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Re: [200e] Composing with the Buchla 200e

2012-03-08 by Chris Muir

What do you have to control it with?

On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:41 PM, Jeshua Whitaker wrote:

> Our MIDI module is out of comission at the moment, and I was told that it wont be replaced until April.  
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> --- In 200e@yahoogroups.com, Chris Muir <cbm@...> wrote:
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>> On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Jeshua Whitaker wrote:
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>>> Hi, I am a student learning synthesis at college and I want one of my final projects to be a complete composition on our Buchla 200e. I wanted to know from other Buchla users how they approached this beastly instrument to do their biddings. From my experience with the system, doing tonal music can be quite a challenge, do you guys abandon the thought of tuning it precisely to reference pitches? 
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>> It does equal tempered notes just fine over MIDI.
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