Buchla & Tiptop Audio Programmable Spectral Processor 296t　

The 296 was first introduced in 1978 and very few were ever made. Making a module of such complexity at a time when electronic schematics were drawn with pencils, with 48 filters that were most likely hand calculated is just incredible. The 70’s were a great era of exploration and proof of audio electronics scientific theories, but for Don Buchla it seems like it was always something beyond theory. The 296 might at first look like an equalizer, but Don had totally different ideas for it. He managed to pack into it a 16 band analog modular spectral processor, a cross band vocoder plus a massive amount of patch points to work with his synthesizer system.

To learn more about the 296t please check out the user manual. As its name implies, the 296t is complex and worth spending the time reading the user manual.
Enjoy!!!

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Manual: download