[cctalk] Re: Talking PDP11

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:59:33 -0700 


> On Jul 11, 2023, at 10:51 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The Synclavier I was commercially available in 1977, based off the
> Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer of earlier times. The core was a New
> England Digital minicomputer architecture (they did sell just the
> minicomputer to the military, as a side).
> 
> The truth is that there were quite a few digital synths in labs in 1977.

But, judging by Wikipedia, the earlier Synclavier models were not digital 
sampled waveform synthesizers but rather FM synthesizers.  So I still wonder if 
anyone did it earlier than Sherwin.

        paul
























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