Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter Videos by kozepz

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Remember, if you are pressed for time, you can forward through the playlist via the controls at the bottom of the player.  They are all worth a listen on a good sound system.  Ciat-Lonbarde magic here.  BTW, be sure to check out the interview with Peter Blasser of Ciat-Lonbarde here.   And of course, if you want to get completely lost in his work over the years, see the Ciat-Lonbarde label.

Playlist:

1. Plumbutter dub variation number aa - Published on Jun 12, 2013
Left output of plumbutter clean, right output through fx in daw. Audio output of deerhorn goes into the blues and oranges out into the green of d'horn to get some sort of gated effect. A good low end will enhance listening pleasure!

2. Plumbutter dub variation number be - Published on Jun 12, 2013
Left output of plumbutter clean, right output through fx in daw. Audio output of deerhorn goes into the blues and oranges out into the green of d'horn. A good low end will enhance listening pleasure!

3. Plumbutter dub variation number ce - Published on Jun 15, 2013
Left output of plumbutter clean, right output through fx in daw. Right gong/avdog get triggered by deerhorn or by accident, top ultrsound receives both left and right audio out from d'horn.

4. Plumbutter drum variation - Published on Aug 13, 2013
This is a nice way to bring some variation in your pb 4/4 rhythms.

Patch:
Quantum dust modulates the fm of the 4/4 gong (in trad) when signal enters the comparator.
Feeding signal manually would give you nice control over change.

In the last part the cable is patched, and changing the response of the upper gong gives you periodic control over change.

5. Plumbutters Orange Voltages

6. Plumbutter handshake

7. Searchin for a plum dub - Published on Aug 10, 2013
When I go dubbin with the plumbutter this is normally how I like to start.
Left output clean, right output through fx, patch a few cables and than just playin for hours and hours..

Patch:
3-roll provides pulses for left and right gong
4-roll pulse provides pulse for mwrs, more or less in tempo with the 3-roll, so the pulse modulating the gong fm will always move and give interesting effects

mwrs orange pulse out modulates fm of right gong which gives the changing timbre of the 'chord'.

playing with the response time of the right gong gives interesting changes in delay movements

feeding signals, as deerhorn and quantum dust, into the ultrasound, which goes through the same fx as the chord, give those drone-ish, noisish sounds

8. Plumbutter dub variation S04D3 - Published on Apr 21, 2013
left output dry, right output through ableton fx

Plumbutter - Patch 004 & 005

Published on Dec 13, 2015 batchas

"Impro on the Plumbutter 1.

Direct outs: for the first time after 3 impros on this instrument, I'm using external signals to modulate the Plumbutter. All sounds are coming out of the Plumbutter which is frequency modulated by the Bugbrand modular.
I added and tweaked some reverb & delay afterwards in Logic.

One take: I cut a few seconds in the video, but a few moments where the audio level is not optimal or some frequencies a bit annoying (like at 6:23 for instance) still remain. It shows the other characters of the instrument."

Plumbutter - Patch 005

Published on Dec 13, 2015

"5th Impro on the Plumbutter 1.

I started to send external signal to the Plumbutter in impro nr. 4 and there are interesting sounds and a lot more to explore, like with frequency modulation for instance (here coming from the Bugbrand modular). The snare drum for instance get's pretty interesting.

Direct outs / one take: all sounds are coming out of the Plumbutter. Reverb & delay added afterwards in Logic."

Ciat-Lonbarde Dual Plumbutter 2

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Published on Nov 15, 2018 Jay Frederick

"★ UNDERBRUSH ★Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter v2 & Cocoquantus ★ Strymon Big Sky & Timeline ★

★ Combining the Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus and the Plumbutter V2. Starting out with vinyl noise as a bed from the “lo fi” mode of Strymon Timeline then adding Plumbutter v2 triggering the Eventide Pitchfactor. Later I bring in live sampling of the kalimba thru the Coco's dual 8-bit loopers. Thanks for listening.★

Recorded in Protools 2018.10 on Windows 10."

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"The awesome and inspiring "plumbutter 2" works perfectly. An entire album could be made using this one synth.

