“This keyboard is for people who actually get gigs.”

@emiel333

Ай бұрын

Haha indeed it’s quite expensive this Yamaha Genos 2. From all arranger keyboards available from any brand in whatever price class, Yamaha Genos 2 is the best one money can buy.

@daniel_dumile

Ай бұрын

but no spotify followers

@saniespinosa8323

Ай бұрын

@@daniel_dumilewhich ones pay tho lol?

@davidderidder2667

Ай бұрын

I wanna see Benn rebuild this whole setup on a gig🤣⛺️

@BrunodeSouzaLino

Ай бұрын

@@daniel_dumile It's not like you need them. You get paid more doing gigs than whatever breadcrumbs Spotify gives you....Assuming your music is there with your permission, which often times isn't.

Came for the niche electronic device I have no use for, stayed for the Wicked Game cover.

@gabevreyes

Ай бұрын

This 🙌

@ArielAfk

Ай бұрын

Exactly this

@matttsplattt

Ай бұрын

Ooh! Wicked Game cover?! I'm in!

Inside you there are two wolves. One of them is Chris Isaak.

@elarielo

Ай бұрын

The other one is Weird Al, apparently

This video has the same vibe as trying psychedelics for the first time only to end up watching an infomercial until 4am for a product you neither understand or could ever afford, and I'm loving every minute.

@jdavis.fw303

Ай бұрын

🤣💀

I was going to buy one of these then I discovered Benn was going to buy Red Lobster with the proceeds. I will not support the lobster holocaust.

@GoldenPickaxe

6 күн бұрын

I thought you were joking

That wasn’t stock video. His music generated that lame imagery. That’s how powerful it is.

@kaansouth8789

Ай бұрын

Wait, how?

The DMT polka beat is a perfect compliment to late morning coffee ascension

Like my Grandpa always said, No Improvised Jazz Ballet Tropical Dancehall Type Beat is worth a damn, if you don't use a Hydrasynth".

The horrific stock footage use.... DYING :D :D :D so happy I'm subscribed

The look to camera at 6:45 is incredibly relatable for anyone who has ever been making music on their own. “What have I done?”

@auriuman78

Ай бұрын

ROFL agreed. Sweet. I'm a drummer but I get the arranger piece because I have loved them as part of a band member arrangement for years, like 35 of them. Back when a Roland XP10 took the stage by storm 😁 I was like 12 years old back then when I first fell in love with drums and music on general.

6:26 Mario ate the wrong type of mushroom. 10:44 Benn ate the right type of mushroom.

"You've already heard the Genus 2 in the intro tune." It's like an episode of BadGear, that always turns about to be good gear. For a specific demographic, that is. Fun video!

Always love your playing around with instruments, seeing how far they go. Honestly, taking out the actual sounds of the arranger helps show just how good its arrangements are. Which is good, since it's in the name, lol Awesome stuff!

Wow!! The last two video’s really feel special. Arrangers throughout the ages need love too! You’re definitely on a sicc one! Much love and many blessing big bruv✨🌊💫🌊✨

Being able to crack your self up makes all those piano lessons worth it.

wicked game is one of my favorite songs so i’m overjoyed you gave it so much love

This video is a trojan horse for your twisted Wicked Game cover-montage ( I *get* that pun, too); love it, keep up the great work!

that look @6:45 ... priceless... i was indeed laughing

whenever I find myself in a musical rut or just a little stuck I can always count on one of your videos to inspire me to play. I never even considered adding keyboards to my setup at all and watching your stuff consistently makes me say "I need to be doing more of that." (whatever cool / quirky / obscure thing "that" happens to be for that particular video) Great stuff. Thanks for making cool shit.

I could watch and listen for hours with your videos of this format

I love that he super describes the arranger differences then immediately cut frame to the fact that it's just a wicked game.... Then the awesome rearrangement of wicked game. Dude I can tell you had fun doing that lol

I love arranger keyboards. Used to perform live with those lovely keyboards. I still have a couple arrangers in my studio. It’s just so fun to play with the cheesy sounds and styles! Great video, Benn.

You can do a heck of a Bossa Nova on that machine.

@WtfYoutube_YouSuck

Ай бұрын

It's amazing how far we've come from the Casio Bossa beat from the 80s. And yet still it manages to retain the suckiness and corniness.

Fantastic! I love the passion you show. Mad Professor at play! It's wonderful.

The microtonal polka music intro had me dying :D

Awesome video! Great seeing humor coming through, especially with so many people being so butt hurt all the time! Keep up the great work and best of luck in getting your new studio set up!

