The Mighty Buchla 200e Modular Synthesizer Part 1| Tutorial

Electronic musician Thomas Dimuzio goes through the many amazing modules of his Buchla 200e in detail. This three part series is over an hour of diving deep into one of the most magnificent synthesizers ever made. Enjoy!

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[KentBuchla]

You might wish to amend the error at 22:58. Buchla systems are 4U. Blacet is 3U. Bugbrand is not 5U, Serge is 4U, etc.

[MikeEstlick]

Excellent intro to Buchla stuff! Buchla and Serge play together just fine, especially with un-quantized sequencers and other CV sources. A 257 and/or a mix-pro are helpful to scale voltages when necessary.

[verstaerker]

rhanks for these 3 videos! So great to see all this infos about a 200e . Thank you! But unfortunately i now want one even more

[MarkoDeLaVoota]

one of the best looking and sounding machines humans ever developed !
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and most expensive:/

[robertsyrett]

I mean, a Buchla is just a think of beauty.

[jdanielcramer]

I wonder if what’s going on with the Dynamics Manager knob is similar to the initial gain setting on some Euro VCAs like the Intellijel Linux which gives you two controls; one that attenuated the incoming CV (from ENV for example) and the initial level which simply sets the minimum that the VCA will close to. Turning this up completely will open the VCA right up and the incoming CV will have no effect. 👍

[WiredBrain]

14:35 : The Make Noise QMMG does work that way, not a surprise as it is a riff on that same idea.

[Seekthetruth]

Is it possible to make music with this or is this for experimental stuff only?

[analogsynthplayer]

Saw “ Mighty “ and was expecting the CS-80

[tonyhill]

Well it looks beautiful... I'll have to take your word that it can sound good, though.

[alexwalde]

Why do people that show the Buchla always use such high frequencys? It's really annoying :D

[TheGrrson]

If I had a million dollars I'd buy a Buchla Skylab tomorrow.

[faridvargas]

it has no fm cv because their modules use linear fm so you don't mess with pitch

[honeysucklecat]

There’s a user made ensemble for Reaktor called Cloudlab that does a decent job emulating a 200e.
If you have Reaktor, it’s free.

[modularmusictv]

Added to www.modularmusic.tv - awesome!

[girlinagale]

Eurorack is so digitally additive, and cross-medium (audio and midi interfaces) I think Buchla is ossified in elitist expensive gear. I love the Buchla artists but music to me has to be attainable as a system and Eurorack just about offers that whereas Buchla doesn't.

[terenceedwards]

bet ur could spend all week up on late nights, weed speed and anything else that takes u into outerspace

[nmendillo]

Tool - Fear Inoculum has brought me here

[olvinfuentes]

Most expensive radiation director I've ever awem

[zacdior]

Drop that synth!
Hey, I'd love to drop this synth from approximately 100 metres up. These synths are huge, heavy and cool.
Peace ✌️ out people