity patcher?
@stereokuuji5 ай бұрын
@@ThatsJustMyBabyDaddy FL plugin where you can pretty much combine different plugins for quicker and easier sound processing Honestly I'm under stating it's usefulness
@aemythjensen4 ай бұрын
Beam is like a toilet made of gold. It doesn't matter how gorgeous it looks, what's inside is just crap.
@jesulona76515 ай бұрын
the fact that there's no trial turned me away from it
@whenelvescry26255 ай бұрын
i saw that plugin boutique was doing a promo on this, one look at it and I knew it was garbage
@whistletom5 ай бұрын
It's literally not garbage. Wtf are you smoking? It's absolutely brilliant. One of the most gratifying and easy to use multifx plugins I've ever used.
@whenelvescry26255 ай бұрын
@@whistletom often plugins with very little substance or innovation try to conceal their shortcomings with flashy animations. i'm not going to pay $60 on sale for granular, convolution, and a filter, when all of those things come with my daw, *and I have much deeper control over them*
@phelper45545 ай бұрын
Thanks for your honest review on Beam it’s a shame that every other KZfaqr is hyping it up
@JorjhanCastro5 ай бұрын
I will keep using Portal and Fragments, no need for shiny visuals when you're making music. I'm with you on this one
@Solanaar5 ай бұрын
i just wanna know how to copy those cool granular arp delays and i will never take another look at beam, i prefer routing in my daw, thanks
@amp41055 ай бұрын
Fl patcher + grossbeat + any granular plugin
@debeshyouveheard19875 ай бұрын
Cam (VenusTheory) did the convolution impulses for that BEAM plugin, I think he did mention that they plan to add more effect nodes.
@ArgumentShow5 ай бұрын
@10:50 Its funny there promoting there sound system in a video that someone with a laptops going to hear and say wow that sounds good. LOL
@lil_floofer5 ай бұрын
as soon as I saw beam in the email I went nah I bet it's trash they've put too much work into the ui lmao, if you need a super cool ui to sell your plugin, that probably means it doesn't sounds any better than stuff that's already available
@MutleeIsTheAntiGod5 ай бұрын
Facts. Airwindows: use your fucking ears.
@tobytodelafontena5 ай бұрын
You're a genius. Wow, I'd like to have a brain like yours... It's almost cheating, this superpower you have! As I'm not a superhero, I downloaded the demo when I saw the email. And I had a lot of fun using it. What a fckn loser I am!!!
@lil_floofer5 ай бұрын
@@tobytodelafontena care to point out at which point I said you weren't allowed to like it? Personally I knew it wasn't worth my time, and a really fancy ui often is a red flag to me, I'm not saying a plugin can't have a fancy interface, I'm just saying it's often to hide the fact it doesn't sound all that great. Obviously based on the demos it doesn't sound bad, but once again I personally don't have a use for this plugin
@AirArtStudiosOfficial5 ай бұрын
@@tobytodelafontenacare to share the demo link as it’s not on their site that I can find?
@kaislate5 ай бұрын
When you want to apply your stat points for your meta progression when you level up in your DAW.
@prodbymeadow5 ай бұрын
That unison sentence ups 😂
@5PawZ5 ай бұрын
The extra Beam effects are DLC
@aaronhedgesmusic5 ай бұрын
Bean sounds like a clone of the microcosm pedal
@dannyatx5 ай бұрын
Bean
@tdwwxyz5 ай бұрын
Only considering BEAM because I haven’t spent the $150+ on its competitors yet, but I absolutely agree the visuals are pandering
@kheireddineboot5 ай бұрын
10:06 that joke hit my liver 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂
@KordTaylor5 ай бұрын
Are you saying that when folks hear your beat on Spotify they will only care about the sound? They don’t see the plug-in UI? That’s craY talk! 😂 Nice one. Sound innovation is good. Agreed.
@N8oRMusic5 ай бұрын
KZfaq videos will sound extra mid through Suprema. I'm getting it.
@hftl4125 ай бұрын
Lunacy uses visual descriptors in the marketing more than audio ones. "Light up your tracks" etc. They know the hustle. It's also... not that pretty. It looks like something Image Line would make
@matslarsson59885 ай бұрын
Melda MXXX user here. Not impressed.
@Gongtopia5 ай бұрын
3-Body FX: Is Beam Sophon powered?
