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Thursday, May 09, 2024
Serge SSG Tutorial
video upload by Todd Barton
"A quick and hopefully useful tutorial on the Serge SSG. Checkout my Patreon at / synthtodd"
Wednesday, May 08, 2024
Easel Delirium
video upload by Todd Barton
"Exploring my Tone Noise preset for the Buchla Music Easel . . .
My Patreon: / synthtodd"
Morning YaYas
video upload by Todd Barton
Exploring a cool patch by Kurt Kurasaki a free download for the Buchla Easel Program Manager Card
https://buchla.com/programmanager/
My Patreon: / synthtodd"
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
Easel Chapter - Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People
video upload by Todd Barton
"Every Buchlaphile and especially Easel owners must read this enlightening and exciting chapter by Ted Gordon @ted_gordon on Instagram
https://www.routledge.com/Modular-Syn..."
"Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People brings together scholars, artists, composers, and musical instrument designers in an exploration of modular synthesis, an unusually multifaceted musical instrument that opens up many avenues for exploration and insight, particularly with respect to technological use, practice, and resistance.
Through historical, technical, social, aesthetic, and other perspectives, this volume offers a collective reflection on the powerful connections between technology, creativity, culture, and personal agency. Ultimately, this collection is about creativity in a technoscientific world and speaks to issues fundamental to our everyday lives and experiences, by providing insights into the complex relationships between content creators, the technologies they use, and the individuals and communities who design and engage with them.
With chapters covering VCV Rack, modular synthesis, instrument design, and the histories of synthesizer technology, as well as interviews with Dave Rossum, Corry Banks, Meng Qi, and Dani Dobkin, among others, Modular Synthesis is recommended reading for advanced undergraduates, researchers, and practitioners of electronic music and music technology.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license."
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Tiptop Buchla Performance
video upload by Todd Barton
"My performance for the Modular World Tiptop Buchla Spotlight this past Sunday. [video below]
One of many amazing performances featuring the range of Tiptop Buchla modules. This performance features all the currently available modules including the external preamp input of the 207t mixer with my shakuhachi. Enjoy!
My Patreon: / synthtodd"
Ep43 - Spotlight: TIPTOP/BUCHLA
video upload by Modular World
"BUCHLA FOR THE PEOPLE!
Gur Milstein (TipTop), is working with Buchla under the consultation of Todd Barton to reissue the legendary 200 system from the early 70's. The best part--the modules are affordable.
I know Don Buchla would be very proud to see the kind of legacy that he has left behind if it means that more people could afford to touch his creations.
Modular World will always stand with stories about people, and the passions that push them to stand out. Gur Milstein (TipTop) told me that working with Don's old schematics to recreate these designs has been the greatest honor of his professional life. Yes.
Grab your popcorn and have a seat. With 18 performances and two amazing interviews, this is going to be good."
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Building a Buchla 248 MARF with Stages, Stages, Stages and Marbles
video upload by Cinematic Laboratory
"Sorry about that title. The MARF is short for the Multiple ARbitrary Function generator, a huge Buchla design carrying the model number 248, and is part of the 200 series. It's not easy to compare it with anything, but you could see it as a 16 step 0-CTRL, a Rossum Control Forge and maybe even the 250e circular Dual Arbitrary Function generator (DARF) like Frap Tools USTA. I contacted Todd Barton (thanks so much!) to be able to study a few MARF images. The sliders made me think of Mutable Stages, and the control section reminded me of Marbles. While getting lost on the way, I finally got a patch that sounded similar: 'music that sounds like dancing butterflies'.
The recipe involves variable timing, notes, a quantizer, and a transpose. You may also need a trigger or gate when a segment runs or finishes. There's a lot to explore here, and I don't think you can find a MARF in a single eurorack solution. I tried to approximate it, but I also needed Maths to do envelopes and gate extraction. It took a while to make this video and I wasn't sure about the results until the very end. Then suddenly, it worked.
