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Buchla 200e Techno
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Heptology now available on vinyl
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Drone school with the Buchla 296e
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Buchla FM Bongos
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Seven Pieces of Popcorn
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@precarious333music
@precarious333music 16 күн бұрын
Fantastic! How did I miss this?!?!? Right up my alley.
@justinhuffman2430
@justinhuffman2430 Ай бұрын
Bongo fury😂❤ 4:06
@heatherpruner2284
@heatherpruner2284 Ай бұрын
Soooooo cool!!! I’ve been wanting to get into analogue instruments + modular and this is so inspiring! Also see Sarah Belle Reid and her trumpet (MIGSI) for more cool stuff like this!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 22 күн бұрын
Thanks Heather! I have seen SBRs videos. Cool to see people using their acoustic instruments to play their synths!
@PandaPotPies
@PandaPotPies Ай бұрын
@sarabellereid
@asherjaffe
@asherjaffe Ай бұрын
Very cool
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 22 күн бұрын
Thanks Asher!
@StevenNess
@StevenNess Ай бұрын
so aweseome. love the buchla and the tanbour, epic.
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 22 күн бұрын
Thanks Steven for listening!
@markseagraves5486
@markseagraves5486 2 ай бұрын
Really beautiful. And your voice! Can we have hours breakdowns of your Buchla patches processed through this same patch please!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
Working on it...
@BassFunMusic
@BassFunMusic 2 ай бұрын
Awesome ☺♥♪
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
:)
@darksparklermusic
@darksparklermusic 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the breakdown. Amazing per usual!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!
@Amangiechsin
@Amangiechsin 2 ай бұрын
thiswas a recommendation out of the blue from youtube but man, this is so cool!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad the algorithm is working for us!
@thealmightycommenter
@thealmightycommenter 2 ай бұрын
Hey! First video I watched of yours. Beautiful sounds and very relaxing and interesting walk through the system. Will check out your other vids!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
Glad you found the channel, and hope you enjoy the music. Thanks for stopping by!
@MartinDoudoroffLLC
@MartinDoudoroffLLC 2 ай бұрын
The 287e looks like an Interesting approach; certainly the results speak for themselves. Thank you for the demo!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
It is a bit difficult to learn and takes some time, but it is growing on me a lot. It certainly has a lot of potential for electroacoustic music
@patrickbanken4014
@patrickbanken4014 2 ай бұрын
Many thanks for sharing! I enjoyed this a lot! 👌
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@patrickbanken4014
@patrickbanken4014 2 ай бұрын
Absolutely loving this right now! Such a fun view, and would love to learn more about your process. Many thanks for sharing, and again, lots of love for our recent conversation on IG. Cheers from Germany, Patrick
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
No worries Patrick!
@TheDinodallas
@TheDinodallas 2 ай бұрын
This is lovely.
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
eh! Dino! Thanks for the big up!
@aaronparr5053
@aaronparr5053 2 ай бұрын
Very cool !!!!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for listening!
@patchbaycowboy
@patchbaycowboy 2 ай бұрын
lovely
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
:)
@mikejaggs6722
@mikejaggs6722 2 ай бұрын
Thought evoking!! 😊😊😊😊
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 2 ай бұрын
Thanks Mike!
@randomthename7927
@randomthename7927 3 ай бұрын
Sounds so good ! Nice one sir !
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 3 ай бұрын
Thank you, sir!
@dudfaz
@dudfaz 3 ай бұрын
Great idea! Sounds lovely
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 3 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@MartinDoudoroffLLC
@MartinDoudoroffLLC 3 ай бұрын
Lovely!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 3 ай бұрын
Thanks Martin... more electroacoustic coming!
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 3 ай бұрын
I’ll try to locate that, I divided an octave into sevenths and use all but the 4th and 7th tuning based on materials I’ve read. I’ll try to find the reference you’ve suggested.
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 3 ай бұрын
Gamelan scale sounds beautiful. But how did you implement it? I can't seem to find anything useful.
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 3 ай бұрын
It was a few years ago now, so I probably used Dan Schmidt's American Gamelan tunings.
@garaughty
@garaughty 4 ай бұрын
Lovely work on this piece !
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 4 ай бұрын
Thanks Marty!
@acurara0113
@acurara0113 4 ай бұрын
if only I could afford that keyboard..........
