We tend to glop towards things we are used to. While this is most evident in day to day life in the type of people we choose to partner with (in my case women), I have also noticed it affects the analog synthesizers which we covet as well. People who learned on Moog *heart* Moog, people who started on the Arp *heart* Arp and unfortunately, those of you who's first date was with a PAIA modular lust after them. I am no different nor less unfortunate - my personal holy grail being the Buchla, specifically the 200.

I used three main guidelines when designing this instrument:

Primarily, the instrument would need to be set up as a large single-patch system, meaning it would afford extensive processing of a single voice at a time. Digital audio being what it is, and the possibility of live performance with this instrument doubtful, I felt this was safe.

Secondly, it would need to eclipse the functionality of my old six-panel Serge (sold in 1983 for $1400!). If it didn't, it would be considered too small . Click here for picture

Third, I would use the functionality of the large Buchla 200 in the Cal Arts studio at B-303 as a functional model. If would considered too large if it eclipsed this beast.

Something unexpected happened however during this process: I became aware of the zillions of schematics available on the internet and was able to 'borrow' technology from the older beasts in order to duplicate exactly the key functional and timbral attributes of those other systems. There is no better example of this than my four Low Pass Gates, three of which are basically exact duplicates of the Buchla originals. But I also have a Steiner-Parker filter, a Moog Filter, two Analogue Systems filters, a Blacet Filter and am planning what I think will be a close equivalent to a Borg (unfortunately and stupidly not jumping on the Wiard customer list before the announcement of the end of the 300 series modules). In this way, I have what I consider to be the best of many worlds and have broken my own mold of exclusivity to that which I had become accustomed (I could also benefit from this in my personal life in the people I chose to partner with, but this is an altogether different story, best left for an altogether different type of website).

And in so doing, the use of the term 'Frakensynth' becomes highly descriptive.