Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
After 11:59PM Pacific tonight, the price goes back up.
This online course gives you EVERYTHING you need to confidently make music and design your own custom sounds with Moog’s semi-modular synthesizer Mavis.
...even if you are brand new to electronic music and synthesis.
...even if you have no formal music training or theory background.
...even if you have tried to learn synthesis before and feel like you might not be “techie” enough (hint: you are).
When you enroll, you get LIFETIME access to:
👉️4 in-depth modules of step-by-step video training, walking you all the way from “Hello, Mavis!” to fluency in patching, making music, and designing your own custom sounds
👉️ All future course upgrades and additions
👉️ Bonus: Studio Startup Essentials (Complete Guide for Setting up your 1st Music Studio)
👉️ Bonus: The Synthesis & Music Glossary (An A-Z quick reference guide for all things synth!)
This deal disappears at 11:59pm Pacific Time TONIGHT.
Go to the link in my bio for the link to save $50!
And, since this is the final call, now’s the time to ask any questions you have about Discover Modular Synthesis: Moog Mavis and whether it’s for you. Send me a DM and I’ll help you out!
Wishing you happy patching adventures ahead 🎉❤️
#moog #moogmavis #eurorack #modularsynthesis #modularsynth #euroracksynth #sounddesign #synth #synthesis
After 11:59PM Pacific tonight, the price goes back up.
This online course gives you EVERYTHING you need to confidently make music and design your own custom sounds with Moog’s semi-modular synthesizer Mavis.
...even if you are brand new to electronic music and synthesis.
...even if you have no formal music training or theory background.
...even if you have tried to learn synthesis before and feel like you might not be “techie” enough (hint: you are).
When you enroll, you get LIFETIME access to:
👉️4 in-depth modules of step-by-step video training, walking you all the way from “Hello, Mavis!” to fluency in patching, making music, and designing your own custom sounds
👉️ All future course upgrades and additions
👉️ Bonus: Studio Startup Essentials (Complete Guide for Setting up your 1st Music Studio)
👉️ Bonus: The Synthesis & Music Glossary (An A-Z quick reference guide for all things synth!)
This deal disappears at 11:59pm Pacific Time TONIGHT.
Go to the link in my bio for the link to save $50!
And, since this is the final call, now’s the time to ask any questions you have about Discover Modular Synthesis: Moog Mavis and whether it’s for you. Send me a DM and I’ll help you out!
Wishing you happy patching adventures ahead 🎉❤️
#moog #moogmavis #eurorack #modularsynthesis #modularsynth #euroracksynth #sounddesign #synth #synthesis




![The Electric Music Box: Exploring a Vintage Buchla 200 Modular System
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In the spring of 2025, I spent a week at the Stony Brook University Electronic Music Studio, working closely with their original Buchla 200 Series modular synthesizer. Built in the early 1970s by pioneering instrument designer Donald Buchla & associates, this rare instrument is one of the few surviving and fully intact systems of its kind.
Due to its rarity, very few musicians have had the opportunity to interact with an original 200 system firsthand. I hope this video will help bridge that gap by sharing the instrument’s sound, design philosophy, and aesthetic intentions with a wider audience.
The video begins with a brief historical overview of the Buchla 200 Series and its role in the rapidly evolving landscape of 1970s electronic music. From there, I dive into a detailed walkthrough of the system, exploring each module with sound demonstrations and examples. We conclude with some reflections on the Buchla 200’s design philosophy, offering insights into the types of musical interaction the instrument was built to encourage (and why it continues to resonate with musicians and designers today).
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This video was created in collaboration with the Buchla Archives, an organization dedicated to the thorough and thoughtful documentation and preservation of Donald Buchla’s work.
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
My Overview of the 1st Buchla 100 [VIDEO]: https://youtu.be/CiqhM-bNBrY
Music by Daria Semegen and Bülent Arel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfRVXqatoGQ
Modular Synthesis Patching Machines & People [BOOK]: https://www.routledge.com/Modular-Synthesis-Patching-Machines-and-People/Teboul-Kitzmann-Engstrom/p/book/9781032113463?srsltid=AfmBOoqCddh_cHdYalz7ZoVIHrRT5q9fNTPLVSBSMPrPkiPl-clId1Vp - Theodore Gordons writings on Buchla and Cybernetics
Between the Tracks: Musicians on Selected Electronic Music [BOOK]: https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/4879/Between-the-TracksMusicians-on-Selected-Electronic - A chapter analyzing the use of the Stony Brook 200 in music by Arel and Semegen, written by Margaret Schedel
The Composers Black Box [BOOK]: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-composers-black-box/paper - forthcoming book by Theodore Gordon about Cybernetics and early electronic music
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
2:22 200 Series History
9:15 System Overview (Sound Generation)11:56 System Overview (Mixing Facilities)
13:34 System Overview (Control Voltage Generation and Processing)
17:04 200 Series Workflow Improvements
22:46 Dynamic Timbral Modification
39:44 Polyphonic Signal Generation
49:15 Spatial Location and Mixing
59:04 Complex Pattern Generation
1:10:22 Expressive Interaction in the 200
1:21:13 What is an Electric Music Box?
Sarah Belle Reid is a Canadian performer-composer, active in the fields of electroacoustic trumpet performance, intermedia arts, music technology, and improvisation.
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