David, you have a really amazing collection of synths. If you could name one thing that makes a Buchla different than other synths, what would you say? I'm building my own modular, and am adding a few Buhla-esqe modules like LPGs and BP Filters, but am curious as to what you'd consider the 'heart' of the Buchla sound to be? Thanks
@buchla300 Thanks for the response. I think I'm probably well on the way to having all of that. A fellow name j3rk is making a 258 board (I've ordered a couple), and I already have some LPGs and Serge Universal Slope Generators, which are similar to the 292s. Can't wait to get it all built and running. Regarding the old ones - the new ones are pretty darned expensive too! ;-) Anyway, thanks for your great videos - I wish you'd make some more....
I wish they'd come with a software synth. of the Buchla! Damn! Excellent sound. I heard one at Cal Institute Arts and loved it. I really like the idea that Buchla didn't believe in keyboards for synthesizers.
@synsei1 Yes I worked with Andrea and I really enjoyed those times. Hard work, but fun. Angular Art was one of the things we did that still makes me smile when I listen back to it.
I always say that limitations are good. Sometimes it helps you focus and get the best out of a synth. If you look at a VCS3 it is quite simple but like the MS20 can do unique things that nothing else can.
10-06-2011 ; With a consistancy , Unkle Morton crafts the wildest array of electronic concatenations imaginable . Back in the '70's "Touch" was immeasurably entertaining for my higth schoolnears .I only wish I was empowered with a brood of Buchlas' for some form of "show-up" competition against such a total master - where I'd be certain to fail .Waiting on YouTube for your office next anticipated studio-time initiative deployment .Again ,bravo on a well configured strobe !-Seclusionos.
Hello mr. Morley! It's really nice to see real synthesizers and real synth players in action! So I have this music , for a long time, that I've made using sampled sounds from this video and I haven't uploaded it anywhere still. I want to upload it to YouTube, but I want your permission first because I'm an honest man! In my video (which will be music with a still image) I will describe the source of the sampled sounds. I won''t be making money in any way from this video!Pls repond &Thank you! :)
@eliassailor Hi there. They are certainly good enough quality wise. Very different machines though. The older Buchla have a really cool tone to them and very rich but still experimental sounding if you know what I mean.
Modcan and Macbeth are top notch and I would gladly have a rack of each if I could!
Ken Macbeth is a great guy and builds quality stuff but it's less experimental than Buchla. Modcan is a bit of both!
Buchla is too expensive these days though (especially older ones) imho
industry could build such synths in thousands at a very low price....enough would buy it....but they just don't...instead they build mostly boring digital synths, V A s which sound like mostly crappy and don't make fun cause thei're totally limited. If i try to use high modulation rates on digital synths...the sound instantly goes to CRAP because of low refresh rates and aliasing. i wish i could afford a real analogue. :/
Actually though, some of the modern analogues although not exactly cheap, are still affordable and really good quality. A small Modcan or Cwejman system can do a fair bit.
But yes, if someone built really high quality analogue stuff in large quantities they could make it a lot cheaper..
@hardweird At the same time, were it to be possible, there would be just as much of a cesspool of noise as there is with the availability of more basic systems and soft-synths. By all means im not downgrading any other systems or soft-synths, they are tools of the trade, but making modulars as mainstream as the latter, would IMO, take away how special they are.
@hardweird Trust me, you wouldn't been able to afford a real analogue synth in their heyday in the early 80's either. A Jupiter-8 would set you back $6000. An Oberheim OB-8 $7000. And a modular system? 5 figures for a SMALL configuration.
@hardweird no ... they couldn't analog components are already about as cheap as they get. You can't apply the kind of fabrication scaling to these as you can computers and other digital "junk" analog is complex and requires good componets you can't just make em cheap.
@buchla300 Phew !!!! this thing is AWEsome !!! Are those metal bars at the bottom, um..."keys"?..seems like the pitch changed when you touched them.. otherwise, can this synth be triggered by a Normal
Keyboard controller? And where does one GET a synth like this? Not that I am going to run out & buy
one tomorrow- I'm sure they are pretty pricey ....
The metal bars are in effect the keyboard but each "key" or metal pad can be tuned individually. They also control the start and end points of the sequencer. It could be triggered by a normal keyboard but not too easily.
