Novation Circuit Tracks & Associates - Buchla 208C Easel Command, Monome Norns, 1010Music Bluebox -

video by -CALC-

See this post for additional details and demos of Novation's new Circuit Tracks.

"Perhaps not quite what most folks are expecting from an early Circuit Tracks video but this is a versatile bit of kit and it was a fun late night birthday jam. Circuit Tracks is firmly at the centre.

Tracks is controlling the Norns OOOOOO script with MIDI mappings, all the loops in OOOOOO were recorded directly from the Circuit Track's Synth. The Circuit Tracks synth is actually kick ass when you delve deep into it and make it work for you. There is a ton of power in it.

Circuit Tracks also sequencing the Summit (bass line) and Rossum Electro Assimil8or - through CV.OCD (additional drums).
This is the first proper recording with the Buchla 208C Easel Command and at the moment its just burbling nicely in the background. I've been waiting for a long time to get this and it will definitely feature a lot more prominently in the future.
I'm still learning this total classic beast and I think I will be for the rest of my life but it also pairs really really well with the Circuit Tracks' sequencer.

Special shout out to the 1010 Music Bluebox too. It is such a handy device and way more useful than I imagined. Especially paired with the Norns.... thats a power combo.

Some tasty video stuff thanks to the Sleepy Circuits Hypno. I ran the video back through the Hypno for some lovely Psychedelics. It's clunky with external video but its good."

Buchla 208c & Friends

video by Logan Mannstrane

This one was spotted and sent in via Soviet Space Child.

Also check out Logan Mannstrane's CS80 video, and Vimeo videos.

Video description:

"This video is compiled from an 8 hour improvised modular session that was streamed live on October 3rd 2020.

Modules used:
208c (Buchla)
258r (Clone)
282e (Keen Association)
Digital Resonator (1979)
Dual Voltage Controlled Mixer (1979)
Stereo Microsound Processor (1979)

00:00:00 Patch 001
00:01:34 Patch 002
00:04:16 Patch 003
00:05:08 Patch 004
00:08:51 Patch 005
00:11:01 Patch 006
00:15:46 Patch 007
00:20:25 Patch 008
00:26:17 Patch 009
00:26:51 Patch 010
00:31:34 Patch 011
00:37:32 Patch 012
00:41:31 Patch 013
00:51:17 Patch 014
01:08:23 Patch 015
01:27:31 Patch 016
01:33:14 Patch 017
01:52:12 Patch 018
01:54:24 Patch 019"

Buchla Easel Command 208C - Arpeggio

video by TheTrackdriver

"Made my first video with the Buchla Easel Command 208C that I bought from Signal Sounds in Scotland. The Easel is connected with a MIDI cable to an Elektron Octatrack which is running an arpeggiator. I am changing patterns later in the video so each oscillator receives a different MIDI sequence on separate MIDI channels - the complex oscillator on channel 2 and the modulation oscillator on channel 3. The audio goes through the Octatrack with some effects added and then recorded on my computer."

Live annotated patching: Buchla 208c Easel Command AM focus avant-garde synthesizer electronic music

video upload by EthanJamesMusic

"I am using the Buchla 208c music Easel Command along with the Make Noise 0-ctrl as a stand in for the 218 touch controller and wanted to explore how to use some of the many possibilities of AM. I am live patching and using annotations to try to teach some of my thought process when I'm making these improvisations. This is entirely live and unrehearsed. The goal of this piece of electronic music was to show how to use different ways that AM can be used to create both rhythm and the faster audio rate (classic) amplitude modulation. I used cross modulation at the end to combine both sounds. This is a great use to be able to have rhythmic variations in what can otherwise be a static 5 step sequence. This is a relatively simple patch and doesn't need many connections to get something that can sound extremely complex. I am using the west coast technique of starting with something and spinning it out like a centrifuge. I'm processing the sound through a few eurorack modules that I will detail below. Hopefully this camera angle also helps you learn something!

