Thunder Control

Live set using Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1 UW mk2 and Monomachine SFX-60 mk1, as well as small modular synthesis system.

As performed at the Diskordance night of 14/8/2013 at The Green Door Store, Brighton.

http://futureimagerecords.bandcamp.com/album/arrhythmus
http://www.futureimagerecords.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV65dIXMMXs

Arrhythmus

If you haven't already done so, go grab the latest OS update for the Monomachine from elektron.se (that's OS 1.22).

Load up one GND-NOISE machine and a FLANGER machine.

Route the NOISE machine into the FLANGER and mute the NOISE channel (i.e. unroute it from AB ). Make sure that the FLANGER is set to neighbour (the FLANGER should be immediately after the NOISE machine channel-wise).

Set the NOISE machine's envelope to no hold, short decay and maybe short release so that you end up with a clicking type sound going to the FLANGER.

Turn the FLANGER's LFO off (i.e. turn DEP to zero). Set the FB parameter fairly high (i.e. over 60). You'll want to set a fairly long envelope for the FLANGER too.

Enter some notes in the sequencers of both the NOISE and FLANGER machines. Ideally, these should occur on the same steps.

Parameter-lock the DEL parameter of the FLANGER machine.

You should then have something that works a bit like Karplus Strong synthesis.

Monomachine Karplus Strong Demo

Unpacking your sounds incorrectly doesn't always yield horrendous results...

Flawed

Percheron

Pre-order "Definite Complex" from Future Image Records now, and download the full cut of Snarestone instantly:
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The long awaited follow-up to 2010's "8 Characters", "Definite Complex" is the truest vision of Future Image's electronic music. From the frenzy of "Hymn for Two Nuns" and "Arkenfeld", through the relentless crush of "Ibrox", to the calm of "Three Point Projector" and "Snarestone", "Definite Complex" is the most expansive and varied of Finlay Shakespeare's output so far. Spanning five years of continuous work behind live albums such as "Jetlag" and "9v1", this is also his highest achievement as Future Image so far.

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Snarestone (Edit) from FORTHCOMING ALBUM "DEFINITE COMPLEX"

Zenkbx

Windrush / Sunpush

DXFD

Elektron MachineDrum sequencing Moog System 55 via MIDI->CV.
Reverb provided from EMS VCS3, gated in Ableton Live.
Full track coming soon.

KreggeTest

Recorded live at the first Desolate event, London, 5th September 2014.

Elektron Machinedrum (SPS-1UW mk2) + Monomachine (mk1) + Novation BassStation II  (w/ Future Sound Systems modifications).

Live At Desolate, London (5th September 2014)

Single take of my newly acquired Nord G2X doing its thing.
Mixed on cans and recorded on a crap laptop, so excuse any weirdness.

G2X Jam 1

...like a return from the dead.
Headphone listening recommended.

20170806

Circuit bent Casio SA-1. Only processing used was dynamic compression to keep levels constant.

Casio SA-1 up for sale on eBay now:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290461197875

Music For Bent Circuits

Demo of the Elektron Machinedrum slow LFO technique. No post-processing applied to the Machinedrum, all FX are internal to the MD. Machines used are the EFM BD, EFM SD, EFM HH and EFM RS. All 16 LFOs are active in one way or another.

Elektron Machinedrum Slow LFO Demo

DrumsRNN Test

Boxing Day 2010 acid jam:

Doepfer A-110 VCO
Doepfer A-138b Mixer
Doepfer A-140 Envelope
Doepfer A-145 LFO
Doepfer A-196 PLL
Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1 mk1
Future Sound Systems Decade Counter
Future Sound Systems Parallel
Harvestman Tyme Sefari
Harvestman Sound of Thunder
Livewire Audio Frequency Generator

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