Buchla Thunder and 2 PerFourMers (upside up horizontal version) from Katavist
I love that on the Buchla site they say the following statement about their Thunder product, “Making no attempt to emulate the appearance or playing techniques of existing acoustic instruments…”. Hell yeah! The Thunder is straight out of the set of Star Trek the Next Generation. The underrated Vermona PerFourMers synths are a nice match. Shall we say PerEightMer?
“16 improvisations using the Buchla Thunder MIDI-Controller on two Vermona PerFourMers. In the sixth piece (from 7:01) the Thunder plays seven internal sequences (“riffs”) I had recorded beforehand. They can be scaled in real time, which I didn’t do here though.” – Katavist
For more info: buchla.com/historical/thunder/
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Madrona Labs are a crew of three named after a tree. Their new synth takes after a Buchla. Aalto is $99 and doesn’t use a copy protection scheme other than watermarking your personal copy. Sorry PC users it’s Mac only. This could make a nice sister to the XILS Lab XILS 3.
“Aalto’s sound engine lets you create sounds that have been difficult or impossible to make with softsynths before now. The heart of Aalto is a Buchla-inspired complex oscillator, with FM, timbre and waveshape controls that enable a wide range of expressive sounds. These sounds are uniquely malleable and alive, in part because they are made with dynamic calculation, not static wavetables.” – Sonic State
For more info: madronalabs.com
via Sonic State
This entry was written by , posted on September 21, 2010 at 3:41 am, filed under plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged Aalto, Buchla, Madrona Labs. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Buchla uncertainty from Joe Pascarell on Vimeo.
I like random sequencers of any type. I’m always adding little variations in my music using Ableton’s Random plug-in. In Buchla form a random sequencer in action is video worthy. With bright blue digital numbers, red and green buttons and yellow cables who wouldn’t stop for a few minutes and watch this.
“I did this when i first got the 200e. The stages of the 250e are being selected by the random voltages from the 266e. The tip of the sonic iceberg that is the 200e and the lovely uncertainty that Don so thoughtfully provided us! The old SFTMC 100 is helping out.” – Joe Pascarell
For more about Buchla head to: www.buchla.com
This entry was written by , posted on November 21, 2008 at 10:52 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer and tagged Buchla, hardware, random, sequencer, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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