Twoness

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Apr 12, 2011

"This one I made a few days ago and took some time to mix the multitrack audio from the live recording. And just after I made the recording I noticed that the melody used in this video was somewhat familiar to me. After searching my previous recordings I found out that the video 'Oneness' has a somewhat similar melody. So I named this video 'Twoness'. The music begins with an 8-step sequence on row 1 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 driving the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO which sawtooth output is modulated by the GCS Steiner filter and drives the Blacet Miniwave. This produces a modulated sound on the MiniWave. Then I use the SoundPrism App on the iPad to generate chords. After that an 8-step sequence from the Synthesizers.com Q960 is added which is driving the Synthesizers.com Modular which output is lead through the Doepfer A-189-1 Voltage Controlled Bit Modifier to give it a crunchy sound. Then some Mellotron strings are played on the Roland XP-80 were after the Waldorf Q Keyboard comes in. The MIDI output of the Q Keyboard is connected to the XP-80's MIDI input so I can play both instruments on the keyboard of the Q. At some point an 8-step random sequence on row 2 of the MAQ16/3 driving the self-built Modular joins in. The solo's are performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1.

The music in this video tries to express the love and affection I feel for my dear friend Anne. She means the world to me.

You can download/see/hear the video and music from my website soon."

02072009

02072009 from dougcl on Vimeo.
"Doepfer A-117 amplitude modulated by audio rate square wave from A-143-3. Bass kick is Cwejman VCO-6 sine with envelope pitch modulation. Bass part is Cwejman VCO-2RM FM configuration to QMMG. Midrange is Blacet Miniwave. Doepfer A-196 adds some melody to the top. Adjustments being made are to the Miniwave bank select and PLL pitch. Doepfer A-160/1, A-152, and A-138 handles the sequencing."

The Big Decision

YouTube via attorks | August 29, 2010

"The origin of this improvisation is a 16-step sequence I programmed in Nodal. I then programmed that sequence in the Doepfer MAQ16/3 on row 1 which drives the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO which in its turn provides a triangle waveform to the Ian Fritz 5Pulser and a sawtooth waveform to the Blacet MiniWave. The outputs of the 5Pulser and the MiniWave are fed to the Synthesizers.com Q107 filter. The 16-step sequence on row 2 of the MAQ16/3 drives the self-made Modular. Row 3 of the MAQ16/3 is providing the gate signal to shift the Synthesizers.com Q960 which has two 8-step sequences on row 1 and 2 alternated by the Q962 sequential switch. The Q963 trigger bus is used to mute and unmute steps of the Q960. The Roland XP-80 is used for an Oberheim type of sound and the Waldorf Q Keyboard does some string/brass type of sound. On the Clavia Nord Lead 1, four different voices are used for solo's, bass and chords.

In the video I added some photo's I made today of the equipment I use currently.

You can see/hear/download the full 25 minute video and music from my website soon."

Agony

YouTube via Uploaded by attorks on Mar 10, 2011

"About 2 weeks ago I bought a second hand Doepfer A-189-1 Voltage Controlled Bit Modifier. I build a +/-15V to +/-12V converter to power the module (though not necessary I understood) and now it's working. And yes, I now can reproduce that beautiful Mark Shreeve bass sound with that metal edge to it. Anyway, this is a new improvisation but I heard some elements of the Warriors Theme I did before.

The Synthesizers.com Modular , which is connected to the Doepfer A-189-1 module, initially does a 4-step sequence and after a while I switch that to an 8-step sequence. The sawtooth output Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO is modulated by the GCS Steiner filter and drives the Blacet Miniwave. This produces a modulated sound. This procedure is described on the Muff's forum by Volt and is called 'MiniWave Table Tilting'. The self-built Modular does a 4-step sequence. The theme is played on the Roland XP-80 doing the Mellotron strings. The Waldorf Q Keyboard produces some agonizing sounds and the odd solo is performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1.

You can download/see/hear the video and music from my website soon."

