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… Read More Why Buchla Synthesizers?
A short video demonstration of a ModCan Dual Quantizer in action. This module can take a sequencer, noise or any other signal and map it into musical scales and perform transposition. Both scales and transpose are voltage controllable also. This particular module is a custom black one. Most are white.
A demo of an audio feedback loop with the Dave Smith Instruments MoPho. Run one audio out into the external audio in. Make a weird patch. Push the button.
BigCityMusic demos the presets on the Dave Smith Instruments MoPho: “This is a bad little synth. The sub-oscillators make for a super beefy low end and the internal sequences are inspiring right out of the box.”
A video demo of the Moog Taurus analog bass pedal synthesizer.
A demonstration of the Mopho analog synthesizer from Dave Smith Instruments. Lexicon MX200 used for delay and reverb effects. Mopho is a compact but powerful—monophonic analog synthesizer. The voice architecture is identical to a single voice of the Prophet ’08, but with a couple of unique twists to distinguish it from its award-winning sibling. DSI… Read More Hot Mopho Action
This new demo from Lunar Experience features 3 Moon Modular controllers: M560 (a Moog 960 clone), a M563 and the new M564. (Stereo echo on 2 seq. tracks.)
Joining the awesome Juliette Commagere, Imogen Heap & Lauren Rocket as officially recognized Synthtopia Goddesses of the Keytar is Naomi Jarman of the progressive electronic band Crisium.
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.
Electric Western – a new company making an all-tube synth – has moved to New Mexico: They haven’t updated their site much during the move, but here’s an update on the upcoming Phantastron: All the parts for the Phantastron release in October are in stock or on the way. I also have some spiffy mods,… Read More Electric Western Moves To New Mexico
