Exploring a Full Buchla System | Tiptop Audio Modular Improvisation

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"An 11-minute improvised modular performance using a full Tiptop Audio Buchla system.

This session explores evolving textures, modulation paths, and dynamic interactions across the entire system. The patch is built for flow and transformation rather than fixed structure, allowing the sound to develop organically over time.

🎛️ System used
• Tiptop Audio Buchla modular system (full setup)
• Oscillators, envelopes, LPGs, random & sequencing modules

🎧 What’s inside
• Long-form modular improvisation
• Organic modulation and evolving textures
• Dynamic use of the Buchla signal path
• Recorded live in one take"

Buchla Tiptop Audio 258t + 259t FM Patch | Percussive / Wooden Textures

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"A non-spoken modular patch performance focused on FM percussive and wooden-like textures, created using the Buchla TipTop Audio 258t and 259t oscillators.

In this session, frequency modulation is used to shape short, transient-rich sounds that resemble struck wood and organic percussive elements.
The patch is fully improvised and recorded live, no post-processing.

🎛️ Modules used
• 258t Oscillator
• 259t Oscillator
• 292t Quad Lowpass Gate
• 245t Sequential Voltage Source
• 266t Source of Uncertainty
• Buchla / Tiptop modular system

🎧 What’s explored
• FM techniques for percussive sound design
• Wooden / organic timbres
• Transient shaping and dynamics
• Live modular performance"

Modular Patch Walkthrough Pt.2 | Expanding the Buchla/Tiptop Patch

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Part 1 here

"I continue developing the patch from the previous video, expanding the sequencing, modulation, and timbral variations using a Buchla/Tiptop modular system driven by the Arturia Keystep.

The session remains fully improvised, with real-time explanations while shaping the sound and exploring new directions from the existing patch.

🎛️ Gear used
• Tiptop Buchla modular system
• Arturia Keystep – sequencer
• Various modulation and utility modules

🎧 What’s explored
• Patch continuation and development
• Expanded sequencing and modulation
• Live sound shaping and structure
• Real-time explanation of patch changes"

Modular Patch Explained | Buchla/Tiptop System + Keystep Sequencer

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"A live, spoken patch walkthrough using a Buchla/Tiptop modular setup, sequenced by the Arturia Keystep. In this session, I build the patch step by step, shaping timbres, modulation paths, and rhythmic variations while explaining everything in real time.

🎛️ Gear used
• Tiptop Buchla modules (259t, 281t, 292t, 245t, 266t, 258t)
• Arturia Keystep – main sequencer
• Strymon El Capistan & Flamma FS02 reverb

🎧 What’s inside
• Live patching + real-time explanation
• Sequencing and modulation ideas
• Sound shaping using a full Buchla/Tiptop voice
• Improvised structure, evolving textures"

Synthi Filter Exploration | Analogue Systems RS500N + Nano ONA Patch Talk

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"In this patch talk, I explore the character of the Analogue Systems RS500N Synthi Filter, paired with the Nano Modules ONA VCO.

The video is fully spoken and recorded live: I build the patch step by step, adjusting resonance, input drive, and modulation to show how the Synthi-style filter reacts with different signals and CV sources.

🎛️ Modules used:
• Analogue Systems RS500N Synthi Filter
• Nano Modules ONA (analog VCO)

This session focuses on sound shaping, resonance behaviour, and the unique response of the EMS-style filter inside a Eurorack context."

Exploring the 259tDiscovering the 259t Sound | Tiptop Buchla Patch with 245t, 266t, 281t & 292t

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"In this patch talk, I explore the timbral range of the Tiptop Buchla 259t Complex Oscillator, using the 245t, 266t, 281t, and 292t to build a dynamic, evolving modular voice.

The session is fully improvised and recorded live — a look into the interaction between control voltages, random modulation, and the organic response of the Buchla 200-inspired system.

🎛️ Modules used:
• Tiptop Buchla 259t Complex Oscillator
• Tiptop Buchla 245t Sequential Voltage Source
• Tiptop Buchla 266t Source of Uncertainty
• Tiptop Buchla 281t Quad Function Generator
• Tiptop Buchla 292t Quad Lopass Gate"

Exploring the 259tDiscovering the 259t Sound | Tiptop Buchla Patch with 245t, 266t, 281t & 292t

video upload by VoxModula Archives

"In this patch talk, I explore the timbral range of the Tiptop Buchla 259t Complex Oscillator, using the 245t, 266t, 281t, and 292t to build a dynamic, evolving modular voice.

The session is fully improvised and recorded live — a look into the interaction between control voltages, random modulation, and the organic response of the Buchla 200-inspired system.

🎛️ Modules used:
• Tiptop Buchla 259t Complex Oscillator
• Tiptop Buchla 245t Sequential Voltage Source
• Tiptop Buchla 266t Source of Uncertainty
• Tiptop Buchla 281t Quad Function Generator
• Tiptop Buchla 292t Quad Lopass Gate"

VoxModula TipTop Buchla Demos

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Playlist:

1. Polyrhythmic Motion – TipTop Audio Buchla 245t / 281t

A 4-minute modular improvisation exploring the interaction between The Tiptop Audio Buchla 245t and the 281t — where sequential voltage triggers envelopes, generating evolving polyrhythms and shifting patterns.

Recorded live, no overdubs, no post-processing.

Modules used:
• TipTop Audio Buchla 245t Sequential Voltage Source
• TipTop Audio Buchla 281t Quad Function Generator
• TipTop Audio Buchla 258t Dul Oscillator

Part of VoxModula Archives — a growing collection of modular sound fragments and explorations.

🎧 Best experienced on headphones.

2. Tiptop Buchla + Strymon El Capistan Live Modular Loop Performance / VoxModula #02

A live modular improvisation exploring the Strymon El Capistan as a looping delay.

The sound slowly folds into itself — echoes become layers, layers become memory.

Recorded in one take.
No editing, no overdubs.

3. Exploring FM Synthesis on Tiptop Buchla 258t + 259t | Live Patch Talk

In this video I explore FM synthesis on the Tiptop Buchla 258t and 259t, using the 245t sequencer to modulate pitch and rhythm, and the 266t for random voltages. It’s a li

ve patch talk — I build the sound and explain what happens in real time, fit's my first video like, hopefully you will like it.

Let me know if you would be interested in more videos like this.
If you want the audio files and detailed photos of the patch please reach out and I can send them to you.

🎛️ Modules used:
• Tiptop Buchla 258t Dual Oscillator
• Tiptop Buchla 259t Complex Oscillator
• Tiptop Buchla 245t Sequential Voltage Source
• Tiptop Buchla 266t Source of Uncertainty

🎧 Patch focus: FM synthesis, modulation routing, random CV and sequence interaction.

And two featuring Moog for good measure:

Playlist:

1. Short Ambient Moog Grandmother Performance (40s Demo)

A short ambient performance using the Moog Grandmother, exploring smooth analog tones, slow modulation, and spatial delay textures.

Recorded live in one take — with external effects, Zoom Ms-70 CDR, Grandmother’s raw sound shaped into a soft, floating atmosphere.

🎛️ Gear used:
• Moog Grandmother (analog synth)
• Internal spring reverb & Zoom Ms70 CDR delay

2. VoxModula Archives – The Beginning of an Archive

Hi, this is the first video of VoxModula Archives. VoxModula is an ongoing collection of sonic fragments — recordings where synthesis meets the quiet presence of the surrounding world.

Each piece is an observation of sound as a living material: unstable, imperfect, shaped by voltage and time.

The project does not aim to perform or entertain, but to document the space between intention and accident — where tone becomes memory, and noise becomes evidence of existence.

These works are presented without manipulation or spectacle, as if retrieved from an open archive of moments.

Nothing here is fixed.
Everything breathes.