Ballistic jam with Elektron Machinedrum and Eurorack

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A live, semi-improvised track performed entirely on hardware. The Machinedrum is a strange piece of hardware: its sequencer is the earlier version of all modern Elektron boxes, but its 16 flexible tracks of drums haven't been matched by anything contemporary. Despite the Machinedrum being old (in hardware terms) at this point, it still sounds new, like a gritty alternate-history-future device. And when you start to route audio into it, really interesting things start to happen.
Here, I used my eurorack setup to create four voices, with the Westlicht Performer taking the reins as the sequencer. These voices are mixed down to a stereo output, which gets master-level effects (filter and glitch/noise), and then is routed into the Machinedrum. The Machinedrum takes some of the sheen off the eurorack, and also allows me to manipulate the eurorack's audio at the same time as the drums. This song sounds like the music I hear in my dreams, messy, emotional, frantic in places. I couldn't be happier with the results.
A complete video walkthrough of this song is available on my Patreon page.
Elektron Machinedrum MkII - Drums and master-level effects
Modules used -
Brains:
Westlicht Performer (sequencer)
ALM Busy Circuits Pamela's New Workout (clock & LFO extraordinaire)
Voice 1, interval chord:
Qu-Bit Chord (chord oscillator)
Noise Engineering Elector Versio (reverb)
Voice 2, organ chords:
4ms Ensemble Oscillator (chord oscillator)
Mutable Instruments Beads (reverb and grains)
Voice 3, semi-random lead:
Frequency Central Product (analog mono voice)
Intellijel 1u Multi-FX (reverb)
Voice 4, bass:
Mutable Instruments Plaits (oscillator and low-pass gate)
Strymon Magneto (delay)
Master-level and utilities:
Intellijel Quadratt x2 (mixers)
Intellijel 1u Stereo Mixer (mixer)
2hp Reverb (reverb at very beginning)
Make Noise QPAS (filter)
Noise Engineering Ruina Version (distortion)
Qu-Bit Data Bender (noise/glitch)
Intellijel Dual ADSR (envelopes for voices 1 & 2)
Intellijel Dual VCA 1u (VCAs for voices 1 & 2)
Intellijel Mult x2, 3u and 1u
Intellijel Audio I/O (to get audio out to Machinedrum)
Performed and recorded live as a stereo mix, with EQ, compression, and limiting on the master.
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