Spectral Needs

Purity of Buchla. Nothing else in this one - I set up 7 envelopes on the 200 series, being triggered by 7 trigger outs on the 100 series sequencer. The envelopes control 7 bands on the 296 Spectral Processor, giving it a sort of polyphonic note sequence, the source being a mixture of oscillators and noise. This mono signal was then sent to the Dodeca reverb and the 277 delay unit for stereofication. Oh yes, and I also got a new go-pro camera that I bought at a car boot sale for £10

Be Moog

I managed to get the Buchla MARF to play nicely with the Moog Modular. It took a bit of wrangling, mainly by processing the CV out of the MARF to go from 1.2v per octave to the 1v that the Moog needs. I know that it is possible to set the MARF to 1 volt per octave from the back of the unit with some tiny switches, but I would normally be using it with other Buchla modules so I did the voltage scaling with a Moog mixer instead, then used the Dotcom Quantizer. Hopefully you can work out the patch from the video

Word of the Week #84

Perculator

Just messing about with some percussive patterns on the ARP2500, for the new John Foxx & The Maths album

Mojo Mag

Speaking of Mojo - John Foxx and the Maths are featured in this months issue of the magazine. (Oh, I took that picture of Foxxy and Robin!)

Mojo Working

Check out the awesome Chord Electronics MOJO mini amp / audio interface. It sounds totally amazing. Say goodbye to horrible low quality, low level audio from your devices! Plus its got big round glowing buttons on it

Multi-Modular

Here is a multi-modular patch, whereby I use the Buchla 200 MARF to control the EMS VCS3

This is possible because I modified the VCS3 Jones cable to be able to send and receive CV and gate signals

I’m also using the Roland 100M to add some filter modulation on the VCS3 via the pin matrix

The last bit of the patch is sending some triggered bursts of sound from the output of the VCS3 into the Buchla 200 delay and bandpass filters, which are being modulated by the MARF as well

Foxx Head

More work this week on the new JF&TM album with Foxxy. Things are coming to a head

(Sketch by JF)

Spectral Measures

Recrochet

Crochet is a process of creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn

Recrochet is a process of creating sounds on a modular synth by interlocking loops of noise so that they sound a bit like early Tangerine Dream

Another Buchla self-player. Mainly using the 296 Spectral Processor and taking 4 different frequency outputs from it into 4 LPGs and then randomly panning the result with the 102 Stereo Locator