The Buchla Thunder Overlay Revives an Interface Inspired by Native American Art
A 30-year old digital instrument inspired by Native American art and the natural playing positions of human hands and fingers is reborn.
Synth pioneer Donald “Don” Buchla had already left a sustained note upon the composition of musical history in the late 1960s as the co-inventor of the voltage controlled modular synthesizer (developed at the same time, but separately, from Robert Moog) when decades later in 1989 he released the radical Thunder, a capacitive MIDI controller. Remembered for its ergonomic layout and an interface inspired by Native American art, the Buchla Thunder Overlay for the Sensel Morph is a revival of the visionary’s instrument, redesigned for another new generation of digital musicians.
Photo: Gregory Han Imagine the Apple Magic Trackpad supersized to the proportions of an iPad mini and you’ll get an idea of the size and feel of the Sensel Morph, a highly adaptable input platform that uses swappable overlays to enable the creation of music, writing, illustration, gaming, and more. The new Buchla Thunder joins as the seventh Morph graphic overlay (minus the transparent Innovator’s Overlay, which invites user customized interfaces) ? each mapped specifically to aid in the production of video, graphic design, writing, and music, alongside one recreational gamer’s overlay that turns the entire surface into a USB game controller.
The thunderbird motif UI of the Buchla Thunder Overlay offers musicians a m...
Synth pioneer Donald “Don” Buchla had already left a sustained note upon the composition of musical history in the late 1960s as the co-inventor of the voltage controlled modular synthesizer (developed at the same time, but separately, from Robert Moog) when decades later in 1989 he released the radical Thunder, a capacitive MIDI controller. Remembered for its ergonomic layout and an interface inspired by Native American art, the Buchla Thunder Overlay for the Sensel Morph is a revival of the visionary’s instrument, redesigned for another new generation of digital musicians.
Photo: Gregory Han Imagine the Apple Magic Trackpad supersized to the proportions of an iPad mini and you’ll get an idea of the size and feel of the Sensel Morph, a highly adaptable input platform that uses swappable overlays to enable the creation of music, writing, illustration, gaming, and more. The new Buchla Thunder joins as the seventh Morph graphic overlay (minus the transparent Innovator’s Overlay, which invites user customized interfaces) ? each mapped specifically to aid in the production of video, graphic design, writing, and music, alongside one recreational gamer’s overlay that turns the entire surface into a USB game controller.
The thunderbird motif UI of the Buchla Thunder Overlay offers musicians a m...
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