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With computer precision, it’s possible to tune the parameters in ways that simply can’t happen by hand on the front panel controls. Additionally, each virtual banana jack in the app can be scaled, even to inverted values - for example, the  “timbre CV control” cable can be scaled to “-1,” directing timbre to go down instead of up.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFor the Easel Command and upcoming 2023 Music Easel, the Program Manager can be embedded into the case, using the optional embed kit. Fitting the Program Manger into the Easel can give it a clean look and lower profile for transport. For those who installed the 208C into their 200e case, it could make the Program Manager much more useful, as it could provide a more usable angle. These kits are available at nominal cost though select dealers and at buchla.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Buchla Music Easel Program Manager Card\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStore your best sonic memories on the Program Manager Card! 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Revolutionary. Mind-expanding. The Buchla Music Easel was one of the first truly portable electronic music instruments. Fifty years ago, in 1973, only a few dozen were made. Unlike many iconic technologies, the influence was not grown through force of scale, but rather the force of the ideas. The Music Easel made available virtually every musical dimension: timbre, melody, rhythm, and time; how these dimensions intersected was no longer the court of acoustics and material, but signals and voltage. The 208 Stored Program Sound Source engendered “a new functional organization [with a] particularly rapid system of patching and program storage via plug-in cards.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking cues from the then-recent discipline of cybernetics, the 218 touch plate was for “real-time communication” to help realize the “potential vocabulary” of the Easel, rather than exploiting existing modes of musical virtuosity. 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Ziggy incorporates many of the Buchla innovations that have long been taken for granted: digital control over the analog audio, additive synthesis, unique and musical interactions, and the focus on making an “instrument” rather than a “synthesizer.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZiggy modernizes and simplifies a familiar Buchla tradition: composing music in a style of synthesis often associated with the western coast of America. Like any musical instrument, it can be played on its own, crafting sequences and sounds from its unique arrangement of controls. It pairs very nicely with a portable keyboard like the Buchla LEM 218, but It also plays with a large range of third-party devices and DAWs through MIDI, USB, and 1v\/octave CV.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElectronically, Ziggy’s oscillators and low-pass gate are purely analog. Digital control over these elements gives Ziggy the ability to save programs at the touch of a button and modulate in creative ways. 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