The Mighty Buchla 200e Modular Synthesizer Part 3| Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- Electronic musician Thomas Dimuzio goes through the many amazing modules of his Buchla 200e in detail. This three part series is over an hour of diving deep into one of the most magnificent synthesizers ever made. Enjoy!
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I know this was made a long time ago, but it still is one of the best walkthroughs of each module. Thank you for making it happen! Going to check out some of Thomas's work after this :)
Fabulous set of videos. Big respect to Thomas for walking us through his awesome setup.
Also Thomas's latest album is absolute F I R E!
Thanks for doing this. Good Buchla demonstration vids are rare, and this is one of the best.
What an excellent video, learned so much. Big thanks.
It's always great to see high quality video of Buchla. Thanks for the demo!
Thanks a whole bunch! Your channel is a goldmine of knowledge, and it's even more exciting to see more Buchla around the internet. There's not enough people like you!
Wow, what a lovely comment. Thank you so much. I have loved this stuff passionately for my entire adult life, and really enjoy sharing it with the world. I make a living being a creative professional for other people, so doing this channel is my little art project that I do just for people like you. :)
Great! Looking forward to seeing more eurorack DIY videos, love your concise, well thought-out way of going about it. (any chance for DIY case build with sourcing rails from Mouser or some PCB+panel builds? would love some knowledge on that, I'm looking forward to digging deeper myself into DIY)
Great series. I’m about to order a custom Skylab setup myself, and this was just more fuel for the fire!
266e QRV section divides the 0-10V cv range evenly by the number selected. So the voltages in the set are fixed. The randomness applies to the selection among the set. So for example, with N=2, the two voltages are 0 and 10V. For N=3 they are 0, 5, and 10V, and so on.
Wow, Doug - you have a much deeper insight into this instrument than I do. Thanks for adding your knowledge to the conversation!
Correct, and I believe the distribution controls the likelihood of voltages being chosen from the middle, each end, or all (flat) 👍
Nice quick blast on the Pendulum/Rachet
So much valuable knowledge... awesome, thank you so much for these beautiful videos!
Regarding the 291e, the key I think is to highly attenuate the frequency CV to keep it in a sweet spot. The general problem is that none of its many CV inputs feature attenuation, so you really must have a CV processor to go with it. You might consider keeping your 256e next to it. Also, regarding the interactivity, you can control everything (except modulation depth) using CV inputs instead of the sequencer. So there is no need to set up anything, just use external CV sources. For this, it is very handy to have a 255 control voltage processor next to the 291e to remotely control all of the CV levels (and also to provide attenuation). It is also a wonderful module when used in feedback into itself with sine or noise (258 cross mod) audio modulation. Use the VCAs and ALL output, and set your downstream volume all the way up and let the VCAs control the volume. Attenuated envelopes to the freq inputs in this case makes all kinds of great percussion noises, and three voices too.
I loooove that serie!
agreed....it doesn’t matter after a while 👍🏻
Thank you for posting this very interesting, three part series!
I thank Thomas DiMuzio, who had the amazing Buchla in the first place!
Great videos! Learned so much about buchla in general!
Thank you for watching!
great series ! would've been great to have a line recording of the system to mix with the speech. missing out on some of the harmonic stuff due to camera mic ; great videos nonetheless
I just watched a 3 part introduction to a synth I'll never afford 👍Gutted you didn't cover the touch interface! 😭
Awesome demo. I'd love to get into Buchla, but the modules are so much more expensive than Eurorack.
The Buchla Systems are really quite interesting. It solves a lot of the ergonomic problems in Euro and the logical patching, and I imagine one can get really good results in much less time. They are very expensive, but nothing compared to a top-tier instrument in any of the "classic" categories (guitars, pianos, violins...).
Although whilst it seems incredibly rich in tonal potential, the Buchla modules don't really offer a lot for generative music.
I don't see how you can rationalize that closing statement. One can certainly construct generative music on a Buchla system. You need to back up your statement.
Yes absolutely. You get some building blocks for generative music, sequencers, and the SOU, but things like sequential switches and the more sophisticated pseudo-random pattern generation systems that many utilize for generative music are lacking in Buchla (at least for what concerns native Buchla-made modules). You can absolutely make great generative music with it, but probably not to the same extent as many would like to go.
yes mate, it's user interface design. The "California tradition." Gosh what a great system.
It's truly amazing, I agree.
4U 👍
Awesome series! I need to stop watching Buchla videos...
You know Buchla is expensive the moment they say Eurorack is affordable ;-)