The Music Easel is comprised of 2 units: a 218 Touch Keyboard Controller and a 208 Stored Program Sound Source, both housed in a rugged carrying case. Together these modules allow both real-time control from the keyboard pads, knobs, sliders, switches and patch points.

The Buchla Music Easel can be as daunting as it is fascinating. Unlike most electronic music instruments that rely on simple oscillator shapes and character-infusing filters to shape them, the Music Easel has a very different sonic philosophy.

Maintaining the spirit, sound, and process from the original, the new Easel adds a variety of new features. Buchla’s latest renditions of the Stored Program Sound Source and Touch Activated Voltage Source are tied together with the Electric Music Box Input/Output (EMBIO) module.

This Modern Edition of the Music Easel contains both the 208c and LEM218, along with the new Electronic Music Box Input/Output (EMBIO) module, all housed together in one 10-space case, bringing the quintessential "West Coast" synthesis package into the 21st century.

Buchla Music Easel (Modern) The development of Don Buchla's legendary modular analogue synthesizer. In 1973, the Music Easel was one of the first portable electronic synthesizer.

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The Music Easel made available virtually every musical dimension: timbre, melody, rhythm, and time; how these dimensions intersected was no longer the court of acoustics and material, but signals and voltage.

The Music Easel (retro) comes in a more compact aluminum briefcase style enclosure, with input and output streamlined to audio and MIDI, but shares the same control and sound production modules of the 218e and 208c.

The Music Easel's onboard 208C sound source is a serious sonic contender. Equipped with a complex and a modulation oscillator, you can access several independent waveforms for unique layering and exploration.

Jun 3, 2023 · Buchla USA has officially introduced three new versions of the classic Music Easel, aka ‘The Electric Music Box’. Since they previewed it at Superbooth 2023, they’ve added a new ‘Retro’ option.