Instruo Lubadh- Rory the Border’s Very Basic Guide to recording and playback

With due respect to the pair of two-hour-plus videos from Instruo themselves, there are few ‘how to do it’ videos out there for the Lubadh. In the hope that it may prove useful (and because it’s good for the soul to give something back to YT for a change), here is a basic, moderately poorly edited, guide to getting sound into the thing…
This is the best recording monitoring option of the three possible imho- the sound to be recorded can’t be heard until recording is armed, nor does it impinge when recording is finished (the Buchla gear was playing away all the time during these shoots, and remained plugged into the left reel’s input, but does not interfere with playback). Timing is important, but then it’s a looper: timing is always important. One of the reasons this is basic is that there’s apparently obvious stuff I haven’t fathomed yet (I can’t get the normalled signal path to work for example), but this represents- even secondhand- too much of an investment not to investigate thoroughly, so there will be other videos. One aspect I nearly tacked on to the end of this concerned the v/oct input (labelled ‘speed’ just below the reels)- just for laughs I ran the third lane of the Buchla sequencer into it and got very interesting, and very controllable, tape-speed fluctuations from the barely audible to the module’s maximum of 4x original. And there are other firmware options to play with, each with text-editable parameters to adjust. There will be more videos.
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Thanks for watching!

[@audeon_visual]

Nice!!

[@steveambrose1]

yes very useful. I'm having a terrible time with save and load/undo . sometime it works other times I lose everything. very frustrating., maybe I'm doing something wrong since firmware 2??

[@walrtbstudios5430]

Thanks for the compliment. I’ve managed to get the hang of ‘load’, but a lot of the time with loops and pieces of sound I’ve recorded elsewhere I manage them on the iPad (iOS has the fantastic Files app, which makes file management easy) then transfer them to Lubadh’s usb drive. It’s a pity I have to unmount the module to do so; I suppose I could try and grab one of the ‘front loader’ add-ons. But if I ever get used to saving stuff I’ll do another video…

[@kentaccordionist]

What a cool little module. Sounds great. Does your Mrs know you have a cartoon of a naked lady on your wall?

[@walrtbstudios5430]

It’s actually a 2D ‘cutout’- a limited edition piece made by an artist friend- perched on the edge of the Buchla rack.

[@kentaccordionist]

@@walrtbstudios5430 looks cool either way….

[@ikeybhatnagar9569]

*Promo sm*