*Comes with power adapter and 20 cables"

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Rolzer - Beat Generator Add-On for the Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter

Published on Jul 23, 2018 hajimmie

Rolzer patching [plumbutter jam #19]

"rolls of rolzer patches into an ultrasound, gong, and pitch input of an Avdog. so you’re hearing three voices. showing how things suddenly gets chaotic and unpredictable manner, beyond comprehensive planning of control.

to be predictable needs some unique approach to learn - patch memo often doesn't reproduce the same result... well, that's actually the point of this thing partly, tho.."

Plumbrolzer session! [plumbutter jam #20]

plumbrolzer video is still relatively rare on tube so here’s a session on one night. Well, it’s not TRULY Plumbrolzer which I can’t afford yet but it is essentially the same ;)

via Ciat-Lonbarde

"Rolzer is a beat generator add-on for the Plumbutter, a drum and drama machine. The Plumbutter offers complete voltage control of all parameters, including its pulse-rolls, for generating beat tempo patterns. However, when voltage control is added to an androgynous circuit such as the rolz, it has the tends to roll-off the ultrasound chaos present in the original incarnation of this idea, the rolz-5. So here we have the Rolzer, a collection of geometries graded into tempi by virtue of their capacitors. It is for developing a relationship and searching for the oddest, most alive rhythms, not by twiddling knobs but by making connections.

According to the concepts outlined in the Rollz-5 papers, combinations of even and odd geometries, such as a square and a triangle, generate sophisticated beat patterns including chaos at ultrasound frequencies. An even roll maintains a steady pattern, and an odd roll tries to resolve its inherent paradox; connecting them blends these attributes over time and with "grain". The original paper circuits presented each solder-worker to construct her own idiosyncratic assemblage of geometries, with assortments of capacitors based on what was on at hand, or strict dogmata, or pure whimsey. When the concept evolved into a Laboratory Rollz, the Plumbutter discarded any idiosyncrasies for the sake of pure control and dialing in aesthetic by knob. However, the Tocante line offers a way to think about the materials of electronics- capacitors- that allows a revision of the original Rolz concept..."

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Batchas presents: Ciat Lonbarde Plumbutter 1 - Patch 015 & 016

Published on Mar 3, 2017 batchas

"All sounds Plumbutter 1.
One take.
Delay + reverb effects from Eventide H9 (setting delay or pingpong speed on iPad) + Logic."

Playlist:
Batchas presents: Ciat Lonbarde Plumbutter 1 - Patch 015
Batchas presents: Ciat Lonbarde Plumbutter 1 - Patch 016
03 03 17 Plumbutter - March 3, 2017 (03)

rolzer

Published on Oct 28, 2014 Peter B

"Tocante has made a version of the rolz-5 circuits. It is an expansion board for the plumbutter. Plumbutter has that nice voltage control for each of its rhythm generators (rolz) but they lack the pure crunchy ultrasound paradox capability of the simple rolz. This expansion board is to make up for that; the rolz are tuned by capacitors, in the range of 1 microfarad, through 1.5, 2.2, 3.3, 4.7, 6.8, up to 10 microfarads (allegro to larghissimo). The odd beats and strange interjections are caused by wiring them to each other. They are all "brown nodes" as on the plumbutter, androgynous, both input and output. Here, they are processed by plumbutter's ultrasound filter, and a gongue and snare drum.
http://ciat-lonbarde.net/rollz5/
http://ciat-lonbarde.net/plumbutter/
http://synthmall.com/tocante/"

Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter

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video in the listing previously posted here.

"One of the most unique instruments I've played. A lot of fun to play and capable of weird soundscapes and even weirder beats.

Comes with the shown banana cables.

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There is a new Plumbutter, which we will herein call "Plumbutter 2". It is very much similar to the old plumbutter, but in a new slim case. The sigils are engraved rather than printed. Still features the signature mulberry, walnut and sassafras woodage. Aux inputs and outputs remain. Besides housekeeping mods to clean the sound, there are two special new mods:

The stereo mixer section now has CV inputs. They act to in a stereo manner: a signal going up on "verso" makes the right side louder and the left side quieter, and the opposite for "inverso".
Avdogs are now stereo: each one undulates in the left channel and the right channel, back and forth.
The snare drum is now much louder"

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Ciat-Lonbarde Rolzer

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You can find demos of the Rolzer in previous posts here.

