[sdiy] Synclavier

[Scott Nordlund]

>> to be the first to do the additive/FM thing in a commercial
>> product, but there were a lot of optimizations that they
>> didn't  do.  In light of later refinements it's sort of got a Rube
>> Goldberg thing going on.
> 
> Its interesting you mention first, where NED doing that FM thing
> before Conbrio, DGS, Synergy etc etc or where they all similar in time?

Well I don't want to speculate too much, there's no point.  Each 
product had several incarnations between initial design and
commercially viable final product, and the specific lines aren't
always clear.  I guess the Synclavier I predates the GDS, and 
the Synclavier II predates the Synergy, but I don't know of
any sales/production numbers or hardware changes between the
generations.  

Earliest record I know of featuring the GDS would be Klaus 
Schulze's "Dig It" (1980), but I haven't heard it.  Earliest 
Synclavier sounds I've spotted would be Tangerine Dream and 
Telex circa 1980-81, but I understand there's some Jon Appleton
material from 1978 or so.

> Some NED service people claims that NED licensed Chowning/Yamaha
> patent FM. But the Synergy oscillator was patented 1977.

The Chowning stuff goes back earlier than that, I think.

> A lengthy Synclavier product presentation video, good one to.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikHtU...eature=related

URL got messed up on that one.
 		 	   		  
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