It’s such a shame we have to go to work, otherwise you could live inside the infinity of Metasynth and create a multidimensional masterpiece

@coztfu

Жыл бұрын

fuck capitalism

@MOSMASTERING

Жыл бұрын

@@coztfu I 100% agree

This could have gone for 12 hours more, I would have loved every minute of it! I was fascinated by the process and the loops you made

@GabrielMillerd

2 жыл бұрын

and sadly like he says, not a millisecond more is to be found. such an interesting gem and approach

Another "way back" user here. Meta synth was my go to for creative sound design. Took a long time (for me) to get the hang of it but was totally worth it. Then, the dark ages hit. Glad that it's back. Time to dive back in.

@timdanyo898

3 жыл бұрын

I spoke to the new developers and they said piracy was the biggest killer for the software.. they were unable to sustain profitability before.

@AuralVirus

3 жыл бұрын

@@timdanyo898but that makes no sense - those who pirate have no intention of buying in the first place, either they can't afford to or just wouldn't - thus it can not be considered a lost sale, the piracy CRY is a falsehood. It has been "proven" through out the games industry when denuvo (anti piracy protection that actually punishes the legit purchasers only) was added to games, sales remained the same, people simply didn't play that particular game that was uncrackable (until later, and someone did crack denuvo).

@AuralVirus

3 жыл бұрын

and 1 argument could be made that sales are generated off piracy as the software/game whatever is exposed to a wider audience, some who will buy, if not immediately maybe (re games) in a steam sale or when the price drops, not something you see in the p audio world - tbh I think as weird and wonderful metasynth is/was it is a limited tool (in that you can spend days "playing" but are tied to the image you input, similarly to artmatic, spend days when time is limited) compared to a "traditional" soft synth. and wasn't it only on osx? (i used apple back then so wouldn't know, now, F apple (right to repair, imac's over heating and dying, not paying 2k again mentality set in having been a pismo ppc chip mac owner throug to the intel change, i'd had enough/learnt enough). Maybe this new iteration will have features of use to the average user as well as the adventurous.

@BennJordan

3 жыл бұрын

@@AuralVirus It's not just them, it was just tech culture at the time. When I released an album on torrent sites, it was "radical" and "crazy" for me to want people to listen to my music whether it was free or not. 13 years later, Fortnite is worth something like $30 billion.

@AuralVirus

3 жыл бұрын

just looked, still remains apple only, where as voice is windows only but FREE........

I had legit nearly drifted off when you said: "you're probably getting bored", but it wasn't because it was boring. I feel like that final jam could become a hot hit in Europe with some Kraftwerk-like vocals

20:15 Flume punching the air rn cause you exposed his secret weapon

@ezrabrownstein3237

3 жыл бұрын

It does sound a lot like synplant, which I think is what he actually uses along with max4live devices

@orionishi6737

3 жыл бұрын

@@ezrabrownstein3237 Yeah I know for sure I read something where he was taking about synplant.

@ixxirecords26

3 жыл бұрын

@@ezrabrownstein3237 oh cool, I was just dropping this comment for the meme, but I'm happy to learn something new about Flume. He made me fall in love with EDM all over again.

Very stoked you've made a video advocating for MetaSynth. I remember you showing this to me back in like 2006 - I used it on a few tracks in the years after that but It's been an endlessly-deferred TODO to revisit it. Now it's been years since I had an installation and it's not cheap, but it's awesome they have new versions up and running so it may be time. It has such an early 2000s IDM character to it, cold and cerebral but endlessly stimulating.

Richard D James must have sampled the crap out of this synth

Some of those sounds remind me of Sophie and AG Cook. Crunchy weird mechanical harmonics.

@jakubmarszaek8330

3 жыл бұрын

I never heard of them using it but I wouldn't be surprised. They used heavily massive and a little bit of synplant here and there. Sophie used primaly drummachines tho

I used to use Metasynth everyday, about 15 years ago. Glad to see they are not belly up.

Ben, thanks for making this video. I really dig your stuff. I'm a longtime Windows user who just bought their first Mac, and this is exactly the type of unicorn that I'm looking for. Hats off to you for making a relevant, new, thorough video on this.

When you switched to the line drawing mode with the drum samples I literally screamed "WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" at my screen. Too powerful.

@JacobPadlock

3 жыл бұрын

Also the part starting at 24:28 was *painfully* beautiful.

@somaticjet2717

2 жыл бұрын

Both highlights. Love the triangles for drums. Like little whippy filters on each hit but with a granular sound

Benn, great job on demonstrating Metasynth. It's been an incredible journey into the universe of sound.

