Buchla/TipTop 200 series, Marbles, Magneto- ‘Buchla FM’- RtB

A few weeks later than its expected debut, this is ‘the new sound desk’, freed up by the handing back of the working from home kit. The new case (9U 84hp) is by no means settled- there will be a 296t in due course, and I’m pondering another 258t dual oscillator. That, plus the necessary utilities and the 6hp FX Aid, will likely fill it. In order not to have to constantly be unplugging stuff I’ve got a new pair of Presonus Eris speakers, but I had figured I wouldn’t need another interface because I had a couple of built-like-a-tank Steinberg jobs lying around…
Wrong. Both Steinbergs are 4-in, 2-out, which under normal circumstances is just fine- but if you want to video stuff you need a 4-out interface: two speakers, and lines out to (in my case) the Go Mixer. The cheap and cheerful Zoom u-24 does that just fine, but the only way to get the Go Mixer to work with either Steinberg would be to monitor over headphones only, and I don’t like to do that. Fortunately the Zooms are cheap as chips, and in stock at Thomann, so within the week I should have the two separate systems up and running as I want. The tape and microsound case will then sit with the 12U 104hp rack, and the Buchla set-up will ‘host’ the Syntrx II.
Anyway- this piece is an evolving eight-note sequence from Marbles, FM’d by a fixed twenty-note sequence from the 245t, tape delay courtesy of the Magneto (I’m not yet convinced; perhaps I should rtfm). Interface is the lone Zoom, which will now have to be lovingly detached if I want to use the other system any time soon. Sigh…
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Thanks for watching!

[@Pandangus]

Really, really nice ❤️ I love it

[@walrtbstudios5430]

Thank you! By coincidence, I had just been messing around with some more Buchla FM when I saw your comment…

[@kentaccordionist]

Sounding great Wal. Just hit a snag setting up my studio, so far I have 8 synths setup patched to my thru box, and ready to patch to my audio interface. Well my umc1820 will only handle 8 tracks of audio at once. Which means I need to purchase an adat before I can add any more synths, of which I have at least another 8. And that’s gonna set me back best part of £200.00. But I want everything hardwired so I don’t have to keep re patching each time I need to use a different synth, which also means getting another thru box. Oh well the best laid plans of mice and accordionists.

[@walrtbstudios5430]

Would a Behringer Xenyx mixer not solve that problem? I have a 12-track item lying around somewhere you’re welcome to if it’s any good to you…

[@kentaccordionist]

@@walrtbstudios5430THANKS Wal, but I already have one of those in storage. My idea is to be able to record as many synths at once to as many tracks at once as I can directly into cubaisis using external sequencers and keyboards. I even have a rack sub mixer by Behringer that can feed a stereo channel on my normal mixer that gives me a further 8 inputs, but that was purchased before I got the unc1820, and unfortunately has no ADAT. I have spent nearly the whole day so far wiring midi and audio connections and printing and affixing stickers to my midi thru and audio interface so I know what’s going to where. Now I got to wire up the power to it all. As you well know it’s a demanding task setting up a new studio. At this rate my UBXA might have to wait till the summer. By which time they will have hopefully got the J60 clone to the shops which is what I really want. THANKS ANYWAY….