Electromusik Porn...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
As per a request in the last thread on the subject of BS2, here’s a nice video that Stretta made for MOTU to demonstrate their Volta plugin with a Buchla osc. Towards the end, he drops BS2 up in there. I’m not sure if he was doing it for musicality or as a cunning ploy to get me to post it here, but either way it worked.
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He could be covering up for plugging 3 MOTU products. (Volta, BPM, DP... although he only showed, not told the later). On the other hand, nothing says "tempo-synced plugin effect" as succinctly as BS2.
Right now I am at work and am trying not to listen to Rush sing about necromancers through a shitty Chinese tube amp. I am born, I am me, I am you. Unsung. O shit. Would rather be listening to that Buchla bonging. (I imagine that that is what the Buchla is doing, since I have no way of hearing it right now.)
Cool video. How long now before the "brand management police" at Vimeo take it down since it is a product demo? Jackasses.
@dualphin - I listened to that song just the other day, first time in years. Plate o' shrimp I guess...
Let me go ahead and nip this bitch right in the bud: having an extended conversation (or even a short conversation) on the qualities of Rush on this site simply ain't gonna happen.
-CR
Volta looks amazing. I was way into the idea of getting 4 Buchla modules but now that I see it with Volta I'm thinking I don't need that. My Livewire AFGs can probably do the same stuff. Might sound a little different but really, not that much.
weird, I have a very nice Chinese made push pull amp here by Dared. it's very nice for the home system but no RIAA in... sucks for vinyl
But, what the hell is some piano controller doing trying to control a Buchla? silly to use a keyboard for a much more highly expressive instrument. Sad!
I think he was just trying to show that Volta could run a Buchla OSC. It was more a demonstration of its ability to automatically scale non-1V/Oct oscillators than anything else.
It actually bothers me quite a bit that people get so hypercritical of the "performance" in demonstration videos. If you're going to be critical of anything, it should be the product. There is little to no musical merit in 99.999999% of these videos, yet time and time again, the majority of the comments end up being "boy, the loop you used sure wasn't phat" or something similar to the above. The Buchla modular is a highly expressive instrument all right, if you wish to express yourself in bloops and burbles.
It's, like, really now.
-CR
For Buchla music it's hard to beat Charles Cohen. Alessandro Cortini comes in a close second with this:
http://www.vimeo.com/2012406
Weird, I thought my comment posted. I was surprised too to hear keyboard music coming out of the Buchla. But it made me kind of glad, in a dreamy sort of way, like audio logos from the 70s and early 80s did. Does anyone know how often Buchla sounds were used in that period of sound design?
@Quiet Ovens: I haven't heard a Dared. The one at my work is a Music Curve 200-something or other. I am definitely not against Chinese tube gear in principle. The thing is, we sell a lot of vintage stuff, like McIntoshes and Marantzes and everything like that. And the modern Chinese stuff I have heard just doesn't impress me in the same way. I am definitely not a home audio person, but compared to that stuff, listening to music on the music curve sounds something like listening to music on yogurt. Or maybe it's just R**h.
@retrosynth: are you the Youtube Retrosynth? I am not sure about Cortini being hard to beat on Buchla. Maybe from what's available on Youtube, sure. I might put my vote on Mort. Regarding Charles Cohen, I have lived in Philadelphia for almost a year now, and I have missed at least two Cohen concerts. Haven't seen him once. Would like to. From what I can tell, the openness and ease with which he plays the Music Easel is his strength. I have loved the interviews with him that I have read. His thoughts on synth interface are spot-on.
CR, any chance of Nancy Ciani shirts? Although the robot-glitching-out Source of Uncertainty crap she did on Stepford Wives is laughable.
--"It actually bothers me quite a bit that people get so hypercritical of the 'performance' in demonstration videos. If you're going to be critical of anything, it should be the product." With your old Fucktard posts, it kind of surprises me you would take this angle. But I suppose the distinction you are making is between wanking and product demos. Although the line gets blurry when keyboard guys start wanking on the latest VA at NAMM.
I've been reading about Volta for a while now - and viewing the video demo's leads me to believe it is stable for release. Has anyone heard when it will be available? Lord knows... MOTU seems to have no qualms in the past about releasing software w/ bugs.
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