"Dirty Machine" - Live modular synthesizer performance by POB (@obrienmedia)

Published on Feb 14, 2016 Patrick OBrien

"Here's a dirty jam I came up with over the weekend, limiting the performance to just a 6U case with nothing else running outside the box. This was performed live with no edits.

Patch highlights:
This short set was inspired after purchasing the Sound Machines LS1 lightstrip from Perfect Circuit Audio here in Los Angeles, CA. That module is featured front and center, using it to sweep the Ripples filter, which is running the overall mix.

I used every module in the case.

The clock is set by Mutable Instruments' Yarns, then divided out to various modules via the Delptronics Triggerman.

There are two kicks: one is from Mutable Instruments' Peaks, and the other is also from Peaks, but split off and sent through the Intellijel uFold II then through The Harvestman's Malgorithm and spit back out as a distorted WTF.

Snare sound is a sampled piano from the default sounds on the Bastl Instruments GrandPA -- of course it's all crushed from the effects from the module.

Some percussive effects are also coming from Noise Engineering's Basimilus Iteritas.

I use the Synthrotek MST CV/Mixer to turn off and on the kicks.

The two basslines from from The Harvestman's Hertz Donut and HARM on Braids, going through Audio Damage's Kompressor and LFOs from Intellijel's Quadra

The 6U case is from Dark Modular Cases.

No computers were used in this piece. All modular synths."