Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The Buddha Machine is a small plastic audio player pre-loaded with a series of looping, low-fi ambient soundscapes. I've had mine for over 10 years and decided to run it through modular effects as the seed for a full modular performance. Each performance starts with a raw Buddha Machine loop, which is sampled into Instruo Arbhar, and then doused with reverb and Hologram Microcosm. The rest of the performance is built around that.

These also represent the first time I've used the Squarp Hapax for modular sequencing (through Mutant Brain), and it's really great.

Sequencing and modulation:
Clank Chaos: https://www.clank.eu/chaos

Voices and Synths:
Modbap Osiris: bit.ly/3wWgK0k
ASM Hydrasynth Desktop: bit.ly/3in6l7t

Drums:

Effects:
Noise Engineering Melotus Versio: bit.ly/34XMPuW
Strymon Starlab: bit.ly/3Ciedi6

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Squarp Hapax
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ALM Pamela's New Workout
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Mutable Instruments Rings
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Mutable Instruments Plaits
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VPME QD
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Squarp Rample
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Noise Engineering Desmodus Versio
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Thomann:

Noise Engineering Imitor Versio
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Thomann:

Noise Engineering Ruina Versio
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Qu-Bit Data Bender
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Strymon StarLab
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Thomann: thomannmusic.com/strymon_starlab.htm?offid=1&affid=3086

Modbap Osiris
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Thomann:

Noise Engineering Melotus Versio
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Thomann:

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