Testing Buchla drum presets + a bonus Buchla
“Drum Bloop – Testing the Buchla drum presets. You can find them on page 247 of the user manual…”
Via It’s full of stars
“Vegas Buchla and OP-1 Sunset – Chillin at Encore waiting for Deadmau5 making lots of noise”
9/8 Synth ABC
Friday morning synth spotting, here’s what’s included:
Arp Odyssey
Buchla System #1
Crumar Spirit
Akai MFC 42 Mixer
Maestro Ringmodulator
Make Noise Format Jumper
Moog CP 251
Simmons Clap Trap
Roland EF 303 Sequencer to
Logic to Kenton Pro 2000 (Arp) & Pro Solo (Spirit) and Buchla
9/8 odd time
Moog Taurus 2 & Buchla System # 1
Background data:
Buchla System #1& Moog Taurus 2
Akai MFC 42
Boss LS 2
Doepfer R2m
Kenton Pro Solo( Aux SH LFO to FB2) & Pro Solo Mk2 (Taurus Midi to cv)
Maestro Ringmodulator
Sherman Filterbank 2
Yamaha MCS 2
Audio : 261e to Boss LS2 to Taurus to Ringmodulator to
Sherman FB 2 to 292e to Akai
Logic master clock and Ultrabeat Drum
Buchla Odyssey
Background information on this great video below:
Buchla System #1& Arp Odyssey
Akai MFC 42 (mixer)
Art OPL tube preamp
Boss SL 20
Doepfer R2m
Kenton Pro 2000 II for cv Odyssey
Maestro Ringmodulator
Moog CP 251
Roland EF 303 Sequencer 14 steps to Logic
Yamaha MCS 2
Audio : 261e to Odyssey (out 1 to Maestro Ringmodulator out2 to SL20)
to Art OPL to 292e to Akai
Compost Cats by Ohmforce AU
Logic
Buchla System #1 & Roland System 102
Buchla System #1 and Roland System 102 (Filter Ringmodulator low drone)
Akai MFC 42 Panning
Alesis Metavox
Line 6 Filter Pro
Make Noise Format Jumper
Moog MP 201 C251 VX 351
The Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer
Yamaha MCS 2
Sequenced by Roland EF 303 (12 steps)
Drums Logic Ultrabeat
Switched on Buch la ti doddle
Buchla in full action, enjoy
Buchla System #1 and Roland System 102 (Filter Ringmodulator low drone)
Akai MFC 42 Panning
Alesis Metavox
Line 6 Filter Pro
Make Noise Format Jumper
Moog MP 201 C251 VX 351
The Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer
Yamaha MCS 2
Sequenced by Roland EF 303 (12 steps)
via Logic
“Everything Ends Here” performed by Don Buchla
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival 2010
Alessandro Cortini + Don Buchla, performing the piece “everything ends here”, from Blindoldfreak’s 1st EP, 1.
Buchla formed his electronic music equipment company, Buchla and Associates, in 1962 in Berkeley, California. Buchla was commissioned by avant garde music composers Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender, both of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, to create an electronic instrument for live performance. Under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation Buchla completed his first modular synthesizer in 1963. The result was the Buchla Series 100, which he began selling in 1966. Buchla’s synthesizers experimented in control interfaces, such as touch-sensitive plates. In 1969 the Series 100 was sold to CBS, who soon after dropped the line, not seeing the synthesizer market as a profitable area.
In 1970 the Buchla 200 series Electric Music Box was released and was manufactured until 1985. Buchla created the Buchla Series 500, the first digitally controlled analog synthesizer, in 1971. Shortly after, the Buchla Series 300 was released, which combined the Series 200 with microprocessors. The Music Easel, a small, portable, all-in-one synthesizer was released in 1972. The Buchla 400 was released in 1982, which featured a video display. In 1987 the fully MIDI enabled Buchla 700 was released.
Beginning in the 1990s, Buchla began designing alternative MIDI controllers, such as the Thunder, Lightning, and Marimba Lumina. With the recent resurgence of interest in analog synthesizers Buchla has released a revamped 200 series called the 200e.
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Buchla & R880 mix by Foxx companion Benge
Here’s his statement of the use of reverbs 
I have a lot of reverb units – I love them! They fascinate me because they take your sound and they put it into a 3D space, and they all do it in their own unique way. They have evolved so much over the years, starting off with analog springs and metal plates, through early and very clever digital algorithmic processors and onwards through the growing bit depths. My favourites are the EMT 140 stereo plate, the Lexicon 224, Yamaha Rev1 and the Telefunken Echomixer mono spring thing. I bought a Roland R880 years ago really cheap which was their attempt (in 1988) at a supa-mega-reverb and it is an extremely underrated unit actually. So I took it home so I could experiment putting a Buchla through it. I had a hunch that they would sound good together! I spent a few hours re-aquainting myself with its shocking operating system (which was like that scene in Contact where they build the spaceship based on blueprints deciphered from an alien language downloaded from outer space)
Anyway – here is a live tweak of the Buchla and R880 together
Variation on the Largo from Winter by Antonio Vivaldi for Analog Modular Synthesizer
Beautiful capture of a classic composer
Additional details:
This is my first video since I changed my modular system to all Eurorack. It is done just using step sequencers again. this time it uses the new Modcan Touch sequencer and two Analogue Solutions Oberkorn 3.
By the way I just needed to throw in some Buchla percussions to complement this post:
Enjoy
Buchla 272e Polyphonic FM Tuner
“An early experiment. all sounds initially generated by the 272e Polyphonic FM Tuner heavily processed by the 285e Frequency Shifter and 291e Triple Morphing Filter.”
This module is the e series reincarnation of the 285. A long time coming, but well worth the wait.
The top section performs frequency shifting; up and down outputs are simultaneously available. The reference frequency can be externally applied or internally generated; the latter can be voltage controlled and f.m. modulated. The bottom section is independent, and functions as a balanced modulator of applied signals. The degree of modulation is voltage controlled, and the reference frequency can be internally generated or externally applied, as in the frequency shifter. A separate output is dedicated to classic ring modulation, a subset of balanced modulation. All settings of the 285e can be stored and retrieved with the 225e or the 206e preset manager.
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