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ProfessorGAC

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11. An Early Synthesizer!

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Wed Jun 24, 2026, 07:31 PM

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I had to look it up.
It was a beast! 163 tubes; over 500 pounds.
Had a series of envelope followers to shape sounds plus adjustable frequency filters. Way ahead of its time.
They did make a thousand of them but I never heard one before.
Pretty cool!

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