1 Apr
2008
1 Apr
'08
7:01 a.m.
Was waffling through the 'Worst Wiring' site this morning:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/disturbing-wiring-part-3.html
And the second to last picture is this:
http://lh5.google.ca/abramsv/R-8VzPXRjMI/AAAAAAAANCE/jx8JYx24UY0/s800/20701…
Is this a real machine? It might have nothing to do with computing at all,
there's an awful lot of pot dial looking things on it. I'm still curious.
Thanks all;
- JP
1 Apr
1 Apr
7:10 a.m.
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, JP Hindin wrote:
And the second to last picture is this:
http://lh5.google.ca/abramsv/R-8VzPXRjMI/AAAAAAAANCE/jx8JYx24UY0/s800/20701…
Is this a real machine? It might have nothing to do with computing at all,
there's an awful lot of pot dial looking things on it. I'm still curious.
It's a "Polyfusion Modular System" synthesizer, as used by Toto.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
9:28 a.m.
At 08:10 AM 4/1/2008, Mike Loewen wrote:
It's a "Polyfusion Modular System"
synthesizer, as used by Toto.
And that's Steve Pocaro of Toto in that picture.
http://www.modularsynth.co.uk/pictures.html
When I worked at Sight & Sound Music Software circa 1984, one of
our team of six was Ralph Dyck, who played synth on albums
like "Toto IV" and "Turn Back".
He had worked at Roland and worked on our DOS-based MIDI editing
and recording program, quite proficient in C and x86 assembler.
I believe this is a description of his demo of our software:
http://paul-lehrman.com/digicon/digiconCC.html
Here's a description of Dyck's MC8, a TTL-based 1024-note sequencer
from 1971:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/mar97/rolandmc8.html
His son is an accomplished digital musician, too: http://www.jeffvandyck.com/ .
- John
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7:18 a.m.
And the second to last picture is this:
http://lh5.google.ca/abramsv/R-8VzPXRjMI/AAAAAAAANCE/jx8JYx24UY0/s800/20701…
_d4efbbdc59_o.jpg
Is this a real machine? It might have nothing to do with computing at all,
there's an awful lot of pot dial looking things on it. I'm still curious.
That a synth. In fact, I think I remember that picture from
an old issue of Keyboard or some other electronic music pub.
But I'm blanking on who it is in the picture. I'd guess the
modules in the "rack" are Moog, but I wouldn't swear to it.
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