They are making a easel clone without the keyboard for $300. This is one synth I think I'm gonna splurge though.. not that crazy anniversary one though, just the pedestrian $5000 one. But it is the one thing I have always wanted most and I have to sell a couple of my favorite synth's plus save for a while.
@@wurlinnawurl bro, keep your synths, get the Behringer and a microfreak for the same keyboard experience. It will cost you literally a tenth of the price. Let the people who will never really use it properly but can afford it spend their money to boop beep.
Nice to see you Nick! I learned a lot from your Korg Volca Modular Patch of the Week videos. Those started my modular journey. I didn't realize you worked for Bucla as well/now. Cheers!
Nice to see a company do something nice for rich people. What a party this will be! I can see these sitting unused in some loners mansion only to be dusted once a month by a maid who hates her life.
It sounds like you have not been productive at achieving your goals in life. Why else would you express such negativity towards people who accomplished financial success in life?
@@MysticDonBlair you realize the butt of the joke was the company and not the buyer right? There’s a lot you can do with 8000-10000$ unless you really are the collector the person @cyp3 basically described who will in fact hardly use it.
Sounds crazy but I bet you could order one of these and then this time next year sell it for 15k because its such a ltd edition.Same happened with the Korg FS remake of the 2600s.
Nick Kwas! I barely recognized him. Nick what happened to your cover of last Christmas? Me and my daughter used to listen to it every year on Christmas. Then it was gone a couple years ago. She still talks about it.
I feel like they kind of made a mistake showing this one off instead of the actual new Easel… they’re also doing a new run of the regular Easel for $5000 guys…
think they're making a mistake here, pricing it *that* high and keeping it limited to only a month. feels really really shitty keeping it so incredibly exclusive. I wanted this only because I *didn't* want the dead space of the two extra modules that the new easel has? Call me crazy, but I would've even have considered overpaying $7k just to have a full easel in a case (looking at prices on reverb... it's not great... but this isn't *too* far off...) especially since the BEMI stuff from mid 2010s is said to have reliability issues. but 8k? 9k? 10k? double or more the price of just getting a 218 and 208c? that's no longer for people who just want the full experience of an easel. it's exclusively a collector's item.
They're not making a mistake because I imagine they'll do very well from making them so exclusive. How do you feel about other things you cannot afford, exclusive cars, country houses, mansions, ltd edition guitars, watches etc are they all shitty or is this just shitty because you want it but cant have it ? How about a Steinway piano that can go for over 100k second hand ?/ shitty ? how about a Besson Tuba for over 11k ? or other professional instruments. They're not making the mistake - they're ust not aiming their products at people like you. Accept the world does not revolve around your personal circumstances.
@@johnbeer2854 thanks, appreciate the condescending tone! As if I never thought before how consumerism and pricing works… Granted that niche historical experimental synthesizers are, in fact, always a luxury that people will pay for according to their means and how badly they want what is being offered… and honestly what I said I’d be willing to pay would fairly already seem ludicrous to someone who doesn’t already appreciate niche historical experimental synthesizers a heck of a lot and theoretically has a certain amount of money to burn on something like that. But I was not just complaining for the sake of not being able to afford this, but complaining against the premium of this exclusive item over the combined cost of a Buchla Easel Command 208c ($3k) and LEM 218 Capacitive Touch Keyboard Controller ($1.3k). The *reality* is that this unit costs over twice a functionally and sonically identical set-up. All you are paying for is the case and goodies that come w/ it… which I already said I would be willing to pay over 2k for! There is a difference between making a high-end product and pricing it according to what is needed to make a profit and pricing a high-end product so high that only collectors and people who like expensive things as a status symbol will choose to buy it. There’s also the issue that the standard new Easel comes with modules space I don’t need and a design which is uglier. Basically, I was and I am in the market for an easel and it still makes more sense to buy the two modules separately and find a case rather than buy these new offerings. Yes, indeed, Buchla are not considering a person like me… That was the point of my comment, sir.
@@gabepollack8382well said mate! Buy *15* clones for *half the price.* Even if they only last a couple of years each you're set for life. Plus you can buy the regular edition with the change 😂😂😂
@@gabepollack8382 "All you are paying for is the case and goodies that come w/ it… which I already said I would be willing to pay over 2k for! " not true, you are paying for a collectors item, and most often collectors do not consider the equation of $ per function.
@@TheDavidPoole It's not about buying an easle though, it's about buying a collectors item. I imagine the majority probably wont even see the lights of a studio session.
