digital synthesizer
Articles about digital synthesizer:
Fairlight co-founder Peter Vogel has put up a teaser about a 30th anniversary limited edition version of the Fairlight CMI, a pioneering polyphonic sampling instrument.
Vogel calls this image a pre-production mockup for the Fairlight CMI Series 30A.
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This is a sneak preview video of the Radikal Spectralis 2 Hybrid Synthesizer.
See this previous post for more details on the Radikial Spectralis 2.
via SCHAAFJOERG
Casio Keyboard CZ-101 (1986)
Description:
This commercial, from 1986, introduced the Casio CZ-101 polyphonic digital synthesizer.
via XippVid
Sequential Circuits Prophet VS
The Prophet VS is a synthesizer released in 1986 by Dave Smith’s Sequential Circuits. The Prophet VS introduced Vector Synthesis – two dimensional crossfading between waveforms.
Sequential folded shortly after the VS was introduced, but many of the ideas from the VS lived on in the Korg Wavestation.
The video above, via Retrosound, demos some typical VS sounds.
Features:
- 8-voice polyphony
- Multi-timbral (2 part)
- 96 preset waveforms + 32 user waveforms
- Two LFOs, each with own envelope generator
- Curtis analog (digitally controlled) 4-pole lowpass filter, with dedicated envelope generators
- 5 stage amp, filter and mix envelopes
- 61 note keyboarded with velocity & aftertouch
- 100 patch memory
- Twin chorus, stereo effects, panning of individual oscillators/individual voices
- Arpeggiator
Resources:
- Unofficial Prophet VS page
- VS info at Wine Country
- Info at Vintage Synth Explorer
- Prophet VS clone project
- Prophet VS Yahoo Group
Hack A Day has a nice DIY project tutorial on making a simple digital synthesizer.
The final result is not much of a synthesizer – but it’s cheap and it makes some noise:
This simple guide will show you how to build a digital synthesizer that generates and manipulates square waves. Your synthesizer will have one oscillator, which produces a variable pitch controlled by a potentiometer, as well as an LFO which modulates that pitch at a variable frequency. The part count for this project is quite low, and it can be built for under $20.
The project does a great job of letting you know where to get parts and how much they will cost. What’s cool about projects like this is that, once you figure out how they work, you can easily adapt them to create all sorts of bizarre musical devices.
