Softube Modular Part 12 - Buchla 259e

2 hours and 40 minutes (and 54 seconds :-) ) full of explanations, demonstrations and experiments. Probably the most comprehensive guide to this twisted, crazy and complex west coast module you will find on the web (so far, 3 March 2018).

Content and Timeline:

0:00:00 Introduction

0:00:40 Buchla and Moog, West and East

0:01:22 Are They Crazy In California?

0:02:10 Basic Structure

0:03:33 The Principal Oscillator

0:03:38 Frequencies and Pitch

0:04:23 FM and CV Modulation, Similarities and Differences

0:14:08 MIDI

0:26:30 Green and Red Wave Shapes

0:28:30 Morphing Wave Shapes

0:29:39 Warping Waves

0:31:00 Modulating Morph and Warp

0:42:08 The Wave Shapes In Detail

1:24:35 The Waves a, b and c or: “How to Drink the Attic”

1:28:20 The Memory Skew Mode

1:50:05 The Modulation Oscillator

1:50:54 Modulation Shapes and Frequencies

1:55:25 The Pitch Track Mode

2:05:00 Modulating the Modulations

2:15:52 The Modulation Types

2:17:27 The Modulation Index

2:19:45 Softsync

2:26:45 Hardsync

2:29:34 MIDI Sync

2:31:23 AC Coupled Outputs and DC Coupled Outputs

2:34:55 Buchla 259e, The Hardware and the Software: Differences

2:37:25 Some Words at the End

2:40:54 The End