bugbrand

Prediction

At the end of David Byrne’s book, How Music Works, he says, “Why not let music play itself?  The composer, in the traditional sense, might no longer be necessary.”   A … Read More

Doodle Shift

A patch using BugBrand, Cocoquantus, and CGS Serge.  Two quantussy oscillators are used at audio rates and brought into the BugBrand, passing through the Low Pass Gates and then through … Read More

Ludebanti

A self-running patch using BugBrand with Cocoquantus and also Flight of Harmony Plague Bearer.

BugBrand Drone

This drone uses all of my BugBrand modules.  I took pulse outputs from the two SYN2A VCOs and mixed them in two of the Logic Gates (one OR, one XOR), … Read More

BugBrand SYN2B and SYN2BX

The SYN2B is a Quadrature Sine VCO.  It sports a precision 10-turn frequency dial and two FM inputs, 1V/Octave, and an attenuated FM input that is switchable between Exponential and … Read More

Latest Performance Cabinet

I am updating one of my portable cabinets to be able to include a BugBrand rack. The rack pictured fits right into the portable case.  It’s 3U in height.  Since … Read More

Funky Bunnoos

A patch using Bugbrand, Plumbutter, Cocoquantus.  Lot’s of cross-patching.  The Bugbrand VCOs go through the Plumbutter AVDogs, which act as envelope shapers.  Nice eerie sound of the Bugbrand PT Delay, … Read More

BugBrand Plays With Cocoquantus

The BugBrand SYN2A VCO is really nice.  It has a jumper to select the variable FM input to be exponential or linear.  Since it also has a 1V/octave exponential input, … Read More

BugBrand Up and Running

BugBrand is nestled in a rack, sharing power with MOTM! I made a custom power cable with a MOTM connector and soldered it into the BB power distribution buss board.  … Read More

BugBrand Modular Arrival

I’ve admired the BugBrand Modular for a long time.  It’s very rare and I was lucky to score  a set of used modules.  Left to right: SYN2A Utility VCO (x2) … Read More