11 Jul
2023
11 Jul
'23
2:59 p.m.
On Jul 11, 2023, at 10:51 AM, William Donzelli via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> 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