Lovely Jubley. I got Afx vibes in the sound half. Also, some great ' that was a nice chord / phew ' faces at around 7:00. This is something everyone who's played keyboards live/ played in rather than programmed in the studio, knows, accepts, and allows as a natural part of human expression (or words to that effect).

Man it’s a rare treat to watch a Benn Jordan video completely devoid of a single moment of music that I enjoy

7:30 goes unironically hard😭 That stupid goofy snare sound I LOVE it!! All of itt

the end polka sounds like if hakushi hasegawa made a vocaloid jpop song

I expect your next album be will entirely written through the arranger! 😆 Thank you for sharing something I would not have ever explored myself in a million years, and abusing it in absolutely delightful ways!

That has to be one of the best analogies I’ve ever heard lol. Love it

around 9:05 the track veers into siriusmo territory, and lemme tell you my eyes were GLUED to the screen

If you have a blast making it, odds are I'm gonna have a blast watching it because joy is infectious!

Man i could listen to you improvising a jazz ballet tropical dancehall type beat all day!

I'm still trying to get my head around how something like Band In A Box can exist and still those arrangers sound like General MIDI modules

@SOOKIE42069

Ай бұрын

i’m guessing all the good synth voices are trademark or copyright encumbered so the built in voices are just to give you a rough idea of what it can do in the store because your target market already has thousands of dollars in synths and plugins and whatever they’re going to plug this arranger into. tl;dr: it’s not worth anybody’s money to put good voices in these things because nobody is going to use them anyway.

@ottsch

Ай бұрын

@@SOOKIE42069 Hm, my understanding is that the target audience are people who are doing one-person live covers and things like that on weddings, corporate events etc.

@22222Sandman22222

Ай бұрын

@@SOOKIE42069 I find that hard to believe... I mean a lot of things in this world are hard to believe

@nico5

Ай бұрын

I don’t think Band-in-a-Box does realtime live accompaniment?

@ottsch

Ай бұрын

@@nico5 True, but I don't see why a giant like Yamaha couldn't pull something like RealTracks off in real time on this. Maybe it's about signalling to the audience with those rather low quality sounds that it is still played live and not some kind of playback?

that's what i love about BJ: open mindedness, fun, insights. yeees.

It's honestly pretty amazing what those arrangers can do

Oh my god, that stock footage is pure gold! 😂

Oh I’ve been looking forward to this since your last arranger video! It’s the future!

all that R & D just to make the cheesiest presets perfect for the wedding reception

@InventorZahran

Ай бұрын

If that's what the clients want to pay for, someone will make it for them...

Hell yeah! Keep having fun with the damn arranger!!! I'm here for it. and YES it IS the Best Wicked Game cover montage on youtube :) :) that made my day. Cheers! Edit: And yes, "that's why I'm here listening to this on youtube". That and cause I resonate a lot with your creativity and humor, and you are genuinely an awesome dude.

I have to say, I do have some admiration for people that are surrounded by a completely filled room of gear and still maintain some focus. I get distracted by a handful of keyboards and a PC loaded with hundreds of vsts including all of Roland's offerings.😁🎶🎹🎶Play On

I am having an absolute blast watching this video!

Bro I like it, good vibes

This was fun to watch!

Damn that Phillip Glass polka jam was amazing!

6:24 Your Beethoven tendencies are coming through. "You want to dance? You gentrified f***s! DANCE!"

Im too stoned for the montage at 1;45 thank you. i think you saved my trip

This video gives me hope fir the future

I'm glad to see Yamaha is still making the arranger keyboard! I was surprised when I found out Montage wasn't a workstation, unlike Motif. I love my Motif XS.

10:51 giving me how it's made vibes (not the theme but the music they'd play during the episodes)

You are cooking with that improv

I have like 0 interest in Arrangers but have been eagerly waiting the follow-up video to the last due to just how much fun you seem to have with them :)

10:34 mad Kirby vibes on this. This looks like so much fun!

fun fact, I found a Yamaha Electone E75 accompany...ment... thing for $500, which is basically the organ CS-80. between the GX1 and CS-80 I believe

@thinkingshobe

Ай бұрын

E-70 owner here, indeed it is! you can mod them to be programmable, although it is worth mentioning the E series organs use some very nice sounding Wavetable ROMs rather than the CS-80 and GX-1’s analogue oscillators, still a great instrument in it’s own right and it sounds *very* CS

@SammiLucia

Ай бұрын

@@thinkingshobe i didn't realise they were DCOs / ROMs! i did get part way into the wire loom, but not very far 😂

@SammiLucia

Ай бұрын

also another interesting fact, i bought it for $500 ... shipping was $700 (they're like 250-300 lbs or something insane)

Improvised Jazz Ballet Tropical Dancehall Type Beat: You've got a tune here

Great picture with Venus Theory and Warren Huart! What's the story there?

