Buchla Breaking the Mold

One of the achilles heels of digital virtual analog synthesis has always been aliasing. Another has been the precision of digital oscillators and of course stepping. Buchla has always sat on the pinacle of analog modular synthesis. Buchla is considered to be the holy grail along with only handful of others. Buchlas have always been considered to break the mold when it comes to synthesis and design. What I find fascinating and am coming to realize is that the new Buchla 200e just might be breaking another mold. The mold of aliasing and digital oscillators and their negative perception. I posted earlier on Buchla's digital oscillators. I was just reading the Keyboard Magazine Review on the Buchla 200e (title link), and I just read the following:

"Did he say “digital?” Yes, the 259e is a digital oscillator. Analog purists may not be pleased about this. I’m happy to have lots of waveforms at my fingertips, but I found that many of the wavetable combinations produced aliasing. Pure sine waves, which don’t alias, are available among the waveforms, and it was possible to coax some sweet tones out of the 259e, especially at low warp settings and at lower pitches. However, the higher-pitched tones of most of the waveforms alias spectacularly, making them ideal for edgy, glitchy mixes but not desirable for traditional definitions of “beautiful.” According to Buchla, this design was intentional."

So, if the Buchla does it...