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RayB:

--- Quote from: Ummon on June 10, 2009, 09:31:12 pm ---Actually, the early synth stuff was a little different in that the devices couldn't create sound in real time. I think they had to program via punch cards, and the machine would read those and then generate various timbres. Moogs and stuff like that are mostly oscillators and filters. As far as automated music goes, that's centuries old.

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A theramin is very real-time.

Ummon:
True synthesis is 'additive', and that kind of hardware took up a room or rooms, until at least the 70s.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Ummon on June 12, 2009, 08:31:17 pm ---True synthesis is 'additive', and that kind of hardware took up a room or rooms, until at least the 70s.

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Does it matter how bulky something is to be defined in a certain way?

RayB:
I made the mistake of saying "synthesis". My apologies. I changed it to sound "generation".

Ummon:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on June 13, 2009, 10:30:53 am ---
--- Quote from: Ummon on June 12, 2009, 08:31:17 pm ---True synthesis is 'additive', and that kind of hardware took up a room or rooms, until at least the 70s.

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Does it matter how bulky something is to be defined in a certain way?

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Note RayB's response, and put that into perspective with a reconsideration of what I said last.

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