Tuning, polyphonic expression: Black Corporation’s Roman Filippov

The evolution of music is intertwined with the design and capabilities of instruments. After several decades of more constrained tuning and expression, new playability is becoming a norm with technologies like MPE and live per-note tuning. Music hardware maker Roman Flippov of Japan-headquartered Black Corporation joins us to connect early instruments from Buchla and Yamaha with these capabilities with modern creations.

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.

Peter Kirn - May 23, 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

A free download turns Reaktor into a powerful Buchla modular emulation

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2018

Buchla synth legacy secured, with new leadership, returning engineers

Peter Kirn - January 11, 2018

Now you can put a Buchla-style modular inside Reaktor, free

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2017

Electronic music pioneer Don Buchla has died

Peter Kirn - September 17, 2016

These piano breakthroughs changed music forever

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2016

Don Buchla Takes Owners of His Former Synth Company to Court

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2015

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