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Hello, Ujiie here.
The Deep Mind 12.
By Behringer. Look at this thing!
It's so compact,
or so it looks.
But as you just heard,
the sound is anything but small. WOW!
Where to start?
There are a number of uh, truly
uh, what's the word?
Sounds that just really stimulate the senses!
There are SO many like that.
I think I'll focus on showing you those kinds of sounds today.
But yeah, seriously, this thing is GOOD!

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I'll just flip through some of the presets first.
Like this pad. The pads on this are simply outstanding!

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The way the waveform is just slightly distorted there?
That right there is something you don't usually see.
A big point: Analog 12-voice polyphonic synthesizer.
It's analog, this. Full analog.
12 voices!!!
Look over here and you'll get it.
12 voices, ok?
You can see which voice is active via these LEDs here.
Play a chord.
12 voices. Each voice has two oscillators.
DCO 1 & 2. Digitally controlled.
But they are analog oscillators.
This is quite nice, no?
Let's check out some more sounds. Next, number 19 here,

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PWM Pad.
When you hear a sound like this one,
I think you can kinda get it just from how the thing looks,
I mean, it's loaded with sliders, right?
So what? It has lots of sliders. And?
Well, as made obvious by sounds like this,
well, I think probably the Roland Juno series
ok? Juno. Like the Juno 106, loads of sliders.
That's what this really brings to mind.
I mean, it just really closely resembles that feeling.
Especially with sounds like this.

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But even saying so, sure it has lots of sliders, but
look over here at the volume and portamento knobs.
Looks like Moog knobs to me!
Nice, maybe? And then there's the pitch bend wheel.
Uh, pitch bend and mod wheels.
Can you see how it's lighting up?
It lights up more the farther you raise it.
Little tricks like this pack a punch.
And, the touch response of the keyboard itself is really good!
Very good.
Let's check out more sounds.
This next one,
well, there are over a thousand sounds in here!
Frankly, this is insane.
Uh, here it is!
This kind of uh, dark pad?
Personally, I like these kinds of sounds, and make them with my Prophet 5.

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You hear how I'm using aftertouch?
With aftertouch...
...you get modulation.
Initial velocity...

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The filter is really nice here.
Uh, it's got both 12db and uh, 2-pole and 4-pole.
12db and 24db filter, right here is
where you can choose which. High pass filter too.
There's a Boost button here as well.
You get such an exquisite kind of distortion with that.
This is absolutely terrific!
Ok, next.
Let's try another pad. The pad series. The pads are so SO nice!!!

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Look here and you'll see,
it's a very graphical interface!
Here's the EG.

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Touch a filter slider and the display immediately shows filter settings.
Noise.
Very nice, huh? And,
there's an effects processor
and the effects, well, all that needs to be said
 is look right here at the logos.
TC Electronic and Klark Teknik!
As far as TC is concerned, man,
personally, with my Prophet 5 I use a TC chorus,
reverb and delay, can't live without them!
I ALWAYS use those.
Anyway, the TC effects here, you've got FOUR of them!
Incredible! And the routing is entirely up to you.
Such a good job with this. Excellent!

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モジュレーションソースは22種類、
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And this display, you can immediately see
EVERYTHING that is going on,
which is great!
And, there's a mod matrix!!!
It's an 8-slot mod matrix,
so what source, you can choose from 22,
goes to what destination, almost all of the 120-odd parameters
can be freely assigned here.
So uh, let's say, let's take the pitch bend,
ok? Pitch bend, and uh,
what shall we do with it?
How about oscillator 1 pitch?
Set it to uh, +24, ok?
So, if you use the pitch bender...
No problem. So you've got 8 slots to use,
which you can assign mod sources to destinations
to design sounds basically however you want.

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And then there's the four effects processors, right?
TC Electronic and Klark Teknik, uh,
and wow are these effects processors amazing!
Having all this at your fingertips, man, fantastic!
WOW!!!
On we go. Right, I've been showing you lots of pads,
let's move on to bass sounds next ok? Bass!
The bass sounds are something else too!
THIS sound. Here, have a look at the LEDs.
One key activates four voices, right?

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And it's in mono mode at the moment.
Look at the screen and you'll get it.
What's going on here?
Here we go.
Right here.
The polyphony mode is set to Mono-4.
Ok? So, it's monophonic, but uses 4 oscillators at once.
Uh, 4 oscillators? 4 voices.
For each single voice, two oscillators are used,
so this mode gives you 8 oscillators at once.
You can change this however you want, too.
Set to mono, you get one voice.
Mono-2.
Mono-3.
Mono-4.
Mono-6.
Wow is that getting FAT!!?
When you use it in mono mode, you get Unison-Detune.

