Buchla Ziggy - SuperBooth 26 - Stromkult

video upload by Stromkult

"Ziggy is more than just another mono synth; it's a direct route into the experimental "weirdness" of Don Buchla and early electronic music. It brings those classic concepts into a standalone format, complete with preset saving, an online editor, and FX, MIDI, USB, and CV."

0:00 Introduction
0:20 Sound demo 1
0:45 Whats Ziggy?
1:10 Sound demo 2
1:33 Signal Path
2:09 Sound 3emo 3
2:19 Connectivity
3:23 Sound demo 4
3:30 How to use it?
3:47 Sound demo 5
4:37 No Patchpoints?
5:08 Shipping / Preoder

Meet Ziggy, the new desktop instrument from Buchla!

video upload by Buchla

"Meet the Buchla Ziggy - a new instrument formed around the famous Buchla “complex oscillator.” With a new, “unpatched” instrument experience, Ziggy offers quick, gestural means of assigning modulation and composing music. Ziggy incorporates many of the Buchla innovations that have long been taken for granted: digital control over the analog audio, additive synthesis, unique and musical interactions, and the focus on making an “instrument” rather than a “synthesizer.”

All sounds in the video were made with the Ziggy!

Learn more and preorder yours now at Buchla.com, a Buchla dealer, or Kickstarter!"

Update: additional pics via Perfect Circuit added below.

What is Ziggy?

The Buchla Ziggy is a new instrument formed around the famous Buchla “complex oscillator.” With a new, “unpatched” instrument experience, Ziggy offers quick, gestural means of assigning modulation and composing music. Ziggy incorporates many of the Buchla innovations that have long been taken for granted: digital control over the analog audio, additive synthesis, unique and musical interactions, and the focus on making an “instrument” rather than a “synthesizer.” Ziggy modernizes and simplifies a familiar Buchla tradition: composing music in a style of synthesis often associated with the western coast of America. Like any musical instrument, it can be played on its own, crafting sequences and sounds from its unique arrangement of controls. It pairs very nicely with a portable keyboard like the Buchla LEM218, but It also plays with a large range of third-party devices and DAWs through MIDI, USB, and 1v/octave CV.

There are a number of unique ways to shape your sounds internally and externally. The Cycler is an original modulation source that acts like the combination of a clock, envelope generator, LFO and random generator. With it, you can modulate pitch and timbre and/or trigger the gate envelopes. Other modulation sources include an “extra” slow LFO and external MIDI control. Rather than using cumbersome patchcords, modulation is assigned with switch selection and dialed in with the encoder or its own associated sliders.The modulation oscillator acts as the primary modulation source at low frequency or audio rates to modulate the Complex Oscillator with AM or FM modulation, and is often blended as a second sound source. The Envelope for the Low Pass Gate (a combination amplifier/filter) can be shaped by selecting common envelopes and manipulated in time and amount, rather than attack, decay, sustain, release.

Creatively, it is easy to quickly make music and design sounds with Ziggy. Assigning modulation to different parameters is made with simple gestures of holding buttons and moving sliders. Surprise is certain, with a source of “uncertainty” available for the Cycler’s attributes. Sounds are easily saved with the simple preset system. Glowing LEDs indicate assignments and modulations. Its unique analog sounds are sure to delight and entertain. Special chaotic modulators can be accessed from the menus, driving the sounds in unusual ways. Scales and alternate tunings expand your musical universe while pitch sliders can be quantized to scales to make them melodically playable

Musically, Ziggy is versatile. With two analog oscillators, multiple modulators, a variety of tunings, envelopes, and wavefolding and shaping, there’s a variety of sounds to be made. While Buchla is often associated with the purely experimental, there’s strange strings, wonderful drums, exotic leads, plucky percussions, and deeply felt basses that can be synthesized from Ziggy.

Practically, Ziggy fits well in a small studio. The patchcord-free design, simple USB-C power, and comprehensive MIDI control makes it easy to add to your kit; its handsome, durable enclosure of oak and steel with classic Buchla style makes it belong. Configure the device through its simple menus or using a web browser and the web app.

Update: additional pics via Perfect Circuit

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Buchla TTA 248T MARF | Quick Start 'Manual'.

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"I think it's the first time I made a tutorial without actually using the module. I made two 'Building a MARF' videos where I'd use regular modules like Metropolix, Rene and Stages to mimic the workflow and it already had great music. My channel is educational and I love to make videos like this to learn the module instead of showing it off.

The 248T 'MARF' is a Multiple Arbitrary Function Generator, which translates to a freeform modular composer for melody, expression, and extremely complex movement over time. It's hard to find all that in a single module, so maybe this explains why the 248 is a panel.

If you don't aspire to own a budget Buchla from TTA, your closest equivalent is a Maths with Rene V2. If you have those, try to patch it up like a MARF and be amazed. Simply use cycles as clocks and use any X, Y or C channel for time intervals (to change cycle speeds). In my humble opinion, you shouldn't buy a 5K modular for making 16 step sawtooth sequences. It's about happy accidents and they don't happen if you stay on the path like a responsible musician."

Analog Anonymous | Episode 01

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"In this new series I want to focus on cool sounds without immediately revealing which modules are used. The principle is simple, if you don't like how a module sounds, change something until you do. Back in the 1970's, a Serge panel could do anything - and you'd need to figure out how. Just think of Maths versus a dedicated Envelope Generator or LFO. A swiss army knife versus a specialized screwdriver for a specific kind of screw. The module in this episode feels like one of those screwdrivers and my goal is to explore such a module until it becomes multi functional. It's often not about the gear, everything's been done before. It's about using your modular lego bricks and build something you'd have weeks or months of fun with.