Buchla still exist and the new ones are similar but this one is an old one and very rare indeed. I sold it last year as it became to valuable for me!
@timjmoran There were audio-to-control (in other words, frequency-to-voltage) modules, there's one in the Korg MS20 (1978). Of course it can only convert one note at the same time, if you try to convert a chord, it gives you weird effects.
We had a Buchla at Clark University Electronic Music Group and a Moog M3. The Buchla was true experimental synth that could be programmed in a number of ways. Very powerful and small.
@homoignobilis True. It's very compact but extremely flexible. I have a Serge too and that is possibly even more flexible, but the Buchla has a totally unique sound and character. Moogs can be massive because you NEED all those modules. On a Buchla you can go further on a small system.
@petemk1966 :-) Some software has it's uses but it's the way of working which I love with modulars. Some may feel the same about working in Reason etc, but not me...
@sinetravel It's the white noise going through the filter bank and being opened and closed with the lopass gates. I think! Was a while ago. Thx for watching!
@SIMONDUKEN lev sergejewitsch termen (léon theremin) invented the theremin in 1919. this is considerend as one of the first or the first electronic musical instruments.
@SIMONDUKEN lev sergejewitsch termen (léon theremin) invented the theremin in 1919. this is considerend as one of the first or the first electronic musical instruments.
@SIMONDUKEN lev sergejewitsch termen (léon theremin) invented the theremin in 1919. this is considerend as one of the first or the first electronic musical instruments.
@SIMONDUKEN the telharmonium was probably the first recognisable synth in about 1897 but i think electronic tones were used in earlier telegraph experiments in the 1870's as a way of sending more than one morse code message at once down the same line by using different notes, you can train your ear to pick out the tone you want and decode it whilst other people decoded the other notes.
Buchla is a relentlessly avant-garde synth designer - his synths are capable of incredible adventurous sound textures - everything is a modulator. This video is somone playing something as accessible as possible on a synth that was designed for use by Morton Subotnick.
@Senj1n It all depends on what modules you get, although this is an original Buchla 200 instead of a 200e, so you'd have to get one used. A 200e is a hell of a lot of money.
you bastard. Hoarding all that beautiful buchla while the rest of us go without. Cruel and heartless bastard. Nice though. Can I buy an album of this ?
None of it would be possible without your extensive understanding of the parameters of the instrument as well as your finesse and talent. I't's amazing stuff with infintie possibilities.
i used analoge sequencers a long time ago and built some myself but this is an amazing instrument it seems to me it ha infinity posibilities i think its a must have ;-)
Try this if you are interested on how to implement similar sounds in modern techno. Can anybody tell me something about the Virtual Instrument that might have been used for this? Or any tips on producing the lead sounds?
Hope I could throw in some fresh stuff, give it a try even if you are not interested in that kind of music. I also did and steadily listen to all stuff I can grab ;D
I've been making and listening to electronic music for a long time and after hearing the name a few times and finally checking these machines out I'm blown away. They keep putting keyboards and theremins and all sorts of bloody controllers on synths but Buchla seem to be the best example of how patching and programming is the form of "playing" least recognized and yet wholly more pure in terms of what synthesis is really about.
@THEH4VOC Dude, anything Buchla has ever made curbstomps any Moog. This thing is capable of things Arturia Moog Modular couldn't even hope do to, even though it only has about half the modules.
I really wish I could afford even a small Buchla system. There's a VST synth called Aalto that recently came out which is capable of some of the things a Buchla can do, although it's not out for Windows yet, unfortunately. Even then, it still doesn't sound as good as a Buchla.
@HolyKatana DUDE,I not compare Moog with Buchla!Just told him to make a video with the Moog Modular! And among all (I said ALL,including Aalto)VST analog synthesizers of the world,Arturia is the only one that can reach 99.999% of the REAL sound of synthesizers that made VST (like the Moog Modular V)!Go to- /watch?v=xZPM2NXYhrU -and listen(0:00 to 0:52) simultaneous comparison between the real Minimoog and the Minimoog V(from Arturia) sounds!!! IS AWESOME , INCREDIBLE, AMAZING!!!!