So this company is not doing music instruments anymore?) Honestly, making an anniversary product based on 208c, very different from 208, just slapping it into old Halliburton case with fancy power layout - just amateur. If you are looking for a proper vintage easel sound - order custom-made Halliburton case, order built Portabellabz 208 and live a happy life. True vintage sound, half the price.
Those "printed materials" better be something special at that price 😅 The front panel should've been gold as well It looks pretty terrible with the two metal colours
@@Patriotic_Eagle1995 I don’t think it’s true. Buchla is a great format that could thrive thanks to community and buchla itself. It potential is way above collectors market. Unfortunately the company has made its own decision to just sell old stuff at a huge markup without improving.
4:30 "So the idea with the, uh, *special* edition is that..." we can fleece a few idiots with more money than sense before they can think twice. I mean, come on - it's a lovely machine, but even 5K is a ridiculous price. If the Big Bad B can do it for under 300 Buchla can do it for 1.5 to 2 thou thou. Even in the US with thru hole components! It's just greed playing off of nostalgia. Saying that, they'll likely all sell as there are enough people who will buy it purely to show off. And a few big studios who will use it to attract custom. Sad really, because those who will want to use it to create actual music will never be able to afford one. At least there's Arturia as a learning platform.
I’m finally old enough to buy nice stuff but this price is really crazy…sticking with my easel command.
Since this is super old tech for a super high price … I hate to say it …. I‘m waiting for the Behringer clone.
I am hoping for Easel and VC3 clone. Easels and VC3s to everyone!
Behringer may rip everyone off but damn are they the only option for a lot of classic stuff.
They are making a easel clone without the keyboard for $300. This is one synth I think I'm gonna splurge though.. not that crazy anniversary one though, just the pedestrian $5000 one. But it is the one thing I have always wanted most and I have to sell a couple of my favorite synth's plus save for a while.
@William Frank I understand. The Easel has been a grail for me too, but please don't sell your favourite synthesizers.
@@wurlinnawurl bro, keep your synths, get the Behringer and a microfreak for the same keyboard experience. It will cost you literally a tenth of the price. Let the people who will never really use it properly but can afford it spend their money to boop beep.
this is the blues lawyer guitar of 2023.
Not really because successful musicians earn money too.
Nice to see you Nick! I learned a lot from your Korg Volca Modular Patch of the Week videos. Those started my modular journey. I didn't realize you worked for Bucla as well/now. Cheers!
Nice to see a company do something nice for rich people. What a party this will be! I can see these sitting unused in some loners mansion only to be dusted once a month by a maid who hates her life.
It sounds like you have not been productive at achieving your goals in life.
Why else would you express such negativity towards people who accomplished financial success in life?
@@MysticDonBlair why dont you tell us everyone who will be lining up to buy and use this regularly.
@@lucasj7577 people that worked hard and applied themselves will be the ones to buy this.
The same ones that can buy a Moog.
@@MysticDonBlair hope they see this
@@MysticDonBlair you realize the butt of the joke was the company and not the buyer right? There’s a lot you can do with 8000-10000$ unless you really are the collector the person @cyp3 basically described who will in fact hardly use it.
Oooooh! It comes with printed materials and art! Totally worth the $10k 😂
Tacky as hell. Just sell us a regular ass case to put our 208c and 218e LEM in.
So the difference of $5,000 from the base model is a teal suitcase and gold keyboard?
You can't be serious 😡
Sounds crazy but I bet you could order one of these and then this time next year sell it for 15k because its such a ltd edition.Same happened with the Korg FS remake of the 2600s.
buchla by balenciaga - 10000 $
With the beautiful strange noises in a golden garb i am the center in every Synthesizer forum discussion.
🎵Goldfingahhhhh - wahWAAAAAAHwaaaaaaaah 🎵
Is this from the same guys that Buchla worried so much about that he died?
So cool! So expensive! Totally want one.
Nick Kwas! I barely recognized him. Nick what happened to your cover of last Christmas? Me and my daughter used to listen to it every year on Christmas. Then it was gone a couple years ago. She still talks about it.
Amazing! but in my hands would probably sound worst than a $50 CasioTone
Beautiful demo by Nick.
You are kidding, right?
I got two kidney’s, but technically I only need one 🤔
“It’ll be around 8 to 10 thousand dollars”………. It’s ten thousand dollars. Such a tease 😅
lol 10k, what a bunch of clowns 😡
That’s 5k short of a Skylab
I feel like they kind of made a mistake showing this one off instead of the actual new Easel… they’re also doing a new run of the regular Easel for $5000 guys…
Why does this look like someone modded their microfreak?
West coast synthesis is so much more accessible with a keyboard now…amiright guys?
