Trying to Copy the Serge Modular Sound

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"I was trying to do a Serge modular imitation. There's actually a bit of logic I put into the patching, not one thing is a master time or frequency generator, but they all effect each other in some way or another. I even used the PlanB ASR I just got to make stepped randomness out of the smooth Heisenberg output. I'm not bothering explaining this one, since it would take a while. I think I need another Model 14 CV processor and some more logic modules to get closer."

Max/MSP vs. PlanB Modular, Analog with Digital Control

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"I had read rumors of the MOTU 828MKII being able to send out low frequencies, low enough to be used as control voltages. So I had to try it to see if it works. Well, it does. The control signal is a little aliased, looks like a 8-16 bit signal. Not too steppy, fester than MIDI by far (but not precisxe for any real scale, need more tests to see how that is. But a very successful test to see if the MOTU 828MK2 could send out low frequency signals to control the modular synth without MIDI, a la VC. I patched together a simple little patch from the LFO tutorial on the Cycling 74 website (I'm a lazy ass programmer would would rather copy/paste). The 4 scopes on the left green side of the patch are the waveforms and clicks. The two waveforms on the scopes on the right are simple combinations of the 2 LFOs on the left. My camera sucks and the menus got overexposed. I'll cover what's going on in the annotations once again. I like watching videos for sound and music with no talking, so I make mine that way now that annotations are on youtube.

This is not meant to be a flex of my musical prowess or anything like that, just searching for interesting sounds, and testing out Max/MSP MOTU828MKII control of the PlanB modular.

Everyone who ever read those postings, but didn't want to shell out cash to test a theory, well, here's the proof it does, and now I have almost unlimited quick and dirty analog LFOs. At least good enough for almost unlimited 8 to 16 bit LFOs (that's about the resolution it looks, still better than an Arduino or other ATMEGA controller with a resister ladder DAC which is what I was going to try invstingating again next if this didn't work. It worked OK for teh theremin to Max before. Now on to integrating Max and the modular . Digital logic meets analog logic (Grenader & crew meets Zicarelli and crew). :)

I think one of my next MaxB tests will have to be making it stutter, afterall, isn't t a rule I have to make something stutter in real time as a Max user?"

New Year, Same Old Buchla Bongos

YouTube via dkimcg | January 05, 2011 |

"More bongos n sticks with a semi-strange voice in the mix.
Plus the Slim Phatty, this time staying away from the Buchla's low ends.
250e times and sequences."

Guitar Loop Processed by 200e & friends

YouTube Uploaded by dkimcg on Jan 27, 2012

"A simple guitar loop goes through a bunch of processing with the Echoplex sending midi clock to the Machinedrum. The sends on the Mackie go into the Buchla which does nothing without an input signal. No clock on the Buchla, just catching envelopes to run pulses here and there."

Back to basics: Working OT

YouTube Uploaded by dkimcg on Jul 22, 2011

"Loaded up the Octatrack with some loops and hits. Everything but the main drum loop is from either the Buchla 200e or old recordings from when I had a eurocrack system. TResonator goes from subtle to downright nasty as I test my limiters. Check your ears and your levels on this one. Slider P-Locks the drum track delays for the pseudo Karplus-Strong sounds."

200e Stupid Noise

YouTube via dkimcg | June 25, 2010 | 3:53

"2 cycling envelopes time everything out to make some stupid robotic noise. Digital aliasing used as a tool. :)"

back to the crap

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DSF_0091 aka patch for Dec 16, 2008

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"I'll add annotations of anything interesting in the patch.

Mostly planB and Cwejman modules, but a Make Noise QMMG and Livewire AFG are used offscreen."

This Modular Synth Patch Even Smells Like Ass

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"A drone that used up almost every last patch cable I have. But they all do a little something. The way one small individual fiber is harmless, but combine many together in some Metamucil and you get crap for sure. This patch even smells like ass. Like the big turd that never ends...drone away.

It sounds much better not on youtube.

In PooO'phonic sound here:
http://joekickass.com/donk/sounds/sou..."

Forgetful: aka Buchla Presetless

YouTube Uploaded by dkimcg on Feb 1, 2012

"I suppose if I really wanted to, I could have saved this patch...

Having no presets is liberating in it's own way, sorta like a monk's sand mandala, temporary circuits."

261e waveforms

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Ring Mod Modular Patch to Celebrate a Better Camera

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"A patch heavy on ring modulation and an experiment in percussive synthesis.

Yes, it's a new camera. Three people had told me I should get a better camera, 3 is the magic number. So I got a slightly better camera, but still managed to avoid getting a full DVCAM.

I was so happy I made this ring mod patch."

Two More Modules

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"I got these two Harvestman modules today, the Pokivoks VCF and the Tyme Sefari with the Sound of Thunder expander. I'm still learning how to use them. The filter sounds beautiful, and is pretty cool that you can mix two signals in. It sounds very CCCP.

The Tyme Sefari, I have to do some experiments with a bigger time scale to see how long a sample it can play back, and some VC experiments too. This is pretty much my first patch after figuring out the basics of the Tyme Sefari.

M28, M17, M10, and the Paia timing and making gates and triggers. M15s, Ring mod, wave shaping, etc. mostly to end up barely audible. I want to get my patches leaner so I don't suck so bad and keep using up cables I don't need to."

Prey (good audio)

YouTube via dkimcg | July 12, 2010

"99% the same patch as the Fibonacci patch, but this time clocked by the Elektron Monomachine with Machinedrum playing along. The rest of the cables are the same, but some modified knob settings.

Phasing and some light gain courtesy of guitar pedals. Drenched in Eventide reverb, and all live as usual.

Reminds me of 80's movie stalking music from a dramedy cop movie, a la Running Scared, BH Cop, 48Hrs, etc. Just needs some funky bass lines."

250e Used as a CV Switch

YouTube Uploaded by dkimcg on Mar 7, 2011

"Ever wonder what those 4 black CV inputs are on the bottom left corner of the 250e? They are CV inputs, they do nothing until you eneable them to do something. Here I have them going through the 2 sequences, CV1 and Cv2 both select between 4 CVs, the 4Cv are the 4 outputs of the 281e in varying, but rhythmically related speeds. That gets sent to the timbre sections of the 261e and 259e.

More weird neat things the 250e can do..."

250e Nested Repeats

YouTube via dkimcg — June 21, 2010 — "Demo of a sequence that uses several nested repeats to create a complex variant of 16 steps. Sometimes it looks like it's going backwards, but it's jumping to the previous step, and not stepping backwards."

Easter Sunday

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"Elektron MnM and MD off screen."

analog patch Aug 19th

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"More tools at the same time, sequenced by the Revolution."

Buchla 285e basics

Published on Jan 25, 2013 dkimcg·143 videos

"Buchla 285e frequency shifter/balanced modulator featured in a simple patch. Audio generated by 261e into both sections of the 285e and out through the 227e audio interface. One channel of the 281e used to modulate the timbre CV and frequency CV (on the shifter section) and some of the waveshaper inputs on the 261e about 2/3 in."

Another 250e Sequence

YouTube via dkimcg | September 15, 2010

"Same sequence from this previous recording, same patch, slightly different settings.

http://soundcloud.com/ibdk/momelodee"