DAVOLI SINTACCORD 44 - 1972 : Cracking the code of Polyphony.

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

00:00 Pre - Introduction
00:35 Introduction
01:00 Filter Section (Sint Effects)
02:32 Repeat / LFO
03:35 MUSICAL INTERLUDE 1
04:20 Filter Section Textures
06:18 MUSICAL INTERLUDE 2
07:28 Organ Section
08:54 Outro


"DAVOLI SINTACCORD 44 - 1972

In the early 1970s a young engineer in Parma, Italy tried to crack the code of the polyphonic synthesizer.

With a tight production budget, at the dawn of the 1970s Davoli made a small batch of the DAVOLI SINTACCORD 44 of which a handful still exist today.
At the time it simply wasn't possible to go beyond the one voice, monophonic synthesizer except by adding multiple oscillators triggered by one and the same key.

This was something else completely.

They did not manage to produce the first polyphonic synthesizer but they did however develop the most complex filter modulation controls on a paraphonic preset keyboard - it's a rather different beast - but it does things we've never heard any other synthesizer, or organ for that matter, do.

Most of the specifications are in the video as text already so please watch the video and read the text - but a quick roundup would look like this :

The instrument consists of mainly two separate sections that are actually the same tone generating circuits doubled - one part is the organ and the other part is the filter.

All the sounds are analog and are generated by the very first generation of divide down technology - no eproms or other intruders of vulgar modernity is on hand.

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You can find one additional demo from 2016 here.