On the weekend, the home office is just home. After four days of combining various Buddha Machines, I thought, “Why not run one through the modular synthesizer?” Someone on Instagram had mentioned pairing it with Morphagene, a module which I have (it’s the central, colorful one on the top row), but I decided to send the first-generation Buddha Machine loop through Clouds (a Clouds variant, Smog, fourth in from the right on the bottom row). Aspects of the live sample are being varied in Smog based on some fairly level and quite slow LFOs (the Batumi through the SPO, where those short orange cables are visible toward the upper left). Only two spectral bands of the Smog-processed audio are being heard; they’re coming through the FXDf. And an unmolested version of the Buddha Machine loop is also heard, quietly in what for much of the track is the background. And yes, I do, definitely, need to sort out a better way to capture the audio for these videos (I’m just doing it on my phone currently).
Category: studio journal
Video, audio, patch notes
Friday Office Ambience
Video via my YouTube channel, youtube.com/disquiet
Friday office ambience. Six of FM3’s Buddha Machines, from left to right: indeterminate color gen2, light blue gen1, clear gen 3 (aka Chan Fang), dark blue gen 4 (the edition for Philip Glass’ 80th birthday), white gen5, and green gen1. At a reader’s suggestion, I let this one run on for over two minutes.
I may do another with the Gristleism box (FM3 + Throbbing Gristle) added on Monday, though a low-pass filter is probably required to have it settle in with the other members of the robot choir.
Thursday Office Ambience
Video via my YouTube channel, youtube.com/disquiet
Five out-of-sync Buddha Machines by FM3. The green and (light) blue are the first generation. The indeterminate color is the second generation. The clear one is third generation (also known as Chan Fang). The dark blue one is a collaboration between FM3 and Philip Glass (choral voices in this loop).
Video at [youtube.com/disquiet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBrWUb05v3Q&feature=youtu.be).
Wednesday Office Ambience
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Four thankfully out-of-sync Buddha Machines. Green and blue are the first generation, the indeterminate color is second generation, and the clear one is third generation (also known as the Chan Fang model).
I just noticed the Gristleism box (a collaboration between Buddha Machine creators FM3 and the band Throbbing Gristle) staring down from the shelf on the right.