Vintage Synthesizers Pioneering Designers, Groundbreaking Instruments, Collecting Tips, Mutants of Technology

Name: Vintage Synthesizers Pioneering Designers, Groundbreaking Instruments, Collecting Tips, Mutants of Technology
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ISBN: 9780879306038

ISBN-10: 0879306033

ISBN-13: 9780879306038

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Mark Vail

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This new edition is the ultimate exploration of the upstart instruments - and their unique analog growls and screams - that paved the way over the last four decades for today's fast-paced electronic music world. Explores the development of the modern synthesizer from 1962 on, with in-depth interviews with pioneering designers Bob Moog and Alan R. Pearlman of Moog Music and ARP Instruments fame. These and other designers reveal their initial ideas, reflect on their hits and misses, and discuss how star performers have used their creations. Histories of groundbreaking instruments examine modular, analog and digital synths and samplers, plus more unusual instruments like the Mellotron. Noted…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 4/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 8.42" wide x 11.08" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction


Prologue: A Photo Gallery of Vintage Synths



Hearts of the Modern Synth Industry


American Synthesizer Builders



The Rise and Fall of Moog Music



The Rise and Fall of ARP Instruments



The Euro-Synth Industry



It Came from the Music Industry




Modular Synthesizers


Buchla's First Modular System


EMS VCS3 and Synthi A/AKS


Keith Emerson's Moog


ARP 2600



EML Synthesizers


E-mu Modular Synths



Serge Modular Systems


Perchance A Polyfusion



Famous Analog Synths


Minimoog



Oberheim SEM Module



Sequential Circuits Prophet-5


Yamaha CS-80


Chroma


Valley of the Korgs



Digital Synths and Samplers


PPG Wave


Digital Keyboards Synergy and Crumar GDS


Fairlight CMI


E-mu Emulator



Miscellaneous


Mellotron


Paia Electronics


Rhodes Piano Bass and Vox Continental


Combo Organs of the '60s



Electric Pianos, Harpsichords, and Clavichords of the '50s and '60s



Roland CR-78, TR-808, and TR-909


Linn LM-1 Drum Computer


The Optigan Music Maker



The Patchbay


In Search of...Vintage Synthesizers


What They're Worth


Buying a Vintage Synth


Vintage Synth Support, Service, Rental and Sales


You Gotta Hear This


A Few Good Books


Websites of Interest


Glossary


About the Authors


Index