Structure Festival 11-04-2014

Published on Apr 15, 2014 Alex Pleninger·45 videos

Buchla, iPads & Nintendo outdoors.

DDFX - dual complex timbre processor

Published on Mar 20, 2014 Alex Pleninger·43 videos

DDFX - multitriangle oscillator + 3-tap delay

Published on Mar 19, 2014 Alex Pleninger·40 videos

"the source is 289's multitriangle osc (lower section) going through 292e to 289's 3-tap delay (upper section). dynamics by 281e, timbre changes via 266e. played on isomorphic midi keyboard by 225e monophonically."

DDFX Time Manipulator & Brainulator

Published on Dec 9, 2013 Alex Pleninger·42 videos

"the algorithm manipulates the audio at the second input by the signal presented on the first one"

DDFX Brainulator

Published on Dec 9, 2013

"it's kinda strange sonic destructor. sometimes sounds quite attractive :)"

DDFX Rhythm Extractor

Published on Dec 8, 2013 Alex Pleninger·40 videos

"this algorithm allows to extract timing pulses from the sound material depending on its spectral content"

Microtonal Heaven 1

Published on Dec 7, 2013 Alex Pleninger·36 videos

"This is what I was working on more than a year. It is the solely experimental machine with very unclear and uncertain future...
My girlfriend gives a test."

Update:

Microtonal Heaven 2

Published on Dec 7, 2013

"My No-Name-Machine goes through DDFX. Pretty nice...
Light improvisation in three different keys"

DDFX new-old reverb program

Published on Dec 6, 2013 Alex Pleninger·34 videos

"i wanna hope it sounds in sort of "vintage" manner :)
a bit noisy but charming, imo
osc from our 208"

DDFX Square-Core Oscillator

Published on Dec 6, 2013

Note: I created a DDFX channel for these. See the link directly below this post. The Alex Pleninger link will remain and will include his other work.

DDFX Filter called Filtor

Published on Dec 4, 2013 Alex Pleninger·32 videos

"I resisted as I could but had to make sort of filter for DDFX, one may call it Double Resonant Dual Mode Filter. As almost always, Timebase pot changes a lot"

Buchla Format DDFX Videos

DDFX 3-band EQ

Published on Nov 27, 2013 Alex Pleninger·27 videos

"equalizer makes pretty subtle changes to the source, timebase provides sort of spectral tilt function. sorry for camera sound and i'm ...hmmm... not the best camera man ever :)"

Update:

DDFX Looper 1

Published on Nov 27, 2013 Alex Pleninger·31 videos

"here is long awaited looper demo. actually, there'll be 5 different looper programs available for ddfx and this is the first one. again, sorry for camera sound and yes, i'm arguably the worst camera man, i admit )))"

DDFX PhaseRing

SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289

Published on Sep 4, 2013 romanfilippov·10 videos

This one in via Roman Filippov.

Playlist (use the controls on the bottom of the player to forward through videos - 4th video on shows module):
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - SAW CORE OSCILLATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - SINE CORE OSCILLATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - DUAL FM OSCILLATOR SCOPE
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - DUAL FM OSCILLATOR DEMO
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - HARMONIZER / PITCH SHIFTER
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - BITCRUSHER / SONIC DECIMATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - KARMINUS-WEAK SYNTHESIZER
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - PLATE REVERBERATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - HALL REVERBERATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - TALKER

Some details via Roman on Muff's:

"we (Roman Filippov and Alex Pleninger) are glad to introduce the result of almost a year of development, coding, electronic tests and just complex work in general - Sputnik Defect Processor Model 289.

this device is crafted to precisely comply the modular standards of Buchla Electric Music Box better known as Buchla 200 and Buchla 200e.

the core of the 289 is a Digital Signal Processor which takes all the computations in sound transforming and generating. around it one may observe some controllable analogue parameters such as Balance and Regeneration, they are independent for each audio channel. both DSP cores have 8 independent Programs or Algorithms per core and each such algorithm has three voltage controllable parameters, varying from program to program. each core can be expanded via another 8 programs on external EEPROM chip. one of the most exciting feature is the variable Timebase which affects a lot of nuances in every algorithm's behavior.

apart from conventional stuff like reverbs, delays and various modulations the Model 289 offers quite unique solutions such as fm-synthesis, wide sonic range generators, human throat modelling, simple spectrum transfer facility, pitch-to-cv conversion, pitch shifting, audio looping, several sound destructors, pitch class generator, karplus-strong synthesis and many others, including some auxiliary programs. and the program list is ever-growing, new programs are always on the way.

we hope this module will take its place in every Buchla system whether it is a baby 4U boat or two 18U cabinets mighty electronic workbench.