In doubt

YouTube via attorks | August 24, 2010

"Made this improvisation last evening. I was in doubt whether to share this video with you because I think the 'magic level' of the music is not that high. But maybe you think otherwise so here it is for you to judge. Row 1 of the Synthesizers.com Q960 sequencer drives the Synthesizers.com Modular. The Q963 trigger bus is used to mute individual steps for row 1. Row 2 drives the self-made Modular which 2 VCO's are set to an interval in the beginning of the video. Row 3 drives the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO which in its turn provides a triangle waveform to the Ian Fritz 5Pulser and a sawtooth waveform to the Blacet MiniWave. The outputs of the 5Pulser and the MiniWave are fed to the Resonant LoPass Gate which is modulated by the Ian Fritz All-In EG. The Roland XP-80 is used for the Mellotron strings sound. The Waldorf Q Keyboard is programmed with 4 different instruments. The solo's are performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1 with some different voices.
You can see/hear/download the full 22 minute video and music from my website soon."

appendage_0001.wmv

YouTube via oldmanfury

"The sMs Audio Electronics Appendage ribbon controller in action. Really simple setup - appendage mix output sent through a Blacet/Wiard miniwave quantizer, added to a Blacet Hex Zone used as an arpeggiator (really good for this!). Bend output controls square wave Oscillator PWM and a resonant lopass generator release time (via a Blacet EG1).

My appendage is just a 1" x 2" x 2 ft. oak piece that I hogged a small cavity out of to fit an isolated 1/8" stereo jack."

Tenderness

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Jan 14, 2012

"I recently bought the Camera Connection Kit for my iPad and an ESI MIDIMATE II MIDI interface which has two cable which both can function as out- or input. And here a video using Little MIDI Machine sequencer App on the iPad. One ESI MIDI cable is connected to the Creamware MiniMax ASB which MIDI Thru is connected to the Waldorf Q Keyboard. The green 16-step sequence screen is driving the MiniMax and the orange 8-step one the Q. The second ESI MIDI cable is connected to the Doepfer MAQ16/3 sequencer to synchronize it. The 8-step sequence on row 1 of the MAQ16/3 is driving the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO which is driving the Blacet Miniwave. The 4-step sequence on row 2 is driving the self-built Modular. The gate of row 3 is shifting the Synthesizers.com Q960 sequencer which has an 8-step sequence for the bass with only step 1 active on the Q963 trigger bus and later on also step 7. The Mellotron flute sound is played on the Roland XP-80 and the solo on the Clavia Nord Lead 1.

The video is filmed by my girlfriend Anne using my iPhone 4."

Incredible

YouTube via attorks | November 11, 2010

"Yesterday evening I was dialing in some sequences and it sounded very nice. But after recording a video it appeared that the sound recording was not alright, very distorted. So this evening I made a new video after first testing the sound recording. Now it is OK and the session is way better that yesterday evening so I guess this was meant to be. The song starts with an 8-step sequence on the Doepfer MAQ16/3 driving the the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO/Blacet MiniWave voice and a bass tone from the Synthesizers.com which is driven by the Q960. The Q963 is used to turn on and off individual stages for the bass tones. After that arpeggiated tones from the Waldorf Q Keyboard are introduced. Then the volume of the 8-step sequence from the MAQ16/3 for the self-built Modular is turned up. Strings are played on the Roland XP-80 and the solo on the Clavia Nord Lead 1.

The title refers to my friend Anne; she is a truly incredible woman.

The whole video is just over 20 minutes long and will be available soon from my website."

One Hundred

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Sep 24, 2011

"Uploaded my first video to YouTube in May 2008. And now 3 years later I upload the hundredth video. I was a little worried after doing video 99 because I wanted video 100 to be something special. And I think it is. Hope you will like it to.

At first you hear a 5-step sequence on row 1 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 driving the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO and the Blacet Miniwave. The percussive noise sound comes from the self-built Modular and is driven by a 16-step sequence on row 2 of the MAQ16/3.

