Analog Sequencer/Sampler?

[danial stocks]

>
>The Projectron was a wierd tape machine, that could play endless loops.
>It wasn't too much reliable. Iread something about it in an old Keyboard
>mag (1986, I think), but I can't find it here now.

I read about something similar that Bell Labs was doing in 1936 for voice 
synthesis or something like that.. it was a massive thing with about 100 
volume controls which attached to loads of tape loops with different 
frequency sinewaves recorded on..
Cheers,
Dan
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>Edu Silva  --  ES2 Audio
>http://audiolist.cjb.net
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>
>Magnus Danielson wrote:
> >
> > There even was such a beast (not the Mellotron, it is well known), a 
>real
> > analog sampler. It was used by Allan Parson Project and went under the 
>name of
> > The Projectron in their instrument listing. Not much is known about this 
>beast
> > as I know, but it was able to do stuff which back then was basically 
>unheard
> > of. Then came the Fairligth and blew people away into orbit.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Magnus - yes, I know there are systems like Synclavier etc.

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