RIP Don Buchla
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35505 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
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- KVRAF
- 10260 posts since 19 Feb, 2004 from Paris
Very very very sad news 
Another one of the last genius pionneers who we all owe so much regarding the synthesizers we use today is gone.
Unlike Robert Moog and some other genuine wizards, Don Buchla kept his business small, prefering to sell less units, but at high prices, and kept entire control over it until recently. While the core of his synthesizer concepts were invented back in the days -70s & 80s- , and he did not vary much after that, he also worked on various controlers, and on the musical gesture in the past years.
Terrible loss. I'm stunned.
+ RIP +
Another one of the last genius pionneers who we all owe so much regarding the synthesizers we use today is gone.
Unlike Robert Moog and some other genuine wizards, Don Buchla kept his business small, prefering to sell less units, but at high prices, and kept entire control over it until recently. While the core of his synthesizer concepts were invented back in the days -70s & 80s- , and he did not vary much after that, he also worked on various controlers, and on the musical gesture in the past years.
Terrible loss. I'm stunned.
+ RIP +
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- KVRAF
- 13135 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
Holy shit, that's heart breaking. Such a huge influence and a totally rad old dude. A wildly brilliant mind but very humble.
An acquaintance of mine was talking to him about his stance on clones/emulations of his designs and while it didn't seem to bother him much, he appeared baffled as to why anyone would want to replicate decades old technology. It seemed he was always looking forward. I value the few conversations we had at NAMM, even if it was just small talk. He was a huge inspiration for me.
RIP
An acquaintance of mine was talking to him about his stance on clones/emulations of his designs and while it didn't seem to bother him much, he appeared baffled as to why anyone would want to replicate decades old technology. It seemed he was always looking forward. I value the few conversations we had at NAMM, even if it was just small talk. He was a huge inspiration for me.
RIP
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- KVRAF
- 37488 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
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- KVRist
- 354 posts since 15 Nov, 2005 from Melbourne Australia
A Sad day indeed!
time to fire up my few buchla modules and have a Jam for Don.
That decade old technology still blow My socks off!
RIP
time to fire up my few buchla modules and have a Jam for Don.
That decade old technology still blow My socks off!
RIP
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- KVRian
- 1209 posts since 28 Jun, 2005
And somehow the above set up makes something musical...
RIP Don
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- KVRAF
- 7540 posts since 7 Aug, 2003 from San Francisco Bay Area
As I posted in another thread, I've been in the same room with Don on several occasions at various SF Bay Area synth meets, but never said a single word to the guy. That will go down as one of my big regrets in life.
He will be missed.
He will be missed.
Incomplete list of my gear: 1/8" audio input jack.
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- KVRAF
- 3321 posts since 2 Jul, 2007
A real loss to the synth world.
Buchla's machines were - are - like nothing else in the synth world. If you have ever had the good fortune to put your hands on one, you know what I mean.
His synths were relentlessly designed for the production of avant-garde music - not pop stuff. If Wendy Carlos was Bob Moog's musical guide, Morton Subotnick was Buchla's.
Did he ever put an actual chromatic keyboard on a synth?
His stuff was SO expensive ($53,000 for a tricked-out 200e.) But I will always regret never putting my hands of the Thunder MIDI controller. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GB86m7JvlMk/U ... 1600/2.jpg
Buchla's machines were - are - like nothing else in the synth world. If you have ever had the good fortune to put your hands on one, you know what I mean.
His synths were relentlessly designed for the production of avant-garde music - not pop stuff. If Wendy Carlos was Bob Moog's musical guide, Morton Subotnick was Buchla's.
Did he ever put an actual chromatic keyboard on a synth?
His stuff was SO expensive ($53,000 for a tricked-out 200e.) But I will always regret never putting my hands of the Thunder MIDI controller. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GB86m7JvlMk/U ... 1600/2.jpg
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- KVRAF
- 6179 posts since 29 Mar, 2003 from Location: Location
One of my heroes in the 70s.
Wired my brain for the better when I 1st heard 'Touch'.
Post some Youtube of artists using Buchla synths please.
Wired my brain for the better when I 1st heard 'Touch'.
Post some Youtube of artists using Buchla synths please.
....................Don`t blame me for 'The Roots', I just live here. 
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- KVRAF
- 13135 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California