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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Buchla 700 Preservation Page
The page includes newly added source code for the Buchla 700: "Source code for the Buchla 700, courtesy Lynx Crowe. This code is provided as-is with no guarantees of completeness or correctness; it's a compilation of various bits of relevant code that Lynx found going through his archives. If you want to delve into this, you are "on your own." Development was done with an Alcyon C compiler on an Atari 1040ST, although it should be feasible to find a modern compiler that will handle this code. Knowledgeable people with time on their hands could potentially do all sorts of neat things with this, such as (a) create some sort of hardware/software upgrade to the 700 that would allow users to bypass the trouble-prone and difficult-to-find video chip, (b) add features to and fix bugs in the software, and (c) create a softsynth rendition of the 700. It's also a fantastic chance to look at the design of a synth OS by one of the pioneers in the field. Please give Lynx proper acknowledgement on anything you do this this. If you have any commercial aspirations, i.e. you plan to actually sell anything based on this, you should contact Lynx to talk about some sort of licensing arrangement."click here and scroll to see prior posts on the Buchla 700 including video.
Moogerfoogers + PlanB Through The FutureRetro Revolution
YouTube via dkimcg
"Viva La Pierre et Jered et Robert!
Left channel is everything through the Future Retro Revolution, right channels is that plus the Space Echo. Straight in, no digital effects. The FRR sends out VC to the Moog Freqbox through the Moog RingMod, into the FM of the two M15s, which FM each other some more, which send audio into the Evil Twin which is FMed some more by the 2nd M15. The FRR Gate CVs are used to generate more enevlopes from the M10 and the Paia envelopes and saw LFO. There's a few signals mixed in the M25 and send back to the CV input on the Revolution which does the final moduations and filtering..."
Modular Pattern Generator ( with thanks to Yamaha! )
YouTube via xd515
"I have used the analogue percussion section from an old Yamaha PS-3 keyboard. This is connected via opto-isolators to my pattern generator, which is a touchscreen based unit, based on an AT Mega cpu.. it took ages to program!"
StratoJam in E minor w/ ModFactor, Echolution
YouTube via Analogger
"This began when I strummed an e minor chord and looped it with my Pigtronix Echolution. I started playing some chords on top of it with my old Yamaha 12 string and it just built from there. I put the loop thru the Modfactor filter mod using the high pass mode.
Bass drum from the Jomox MBase. The Evolver was used for bass and synth lead. My EMG equipped strat did everything else."
Computone Lyricon "The Driver" Vintage Wind Controller
images via this auction
Update via Steve Greene in the comments:
"I own two of these...
In the 1970's my good friend (now deceased) Jay Lee was a consultant to Computone. Jay was way ahead of his time respect to analog synthesis composition and recording. If you google the album One Step More, an all-analog synthesis album I engineered and co-produced, you will quickly understand the breadth and depth of Jay's talents on the Emu modular synthesizer system.
Jay created some nice demo music for Computone with the Wind Driver, and was paid with inventory instead of money (I assume that the former was in much greater supply than the latter.)
In exchange for the many hundreds of hours I spent on his album, Jay paid me with 2 copies of The Driver. I shutter to think of the per-hour pay that figured out to be (like maybe $2) After receiving these, we used 1 of them to create (for it's day) some very realistic horn fanfares which became the signature music for BBC/Lionheart, a distribution deal done between BBC films and King World Entertainment. That little 15 second ditty was put on the end of every film the BBC exported for about 5 years.
Fast forward to today. I have revived one of the wind drivers. One of the reasons I believe the instrument ultimately failed was due to the tremendous back pressure created by lead hoses that were too small in inner diameter. I have replaced the hoses on 1 of The Drivers with a much thinner gauge cross section hose, resulting in a much more satisfying playing experience. Really too bad the Computone engineers couldn't figure that one out themselves. I am currently using it with a four-voice modular synthesizer made from 4 of the original EMU voice evaluation boards featuring the line of Curtiss Electromusic VCO VCA VCF and EG chips. SOUNDS GREAT!
If any of you are interested in the other wind driver, please contact me.
Cheers,
Steve Greene"
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