Really,I'm pretty sure you'll find the Serge to be on a more or less equal footing with a Buchla. The main differences/trade-offs might be the Serge being more open-ended versus the Buchla having some specific musically unique traits such as the lowpass gates, programmability, and a very unique timbrel quality, but often functioning within certain limitations such as the separation of signal and cv.
With the Serge, the M class are wonderfully complete and self contained, yet totally extensible, one can start off quite small and be deeply satisfied. The shop panels are also extremely well thought out, an Animal would be a great start.
Serge and Buchla are well in the strata of super fun. One would want both.
Don
With the Serge, the M class are wonderfully complete and self contained, yet totally extensible, one can start off quite small and be deeply satisfied. The shop panels are also extremely well thought out, an Animal would be a great start.
Serge and Buchla are well in the strata of super fun. One would want both.
Don
--- On Sun, 3/15/09, julianthomas221259 <julian@...> wrote:
> From: julianthomas221259 <julian@...>
> Subject: [SergeModular] Re: newbie questions
> To: SergeModular@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 5:58 AM
> Great Ben thanks!
> I've been using Max and supercollider but have really
> missed the modulars I trained on decades ago when I was a
> student, so I'm looking for a modular. I can't
> afford a buchla which is my ideal, and looking around at the
> options it seems really difficult to specify a system and
> buy it without waiting sometimes years for the modules,
> having a vca turn up from one manufacturer and having to
> waiting months for the other bits is kinda pointless. What
> attracts me to the serge is the system idea, you spec a
> system, wait for it, and then the system arrives. Just kinda
> complicated with the serge in wading through the various
> panels...