A Buchla synth repair turned into an LSD trip, and made the evening news

It seems the legends are true – there really was LSD added to vintage synths. A Bay Area, California Buchla 100 reportedly triggered an acid trip decades later. Allegedly, anyway.

The synth modules of winter: your Eurorack radar

The waves of synth modules never stop coming, as obsessed engineers keep making them and sound tinkerers keep buying them. So let’s catch up with what’s out there, in the wake of the NAMM show in California late last month.

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2019

Buchla’s pioneering Thunder touch controller is back, on Sensel Morph

Software and hardware are finally becoming more responsive to expression from more than one finger at a time, via MPE. But how do you get those sounds under your hands? Sensel Morph is one answer. And now it has an appealing layout from one of the people who shaped synthesis – Don Buchla.

Peter Kirn - January 23, 2019

Review: volca modular takes on creative synthesis in a small package

Francis Preve - January 15, 2019

KORG volca modular and volca drum are real – and now we’ve got details

Peter Kirn - January 15, 2019

Hands-on: Complex-1 puts West Coast-inspired modular in Reason

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

TUNNELS imagines Eurorack if you could multiply and patch anywhere

Peter Kirn - December 7, 2018

Nerd cup: here are some top electronic music makers from Russia’s Synthposium

Peter Kirn - September 4, 2018

Softube’s Modular is on sale – here’s why you might want to grab it

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2018

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