Joystick controlled synth

[DrumAnBass]

Which is better for a synth - Happ Supers or Happ Ultimates...?   

http://blog.unearthedcircuits.com/projects/drone-machine/

[Ginsu Victim]

Wow, that got annoying fast.

[drventure]

Gotta go with Ginsu on that.

I'd rather have seen a therimin built from a u360 

[bishmasterb]

Wow, that vid does not need to be over 7 minutes long...

[danny_galaga]

Well, it is called the Drone Machine! Actually, i kinda enjoyed watching that. Seeing what noise comes from doing what. And you couldn't get much more retro than that sort of 'music'. It's the sort of stuff they were doing in the 50's and 60's. I wonder if he could play that same tune again 

The start also reminded me of the beginning of this lil number



(warning, uses the word bitches )

edit: oh, it automatically embeds now. So i guess you can see what word is used...

edit edit: And bitches isn't auto censored here either!

As you were...

[Ginsu Victim]

50s and 60s?

[RayB]

50s and 60s?

Yeah. Did you think electronic sound generation just appeared one day and made it into mainstream pop music the week after? Experimenting started LOOONG before.

Raymond Scott was one pioneer of this, inventing his own "electric music" machines in the 1940's through to 60's, including even mechanical "sequencers". (He is the same guy who composed a lot of the music that ended up in Looney Tunes and Ren & Stimpy cartoons).

http://raymondscott.com/timeline.html

Check out the recordings and photos of his "Circle Machine" and "Clavivox": http://raymondscott.com/MENsndf.html

Also the guy who invented "Moog" synthesizers started selling devices in the early 50's, and his Wiki page mentions of existing electronic music machines exist prior to this (1940's). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_synthesizer

*changed "synthesis to "generation" for the pedants

[Ginsu Victim]

I asked not because I thought it was wrong but because I was intrigued. I had no idea when it started.

[Ummon]

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.

[danny_galaga]

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.

well, freaky sounding electronic music anyway. Doesn't matter how it's done. The Dr Who theme for instance from 1963 was composed entirely by electronic means by Australian Ron Grainer.

[RayB]

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.

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]

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

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]

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

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

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