@HolyKatana Not from watching this video, Buchla doesn't. All one hears is weird sounds. If that's all you want to listen in life, then fine. At least the Moog plays Bach, among other things. Sci fi sounds have a very limited market, and they are very repetitive and boring after a while.
i first heard the sound of the Buchla modular electronic music system, on Douglas Leedy's work ENTROPICAL PARADISE, back in the early seventies. i didn't have much experience as a listener on electronic music at the time. i bought that three-record album out of sheer curiosity. I can't say i liked it very much, but it sounded so unexpectedly strange...
really? i thought i was the only one ! hahaha! it's a precious part of my vinyl collection ! i like most, the first record, both sides of it, and the second side of the third record, the track titled DORIA.
The modern 200e system is partly digital, but this synth is 100% analog. Very flexible though and it does sound unique compared to other analog synths.
Asombroso
RTRISMEGISTO 5 days ago
The Buchla has a realy nice sound - a bit FM like, great.
jaapaap5 6 days ago
reminds me of aphex twin =) Cool, though
Zoahhh 1 week ago
this is not KRAFTWERK on AUTOBAHN?
ThunderBeaner 2 weeks ago
Very nice sounds. You should record some music and soundscapes with this. I would surely buy it. I like the sounds on the end most.
keyboardjeff 2 weeks ago
dope.
twostrokemansay1 3 weeks ago
So awesome! :)
Thanks for the upload!
serip 3 weeks ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
zenmachinefilms 1 month ago
i still say this is the most beautiful sounding synth.
nobody else has those bell sounds like that..it is all so LIQUID....
nice composition too.....good music at late hours....
proisle 1 month ago
Damn looks like his controlling a spaceship
souldyer 1 month ago
David, you have a really amazing collection of synths. If you could name one thing that makes a Buchla different than other synths, what would you say? I'm building my own modular, and am adding a few Buhla-esqe modules like LPGs and BP Filters, but am curious as to what you'd consider the 'heart' of the Buchla sound to be? Thanks
MongoSynth 2 months ago
@MongoSynth hi there
For me the things I loved were the LoPassGates, the oscillators (258) and the envelopes (which are loopable, so I sued them a lot as LFO's)
For me a Verbos 258, a Buchla 281e and a 292e would be pretty cool
It's a unique synth with a quality and sound which is unique. Too expensive to buy an old one these days though.
buchla300 1 month ago
@buchla300 Thanks for the response. I think I'm probably well on the way to having all of that. A fellow name j3rk is making a 258 board (I've ordered a couple), and I already have some LPGs and Serge Universal Slope Generators, which are similar to the 292s. Can't wait to get it all built and running. Regarding the old ones - the new ones are pretty darned expensive too! ;-) Anyway, thanks for your great videos - I wish you'd make some more....
MongoSynth 1 month ago
OOOOOOOOOOOH, nice trip!!
ciccio092 2 months ago
how is it made and through the following things what exactly?
Funmichi 2 months ago
@Funmichi Not sure I understand. Which modules?
buchla300 1 month ago
to me, this just looks and sounds like batman working in the batcave
frankyrocksmyrocks 2 months ago
Awesome !!
nolhoutman 2 months ago
on weed!
jeremysinconsciente 2 months ago
I wish they'd come with a software synth. of the Buchla! Damn! Excellent sound. I heard one at Cal Institute Arts and loved it. I really like the idea that Buchla didn't believe in keyboards for synthesizers.
kurd55 2 months ago
wow great synth !
midierror 3 months ago
Ends with what soinds like a monkey with four hammers, no - really enjoyed it though!
BlueberryBute 3 months ago
@BlueberryBute This monkey has 5 hammers!
buchla300 1 month ago
Awesome sounding machine...
VenjaMusic 3 months ago
Nothing sounds like this machine in the world. I had the chance to play one, and this is the most amazing thing ever. Hands Down.
josepailo 3 months ago
@josepailo Buchla modulars are wonderful and unique.
buchla300 3 months ago
Heaven
MorpherBeats 3 months ago
Waaaauw
microphlexx 3 months ago
Crazy shit. I like it.
VincentGreece 3 months ago
Who wants my Korg MS20?
