Buchla Easel V

Arturia Buchla Easel V brings the experimental spirit of the 1973 Buchla Music Easel into a software synth built for adventurous sound design. Its component-level modeling captures a distinctive West Coast approach, combining complex oscillators, AM and FM synthesis, and percussive gate/filter combinations. Explore metallic hits, shimmering textures, bubbling sequences and evolving soundscapes, with extensive modulation and clocking options that encourage movement beyond conventional keyboard playing. Arturia expands the original design with polyphony, additional modulation and control sources, a step sequencer and effects. Color-coded patch cables and highlighted valid connections make exploring signal paths more approachable, while nearly 300 presets provide useful starting points. Buchla Easel V suits electronic producers, experimental composers and curious synthesists who want unusual timbres and hands-on patching rather than another familiar subtractive synth workflow.