@gordowebb99105 ай бұрын
When I clicked on youtube home yesterday there were two fairly predictible Beam reviews side by side "Must Have" from Dixon beats and "Overrated" from you. Had to laugh. I think I'm in between leaning left. At least they didn't ask $129 for it.
@TheAlburp5 ай бұрын
The future of audio plugins☝️🤓 and $50 for every added effect ☝️🤓
@amp41055 ай бұрын
>all the fx already exist
@justinwilliam46445 ай бұрын
I was gonna try this.
@guy36415 ай бұрын
These plugins are dropped and marketed like live service games. “Flowing , Growing ecosystem”
@justinwilliam46445 ай бұрын
Isn't the parallel thing like in patcher (FL)
@Johnmadedaproducer4 ай бұрын
i was just about to spend that $5 on trial lmaoooo
@looderman5 ай бұрын
Brilliant!!
@edwardaverilliii16585 ай бұрын
Lunacy Beam meh - nothing I haven't been doing for ages with Audio Damage Other Desert Cities and DAWEsome LOVE. 3 nodes? Billcrap. HARD PASS. A pretty face w/o any serious meat behind it, in my opinion.
@louisvanzandt5 ай бұрын
Did Sonus get that background music from Deezer?
@AlexReidStudios5 ай бұрын
Visual based, hype based marketing with no trial is sketchy for me. I agree that it can be a great effect, even better if they add more, but is just a beautiful interface right now. It might have improvements on workflow compared to making the chains yourself, but is not a gamechanger nor the "future" of whatever they say.
@noisehead5 ай бұрын
i guess "growing" means it will have more effects in the future?
@MeKaashu4 ай бұрын
they deleted my original albums and i seriously do not care cuz who tf uses deezer?
@heretic45215 ай бұрын
Yeah, I agree Weaver... the shill train certainly hooked a few more engines up to haul Beam around...
@regulatedfreestylevideos5 ай бұрын
that UI is so awful to me lol bro i don't want some goofy NFT lookin random dancing bubbles on my screen whatsoever
@boimesa81905 ай бұрын
100% agree on BEAM critique
@Marcustrh5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂 weaver 😭 the deezer roast is just hilarious 😂😂😭 “fake artist? Your a fake person😂😂😂”
@thomasvandendool66135 ай бұрын
i would def listen to lo-fi on the 750k sytem
@nrosko5 ай бұрын
Beam looks rubbish. You can do way more with something like VCV rack IMO.
@AntiPattern1234 ай бұрын
"BEAM" When every YT'ler makes a video about one plugin simultaneously, I'm usually curious. When it has this GUI, I hate it without further investigation. I understand, that the eye is listening too, but this OTT-GUI is mostly... always, just make-up for an average till ugly "face", beneath. I want to produce music and don't want to do a benchmarktest for CPU and GPU
@Six2Nine5 ай бұрын
Deezer CEO : 2 Options ! LMAO
@N8oRMusic5 ай бұрын
Not gon lie. Even Spotify is full of crap. I'm surprised my music still gets on there.
@komplexxormusicaiart5 ай бұрын
Lunacy Audio's CUBE is really, really cool, but at this point Beam just seems pointless. Maybe it's just me but granular does nothing for me. 😑
@Weaverbeats5 ай бұрын
Too many granular plugins the past 5 years.
@komplexxormusicaiart5 ай бұрын
@@Weaverbeats Yes. Maybe granular fits like ambient and other stuff but I just find it to have these ugly overtones and squishy squashy flippedy floppedy sound characteristics. Like SoundToys' Crystallizer is really cool but I never find use for it. Perhaps just lack of imagination. 😶
@AirArtStudiosOfficial5 ай бұрын
@@komplexxormusicaiartgreat in isolation but useless in a mix other than ambient 😇
@djsusan005 ай бұрын
6:30 you didn't have a adblock already?
@tasenova27174 ай бұрын
Bro that gui goes hard, but how does it actually perform under CPU? other than that, I don't see anything special
@Kevhuman5 ай бұрын
Look at all the people who did soundpacks for this. It's like the vst version of an industry plant . It's good, but it uses multiple cores so check the specs, might not run so great on anything less than an i7. You can do the chains in other plugins like kh multipass or even tug multi effects for free. Or use a vst host like element or wave studio rack. Saying that the effects Beam has are really high quality and I like Cube, their other vst.
