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This is a quick demo of a prototype of the Quad Multi-Mode Gates.
Only the Doepfer monster case was used, everything is just blinking alluringly, attempting to distract you (worked on me!).

Doepfer A-155 randomly sequencing a Livewire AFG sine,
Doepfer A-147 square wave clocking Doepfer A-149-1/2,
Doepfer A-149-2 random gates triggering QMMG CV triggers and CV resonance in no [...]

 

Pulse: Pure Analog Lifeforms is a new $29.95 sound library by Richard Devine and Josh Kay, described as a “rare and perfect exhibition of vintage and new school sounds.”
There’s a related remix context you may want to check out, too.
Description:
Pulse contains all the musical maps and charts you need to plan and execute your own [...]

 

This Blindoldfreak (Alessandro Cortini) synth jam, 111108, shows off the tactile sexiness of Buchla’s modulars.

 

Joe Pascarelli’s Buchla ring mod riff -  all audio from the 200e but going through the 111 ring modulator. The 123 is choosing pitches of the 261 principle and mod. oscs.

 

At the new Buchla Tech blog, Mark Verbos offers 14 reasons why the Buchla 200 is “the best modular electronic instrument ever made.”
Here are a few highlights:
1. Don Buchla designed the front panel of his instruments first and the electronics second. A musician himself, this means that each module was an idea for a musician’s [...]

 

In this set of videos, Alessandro Cortini of Nine Inch Nails and Modwheelmood discusses his modular synth gear, including Buchla 200e synthesizer modules and EAR modules.

Alessandro Cortini and the Buchla 200e, Part 1
Alessandro Cortini discusses the Buchla 200e synthesizer.

 


Don Buchla On Dropping Acid, Synth DIY And Hell’s Angels

The LA Times has an interesting review of The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, a new book edited by David W. Bernstein.
Check out this short excerpt on Don Buchla, creator of the Buchla synthesizer:
One expects to discover little-known — sometimes painfully unknown — heroes in books like this, and Buchla [...]

 

This month’s Electronic Musician has an interesting profile of Alessandro Cortini, best known for his work with Nine Inch Nails.
In the article, Cortini discusses his Buchla 200e modular synthesizer:
“It was kind of like buying a car. But this takes me more places than a car. It’s my favorite piece of gear. If I had to [...]

 

This new video by Richard Lainhart, Pneuma, is based on growth patterns generated by cellular automata software, processed in Adobe After Effects to create constantly changing structures ranging from the crystalline to the architectural.
We previously highlighted another cool visualization by Lainhart, Lux,
The soundtrack is a live improvisation on the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer, controlled [...]

 

This colorful video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970’s Buchla Music Easel.
This extremely rare instrument is one of Don Buchla’s 200 series. Buchla (a pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured 14 of these units. The entire film was edited from an hour-long set of free improvisation, with audio was taken directly from [...]