Qka - Buchla Skylab | Music

Qka is a long-form ambient piece I wrote and recorded over the course of two weeks while in Keuka Lake, in upstate New York. It was created using a fixed set of technology: My Buchla Skylab modular synth, reverb and delay plug-ins from Valhalla DSP, and Reaper running on a laptop. Reaper was used as a recorder and mixer, with some minimal editing of the material.
It's rare that I have the focused time to really delve into an instrument and explore it deeply. The Skylab is, of course, a very deep instrument that will be challenging me for many years to come. I did learn that there are some modules that don't resonate with me as well as others do. My intention will be to replace the 285e Frequency Shifter / Balanced Modulator and 251e Quad Sequential Voltage Source with a 250e Dual Arbitrary Function Generator when time permits - but that is part of the...well, modular part of exploring modular!
Under the Big Tree is Nicolas Peck's KZbin channel, focused on esoteric electronic music, modular and vintage synthesizers, sound design equipment and techniques, and the composition, production and performance of music.
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Nice explorations! Appreciate you sharing this.

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Only a quarter of the way through but this is amazing! Is it available anywhere other than KZbin?

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And thank you! Glad you like it. :)