After that the CS Saw Pad from the Roland XP-80 comes in whereafter the 4 step sequence from the Synthesizers.com Q960 is introduced but only steps 1 and 3 are active on the Q963 at first. The Q960 sequences drives the Synthesizers.com Modular. The Q962 sequential switch is triggered by row 2 of the MAQ16/3 to alter the sequence between the 3 rows of the Q960. Row 1 contains an Em, row 2 an Am and row 3 a Bm sequence. But the chords played on the Roland XP-80 don't follow those chords exactly which gives interesting variations. After that the arppegiated sound on the Waldorf Q Keyboard is added, varying the sound with the modulation wheel. Somewhere along the line steps 2 and 4 on the Q963 are activated so you hear the full 4 step sequence from the Q960. The Sunrizer App on the iPad is used to add some chorded sounds using the Lifeforms [JD] patch. The solo is performed on the Nord Lead 1. The audio is recorded with Pro Tools 9 using the Alesis MultiMix16 FireWire. Again my friend Anne used my iPhone 4G to video this session; thanks for that.

I dedicate this video to you, my dear YouTube friends, subscribers and channel watchers. Your comments and support encouraged me to go on. Thank you.

You can download/see/hear the video and music from my website soon."

Bugmodular algorithmic acid extract

YouTube via darenager
"A short snippet of a longer tweaking session, using some of my new Bugmodular modules, the Bug SV filter has a nice tone to it, in this clip I'm using the low pass output into a Blacet miniwave. This is just a demo of me messing around, but I will be putting a full track up featuring these modules soon.
Hope you enjoy it :)"

Automatic Drone Machine

YouTube via boobtube356
"Eurorack modular synthesizer generating a random selection of drones. The main sound is a Cwejman VCO-2RM sine ring modded with a Blacet Miniwave. The "percussion" part is the same audio further ring modded with a PlanB M15 sine wave, or a Cwejman VCO-6 ring modded with a Doepfer A-117 (selected by a Doepfer A-134-2 crossfader at random) then passing through the Makenoise QMMG low pass gate. The pitch control of all the VCOs is shared and selected via Doepfer A-148 sample and hold."

Update:

Automatic Drone Machine (long version) from dougcl on Vimeo.

Blacet Miniwave

via this auction

Plan B Blacet Miniwave Kit

via noisesource where you'll find a little more info.

"They come with the bare faceplate, the power adapter & a power cable."

Blacet Miniwave in Doepfer Case

via Noise Source where you'll find the details behind one man's journey in constructing the DIY kit.

Mark my words

YouTube via attorks | December 28, 2010 |

"This improvisation is heavily inspired by the track Floating of the Klaus Schulze album Moondawn. But then again, it also sounds nothing like it but you might recognize some elements. At least the tempo is the same. You hear 3 different sequences, two 8-step sequences from the Doepfer MAQ16/3 driving the self-built Modular and the Ian Fritz Through-Zero VCO together with the Blacet MiniWave and an 8-step sequence from the Synthesizers.com Q960 manually alternated on row 1 and 2 with the Q962 sequential switch driving the Synthesizers.com Modular. I use the Q963 trigger bus to switch on and off individual steps of the Q960 sequencer and use the first four dials on row 3 of the MAQ16/3 to alternate the gates which are used to shift the Q960 sequencer. The notes of the sequences are as follows:

MAQ16/3: Tempo 128
MAQ16/3: Row 1: c4 e4 g3 a3 f4 a3 d4 d3
MAQ16/3: Row 2: a3 d4 d3 a3 d4 a3 e4 d3 (half time of the other sequences, so tempo is 64)
MAQ16/3: Row 3: x x x x (gate is shifting the Q960)

Q960 : Row 1: e3 f3 d3 a3 e3 g3 a3 d4
Q960 : Row 2: d3 e3 a3 e3 e3 a3 a3 c4

I use the grey MIDI keyboard to transpose the sequences. Preset A13 of NanoStudio on the iPad is used to do some tones and chords. The strings are performed on the Roland XP-80. The solo's come from the Creamware MiniMax ASB together with the Clavia Nord Lead 1 and from the Waldorf Q Keyboard. Operating the camera, playing the keyboards and dialing the knobs is difficult so I hope you don't mind that the action sometimes is just outside the viewing range of the camera.

