Lubadh Tips & Tricks?

[lfad]

Do you have any tips or tricks regarding the Instruo Lubadh that you might enjoy sharing, or even just sharing how you typically utilize and patch with it? I love my Lubadh but I've fallen into kind of a formulated habit in terms of how I use mine, and I thought it might be nice to see if I can shake some fresh perspectives and use scenarios out of the woodwork here?

I do have one that I can share that relates to my own habitual use case. Nothing that ingenious, but it took me a minute to sort of figure out how I wanted to set it up. Basically, I really enjoy being able to record the full mix of what I'm patching directly into my Lubadh (for use in other future patches) *while* I'm actually patching and listening to it. Access to the full mix of what's happening can be a lot more interesting than just getting a specific sample from within a patch, if that makes sense. (Often three or more signals are mixed together in my patches, with a bunch of send/return effects in play as well.)

Anyway, what you need to do it is a master mixer of some kind (a relatively inexpensive 5-channel Blood Cells D.O. Mixx in my case), and a Xaoc Warna II or something else like that can replicate its functionality. Optionally there's also a final "output" module involved, but you don't strictly need one.

What I do is instead of patching my main mixer output straight into my outboard mixer (for my PC recording), I first pass it thru the top and bottom mults of the Warna II (L channel on top, R channel on bottom). I patch the mult-ed signals through into my output module (a 4MS Listen I/O) which goes on to the outside sound system (and which gives me a nice LED-lit final volume knob for everything).

The Warna II meanwhile is mixing the L & R signal into a mono signal that's now available through its center jack. I patch this mono mix into one or other channel of the Lubadh, and record snippets of anywhere from a few seconds to a minute to play around with later. I could of course also patch it into the Lubadh in stereo from the top/bottom mults of the Warna II if I wanted, and/or build a thorough bank of saved material from my patches, but tbh I usually just one-off it, erasing and re-recording to main layer on an ongoing basis.

(In fairness, you could also just run your whole patch through the Lubadh every time on its way to the mixer, I suppose, but I prefer just being able to record cleanly into it when/if I feel the need, not be forced to have it as an audio pass-through on every single thing I patch.)

So my habitual use of Lubadh is basically to work up an interesting patch, sample chunks of the patch as I'm working on and morphing it around on the Lubadh's two channels, and then play with those in subsequent patches, often slowing them way down and selecting just chunks of them to run through various effects and create throbbing industrial drones out of, or sometimes to set to very short lengths and CV the Position and Speed around to get crazy percussive wavetable-like results.

What are your habitual uses of this module, or some tricks you've discovered in the course of using it that you like? I've gotten so stuck in the habit of just doing what I describe above with it, that I find myself forgetting it has numerous other modes and more live "real time" uses you can put it to as well.

[noctambulance]

I use mine with radio quite a bit, or loading it up with old songs I've made.

Here's one building around a couple of radio station loops from a local jazz station: