IM AN IDIOT ANNOTATION. I picked the only opamp that isn't strictly an opamp! Lm3900 is a Norton operational amplifiers (granted in the described circuit you could get away with being just opamps, so who knows)--- Well i sold something and it transformed into this, how cool is that! i fired over an offer i wasnt thinking would be accepted. but then! to my horror. i now have an easel! Something I never thought I'd own at any point. Weird hey! im aware this isnt really a thorough showcase of the synth. there is plenty on the net on sounds about it! i just wanted to put on the net what i wanted to see about the easel and hadn't seen. after finishing the big boy formant synth project next week, and a funky project, im going to be revisiting this and tackling a funky expansion module. hopefully i'll get some weird stuff out of it! The verdict, am i gunna keep it? no idea tbh. maybe i should do a trading series where i try to trade my way to either a cs80 or a bag of chips in small increments haha.
Idea for a future build: your own expansion board. I think it calls for something furby-related but a board based on a kosmo module or a ladder filter to bridge the east-coast / west coast situation. Or lean in on the pretentious hipster cult status of this thing with an expansion board with a voltage controlled coffee machine. go wild!
@@dcorbin5779 Couldn't agree more, I'm here just as much for the music as I am the insights into what makes these things tick, could listen to Sam explaining synths all day, especially when they're odd like this, the old magazine build along stuff is fascinating, I'm of the generation where 90% of magazine-a-longs released 2 entries and quietly disappeared
@TheCynicalJedi totally Sam can just tell us some stories and clean his junk bins and I'd be ok with that. That's parts of the fun of following you Sam. Just like hanging out with one of my mates doing fun and amazing things with music and science .
Hey Sam, Great video! The version you have was designed by Don Buchla (DFB on the pcb) and Joel Davel (initials JJD on the pcb and current lead designer and Don's right-hand man/protégé since the early 90's) This version was manufactured between 2013-2019 before they evolved into the newest and current Easel Command/Music Easel "Modern"/Music Easel "Retro" all designed by Joel. Depending on your exact year of manufacture, there might be some updates that can be done. We certainly want any Buchla owner, regardless of if they are the original purchaser or not, to have a working instrument that they can enjoy for decades :) Just hit us up! -eric
Hey Eric thankyou for the comment! Very interesting. Apparently it's 2015ish but how would I know the sort of date? Certainly interested in hearing what updates these are you speak of. It's a fabulous machine, I wasn't sure what to expect as I hadn't experienced using one before. Really pleased with how solid and proper it is. Amazing machine.
I know it's been said before, but your dedication to synths, and commitment to sharing what you've learned, is commendable and inspiring. I hope to make my way across the pond and check out your museum one day. Many thanks from Detroit
Two legit concerns… opening it up and finding a raspberry pi like device 😂… and having nice things but knowing yourself that you break or scratch stuff. I’m clumsy and ruin stuff all the time so I try to buy used gear that already dinged up. Great video I’ve wanted to check Buchla out … I learned a lot.
Buchla - for when regular synths and Eurorack just aren't expensive enough. I love the ideas of west coast synthesis though - complex oscillators, wavefolding, lpgs, more use of randomness and spatial processing... really opens up a lot of new possibilities.
yeah! to be honest playing on the arturia one peaked my interest. someone i was working with the other week before crimbo in town had it on their laptop, and it got me going ooooooooooh
it's certainly unusual if you already have experience with other synths. was stumped for a bit until I figured out the basics. love to use the seq to modulate the lpg with an arp going on. and the sound is really cool
As a paramedic in the USA, watching the Oscalscope waves and hearing the tones, I realized that some of the waves looked exactly like some of the more lethal cardiac disrhythmias. This got me wondering what other cardiac rhythms would sound like in a standard 3 led EKG as well as a 12 led EKG set up in a mulit out put so you can isolate each leads sound. If you manage to make something somewhat good sounding you could call the track/play list "Heart Beats" lol. Any just a rambling thought
Torsades de Pointe I see you 😉. And the mechanism is interesting, basically you have ectopic ventricular beats that are performing both amplitude and frequency modulation on each other
I love that the first thing people do when the play with a new synth is just make them scream. It always put a smile on my face. My first love in music is Sludge metal, and feedback is beautiful thing, same beast as making amps screech. I love it.
My favorite synth. I have been doing a lot of JAMuary work the last days with it. Endless possibilities. From Techno to spaced out over beautiful textures and melodic bliss up to polyphonic work using a Push 3 Standalone, it’s all out there.
As the person who did the PCB layout on both this version and the 208C, I appreciate how much is accurately and efficiently covered in this video. FYI the newer 208C adds some IO and looses the daughtercards in favor of one large board on the back so that it would be easier to service and cheaper to build, but the circuits are still essentially the same even on the 208C.
I love the entire story about don, also how chiani and others contributed to it… 😅 if only the modules didn’t cost so much, that you would need to sell your your first born. The sound is just so sick.
Brilliant! My private composition teacher Dr Grigsby actually studied with Buchla. Dr "Bev" Grigsby was also responsible for creating the computer music studio at Cal State Northridge where I was able to use a Fairlight CMI to make music. I mostly studied counterpoint with Grigsby, but she was always into electronic music and computer music long before people were using computers to make music. Thanks for putting all of this content out ;}
I think many of us can relate to buying something accidentally with speculative low offers on the internet, then being horrified its accepted! This video was fascinating and I look forward to the next in the series. There is a genuinely magical sound to these things that came through as you tinkered more and more.
Tiptop Audio's been in the course of porting Buchla's modules to Eurorack over the past couple years. I really want the Source of Uncertainty, given it was the basis for the MakeNoise Wogglebug.
This is the first time I’ve seen how these actually work, and what the controls do. Thank you for making this. I have the Arturia vst version, and have never used it, because I couldn’t figure it out. Lol
I browse these every so often myself. I didn’t expect to see one here. I built out a eurorack with the TipTop Buchla modules, that was my budget way to give Buchla a go.
@@wheniwaswater-2903 Two Philadelphia legends once recorded a track titled "Say Hello to the Krell" - Charles Cohen on Buchla and George Korein on I don''t know what. Unfortunately the track seems to have been erased from the internet.
You actually made the easel make sense to me for the first time ever! I couldn't ever afford one of these, but you made me even more interested in the Behringer clone when it comes out. I'll definitely get one of those.
I love this synth so much and I truly appreciated your refreshing video about the Music Easel. After years of working with synths it is still somehow one of my goals in life to own a Music Easel one day. Someone just needs to keep me from buying other stuff for a while :D
Wow, it's so weird and wonderful! Your excitement is totally contageous! I very much enjoyed the book "Switched On", all about the life & times of Bob Moog. There was a passing mention of Don Buchla and his different approach. I'd love to learn more about the way he thought.
This gives me Ideas for the synth cabinet.. would be fun to have an Oscilliscope screen or two as well as some nice old fasioned VU Meters as a part of the setup.
Nice description/rundown with the History - Buchla's always been a mystery Oh and you get the same HMV Wireless i had in my bedroom! I used to listen to Pirate Radio on one of those - nice Reverb are usually silly money - might as well have some fun and show us the guts :) :) :)
Shout out for those keyboard units - really responsive - Buchla did a great job with them and added some useful tweaky stuff too. The current version can do 1v/oct as well.
I watched a Marc Doty demo/how-to on the thing and the jumper fiddliness culminating in bloopy randomness didn’t appeal at all to me, being more a fan Exit-style Tangerine Dream melodic music. I can understand people’s interest and appeal, but that’s why there’s different gizmos…different strokes for different folks.
don buchla's synths are too weird and beautiful, it's like controlling powerful forces under the earth to make noise. guess i could sell a kidney or something...
I feel like this would be a good synth for you to have handy next time you get into a jam session with Hainbach. Or maybe if you do another trip to a studio, as you just did with porta-Kosmo.
I've been building a 12U DIY Buchla synth and it is quite expensive (~$5K for parts). New vactrols are like ~$12 a piece. The old ones are ~$25 (and have cadmium :D ). The The old style PCBs without silkscreen are a real challenge. (p.s. Really happy you mentioned Destiny+; dudes goin' places.)
Blimey! This thing usually goes for around 6000 euro and somebody SOLD theirs?!?!? Bloody unbelievable. This is so cool! I would absolutely keep it. This is a piece of music history. I'm really envious right now... 😉
Loving my used copy of brill Michael Caine’s book! As much as messing with 208c! Haha 😂 It’s all about inspiration. So your vids, Sam. Triple shot today ❤
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER (This is the only book I read in past 20 years…. and some pages of Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking, while still keep thinking how synth and music fits the physics of it all LOL)
Nice video, much fun. However, to be honest, I looked at this Buchla several times and was surprised to see how many people are re-selling them. I did hesitate to buy one at quite a nice price, but ended up thinking of what I could buy with the same money to add to my eurorack. I think that people buy this thinking it will be the magic they needed, but, once they have one think (like you say), 'Oops, I bought this, do I really need one?' 🤯
My friend built quite a a few kit versions of the easel, comissioned. And I think they came to about 5000€ (with the work being the cheapest part of that) He also built my TTSH for me. Payed a fair bit more of that than the behringer version, which came out few years after i got mine. But less than the korg one.
I can tell you aren't a software guy but there's some Buchla 200 inspired modules in Cherry Audio's Voltage Modular by DMT Audio that are fun to mess around with if you end up enjoying this style of synthesis. If you have an audio interface with DC coupled outs you could use some floating ring cables and send the virtual modules CV to your other gear. It can be pretty quick to get some convincing results this way. Congrats on the purchase!
God i love that so much. I could play with it 24/7 I don’t like playing on a computer. I don’t think i could afford that. Guess ill see when i look it up. I don’t suppose building it from scratch is any cheaper.
Brilliant video, like others I’ve had the vest for years but never quite got the hang of it. But this inspires me to dive back in (though it does kill my ancient MacBook)
The comment about not knowing if he's going to keep it, being afraid of "scratching it", I FEEL those words, I have the standard ARP 2600 (2600P) , and Moog Minimoog model D, and neither have a single scratch on them and it's always a fear of mine
Amazing, would love to have one! Really like the spring reverb too. Korg Volca Modular is a cheaper way to start to get into this type of synthesis and reminds me of some of these sounds.
2:14 Bob Moog and Don Buchla are credited for inventing the VCO, Buchla made non musical VCO's before. i did a search on the music easel schematic once, but nothing showed up. The schematic of the keyboard! it's a cool box to sit around with and have some fun.
oh, i know this page, visited a few times. But looking at Buchla schematic is like solving a puzzle. with microchip touch ic's you can build a keyboard like that.@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
You're probably better of trading it to a "Make Noise DPO" and save the cash. You're only interested in the symmetry and Timbre / Wavefolder part. "Buchla_2590_3_200.jpg", because most of the stuff you already have, accept above. Make Noise DPO is already made to b 10 V.pp. MakeNoise DPO: Rhythm Track th-cam.com/video/nktCCSWVuQw/w-d-xo.html AWESOME! premier! @@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
The Mellow Sounds of the Make Noise DPO th-cam.com/video/kax57gib43k/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygURbWFrZSBub2lzZSBtZWxsb3c%3D sensible and impressive human kinda of sound!@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
I had a shot of a kit one, impressive but it is a different way of thinking with these. Good vid, cheers. The first sound I made was a lazy saxophone sound, actually.
So bizarre, so fun. You could get lost for hours exploring the possibilities. I can't believe you got a Buchla. West coast synthesis as it originally was. Too much. If I were you Sam I would keep it. I've always wanted a Buchla but they are just a bit too expensive for me.
IM AN IDIOT ANNOTATION. I picked the only opamp that isn't strictly an opamp! Lm3900 is a Norton operational amplifiers (granted in the described circuit you could get away with being just opamps, so who knows)---
Well i sold something and it transformed into this, how cool is that! i fired over an offer i wasnt thinking would be accepted. but then! to my horror. i now have an easel! Something I never thought I'd own at any point. Weird hey!
im aware this isnt really a thorough showcase of the synth. there is plenty on the net on sounds about it! i just wanted to put on the net what i wanted to see about the easel and hadn't seen. after finishing the big boy formant synth project next week, and a funky project, im going to be revisiting this and tackling a funky expansion module. hopefully i'll get some weird stuff out of it!
The verdict, am i gunna keep it? no idea tbh. maybe i should do a trading series where i try to trade my way to either a cs80 or a bag of chips in small increments haha.
Right. Less blah, more music
Idea for a future build: your own expansion board. I think it calls for something furby-related but a board based on a kosmo module or a ladder filter to bridge the east-coast / west coast situation. Or lean in on the pretentious hipster cult status of this thing with an expansion board with a voltage controlled coffee machine. go wild!
Talk all you want mate I'm here for the talking and the music and all the funky electronic instruments
@@dcorbin5779 Couldn't agree more, I'm here just as much for the music as I am the insights into what makes these things tick, could listen to Sam explaining synths all day, especially when they're odd like this, the old magazine build along stuff is fascinating, I'm of the generation where 90% of magazine-a-longs released 2 entries and quietly disappeared
@TheCynicalJedi totally Sam can just tell us some stories and clean his junk bins and I'd be ok with that. That's parts of the fun of following you Sam. Just like hanging out with one of my mates doing fun and amazing things with music and science .
Hey Sam, Great video! The version you have was designed by Don Buchla (DFB on the pcb) and Joel Davel (initials JJD on the pcb and current lead designer and Don's right-hand man/protégé since the early 90's) This version was manufactured between 2013-2019 before they evolved into the newest and current Easel Command/Music Easel "Modern"/Music Easel "Retro" all designed by Joel. Depending on your exact year of manufacture, there might be some updates that can be done. We certainly want any Buchla owner, regardless of if they are the original purchaser or not, to have a working instrument that they can enjoy for decades :) Just hit us up! -eric
Hey Eric thankyou for the comment! Very interesting. Apparently it's 2015ish but how would I know the sort of date? Certainly interested in hearing what updates these are you speak of. It's a fabulous machine, I wasn't sure what to expect as I hadn't experienced using one before. Really pleased with how solid and proper it is. Amazing machine.
It just occurred to me ....Sam is the Steve Irwin of synthesizers 😂
Are we now finally past the stage where every! single! TH-camr! was the Bob Ross of synths? Good.
@@vinylarchaeologistThat was Cuckoo, but then there were copypasta memers who rode that comment into the ground...
soooo, he'll die from electroshock? let's hope he doesn't
I can picture him now dangling a Furby in front of a killer synth for the audience.
Probably would use the stingray as an oscillator....
I rewatched the Logans Run film yesterday and so much of that music sounds almost exactly like this. Just wonderful :) thank you
I really appreciate the fact he opens it so you can see the inside.
I know it's been said before, but your dedication to synths, and commitment to sharing what you've learned, is commendable and inspiring. I hope to make my way across the pond and check out your museum one day. Many thanks from Detroit
I learned on a Buchla Easel and a Buchla 200 back in the early 80's in college. It is awesome!!! Buchla is the best!
What did learn. Pretty cool on thing for the school to have.
Two legit concerns… opening it up and finding a raspberry pi like device 😂… and having nice things but knowing yourself that you break or scratch stuff.
I’m clumsy and ruin stuff all the time so I try to buy used gear that already dinged up.
Great video I’ve wanted to check Buchla out … I learned a lot.
Buchla - for when regular synths and Eurorack just aren't expensive enough.
I love the ideas of west coast synthesis though - complex oscillators, wavefolding, lpgs, more use of randomness and spatial processing... really opens up a lot of new possibilities.
To be fair eurorack prices. What I paid (I wouldn't pay new prices for a buchla) I recon case and all it would work out similar price wise
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER That sounds totally reasonable - and I really can't talk... I wouldn't pass up such an opportunity either.
The Buchla Music Easel is such a dang mystery to me. Im personally using the arturia vst version, but its wild and mysterious to me.
yeah! to be honest playing on the arturia one peaked my interest. someone i was working with the other week before crimbo in town had it on their laptop, and it got me going ooooooooooh
it's certainly unusual if you already have experience with other synths. was stumped for a bit until I figured out the basics. love to use the seq to modulate the lpg with an arp going on. and the sound is really cool
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER banana jacks are weird and scary to me. but they are also cool. :)
@@valdir7426 lol its still unusual even once you understand whats going on. but unusual isnt a bad thing!
There's at yt channel called "one man and his songs". He does quite a good job explaining the easel v (and a bunch of other v-collection synths).