ALGORITHMS

OSCILLATORS

we offer two oscillator programs, both of them work in audio range from 25 to approximately 3000 hz.

the controls are the following:
x - pitch.
y - wavemorphing.
z - wavefolding.

audio inputs 1 and 2 support amplitude and frequency modulations respectively.
on the output 1 you'll get final waveform morphed and folded, if any.
the second output provides the sub-oscillator one octave below the main one.
as for y and z controls, the first one continuously morphs the osc core (saw or triangle, depending on chosen program) from saw through triangle to half-inverted saw or from triangle through sine to square. in the case the wavemorphing is set to square, the wavefolding performs as pwm controller. in any other situations z-pot folds the wave in a manner of mathematical reflection at the given threshold. all these are pretty straight-forward, even if sounds a bit messy. you may observe the oscillators behavior in the attached [above] video footages.

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Third demo of the Monster

Published on Jan 17, 2013 Alex Pleninger·25 videos

"A bit more complicated setup - Lemur on iPad being used to control pitches of the SID and some other internal stuff. No external FX were used."

buchla 200e + strange attractor, 24.08.2012

Published on Jan 8, 2013 Alex Pleninger·24 videos

"i really don't remember why it was captured... sorry for camera sound! please consider this as a silly experiment, nothing serious :)"

Opening door creak at 1:02.

iTunes:
Strange Attractor - Jonathan Mackenzie
iOS Devices on eBay - Daily Tech Deals

Second demo of the Monster

Published on Jan 7, 2013 Alex Pleninger·23 videos

"Another, a bit more "pop-oriented" attempt... i'm thinking hard on future hardware expansions..."

First demo here.

First demo of the Monster

Published on Jan 6, 2013 Alex Pleninger·22 videos

"Very first and very brief attempt to make some sound out of my last project"

CyberFest 2012

Published on Jan 1, 2013 Alex Pleninger·21 videos

"Short fragments from "Lux Oculi" performance in Saint-Petersbourg"

::vtol:: koshmator + Buchla 200e

YouTube Uploaded by Vtolus on Apr 5, 2012

"koshmatro - http://samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/koshmator.html

buchla by Alex Pleninger"

Alex Pleninger and the TimeSpace FX - Moscow Synth Gathering

Performance in Skryabin museum, Moscow, 15-02-2012

YouTube Uploaded by traffkin on Feb 19, 2012

"I played Acoustic Grand Piano, Atari ST 1040 onboard synth, my diy Spacetime FX processor and iPad with Movement I-V, Oramics and Yumi:synth.
Videoart by Oleg Makarov
Sorry for poor picture quality!"

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::vtol:: 2112 Conway's Game of Life hardware matrix sequencer

Buchla 200e + ::vtol:: 2112 Game of Life sequencer from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"::vtol:: 2112 Game of Life sequencer manipulating with Buchlas 200e CV

more info - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/​vto/​diy/​2112.html

Buchla by Alex Pleninger"

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::vol:: Manual Jam with buttonboards

::vol:: Manual Jam with buttonboards from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Volfram on solo

Corvax on bass

Sonora as rhythm machine

::vtol:: - buttonboard 1

Alex Pleninger - buttonboard 2

more info - vtol.tk"

::vtol:: Volfram controlled by Haken Continuum through Zig-Zag circuit bending CV/GATE processor

::vtol:: Volfram controlled by Haken Continuum through Zig-Zag circuit bending CV/GATE processor from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Zig-Zag - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/zig.html

Volfram - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/vol.html"

::vtol:: Volfram controlled by Haken Continuum through Zig-Zag circuit bending CV/GATE processor (modular by Alex Pleninger) from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.