It is a small miracle that this incredible software was still around. Thanks for the vid!

@kalibduarte536

2 жыл бұрын

Recently recreated.

wow I love your music I was halfway through your video before I realized you were the flashbulb. your music was a big part of what got me into making music and custom audio circuits

Best demo of Metasynth ever! If I had seen this 25 years ago when I started playing with MS it would have saved me so much time!

getting really big huge chrome cylinder box unfolding vibes from the improvisation playgrounds. absolutely love it and love the video!

Thank you I cant wait for this to blow up and find more videos on this!! You inspired me to save up for it and hopefully many more of us!

So much of the Matrix sound came from this program - I heard it several times as you were taking us through this. What a fun way to compose and play! Thanks, Benn!

My mind is officially blown 🤯🤯 I mean I knew that there were experimental image based synths out there like for instance, harmor can resynthesize images but I've never seen anything like this where it gives u full control over the image properties and has all these settings to change the scale so that u can make actually musical things with it and not just noise

Wow! The creative juices and possibilities are flowing. Thanks for this!

thats just an amazing audio tool, and i was captivated the entire time. What amazing sounds!

best metasynth video i've seen yet... more of that, please! :D

Benn you are a blessed mix of talent and knowledge, you're opening portals to special places with this music

OMG, Ben Jordan is The Flashbulb. WTFlip! I'm such a dope. I was looking through your patreon on a lunch break and let out the loudest laugh of glee when you mentioned who you were. I was wondering I have to get into your music, and BAM, I already am! Rose Hierarchy is a personal favourite of mine. Love you man! Telling Alexa to play your music is so disconnected from actual awareness of the artist. Great to find you on KZread. OK I LOVE YOU , bye byeeeeeee!

What a totally awesome way to make textures and pretty much full blown sound design. I love hidden gems like this.

Thanks a million for this! I have never heard about it, but now I really want to try it out!

Metacreations was the company that got me into all manner of visual arts weirdness. Poser, Bryce, Ray Dream 3D, Canoma, Carrera, those mad Kai's Power Goo Potatochop plugins, and the idea of intuitive interfaces. He must've done okay from all the patents he sold to big bad monolithic megacorps. I'm wondering what happens if you drop a fractal from MB3D into the grid.

@risortestvideo5340

3 жыл бұрын

big bad monolithic megacorps - joe junior provides access for a "small" fee lol

No wonder Richard D James 'loved' this software, an instant time sink with plenty of unusual results awaiting.

@peetiegonzalez1845

3 жыл бұрын

If you drop one of his tracks into Metasynth (can't remember which one) the spectral graph shows a photo of his face. What a legend.

@Aquatarkus96

3 жыл бұрын

@@peetiegonzalez1845 The track is ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n] [Σj∈C[i]Fji[n − 1] +Fexti[n−1]]

@lundsweden

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, Metasynth is soo weird, love it!

@Aaronmcgrattan

2 жыл бұрын

@@peetiegonzalez1845 or any spectral analyser

@peetiegonzalez1845

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aaronmcgrattan Well, obviously. Tools that do a thing, tend to do the same thing. Back in the day this was pretty much the only tool that did it, though! Way ahead of its time.

Thanks for this trip down memory lane! I was a user of metasynth long ago, and am tempted to dive back into it now.

omg thank u so much - i had no idea this was still alive! i am purchasing it now

15:41 Very strong pilotredsun vibes, I love it

@elijahjflowers

3 жыл бұрын

a man of culture.

@rue49121

3 жыл бұрын

Certainly

@somaticjet2717

2 жыл бұрын

@somaticjet2717

2 жыл бұрын

Do you think pilotredsun uses this thing?

Really appreciated this video. Very inspiring stuff. Mind blowing.

wtf this is actually incredible

Wicked mate. Pure AFX! Great demo wirh lots of exciting ideas. Thanks

another great video! i used to use metasynth 17 years ago on my apple green imac running os9.... watching you demo this has me wanting to get back to it! i still have a bunch of loops i've made on it rendered to audio i still chop up and use when i can. what a great tool!

Excellent presentation of this unique audio tool!

Thank you for selling me another Plugin (after Generate). Your channel is pure gold! So much inspiring quality content!