@peaksandvalleys4217
@peaksandvalleys4217 5 ай бұрын
cool bass sound
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 5 ай бұрын
Sine waves.
@peaksandvalleys4217
@peaksandvalleys4217 5 ай бұрын
@@thesonnydownsquartet9340 they glue well with the rest!
@patrickbanken4014
@patrickbanken4014 5 ай бұрын
Many thanks for sharing! How long did you spent on creating this patch / eco-system? Cheers!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 5 ай бұрын
Hard to say. I find myself more productive if I just work on things for about 1-2 hours today, but can't always do that. Probably 10-20 hours ...
@johnmeroney2007
@johnmeroney2007 4 ай бұрын
How much of that is for the 251e :) And is your first channel screen glitchy like mine. I had other problems initially to send back for repair, but this problem remained. Not too bad of a problem
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 4 ай бұрын
@@johnmeroney2007 Not glitchy. Yes, over 50% of the time would be spent with the 251e, but remember this is largely where composition occurs. So, I might write a sequence, then decide to rewrite it. I have started scoring out my sequences now, which makes things much quicker. You can't just insert an extra note with the 251e at will, as you would then need to reprogramme every step, so best to try to get it right the first time.
@wishbonebrewery
@wishbonebrewery 5 ай бұрын
Great piece.
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for listening :)
@PulseRecognition
@PulseRecognition 5 ай бұрын
Very nice!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 5 ай бұрын
Thank you :)
@MartinDoudoroffLLC
@MartinDoudoroffLLC 5 ай бұрын
Superb. As usual.
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!
@browe
@browe 5 ай бұрын
Love this 🌞
@izzymonkey
@izzymonkey 5 ай бұрын
Comment so nice, had to say it twice 😊🌞
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for your support!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 5 ай бұрын
Thanks Izzy
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 5 ай бұрын
So for the purposes of Just Intonation on the 251e, converting interval ratios to cents is not helpful. One needs to apply the ratio to a common base frequency to arrive at the interval's frequency then using a meter set each stage CV to achieve that frequency for that oscillator. Am I getting close?
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 5 ай бұрын
stunning!
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 5 ай бұрын
so unbelievably sweet
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 5 ай бұрын
Crazy good!!!!
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 5 ай бұрын
Okay, I think I have a better understanding. Your notes indicate that you wanted to use the 7-limit tuning as you are focused on the number 7, but you needed more candidates for your scale so you also relied on some 11-limit tuning intervals. You then create your scale by placing your 7 primary intervals on the axis of your tonality "diamond". You then calculated the distance between intervals following the diagonal until two on opposing axis intersect. This distance is just "x-interval" minus "y-interval" but since we are working with ratios and fractions, we divide the smaller fraction into the larger fraction; which is accomplished by multiplying the inverse of the smaller ratio times the larger ratio. This distance also becomes a consonant ratio that will will be converted into a frequency and used in your scale. This is the purpose of this exercise, to create a scale, I used all of these giving me 45 frequencies that work together with very little dissonance. Thanks for putting this together.
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 5 ай бұрын
Hi Dan! I filled out the matrix manually, calculating every possible interval in the scale. If you use a common prime number in either the numerator or the denominator for your scale, you will mostly end up with consonant intervals. Everything I learnt about just intonation is neatly summarised in this book by David Doty. www.dbdoty.com/Words/Primer1.html You are right, the only way to calculate the CV values for the pitches is to use a tuning device and then write down the values. I have pages and pages of CV values which will be only applicable to my synth.
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for steering me to this presentation, it's fantastic. I do have a couple of questions. I know you are working with heptatonic scales but how did you land on these particular intervals? How did you determine all the possible intervals within this scale? What is the significance of tracing the diagonal, which in your example gave us a major third. What is your point; is it that when a sequence moves from 7/5 to 7/4 it will sound like a major third? Are these leading candidates for opposing sequences? On the other hand, are you saying when the sequences land on intervals at the same time, we get a new tone as the result of the two tones being played at the same time some are disonate which resolve to consonant tone qualities? On the spreadsheet, is TWG1&2 oscillator set at a higher frequency than CWG1&2? at 560hz, the cents are vastly different. In the end, I'd love to create beautiful scales such as this one, but for all I have studied I can't figure out where to begin. Thanks for all your help...