You'll need a lot of stuff to do it, but there may be smaller solutions. I'll revisit this idea when my Control Forge arrives and I'll be able to combine USTA with the CF.
This is a complex video so I hope it will make a bit of sense. It would have been better to figure all this out and then make a video. But you'd be missing the fun of exploration. There are plenty of useful examples of how 'factory' Stages can be used, but I installed the Qiemem firmware for max flexibility. In the end I only used its 'random segment' feature in this video, but it doesn't play a role in the MARF patch. You can do this with factory Stages but it still requires a chain of 2 or 3. You can use any sequencer with a clock input for this. A DFAM will also help you to cover the time/level sequence.
Installation requires playing a .WAV into the module which can be bit of a drag. I recommend using a eurorack sample player like the BitBox for a high success ratio. Using a phone, PC or pad can be a nightmare. Also, I am not sure if the firmware works on a clone, please comment if you tried it.
https://github.com/qiemem/eurorack/re...
I am still trying to wrap my head around it. Even though Stages and Marbles are now discontinued, they're easy to find as fully functional clones. With Eurorack, we have the 'power' to build our own synths, or get inspired by designs which are still amazing and modern after +50 years. I hope it inspires you too."
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Radio Interference
video upload by Todd Barton
"100% pure Easel. Not your typical Easel patch...I developed Click Textures for the Easel Program Manager Card, you can download all my patches here: https://buchla.com/programmanager/
This is that patch in Both mode which allows me to sculpt it in realtime.
Big shoutout to all my patrons on my Patreon that makes this exploration and all my tutorial/demo videos possible!! Love you!
My Patreon:
/ synthtodd
Thursday, April 04, 2024
Tuesday, April 02, 2024
Jammin for Kurt
video upload by Todd Barton
"Found this cool Easel patch from Kurt Kurasaki's preset bank on the Buchla website:
https://buchla.com/downloads/programs...
A very inspiring and performable patch. Thanks you Kurt!
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"
Easel Pressure Jam
video upload by Todd Barton
"Just a little jam riffing off of my pressure patch":
Retro Pressure Setup
video upload by Todd Barton
"Setting up my New Retro Buchla Music Easel for my pressure perferences."
https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Manual Dexterity
video upload by Todd Barton
"An unfolding of this patch over on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"
Update:
Manual Dexterity unfolded
video upload by Todd Barton
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Just for Fun
video upload by Todd Barton
"Some bleeps & bloops for fun…
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
A Modular Mousetrap
video upload by Todd Barton
"Sequential triggering of diverse sonic events.
I’ve unfolded this patch over on my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"
Saturday, March 09, 2024
Performative Concrète
video upload by Todd Barton
"Unlike true Musique Concrète which cuts, pastes and manipulates field recordings on magnetic tape this merely gives the illusion of that fragmented, multi-sequences timbral and dynamic shifts, think Cage's Williams Mix et al. Enjoy!"
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Monday, March 04, 2024
MEMS 296 Parsed Beat
video upload by Todd Barton
"Sound source is the Soundfreak EMS Triple Oscillator gated and going to the MEMS 296 Spectral Processor where different bandwidths of the fundamental sequence are parsed out and brought into the mix either the Buchla 207 mixer.
Soundfreak https://www.soundfreak.io
MEMS https://www.memsproject.info
Buchla https://buchla.com"
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Random Listening
video upload by Todd Barton
"Ever wondered what the diffserence was among the various flavor randomness in the Buchla 266 Source of Uncertainty? Of course the faceplate graphics give a clue but I prefer listening to the different densities, distributions and ranges. Using the 1979 Modular Switcher this is possible to compare them in real time. Enjoy!
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
Shakuhachi and Buchla
video upload by Todd Barton
"More explorations of interacting with my Buchla instrument via my shakuhachi and the Buchla 230 Envelope Follower.
More explorations and patching on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"
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