Buchla Music Easel - Module by Module | Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2020
- 3:04 General layout
5:43 Output section
7:17 Mixer
8:42 Lowpass gates/signal routing
11:21 Preamp
12:35 Complex Oscillator
15:01 East Coast vs West Coast synthesis
16:36 Modulation Oscillator
21:13 Inverter
22:11 Pulser
26:34 Random voltage generator
27:29 Envelope
29:49 Sequencer
31:39 Touch Activated Voltage Source
32:15 Keyboard
33:37 Portamento
33:59 Arpeggiator
35:16 Preset Voltage Sources
They say the best way to learn something is to teach it. I found that it took quite a bit of focused time and effort to learn the amazing Buchla Music Easel. So I decided to really learn the small details of the instrument by doing something I had not found elsewhere on the net - a tutorial video that painstakingly goes through every knob, slider, and jack on the instrument.
Don Buchla prized a minimum of instruction on his instruments, because he wanted the user to learn through experimentation. I don't think that this video takes away from that aesthetic - but it is a useful reference, that will hopefully shorten your time learning the fundamentals, so you can start exploring the musical possibilities more quickly.
The Easel is a phenomenal instrument for electronic music improvisation and performance. In my opinion, there is no substitute for the official hardware version. The whole is truly more than the sum of the parts.
My thanks to Todd Barton, for getting me excited about the Easel through his large collection of videos on the topic. And to Blake Griffiths at Noisebug, where I bought my instrument. And, of course, to Don Buchla, for his incredible designs and pioneering work in the field of modular synthesizers.
buchla.com/
toddbarton.com/
www.noisebug.net/
Under the Big Tree is Nick Peck's RUclips channel, focused on music and sound design equipment and techniques, composition, production and performance of music, modular synthesizers and electronic music in general.
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Wow! I wish there was a video this in-depth for the Moog matriarch or Moog Grandmother.
This is like the gold standard of tutorial videos
This is the most comprehensive video tutorial about the Buchla. Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge. Congratulations for the great job you did.
I wish this video was around back when I first got my Music Easel, it would have made it so much easier to get into. Excellent explanation you did here... really well done!
Thank you so much. I wrote the script a year before making the video, but I'm glad it is out there now. The Easel is a really inscrutable instrument, but the more you use it, the more it makes sense - at least to me.
This is such a fantastic compliment to Todd's extensive Buchla musings. Thank you for putting this into the world!
Thank you ever so much for doing this video. Unlike the very meagre and skimpy "getting started" manual by Buchla, this is really educational and very helpful.
Buchla is a whole different sound. That’s why I love it!
Also, another quality video as we've come to expect from you - thanks for the deep-dive.
Thank you for taking the time to go through the Buchla Easel. I really needed to understand all of this unit as I have been fighting myself to buy one.
The demo version of Arturia Buchla Easel V is very helpful too if you want to learn how to use it before emptying your bank account or remortgaging the house. The more I play the emulation, the more I want the real thing, and have decided to do some targeted saving now. Also, while it's a bit of an investment, it will hold its value well on the used market if you decide it's not worth keeping after a few years.
What a well written, well spoken, and well organized presentation. Thanks so much for this. It has been SUPER helpful for me as I learn about the instrument.
For me, the Elektron Octatrack is also such a classic synthesizer. One day I will get my hands on a music easel though, they are simply works of art.
I totally agree. Don Buchla was in a class by himself, and it is the whole that is so much more than the sum of the parts. I love the fact that the design of this instrument has stood the test of time, and a current model has small incremental improvements over the original, but they are very similar instruments.
This is amazing video! Thank you for doing it!
Great, great walk through and explanation!! Bravo and thank for taking the time and for sharing this wonderful resource! 🙇♂️
You're very welcome!
Super helpful!! Thanks so much!
Wonderful walkthrough, huge thanks 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super useful !! Thanks!
amazing video !!!!!! thank you so much for sharing this ;) so concise and clear !
A great video, very useful to me thanks
thank you for making this video! :)
Thanks for this!
And thanks for your videos - I really enjoy them!
You helped a lot! thanks.
Really helpful! Thank you ...
Great vid!
Cool to see that you took the plunge into Buchla.
Right back at you!
Well done
I have a haunting feeling that this video may have just cost future-me a lot of money 😶
heh
Super good video, but man, dust it off before the video. It's so expensive, don't let the breadcrumbs gather :D
The arturia microfreak is the digital version of this, go on fight me
Not too far off.
thanks for this information! good to run through this info from another perspective. you say the low pass gates have 12db filters and i believe marc doty in his recent buchla command says something about 6db filters. so which one is it? i'm trying to build an easel on eurorack and presently have a make noise LxD which has both but lacks some functionality compared to the easel LPG. which eurorack LPG best emulates the buchla easel's? thanks.
is it available now or is there a copy available now.
What brand are the monitors in the background?
So those octave switches didn't sound all that accurate - is that the voltages themselves or not-great VCO tracking?
4:05 colour code
Watched this video. Tried out an easel. Got absolutely nowhere in 30 minutes and walked totally frustrated. I could see buchla being a genius in the 70s but there are just so many easier and more real-time expressive ways to create sound now. And I’ve yet to hear anything made on this thing that the average person can connect with. Oh well, saved myself $3k 😂
I agree!
Dammit man I want one of these so bad but it's like...1/5th the price of my truck. I couldn't imagine.
9:40 The voices in Half-Life sound like this. Has the Easel been used in the making of the game?
9:35 min ? wtf?
This looks like the microfreak
I think you mean the microfreak looks like this.
It would have been exceedingly more helpful to have displayed text with bullet-points accompanying each module description given. Or, in other words, text slides. Watching you read a prepared text becomes hard to follow-inducing focus drift-because one is watching *and* hearing you read words aloud rather than hearing *while* reading those same words along with you. The latter process also maximizes the potential information uptake because it targets both visual and auditory learners.
TIL: "vactroles". It pays to improve your vocabulary!