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Whoa.
So that's what that does.
Mono mode. Next, Poly.
You've got Poly-6, -8 and uh,
the totally polyphonic Poly-12 mode to choose from.
Right, so you're free to assign the polyphony how you want.
Unison-6 is VERY powerful!
Amazing.
Surprising even, no?
Let's check out some more bass sounds. Number 11,
THIS!

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As you've probably guessed, it has an arpeggiator.
Yes indeed. Very nice, very nice.
THIS bass sound, man, the bottom line here,
it's spot on!
Mmm that sounds good! Fat!

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Let's check out arpeggiator sounds next. Uh, one I used
before, a bass sound with arpeggiator. But how's this?
This one is named Juno Proximity.
Very Juno-like.
Very much so, especially with the arpeggiator.
This is really nice, right?
Oh this one is nice too.

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See what I mean?
This one as well.

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How nice is the reverb on that?
Next, sound effects.

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Wow, that's another nice sound right there!
Right. Next. What other kinds of sound effects are hiding in here?
Mm. That one would be scary to hear around midnight, huh?
Right. It can also do these kinds of sounds:
Electric piano!

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The velocity sensitivity is great!

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This is so nice! The quality of the keyboard is great!
VERY easy to play!
Well, next.
Very important to have strings like these.
These strings that just stick to you!

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This sounds so good. THIS is what I'm talking about.
Excellent, no doubt about it.
Next up, one of the sounds that I quite like.
This one's a lead sound.
And this one sounds GOOD!

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That one is REALLY good.
The Deep Mind 12. Fantastic!!
Right. Next on the agenda.
I've connected my iPad to the synth here.
I've got the control application running on the iPad,
an app specifically made just for the Deep Mind 12.
It's connected via USB.
BUT you can also make the connection via a wifi network!
Wireless connection!!!
But I'm using USB right now.
A very simple sound.

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All you have to do is just touch the screen,
and you can control it all.
Like this.
Or how about we play with the filter?
Very nice, huh?
The effects are super easy to do here. 4 processors, see?
First one is set to chorus.
You can access the chorus parameters.
So you can set the speed of the modulation,
or touch the next one, delay, but say you don't want delay.
Or you want a different delay.
There are amp simulators in here too.

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Ah, well, let's use something else, uh,
right, how's this?
Ah, that's neat.
You can change the routing over here.
Ah, that's nice, no?
There's a control sequencer in here too!
So, you can set it like this,
uh, it's set to 16 steps at the moment.
Or you can access the arpeggiator settings.
Ok, so one interesting thing you can do,
deals with the modulation matrix. Of course you can do it on the synth,
but with the iPad it's so much easier to see what's going on.
It's as easy as choosing a source,
let's set it to the control sequencer I just showed you.
Right now it's set to affect OSC1 pitch.

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Ok there we go. Turn the control sequence on.
Let's speed it up.
You do get how this is working, right?
Alright let's change it from pitch to uh,
how about filter?
Yeah, that's working. 8 slots. Very easy to understand.
Good job with this.
Ah, it even shows you here what the control sequencer is up to.
Or you can turn the arpeggiator on too.

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Oh, I see. This kind of thing.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So, that's that.
That's how you can use this uh, control
editor, you should anyway. Ah, another neat thing here,
the preset manager. Obviously you can use it to select patches.
Just touch one.
Very quick and easy way to choose sounds.
But the neat thing,
is this, the preset blender.
Within the preset blender, you've got presets
numbered 1 through 4. You can select sounds
you like to those four slots. For example,
say you want this sound to go in this slot. Just touch!

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See how the patch names are displayed here?
Right. So, you can use this circle here,
and drag it from here, over this way.
And by doing so,
you're able to sort of morph between the sounds.
Bring it towards the bottom.
Or move it over here.
Then back towards the top.
In the middle it's a blend of all four sounds.

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Wow, this is something else, huh?
I think you get the idea. Total control over everything,
that itself is quite impressive.
One of the best things about the Deep Mind 12 is just how thorough
everything has been thought out and put together.
And these side panels here are real wood too!
The front panel is made of metal, sturdy too.
The pitch bend and mod wheels feel really solid as well.
The keyboard's velocity sensitivity, and aftertouch.
Even for just selecting sounds,
using an iPad is a real no-brainer.
There's something about this.
It really is GOOD.
The way things are set up, very effective.

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The slider layout, and above all, the compact size.
Well, that's the Deep Mind 12.
You REALLY need to
uh, find one and take your time getting to know it!
What I found especially good about it
is that while it is fully analog,
the effects processors are REALLY powerful,
and you have a SUPER high level of programmability here.
The Behringer Deep Mind 12!
Translation & Captions by:
SWCreative Japan.

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