Love this use of the Deerhorn as a sort of "master trigger" for the rest of modules. I just got my PB2 and was immediately enamored by what you can do with the Deerhorn. I'll need to try this today! I love how the patch can completely change based on even what order you patch everything in.
Yes indeed, it was a great tip from the comments on a previous video. And yes everything is so fluid that even if you touch the cables with your fingers you could trigger something unexpected!
I know people find Peter's 'psyco geographical' explanation of the plumbutter confusing but I have found it to be very useful. The regimented nature of industry in the mwrs, calm tranquility of suburbia & the wildness of deerhorn. Throw a deer into a factory or suburbia and you get a nice disruption & visa versa, you can tame the deer with some regimented behaviour. Also the graininess of dust can effect a lot. Happy exploring.
I think the real beauty in plumbutter is the rollz section, the little 'zipper' noises when connecting to ultrasound filters I find fascinating. My first instrument was a Roolz Gewei which is basically a rollz 5 but with double deerhorn. That was a beautiful instrument, sadly sold to get a second plumbutter & what I miss about it was the rawness of the deerhorns compared to plumbutter but also the rollz section is cleaned up in plumbutter. With the old rollz circuits you get more 'zipper' noise and a lot more interest when connecting, definitely worth building some additional rollz circuits via paper circuits or if you can afford buying a Rollzer. Hairy values of capacitor & resistors are best chosen for slow behaviour imho. My background is Drum & Bass but now I prefer the slowness of life.
hi @David Bloor - do you have any tips for achieving the zipper and spurty sounds on the PB2? I've had chance encounters with them, and I'm coming back to the PB2 after a lengthy break, and have trouble re-creating them. As you said, I know that they are less common on the PB compared to the rollzer as well as the previous incarnations, but if you have any general tips, I'd appreciate.
Hi @@gordonwithers, try & concentrate on connecting brown rollz together (ignore the orange) then connect a brown to an ultrasound green in, though PB rollz are not as raw as previous versions. You can always have a go at building some early rollz, Peter has the papercircuits published on his website, also Jason Taylor on Muffwigglers is producing pcb's.
You obviously have more experience in the Plumbutter. By now I've sold it, I think it was missing something and for this money you gotta have everything right.
@@ethermod307 They are separate circuits on the pcb, so I don't think so. Maybe in the patching there is a connection, often with stacking multiple cables it's difficult to get a clear picture & also sometimes what you think is an output or input can react in the opposite way. It's the nature of the beast :-).
@@davidbloor1190 Yes i've read all that, it was indeed interesting to read. Maybe now that i know more I should read them again. But how can you " tame the deer with some regimented behaviour"? What do you think this means?
@@ethermod307 Those are my words, but you've kinda done that in your video by introducing pulses to your deerhorn. Deers don't usually behave that way ;-).
Peter's explanation of the Roolz Gewei is 'drum & drama' and he goes on to talk about Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee. You get the steady rhythms of Tommy mixed with some drama from Pam. Plumbutter is the 'laboratory Roolz', basically a cleaned up version of the earlier instrument but the history is still there, you just get a more predictable & controlled patching environment.
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Love this use of the Deerhorn as a sort of "master trigger" for the rest of modules. I just got my PB2 and was immediately enamored by what you can do with the Deerhorn. I'll need to try this today! I love how the patch can completely change based on even what order you patch everything in.
Yes indeed, it was a great tip from the comments on a previous video. And yes everything is so fluid that even if you touch the cables with your fingers you could trigger something unexpected!
I know people find Peter's 'psyco geographical' explanation of the plumbutter confusing but I have found it to be very useful. The regimented nature of industry in the mwrs, calm tranquility of suburbia & the wildness of deerhorn. Throw a deer into a factory or suburbia and you get a nice disruption & visa versa, you can tame the deer with some regimented behaviour. Also the graininess of dust can effect a lot. Happy exploring.
Yes me too, I think that the explanation is also part of the experience! I guess many people don't bother really reading it.
Another great exploration with a synth that has quite a "mind" of it's own. The gong behaving differently is a nice side effect. You inspired me :)
I was happy to hear that Radok! It's indeed what makes this instrument special, isn't it?
I think the real beauty in plumbutter is the rollz section, the little 'zipper' noises when connecting to ultrasound filters I find fascinating. My first instrument was a Roolz Gewei which is basically a rollz 5 but with double deerhorn. That was a beautiful instrument, sadly sold to get a second plumbutter & what I miss about it was the rawness of the deerhorns compared to plumbutter but also the rollz section is cleaned up in plumbutter. With the old rollz circuits you get more 'zipper' noise and a lot more interest when connecting, definitely worth building some additional rollz circuits via paper circuits or if you can afford buying a Rollzer. Hairy values of capacitor & resistors are best chosen for slow behaviour imho. My background is Drum & Bass but now I prefer the slowness of life.
hi @David Bloor - do you have any tips for achieving the zipper and spurty sounds on the PB2? I've had chance encounters with them, and I'm coming back to the PB2 after a lengthy break, and have trouble re-creating them. As you said, I know that they are less common on the PB compared to the rollzer as well as the previous incarnations, but if you have any general tips, I'd appreciate.
Hi @@gordonwithers, try & concentrate on connecting brown rollz together (ignore the orange) then connect a brown to an ultrasound green in, though PB rollz are not as raw as previous versions.
You can always have a go at building some early rollz, Peter has the papercircuits published on his website, also Jason Taylor on Muffwigglers is producing pcb's.
@@davidbloor1190 thanks!
You obviously have more experience in the Plumbutter. By now I've sold it, I think it was missing something and for this money you gotta have everything right.
I'm wondering if your odd gong behaviour has something to do with the rate control, were they set at the same speed? Nice patch.
Well yes it could be. The big question is: with nothing patched between them, can one Gong influence the other somehow?
@@ethermod307 They are separate circuits on the pcb, so I don't think so. Maybe in the patching there is a connection, often with stacking multiple cables it's difficult to get a clear picture & also sometimes what you think is an output or input can react in the opposite way. It's the nature of the beast :-).
@@davidbloor1190 Yes i've read all that, it was indeed interesting to read. Maybe now that i know more I should read them again. But how can you " tame the deer with some regimented behaviour"? What do you think this means?
@@ethermod307 Those are my words, but you've kinda done that in your video by introducing pulses to your deerhorn. Deers don't usually behave that way ;-).
Peter's explanation of the Roolz Gewei is 'drum & drama' and he goes on to talk about Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee. You get the steady rhythms of Tommy mixed with some drama from Pam. Plumbutter is the 'laboratory Roolz', basically a cleaned up version of the earlier instrument but the history is still there, you just get a more predictable & controlled patching environment.