Not into its sound.
You spend $1000 on synth and in return get a dopamine
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Yea I’m not a huge BoBeats fan. A lot of these YouTube synth influences are ok if you just want to know the basics/features in a video format but I’m not all that interested in their opinions on gear.
Same. Plainly explained, nicely demonstrated without a lot of fluff. Similarly Knobs youtube for pedals, very much in the same vein.
I also tend to trust Benn Jordan’s reviews - even when he gives opinions they’re well explained enough that I can suss out whether it’s something that’d work for me or not based on his review.
I don’t know why I don’t get on with reviews like BoBeats (and there’s a ton of them out there), but something about them just rubs me wrong.
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I like Nick and Gaz from Sonic Lab, they’ve been my go to for a long time.
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omg those guys! I actually was going to include them but I couldn’t for the life of me remember what that channel was called (but it seems to pop up every time I go looking for gear reviews). Definitely great for a deep dive on a piece of gear without any cruft.
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@Subtronik yea Nick is my favorite of the two.
@Artificer exactly. All the fine detail w no BS. Is Benn Jordan The Flashbulb? If so, I like him pretty well too. It seems like I tend towards the people that have been at it a while. Like its fine that BoBeats wants to bail on psychology and do this but for some reason I don’t connect with him on any level when it comes to gear or the music he makes.
I mentioned on Bo Beat’s RackBrute 6U video that it can manage to hold 89hp and he replied that Arturia officially states 88hp. Well, fine, sorry not sorry for having owned one for a long time before your review and used it for more than the time it took to make a video 
I wasn’t criticizing anything and felt that came across in how I made the comment. I just wanted to be helpful 
Not overly fond of the whole phenomena of “influencers,” either. Some are okay, and objective, about things, some are clearly just trying to get clicks because some “how to Social Media” guide said to do things a certain way (or worse, their sponsors… 
), etc.
that’s him!
I too have a BoBeats story…he made a post of his review of a gear stand made for a specific piece of gear or maybe the Model series battery handle in a Facebook group he is an admin in. Regardless, it was a piece of gear barely worth reviewing.
I simply replied “lol…slow news day for gear” because it was the ONLY thing any gear blogs etc had to report on that week and, again, it was barely worth a mention whatever it was.
He actually went and checked every relevant account, blog, etc and reported back to me how many places reported on it to let me know that not every outlet reported on it.
I was like woah, slow down, take 'er easy pardner! I wasn’t even calling you out!
The Flashbulb/Benn Jordan is a treasure as far as people talking gear and our music on YouTube. @RFJ turned me on to him in the past year.
Only youtube personality I’d add to the mix is Ken Marshall.
Criminally underviewed channel IMO. It’s not really gear reviews per se, though gear comes up on occasion. It’s more a mix tutorial/advice channel. It’s the only channel on all of youtube that I have notify me whenever a video goes up because I don’t want to miss anything. Great attitude, responds to questions and comments. Really worth checking out.
I listen to Sonictalk as a podcast while I work.
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I like Starsky Carr at the moment, I think he does good synth reviews.
Bobeats kinda rubs me up the wrong way, I think it’s because in his early days he spent half the review taking about coffee and the other half giving out incorrect information, however he has improved over the years.
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This could be of interest as the discussion on pedals;
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I can’t listen to podcast, reviews or audiobooks while working, or even driving. I either focus on one or the other.
It gets better once you feel overwhelmed and realise you are noodling instead of making tracks.
The Microfreak is great though.
Tbf this is basically all we’re doing when we sit down with the beatstep
Sonictalk I like however I always find myself shouting at the screen as they really ain’t that switched on with current music devices, like the twisted electrons blastbeats they’ve not mentioned it yet.
And in this years Christmas quiz they claimed Massive attack made unfinished sympathy, which is wrong as Massive made it (got to get the detail right lol)
Sort of synth reviews but not really, but we’re totally addicted to bad gear on YouTube
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When the doorbell cam alerts you and you get excited “it’s here!” and it’s some bs for someone else
So this synthesizer Discord had a poll and the Roland SP-404mkII was ranked the best sampler of 2021. F’ing hipster millennials and their love of “lofi beats” XD S2400 and the Rossum 1200 reissue were ranked 2nd (wouldn’t the S2400 be 2020 anyway, technically? 
). Though aside from my cheeky snark, I really don’t know how much the 404 mkII added to the 404 already, but it was popular and people lost their minds paying/charging $200+ markups due to shortages…
PolyBrute was ranked the best synth, SQ-064 best sequencer, Bo Beats did not rank on list for best synth YouTuber lol
I’d of probably been interested in the SP-404mkII if the DJ function hadn’t been put there as an after thought, the idea of filling it with MP3’s and using it as a portable DJ solution seemed cool until you dived deeper and find it can’t even beat sync.
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Initial impression of the Nektar PACER. Wow, this thing is heavy. It’s a metal case, and the switches are plastic, but a heavy, firm push to them. Almost like I’d expect them to be “analog” or transmit some sort of signal I could modulate like aftertouch. It’s fairly impressive tbh, and now feels a lot more worth the price.
Edit The $20 cheap as hell feeling expression pedal, on the other hand… it stops recognizing one of them 
(EXP 1 which when it was recognized showed CC07). It works if I play with the wire at the connector. The exact problem I feared when I saw the wires were permanently connected. Sigh. Today has been pretty shitty so this isn’t too surprising anymore lol… FML. And returning it will be tricky without an f’ing car atm (shop, taking forever…), and at $16 it would cost that in fucking Uber to drop it off to be shipped back to them -_-
Edit 2 Eh, seems I can get the cable plug wire ‘straightened’ enough that it works consistently. I might deal with Nektar vs the online place and see who will make it easier on me to fix this.
But this floorboard, with its banks of buttons for Presets (program change), Tracks (Rec Arm, Mute, Solo, patch changed, etc), and Transport controls just turned Bitwig into a powerful live looper and effects controller
o.O that seems a huge oversight