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 5 ай бұрын
love this sequence, I tried it super high with a C6 tonic and the square wave from the 258e (thanks for getting me hooked on it). Slowed it down a little, added some time domain, and it begins to sound a little haunting like tubular bells. I just can't figure out how you choose the intervals you choose. Any advice?
@browe
@browe 6 ай бұрын
Nabbed one. 🌞
@RealMusicHype
@RealMusicHype 6 ай бұрын
01:30 Very good..
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 6 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed
@djkanyon
@djkanyon 6 ай бұрын
That "impro" was better than some finished sets i've seen, that was a good one
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 6 ай бұрын
Well, that is take number 50 or so :)
@djkanyon
@djkanyon 6 ай бұрын
@@thesonnydownsquartet9340 as it should be! there's no musician without failed takes!
@danobrien3292
@danobrien3292 6 ай бұрын
so much to take on board. First Just Intonation; do I have the right conversions? 10/9=182, 7/6=267, 27/20=520, 3/2=702, 8/5=813, 9/5=1018 because I can't figure out how they translate to (4.1., 4.0., 3.7., 3.5., 4.4., 4.2., and 3.7) also curious stage 2 is 3.7. and stage 3 is 3.7 (no cents). I love your stuff it is very advanced and I'd like to learn. On a separate but related point, the 251 generates 1 semitones for every .1 volt; which therefore takes 1.2 volts to get to 1 octave, so your 4.1. setting is 3 octaves leaving .5 which is 27/20 or .5 and 20 cents. I was only able to figure this one and the 3.7. but that is it. Any help would be appreciated, I know this is nearly 4 years old. But this is a lesson in JI and the 251. All the best...
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 6 ай бұрын
Hi Dan. Thanks for writing in. Firstly, I quite enjoy discussing music theory, and am happy to answer long questions: 1) You can use this site to convert JI ratios into cents: observablehq.com/@mcmire/just-intonation-interval-calculator 2) Please COMPLETELY disregard what you see on the 251e display. I do not use A440 as a tuning reference, so you will not be able to determine the frequencies looking at the 251e. Secondly, the 251e is programmed down to the microvolt, which is not displayed in the video. Thirdly, 200e oscillators generally do not track at exactly 1.2V/octave, so I have to find the CV values for the notes I am using for every new piece. FYI the oscillator I frequently use which does track very well is the Studio H DPO. I explained the process I use to tune the 200e in this video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4jMgKVte9uoiNk
@Jimmyknapp2
@Jimmyknapp2 7 ай бұрын
252e just looks so cool
@verstaerker
@verstaerker 7 ай бұрын
very cool .. now i want this thing 🤑
@ManoOne-Music-Production
@ManoOne-Music-Production 7 ай бұрын
Fantastic. I love my 296e. It’s the videos you posted on MW that made me realize what this module was, and that I absolutely needed one. New worlds open up!
@DespairQuietlyPlease
@DespairQuietlyPlease 7 ай бұрын
Your music is captivating. I love the arcane meeting the modern with tanbour fusion. And the microtonal synthesis
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 7 ай бұрын
Thank you! More microtonality and tanbour to come!
@Bata9999
@Bata9999 8 ай бұрын
Very nice!
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 7 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!
@SeQFreQ369
@SeQFreQ369 8 ай бұрын
Nice one! It's great to see/hear more ancient traditional instruments juxtaposed with modern electronics. I've just done a piece with modular and Turkish Bağlama Saz! All the best,
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 7 ай бұрын
Wow, this is a nice coincidence. I think you may live just down the road. I am in Coffs Harbour. I LOVE Baglama. You don't know any nearby teachers, do you?
@SeQFreQ369
@SeQFreQ369 7 ай бұрын
Not far at all! I used to teach bağlama and oud to one of the town's doctors years ago, otherwise there is (or was) a Bağlama School on the Gold Coast, I don't know the name, it was run by a top player, but as I mentioned on my Saz and Synth video, I've had a 20 yr break, so... I learnt a lot from watching videotapes of good players, but these days there are some good Turkish videos right here on the tube if you know Türkçe, or need a good laugh from the auto-translate. Cheers, Steve
@fablesofsilence
@fablesofsilence 8 ай бұрын
Oh you are shattering my self-worth entirely 😂 That means I only own 5% of them!
@lumena1921
@lumena1921 8 ай бұрын
love it. Super musicianship.
@thesonnydownsquartet9340
@thesonnydownsquartet9340 8 ай бұрын
Hey mate, thanks for listening