I love it how so many "old" designs aren't old, they are foundations. Buchla, ARP, Moog, and more, the designs and sounds are still valid and valuable. It isn't retro, it's all fragments of a future we have yet to explore.
Sounding great as always! My 259t arrives soon... looking forward to that experiment! -- I think the 261e is the current version of the complex waveform generator. There was temporarily a 259e complex generator which was a digital version of the 259, but that was replaced by the 259e twisted waveform generator, which is a complex wavetable generator. All of those oscillators are modules I hope to spend more time getting to know...
Finally feeling ready for a proper complex oscillator, I was about to pull the trigger on this- then spotted an IME Hertz Donut Mk III for barely half the price. The 259t will follow in due course- it’s not going anywhere, but the HD was just too good an opportunity to miss!
The IME is a great digital VCO to complement a future 259. It reminds me of the Noise Engineering range and inevitably a bit of the Schlappi Three-Body. I don't have anything from IME because of the small displays but they definitely love what they're doing.
BTW I approve of the Buchla'ized Beads! I did the same thing with all of my MI modules to remember the easter eggs in the manuals. e.g. Beads should have Freeze & Seed - orange, Right Output - red, Pitch & Density - white. The one that blew my mind is Marbles' Rate & Spread - white!
Vactrols are elicit in the EU? Buchla represents a wonderful set of mysteries that I would love to explore. The Benjolin also inspires some similar ideas as well. Thank you for sharing this!
@@ChrisMills-AmbientSpace Yes, and no. I had to buy my 292t from Perfect Circuit direct- but just last week I bought a pair of Intellijel LPGs from a UK dealer that they had only themselves received a few days earlier. It may simply be that TipTop won’t ship to the UK or EU, but other mfrs will- admittedly in defiance of RoHS.
It's complicated. Equipment with vactrols are not allowed for import, but what's in stock here can still be sold. The EU is the first entity that doesn't alllow them, but the rest of the world will follow sooner or later. It's a rule that's hard to enforce since customs doesn't know what's on a panel. MakeNoise managed to ship the last batch of QMMG's to EU countries which have eight of them on the back. The Tiptop 292T isn't available in the EU, but you can still take the risk of ordering one outside the EU. The 'green' version is expected by the end of 2024. MakeNoise DXG is also a clear sign of change, it's their frst vactrol free LPG. I think the EU is about discouragement so they will naturally phase out. Furthermore, the original Vactec vactrols (hence the name) are now very rare and expensive so cheap chinese alternatives are used, or people make them DIY. But you will never find those on a Buchla.
No I don't think so. I will investigate this and see how it works. Any complex VCO with AM, FM and Timbre Mod should be able to do it. But how? Don't know yet. Still, it immediately came out and it was also present in the 2007 video on the real thing.
@@CinematicLaboratory In EV's it's not cadmium that kills or permanently disables first responders. It's other heavy metals they are allowing in the lithium chemistries and conveniently overlooking. If an EV battery goes into thermal runaway in say an underground parking structure, anyone exposed to the fumes is totally screwed.
I love it how so many "old" designs aren't old, they are foundations. Buchla, ARP, Moog, and more, the designs and sounds are still valid and valuable. It isn't retro, it's all fragments of a future we have yet to explore.
So well said, thanks for sharing.
Man...sounds like pure electricity❤
I got this complex osc , it really responds to audio rate modulation like not other as well .great videos too .
Sounding great as always! My 259t arrives soon... looking forward to that experiment! -- I think the 261e is the current version of the complex waveform generator. There was temporarily a 259e complex generator which was a digital version of the 259, but that was replaced by the 259e twisted waveform generator, which is a complex wavetable generator. All of those oscillators are modules I hope to spend more time getting to know...
That was rad as shit dude. My heart felt so full and inquisitive listen to your performance.
Finally feeling ready for a proper complex oscillator, I was about to pull the trigger on this- then spotted an IME Hertz Donut Mk III for barely half the price. The 259t will follow in due course- it’s not going anywhere, but the HD was just too good an opportunity to miss!
The IME is a great digital VCO to complement a future 259. It reminds me of the Noise Engineering range and inevitably a bit of the Schlappi Three-Body. I don't have anything from IME because of the small displays but they definitely love what they're doing.
And this is the video we been waiting for.
thanks for this video... amazing sounds as always... really love the "easel-part"!!!
Ordered one today from Milk Audio in Rome.Been looking forward to this.
BTW I approve of the Buchla'ized Beads! I did the same thing with all of my MI modules to remember the easter eggs in the manuals. e.g. Beads should have Freeze & Seed - orange, Right Output - red, Pitch & Density - white. The one that blew my mind is Marbles' Rate & Spread - white!
Vactrols are elicit in the EU?
Buchla represents a wonderful set of mysteries that I would love to explore. The Benjolin also inspires some similar ideas as well.
Thank you for sharing this!
@@ChrisMills-AmbientSpace Yes, and no. I had to buy my 292t from Perfect Circuit direct- but just last week I bought a pair of Intellijel LPGs from a UK dealer that they had only themselves received a few days earlier. It may simply be that TipTop won’t ship to the UK or EU, but other mfrs will- admittedly in defiance of RoHS.
It's complicated. Equipment with vactrols are not allowed for import, but what's in stock here can still be sold. The EU is the first entity that doesn't alllow them, but the rest of the world will follow sooner or later. It's a rule that's hard to enforce since customs doesn't know what's on a panel. MakeNoise managed to ship the last batch of QMMG's to EU countries which have eight of them on the back. The Tiptop 292T isn't available in the EU, but you can still take the risk of ordering one outside the EU. The 'green' version is expected by the end of 2024. MakeNoise DXG is also a clear sign of change, it's their frst vactrol free LPG. I think the EU is about discouragement so they will naturally phase out. Furthermore, the original Vactec vactrols (hence the name) are now very rare and expensive so cheap chinese alternatives are used, or people make them DIY. But you will never find those on a Buchla.
@@CinematicLaboratory 292T with vactorals being sold by SynthGuru here in Italy..Pricer than the non vactoral version.
@@elektrenai219 Yes, I've seen it and I almost bought it.
@@CinematicLaboratory He's still got 1 left 😀
Fascinating 😊
I absolutely love the 2nd patch & it's talking sounds! Is it something unique to the 259t?
No I don't think so. I will investigate this and see how it works. Any complex VCO with AM, FM and Timbre Mod should be able to do it. But how? Don't know yet. Still, it immediately came out and it was also present in the 2007 video on the real thing.
I got two Vactrol 292's from the USA, I wonder why they didn't do a vactrol version like they did the 292
cool
Looking forward to your ART video….you should try the triax8
Yeah, I should but it's not released yet and it's not even on their website. I only have the ART quantizer coming in tomorrow.
The V/Oct is a very nice module, especially the chord function
They released the freq shifter ???
Beads undercover 👀
To even suggest you might have used too much reverb may anger the god of reverb... I mean Omri 😂
Don't EV batteries have the same crap (or worse) as the vactrols that are banned? In "slightly" larger quantities?
Nickel Cadmium is also banned, but Lithium is ok. And battery acid.
@@CinematicLaboratory In EV's it's not cadmium that kills or permanently disables first responders. It's other heavy metals they are allowing in the lithium chemistries and conveniently overlooking. If an EV battery goes into thermal runaway in say an underground parking structure, anyone exposed to the fumes is totally screwed.