248

Buchla's 248 Multiple Arbitrary Function Generator, an original 200 series module from Buchla & Associates (1977, version 248-1602, drawn as the Buchla USA reissue): a memory of sixteen stages, each holding a voltage, an interval time and its commands, read by two programmed outputs running on their own clocks.

Key features

• Sixteen stages, each with an output voltage level and an interval time slider
• Commands per stage: output pulses 1 and 2, quantize, sloped, range, external source, stop, sustain, enable, first and last stage, time range
• Two programmed outputs, each with ref., time and voltage outputs, all pulses and pulses 1 and 2, a time multiplier, a stage address knob and its stop, start, strobe and external address inputs
• Four external inputs, A to D, addressed by a stage's slider