Buchla Marimba Lumina 1999 black

Marimba Lumina Buchla excellent condition. Comes with stand but no case. Local pick up if possible. But will considering shipping. We would have to weigh and pack and determine shipping depending on your location.

Buchla’s Marimba Lumina is a marimba-like controller that can sense which mal- lets struck it, as well as where on the bars it was hit, enabling different mallets to be mapped to different timbres

The Marimba Lumina is played by striking the "bars" (etched and silkscreened patterns on the playing surface) with mallets that are specific to the instrument. (It does not respond to conventional mallets, nor can it be played with the hands or fingers.) The device has 29, 41 or 54 bars depending on the model, and an array of secondary playing surfaces including some small pentagonal pads (which can be used as pushbuttons, or triggers for untuned percussion sounds), and strips which function like . Each of the bars is sensitive to where on the bar it is struck, and this information can be mapped to MIDI  or several other functions. Additionally, a mallet may be pushed or dragged up and down the length of a bar, and this is available as , controllers, or other purposes. The same is true of the ribbon strips. Each bar has an LED which lights to show when a note played on that bar is in the  phase -- bars can be programmed to allow for a delay after striking before  is sent, and a number of variables can be made to influence the delay time.