27 Jun
2009
27 Jun
'09
3:38 a.m.
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 21:41 -0400, William Donzelli wrote:
I know that the Synclavier workshop manuals were never released because
some part of the CPU design was classified...
I'm surprised there's not some more discussion of computer-based musical
instruments in here. A lot of them more than meet the ten-year rule.
The Ensoniq Mirage is basically a 6809-based machine with a disk drive
and a DOC chip as used in the Apple IIgs. There were various
third-party OSes available for it that gave different capabilities.
Even as standard Ensoniq provided normal Mirage OS, and MASOS with
sample transfer and advanced editing functions.
Gordon
Gordon
Interesting,
how's the voice generation done?
The Fairlight CMI and the PPG Waveterm were both based on off-the-shelf
6809 computers.
And horribly buggy software. The Synclavier also had more than its
fair share of bugs.
I am ot sure what NED used - they started out as a minicomputer maker,
with their sole customer being the US government. I have only ever
seen parts of these minicomputers. I wonder if the Synclavier was
based on one of their mini designs?