As a paramedic in the USA, watching the Oscalscope waves and hearing the tones, I realized that some of the waves looked exactly like some of the more lethal cardiac disrhythmias. This got me wondering what other cardiac rhythms would sound like in a standard 3 led EKG as well as a 12 led EKG set up in a mulit out put so you can isolate each leads sound. If you manage to make something somewhat good sounding you could call the track/play list "Heart Beats" lol. Any just a rambling thought
Torsades de Pointe I see you 😉. And the mechanism is interesting, basically you have ectopic ventricular beats that are performing both amplitude and frequency modulation on each other
I love that the first thing people do when the play with a new synth is just make them scream. It always put a smile on my face. My first love in music is Sludge metal, and feedback is beautiful thing, same beast as making amps screech. I love it.
My favorite synth. I have been doing a lot of JAMuary work the last days with it. Endless possibilities. From Techno to spaced out over beautiful textures and melodic bliss up to polyphonic work using a Push 3 Standalone, it’s all out there.
As the person who did the PCB layout on both this version and the 208C, I appreciate how much is accurately and efficiently covered in this video. FYI the newer 208C adds some IO and looses the daughtercards in favor of one large board on the back so that it would be easier to service and cheaper to build, but the circuits are still essentially the same even on the 208C.
I am already knee-deep in Buchla quicksand. And waiting for the clone coming any year now. These things are really habbitforming.
I misread that as Hobbit farming.
Lol 😂 @@St33v33
Clockwork Orange sounds, Wendy Carlos style. Great video chap.
And don't forget TONTO.
Hands down one of the best spring reverbs I've ever heard.
Thanks a lot for showing this great piece of modern music history in depth
It's a keeper Sam!...and those expansion mods open up so many possibilities.
I love the entire story about don, also how chiani and others contributed to it… 😅 if only the modules didn’t cost so much, that you would need to sell your your first born. The sound is just so sick.
Brilliant! My private composition teacher Dr Grigsby actually studied with Buchla. Dr "Bev" Grigsby was also responsible for creating the computer music studio at Cal State Northridge where I was able to use a Fairlight CMI to make music. I mostly studied counterpoint with Grigsby, but she was always into electronic music and computer music long before people were using computers to make music. Thanks for putting all of this content out ;}
I think many of us can relate to buying something accidentally with speculative low offers on the internet, then being horrified its accepted!
This video was fascinating and I look forward to the next in the series. There is a genuinely magical sound to these things that came through as you tinkered more and more.
Tiptop Audio's been in the course of porting Buchla's modules to Eurorack over the past couple years.
I really want the Source of Uncertainty, given it was the basis for the MakeNoise Wogglebug.
This is the first time I’ve seen how these actually work, and what the controls do. Thank you for making this. I have the Arturia vst version, and have never
used it, because I couldn’t figure it out. Lol
I love having the oscilloscope on screen to really be able to see what the sounds look like. very cool!
Get in...Sam delivers another blinder!
I browse these every so often myself. I didn’t expect to see one here. I built out a eurorack with the TipTop Buchla modules, that was my budget way to give Buchla a go.
The easel is such a unique instrument. For its size it offers an insane amount of different timbres and textures.
i got vibes of Forbidden Planet there.
Well, Buchla is the official synth of the Krell…or so I’ve read.
Jinx!
@@wheniwaswater-2903😂
@@wheniwaswater-2903 Two Philadelphia legends once recorded a track titled "Say Hello to the Krell" - Charles Cohen on Buchla and George Korein on I don''t know what. Unfortunately the track seems to have been erased from the internet.
"It's not recommended to plu...oh whatever" 😄
Looking forward to this series Sam!
Hell - this is amazing cool, the sounds, the extern cards... and of course, now I want to have a spring reverb.
You actually made the easel make sense to me for the first time ever! I couldn't ever afford one of these, but you made me even more interested in the Behringer clone when it comes out. I'll definitely get one of those.
I love this synth so much and I truly appreciated your refreshing video about the Music Easel. After years of working with synths it is still somehow one of my goals in life to own a Music Easel one day. Someone just needs to keep me from buying other stuff for a while :D
Wow, it's so weird and wonderful! Your excitement is totally contageous! I very much enjoyed the book "Switched On", all about the life & times of Bob Moog. There was a passing mention of Don Buchla and his different approach. I'd love to learn more about the way he thought.
