Here Comes The Storm

Just doing some testing of a MIDIBox SID MB6582 that I'm building for a client.

Testing out the 'Bassline' mode. It's a shed-load of fun playing with the random note/slide generator. Instant acid!

MB6582 Test 03

Another test, trying out the different filter modes. Sorry for the cheese.

MB6582 Test 02

Octatrack and Korg Volca Beats - this is going to be a fun combo.

Now where's that MIDI implementation chart...

OctaVolcaTest

Carpathian Eagle

Demo of a customer's Metasonix D1000 drum machine.

Modified to have manual and CV control over the filter resonance control of Drum 1, Drum 2 and Snare.

Live tweaking demo using one external LFO patched into various places.


D1K With CV Mods

Battle Horse

Nintendo NES cover of 'Trapped' by Colonel Abrahams.

Trapped

This time a little more complicated setup.

Output of Piston Honda into the DA
Output of the DA into RS-110 VFC
Numerology via ES4/Silent Way triggering the DA and also modulating the waveform on the Piston Honda
LFO modulating the Decay time of the DA
Square-wave LFO turning the Mirror function on the DA on/off (the bits that sound reversed)

So much fun!


DoubleAndoreTesting02

Three Fucking Cowards

Day 1 - One Nine Eight Nine

Day 2 - Forever Four Errors

Sometimes you just need to be somewhere else...

Day 3 - Outside

Day 4 - Sweaty Hot Robot

As one ceremony opens, another one closes...

Percussion: Elektron Octatrack
Pads: Novachord
Electric Piano: Akai MiniAK


Day 5 - Closing Ceremony

Oh Rotating Clock Divider, how I have missed thee!

SpitRotate

First effort with the Little Deformer.

Everything you hear is coming out of the Deformer while I tweak parameters live. Couple of sampled sounds in the Deformer and a Dark Energy slaved to it via MIDI and the output of the DE going through the Deformer.

Final stage is a bit of Lexcion reverb and compression.


Blue Crisps In A Red Packet

Just live playing around with the 'Anushri', a new DIY synth/drum machine from Mutable Instrument.

No other sound sources used apart from running the Anushri through a DIY Space Baby lo-fi delay (and a touch of reverb and compression). Nothing is externally sequenced, I'm just tweaking controls while recording.



AnushriDub

Just more playing with the Anushri.

This time I'm forgoing the onboard 'fuzz' and I have the output of the Anushri running through my Empress Multidrive pedal and Space Baby Delay (again)

Same as before, just a simple sequence programmed into the Anushri, live tweaking and knob twirling, no external sequencing or any other sound source used.


YellowFever

Why the Octatrack is the greatest creative sampler.

I was playing around with a setup on the Octatrack that used 4 tracks each of which were assigned different effects and each of which sampled all or some part of the other tracks.

I'd left the Octatrack switched on for a couple of days with this setup still loaded but I was recording a couple of guitar parts for another track and I looked across and saw that there was activity on the Octatrack's inputs. Curious as to what it was, I turned up the mixer and it was actually noise from my guitar amp that I'd accidentally routed to the Octatrack's inputs. Hitting play on that self-sampling setup, a bizarre soundscape unfolded using nothing but the hum of of my guitar amp as a source. What's even more curious is that I muted the input before recording any of this track. It's all created out of a single 32-step sample of just guitar amp hum.


Shipping Forecast

OT LAB 04

http://elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&id=198070&catid=15&limit=10&limitstart=0

Created using just the Octatrack and the 'Wilhelm Scream' sample.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
http://archive.org/details/WilhelmScreamSample

No other hardware, software or sound sources were used. Recorded straight out of the Octatrack (with some trimming)


OTLAB04 - 01 Trust Us, We Are Sincere

First play with Elektron's A4 analogue synth.

Recorded straight out of the A4, nothing else used.

Wow...

Hay Fore

Playing with Analog 4 FX.

One synth track sent to Chorus, Delay and Reverb. Performance setup tweaking only FX parameters (feedback, HFP, LPF, Overdrive etc.)


Only Travel If Absolutely Necessary

Remix of Tristendo's "Sometimes I Cry In Your Ice Cream" from his new album "#YOLO Catz"

Out now on Datathrash Records:

http://datathrash.bandcamp.com/album/tweenage-nintecho-yolo-catz


Sometimes I Cry In Your Ice Cream (ice cream van remix)

Been doing too many non-music activities since the beginning of the year. Here's the results of an indulgent session with the A4 and Gotharman deFormer.

Dedicated to my whirlwind wife and the ripples of joy and delight that seem to radiate from her always.

The Fox and the Lark

Getting that classic square-wave bass out of the A4

OSC 1: TRP, PW:-20, SUB:OFF
OSC 2: TRI, -1 OCT, SUB:OFF

Important to play around with the ladder filter (Filter 1) as well as the Multi-mode Filter (Filter 2 in LP mode).

And stay AWAY from the Overdrive - set it to 0 or +/- 2 at the most.

If SC's compression has destroyed this, try this link to the .AIFF

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5493868/a4squarebass.aif

A4 Square Bass

Live improvisation using manual sampling on the Octatrack and a $10 tone generator as a sound source.

Blunt blade

I fucking hate Toploader...

http://elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&id=218048&catid=18



OTLAB06

I still hate this song...

http://elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&id=218048&catid=18


OTLAB06a

Just messing about after someone said you couldn't make C64 sounds with the Analog4

You can if you try :)

Analog(c6)4

Hot live workout with the modular and Octatrack.



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