Just wanted to say thanks for the videos, I was living in NYC when you first made your modular on the roof series and it totally inspired me to get into modular. A thousand HP later, just ordered my own easel, so lovely to see you doing such inspiring content with these too. Thank you, so much, for making such cool stuff!
Very nice. Despite the sky-high cost-per-function of the Easel, the sound, aesthetics and musical immediacy of it has always appealed to me. It is something as rare as an electronic instrument designed by someone who wants to create timbrally expressive music in an intuitive way. I have an interesting modular system consisting of three Kilpatrick Phenols and two banana-converted Dreadbox Dysphonias (a system altogether cheaper than just the Easel Command), so I don't need an Easel; I have all the sounds I might ever need in the system I have already, and yet I think I will buy an Easel one day if I feel I can afford it.
That's a Sputnik Dual Defect Processor 289. Basically two separate digital DSP processors with 8 algorithms each ranging from VCO, filter, delay, reverb, etc. He's using them in serial with the lower half feeding into the upper. The bottom section seems to be producing the delay because you can hear the delay frequency change as he turns the TIME BASE knob of that section around 13:20 in. That knobs controls the clock rate of the DSP which can make delays/reverbs dark and murky as the resolution drops. You can see more detail of this module in this vide: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qv5Mo3ykzsk.html
Great video! It is incredible that buchla equipment is mainly used for sequencing weird stuff on the tube. I mean experimental music could be interesting to learn how to program a unquantitized sequencer but you made something very different: you made music here, and you honored this incredible instrument. Thank you