This gives me Ideas for the synth cabinet.. would be fun to have an Oscilliscope screen or two as well as some nice old fasioned VU Meters as a part of the setup.
Nice description/rundown with the History - Buchla's always been a mystery
Oh and you get the same HMV Wireless i had in my bedroom! I used to listen to Pirate Radio on one of those - nice
Reverb are usually silly money - might as well have some fun and show us the guts :) :) :)
You're gonna love it man.....and you will learn to take good care of it ;-)
I have lusted after this synth, since I was 12. I'm 51.
That modulation ring is so nice...
Shout out for those keyboard units - really responsive - Buchla did a great job with them and added some useful tweaky stuff too. The current version can do 1v/oct as well.
I just love the sound of this synth!
That Mr. Blobby t-shirt really is everything! 😂
What is this witchcraft of which you speak?
@@DrQuadrivium
th-cam.com/video/FMe8VzUnRE4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=X64o8lFuXKwuYfgu
i love how it says "REVER-----BERATION" never seen that before lol
This synth is actually a bit legendary and quite expensive and quite unique
That was freaking awesome and one thing promis me Sam that you do not change with the sarcasm 😊
Never felt the B magic, and this video confirms my feelings.
Thanks for sharing! Videos that don't give me GAS are really really welcome too
I watched a Marc Doty demo/how-to on the thing and the jumper fiddliness culminating in bloopy randomness didn’t appeal at all to me, being more a fan Exit-style Tangerine Dream melodic music. I can understand people’s interest and appeal, but that’s why there’s different gizmos…different strokes for different folks.
don buchla's synths are too weird and beautiful, it's like controlling powerful forces under the earth to make noise. guess i could sell a kidney or something...
Outro song giving me the Mass Effect goosebumps
I feel like this would be a good synth for you to have handy next time you get into a jam session with Hainbach. Or maybe if you do another trip to a studio, as you just did with porta-Kosmo.
I've been building a 12U DIY Buchla synth and it is quite expensive (~$5K for parts). New vactrols are like ~$12 a piece. The old ones are ~$25 (and have cadmium :D ).
The The old style PCBs without silkscreen are a real challenge.
(p.s. Really happy you mentioned Destiny+; dudes goin' places.)
I love this thing to no end
The preset board slot just makes this synth perfect for Sam lol
That looks so much fun!
Blimey! This thing usually goes for around 6000 euro and somebody SOLD theirs?!?!? Bloody unbelievable. This is so cool! I would absolutely keep it. This is a piece of music history. I'm really envious right now... 😉
i love my mini mini buchla easel: the microfreak 😂😂😂
i love buchla type synths so much, u got my dream machineeee
Loving my used copy of brill Michael Caine’s book! As much as messing with 208c! Haha 😂 It’s all about inspiration. So your vids, Sam. Triple shot today ❤
Haha I put that there cus it's called "what's it all abaaaat" haha :D
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTERRight on! Looking forward to see what you’ll bolt and solder to this lucky Buchla unit living happiest of its life 😊
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER (This is the only book I read in past 20 years…. and some pages of Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking, while still keep thinking how synth and music fits the physics of it all LOL)
Nice video, much fun. However, to be honest, I looked at this Buchla several times and was surprised to see how many people are re-selling them. I did hesitate to buy one at quite a nice price, but ended up thinking of what I could buy with the same money to add to my eurorack.
I think that people buy this thinking it will be the magic they needed, but, once they have one think (like you say), 'Oops, I bought this, do I really need one?' 🤯
I think it's another rabbit hole in a parallel Universe of modular synthesizers! :)))
Thanks for the clear explanation, I bought and use the plug in but never RTFM, just went in at random!
Wow. Shocking "Forbidden Planet" and "Phaser on overload" flashbacks!
Buchla was weird then, it is weird now. Consistency is important when you're playing random notes. Thanks, Sam!
The spring sounds so damn good
Those first few seconds gave me goosebumps... it sounded like pure Morton Subotnick.
My friend built quite a a few kit versions of the easel, comissioned. And I think they came to about 5000€ (with the work being the cheapest part of that) He also built my TTSH for me. Payed a fair bit more of that than the behringer version, which came out few years after i got mine. But less than the korg one.
Nice :)
Looking forward to more on the buchla.
