When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Buchla has announced that, in collaboration with San Francisco Tape Music Center founders Morton ...

Don Buchla, the electronic musical instrument designer who built one of the first modular synthesizers and whose influence on electronic music is still prevalent today, died Wednesday at the age of 79 ...

Music production has always been subject to rampant and righteous bouts of brand loyalty. Just as desktop musicians debate the merits of Reason vs FL Studio, analogue aficionados often argue over ...

SUPERBOOTH 2026: US brand Buchla is closely associated with West Coast synthesis; an approach to modular instrument design with an emphasis on complex oscillators, which lends itself to adventurous, ...

Prior to her interest in modular synthesis, composer and producer Maria Teriaeva played guitar in several Russian indie bands, composing a number of instrumental EPs under the alias Dub I Prosto ...

Don Buchla, an innovative designer of electronic instruments who helped develop the first line of modular synthesizers around the same time as his East Coast counterpart Robert Moog, died Sept. 14 at ...

Modular synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla has died. The news was confirmed on the Buchla website. Mark Vail, author of the books The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Programming, ...

KORG is expanding its range of portable, battery-powered synths and drum machines, with the launch of Modular, which takes inspiration from the Buchla synth. The Modular contains eight modules and 50 ...

Late last year, Eliot Curtis - the Broadcast Operations Manager for KPIX Television in San Francisco - took on the task of repairing a Buchla Model 100 modular synthesizer that had been sitting ...