"Has a small blemish, clearly imaged above. Ships with power supply.
from CL:
Rolzer is a beat generator add-on for the , a drum and drama machine. The Plumbutter offers complete voltage control of all parameters, including its pulse-rolls, for generating beat tempo patterns. However, when voltage control is added to an androgynous circuit such as the rolz, it has the tends to roll-off the ultrasound chaos present in the original incarnation of this idea, the . So here we have the Rolzer, a collection of geometries graded into tempi by virtue of their capacitors. It is for developing a relationship and searching for the oddest, most alive rhythms, not by twiddling knobs but by making connections.
Here we can bring back the strong sense of idiosyncrasy only offered by non-knobbed geometries, without whimsey, by collaborating with the industrial value system of capacitors, known as "E6". Basically, a ratio of ten is broken logarithmically into six gradations, and these are mapped to a sense of tempo, associating Italian quality with Industrial quantity: presto, allegro, moderato, andante, adagio, lento, and grave become modules of 1, 1.5, 2.2, 3.3, 4.7, 6.8, and 10 microfarad values.
Now, each tempo module contains an assortment of even and odd rolls. From top to bottom: hexagon, triangle, square, pentagon, and hexagon again. There are two hexagons to offer that roll's plexus for connections. Before defining the colors, review the sandrode concept- androgynous nodes that neither input nor output, but perform both functions at different times. In the rolzer, they are simply transistor neurons, with three simple actions: discharge of a capacitor, building up to a threshold, and inverted pulsing another neuron. The sandrode function is at the junction of these three, forming both a sensor and a pulse generator. The rolzer modules' majority of connections are sandrodes, represented as brown nodes. In the language of plumbutter, brown is both a hot and a cool color, so it takes both those attributes, output and input. However, sometimes you just want an output, perhaps for voltage control of a manifesting gong. So, each roll has one orange jack that yields a square wave at the tempo of the roll.

Connections may be stacked, and since all the plumbutter and rollzer outputs have a current limiting resistor, anything can go into the brown bananas. However, note that the brown bananas have no current limiting resistor; this is essential to propagate the paradox wave effect. The impedance of a brown node feels like a diode junction to ground, plus a high impedance to positive. As of 2014, I have not received any complaints of broken browns, because most sensible synthesizers have some kind of current limiting resistor on their outputs. But make note that if you have a very old Serge, you will likely already know about its own smoking modules when outputs are crossed, and that old warning would apply when patching old Surge to a brown banana. In general, the browns are meant to be patched with each other, and connected to the green inputs of plumbutter for drum machine manifestation. Likewise, orange "should" go to blue or purple. And red and gray can come back into the browns here. But experimenting really can't hurt!"

plumbutter and a looper

Published on May 4, 2014 koze pz·18 videos

"Plumbutter and Ableton's looper.

Stereo input from plumbutter into PB IN channel.
Converted to mono, added a looper and fx.
Moving recorded parts into separate tracks for later processing."

plumbutter and a looper part 2 of 2

plumbutter gonguebass02 & gonguebass03

Published on Jun 26, 2014 koze pz·31 videos

"Just a moment to capture a phatt gonz gongue bass. Sound is purely plumbutter.

Left gongue fm-ed by orange rollz to create the bleepy kick. Q open.
Not the pulse input is defining the tempo, but the rate of fm-ing the gongue with the rollz.

Right gongue in gonz mode, pitch low, Q open and audio into ultrasound to create the phatt bass.
Modulation ultrasound for little variation."

plumbutter gonguebass03

Published on Jun 26, 2014

"audio out gongues into comparator
dust into ultrasound
one gongue percussion
other gongue bass and audio out into ultrsoundpure plumbutter"

Ciat Lonbarde PLUMBUTTER ROTUNDA

YouTube Published on Jun 14, 2012 by petermopar

"Go to Radio Shack 2 buy banana plugs because Ciat-Lonbarde is dropping this new synth:
www.ciat-lonbarde.net/plumbutter/"


"PLUMBUTTER IS READY. IT IS FOR THE REAL HEADSs. AUXILIARY INPUTS ARE ON THE FRONT, TO INTEGRATE IT WITH ANY SORT OF SYNTHESIS/PLAYBACK RIG. THE DEERHORN MODULE PROVIDES INSTANT SPATIAL CONTROL OF ANYTHING, VIA A SPECIAL PRINTED ANTENNA ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE INSTRUMENT. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF DUAL UNITS

First of all, you should know that there is a master, stereo mixer, which mixes all the drum and drama content down into a stereo feed, so you don't need an offboard mixer!

