The 6 best new pro-audio software tools of 2019!
My favorite new music software of the year.
Daily dorky stuff on Instragram: Bennjordan
My music ($upport me!): https://theflashbulb.bandcamp.com/
Spoiler and timespamts:
1:00 – Arturia Pigments
4:18 – Kilohearts Phase Plant
7:20 – UVI Falcon 2.0
10:45 – Unfiltered Byome (and Lion)
14:45 – Bitwig 3.0
18:23 – Pulsar Mu
20:07 – NAMM 2020
@joeldichter1320
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Fl studio mobile
@mrblablablabla
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Any chance of you ever doing a full video on Bitwig, or, better yet, comparing it to FL Studio? Would love to see that!
@tylerparker9838
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Man, why does this feel like 10 years ago instead of 3.
@possdog
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
16:14 and now you can 🙂
@alexlindsay2376
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
That bitter intro…damn Benn. If only you knew what was to come. 2019, take me back
@pricesmith8450
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
you're actually a good youtuber
@burninglcd
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Ah yes, lick the cable.
@digitalspecter
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
16:40 some of us give a shit 🙂 Bitwig is an excellent DAW in itself and it works great on Linux.. I'm so grateful for that 🙂
@lunchpin403
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I got an ad for a Pigments tutorial partway through this, that's amazing targeting
@naught101
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Compressor on/off comparison doesn't seem very useful if you don't LUFS match it… Everything sounds better when it's louder.
@kurtpiron838
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Tool album was indeed the best thing of 2019.
@honeysucklecat
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Ministry released a quart of motor oil to go along with Jesus built my hotrod
@micemincer
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
nice vid, nice sounds 😉
@owlmega-101
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Thanks for the video.
Looks like Phase Plant is more like LION and Multipass like TRIAD.
So my classification:
Bitwig Grid = Phase Plant = LION
Bitwig Grid FX = Multipass = TRIAD = Melda MXXX
Meanwhile Serum & Pigments2 kinda fall into the non-modular VST synth category.
Am I misunderstanding something?
@zlancenyc
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
What would you say is the best software to use with a modular setup? I have zoom h6 and beatstep pro for IO
@ELPLAK
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Bitwig, is awesome
@informationcake
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
the background song at 10:47 sounded familiar, but not a version of a flashbulb song i'd heard before, knew it must be a remix… (potentially to avoid the youtube takedown/de-monetisation algorithms?) I couldn't put my finger on the title, but sounded like something from one of his early albums, so I scrolled through his albums on my computer reading the song names (not listening to them) until i read 'Beaker Sunset' and instantly knew that was the song without pressing play! I haven't listened to that album in ages but I love how our brains make these unexplainable connections in our memory between sounds and song/album titles! 😀
@Barxxo
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
16:45 yeah.. or Win10 wants to go into update mode during a live gig 🙂
@gregg_msk
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Lack of gain compensation in compressor tests is a kind of snake oil by itself=)) By the way, Massive X = doesn't worth mention at all? Thank you, I love your reasonable self confidence and humour. Cheers!
@zenithpinch
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
most youtubers are unfunny. and you sir, are not most youtubers
@Acidmbe11
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Bitwig looks now like a jeskola buzz 😂
@BasariStudios
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I love Game of Thrones, lol.
@theLimeLetter
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I love seeing all the new stuff that comes out but find it's futile chasing after it all, it's easy to get lost in new stuff when I can be loads more productive with the stuff I already own and know well.
@daroujo
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Wonderful video as always.
PS: wtf happened to your throat at 16:02??
@motorhead412
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
haha, new Tool stinks
@gepmrk
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
More Steve Reich psy-trance please.
@nojunk3555
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Anyone here using Falcon and Phase Plant? If so, do they compliment each other or are they redundant?
@compactmachine
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Benn, what are those polygon panels behind you?
@jan-martinulvag1962
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
He does not get fooled by compressors. Wooow. He is the only one in this galaxy
@jan-martinulvag1962
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
If you had to do some of your music over again, would you remember how you did it?
@jan-martinulvag1962
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
I cant make food. I just watch people who does. And do I learn anything? Yes. I learn that this guy is not only smart but he makes beautiful music. Very unusual.
@patcupo
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Really good list. I have all of them and feel like I have everything I need and want. I was an alpha tester for Bitwig 3 and love that musicians and sound designers I respect are starting to see how powerful it is.
@de_patterning
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
so they put razor in falcon
@PeterJnicol
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
Much obliged. I value your research and opinion on these things.
@silversulu
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 pm
This underscores a continuing issue with me, which is an overabundance of owned plugins not fully explored. I got Pigments out of the gate and never went farther than reproducing more or less what I could do with Serum with a what I xonsidered to be an even friendlier approach to wavetable. Did I have any idea it could do generative like this? No. Thanks, Benn.
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