Saturday Synth Porn: Ever wonder what $100,000 of modular synth gear would look like?
Probably like a lot like this photo of four Buchla 200e modular synthesizers, via buchlajoe.
The only way this photo could be more awesome is if the line of Buchla synths extended off into infinity.
Note: The $100,000 price tag may be a bit high, but we padded it a bit to allow for lots of patch cables.
If I amplified the output through a 500KW sound system would I get a "high volume" discount?
And a Mac Pro! OK, this guy is seriously cool.
So each unit cost $25,000.00 ???? LOL…there's a sucker born every minute !!!
impressive!
So what? I can do the same stuff with my handful of 199€ plugins.
i am drooling and tweaking my knob – this msg is being typed with one hand
synth porn indeed!
Disgusting. Nobody wants to hear about your exploits with your hairless inchworm.
Continuing on, why the hell would someone spend 100k on 4 of those things? If I had that kind of cash, I'd build a kickass studio with a bunch of synths, a computer with a crap load of plugins, a whole host of outboard racks and effect boxes, and the best monitors I could find. Whoever has 100k to drop on 4 Buchlas probably has a few extra hundred thousand lying around anyway, no mere mortal would spend a large percentage of his savings on something like that.
I'd buy an Aston Martin…
for gods shake!
why didnt he buy a better table? Is it resting on the mac?
he probably didn't have any money left to buy a decent table.
You can spend 100.000 and still make crappy music…
If you check out the flickr page the photo comes from (and you really should as there are way more synths to look at) you will learn that these synths are owned by different people. They just put them together spur of the moment to make for a cool photo op.
I see… otherwise I would have thought those babies were so expensive that he can't afford a studio anymore and that's why they stand in his kitchen (as the background tells me). ^^
if four Fiat 500 owners sold their cars they could buy an Aston Martin
all i can say is WOW!! and FANTASTIC! True sci-fi reto fitirost modular synthesizer, thats for sure!
some people love old-style gear you know and not all of us are into computers doing the whole music. I agree that the system pictured is expensive, but then again quality does cost and its not likely that a system like this would be used in commercial music as such as Buchla equipment is mostly used in experimental music and science-lab music studio institutes.
a computer can not do the same thing as these 4 works of art, for they are no computer