Buchla U.S.A. - 219 Compound Touch Controlled Voltage Source Module

Buchla's Model 219 is a rare beast that only a handful of people ever got to touch. Well, now’s your chance — the 219 is back, built in partnership with the wizards at Black Corp, and it’s everything you’d hope for from a Buchla touch interface.

The 219 is an expressive powerhouse made for the 200/200e series cases and boats. It features a super responsive four-octave keyboard with polyphony that is "musically logical." This means that you can hold down a drone and trill away over the top without the keyboard "stealing" your sustained note. With an impressive 38 outputs, you have enough patch points to tame even the most complex systems, turning your entire rig into one cohesive, touchable instrument and offering many new methods of musical control.

While staying true to the original's spirit, a few modern updates make it even better. The unobtainable bespoke joysticks from back in the day have been replaced with reliable, modern ones, and the whole unit now features a MIDI breakout board, seamlessly connecting the Buchla world to your computer and other MIDI gear. This is most likely a limited run, so if you’ve been dreaming of getting your hands on this rarity, now is the time!

Features:

• 48 touch-sensitive keys
• Four octaves and eight separate sections
• 38 outputs in total
• Two, three, or four-voice polyphony, or monophonic operation with portamento
• One 8-key section with individually tunable keys
• Separate and common pulse outputs
• Equal interval (1.2v/octave) voltage output with status indicators
• Left +/- keys impact octave up/down
• Right +/- touch keys apply pitch bend with dedicated bipolar CV output
• 2 joysticks with 0-10v output range for X and Y position
• 3 dedicated keys with pulse and pressure for adding articulation
• Frequency modulation can be applied to output (for tremolo, etc.)
• Buffered digital output for interfacing to digital processors
• Breakout board with MIDI in/out (over separate connections and class-compliant USB)