(just kidding, chances are I'll still play it on my deathbed.)
synsei1 3 months ago
@synsei1 Send it over! Seriously, thanks for your comments. The Buchla is an incredible synth but the MS20 is too in it's own way. Abuse it!
David
buchla300 3 months ago
@buchla300 You're welcome! The MS20 is like a VW Beetle compared to your Bentley but I still love it despite its limitations.
I saw you worked with Andrea Parker; congrats!
synsei1 3 months ago
@synsei1 Yes I worked with Andrea and I really enjoyed those times. Hard work, but fun. Angular Art was one of the things we did that still makes me smile when I listen back to it.
I always say that limitations are good. Sometimes it helps you focus and get the best out of a synth. If you look at a VCS3 it is quite simple but like the MS20 can do unique things that nothing else can.
David
buchla300 3 months ago
@synsei1 MS20 is useless man, hands down!
Samyaza69 2 months ago
My speakers are overflowing with awesomeness.
synsei1 3 months ago
10-06-2011 ; With a consistancy , Unkle Morton crafts the wildest array of electronic concatenations imaginable . Back in the '70's "Touch" was immeasurably entertaining for my higth schoolnears .I only wish I was empowered with a brood of Buchlas' for some form of "show-up" competition against such a total master - where I'd be certain to fail .Waiting on YouTube for your office next anticipated studio-time initiative deployment .Again ,bravo on a well configured strobe !-Seclusionos.
eurscher1 3 months ago
So many wires :o
keoni29 3 months ago
Hello mr. Morley! It's really nice to see real synthesizers and real synth players in action! So I have this music , for a long time, that I've made using sampled sounds from this video and I haven't uploaded it anywhere still. I want to upload it to YouTube, but I want your permission first because I'm an honest man! In my video (which will be music with a still image) I will describe the source of the sampled sounds. I won''t be making money in any way from this video!Pls repond &Thank you! :)
VortexDrugsmith 4 months ago
Do you think Macbeth and Modcan modulars are on the same quality level as Buchlas?
eliassailor 4 months ago
@eliassailor Hi there. They are certainly good enough quality wise. Very different machines though. The older Buchla have a really cool tone to them and very rich but still experimental sounding if you know what I mean.
Modcan and Macbeth are top notch and I would gladly have a rack of each if I could!
Ken Macbeth is a great guy and builds quality stuff but it's less experimental than Buchla. Modcan is a bit of both!
Buchla is too expensive these days though (especially older ones) imho
buchla300 4 months ago
This looks like something that would launch a nuclear missile, but instead it makes music
12thelurker 4 months ago
Beautiful, beautiful........beautiful analog.
I can afford Dave Smith's analog instruments which sound really great for the price.
But wish I could have at least one Buchla 200 in the studio,
like a wonderful analog monolith to go to all the time!!!
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Mokcenter 4 months ago
industry could build such synths in thousands at a very low price....enough would buy it....but they just don't...instead they build mostly boring digital synths, V A s which sound like mostly crappy and don't make fun cause thei're totally limited. If i try to use high modulation rates on digital synths...the sound instantly goes to CRAP because of low refresh rates and aliasing. i wish i could afford a real analogue. :/
hardweird 4 months ago
@hardweird Good points!
Actually though, some of the modern analogues although not exactly cheap, are still affordable and really good quality. A small Modcan or Cwejman system can do a fair bit.
But yes, if someone built really high quality analogue stuff in large quantities they could make it a lot cheaper..
buchla300 4 months ago
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cusbrar1 4 months ago
@hardweird At the same time, were it to be possible, there would be just as much of a cesspool of noise as there is with the availability of more basic systems and soft-synths. By all means im not downgrading any other systems or soft-synths, they are tools of the trade, but making modulars as mainstream as the latter, would IMO, take away how special they are.
mrguano7 4 months ago
@hardweird Trust me, you wouldn't been able to afford a real analogue synth in their heyday in the early 80's either. A Jupiter-8 would set you back $6000. An Oberheim OB-8 $7000. And a modular system? 5 figures for a SMALL configuration.
bytex666 4 months ago
@hardweird no ... they couldn't analog components are already about as cheap as they get. You can't apply the kind of fabrication scaling to these as you can computers and other digital "junk" analog is complex and requires good componets you can't just make em cheap.
cusbrar1 4 months ago
Chris Lowe got one Buchla 200 too
guimbadriver 5 months ago
If i had this synth i would become a hermit and never leave house , nice tune by the way..
floatershaw 5 months ago
Thanks for the video..
