Don Buchla

Don Buchla
Don Buchla and Buchla 200e (2006 NAMM Show)
Don Buchla and Buchla 200e
(2006 NAMM Show)
Background information
Birth nameDonald Buchla
BornApril 17, 1937
South Gate, California, US
DiedSeptember 14, 2016(2016-09-14) (aged 79)
Berkeley, California, US
OccupationElectronic musical instrumental inventor

Donald Buchla (April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesis. Buchla popularized the "West Coast" style of synthesis. He was co-inventor of the voltage controlled modular synthesizer along with Robert Moog, the two working independently in the early 1960s.[1][2]

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