The chronicles of one man's experience building, repairing, cloning and adding to the Buchla Electric Music Box. A manifesto of a very specific obsession.
August 6, 2009
Sometimes Experiments Work
I have been talking about digging into the 288 schematics and redesigning the digital section to eliminate the obsolete shift registers. It's an 8 stage voltage controlled digital delay, BTW.
Well, upon building up the prototype, I came to find that several of my original ideas didn't work as I hoped they would. After some rethinking and experimenting, I solved those digital problems. I now have a working version of the design. It makes some very interesting sounds, that I haven't heard before. It's cool sounding to have the short delays very quiet and them get louder as they get longer, it sounds like reverse reverb. Also, the looping stuff is out of this world. Woah. Now I just need to get my silk screening done.
Exciting news!
ReplyDeletenice work!
ReplyDeleteI got the 2 old ones working a couple months back.. have you called Don about this project? I bet he would be interested.
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ReplyDeleteAmazing! I would love to hear it
ReplyDeletejohan
Whoot! And update!
ReplyDeleteAnd it's a really really exciting update!