Electro-mechanical-optical tone generator

flickr set by msmiffy

"Photographs of a 1968 tone generation system of unknown origin."

Anyone know what this is?

Electronic Musical Instrument Handbook, 1st Ed.

via this auction

"Electronic Musical Instrument Handbook, 1st Ed.
by Norman H. Crowhurst
Here in one concise volume is everything you ever wanted to know about vintage electronic musical instruments, including the famous RCA Mark II Synthesizer and that ethereal favorite, the theremin. Photos, diagrams, and vacuum tube schematics galore. VERY scarce title. Overall, the 47 year-old book is in excellent condition. Paperback, 128 pages. First edition, first printing. Copyright 1962.


Contents Include:
1. Introduction to Musical Instruments
2. Sound Reinforcement by Microphone
3. Sound Reproduction by Pickups
4. Introducing Electronics into the Design
5. Purely Electronic Musical Instruments (tone generators, analysis & synthesis)
6. Transducers for Musical Instruments (microphones, pickups, speakers, effects)
7. Electronic Circuit Elements (incl. tremolo & vibrato)
8. Installation and Servicing Details (matching, hum, acoustic feedback, servicing)"

Also on Amazon,and added to the Synth Books section on the right.

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Korg MS 10

YouTube via WISSJE. via this auction
"Quick run thru the Korg MS-10"

Korg MS 10 part 2

Roland SH-101 RED

via this auction

Waldorf MiniWorks 4pole Filter

via this auction

inside a Waldorf MiniWorks
Update: it looks like the images are not of the actual unit. They came from till-kopper.de, and this is not his listing.

NORD LEAD 2X ANNIVERSARY DEMO NA TECLACENTER LINHA CLAVIA

YouTube via Teclacenter
"Timbres e demonstração da linha CLAVIA NORD LEAD 2x ANNIVERSARY na loja TECLACENTER, instrumento utilizado: NORD LEAD 2X ANNIVERSARY."
Googlish:
"Timbre and demonstration of the line 2x CLAVIS NORD LEAD ANNIVERSARY TECLACENTER the store, instrument: NORD LEAD 2X ANNIVERSARY."

1985 digital sound voice synthesizer demo AN ORIGINAL DISK

YouTube via VironCybernet
"In 1985 I wrote this in BASIC and a few bytes of ASM for 4 different brands of computer and if I was known for doing anything in high school, this was it, the only thing mentioned about me in my yearbook. I would also leave these disks at computer stores and computer club. Although it is now known that the synthesizer is (capable of) higher quality than MP3, my means of programming sounds into it in the 1980's never had a reasonable explanation for why it worked at all, (and I now know that it simply didn't!,) and in the 1990's other unique methods were tried while this one was considered to be the worst kind of digital sound ever invented. The disk "apparently" has male female and robotic TTS voices, 2 songs, and a few talking games on it. But it seems to have been proved an accidental illusion, especially since it is known to be inaudible through a telephone line.

In other words, I still have the right to make random noise and call it music."

iDrum - Working with the Song Editor

YouTube via izotopeinc
"A walk through on how to use the Song Editor in the iDrum application and plug-in."

LIVE JAM AT S-CAT 004

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. You can see all sessions here.

1994 Human Voice Synthesizer Calculator Prototype

YouTube via VironCybernet
"This is one of two prototypes. The other had a display, but was given away and then sadly thrown away. It uses the same kind of speech synthesis as my "awful" disks from 1985, but the method of programming sounds was reasonable in this case. This project was cancelled without ever being tested by for whom it was being designed, and is in a very early and peculiar state. It calculates arithmetic using it's memory as a virtual blackboard, exactly as a person would do it, but has a precision of 14 digits. It has the voices of two people, which were copied from my other projects, because I had not yet gotten around to making a voice specifically for it. The synthesizer was hastily set to work below telephone quality and below worst-case MP3 sample rates but I don't think it sounds bad in this video, especially compared to the "1985 disks".

The video ends as the battery "croaks"."