Buchla heads, help me understand West Coast synthesis.

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Buchla heads, help me understand West Coast synthesis.

So, I've long been working with soft synths on the computer, and have messed with a wide variety of euro racks at college. I'm becoming interested in maybe building an actual modular system of my own.

Whenever I've researched modular this whole east coast west coast thing comes up. I read plenty about how this supposed difference in philosophy led to wildly different instruments, but literally the only specific identifiable difference ever mentioned is the capacitive touch keys, then kind of some back pedaling about how the distinction is essentially superfluous with modern modules.

So the internet is telling me, the difference was the keyboard and maybe a waveshaper and even that doesnt matter now; yet some people are still REALLY into Buchlas.

So, Buchla fans, what to you sets these units apart? What actually is west coast philosophy? How does this translate into the way the modules actually work?

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