See more about the Data Bender and other Qu-Bit Electronix modules at www.qubitelectronix.com
00:00 - Intro and Artist Examples
02:23 - Basic Operation
03:26 - Macro Mode
05:35 - Micro Mode
07:29 - Corrupt Knob
09:09 - Example: Space Kalimba
11:12 - Example: Rhythmic Pad
12:38 - Example: Drum Mangling
14:10 - Example: Disintegrating Drone
15:23 - Outro and Recommendations
Videos
• New Sounds Presents: Maria Chavez: • New Sounds Presents: M...
• Yasunao Tone - Solo for Wounded CD: • Yasunao Tone - Solo fo...
• William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops: • William Basinski - The...
• William Basinski on Making The Disintegration Loops: • William Basinski on Ma...
Articles
• Interview with Maria Chavez by Emilio Bassail (Español): i-d.vice.com/es/article/43xwn...
• Interview with Maria Chavez by Daniel Neumann (English): econtact.ca/14_3/neumann_chav...
• William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops review: pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/...
• Divinity From Dust: The Healing Power Of 'The Disintegration Loops’: www.npr.org/sections/therecor...
• 'Aesthetics of Failure: “Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music' in Audio Culture (Ed. Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, p.392-398) or at www.jstor.org/stable/3681551?...
• 'Record, CD, Analog, Digital - Christian Marclay & Yasunao Tone' in Audio Culture (Ed. Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, p.341-347)
Books
• Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/audio-c...
• Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction by Caleb Kelly: mitpress.mit.edu/books/cracke...
• Experimental Music Since 1970 by Jennie Gottschalk (Defining Features of Experimental Music, Indeterminacy, Machine Behaviours (p 10-11)): www.bloomsbury.com/us/experim...
Social Media
• Instagram: / gregwht
• Twitter: / gregwht
• Website: www.gregory-white.co.uk
guess who's back ?! The man that explain modular synths like no one does ! Much luv to ya glad to see a new video
Thank you. Excellent work. That’s some quality public service. Liked and subscribed.
I genuinely love this format for you. The historic parallels galvanize the principles that this module exemplifies. Such a great method of illustrating things! Great work.
Thanks so much! Really want to use these videos to teach about the wider context of experimental music, and how new tech relates back to existing ideas. Glad you enjoyed!
well done, sir!! I cannot believe I wasn't already subscribed here. but I am now. so all things are, once again, as close to "right" as they're gonna get. ;-) thanks for the great vid!!
Oval’s ‘Systemisch’ (1994) and '94 Diskont' (1995) both also make fantastic use of purposefully damaged CDs. Both albums are currently available in full on KZhead if you do a search and are well worth a listen.
This thing is Oval in a box
First Data Bender video that made sense. Thanks!
A person after my own heart, who matches the screw to the panel color 😁 (Minus Ears... 🥲) Great video & explanation, thanks!
I like your case. Those are some serious hinges. I love the raw look. This video is inspiring. I have one of these on the way to me. I've been trying to do these kind of sounds with Morphagene and Clouds and other modules. This totally flew under my radar until the other day. I'm wearing out the mail tracking service. I can't wait. Thanks for the video. I have prepared several tracks to run through the data bender. Drone pads created with multi tracked vocals and multitrack acoustic guitar drones to build chord pads. I can't wait to run my acoustic guitar frippertronics through this module. It's gonna be cool. Thanks man. Great video. Great inspiration. I've watched this three times. Haha!
I know this is technically a gear demo, but honestly it'd be super cool if you expanded on that intro section at some point. Always felt strongly about that one Eno quote about recording tech and the fetishization of obsolescence: “Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
I hadn't thought about Data Bender into Clouds before. What a lovely idea (and what lovely sounds)! I also hadn't heard of Maria Chavez before. Thank you for a beautiful and informative video
dude we miss you!
Thank you for breaking this module down so well! I've wanted to know more about it for a while, and this sold it for me. Very excited!
During lockdown I first learned of modular through your videos. The aquisition of all of your modules ensued. I created 4 ambient collections in 2020. The last one was awarded Ambient Album of October' by Bandcamp. Happy to see you posting again. Thank you sincerely for everyhting.
Ah that's amazing! Congrats on the Bandcamp feature!!! Awesome stuff
I’m happy to see you uploading again, you’re the reason I got the Bloom module, excited to see ya back
Best review and explanation of those module I’ve seen / heard....thanks!
received data bender last week and am blown away, such a wonderful ingenious module. and thanks for the perfect explanation!
