Make Your Happy

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"I've been poking at this small modular system, trying to find unusual combinations of rhythms mixed with randomized melody lines. I found a pretty good balance, and recorded this. There's a handmade quality to it, as all three sequencers are started by hand, and the volca beats is a little bit different in its timing than the FH2s."

Livid Code + DSI Tetra

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"I’ve been working on setting up the code controller to make this Terra more useful. Lots of sysex and NRPN going on. This is running on a laptop, but it is designed in Cycling 74 RNBO to run on a raspberry pi."

Deep State

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"Fascinating sounds as the Fugue Machine iOS app makes strange notes on the Buchla Easel Command.
I be playing Buchla Music in Downtown Los Angeles at Coaxial Arts on August 17, 2024. Do come! It will be grand."

Shifting sands

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"Easel sequenced in strange ways with the 1010 blackbox, the Easel Command is left to its own devices. Playing in the space between notes, I can add with the touch control. A satisfying situation, with mixing and effects in Bitwig."

Bleep, meet Bloop

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"Playing with a crossfade of the sequencer and arpeggiator to control pitch for extra unusual pitch modulation. Delays added in bitwig."

Recidivist

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"At my portable, battery powered #dawless setup, working out a groove. Roland SH01A for the bass, Korg Volca FM for a lead, Meeblip Geode for another lead, Elektron Model Cycles for the drums and percussion. @1010music Blackbox is the brains of the operation, recording and playing sequences and distributing MIDI. Random crummy delay pedal on the volca FM is chosen more for its size than its sound!"

Contraption

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"Gearing up for Wednesday's monthly in dt San Jose. I've been trying to make the most of the small synths, as it makes for a very portable situation. With only one effect on one sound, it is all very close to the circuits and raw.

Production notes: A dawless jam run on battery power alone. Roland SH-01A, Korg Volca FM, Meeblip Geode, @1010music Blackbox, and Sensel Morph. The Roland is going through a @MerisUs LVX delay. I found the cheap and compact "G-MARK" mixer from AliExpress for frighteningly cheap. It does a darn decent job, and is crazy small.

There are a couple battery packs - a 150Wh and a 99Wh. I ended up using the 2nd because the blackbox was making too much USB noise when everything was plugged into the 150Wh. There was still quite a bit of noise, but the Izotone RX-8 does a good job cleaning that out."

Earth Fruit

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"Syncing up the Buchla Music Easel with the @WeAreElektron Model Cycles, precarious techno ensues. Recorded in mono, so I dropped it into @bitwig Studio to add some stereo effects with simple multi-band separations."

Rainy Day

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"Rain is falling outside. It made for a mood on the Buchla Music Easel."

December 25, 2023

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Mr Morning

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"Something to wake up to. Testing out the overhead with a pre-production Buchla Music Easel and lovely Meris LVX delay pedal. Getting ready to shoot some tutorials, but playtime gets in the way!"

Side by Side

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"Finding the music in a new granular synth, Granular III in Ableton Live 12. I created several presets for this synth and chose two that played well together to create this ambient piece."

Calming Color

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"Slowly changing colors and moody soundscape. Using @ArturiaOfficial Augmented Voices and Vital in @bitwig studio."

Macro Temporal (official video)

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"Macro Temporal from '3', available on Bandcamp. https://nbor.bandcamp.com/album/3
A single take through a single looper...but I augmented the performance by taking large chunks of the 'unlooped' audio from the synthesizer and and re-arranging it in time against the looped audio."

Shredding Not Guitar Solo

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"Buchla synth turned glitch guitar."

Discrete Energies

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"An audio-reactive video made in @cycling74com Jitter. Soundtrack composed in @bitwig studio using @madrona-labs Aalto, with a touch of @ArturiaOfficial Stage-73 V2."

Fan of Color

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"A very low key meditation on color and sinusoids. A complex surface is rendered from sine waves, accompanied by a downtempo track. Graphics generated in @cycling74com Jitter. Audio uses @AudioDamageInc Continua and @madrona-labs Aalto."

The Chase

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"I got a cool pattern going on the Microbrute and had to get it out of my system. A cheap re-cut from the amazing 'Poliziotto Sprint' (aka Highway Racer) adds some context and fun."

Live Quadraphonic Mixing in Bitwig Studio

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"Download the Grid device here! https://bitwiggers.com/presets/684872...

Recently, I've been lucky to perform live sets in Quadraphonic audio. I developed some tools in Bitwig Studio to create animated soundscapes for four speakers. Using modulators and the FX Grid, I can create a huge variety of spatial audio patterns. However, Bitwig isn't really designed for this, so there's a few things you need to do to work around its stereo "bias." Despite the few hacks, it works really well, and sounds amazing. This video gives an overview of how to make everything work."

Thanks Radio

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"Precipitous placement of a glass of pinot notwithstanding, I've been working with loopers and the @buchlausa Easel command. After struggling with some less desirable results, I listened to the magic of KFJC radio and it gave me some new direction. Drum sounds created on the Buchla, sampled into the @bitwig drum machine, sequenced with the Hawtin script for the Fire. I'm controlling four instances of @AudioDamageInc Enso with a Livid Minim (off screen)."