If I recall this was the premier of the 700 and Don Grusin was there?controlling the 700 from a midi kybd....or maybe tht was another "performance" of 700. ?The 700 had a membrane keyboard...kind of..not a standard affair. I saw the 700 in a motel room at the NAMM show that year and ordered one. Sadly I sold it about 18 years ago. It was an amazing instrument with amazing combo of soft ware/hardware sound generation with analog filtering, VCA's,?etc. There were these crazy algorithms "FM Ring" and what not....wish they could be updated into a Mac or something.?The problem was that the video chip to run the monitor was defective (not due to Buchla) and thus there was some problems using the x/y pad reliably and the mouse port didn't work much better. A great instrument and way ahead of its time... Re: Buchla 700 Posted by: "Richard Lainhart" rlainhart@otownmedia.com ? r_lainhart Tue Aug?5,?2008 5:22?am (PDT) From what I've seen, the 700 had a membrane keyboard, but it sounds like someone's noodling on a standard black-and-white keyboard. Perhaps it had a MIDI controller attached for the demo? > http://www.archive.org/details/OTG_1988_03_21 > > a strange audio recording introducing the Buchla 700 back in '88 Richard Lainhart http://www.otownmedia.com http://www.downloadplatform.com/richard_lainhart http://www.vimeo.com/rlainhart http://www.airglowmusic.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: Buchla 700
2008-08-06 by synpro@aol.com