MOTM

Designing modules to be as Buchla as possible is the least Buchla 
thing you can do.  They were unique and original for their time. 
Cloning Buchla modules thirty years later isn't experimental. 
Designing modules to look more like a Buchla isn't creative.  Serge 
already offers updated versions of of many Buchla modules, including 
the banana jacks and different color knobs.  So it's already been 
done.

Don Buchla went from making analogue modulars, to digital synths, to 
allternative MIDI controllers.  He could have continued to keep 
offering his old designs, but he didn't.  He kept moving on to new 
territory.

Paul Schreiber is offering radically new and experimental designs 
with his 500 series.  Yet, they aren't non-repeatble or innaccurate 
in the wacky way Buchla modules were.  The 500 series is weird in 
Paul's way.  He's doing his own thing.  And that's beautiful, man :)

Paul isn't Don.  Remember that episode of the Simpsons when Homer 
tried to be a hippy??  It didn't work.

You can't "capture the Buchla spirit".  You can't turn back time. 
You can't make mistakes on purpose.  You can't make mistakes on 
purpose.  If you try to capture the Buchla spirit, it's no longer the 
Buchla spirit.

While I'm sure there are many Buchla designs that are worthy 
inspiration for upcoming MOTM modules, adding blue knobs isn't going 
to make them any more useful.  Puttting cheap electronics behind 
expensive hardware is a waste of money.  The way to improve them is 
by adding features, and making them more reliable.