Even though the series is called Analog Anonymous, inspired by the AA and solving bad habits, it can include both analog and digital gear. In this series, 'analog' means 'analogue to air pressure'. Whatever you're using, your ears are always analog. In modular synthesis, your patch is not intended to be sober. We need to be intoxicated by sound while being in the Zone. Very healthy, very Zen. I talk too much. Have fun!"

buchla synthesizer with prophet-6

video upload by Tom Leclerc

"sequenced by squarp instrument hapax
reverb by OTO Bam"

Buchla 259e Bongo | 160 BPM

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"Don Buchla’s electronic instruments can be understood as musical tools and as environments for exploration. They allow performers to play in a physical and expressive way, yet they also invite a method of working that resembles research into the behavior of voltage and timbre.
Buchla did not follow the conventions of keyboard based instruments. Instead he created systems in which sound could be shaped through touch sensitive controls, complex modulation, and freely arranged signal paths. As a result, each patch becomes both a performance setup and a place to investigate how tones, noise sources, control voltages and modulation can interact within an electronic space."

Drum: Breakbeat Anthology Sample Pack https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...
Recordings: https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...

Ambient with Randomized Samples and Synth Pads | Sinking Stone 2026-04-28 by atnr

video upload by atnr

"An ambient piece created with Ambient Engine ( https://store.atnr.net/ambient-engine... ) and the ‪@SequentialLLC‬ Prophet-10.

Ambient Engine loads samples of ice sounds and human voices and plays them while randomly changing the playback position. The MicroLoop effect is also applied.

On the Prophet-10, synth pads are performed with reverb through the Strymon blueSky.

On the ‪@buchlausa‬ Music Easel, the bass is played using a modulated sound processed with reverb and filtering through the ‪@strymon‬ NIGHTSKY."

M(emory) A(nd) R(ecurrent) F(orm)

video upload by Luca Longobardi

Soundfreak SVS rows

video upload by Todd Barton

"A quick look/listen to the various row outputs from the Soundfreak Sequential Voltage Source: A, B, C, D, A+B+C+D, A+B, C+D.
More at https://www.soundfreak.io/
My Patreon: / synthtodd"

Otis - Waldorf Microwave 1

video upload by Johan Boberg

"No effects, just the Microwave 1 in all its glory."

TipTop Buchla Modular System

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.
(H. Murakami)"

Ambient Drone | Buchla Music Easel

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"Recordings: Buchla Modular Synth (Sample Pack) https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store..."

Tricks for complex rhythms using the 264t and other 200t modules

video upload by Stazma and Tiptop Audio

"Today I'm showing you how to make some weird IDM / experimental type beats by 'misusing' the Polyphonic Adapter of the 264t module and also share a few more fun technics to build complex sounding rhythms.
Have fun!!!!"

00:00 INTRO
00:24 264t BEATS?
04:10 264t EVENT TRIGGER TRICKS
05:24 296T & 230T PARRALEL BEAT
08:01 248T PATTERN SWITCHING

248t External Inputs

video upload by Todd Barton

"Synchronizing the External sequences with the 248t MARF.
My Patreon: / synthtodd"

Evolving Buchla drone

video upload by PaulLawlerMusic

Buchla TTA 296T | Episode 17 | Jailbroken

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I've been preparing to sell my 296T this week, because it's too big, I rarely use it and I do not like the nasal and harsh resonant character too much. Sure it's personal, because the 296T is a faithful recreation of the original classic model (and it also sounds like the more modern LED version 296e). I've explored the module in many videos, but best results were achieved when I patched my Mellotron in it (see 207T video in playlist).

I've been browsing youtube for patch examples, to do a final check on true Buchla versions, because maybe I overlooked something. I did not, it is what it is and I can either accept it, or sell it. In either case I need to stop whining about it. But then I found a cool video from the Sonny Downs Quartet channel, where a simple dual VCO in a 'chord' setting was spectrally transferred into beautiful textures. And then I realized the 296T is eurorack and every I/O can be used. Anyway, I decided to keep the 296T after all, and this video may help to explain why."

248t - How to external sync the MARF

video upload by Stazma and Tiptop Audio

"Today I'm showing you how to sync and reset a function generator of the MARF so you can use it in sync with some of your other modules.
There's a few different ways to do it and there's also a few ways to mess around with the sync in fun ways, so we'll explore that together."

00:00 INTRO
00:53 THE BASICS
02:59 GATE LENGHT & SLIDES
05:23 RESET WITH STROBE
10:15 RESET WITH THE STOP INPUT
11:47 MIDI TO CV CLOCK & RESET
13:51 CONCLUSION

Buchla reverberated Hypnosis #strymonstarlab

video upload by RandomVoltage

"slow evolving textures with Buchla modular and strymon starlab reverberator

Headphones essential"

“Infamous Red Panel” ✨🕶️✨ Buchla / Késako / SoundFreak / Keen Association modular system

video upload by Stephano Gavilanes

"9-step sequence on the Buchla 246, Késako Player, Synththomas 292, the Soundfreak Modular set, MEMS Project 291 filter, Buchla 296e and a psychedelic improvisation with the Keen Association 224e👌🏽

I think it’s time to switch hats from recording to mixing and mastering the new album, but I will continue posting new tracks when I get a chance 🔮

Hope you enjoy it! 🤙🏼

Music composed and recorded by Stephano Gavilanes.© Copyright 2026. All rights reserved."

TTMC DUAL FUNCTION GENERATOR , TTMC 5Step Sequencer , 291 , Tokyo Gate 2 , 158

video upload by Tokyo Tape Music Center