AW: format filter bank/string filter

[Mark Glinsky]

>It's a large box, 2 (or 3 ?) HE 19" rackmount, but it only has a
>few rocker switches on the frontpanel to select several
>presets. The "stradivari output from sine wave input" is
>surely a hype, but I guess there must be a lot of circuitry
>inside, as they chose such a large box ...
>I'd love to see schemos for this, but my search was in vain so far.

Supposedly 5 or 6 of these were built, for people like Lord, Jan Hammer, 
etc.  Basically a set of formant filters derived from the resonances
of a violin body - the intent was to take an input from string machine
or synthesizer (the Freeman String Symphoniser was mentioned), 
and give it the characteristic resonances of the violin body, thus
getting a much more accurate string sound.  Story was that Moog
demonstrated a violin with the body stuffed with material to remove
the resonances, using a pickup run the Moog String Filter, and it
gave the violin its characteristic sound back.

One of these was at a recent VEMIA auction, was quite expensive
as I recall.


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