If I had this synth I would never leave the house!!
CouncilHouserec 5 months ago 3
@CouncilHouserec Thanks. Honestly almost any modular stops me leaving the house!
buchla300 5 months ago 5
@buchla300 Nice one, really liking your tune in the vid as well..
CouncilHouserec 5 months ago
@CouncilHouserec cheers
buchla300 5 months ago
this video made me get back into modulars those bell tones called me to lose my cash.
DrOctave1 6 months ago
exelent trés belle séquence merci
SpaceVoyageur 6 months ago
@SpaceVoyageur Merci bien!
buchla300 5 months ago
Great spacehsip control panel there! lol
Aetila 6 months ago
this synth looks like a machine that can communicate with aliens
turkeyboy5 6 months ago
good job sir. there is no women that will ever understand this hobby and hours spend in "man cave"
MarkoDeLaVoota 7 months ago
@MarkoDeLaVoota Thanks! Appreciate it.
Actually I worked with Andrea Parker for years and she was as addicted to modular synths as me!
buchla300 7 months ago 12
@buchla300 well....one in a million but average woman won't understand
MarkoDeLaVoota 7 months ago
@buchla300 Phew !!!! this thing is AWEsome !!! Are those metal bars at the bottom, um..."keys"?..seems like the pitch changed when you touched them.. otherwise, can this synth be triggered by a Normal
Keyboard controller? And where does one GET a synth like this? Not that I am going to run out & buy
one tomorrow- I'm sure they are pretty pricey ....
timjmoran 6 months ago
@timjmoran Hi
The metal bars are in effect the keyboard but each "key" or metal pad can be tuned individually. They also control the start and end points of the sequencer. It could be triggered by a normal keyboard but not too easily.
Buchla still exist and the new ones are similar but this one is an old one and very rare indeed. I sold it last year as it became to valuable for me!
buchla300 6 months ago
@buchla300 wow- wonder why Buchla set it up that way-kinda bizarre. doesn't that make it hard
to input a particular melody as one would normally do w/ a "regular" keyboard??
I read once were the great German Bass player Eberhard Weber triggered a Buchla using an Electric
Upright-and this would've been in the 70's or 80's.is that possible? I mean, there were no MIDI
pickups or Analog-to-digital converters back then, right? What would this synth go for on the open
market?
timjmoran 6 months ago
@timjmoran There were audio-to-control (in other words, frequency-to-voltage) modules, there's one in the Korg MS20 (1978). Of course it can only convert one note at the same time, if you try to convert a chord, it gives you weird effects.
synsei1 4 months ago
Awesome music
lejwocky 7 months ago
@lejwocky Thanks!
buchla300 7 months ago
I got to use a buchla last week at timara, goodness gracious i miss it so much
synmusicchannel 7 months ago
awesome sound!!! great!
Mr20sangs 7 months ago
@Mr20sangs Cheers!
buchla300 7 months ago
Is this the soundtrack to the movie, "Andromeda Strain?"
GNeuman 7 months ago
@GNeuman :-) I have that soundtrack on octagonal vinyl! I am certainly into all that 70's stuff, so it will certainly appear in my own music...
buchla300 7 months ago
@buchla300 Wow, great and the Buchla sounds absolutely brilliant, well done, my friend :-)
GNeuman 7 months ago
@GNeuman
thank you!
buchla300 7 months ago
love 2:58
KUPHSER 7 months ago
cant beat that sound
KUPHSER 7 months ago
We had a Buchla at Clark University Electronic Music Group and a Moog M3. The Buchla was true experimental synth that could be programmed in a number of ways. Very powerful and small.
homoignobilis 7 months ago
@homoignobilis True. It's very compact but extremely flexible. I have a Serge too and that is possibly even more flexible, but the Buchla has a totally unique sound and character. Moogs can be massive because you NEED all those modules. On a Buchla you can go further on a small system.
buchla300 7 months ago
Some 'people' pressed the dislike icon. What is there to dislike? I wonder if they could press the don't care button they would have instead.
