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At 9:31 PM +0000 5/14/06, david rothbaum wrote:
>do the buchla modules incorporate well into a frac system? are there
>any weird issues with grounding if you were to make some banana to
>1/8' cables? differences with the control voltages etc. the basic
>question is how well does the buchla work with the other modern modulars.

Keep in mind that my knowledge is theoretical. I have a Buchla system on order, but don't yet have it in hand.

You would definitely need a good source of ground. A banana jack on the back would probably do. I don't know how Buchla handles this.

Electrically, Buchla's "standards" pre-date the currently accepted "standards" of 1V/oct, etc.

Buchla uses 1.2 V/oct (.1v / semitone), so some gain or attenuation will need to take place for pitch CVs (gain to drive Buchla from 1V./oct, attenuation going the other way)

I'm still a little confused about the Buchla pulse world. From some things that I've read, in common terms, it seems like a trigger signal is imposed onto a gate signal for the pulse jacks.

If I was you, and I had any FracRack space left, I would probably make a custom patch panel, that had a bunch of banana jacks wired to 1/8" jacks, and would put whatever signal conditioning I needed there. I suppose this could also go in a Buchla boat, but that space is more pricey than FracRack space.

-C
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