Thanks so much! I really enjoy it, too!

Thanks so much, Nathaniel! That's really kind of you to say! I'm excited for you! Are you thinking of doing videos on KZfaq for your compositions?

Thanks so much! And right back at ya with the sub. Cool stuff over on your channel! I love to see the guitar mixed in with the synth material!

Thanks, Chris!

Thanks for following along! I'm digging your channel!

@@scottnelle thank you. I appreciate it.

Thanks! I'm checking your channel out now. Cool stuff over there! Subscribed back!

It's definitely a fun problem to have! sifting through my ever-growing collection for the right sounds to bring a piece together is a lot of the fun for me!

Thanks! I'm checking your channel out and I'm sure I've seen it before at some point in the past because your name is familiar, but for some reason I'm not subscribed. Fixing that right now!

Thanks so much! Excited to check out more of your channel, the most recent video is awesome!

Hahaha, I love that! Thanks!

I get why people gripe about the Behringer clones, but I don't feel bad about buying the ones that clone gear that's no longer produced (like the Prophet VS and the Octave Cat). Cloning the Mother 32 is a little questionable, but Moog fans will tell you that the Crave is nothing like the Mother 32, so I'll give that a pass, too. :-)

Thanks so much, Maurizio!

We always need more hardware! My interface (a Focusrite Scarlett) is also limited to a single midi out, but it sends 16 channels so I have a midi splitter (mine is a CME Thru5, which is pretty affordable) to split it out to up to 5 outputs. Each track in my DAW sends to one channel, and the single output carries all 16 which get duplicated to each of the Thru5's outputs. Then I set each synth to only listen to the one channel I want it to play back. Maybe your setup can use something similar, so that you don't need to buy a dedicated midi interface or a new audio interface!

@@scottnelle That sounds like an awesome solution! Thanks a lot for the tips, I'll look into that! 👏👏🙂

@@sonikronikElektronik I hope it works out for you!

Thanks, sisso! They're quite a crew

Thanks so much! This was a fun one to put together.

I really like the Crave! It doesn't do fat detuned oscillator sounds (although you could patch it up with a second synth to get them) but for crisp single oscillator sounds, it's great. I find it very usable in my tracks.

Thanks, Matthias!

Thanks! Yup, all midi comes from the DAW. I use (in this case) four separate midi channels to program the data for the four synths. My interface has a single midi output which sends up to 16 midi channels. I run that output into a CME Thru5 midi splitter which has five midi outputs, each of which includes all 16 midi channels. Finally, each synth is configured to listen only to the single channel that I want, so they all receive all 16 channels but they ignore 15 of them and play back only 1. The midi splitter is great because it makes it so much easier to include synths that don't include a midi thru port. And I can recommend the CME Thru5 specifically, which is quite affordable and has been 100% reliable for me.

Thanks, Chris!

Thanks so much! I think I'll do some more in this style soon.

Thanks, Craig! I agree, the Cat is a very capable synth for the basic sounds. I think it has really cool modulation capabilities and people go wild with them, but the thing I find most inspiring about it is the flexible waveform mixing that produces really rich sounds even without much modulation.

Thanks so much, Craig!

Agreed! They're so affordable, if you can find one in stock a second one sounds like a great idea.

Thanks! For this one (and most of my videos) the drums are sequenced in my DAW. The samples are loaded in the free sampler Sitala. The kick is from Mercurial Tones Smooth Kicks Volume 2, the Snare is from Slate's Seismic Drums sample pack, and the rest is from the default Sitala kit.

I really like it! It sounds very different from the analog synths that I have and it's great to have that variety. There are some great stock patches and the sound design experience is interesting. It's not too different from a regular subtractive synth, and I watched a video from Behringer that made the four voice vector thing much more clear to me.

