Talk:Don Buchla

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See Talk:Buchla and Associates JASpencer 18:11, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading text

The article currently says

Buchla created the Buchla Series 500, the first digitally controlled analog synthesizer, in 1971. Shortly after, the Buchla Series 300 was released, which combined the Series 200 with microprocessors. The Music Easel, a small, portable, all-in-one synthesizer was released in 1972.

Unfortunately, this implies that the 300 came somewhere in the 1971-1972 range, which is far from correct. The 300 was sold specifically as an S-100 bus microcomputer with interfaces for controlling 200-series modules, and as the S-100 bus article explains, the antecedent Altair bus wasn't used by third parties until 1975 and the "S-100" name wasn't coined until late 1976.

And the Series 500, while technically capable of "digital control," was really designed for what we'd call "discrete control" these days, with limited support for configuration, timing, and start/stop signals, not the kind of computer-driven synthesis that the 300/200 combination delivered. If you look at it, you'll see that all the synthesis in the 500 is still traditional analog in nature.

I'd be really happy if a subject-matter expert with access to original documents, etc. would take this article under his or her wing and improve this text. 76.22.118.146 (talk) 06:27, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]