Harry Olson

American engineer

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In music synthesizer
…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 paper tape. It was designed for research into the properties of sound and attracted composers…
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In electronic instrument: Post-World War II electronic instruments
…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 binary form on a perforated paper…
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