<html><head></head><body>Sorry, but how are hand drawn waveforms* transferred to a film audio track in any way comparable to a hardware implementation (whether Novachord's tubes, etc. or anything else).<br><br>The ADSR in this case would have been scissors or making tape. Putting together the sound track is more akin to mag tape, razor blade and splice tape. <br><br>For more info look at:<br><br><a href="https://dangerousminds.net/comments/listen_to_early_soviet_synthesizer_music_hand_drawn_on_film_and_made_from_c">https://dangerousminds.net/comments/listen_to_early_soviet_synthesizer_music_hand_drawn_on_film_and_made_from_c</a><br><br>-Dave<br><br><br><br>*and these waveforms could actually be based on samples...<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 16, 2019 11:46:12 AM PDT, cheater00 cheater00 <cheater00@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">The remarkable thing about this is that while in the US the state of<br>the art in 1932 was something like the Hammond Novachord, which had<br>crude enveloping and oscillators that didn't tune too well, this seems<br>to be very well in tune, and clearly has ADSR per voice, maybe even<br>per note.<br><br>From the video description:<br>Nikolai Voinov (1900-1958) demonstrates the techniques of Paper Sound<br>and the creation of music for animation. The demonstration includes<br>two short animations: "Rachmaninov Prelude", 1932 (1:07) "The Dance of<br>the Crow", 1933 (2:11)<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Zb4rso82M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Zb4rso82M</a><br><br><br>One of the comments is interesting:<br><br>There's a UK artist from the 40s that used visual 'sound lozenges' on<br>a very complicated animation rig. Channel 4 (UK) showed a programme<br>about him during the early 90s. The name escapes me sadly..<hr>Synth-diy mailing list<br>Synth-diy@synth-diy.org<br><a href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>