Drum and Drama simply means any kind of rhythmic pulsing plus more gestural, soft, or emotional sounds. Thus the instrument is designed for a long performance, cinematic events, to be a major player like the great modular synthesizers of the 20th century which it gets its inspiration from: Arp, Buchla, Serge, and countless nameless inventions that used banana plugs.

The main audio producing modules are five (5), as follows:

Deerhorn, a radio instrument not unlike the theremin but much advanced, with inputs and outputs to interface with the rest of this machine.
Gongue, which takes a pulse input and responds rhythmically (at its own pace), by ringing an electronic resonance.
Ultrasound, which takes any sort of signal, and attempts a Nyquist resampling to bring out any unheard ultrasounds.
AVDog, which takes a pulse and undulates at human brain waves, thus creating a meta-resonance, which is manifested as the envelope of a synthesized electronic tone.
Snare Drum

Now, the core of the Plumbutter is actually directly unheard of through this mixer, for it is the pulse machinery that drives it..." More info here

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Batchas presents: Plumbutter - Patch 011

Published on Sep 12, 2016 batchas

"Plumbutter & Buchla.
Until 1:13 it's only the Plumbutter 1 that we hear (modulated also by buchla).
Then buchla 258v at 1:14.
2nd 258v oscillator at 1:26.
259e at 1:38.
HH is from Plumbutter, modulated by 266.'

plumbutter drumma

Published on Oct 3, 2014 koze pz

"This video is about plumbutter drummachine."

plumbutter bleep bloop blight

Published on Oct 3, 2014

"This video is about nothing"

Ciat Lonbarde Plumbutter 2 - 01

Published on Dec 17, 2019 Jae Ryan

"Just got my Plumbutter in today. Unfortunately I leave for 10 days of work in the morning but here's a little jam that came out of my first few minutes with it, straight into an OTO BAM!

I didn't record the actual recording of the patch as I was too in the zone but I figured the Plumbutter is gorgeous enough to look at for 6 or so minutes :D"

Batchas presents: Ciat Lonbarde Plumbutter 1 - Patch 012

Published on Dec 21, 2016 batchas

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The Plumbutter and Sidrax jam [plumbutter #13]

Published on Oct 28, 2017 hajimmie

"Saturday jam of the plumbutter and the sidrax. Focusing on the deerhorn of the PB. Lately I often do rather complex patching especially on the sidrax but this time just keep it so simple. Later on bugbrand PTdelay kicks in."

Analog4 clocking Plumbutter

Published on May 31, 2015 koze pz

"A quick test clocking Plumbutter by Analog4.
CVA from A4 into clock-in Men With Red Steam. (0.5V)

So it works, now do something useful with it.

There’s a huge sound presence difference between the two machines.
Plumbutter is raw and very dynamic, A4 is polished and all fits.
But I must experiment more to get some nice things going on.

I’m glad clocking is not an issue, and now have to make some more cables to send CV to CQ and PB."

Plumbutter time! [plumbutter #11]

Published on Sep 9, 2017 hajimmie

"It's a quiet Saturday night, perfect time for Plumbutter. I want a dual butter.
sorry audio is recorded by the phone mic."

Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter v2 & Cocoquantus ★ Strymon Big Sky & Timeline ★ PARABRAHM ★

Published on Dec 14, 2018 Jay Frederick

★ PARABRAHM ★Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter v2 & Cocoquantus ★ Strymon Big Sky & Timeline ★

★ Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus and the Plumbutter V2 with Strymon Timeline and reverb from the Big Sky on the aux sends of the Allen & Heath GSR-24M console. The Coco is great is self generative patches and that is what is here bass line ★

★ Recorded in Protools 2018.10 on Windows 10.★

★ Thanks for listening.★

Batchas presents: Ciat Lonbarde Plumbutter 1 - Patch 013

Published on Feb 9, 2017 batchas

"All sounds Plumbutter 1.
One take.
Effect from Eventide H9 (first time using the H9)."

Batchas presents: Ciat Lonbarde Plumbutter 1 - Patch 013 [v2 0]