Good Apple II synth

[Steve Varner]

One list member asked about analog to Apple computer interfaces. I don't
know one, but I'd like to share this info:

In the early 80's, the University of Arizona music department had a
Soundchaser digital system that was made by Passport Designs before they
went totally to software. The company made some pretty good Macintosh
and PC sequencer and notation software, but they went bankrupt last
year. They were purchased by G-Vox a month later:
http://www.gvox.com/press/index.html

The Soundchaser system was a 16 oscillator digital synthesizer with a
sequencer capable of playing up to 16 tracks (depending on the number of
oscillators I think). This was a very good system - well ahead of its
time. The system consisted of the synthesizer all on one Apple card and
a keyboard controller hooked into the card via ribbon cable. You could
make waveforms graphically or by using a relative harmonic amplitude bar
graph. The sequencer had a great many features also. If you could find
and buy one of these systems it would be a good add-on to your Apple.

Steven Varner