If you enjoyed this, please consider supporting my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ethanjamesmusic"

Playful: Buchla 208c Easel Command live west coast avant-garde synthesizer electronic music

video upload by EthanJamesMusic

"I am using the Buchla 208c music Easel Command along with the Make Noise 0-ctrl as a stand in for the 218 touch controller and wanted to continue exploring using a simple patch to create a large musical idea. This piece of music is called "Playful" and is for my son, who just turned 2. He has some medical issues, and we are so grateful that he is still with us. I didn't rehearse this beforehand and was just following the sound. I am still exploring using the pulsar into low pass gate 2 with the inverted envelope into low pass gate 1 to create different rhythms and have added pressure voltage to the complex oscillator modulation which is generating some nice harmonic side bands. I'm also using the envelope generator into the wave shaper, which is creating rhythms against itself with timbre. I am using the west coast technique of starting with something and spinning it out like a centrifuge. I'm processing the sound through a few eurorack modules that I will detail below. Hopefully this camera angle also helps you learn something!"

Buchla Easel Command 208C - Luna

video upload by TheTrackdriver

"Generative music made on a Buchla Easel Command 208C. Effects comes from a Roland Chorus Echo RE-301 only. The program card in the background has a couple of resistors added and the Korg SQ-1 outputs random pitch variations.

I filmed the moon with a Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 with a Panasonic Leica 100-400mm lens."

Buchla Easel Command 208C - Orange

video upload by TheTrackdriver

"A piece of music recorded live. The two melodic stems come from the Buchla Easel Command 208C which is receiving MIDI from Steinberg Nuendo plus the internal sequencer. Some parameters are controlled by the Buchla 281 clone and the glide at the end by the 266. Chords are from the Waldorf Blofeld, bass from the Moog Sub37 and drums from the Akai Rhythm Wolf.

The blackbirds were filmed with a Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 with a Panasonic Leica DG 100-400 lens. The bird song was captured with a Røde VideoMic GO II."

Snippets of Lumina controlling 208C on first test session.

Published on Nov 14, 2019 Joel Davel

"Putting the 208C 208MIDI daughtercard through it's paces just after getting the program. Rough cuts, but shareable enough for those interested in the possibilities (Timbre on blue mallet, mod amount on yellow mallet, red and green mallet notes add to pitch of the two oscillators that are played by the blue and yellow mallets that are acting as keyboard input.)"

Follow-up to this post.

Buchla Easel Command 208C - In the Loop

video upload by TheTrackdriver

"Playing with the looper on the Strymon Volante delay pedal. I'm using the Akai LPD8 as a keyboard which is connected to the Buchla Easel Command 208C. The Easel and the Gakken Toy Record Maker go into a Behringer Xenyx 1002FX mixer which main output goes through the Volante. The audio chain ends with the Strymon Nightsky pedal. I had recorded a sustained chord from a Waldorf Blofeld onto the vinyl before this session."

Buchla Easel Command 208C - Glow

video upload by TheTrackdriver

"A semi-generative piece of music. I recently built a 266 Source of uncertainty clone from Samodular which is sending random quantised notes to the Buchla Easel Command 208C. The range is set by the pitch sliders on each oscillator. The Easel sends the pulser signal to the 266 which splits them up and send them back to each lo pass gate with some random stuff added.

The chords comes from a Waldorf Blofeld and the bass from a Moog Sub 37. I used some pedals and a Roland Chorus Echo RE-301 for effects and recorded everything onto a cassette tape (Marantz PMD 430 recorder)."

Live Annotated performance: rhythmic variation Buchla 208c Easel Command electronic music

video upload by EthanJamesMusic

"I am using the Buchla 208c music Easel Command along with the Make Noise 0-ctrl as a stand in for the 218 touch controller. I am using annotations to try to teach some of my thought process when I'm making these improvisations. This patch demonstrates the rhythmic variations you can get by sending sequential voltage to the pulser CV. I'm also inverting the voltage, so that higher notes last longer, but there are many possibilities for how to achieve rhythmic variations in this way. I am using the west coast technique of starting with something and spinning it out like a centrifuge. I'm processing the sound through a few eurorack modules that I will detail below. Hopefully this camera angle also helps you learn something!"