This song is dedicated to my son Mark is going through some heavy times the last couple of months. Mark, please know that I love you and that you are beloved by many others.

You can download/see/hear the video and music from my website soon."

Vernal Season

YouTube Uploaded by attorks on Mar 25, 2012

"The last few weeks I have been trying to make a video. Did many takes resulting in 3 takes which were acceptable but I was not convinced that one of the three was good enough. So this evening I decided to do something completely different which resulted in this improvisation. And I did this in 1 take.
The video begins with two 8-step sequences: one sequence on row 2 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3 which is driving the self-built Modular and one sequence on the Synthesizers.com Q960 which is driving the Rob Hordijk OSC HRM and the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO connected to the Blacet Miniwave. The bass is performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1, the Mellotron strings sound is played on the Roland XP-80 and the Wurlitzer piano sound on the Waldorf Q Keyboard. Later on a 4 step sequence from row 1 of the MAQ16/3 driving the Creamware MiniMax ASB joins.

The video is filmed by my girlfriend Anne using my iPhone 4.

You can download/see/hear the video and music from my website."

Dr. Octature filter types

Dr. Octature filter types from Pete Shambler on Vimeo.

"A quick run through of some of the filter types available by mixing the [intellijel] Dr. Octature's variously sloped and phased low pass filter outputs.

In the first section, the filter is fully open with no resonance. Only the 6dB output is being monitored.

In the second section, the filter is being modulated by a looping envelope. All QMMG channels are set to VCA-- we're listening to the Mix Out:

6db out --> QMMG channel 1
12db out --> QMMG channel 2
18db --> QMMG channel 3
24db --> QMMG channel 4).

Input: a sine and saw mix from a Z3000, with its triangle fed back into the linear FM input (index at noon), driving a Blacet Miniwave (wavetable value modulated by a looping envelope)."

theshamblers.blogspot.com

auralAntics1.mov

YouTube via rezzn8r | July 07, 2010

"VCOs: Cynthia Zerocillator and BlacetVCO/Miniwave combo
VCFs: Livewire Frequencteiner and FoH Plague Bearer
VCAs: Blacet and Modcan
EGs: Bananalogue Serge VCS and Blacet EG1
Sequencing: Blacet Binary Zone and Klee v2
Delay: BugBrand PTDelay and Moog MF-104z"

Automatic Drone Machine (long version)

Automatic Drone Machine (long version) from dougcl on Vimeo.

29:42 minute version of this 9:58 video previously posted.
"Eurorack modular synthesizer generating a random selection of drones. The main sound is a Cwejman VCO-2RM sine ring modded with a Blacet Miniwave. The "percussion" part is the same audio further ring modded with a PlanB M15 sine wave, or a Cwejman VCO-6 ring modded with a Doepfer A-117 (selected by a Doepfer A-134-2 crossfader at random) then passing through the Makenoise QMMG low pass gate. The pitch control of all the VCOs is shared and selected via Doepfer A-148 sample and hold"

Doepfer A-100 Modular Synthesizer W/ portable case

via this auction
"portable case a-100p6 (grey)w/ lid
Blacet Miniwave w/ plan b conversion kit
tiptop audio z3000 oscillator mk1 -
flight of harmony plague bearer -
Harvestman Polyvoks vcf -
PLan b model 9 mixer attenuator -
plan b headphone amplifier -
Doepfer:
a-180 multiples -
a-196 phase locked loop -
a-112 sampler wavetable oscillator -
a-117 digital noise/random clock/808 sound source -
a-119 external input envelope follower -
a-118 noise random voltages -
a-132 dual vca -
a-134 panning module -
a-140 adsr -
a-138d crossfader/effect insert -"