Depends what you mean by West-Coast. The very first Buchla had a keyboard...
think they're making a mistake here, pricing it *that* high and keeping it limited to only a month.
feels really really shitty keeping it so incredibly exclusive.
I wanted this only because I *didn't* want the dead space of the two extra modules that the new easel has?
Call me crazy, but I would've even have considered overpaying $7k just to have a full easel in a case
(looking at prices on reverb... it's not great... but this isn't *too* far off...)
especially since the BEMI stuff from mid 2010s is said to have reliability issues.
but 8k? 9k? 10k? double or more the price of just getting a 218 and 208c?
that's no longer for people who just want the full experience of an easel.
it's exclusively a collector's item.
They're not making a mistake because I imagine they'll do very well from making them so exclusive. How do you feel about other things you cannot afford, exclusive cars, country houses, mansions, ltd edition guitars, watches etc are they all shitty or is this just shitty because you want it but cant have it ? How about a Steinway piano that can go for over 100k second hand ?/ shitty ? how about a Besson Tuba for over 11k ? or other professional instruments. They're not making the mistake - they're ust not aiming their products at people like you. Accept the world does not revolve around your personal circumstances.
@@johnbeer2854 thanks, appreciate the condescending tone! As if I never thought before how consumerism and pricing works…
Granted that niche historical experimental synthesizers are, in fact, always a luxury that people will pay for according to their means and how badly they want what is being offered… and honestly what I said I’d be willing to pay would fairly already seem ludicrous to someone who doesn’t already appreciate niche historical experimental synthesizers a heck of a lot and theoretically has a certain amount of money to burn on something like that.
But I was not just complaining for the sake of not being able to afford this, but complaining against the premium of this exclusive item over the combined cost of a Buchla Easel Command 208c ($3k) and LEM 218 Capacitive Touch Keyboard Controller ($1.3k). The *reality* is that this unit costs over twice a functionally and sonically identical set-up. All you are paying for is the case and goodies that come w/ it… which I already said I would be willing to pay over 2k for!
There is a difference between making a high-end product and pricing it according to what is needed to make a profit and pricing a high-end product so high that only collectors and people who like expensive things as a status symbol will choose to buy it.
There’s also the issue that the standard new Easel comes with modules space I don’t need and a design which is uglier.
Basically, I was and I am in the market for an easel and it still makes more sense to buy the two modules separately and find a case rather than buy these new offerings. Yes, indeed, Buchla are not considering a person like me… That was the point of my comment, sir.
@@gabepollack8382well said mate! Buy *15* clones for *half the price.* Even if they only last a couple of years each you're set for life. Plus you can buy the regular edition with the change 😂😂😂
@@gabepollack8382 "All you are paying for is the case and goodies that come w/ it… which I already said I would be willing to pay over 2k for! " not true, you are paying for a collectors item, and most often collectors do not consider the equation of $ per function.
@@TheDavidPoole It's not about buying an easle though, it's about buying a collectors item. I imagine the majority probably wont even see the lights of a studio session.
So this company is not doing music instruments anymore?) Honestly, making an anniversary product based on 208c, very different from 208, just slapping it into old Halliburton case with fancy power layout - just amateur. If you are looking for a proper vintage easel sound - order custom-made Halliburton case, order built Portabellabz 208 and live a happy life. True vintage sound, half the price.
Helps to make Behringer look like Robin Hood
Robin Hood stole things from the rich to give to the poor. Behringer are more like a dodgy market stall in Pakistan selling counterfeit Adidas.
They forgot to make the 208 gold.
Those "printed materials" better be something special at that price 😅
The front panel should've been gold as well
It looks pretty terrible with the two metal colours
Love and light kin. Lol
nothing technically differentt? no new features?! Pah!!
If you improve it it's no longer authentic for collectors, which is the only market for this
@@Patriotic_Eagle1995 I don’t think it’s true. Buchla is a great format that could thrive thanks to community and buchla itself. It potential is way above collectors market. Unfortunately the company has made its own decision to just sell old stuff at a huge markup without improving.
8 to 10K$. With gold. Nice...
😡
4:30 "So the idea with the, uh, *special* edition is that..." we can fleece a few idiots with more money than sense before they can think twice.
I mean, come on - it's a lovely machine, but even 5K is a ridiculous price. If the Big Bad B can do it for under 300 Buchla can do it for 1.5 to 2 thou thou. Even in the US with thru hole components! It's just greed playing off of nostalgia.
Saying that, they'll likely all sell as there are enough people who will buy it purely to show off. And a few big studios who will use it to attract custom. Sad really, because those who will want to use it to create actual music will never be able to afford one. At least there's Arturia as a learning platform.