I can tell you aren't a software guy but there's some Buchla 200 inspired modules in Cherry Audio's Voltage Modular by DMT Audio that are fun to mess around with if you end up enjoying this style of synthesis. If you have an audio interface with DC coupled outs you could use some floating ring cables and send the virtual modules CV to your other gear. It can be pretty quick to get some convincing results this way. Congrats on the purchase!
Well that was fun! I thought I needed one after seeing this video..... then I saw the price! 🤑
the reverb sounds like its in a big empty pipe. this is really cool. cheers
God i love that so much. I could play with it 24/7 I don’t like playing on a computer.
I don’t think i could afford that. Guess ill see when i look it up.
I don’t suppose building it from scratch is any cheaper.
Buchlas are great....neat little toy there....heavy sound....
Brilliant video, like others I’ve had the vest for years but never quite got the hang of it. But this inspires me to dive back in (though it does kill my ancient MacBook)
The comment about not knowing if he's going to keep it, being afraid of "scratching it", I FEEL those words, I have the standard ARP 2600 (2600P) , and Moog Minimoog model D, and neither have a single scratch on them and it's always a fear of mine
giving forbidden planet vibes in places 🙂 with pinch war of the worlds
i was the same when i got mine... too nice
Amazing, would love to have one! Really like the spring reverb too. Korg Volca Modular is a cheaper way to start to get into this type of synthesis and reminds me of some of these sounds.
Kept reminding me of the special soundtrack from The Forbidden Planet :-)
That thing sounds really weird. I ❤ it
Ha, also saw this on reverb but have (slightly) more restraint, although was sorely tempted!
2:14 Bob Moog and Don Buchla are credited for inventing the VCO, Buchla made non musical VCO's before.
i did a search on the music easel schematic once, but nothing showed up.
The schematic of the keyboard! it's a cool box to sit around with and have some fun.
fluxmonkey.com/historicBuchla/208-programsource.htm bottom of the page
aaah yeah that makes sense.
oh, i know this page, visited a few times.
But looking at Buchla schematic is like solving a puzzle. with microchip touch ic's you can build a keyboard like that.@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
You're probably better of trading it to a "Make Noise DPO" and save the cash.
You're only interested in the symmetry and Timbre / Wavefolder part. "Buchla_2590_3_200.jpg", because most of the stuff you already have, accept above.
Make Noise DPO is already made to b 10 V.pp.
MakeNoise DPO: Rhythm Track
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AWESOME! premier!
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The Mellow Sounds of the Make Noise DPO
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sensible and impressive human kinda of sound!@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
Impeccable form removing old Phillips screws without stripping. Only someone who has stripped hundreds will put that force into it.
I had a shot of a kit one, impressive but it is a different way of thinking with these. Good vid, cheers. The first sound I made was a lazy saxophone sound, actually.
omg...Buchla Synth´s ! beside EMS maybe the best on this Planet
Sam, thanks for this presentation
Thanks for the walk through. It was helpful.
Sam! Please do a DIY Omnichord.
Here to say your Seiko Data Bank watch is heroic mate. Want
Also it seems to be broken but you're wearing it anyway. Doubly heroic that
I definitly think this is the prettiest synth out there. Maybe also the coolest.
All very "forbidden planet". I love it. 🙂
Congrats buddy!
So bizarre, so fun. You could get lost for hours exploring the possibilities. I can't believe you got a Buchla. West coast synthesis as it originally was. Too much. If I were you Sam I would keep it. I've always wanted a Buchla but they are just a bit too expensive for me.
Beautiful piece, imma just stick to my V collection Aurturia plug in.
Saw Richard Devine playing with his kid with a modified one of these recently. Looks so fun.
Think that was the reissue reissue
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Ah Thanks for the info as always! "Calculated Miscalculation" is my kind of wording. got songs with similar names. ;)
He just got our newly released "Modern" version that has a slot for adding an additional module.
Cool!
yeah baby go go goooo!
Okay when he pulled off the top i was totally expecting to see another Buchla panel. i mean it would explain "additive" synthesis better
Keep it. It sounds amazing!
reminds me visually of my original Odyssey, if it had a decent reverb, would still have it
17:18 very Krell ❤
Awesome video so excited to see whaaat u do with this
These sounds remind me of the movie "Logan's Run" from 1976.