Great work Benn!!! I love meta synth. Bought it 15 years ago. Yes there it not really much video content on YT. Thanks a lot 👍

BRYCE 3D FUCKING DREAM THEATRE ALBUM COVERS FOR DAYS

I loved the sounds you created, especially the harmonious drones

Oh god, Benn - don't tell everyone about Metasynth! It's my secret weapon. Now they'll all know it exists :D

Thank you letting me know this thing. It's really inspiring and weird. 21:09 That sounds awesome!

@somaticjet2717

2 жыл бұрын

This was my fav bit. Beautiful twinkly chord progression. Love when he changes the scale and it goes all anxious for a sec too

Thank you thank you thank you! I’ve had MetaSynth for a year and needed this right here to make sense of it all.

Metasynth was always amazing, glad it's still around. Perhaps this time round more people will get it. Thanks for the video!

Yes! Do a series on this please! Artmatic and Voyager are amazing as well!

Love this. Amazing way to generate interesting, crazy and useful sounds. I'm on PC so will be looking into the alternatives suggested in the comments ;-)

I’m very much looking forward to the series on this.

Nah you're deadass goated af for those melodies 🤯🤯

Very well produced. Thankyou for the entertainment . Education and information

Bryce was very important to me and I always wanted to try this Honestly it would be amazing if you kept going with a whole series on this

I used to use Metasynth for sound design in the 90s and with the new CTX I'm getting back into it. It's great to find a modern, up to date walkthrough to help me get reacquainted with amazing tool. Thank you for posting this.

Wow! You are old and so am I. And I have always been interested in the meeting of graphics and audio so Metasynth and this video are so appealing. I too, remember the 90s and it’s introduction. Thanks Ben for the update. 👍🏻👏🏻❤️🔥😃 “insert coolest emoji du jour here”

if i had your job i would never get any work done. it's an absolute treat to get to see u play with this kind of stuff

Oh I used it like 15+ years ago. Few weeks I suddenly thought about it and couldn't remember the name or find anything useful on Google. Thank you so much for making this video!!!

Oh the lighting is really improving nice !!!

THANK YOU FOR THIS I discovered your video at random in my suggestions, I couldn't believe what I was watching. Today I downloaded Metasynth, LET THE GAMES BEGIN HUAHUAHUAHUA

Wow!! There wasn’t any single moment the sound you were making was boring! This was like listening to set of Autechre of Aphex Twin! Amazing stuff right here!

28min synth felt like something out of earthbound ost, felt pretty emotional and had to type this. Definitely becoming my favourite channel of all time. Thanks Benn

@Aqua_1014

3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Andonut's Lab! :V

metasynth is really next level. definitely a most have. thanks for this vid Ben

Metasynth is beautiful. I need this. Perfection!

This was a fun watch, Benn. You should do more metasynth jam vids.

@kalibduarte536

2 жыл бұрын

This guy does a bunch kzread.info/dash/bejne/nmqlk7KmYarJoqw.html

Extraordinary. And also makes you realise why they created ‘instruments’ in the first place! It’s a long reach back, into making a source sound origin that’s quite original, I’d get lost. Did make me think though as you progressed through your ‘light to sound’ tutorial, as you spun the image, it begs to have a motion facility, eg to have the image spin at some speed of rotation, not just be distorted and turned into a new orientation? That’s just me thinking out loud, extrapolating from the present capabilities. Probably everyone notices sometimes, when you adjust a parameter of an effect, it makes you hear the transient or transitory sounds while you make the adjustment, and wonder how it would sound if you could somehow ‘automate’ such shifts. I too, have the iPadOS ones that do some amount of this functionality, as other contributors mention, and while it’s too much for me to make much of it, it’s a fascinating approach to sound creation and even as you showed, music. It’s a ‘try it and see’ thing - until some creative crazy person enacts the system to provide the buttons and levers that actually make this methodology possible, how do we ever know it’s ‘worth it’ as it were. So, hats off to the creators of this sort of musique nouveau, it’s a whole other niche in soundscaping. Kind of wonderful. Thanks Benn.

Thank you so much for this! I can’t believe I did not know that tool before 👍👍👍

This is what I imagined music software would be like before I got into making computer music.

I’ve been a Metasynth user since 19 freakin’ 98! I love the organic surprise component and experimentation and ideation generation on so many levels.

Cool aff you got a natural talent for Sounds and this is awesome

Fascinating, love finding new ways to make music

this is ridiculously fcuking awesome

I interned at Dane Tracks, Dane Davis's post house for a year, got a lot of time with the man himself, spent hours watching him work, and talking. Genuinely one of my favorite folks. Learned a ton, mostly about the effect of the sound design on the audience - less about the technical. Hollywood was a nightmare, and I left. But I don't regret the year I spent with Dane.

