Here are two video captures, featuring the demo modes of Ryo Kawasaki‘s synthesizer software that he created for Commodore 64 in the early-mid 1980s. The Kawasaki Synthesizer was released in 1984 & his Rhythm Rocker software following shortly thereafter, perhaps even more impressive in its approach. The Sight & Sound Music Software company produced a number [...]
Archive for February, 2011
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Roger McGuinn – Futurist & Forward Thinker
Roger McGuinn is probably known best as the founder of 1960s folk-rock musical group, The Byrds. It may come to some surprise that he has always been a bit of a forward-thinker & technology “freak”. Incidentally, he was among the first in the rock community to begin using the Moog synthesizer for musical purposes, in [...]
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Can You Identify This Workstation?
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Happy Valentine’s Day – but can you identify the workstation featured in this 1983 The System video? A special synthesizer-related prize will be awarded to the first three (correct) responders! UPDATE 4/13/11: one correct answer so far! UPDATE 5/25/11: one correct answer so far! UPDATE 8/26/11: one correct answer so far! UPDATE 10/14/11: one [...]