Monday, June 18, 2007
Buchla 259 Vintage Modular Oscillator
YouTube via REwire. REwireMusic.com.
"Rare 1970's Modular Oscillator running through a Plan-B Vactrol Filter and Gate. There are Vactrols (components that mate LED's with audio for natural acoustic tones) in the Osc so this makes a close to vintage complete Buchla sound. The Osc sounds like nothing else I've heard with it's waveshaping and altering of harmonic structure of the waveform. There's a Modulation OSC that also can pitch same as Main but I use it here for FM, AM and Timbre Shaping. Used here also are my Doepfer LFO, Plan-B Random, ASys Envelope, Modcan Sequencer and Asys Delay/Sampler."
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Sounds wonderful!
ReplyDeleteLike a wool sweater!
nice video, Rewire.
ReplyDeletei'm beginning to understand why they cost so much
ReplyDeleteone of the better Buchla demo's ive heard..I was starting to believe the banjo analogy,,nice stuff!
ReplyDeleteNice video! Cool to catch a glimpse of that Modcan seqencer too. I wonder if the banana/3.5mm jack combo get annoying?
ReplyDeletesounds like my $200 Casio VZ! :)
ReplyDeleteyour casio sounds as bad as a youtube video?!! ;0
ReplyDeletethis is just scratching the surface of the buchla, neato.
awesome!
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you just sell that 259 and all the rest of that crap and buy a 100M system. Sounds like that's what you are going for anyway.
ReplyDeleteThere must be some basic disconnect between the people who think that the 259 or 26ie sound like a DX-7 or a VZ-1, and the way I hear these instruments.
ReplyDeleteI have a VZ-10m, a CZ-1, and a TG-77, as well as Buchla 200e, and I don't think these sound much alike at all.
Granted, the Buchla world has been following its own path for decades, and it doesn't sound like what people expect when they talk about "traditional" analog synthesis, but it never sounded like that.
-C
No body ever said that old Buchla gear sounded like a banjo - its the 200E that sounds like a banjo
ReplyDeleteI never liked Buchla stuff since all I heard was those demos clicking and clunking and nothing hard or useful for my type of music, then I heard this thing. "It's all Analog?" I said. "No Wavetable tingling and jingling?" WOW!
ReplyDeleteAnd trade it all for a Roland 100M? Could you pick anything as vanilla sounding and plain? How about what you've been smoking? If you have enough, maybe I'll trade it all for that.
I think the 100M is really dull. I can't believe the Japanese designed it.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is a universal truth that the 200e is the banjo, and the earlier 200 series are mallets and wooly sweaters.
The 259 and the 261e sound very similar. I won't go so far as to say identical, but really close.
ReplyDeletewhen static, under certain settings. start animating things and their behaviors get quite different.
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