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Don Buchla, modular synthesizer pioneer, dies age 79
- jeffwass 10y agoThis is an amazing quote, applicable to much more than modular synthesiser hardware : "The tendency, as Buchla once argued, was that when engineers designed instruments, “they design from the inside out. They design the circuits, and then they put knobs on them.” But if a designer expects to design legitimate instruments, he has to design them from the outside in. He has to build the outside of the instrument first. This is what the musician is going to encounter. You cannot become obsolete if you design a legitimate instrument from the outside in."