Buchla & Tiptop Audio Series 200 Eurorack Modules

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#10

This looks great. I’ve been interested in some Buchla modules recently. So i will be looking at what Tiptop produces.

Warning business discussion, skip this if you hate that.

This is how to clone. You make an agreement with a company, for reviving the best historic products that are no longer in production. Buchla is probably approving these products and then overseeing the quality of the engineering. A win win. Good business.

Buchla has been doing these agreements for a while, like the Thunderbird overlay for the Sensel Morph. This will help them expand in areas that they are good at.

If you hate reading anything about "business" :

Apologies if you hate reading anything about the business of making equipment. Please just skip over this post. No complaint posts please though.

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#11

Wauw! That’s great news! See you on Saturday Buchla/TT :white_flower:

#12

Tiptop red panel will spice up my rack nicely

#13

The list of modules so far :

  • 258t – Dual Oscillator – available Winter 2021 $160-200
  • 281t – Quad Function Generator – available Winter 2021 $170-210
  • 292t – Quad Lopass Gate – available Spring 2022
  • 257t – Dual Voltage Processor – available Spring 2022
  • 266t – Source of Uncertainty – available Spring/Summer 2022
  • 245t – Sequential Voltage Source – available Winter/Spring 2022

You can see images of the modules here:

https://tiptopaudio.com/buchla/

Quite conveniently both Tiptop and Buchla are at Superbooth. Notice Buchla kept this under wraps through the whole Knobcon show they were at in Chicago just a few days back.

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#15

Banana connector are one wire, the signal, the case is ground. TR cables are two wire, one wire is signal the other ground. So you can connect, but will leave the technicals for another day another thread.

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#16

Yup, I use Buchla with Euro with Y adapter cables (one goes to ground and after it starts to work fine ).

But whats with voltage differences? Would b nice to have a simple solution for that (like internal switch or 8 cv / 8 plulse converter module ).

#17

Anyway, it’s just a matter of price… probably would b more logical for B users like me just to stay calm and build Buchla system slowly.

Also the size of og Buchla modules is a big advantage, this of course can’t be “converted”, and “e” functionality, and wider choice of modules…

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#18

my verbos looking nervous

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#19

I would call it “werking in conjunction with”.
Not ‘B’iting.

Agree, the right way to go about it. :+1:t6:

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#20

I mean all due respect to the job they’ve done here…an affordable and inviting way to get into eurorack…

But I’m eagerly awaiting demos. Im suspicious of a dual osc at that price that can hold up to a DPO or CsL. Im not saying its impossible, just curious.

I suspect this is officially licensed Buchla cosplay as opposed to the real deal. Which is not a bad thing at all: like I said, affordable and inviting and probably plenty enough for some.

But I highly doubt your Complex Oscillator has anything to worry about.

#21

Price is like behringer level, totally crazy. The demo i heard sounds incredible though. A little closer to the specific classic buchla sound (maybe its just the patch though) than verbos. I’d keep my harmonic osc and bark filter though, and maybe random sampling for the quad ASR. I think they’re getting ahead of a potential B clone here and pricing competitively to that as well.

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#22

YES. I should have mentioned: the sounds in that introductory video sound great.

#23

Trigger pulse can be different too.

If you want to mix, try looking here:

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#24

From another forum from Tiptop R&D:

To fully clarify - these are Euro modules:

- 3.5mm jacks throughout
- 1V/oct for pitch
- 10vpp audio levels not line level
- 0-10V CV (like the original)

What about the rest of the 200 series?

We will try to make as many of the modules as is feasible. A number of them were only made as prototypes and some of those never finished or fully functional. What will not be made: 100 series, Music Easel, 300 series including the 221 keyboard for programming the 300 computer.

Pricing and availability?

Supply chain and component pricing are why the dates and prices are given as ranges instead of exact terms. The volatility is extremely high - for example the latest trend is price gouging for capacitors just because. Our goal is to do as large a run as possible to satisfy demand. Unfortunately, quite a bit is beyond our control.

These products are being made under license from Buchla.

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#25

Tiptop have a gap in their range, no oscillators! I thought that was strange now all makes sense.

That case is very playful looking. I want a go.

#26

So far they only have the 258 shown. It is indeed a dual oscillator, but the DPO et al is modeled after the 259, which is the origin of the “complex” oscillator. That’s the module that really brought the oscillator interaction and wave folding to the mix.

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#27

It seems the one they did is the 258, wich WAY simpler than the 259, the one most euro complex VCOs are taking inspiration from, so it’s totaly possible I think that it can sound super good.

EDIT: Just saw @hermbot beated me to it hahaha

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#28

Wow, this is BIG news, never thought I ever would get my hands on somerhing that has to do with Buchla. And pricing, damn. And to clone the modules with Buchla on board is great.

Seams like other brands have understood that if we don’t do it Behringer will. I don’t think we would have seen these releases without Behringers pressure on other brands.

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#29

I have no doubt it’ll sound good. Really exciting release.