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I Love Bidule & You Will Too

By Primus Luta

If you don’t know, bidule is the other modular audio software.  You know the one with the crazy initiation involving candles, hoods and a scientific calculator.  I know, I know you thought all the rituals were just a conspiracy theory, but I’m here to tell you they are true.  And that’s before you purchase the early-bird license, I won’t even get into the crazy things they make you do after.  But I will say its well worth the body branding and I’m going to use this blog as a way to not just tell you but to show you.

For the past three years now I’ve been locked in the catacombs working on a project that takes bidule by the ram horns and really runs with it.  The result of which is a secret audio elixer which if taken on a specified day will open up a gateway to nirvana, I hope.  At the very least it will lead to the fountain of teen spirit, where you’ll remember what it was like to build mod, or patch your first analog synth, or whatever it was that first lured you into the underworld of audiophilia.  But that’s getting way ahead of ourselves.

A main goal of the blog will be to provide a step by step map through bidule which starts from an empty layout to full instruments.  Along the way I’ll impart some of the wisdom I’ve learned since my initiation into the finer ways of biduling, and at the end of it all…. okay I’ll tell you a secret which I’m probably not supposed to tell you [... grand dragon edit] – 42.

To whet your apetite have a look at the first two PEMF Sessions, a separate but related series about these instruments and the project they were built for.