Wow! I never liked this modul watching other videos.... but now i want one, amazingly awesome! Thank you for this video
Wow, you really put in a lot of work in this excellent presentation of a super interesting module!
nice to be back.more often I hope.i am a happy owner of data bender. surface through data bender and slight reverb is also a fantastic combi. thanks for all your work.
Great demo, and nice extras. Thank you!
Great video. The one that finally sold me on this module. Expecting it to arrive any day.
And what a joy it is!
So happy to see you're still making videos man!
Wow! What a great presentation!! I'm inspired! Thank you, Greg!
Man what a module! Good to see you mate have a great holiday
Radical video. Thanks for making it. I literally bought the Nebulae because of your original videos and never regretted it lol! Cheers
You’re videos are always very professional and educative. Thank you
Great Video, Inspirational stuff. And some reading recommendations for the coming year. Thank you.
Thorough and thoughtful. Thank you.
Love this video. Super inspiring! Well done
Great and amazingly clear tutorial
I’ve been watching basically all,of your videos recently as I love your style. Your explanations are so succinct and interesting, even getting a bit academic with this one. You’ve turned me into a Qubit fanboy too, and the Bloom will be at the heart of the system I’m currently planning. Now I have to make room for the data bender too! Please make more content, you’re so so good at it!
Thank you so much for the feedback, it is much appreciated! Glad you are finding these useful :)
Thanks for putting the effort into a real instructional video - very helpful
Glad you're back!
He’s back
Perfect tutorial, thx!
You have no idea how excited I got when I saw this notification
so well explain. thank you
Excellent video ;-)
Of course to took a new Qu-Bit module to get you back
Thanks for such a clear explanation of this module, best one I've seen. I'm also curious to see Prism in your setup, shame you didn't use that, I'd have been really interested to hear that in action.
Thank you! I have ended up using Prism quite often whenever I sit down to patch, but quite subtly -- feel like I need to explore deeper!
Love my data bender
this module is a beast...! 👹... great video...!
Welcome back!
It’s a real cool module, and I am tempted to get it. But the fact that a dedicated module saves you from the hassle of dealing with failing equipment takes a chunk of the magic away. Because isn’t it the road to the sound more valuable then the sound itself? It is efficient though, when you have kids.
My thoughts as well. It's sort of like a microwave dinner, instant 'damage' applicator. I'm conflicted about it. Twenty years ago, it took some work, or at least a novel approach, to get these sorts of 'unintentional use' results... not to mention the befuddlement, or disapproving reactions from peers. Now there's a Eurorack module that's designed specifically for those traditionally undesirable / damaged / chaotic effects, or results. The internet / technology has ruined everything! Cot damn these useful tools. *curses cloud*
Hey man, been enjoying your channel (and other social media accounts) massively. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and overall inspiration. Do you have a Patreon account or something like that to support you and keep the videos and tutorials and music coming? Much respect.
Hey Pablo! Thanks so much for the kind words -- that means a lot that you'd want to support me. I don't currently have a Patreon but if you'd like to support me financially then you can purchase recordings from my bandcamp! It's at gregwht.bandcamp.com . Many thanks!!
G.W., I'm of the opinion that all Eurorack module Companies should promptly forward to you all modules that they offer for you to review in depth and they should also forward the coffee or tea that is your preference. Thank you...Peace
That is very kind of you 😄
An amazing area of exploration to be sure. 🤔 for my own part I’ve been playing jazz while continuously drinking gin to discover new horizons 🤓
Good stuff
Funny, I was just going through your videos a couple days ago wondering if you were going to come back.
Good
I need another one
can the buffer be saved?
Fantastic video! I feel like most of the functionality of the data bender can probably be done within the Nebulae 2, it just needs that firmware. Maybe not....?
Yeah what is money for if not for buying stuff 🖤
A lot of sound design options here
A small note: I might be wrong, but your recorded music sounds like it's out-of-phase.
Oval really should've been the example for cd....
i want this in stand alone unit
You can make that happen! 4MS make 'pods' which are little cases for small amount of modules: 4mscompany.com/pods.php
Interesting..... broken or malfunctioning devices. Someone gave me a Deepak Chopra CD set. (I think he's full of sh**) (see M. Shermer). I took a razor blade and made various deep scratches on the face of the CDs..... and depending on the brand of CD Player, it would repeat and glitch randomly.