Logic Gate Trigger Processing via 1960s DEC Computer Lab

Logic Gate Trigger Processing by I Dream Of Wires
"Demo by Robert Fantinatto (/RUN): Gate signals from two different clock sources processed through a DEC Computer Lab Logic Trainer from the late 1960's, utilizing a series of flip/flop and Boolean logic gates to trigger envelopes on a Dotcom modular synth."

via I Dream of Wires on Facebook

http://www.indiegogo.com/I-Dream-of-Wires-film

Project H-500 Stage One.mov

YouTube Uploaded by booster744 on Sep 22, 2011

"Stage one of a project to adapt a Digital Equipment Corporation H-500 Computer Lab logic trainer into a trigger source for a modular synthesizer.

Part of an experiment for the upcoming documentary film "MODULAR"

You can learn more here" [MODULAR: The Documentary extended promo]

DecTalk Express External Speech Synthesizer

via this auction
"DECtalk Express, external speech synthesizer, sound module used by composers, scientists, sound designers and disabled people users include Dialogic, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Stephen Hawking, ATT and others.

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DECtalk PC is a speech synthesizer card designed to translate ASCII text files into synthesized speech output. From there, it can get interesting.

dectoke1.mp3

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This is an external Dectalk Speech Synthesizer useable with virtually every computer PC, Mac Linux et al... This is considered to be the gold standard, the best and most well known of all the hardware speech synthesizers. There are a number of on board standard voices including "Perfect Paul” the default voice of the unit, appearing on the Momentary Lapse of Reason album. There are 8 basic presets plus a user defineable voice : Perfect Paul, Huge Harry, Betty , Rita, Ursula, Kit ,Dennis, Frank, NV (user defined). There are voices in British English and other languages available. At one time the software and voices were quite expensive but time and ubiquity has eroded the cost and it is an inexpensive proposition to design voices now.

This is a very programmable and playable useful board. It can be used as a musical instrument or voice output in place of a monitor. It is easily modified both input and output and the 7.2 rechargeable flat pack battery makes it completely hum and noise free. The power supply has a ferrite bead that cuts down in hf noise and some ESDI.

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Elektron Musik Studion 1974 Stockholm

YouTube via ungvary36. sent my way via Johan
Note this is NOT the same EMS as the makers of the EMS Synthi, System 100, etc.
"Stiftelsen Elektronmusik Studion (EMS, Stockholm)

1974. EMS was founded in 1968, but existed since 1964 as a department of the Swedish Radio.
It is the very first computer music centers in Europe,

The digital music production was based on a a DEC PDP 15/XVM computer (similar to the Utrecht studio)

At that time the main software for the PDP-15 were the real-time interactive program IMPAC (Michael Hinton) and the universal purpose program EMSETT. Both developed at the EMS. The software controlled the analog synthestizer with its 24 tonegenerators, filterbanks etc.

The film shows both the huge Synthetizer occupiÿing a whole room, the PDP 15/XVM with Tamas Ungvary programming and the fameous control consol."