@BennJordan

Ай бұрын

We went to Red Lobster.

@i_am_lambda

Ай бұрын

This shows how all musicians are natural storytellers

we need a live show exclusively using this freakish arranger setup you've created, ben complete with a tiki bar and "mid life crisis wedding" dress code

Techno polka cover of Wicked Game using stock footage was not on my bingo card for today, but I’m glad you gave it to me.

lol, that wicked games section was epic

What does the YT algorithm know? It knows nothing of sheer entertainment... play on dude!

I couldn't help notice the vibrato your right hand is doing @1:49, does this thing support it or is that a habit after using the Osmose? Beautiful tone from it. Loved the jam too! Are you going to make a video about designing/building your new studio? It'd be cool to watch.

Can't wait to hear the report from Red Lobster. I trust you got something from the Flavor Flav menu.

I bet the people who actually buy these never did the awesome wierdness with them that you're doing. so much fun!

I'm not capable of improvisation or "jamming" on keys like that, but man does that look like a good time!

Hey Ben - always interesting, always entertaining 👍 Can you suggest any arranger software?

I am also very much too stoned for Mairo Kart Acid but I'm here for it whooooop

I remember the days you were building the studio. Now comes another one. And no lobster should die. No matter the color.

I looked at the Genos 2, and instead I purchased the Korg Pa5X. It's easy to sound cheesy if you're not careful, and I can do much more (with more time and effort) in terms of song, parts, arrangement, sound design, etc., with my Roland Fantom EX. I don't think you can go wrong with a Genos 2 or Pa5X if you want a powerful arranger. The value of having a dedicated arranger and a dedicated workstation is priceless to me. Cheers!

The Wicked Game thing hits me different knowing now that it and a Stevie Wonder song combined were the inspiration for Ghosts n Stuff lol

The dancehall-esque remix was so good lmao

Yaaaay, I love how dorky the arranger sounds. It has the charm of an old karaoke machine in quality, idk how else to describe it

6:33 - a genre I had no idea existed, but now want it to. Tried my old Korg M3 88 (still a good workstation) with my TR-8S and modular and.. almost. Edit: come to think of it - the M3 is a workstation and not necessarily an arranger, but in combi and song mode, it gets pretty close for a fraction of the price.

Had a blast, great video but at the end my mind drifted into why people eat sea roaches

The wicked game cover caught me off guard ngl😂

Why do I have almost as much fun watching you play in these videos? Perhaps it is time for a performance ONLY channel?

I loved this video 😊 so fun

FWIW, I pair my Korg Pa5X with my Roland AX-Edge - it's on the top-tier of a two-tier stand...arranger song with a keytar lead! As of now I mostly do '80s synthwave / pop on my arranger (with a few fusion jazz / prog arrangements), it's a blast. I'm going to see how to use it with some of my other gear, outboard, thanks to this video. (I pair my Roland Fantom EX with my Osmose, for more "serious" music.)

I borrowed a Moxf6, and as a non-keyboardist, I love interacting with its smart arpeggios. It has great non-cheesy sounds, and the styles don't make me want to vomit. I think makers of arranger keyboards are missing a huge segment of the market.

The Improvised Jazz Ballet Tropical Dancehall Type Beat was dope.

Oh hey I got an arranger keyboard for free last week- only issue is it saves to floppy disk lol

@MasDouc

Ай бұрын

I have one of those too lol

This workflow seems so fun, love seeing you enjoy music stuff! More of this kind of content? Maybe second chanel if you don't want to completely ruin your KZread KD(?

i put this in my musical inspiration playlist

ohnoes .. BENN AND GEAR !! :)))

I find u painfully bananas . U r wit's NVIDIAly surgical. I'm always the only one in stitches when you're on one about something only a production geek can relate too ..cheers ...gonna B a hot summa..

2:12 nice scene in that stock video

*Foams at the mouth in DAWlaess live rig*

Down for the acid and polka! ❤

Benn Jordan my beloved

Get this man some Red Lobster!

Questions I never thought to ask myself: "How strong is Benn Jordan's stock-video game?" Answer: Strong. Strong indeed.

@BennJordan what exactly is "orthodox" Benn Jordan video?

Ah, now I see--I have not been turning up my tempo knob far enough!

What's the thing on top of the oscilloscope?

Fearless!

This is one of the funniest Synth videos ever.

The Wicked Games medley was great.

Rando camera zooms and im 💀💀

I love it.