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I Dream of Wires: Carl Craig - Modular Pursuits.

“I get a little… a little crazy about it. Um. Y’know how many filters does a person really need? I got a lot of fucking filters, y’know?”

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voltagecontrolled:

Analog Drum ‘n Bass

Yesssss.

Although I doubt the genre would have ever been kick-started had it required a room full of modulars instead of just a sampler (or MOD tracker) and a handful of samples.

I must also note that it’s refreshing to see a large modular system put to use in making a tune rather than the usual exploratory squirblies (fun as they are).

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Machine love: Luke Abbott ›

alicelovesblog:

The Border Community producer talks at length about making music with a modular synth.

Lots of lovely pictures of his studio and discussion of his techniques and setup

“There are lots of mistakes in it, but that’s the glory of it. There’s that moment when you’ve been playing with it and it sounds really messy, then all of a sudden it comes together in a way you hadn’t expected. Your ears prick up. Getting to those points is easier and more fun when you do it this way. I could never sit down and write this without having something like this to play with. And also sonically as well, having a really nice synth like this Prophet 600… The different sections of it are configured in a certain way and the level between those sections is predefined in the way the manufacturer decided it should work. I can’t change that. It’s a fixed entity. But if I want to boost the volume of an oscillator so much that when I put it into a VCA it distorts, then I can do that in there. Distortion is really important to my production I think—finding out how different modules distort and where their limits are.”

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Buchla 296 - Buchla, Donald Processed by Buchla Spectral Processor
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two Buchla 296 Spectral Processors (1977) processing Interview with Donald Buchla.