[sdiy] Analog additive synthesizer?

[Peter Snow]

Hi Aaron,

You may want to check out some of Hugh LeCaine's instruments.  I know he had a 108 
oscillator bank but I'm not sure if it was tube-based (1959 - would that make it tube?). 

http://www.hughlecaine.com/en/index.html

I'm not sure if you get into the history of synths (I haven't watched all the lectures 
yet) but you may want to point your students to LeCaine's site.  Take a look at his 
original Electronic Sakbut - now that's (sack)butt ugly!  However, voltage control of 
pitch and timbre and touch sensitivity in 3 different directions was quite revolutionary 
for it's day, 1948.  I saw it in the National Science Museum in Ottawa many years ago and 
it is as ugly in person as it looks in the pictures. Sadly it seems to have been 
relegated to the warehouse for quite sometime now. 

Good luck with the lectures,

Peter

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I remember seeing somewhere about an huge experimental bank of tube-based 
oscillators... anyone remember what I'm talking about, and if so, know of 
a link to it?

I'm talking about additive synthesis today, and FM on Wed, and I want to 
make the point that although they're thought of as digital techniques, 
they don't have to be.

- Aaron

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