Buchla 208c First Playdate

video by Todd Barton

"And now the explorations begin! The Buchla 208c Easel Command https://buchla.com
It's really feeling solid, punchy and powerful. More to come.
https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd
https://www.instagram.com/synthtodd/"

Buchla Easel Command 208C - Luna II

video upload by TheTrackdriver

"This is 'Luna part II'. I'm performing with my Buchla Easel Command 208C, Strymon Volante and Strymon Nightsky. The audio is sampled continuously on the Elektron Octatrack in two alternating recording buffers. The third track is trigging the samples and adds various effects. The final piece was recorded onto a compact cassette.

The moon was recorded with a Panasonic DC-G9 with a Leica DG Vario Elmarit 100-400mm lens mounted on an Olympus telekonverter MC-20 (2X zoom)."

Part 1 here.

Buchla knob twiddles

Published on Jan 7, 2014 DrOctave1·276 videos

"all sounds made from the buchla 296e,259e,261e,266e,281e,285e,292e, 247v,208c,258j"

LEM218 Tip 2

video upload by Todd Barton

"Using the 218 Arpeggiator with the 208c Sequencer.

My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Buchla Easel Command Exploration 4

video by Todd Barton

"Clocking the 208c from the Korg SQ-1 and more fun . . .
https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Todd Barton Buchla Easel Command posts

Release Me

video by TheTrackdriver

"A live recording with my Buchla Easel Command 208C. It is controlled by and run through an Elektron Octatrack which is also adding effects. The long reverb comes from an Alesis Midiverb III.

Each oscillator receives MIDI on different channels and the audio has also been separated - the complex oscillator from a master output and the modulation oscillator from the gate 2 signal output."

Buchla Easel Command and Sensel Morph Single Pad

video by

"Exploring the Sensel Morph with Thunder overlay and the Buchla Easel Command 208c. Fun times.

My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Update:

Sensel Morph and Easel Command Separate Oscs

"Just programmed the Sensel Morph Thunder overlay to take advantage of the separated Modulation and Complex oscillators in the Buchla Easel Command. :-)
Just can't individually gate each LPG, but I love the fluidity of the open gates."

Buchla Sketch #11

Published on Jul 31, 2017 Oren Levy

"281r, 208c, 25s, 2OC, and 206r"

The Great Hapax Experiment Vol. 1 - Squarp Hapax sequencing loads of stuff and Cocoquantus improvs

video upload by -CALC-

"Sat with this one quite a bit for quite a bit.... kept it unlisted for over a year but after some revisits thought maybe its time to put it out there. Still stand by what I initially thought, its a "Curate's egg... Good in parts". Squarp and Coco were still newish at the time of this jam so still finding the feels.

This is what I thought of it back then:

I got a new brain!

Here's a full 45 minute noodle with the incredible Squarp Hapax front and centre. To say this is the most powerful hardware sequencer I have ever got my hands on is a total understatement.

WARNING This pretty experimental jam is not for the faint hearted in certain sections. Focussing on Hapax and the CocoQuantus it gets noisy and out there but that's what I love these days.

It was improvised and live-sequenced over a couple of initially formed sequences.
There are good bits but also some really bad sections in the middle too. I considered cutting these out but that would be a hard edit and they eventually do settle down.
I'd say the worst bits are:
20:30 - 21:26 (shitty idea to try and record a kick bass line without tuning the kick!)
28:39 - 29:42 (combo of not realising that the 1010 Blue box was turned down and having a few moments of forgetting how the CocoQuantus worked... oh and a pesky Buchla sequence I forgot to stop!)

Hapax is firing off and controlling a ton of stuff in the room:
Circuit Rhythm
Ciat Lonbarde CocoQuantus (clocking the loopers)
Nord Drum 3p
Rossum Electro Assimil8or (through CV.OCD)
Meng Qi Wingie 2
Novation Summit - also acting as a controller keyboard for everything in the set-up
Buchla 208C
Norns (running Plonky Script for multisamples)
Just Friends in polysynth mode
Vongon Polyphrase
Vongon Ultrasheer
Mutable Instruments Beads
and some dodgy singing
All connected via Hapax's MIDI Outs and a Conductive Labs MRCC"