This might be the most musical thing I've heard coming out of a Buchla, very Namlook-esque!

Beautiful sound and a real trip down memory lane! This particular unit is legitimately one-of-a-kind and passed through my own hands about 20 years back. Needless to say, it never sounded quite so good in my hands! I acquired it (DOA) while working for Buchla in Berkeley, late 1990s, repaired it (mostly; or at least got it working) between there and Michigan in the early 2000s, and sold it on to a colleague in the UK soon after. This type of unit was meant to be used with a weighted piano-style keyboard, but we made it work with a touch interface meant for an original 400. There is only one other "Buchla by Kimball" unit in existence that I'm aware of, both prototypes for a deal that never came to pass. This one can also be seen, with a larger (uncut?) touch cabinet, in photos from Analogue Heaven Midwest 2002: http://larry.retrosynth.com/larry/ahmw2002/ahmw2002.htm

Killer sound...  Nice work on bringing it back to life.

beautiful sounding. I remember seeing a regular Buchla 400 at West LA Music in the early 80's. I still have the product brochure for one somewhere in my collection.

haas-y break acid thing with dmx

Bradley's Phlange 019 [old DAT track]

https://www.discogs.com/master/919-AFX-Analogue-Bubblebath-Vol-3

AFX  - .215061 (CD version) (Rephlex CAT008)

https://aphextwin.warp.net/release/86888-afx-korg-traxtunings-for-falling-asleep

AFX - …+tunings for falling asleep.wav

Won't Forget You (short Mix)

Cylob – Zattrday 
Aphex Twin – end E2 
Kettel – Alacasa 
Lanark Artefax – Touch Absence 
Anstam – Observing The Patterns 
Denial of Service – Onryo 
Brainwaltzera – Mixolydian Transition 18
Steve Reich – It’s Gonna Rain 
dBridge – Rendezvous 
Luke Vibert – Don’t F**k Around

Brainwaltzera Guest Mix for Tom Ravenscroft BBC Radio 6 (September 22, 2017)

set 2023.02

A live improvisation by D.A.Wilson on an extremely rare 1982 Buchla 400-T computer controlled 6-voice hybrid synth (digital "arbitrary" oscillators into analog filters) running MIDAS-III complete with flat pressure sensitive Touch Controller housed in a custom Teak solid wood cabinet awakens during return to operation and overhaul and Lotharek Rev.F HxC virtual floppy disk retrofit at Hideaway Studio.

The touch keyboard was a nightmare to get used and it took a great deal of my concentration to perform this as the pressure-to-pitch modulation was pretty intense on the patch I'd dialled in that day but it certainly resulted in something from the heart.  The highly responsive playing surface opens up some interesting possibilites for expressive patch design and playing!

Original Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2015.

1982 Buchla 400 Awakens: Haute Tension

Countersing_37_thrushmix

HYVISH22KHz48kbit

Morning

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

1982 Buchla 400 Awakens: Haute Tension

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