@unduloid5 ай бұрын
As a maker of completely useless music I feel attacked.
@jonotwycross89985 ай бұрын
spot on , use your ears not your eyes cables guys need to add new module
@Frikoppie4 ай бұрын
What the fuck. My 10 channel speakers have a dual RCA to 3.5mm cable, a remote control, some weird ass cable that for some reason has a silver cable and a copper cable, a weird ass font, wireless functionality, wireless charging, and it's too fucking difficult to unbox while trying to take a video of it, it's also a very odd green shade of orange. OH, and buttons (yes girls, I can press buttons, i am definitely not an incel).
@amp41055 ай бұрын
I hope thry have legacy mode, i couldnt care less how a plugin looks past the intuitiveness
@LoudusOfficial5 ай бұрын
Damn inflation, back in my day a Sony sound system was about $1000 lol😆
@tonyrapa-tonyrapa5 ай бұрын
Personally, I'm quite exhausted by plugins these days. I'm not going to be suckered into buying plugins I really don't need. GAS is bas news - it's an addiction. Small amounts of granular is fine (and I mean *small* amounts) but more than a little is just nauseating!
@godsick5 ай бұрын
More than anything, it doesn’t help visualize the creative process, if anything, it adds to the whole cluster of modules outside of the plugin that need to exist in order to make the workflow any better, it sounds like they want to be a DAW and we laughing cause we know it’ll never get there, realistically.
@ThePCxbox5 ай бұрын
dude I love your position of "hater" because the shill culture in music is strong. It gets even worse when you dive into the hardware realm and its crazy because these reviewers get their stuff for free so even if the product is complete and utter shit they have to be nice about it and beat around the bush so they can continue getting free shit. Look at the andertons first look at the UBxa for a perfect example of shilling when the product is clearly awful
@TokyoSpeirs5 ай бұрын
Shaperbox already cornered this market I think. And Shaperbox also looks great too.
@MrAw3sum5 ай бұрын
i mean it sounds pretty good for a granular effect if you need one. What are the alternatives to this? any other granular delay/reverb plugins?
@amp41055 ай бұрын
Lots, Google it. There's free plugins that are great for every type of fx plugin.
@nowondr5 ай бұрын
Needs a trial otherwise its a no from me
@WhtsUpYoung5 ай бұрын
Fancy FL patcher with only 3 effects
@thespacekyd5 ай бұрын
Also on Deezer most of my favorite electronic artist have their full catalog on there. Unlike Spotify or iTunes where its usually missing a few. Pretty much the one thing I don't really like about Deezer is their radio algorithm sucks ass. Also not like in defense of that 12 month policy but I listen to a lot of underground bass music and none of the small artist have been taken off that I've seen so far.
@karuaCOM5 ай бұрын
same
@Linguae_Music5 ай бұрын
They need to make a sound system, where there is a different speaker for each individual frequency. 20,000 speakers. Can you imagine the clarity? lmao
@amp41055 ай бұрын
If the clarity doesn't translate to "normie" systems then it's basically pointless
@mv29535 ай бұрын
tbh Cube is a pretty decent synth, they probably will evolve Beam waaay more than what it is right now. But yeah its worth 30 bucks atm
@ghfjfghjasdfasdf5 ай бұрын
8 part like Wavestation with tons of flexibility = “pretty decent” Crack
@AirArtStudiosOfficial5 ай бұрын
No demo is a giveaway!! Plug in sounds flat and totally old and useless in the mixdown
@crimson51095 ай бұрын
Who else went on Deezer to check if their songs are still there?
@sergiomaar66054 ай бұрын
I didn't
@crimson51094 ай бұрын
@@sergiomaar6605 oh okay
@tulanekenny5 ай бұрын
I have beam and the love it…59 bucks is worth it
@RogueBeatsARG5 ай бұрын
59 usd for a efects vst? sure buddy
@moonstrobe5 ай бұрын
BJ and VT selling out. Nice to know they're human after all.
@2KCustomerService5 ай бұрын
Big things come in small packages 😂
@Leftblu5 ай бұрын
I bet more money went into developing that look of plugin than the whole core stuff inside of plugin. that's why its 99usd haha
@luketj5 ай бұрын
What's up guys, Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time here.
@hrvstmusic5 ай бұрын
Did Deezer ceo photoshop his face onto some stock photo body? 🤔