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Google doodles synthesizer inventor Robert Moog - CNET


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Google doodles synthesizer inventor Robert Moog
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by CNET News staff May 22, 2012 1:45 PM PDT Google latest doodle honors Robert Moog, the inventor of the electronic synthesizer. Moving the cursor across the key creates some Moog synthesizer-style notes and animates the various controls.
Google doodle lets you play Moog synthesizer msnbc.com (blog)
Google Doodle honors Moog with playable synthesizer SlashGear
Google Goes Moog: Doodle Is Playable, Recordable Synthesizer Mashable
International Business Times - MarketWatch (press release) - WebProNews
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Bananaphone touch synthesizer replaces ring ring rings with chiptunes (video) - Engadget

Bananaphone touch synthesizer replaces ring ring rings with chiptunes (video)
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A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller.

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Tech Turns Sketches into Working Synthesizer - LiveScience.com

Tech Turns Sketches into Working Synthesizer
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Keyes developed a system, called SketchSynth, that lets users draw buttons, switches and sliders on a piece of paper, then push and drag the paper-and-ink buttons to control a synthesizer. "It's a fun toy that also demonstrates the possibilities of ...

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USTC iFlytek to Release Voice Synthesizer Chip - Marbridge Consulting

USTC iFlytek to Release Voice Synthesizer Chip
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SZ) has announced that it will unveil its XFS5051CE next-generation voice synthesizer chip on May 31 in Shenzhen. The chip can convert text into clear speech, allowing computers to replace humans for information announcements, appropriate for ...

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Free Microtonal Virtual Analog Synthesizer - Sonic State

Free Microtonal Virtual Analog Synthesizer
Sonic State
Xen-Arts tells us that IVOR is a two-oscillator subtractive synthesizer that features full-controller MIDI Pitch Microtuning using MTS (MIDI Tuning Standard), where any MIDI Note Number can be freely microtuned to any desired pitch across the MIDI ...

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Draw Your Own Synthesizer, Dude - Discovery News

Draw Your Own Synthesizer, Dude
Discovery News
Dude, you forgot your synthesizer back at your practice space in Williamsburg and your songs are all but dead on arrival without those big synth washes. Dude, what are you going do? Draw one. That's right, draw one. C'mon, you can do it.
Can't Afford the Synthesizer of Your Dreams? Draw It Instead Gizmodo

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Jazz's Scene-Stealing Synthesizer - Wall Street Journal


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Jazz's Scene-Stealing Synthesizer
Wall Street Journal
But she's also this powerhouse synthesizer of ideas. I feed off that." In January, Ms. Allen performed at the Village Vanguard within another collective trio. Her longtime friend, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, and her relatively new-found musical ...

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Golden Gate Bridge sounds inspire musical works - San Francisco Chronicle

Golden Gate Bridge sounds inspire musical works
San Francisco Chronicle
Back in 1987, to celebrate the Golden Gate's 50th anniversary, members of the San Francisco Synthesizer Ensemble produced a "50th Anniversary Suite" by hitting components of the bridge with rubber mallets. They recorded the sounds, remixed them and ...

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The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer will make you wish you hadn't tossed ... - Engadget

The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer will make you wish you hadn't tossed ...
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By Brian Heater posted May 15th 2012 11:22PM You know the old saying: one man's trash is another man's oscillographic synthesizer. The de/Rastra project from Kyle Evans takes an old CRT set and turns it into an audio / visual work of art, ...

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Ron Hays, video synthesizers, and Earth, Wind & Fire - Boing Boing

Ron Hays, video synthesizers, and Earth, Wind & Fire
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Paik and engineer Shuya Abe created the Paik-Abe video synthesizer, a fantastic device that generated triply visuals with a colorizer and modulators. In the years that followed, WGBH formed the New Television Workshop to support the "creation and ...

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