[sdiy] Re: [AH] origin/s of osc sync/sync sweep

[Donald Tillman]

I believe that the first commercial synth with sync was the ARP
Odyessey.

Edgar Winter's Frankenstein is probably the first recording featuring
VCO sync.

All the old-style televisions (50's, 60's) used sync in their
horizontal and vertical oscillators, as did old style oscilloscopes
for their sweep oscillators.  And early FM radio stereo demodulation
circuits.  I don't think sync was ever an actual feature of analog
computers.

  -- Don

-- 
Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don at till.com
http://www.till.com


   > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:33:07 +0000
   > From: cheater cheater <cheater00 at gmail.com>
   > 
   > I can bet you that sync existed in analogue computers before the moog.
   > 
   > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:11 AM, John P <johnp299792 at ameritech.net> wrote:
   > > I would bet that the Moog 921 is the first oscillator to feature sync.
   > > The ARP 2500's 1004 T/P and 1023 oscillators didn't have it, nor did
   > > Buchla's oscillators of that period.
   > >
   > > Andrew Scheidler wrote:
   > >>
   > >> Don't know about the history part, but the sync sweep in "Neon Lights"
   > >> from
   > >> Man Machine (Kraftwerk) is probably my favorite  :)
   > >>
   > >> Drew
   > >>
   > >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Norman Fay <vietgrove at gmail.com> wrote:
   > >>
   > >>
   > >>>
   > >>> One for the historians on the list:
   > >>>
   > >>> What was the first electronic instrument to include oscillator sync?
   > >>>
   > >>> What is the earliest recorded instance of the sync sweep sound?
   > >>>
   > >>> Have at it...
   > >>>
   > >>>
   > >>
   > >>
   > >
   > >
   > 
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