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"Reverse Engineering 101: Buchla 700 as a Case Study" by Kweiwen Tseng (Taiwan)

Posted by: kweiwen 3 days, 2 hours ago

The Buchla 700, released in the late 1980s, represents a unique moment in electronic music history, where a digitally-aided synthesizer was combined with an ambitious user interface design. It featured pressure-, position-, and touch-sensitive plates, control voltage receptacles, and SMPTE synchronization for external monitors. On the software side, beyond generating and modifying its polyphonic voices, it included preset storage, a score editor, and a sequencer, enabling users to transition between studio composition and live performance.