Buchla Ziggy is a compact analog desktop instrument built around a complex oscillator, low-pass gate and flexible digital modulation system.
Its sound generation centers on a Buchla-style complex oscillator, with wavefolding, FM and AM modulation, while a low-pass gate can operate as a VCA, filter, or both.
The instrument also includes the Cycler modulation source, an additional LFO, digital effects, preset storage, MIDI, USB and 1V/octave CV connectivity.
Buchla originally planned to ship Ziggy in the fall, but is now targeting December. They shared this update:
“While Ziggy is firmly in a production state, we now expect shipping in December.
Why the delay? We showed a very nice prototype in May at Superbooth. It sounded great, and really satisfied the design vision, physically and sonically. We accumulated a lot of feedback from the public, and the more we worked with that first piece, we gathered our own. It became clear that there needed to be more work to improve signal to noise, cost of build, quality of build, and user experience.
As a result, instead of sending that design to manufacture, we’ve spent the summer re-working the circuit for better sound, ease of manufacture, and better alignment with supply chains. We customized some parts for better feel on the fingers. We made USB audio, MIDI, and power on a single USB-C connection possible. We’ve re-designed the modulations to make them more complete, improved memory usage for more presets, and developed a browser-based editor for both librarian and creative control of Ziggy.
We think it’s time well spent! We’ll be receiving our first articles soon, having just wrapped another round of pre-production prototyping. Ziggy is going to be awesome, and we want to make sure you’ll love it.”
Features:
- Analog complex oscillator
- Analog modulation oscillator
- FM and AM modulation
- Timbre wavefolder
- Analog low-pass gate
- LPG can operate as VCA, filter, or both
- Cycler modulation source
- Additional XLFO
- Built-in uncertainty modulation
- Over 100 factory and user presets
- Reverb, delay, chorus, pitch-shift and flanger effects
- MIDI over USB-C and DIN
- 1V/octave pitch and CV connectivity
- Gate and CV modulation
- External audio input
- Scale quantization and alternate tunings
- Stereo audio output
- Web browser-based patch editing and firmware updates
- USB-C power
Buchla Ziggy is available to pre-order for $999, with shipments are expected to begin in December 2026.
