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> >Now for the adventurous, I encourage you to explore beyond the cheesy >faders and footpedals. Check out the Buchla Thunder and Buchla Lightning. >These instruments are designed and built by the enigmatic Don Buchla, who >is considered to be the co-father of synthesizers as musical instruments, >along with Bob Moog. Don is brilliant, and quite possibly one of the most >visionary people to ever enter the craft of musical instrument design. >Naturally the industry ignores him and no one buys any of his stuff. >Doesn't help that he's more than a little unusual and difficult to work >with, but share a bottle of wine (or 3 or 4, probably) with him and you >won't regret it. Anyway, unlike Moog, who builds theremins somewhere in >New >York, Don is still creating the future. Distant future probably! I didn't know that Buchla was still at it! I've wanted one of his modular analogue synths since before I bought my (brand new) Pro-1 (i.e., a long time ago). Thanks for the pointer! BTW, Bob spent quite a few years at Big Briar trying to sell 4-d synth controllers and stuff, before he gave up and turned to the Theremin business.