Quasar – Digital / Analog synthesizer 1972
There was this post about the Qasar I on the Vintage Synth Facebook group. I’d never heard of this synth and dived into it. It seems that the designer Tony …
There was this post about the Qasar I on the Vintage Synth Facebook group. I’d never heard of this synth and dived into it. It seems that the designer Tony …
Read the story from an inside man: this article is kindly reproduced from the EMEAPP website. Please note that all (c) are with EMEAPP and Jim Scott. Jim Scott was …
We found this article in a vintage Studio Sound magazine, April 1971. Interesting reading with an explanation of voltage controlled music with the EMS synths. You’ll find the pdf of …
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During the past few months, I was in touch with musician Frans Lemaire from Belgium. The initial reason for contact was his past work on computer controlled music, later we …
This article, without mentioning the author, appeared in Electronic Soundmaker, September 1983. Please note that all (c) are with the magazine and the author(s). We have added some images for …
Usully we don’t bother too much with sing-and-songwriters, but we noticed this nice article on John Mayer and his Casio PT-1, published on Reverb.com . Please note that all (c) …
This article, written by Dan Carr, appeared at Musicradar.com. Read about the way the sounds of Michael Jackson were created on (vintage) synthesizers and tips about how to recreate these …
Not many know that Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil programmed and played most of the synths on the Stevie Wonder albums. Below we reproduce an article about the collaboration of …
This article appeared at Reverb.com in the ‘Gear history’ series. An interesting insight in the equipment used and the way of composing and (live) playing by Yellow Magic Orchestra. This …
This article, by Richard Clewes, appeared in Sound on Sound magazine, November 1987. Because the digital version of this article did not contain any pictures, we have added some ourselves. …