Or the 'I'm green with envy and can't afford it' button they would.
Electronics are amazing when used for peaceful and passive means.
jabeoo1 7 months ago
@jabeoo1 thx! I agree. Electronics can be organic.
buchla300 7 months ago
@jabeoo1 sure they misclicked
MaeXXXerine 7 months ago
trippy
dannycain 7 months ago
That is so cool.
PHANTOMPOWERS 7 months ago
its the future-in a kind'a retospective mindset. just listen !!!!!! fuck reason- i'm going to get some knobs 'n buttons to tweak.
petemk1966 8 months ago
@petemk1966 :-) Some software has it's uses but it's the way of working which I love with modulars. Some may feel the same about working in Reason etc, but not me...
buchla300 8 months ago
awww giz a go
petemk1966 8 months ago
IM floating :D Nice fat sound/
EUSKALRAVER 8 months ago
Sorry, nice hi hat sound is what I meant (got a bit carried away there).
sinetravel 8 months ago
@sinetravel It's the white noise going through the filter bank and being opened and closed with the lopass gates. I think! Was a while ago. Thx for watching!
buchla300 8 months ago
There's pattern with quite a convincing sound of a closed hi hat being played with a brush at alternating velocities occurring towards the end there.
sinetravel 8 months ago
these just sound so awesome, so cold and hypnotic, they're very inspiring.
LySeRgIa2 8 months ago
one word : nice
MDMindahouse 8 months ago
@MDMindahouse 2 words: Thank You!
buchla300 8 months ago
My dream... Unreal qality..
suicideris 8 months ago
i could have so much fun with one of these.
kendallbob 9 months ago
Hypnotic!
mokkshaa 9 months ago
really nice stuff dude!!! i can feel it with a fat groove box.... hmmmm
trance music!! love dat!
+++ ACID +++
=)
ntonedub 9 months ago
@ntonedub :-)
buchla300 9 months ago
12 people have no soul.
obliviousaa 10 months ago 10
@obliviousaa LOL 14 people now!
buchla300 10 months ago
@obliviousaa xD so they turned into gingers
MaeXXXerine 7 months ago
Simply awesome sound! I love Buchla synths...
oasthous 10 months ago
How much did it cost.
synth77 10 months ago
What a sound! Wow!
eierer 11 months ago
fcuking brilliant!
empirix 11 months ago
@empirix thx :-)
buchla300 11 months ago
If I had one of those I don't think I would ever leave the house.
withinthecube 11 months ago
who invented first synthesizers???who was the pionner??
SIMONDUKEN 1 year ago
@SIMONDUKEN that depends who you ask!
Commercial Voltage controlled synthesizers were mainly Robert Moog and Don Buchla in the late 60's.. Both around the same time.
buchla300 1 year ago
@SIMONDUKEN Maurice Martenot
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@SIMONDUKEN lev sergejewitsch termen (léon theremin) invented the theremin in 1919. this is considerend as one of the first or the first electronic musical instruments.
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@SIMONDUKEN lev sergejewitsch termen (léon theremin) invented the theremin in 1919. this is considerend as one of the first or the first electronic musical instruments.
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@SIMONDUKEN lev sergejewitsch termen (léon theremin) invented the theremin in 1919. this is considerend as one of the first or the first electronic musical instruments.
phthalocyanine4 11 months ago
@SIMONDUKEN Thaddeus Cahill was a much earlier and more courageous pioneer than either of those late comers.
SynthTronica 10 months ago
@SIMONDUKEN
Look up "Telharmonium".
InsertName125 9 months ago
@SIMONDUKEN the telharmonium was probably the first recognisable synth in about 1897 but i think electronic tones were used in earlier telegraph experiments in the 1870's as a way of sending more than one morse code message at once down the same line by using different notes, you can train your ear to pick out the tone you want and decode it whilst other people decoded the other notes.
gordongate 9 months ago
omg nice
kinmanyuen 1 year ago
I've never heard a Buchla synth before, I have to say, it's amazing! Mindblowing stuff!
