East, or West Coast?

[Arpangel]

If you’re into West Coast synthesis, the whole scene, noise based stuff, and you’re a player, I don’t think you’d automatically start looking at instruments that are commonly used for other types of music, but as we know there are no rigid guidelines, we can use anything.
But, I have two separate areas in my place, no reason, it's ended up that way, my TipTop Buchla and other similar stuff in one place, and my Moog, and Behringer ARP stuff in another. Lately I’ve been really surprised at how my Moog is at producing noise type textures, simply because I normally use my TipTop for that it's just designed to work that way, it’s easier to get to those places.
Lately I've been using the Moog to do that, it produces a much bigger way more aggressive sound, add some distortion and a few pedals and it’s positively frightening. You have to have a patchable Moog, like my Grandmother, feeding things back into each other, the Tiptop Buchla is great too, but somehow it’s a more natural refined type of acoustic sound, much more different than the Moog.
I make no distinctions normally, and use both, but lately the Moog has surprised me, and with a good amp-sim and some distortion, it’s a whole universe of gut moving "distur-bation"

[Martin Walker]

Yes, it's all a matter of mindset isn't it?

Just because a particular instrument is associated with one type of sound doesn't mean that it can't be used to produce something entirely different

[Arpangel]

Yes, it's all a matter of mindset isn't it?

Just because a particular instrument is associated with one type of sound doesn't mean that it can't be used to produce something entirely different

Yes Martin, when I had my Buchla Easel, I used to use it a lot for melodic lines or basses, just because it had a lovely acoustic quality to it.

[ManFromGlass]

Just goes to show you how subjective these things are -
I would never describe the Buchla sound of having a lovely acoustic sound. I found it to be very “digital” but in a good way.
Perhaps you are a Buchla Patch Master?

[Arpangel]

Just goes to show you how subjective these things are -
I would never describe the Buchla sound of having a lovely acoustic sound. I found it to be very “digital” but in a good way.
Perhaps you are a Buchla Patch Master?

Did you have an Easel? it is very organic, and without doubt it definitely has a sound, wouldn’t say it was digital at all.
On the other hand, I built up a collection of Buchla modules, the 200e series (not Tiptop) and they sounded very different to my Easel, yes, not as organic as the Easel.
My current Tiptop Buchla system is crazy, very organic, sometimes I actually think there are brass instruments in mixes sometimes, it can really surprise you, a lovely deep Tuba will appear, or an oboe, it's very acoustic.