RL Music is delighted to be Don Buchla’s
European dealer for the 200e Electric Music Box.

The unique opportunity to own a Buchla synthesizer
is simply irresistible and the following web pages present the new product in detail with information
on how to order your own system through RL Music. This synthesizer is without doubt a highly collectable classic and represents a true investment as well as
a fine musical instrument.



We have a demonstration system located at our Reading (UK) premises for you to see and play. Pre-configured and customer designed systems will be available with full dealer support.

An introduction from Don Buchla:
This year we’re celebrating 40 years of building bizarre electronic musical instruments. What better way to celebrate than to revisit some old instruments – namely the 200 series Ele Music Boxes, manufactured from 1970 to the mid 80’s.

Why the 200 series? Because it’s my favourite synth and I'd like an updated version.

Updated how, you ask. Still straight analog synthesis and still programmed with knobs, switches and patchcords. Same power supply voltages, same form factors. In fact, completely interchangeable with 200 series modules built in the '70's.

But with some new twists.

For a few years now we've been designing MIDI controllers (Thunder, Lightning, the Marimba Lumina, and the Piano Bar among others). But our controllers couldn’t even talk to our own 200 series instruments (designed way before MIDI was even dreamed of).

Situation rectified. Check out the new 225e.  The top half is a full-blown MIDI interface that can relate every nuance of expression that your controller can produce to any aspect of the 200e’s sound palette.

The 225e’s bottom section addresses another shortcoming: how do we save a patch so that retrieval is instantaneous at some future time?  Simple! Just name the preset, push the store button, and your patch is forever stashed.

Other improvements include internal MIDI buses, invisible supplies, high density modules, more voltage controlled parameters, the addition of a router for signals and control voltages, the merging of a swirler with the system interface, the addition of velocity to the dynamics manager, and a reworking of the output section of the complex oscillator.

Functionally, new modules include a dual arbitrary function generator, a duophonic pitch class generator, and a triple morphing filter.

On a note of distribution, we chose RL Music in the UK to be our European dealership for our new 200e Electric Music Box because they have demonstrated the focus and clear passion for vintage and contemporary analogue music technology and, even more importantly, their professional and tailored approach to working with their customers is wholly compatible with my own ethos to designing and building instruments for musicians.

I hope you will enjoy playing the 200e as much as I have enjoyed creating this electronic musical instrument.

Don Buchla