Like others, used this a ton when it first came out. So glad it's updated!

Oh my, I remember this from 1997 on my PowerPC 120MHz. I used to use it it with Rebirth RB338.

HOOOOOOLYYYY CRAAAAAP. I may just have to buy a Mac device just for this. This is right up my alley.

@this_connor_guy

3 жыл бұрын

Update: I did just that. Old refurbished macbook air and metasynth. This is a blast to use.

@rippspeck

3 жыл бұрын

You don't need to buy an Apple device to use macOS. _Hackintosh_ is the keyword here.

@mattdanner9472

Ай бұрын

This video is absolutely incredible.

I'd love to see 12 more hours of you improvising on this software

I could listen to this all day !!

Thanks for such a detailed review Benn! Many of things you shown sounds so similar to Autechre and AFX music 🙃 For a long time I thought they used to program tools themselves in MAX/MSP...

Just hearing some of those sounds at a loud volume makes me feel like I'm on keta, lol... Trippy AF this sound! Some sounds you're making are like, exactly what I hear on a K trip when I would normally hear nothing, it just reminded me of tripping balls on keta, it always messes with my perception of sound, and makes me hear these weird sounds, and some of the sound you were making, just freaky! Incredible.

Thank you for making this video

Thats so nice The first Sound and the final result 👍

Yeah ! My first soundscape software ( ok ok rebirth was first) cool to see you dusted it off !

@illiqual

3 жыл бұрын

Reaally cool soundesign/droney pieces Mr Bulb

Really cool. The sounds are really reminiscent of what I've gotten out of Virtual ANS or Photosounder

@chrisisasavage

3 жыл бұрын

Neither are a daw and more about spectral synthesis uses images so this is cool

@kalibduarte536

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisisasavage While the original MetaSynth 23 years ago was closer to just ANS, with controllers, synths, samplers, effects, sequencers, recording, mixing, and folks making entire albums in it. What makes it not a DAW?

This is so beautiful, It would be so amazing if these were released as tracks 😣🥲

If you like metasynth, you might also enjoy "din is noise". It's not visual in the same way, but it has a certain weirdness to it that metasynth reminds me of.

This was great. Thank you. 🙂

Can't wait for Ketasynth

I’d never even hear do Metasynth prior to stumbling across this video, and I’m 100% hooked! Thanks for the awesome video, and for helping to empty my bank account. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very cool!

Flabbergasted. But not gonna stop me from saying something haha so much that can be done with this I like how you never really know what you might come up with as it seem's to have endless possibility...Pretty Sick

Time to block off the calendar and watch this video in detail and make a track. The MetaSynth sequence generators and MIDI controllers app Xx has been updated now too. Love to see what you do with it!

Make another video with an hour of random improv, its really nice!

I need this in my life.

I came for the Metasynth, stayed for the Bryce! Thank you for the trip down memory lane!

@kalibduarte536

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Can't wait until he tossing in ArtMatic to complete the set.

wow i had no idea the flashbulb did youtube content. listened to your stuff all throughout high school!

I used to use and LOVE Metasynth back in the day. I saw that they released a newer version but its ridiculously overpriced. It used to be a reasonably priced audio toy. I also used Bryce way too much and spent a lot of time forcing it to do things it wasn’t built for. And after watching the entire video i see they added a ton of features but many i would never use. I dont need this to be a Daw, just a sound creation tool. It would be nice to be able to use the synth as a vst of some sort to play in another Daw too.

Being the nerd that I am, I was able to turn the sound from the image synth part of the video back into images!

This is great; I had played with this a bit (also an old Bryce guy) -- would love even more deep dives as I had no idea this could do so much.

@kalibduarte536

2 жыл бұрын

It has grown over time from an audio utility to a full app for doing songs and soundtracks.

I just want to say I"m so beyond happy to find out that I can still install and use this software with the same macbook pro running yosemite that I learned version 4 on when I was in college. Literally the only new software update I've ever seen built for these older OS builds.

This for percussion is amazing

Hey Ben - Thought I recognised the name! I had this back in the 90s. I don't think Sound Design was as much of a thing back then, You use it brilliantly. I moved to PC in the 21st century. Shame they don't port it.

I lost the part where you went from crazy noises to best soundscapes in the world

Insane

@ShamanicArts

3 жыл бұрын

I see you found your way here too :)

@naught101

3 жыл бұрын

do a thing with it