TheModCon 1 year ago
Very nice machine....do you know NEURON? Please listen : godella bon voyage2208 . And neuron311.thank you and Welcome to neuronaluniverse!!!!!
Neuronaluniverse 1 year ago
Buchla is a relentlessly avant-garde synth designer - his synths are capable of incredible adventurous sound textures - everything is a modulator. This video is somone playing something as accessible as possible on a synth that was designed for use by Morton Subotnick.
FraterSoddi 1 year ago
Magnificent! Absolutely creative and mind blowing...Best, Richard
Ravivharshanee 1 year ago
@Ravivharshanee Many thanks Richard
buchla300 1 year ago
@Ravivharshanee Thanks :-)
buchla300 1 year ago
wooo this AMAZING!i want one.
bucklemunki 1 year ago
at the begining sound like the game of crash lol
LuisIrigoyen360 1 year ago
PLEASE try the following tracks if you like deep music!
Stephan Bodzin (everything is a masterpiece!)
Nathan Fake - The sky was Pink
Ame - Rej
Mathew Johnson - symphony of the apocalypse
I know around 1500 more BY NAME covering uplifting and melodic stuff in genres like minimal, techhouse, techno.
Write me if I can help you!
The song that comes very close to the sound of this video is:
Marc Houle - Buchla9
Try it :) Exceed the limits and try it, for those who don't know yet :)
adrenerg 1 year ago
how much is it?
Senj1n 1 year ago
@Senj1n It all depends on what modules you get, although this is an original Buchla 200 instead of a 200e, so you'd have to get one used. A 200e is a hell of a lot of money.
HolyKatana 1 year ago
you bastard. Hoarding all that beautiful buchla while the rest of us go without. Cruel and heartless bastard. Nice though. Can I buy an album of this ?
FlametopFred 1 year ago
@FlametopFred Hey Fred! Actually this Buchla was sold a while back..such is life..still I enjoyed it for years.
My own music is available on my website or itunes though. Cheers
David Morley
buchla300 1 year ago
@buchla300 - - cheers. I will look you up on iTunes. Lucky new Buchla owner.
FlametopFred 1 year ago
awesome.
TiTANVERSE 1 year ago
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i tried to generate this sounds on korg tr but they sounded sooo artificial
krakerz1994 1 year ago
i tired to generate this sounds on korg tr but they sounded soooo artificial
krakerz1994 1 year ago
GREAT !!!
djbefunkey 1 year ago
ahh we need more retro hardware using DJ's but nowadays kids only want to hear the beats and take the drugs, not check out the history
notrealy180217 1 year ago
what a quality of sound..simply amazing ;0 .... me wants some modular synths!! >:(
kaspinio 1 year ago
I would get lost in this thing for days.......
smutjunkie74 1 year ago
dope
haha1214 1 year ago
great great great
dellausi 1 year ago
None of it would be possible without your extensive understanding of the parameters of the instrument as well as your finesse and talent. I't's amazing stuff with infintie possibilities.
HEXWHY 1 year ago 2
UAUUUU!
maitilupas 1 year ago
you guys are ill
okan1151 1 year ago
i used analoge sequencers a long time ago and built some myself but this is an amazing instrument it seems to me it ha infinity posibilities i think its a must have ;-)
keesvangelis 1 year ago
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Buchla sounds are great!
sbringe 1 year ago
nothing cant touch this
ntripod 1 year ago
すごい！
初めて見ました！
私はシンセサイザー奏者なので、とても興味があります。
aimoriizumi 1 year ago
looks like the controls to a time machine
camofilms 1 year ago
very sexy sequence
Smeerlappen 1 year ago
give me a Buchla 200
martinez1671 1 year ago
When you look at a Buchla you somehow expect it to sound like this.
Big, expansive, complex and unique. An amazing machine.
designguy65 1 year ago
Really impressive, loving the creepy synth sound.
Nice ambient/experimental performance!
Marc Houle - Buchla9
Try this if you are interested on how to implement similar sounds in modern techno. Can anybody tell me something about the Virtual Instrument that might have been used for this? Or any tips on producing the lead sounds?
