RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer

musical instrument

Also known as: Mark II

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In music synthesizer
The first electronic sound synthesizer, an instrument of awesome dimensions, was developed by the American acoustical engineers Harry Olson and Herbert Belar in 1955 at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) laboratories at Princeton, New Jersey. The information was fed to the synthesizer encoded on a punched…
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In electronic instrument: Post-World War II electronic instruments
…advanced score-reading instrument was the RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer, designed by Harry Olson and Herbert Belar at RCA Laboratories at Princeton, N.J., U.S. The RCA synthesizer was capable of producing four musical tones simultaneously. Pitches, tone colours, vibrato intensities, envelope shapes, and portamento of the four tones were encoded in…
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