I nearly bought the new Behringer OBX clone but my heart wanted a Sequenceual Take 5. It was meant to be the last synth & then quit with the G.A.S. Then it was the Colbalt and a hard to get, tiny Micromonsta 2 went up on eBay. I think I've stopped now. I made the fattest bass line with my Behringer crave for one of my Trax once....thats the first time I've seen that one your using there. I have an mpc x that was hard to learn but my workflow using synths and Bitwig is where I do best. Im a master of none because of my greed, or a dream fulfilled. I had one Trax last month that hit the algorithm with 320 plays, but outside of that even free music is hard to promote. I had one trax released by a lable and a copyright notice when i put it up on KZfaq. I called myself ; Itching the think , and a million bad skin conditions come up if you type it into sesrch 😅 I made music with a sampler when I was young then I stopped for over 20 years. Lockdown made me by a synth in 2020. If i get bored of it this time I have a lot of stuff to get rid of

@@jaderington I saw that Behringer was working on a UB-XA mini in the same size as the Pro VS Mini and I'll definitely get that when it's available. Otherwise I'm also trying not to buy many more synths. I'll probably get something from Dreadbox at some point, and I have a Minibrute 2s on my wishlist, but I have plenty of tools already. I think the long descriptions that I write help with the algorithm, but I'm not certain. Whether they do or not, I like to share about my process every time I release a video!

​@@scottnelleWe'll be accused of having a brag~Off. I bought a TR8S last month thinking I would jam more , but alas 😅 and no matter what you do there's a tiny latency when using with the DAW. It is nice, but really. I have million of drums. I have a Dreadbox Medusa, I was going to use it right now but I had to fix my last Trax vocals because of my dreadful voice. Time before that I was learning the Cobalt. I just wanted an easy time of it this time so out came the hated Roland system 1. Its so idiot proof for people like me. I made that Badboy sing in my sound design shesh along with the brand new & Free, U~he zebrzlette. Thats a new concept in synthesizer, I really like it. And GForce just released OBX drum machine software for £20. Prince and new order to name but a few used it back in the day, it's very retro but cool. I'll finish it in a couple of days now. Its in the bag already. Then Medusa come out ... dun dun dun ! I rotate them all the time.The Blofield or Hydrasynth after that. I'd like to drown the Hydrasynth tbh. It make me feel extra stupid and its not always right for my type of music. I don't sell my stuff on, so it stays. I'm getting better slowly but surly.

​@@scottnelle I cant see my last reply I sent you. Not to worry. I subbed to your channel for any new work of yours. I always enjoy a bit of synth talk with like-minded people if you're so inclined. Nice to meet you....

Thanks! I've had the Nubass in a drawer for a couple months but I've been wanting to get it out and use it again.

Thanks! I'm so impressed when people do everything live and I love to watch the process and figure out what they're doing. But I like to write in my DAW and I want to be transparent about it. I try to showcase how the synths sound in a track with a little additional studio magic added, which is a slightly different take on the classic table full of gear approach! :)

​@@scottnelleYes live jams are impressive to watch. If you seen how the sausage was made you might not want to eat it in my little home set up. It's gets the job done just about....

It's definitely not the most popular synth, but I find it really fun! For percussion I usually sequence samples in my DAW, which is what I've done here. Sometimes I use the Circuit Tracks or the Volca Sample 2.

@@scottnelle Ok, I also use the DAW to master and then I use VCV Rack a lot!

Thanks so much! I really enjoy going through the whole process from writing to sound design, shooting video and performing, to uploading and writing the description. Thanks for checking it out! Your channel is cool too. Consider me a subscriber!

Thanks! I figured I'd try it out and see if it added a little something extra. Maybe I'll try it on the bass next time. Do you think you'll upload any material here on youtube?

Thanks so much! That sounds like a pretty good time to me 😁

@@scottnelle And also to me!

Thanks so much!

Thanks, James!

Thanks! The midi is coming out of my DAW via a CME Thru 5 midi splitter. I haven't even tried the Pro VS sequencer. Maybe a fun experiment for the future--it sounds challenging! 😅

@@scottnelle Nice! I’m praying for a firmware update that includes a step sequencer option 😅 but then, it is the happy accidents that create some of our masterpieces…

Thanks!

This one and all of my videos that don't use Circuit Tracks are sequenced in a DAW (Reaper for me) and I send the midi out to a CME Thru5 midi splitter to route it to the different synths. I have an SQ-64 and a Beatstep Pro and I'll do some jams with those some time in the future to to shake the writing workflow up. But I really like working in a DAW, especially because it makes arrangement so easy!

@@scottnelle Ah, ok. Well, Reaper DAW is my choice as well. Thanks.

Thanks, Chris! Intellectually I feel like there shouldn't be anything special about analog vs. digital synths, but I just have more fun when I'm using simple analog synths!

Thanks! It's an interesting synth, for sure. It certainly has a bit of a distinctive sound, but the ability to mix the different waveforms gives it some versatility. I really enjoy finding good sounds with it!