Hope I could throw in some fresh stuff, give it a try even if you are not interested in that kind of music. I also did and steadily listen to all stuff I can grab ;D
adrenerg 1 year ago
WOW , i just love how this machine sounds !
djmk1988 1 year ago
I've been making and listening to electronic music for a long time and after hearing the name a few times and finally checking these machines out I'm blown away. They keep putting keyboards and theremins and all sorts of bloody controllers on synths but Buchla seem to be the best example of how patching and programming is the form of "playing" least recognized and yet wholly more pure in terms of what synthesis is really about.
ourigin 1 year ago 12
@ourigin Agreed and thx for listening!
buchla300 1 year ago
the module in the upper right on the top panel -
Is that an EQ or one of the sequencers?
applebomber22 1 year ago
@applebomber22 That is the EQ.
buchla300 1 year ago
@buchla300 MAN.. I NEED WATCH YOU TO WORK ON AN ARTURIA MOOG MODULAR ( OR ORIGINAL IF YOU HAVE)!!! plz....
THEH4VOC 1 year ago
@THEH4VOC Dude, anything Buchla has ever made curbstomps any Moog. This thing is capable of things Arturia Moog Modular couldn't even hope do to, even though it only has about half the modules.
I really wish I could afford even a small Buchla system. There's a VST synth called Aalto that recently came out which is capable of some of the things a Buchla can do, although it's not out for Windows yet, unfortunately. Even then, it still doesn't sound as good as a Buchla.
HolyKatana 1 year ago
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THEH4VOC 1 year ago
@HolyKatana DUDE,I not compare Moog with Buchla!Just told him to make a video with the Moog Modular! And among all (I said ALL,including Aalto)VST analog synthesizers of the world,Arturia is the only one that can reach 99.999% of the REAL sound of synthesizers that made VST (like the Moog Modular V)!Go to- /watch?v=xZPM2NXYhrU -and listen(0:00 to 0:52) simultaneous comparison between the real Minimoog and the Minimoog V(from Arturia) sounds!!! IS AWESOME , INCREDIBLE, AMAZING!!!!
THEH4VOC 1 year ago
@THEH4VOC Hey, I wasn't dissing Arturia. They make some amazing products. And yeah, they're very close to the originals.
HolyKatana 1 year ago
@HolyKatana Not from watching this video, Buchla doesn't. All one hears is weird sounds. If that's all you want to listen in life, then fine. At least the Moog plays Bach, among other things. Sci fi sounds have a very limited market, and they are very repetitive and boring after a while.
TomZentra 1 year ago
crazy!!!
Pieperson277 1 year ago
man...I want one of these!!!
23Henrich 1 year ago
Not gonna lie... I just wanna get stoned as shit and play with that thing for hours.
jamessfromtx 1 year ago
i first heard the sound of the Buchla modular electronic music system, on Douglas Leedy's work ENTROPICAL PARADISE, back in the early seventies. i didn't have much experience as a listener on electronic music at the time. i bought that three-record album out of sheer curiosity. I can't say i liked it very much, but it sounded so unexpectedly strange...
theo9952 1 year ago
@theo9952 I have that record too. I actually love it!
buchla300 1 year ago
@buchla300
really? i thought i was the only one ! hahaha! it's a precious part of my vinyl collection ! i like most, the first record, both sides of it, and the second side of the third record, the track titled DORIA.
theo9952 1 year ago
For how much did you sell this if I may ask?
td6d 1 year ago
I love how the buchla works so many wires and buttons. I would love to try it out!
KingoftheRocketMen7 1 year ago
2:58 OMG WOW...
OxideEndeavor 1 year ago
What method of synthesis does the Buchla use? It's warm like analog but clear as FM,
OrganCat 1 year ago
It's just analog.
The modern 200e system is partly digital, but this synth is 100% analog. Very flexible though and it does sound unique compared to other analog synths.
buchla300 1 year ago
@buchla300 How old is it? I know Buchla still makes certain synths, but I assume that this is an original. What year is it from?
plungerdrum 1 year ago
@plungerdrum Hi there
It is from about 1970 I believe. The new ones are great but different in a few areas. I like the old VCO's especially. Beautiful sounding oscillators.
buchla300 1 year ago
so soothing my hangover
daftblac 1 year ago