Buchla front panels

frenchyinmunich · Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 115 Location: Germany

Hello,

I recently started to built few Buchla modules.
I never seen a Buchla in Europa during the last 25 years, since I am into electronic music playing.

I would like to associate to my boards the original front panel design.
If I would have the possibilty to have a Buchla just near my home, I would do the design myself with front panel design. Unfortunatly, I don't have one accessible and I don't know how to do the closest as possible...

Could someone help me? In giving some front panel design file or the exact dimension of the panels?

Does someone in Germany have one?

Best regards,

F

cbm · Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 381 Location: San Francisco

4.25" x 7"

TekniK · Joined: Aug 10, 2008 Posts: 1059

i made a quad LPG design closely inspired by the original,its finished its in .ai file if u r interested.

frenchyinmunich · Joined: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 115 Location: Germany

Thanks a lot for your answer to both of you.
Well, I don't know where/what is the .ai file...
But I would be delighted to take a look to your design.

F

TekniK · Joined: Aug 10, 2008 Posts: 1059

magman · Joined: Feb 04, 2009 Posts: 363 Location: Liverpool, UK

There's a thread over on MuffWiggler that may be of interest:

http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/topic-7169.html

There appear to be quite a few Serge Panel examples here.

Regards

Magman

zthee · Joined: Feb 20, 2008 Posts: 414 Location: Stockholm

The biggest problem is still the font. Anyone know what font they used to use? I thought it was Folio, but that was wrong..

Peake · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject:

You can buy pre-cut blank single-width panels directly from Buchla and Associates, and go from there.

http://www.buchla.com

julian · Joined: Jan 11, 2008 Posts: 103 Location: UK

Depending on how obsessed you are with precision, there it the option of not bothering to redraw the panels at all...

If you can find a high resolution picture of what you are after, and then convert to 2 colour (black and white), retouch on a pixel by pixel level, and then scale you will get an exact reproduction.

This escapes any bother with font matching and the like.

Your dual colour .bmp (etc) can be used for screening, although converting to hplg (for import into .fpd) will not work (well, it will work, but i think itll result in outline work only)