Author: Andre Theelen
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Buchla200 custom cabinet v2.1
Finished the basic structure of the new cabinet today. The cabinet is glued together now so I have to wait until tomorrow for the glue to dry. I changed the side panels a little bit. They are now a fluid line instead of the three angled slopes in the Sketchup design in my previous post.…
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Buchla200 custom cabinet v2
I wanted to start working on the cabinet but due to circumstances I didn’t have time today. Instead, I played some more with the design and came up with something better. The footprint of this cabinet is larger than the previous one but it looks much more Buchla. So this is the one I’m going…
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Buchla200 custom cabinet
I’m playing around with Google Sketchup and, as a practical exercise, I’m designing a new cabinet for my Buchla 200 clone. I wanted it to be as compact as possible and came up with the design to the left. The height of the cabinet is 616 mm (24.3″), it’s 684 mm (26.9″) wide and 240mm…
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Nikon Ai-s 85mm f1.4
I have a Nikon Ai-s 85mm f1.4 manual focus lens for quite some time now. I use this lens for video (with the Letus Extreme 35mm adapter) and with my Nikon D300s DSLR. It’s a beautiful lens, very robust, very sharp and I like the bokeh very much. For more information about this lens read…
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The (Buchla) Future of Things to Come…
I worked on a couple of front panel prototypes for my Buchla 200 modules today. I used the same technique as I used for the Buchla 291 clone I’m building: designing in Front Panel Designer, print out on paper and using 3mm scrap wood for the prototype panel. From left to right: Dual Oscilator Model…
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A modular patch
I have been experimenting with a patch on my MOTM modular the last couple of days. I used the following modules: 3 x Oakley VCO 1 x Oakley Multimix 2 x MOTM-390s LFO 1 x MOTM-830 Dual Mode Mixer 1 x CGS Wave Multipliers 1 x Oakley S&H/Slew generator 1 x Oakley Equinoxe phaser 1…
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Thomas White Resonant Lopass Gate
Today I finished the Resonant Lopass Gate I had lying, half finished, on my workbench for some time. It is a derivative by Thomas White of the famous Buchla 292c Lopass Gate. It is a gate with selectable amplitude-dependent spectral characteristics. Knob settings and applied control voltages determine the levels and cutoff frequency. It uses…
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Modular patch notation
The big difference between an analog modular synthesizer and their digital brothers and sisters is the ability to store sound presets. That is something that is not possible in an analog modular. There are of course some hybrid analog synthesizers, like the Buchla 200e, where (a big part of) a patch can be stored digitally.…
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Drawdio
Today I built a fun little device called Drawdio. It is very easy to built. It took me less than 15 minutes to finish it. I made it predominantly for my daughter’s birthday party (she’s 5). She thought is was nice but her girlfriends weren’t impressed very much. Anyway, it is a pencil with which…
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Studio acoustics (part 2)
I installed 3 absorption panels in my studio. Two on the ceiling and one on one of the side walls. All panels are from the EQ Acoustics Spectrum product line, rigid absorption panels which can be mounted on a wall or ceiling. This is the Spectrum 50 Studio Tile. The tile measures 57.5 x 57.5…
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Buchla 291 Dual Voltage Controlled Filter
This is the first module towards a Buchla 200 clone: The Buchla 291 dual voltage controlled filter. Using Mark Verbos’ PCB design (scroll down to “Buchla Bandpass Filter”) I made some minor adjustments and etched the PCB. After soldering the PCB I started designing the front panel in Front Panel Designer using a picture of…
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What the Future sounded like…
I accidentally stumbled upon a link to the following YouTube videos. They tell the story of the first experiments in electronic music in the UK and how it later on became EMS (Electronic Music Studio), the creators of the VCS3 and the Synthi 100. I really enjoyed watching these videos. Just seeing how these guys…