Buchla - Music Easel [Retro]

Buchla - Music Easel [Retro] Buchla is ecstatic to revive the Easel for its third run in 50 years. We first released the updated 208 Stored Program Sound Source, dubbed the Easel Command, with expanded MIDI and USB capability. Next came the update of the Easel Program Manager – a complete kit for storing and recalling sounds sources, even more rapidly than imagined in 1973. Our new 218 Touch Activated Voltage Source provides the optimal input facility, as originally envisioned. The Music Easel (retro) comes in a more compact aluminum briefcase style enclosure, with input and output streamlined to audio and MIDI, but shares the same control and sound production modules of the 218e and 208c. Stored Program Sound Source Model 208C The sound source of the Music Easel is the 208C, which includes a complex oscillator and a modulation oscillator (which can also serve as another voice), each with independent switchable waveforms, as well as a noise generator, allowing for rich and intricate s