Synthesis by Herbert A. Deutsch

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"'Synthesis: An Introduction to the History, Theory, & Practice of Electronic Music' book by Herbert A. Deutsch.

Printed in 1976. Softcover. 140 Pages.

This is an amazing book about analog synthesizers and early electronic music written by electronic music pioneer Herbert A. Deutsch, a close friend of Bob Moog, who even collaborated with Bob Moog on the first prototype of the Moog Modular Synthesizer.

This book is filled with tons of great information on analog synthesis, analog synthesizers, the amazing people that built them, and the musicians that first used them. A great book for anyone interested in the beginnings of electronic music.

There are a lot of awesome pictures of vintage synthesizers like the original Moog Synthesizer prototype, Moog Sonic VI, The MiniMoog, Moog Satellite, Moog Model 12 Modular Synthesizer, ARP Pro-Soloist, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, ARP Modular Synthesizer, EMS Synthi, EMS Synthi 100, and The Roland Series 100 Modular Synthesizer!

Also pictures of synthesizer pioneers Bob Moog, Herbert A. Deutsch, and Wendy Carlos!"

DIY MS-DOS Sequencer

via Synth.nl where you'll find more info another shot.

"It is a 286 PC with a 40 Mbyte harddisk and it runs MS-DOS 6.22 with Cakewalk installed. It has a build in keyboard, 9" screen and a midi interface."

Roland VP-330+, vocoder section

flickr by Kelly Sereda

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Tim's Roland SH-1000 Synth

flickr by Terekhova
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Rosana and Barbara

flickr by Konstabel Els

Vacuum Tube Ring Modulator

via Deviant Synth where you'll find more info.

"This is, of course, based on Eric Barbour’s [Metasonix] designs, with a few twists.

I built a separate sine/square wave oscillator and have put an input jack on the front of the ring mod for input of any carrier signal."

Inside a Studio Electronics Midimoog

more shots on sequencer.de

Anyware Instruments Modules

"Demo Quad LFO Module - very small and tiny incl Patchbay, compared to Eurocent coin. It’s the first evolutionary step by Anyware on & at the Modular Synthesizer Meeting 'Happy Knobbing'"

more info and shots on sequencer.de

Modularen

flickr by Modularen
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TH XRVCO x 2
TH VCO-1 x 2
MFOS Dual VCA
MFSO ADSR
CGS Wavemultiplier
CGS Digital noise
CGS Analogue shift register
CGS VCA
CGS Suboscillator
CGS Wavetable
CGS Gate to trigger
CGS Synthacon
Fonitroik PS3100 Resonator
Fonitronik Dual Buchla Lowpass Gate
Fonitronik Dual Buchlaesque CV processor
Topp 281 Function generator
EFM LFO
EFM ADSR + VCA
EFM Transistor Ladder filter
MSC175 Dual VCS

Thomas Dolby - Windpower

YouTube via BrusselZuid. via Thomas Dolby's blog.

Windpower turned 25 years old today.

"Thomas Dolby performing Windpower on Top of the Pops circa 1982"

I'm guessing the computer is the PPG 360 with 340/380 system that Thomas Dolby picked up from Edgar Froese - you can read about it in this post.