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[BasariStudios]

This was a bad year, a lot of them left us.
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[ErnstDabest]

Seems Don Buchla gets no love from Korgheads, is it because his stuff were too costly?
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[dfahrner]

I bought one of the Marimba Lumina 2.5 mallet controllers about 15 years ago, one of the first Nearfield production units after Don Buchla sold the design to them. I never did much with it, I didn't have a good synth to use it with, and its internal Yamaha DB50 sound board was pretty limited, so I sold it a few years later to a more experimental player in Norway. He had a lot of trouble with it: apparently some internal PWB connection(s) had become intermittent due to the long overseas shipment. Nearfield had already stopped building them, so I called Buchla and Associates to see if they could help, and talked to Don himself: he had obviously moved on to new projects (the way he apparently always did) and didn't really have anything to suggest.

The Marimba Lumina was a pretty spectacular MIDI controller, though: it used communications satellite technology to sense not only mallet velocity, but also where on the "bar" the mallet had struck, or if the mallet was sliding along the "bar", and could send out MIDI continuous control messages to indicate these actions; each of the four velocity sensitive mallets could send on a different channel, and so on. It would have been a great controller to use with the KRONOS, and sometimes I wish I still had it, but on the other hand, keeping an old, complex, limited production instrument operating would likely be problematical (although one of Buchla's people has a company in the San Francisco area called Absolute Deviation that still supports the Lumina). A neat toy, though...

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[Perilous]

I just watched a video on the history of synths by Marc Doty two days before Don passed away. I didn't know about him previously. Marc says in the talk that Don is still living. Not so anymore.
RIP Mr. Buchla
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[aron]

I got to meet him a couple of times but never really talked about anything. He was a visitor to San Jose State University's electro-acoustic lab.
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[Thoraldus]

Nice video about Don

https://vimeo.com/50575738
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[wawrzyn]

Thanks for posting the video. Greetings.

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