At the 2013 NAMM Show, Buchla Electronic Music Instruments introduced the new Electric Music Box – a modern recreating of Don Buchla’s classic synth.
The Electric Music Box is expected to retail for about $4,000.
The new Electric Music Box is designed to be faithful to the original design, but with some adaptions to make the new synth fit easily into modern workflows more effectively.
Additional details are to come – but check out the Buchla Electric Music Box and let us know what you think!
Wtf!…first the mini ms-20, now this!… This is the namm we’ve been waiting for! Glorious!!!…there just maybe a god yet!…I did say maybe….lol
No god! Just a bunch o’geniuses with geek hearts!
Too bad for the price…
This one hurts the most….
Yeah, right. It’s a wonderful instrument, for sure, but $4000 could buy you a wayyyy more interesting eurorack setup.
True, but it wouldn’t sound like a Buchla.
This is amazing looking.
I will not be buying though.
analogue is in the minds of many a sales team,… just look at the slump in prices and sales of soft synths,… and the ‘new’ analogue market,.. even the prices on EBay are taking a hit from the new gear sales.
there goes my tax return
This is the buchla that I’ve been wanting since I heard the name buchla…and to finally have the opportunity to actually purchase one…lets just say my studio is about to get a bit smaller, and better for it…thank you Don…expensive, yes…but this isn’t a moog, this is a Buchla! And as a close friend of mine own a 35,000 dollor buchla modular, the price on this beautiful piece of electronic art is quite fair…simply put no one else makes a synth like a buchla!…
great new products, awesome show.
wham bam, thank you NAMM!
this is where the avant-garde dwells, the synth industry!…eh sorry, not you roland
$4000 for a monosynth. Hahaha thats funny! Good luck selling those.
Do you think companies like Mercedes-Benz would exist today if they shared your marketing opinions?
They’re already take 150 or so pre-orders with $2000 payment up front to get on the list….so, yes I’d say the can sell those like hot cakes.
If You’re laughing on monosynth, You just don’t happen to know how to use one correctly. This especialy true for Buchla.
Thats a pricey synth, why do Buchlas’s cost so much? I have to say, in my years of looking at demos on line I’ve never heard a Buchla play a tune, its always experimental effects. Is that all they can do or is it more about the people who buy them?
You should look harder, they have a quality that no other synth does….
Check out Alessandro Cortini’s album SONOIO for some musical usage of Buchla. I agree, though, I have really mostly heard plinks and plonks that aren’t very interesting to me. I would love if people would link to some other musical uses of Buchla synths.
Don definitely innovated a lot of concepts that we’ve all benefited from. Respect to the genius, I just want to hear people using his gear in an interesting way.
well, I seriously think this’s a super tune – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5y20BdNMug
…maybe we are to see the the EMS synthi A, in a re-issue-budget-version sometime soon!?
Now we’re just getting greedy.
Ok now I need to sell to buy one of these.
So pretty. I really wish I was able to justify one of these. But it will be cool to hear these on more records now. I might have to check back in a few years to see if they sell cheaper used… kind of doubt it.
I’ll take a dozen 🙂
paying for the name here? Prophet 12 all the way, and the moog subphatty, better value that one of these even though its looks AMAZING!!!
It’s bongo time!!!!
cOOL ANOTHER KICK ASS SYNTH WITH A SHIIETTY KEYBOARD
Why is this thing so damn expensive? What electronics can it possibly have that make it cost that much?? Its almost as though Buchla are deliberately pricing themselves out of the market. Having said that, great sound though, even if it is a touch keyboard.
those cables cost 9$ for each one.. mabey it comes with a box of 200
I second this… Where is the value? I’m asking seriously. I don’t know anything about Buchla. Four grand can get you a lot of synth; what makes this stand apart?
Buchla’s are by definition botique instruments. I can tell you from owning a botique synth myself…the price is reasonable for what it can do. (Though I own a ciat-lonbarde dousk.)
For those of us who are enthusiasts, the price is reasonable, especially in light of the cost of buchla modular systems, which are often out of reach. The Easel is by definition unique.
While one can say they can get something better in euro for around that, price, a make nosie system, which is likely the closest you would get, cost around $3000 dollars. As much as I love Make noise, I would prefer to have the real deal, banana jacks and all, including the possibility to expand into a 4U system.
Also to say the keyboard is bad, is not understanding how cool and unique touch plate interfaces are.
Name a hardware analog synth that is modular and saves patch information……..at any price
The new Korg MS-20 mini is great for 600 dollars, but it doesn’t save patch info.
For all you shocked by the price…what’s the price of a new Minimoog Voyager? Of a Voyager XL?
This price is PERFECTLY reasonable.
I hope the knobs wobble less then the 10k+ 200e. The knobs on the Korg Nano Kontrol feel more solid then the 200e, and I am being serious – having used a 200e many times.
I’ll let you know that I think it is a tad too expensive.
Holy F3cX I was dreaming about this being remade
If i could do a backflip I would
Done Im buying one
Unimaginable profit margins.
always wanted one. unfortunately the cost prohibits any real (poor) artists from owning one.
The real/poor artists are eating shit for a year and sleeping on couches to afford one of these. Believe me.
I guess I’d just like to say: Spend it if you’ve got it.
$4000! This could buy a killer Eurorack system, a great modern poly synth, or one badassed computer with all the midi controllers you could want.
I understand the attraction to modulars, I really do. What I will never understand, is the reason one would spend soooooo much money just to “get the Buchla sound.”
Maybe I’ve gotta try one to realize why it’s so beautiful, but all the videos in the world won’t convince me to scrounge 4k on this synth. It’s same reason I won’t buy a BMW, a pair of calvin klein jeans, or that coffee that monkeys poo out.
We all have to do the cost/benefit analysis and I’m seeing the cost – but not much benefit.