Re: Anyone remember an old TV show, "The Computer Room"?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Simon Williams wrote:

>Henrik Gudat <woof@bernie.gs> wrote:
>
>> In article <41205685.B94910BA@telia.com>,
>>  Mikael Ljungberg <mikael.ljungberg@telia.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > and still is. Kraftwerk has allways used real synths, don't even think
>> > they used a computer as sequenzer, 
>> 
>> this is not true. Kraftwerk were using the Alpha Syntauri system.
>
>On the Computer World LP? More info please.... :)
>
>Never had the pleasure of seeing a Syntauri in person, but from what
>I've read it would seem to be a pretty synth/sampler system... at least
>comparable to any "real" synths of that time.

I had the pleasure of hearing them demo the system in the
early 80's, and it was very nice, indeed.  The velocity-sensing
keyboard allowed very subtle control of the two-digital-oscillators-
per-voice synthesis, with smooth timbre effects.

So far, I have all the components for the system except the
Apple interface card that supported velocity sensing.  ;-(

-michael

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