[sdiy] Harald Bode collaboration with Bob Moog

[thx1138]

On 8/22/09 11:39 AM, "Magnus Danielson" <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:

> thx1138 wrote:
>> Hi SDIY folks,
>> 
>> I worked with Harald Bode in Tonnawanda NY, while I was on summer break when
>> I was a undergraduate at UCLA in early 1971.
>> 
>> He and Bob were working on projects that Harald had me work on.
>> 
>> I was converting a Inductor based Vocoder to Active filter designs.
> 
> Was that Haralds design that he did for Bob?
> 
>> Does any one have Harald's Patent info for US and Germany?
>> 
>> My guess is that Harald and Bob had many shared ideas back in those days.
> 
> If you go to http://ep.espacenet.com and search for Harald E W Bode you
> get 20 patents, you may enjoy looking at them (they are available
> directly from there, both US and DE versions). Aaron already gave you
> the number for what is obviously from the title is a Vocoder patent.
> 
> Haven't looked at the other patents, but maybe you will recognice what
> you see there from when you worked together.
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
Thanks for your inputs.

I did not realize at the time that Harald and Bob were onto something that
would consume so much of my life as well.


I went to work for Tom Oberheim while at Graduate school at UCLA. ( I
Studied Music Composition and Sound for Film with a minor in Electrical
Engineering). While working for Tom and Harald I realized that a new field
was opening up for me in electronic Music. I was average in Music skills
compared to Hans Zimmer and such, but these guys became my customers over
the years.

I put in a few years at E-Mu in Santa Cruz (Drumulator,Emulator II) and then
on to PPG in Hamburg with Wolfgang Palm for a year. (They went Bankrupt).

Upon returning to the USA in 19885, I discovered that Sequential Circuits,
Moog, ARP,Oberheim and many other innovative US manufacturers were quickly
going out of business.

R&D was a minimal part of their business and the Yamaha, Korg, Roland,
Crumar folks were much cheaper to the musician.

The modular scene was almost a dead item. So I went to work for Motorola
Semi.

I went back and evangelized our 24-bit DSP to Waveframe, Digidesign, Frox,
Turtle Beach and was able to get a ground swell going for DSP use as a Synth
product.

How to get back to SDIY thread? Well I believe tools and parts and Dev tools
are to be shared and to get people to start building projects for themselves
and business.

Floating Point vs Fixed Point. Such an old subject but every now and then
people get all fired up and expound their knowledge on the subject matter
and just crack me up.

I have build some fine products that I am proud of, but I still itch for new
undiscovered ways to build hand crafted audio projects.

Does anyone know if Wersi Organ folks are still around? They sell parts that
can be used to build a keyboard with. Fatar is a real pain to deal with and
I have yet to try Allen Organ or Wurlitzer folks to see if I can buy Keybeds
for small runs of controllers.

Sorry for the rambling here, I drank a whole pot of coffee and was feeling a
bit chatty.

Best regards,

Terry Shultz