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Buchla Modular Synths

usic production has always been subject to brand loyalty. Just as desktop musicians debate the merits of Reason vs FLStudio, analog aficionados argue over their chosen aesthetic, defined by the region from which two seminal synthesizers emerged. Moog’s modular systems were built in New York, while Don Buchla resided in northern California. To this day, synthesists describe traditional, toneful electronic

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