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The Buchla Skylab is a dream come true for electronic performance artists. Oscillators and lowpass gates immediately offer the typical Buchla DNA, frequency shifters and bandpass filters invite you to explore new sounds. The ability to save sound settings and the fact that the Skylab case can be transported folded even when patched changes the proverbial rules of the game of a modular system. In addition to the sequencer and touch controller integrated in the system, there are also many options for communicating with the outside world with a MIDI CV interface and a six-channel mixer (including microphone preamplifier). Despite all this diversity, the transport of the Skylab can be compared to that of a violin!
The Skylab consists of a compact, foldable Buchla Panel Unit Case, ten Buchla modules, a touch controller in an external housing, and a sturdy padded bag that is easily handled as hand luggage by airlines.
The system includes the following modules:
207e Mixer / Microphone Preamp: A 6-channel stereo mixer with partially CV-controlled panning, headphone output and microphone preamplifier including phantom power, as well as an envelope follower following the preamp.
223e Multi-Dimensional Kinesthetic Input / Tactile Input Port: A module for managing the freely programmable touch controller with 27 touch-sensitive, partly multidimensional, surfaces.
225e MIDI Decoder / Preset Manager: An extremely extensively equipped MIDI to CV interface that is capable of up to fourfold polyphony. This module also includes the CV-controllable preset manager, which is responsible for storing and loading the 30 presets.
251e Quad Sequential Voltage Source: A complex four-way sequencer. The four sequencers can be used completely independently or in combination. The most complex sequences are possible with this sequencer.
259e Twisted Waveform Generator: A dual complex oscillator. Main and modulation oscillators can work in tandem, as is typical for Buchla, or independently. The sound generation is completely digital with deliberately strong aliasing artifacts. The sine of the main oscillator is processed simultaneously with two wavetable shapers, which can be mixed and adjusted in intensity. Some of the functions in the waveshaper are not classic wavetables, but simply parts of the underlying oscillator program code, which creates interesting and unforeseen sounds.
261e Complex Waveform Generator: This dual complex oscillator also works with a digital core, but completely analog wave shaping, free of digital artifacts.
267e Uncertainty Source / Dual Filter: This dual module is based on the Source of Uncertainty and offers, in addition to noise in different colors, fluctuating random voltages and sample and hold, two CV-controllable bandpass filters.
281e Quad Function Generator: A quadruple function generator whose four functions / envelopes / LFOs work either independently or in pairs in quadrature mode. The functions "Transient" (attack / decay envelope), "Sustained" (attack / hold / decay envelope) and "Cyclic" (LFO-like) are available for each generator
285e Frequency Shifter / Balanced Modulator: A dual module that combines a frequency shifter and a balanced (= ring) modulator. The frequency shifter has two outputs each for the signal shifted up and down. A CV-controllable internal reference modulator or an external input are available as modulators. This is also the case with the balanced modulator, which can continuously blend between input signal, amplitude modulation and ring modulation.
292e Quad Dynamics Manager: a fourfold lowpass gate. The operating modes Lowpass Filter, Lowpass Gate and VCA are available for each channel.