Re: [AH] Anyone heard of the Logistics Synthesizer?

From Kenny Balys
Sent Thu, Sep 13th 2018, 11:06

Thanks for bringing that one up. I was thinking about it
and have a Hyrbrid system fully restored and operational
in my studio right now. Its core is a BBC-B and an
external sound box tethered by ribbon cable.

It does make some very cool noises. Most interesting occur
when a sound is transposed beyond all reason. 7 octaves down
or up. The code attempts to do the impossible and the
resulting sound is a crazy mash of 8 bit aliasing and
whooshing goodness... in stereo.

This is exactly why I would love to have a go at some
early S100 sound card. All kinds of madness will be
possible.

The DX7 could have sounded like this but Yamaha designed
in all of these boring heuristics in scaling that prevented things
from getting too wild.

Its interesting to me that the home computer revolution
was launched by Intel with the 4004 / 8008 and 8080
microprocessors and promoted by the magazines
Radio Electronics and then Popular Electronics in the
English world: with the direct involvement of Forest Mims!!!!

I used Forest Mims electronic handbooks from Radio Shack as a
kid to build my first analogue synthesizers. He is a god.

If anyone is in Reykavík and wants to try out the
Acorn / Hybrid Music 500 system then drop me a PM.

If anyone has an operational S100 based music system, I would
love to hear all about it.

Also, looking to hear from anyone with the Apple 2 based Mountain
Music System in operation.

On 13.09.18 10:31 , Peter Forrest wrote:
> Hi Joan and all, Sorry I have no info about this, but it did remind me of a
> later (but still pretty early) BBC computer-based synth in the UK:-
> http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/32569/Acorn-Music-500-Synthesizer/
>
> I used to have one, and you could get some nice-ish pads out of it IIRC.
> Acorn / Hybrid went on to make a few slightly more sophisticated set-ups -
> but I guess not sophisticated when compared with the dedicated instruments
> that were already in existence like the Prophet.
>
> Peter Forrest
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Joan Touzet [mailto:xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx]
> Sent: 12 September 2018 18:02 To: AH Subject: [AH] Anyone heard of the
> Logistics Synthesizer?
>
> Trying to track down any info on this 1977 digital/DSP S-100 bus based synth
> for a friend:
>
> https://archive.org/details/TNM_Music__Speech_Audio_synthesizer_-_Logistics__20170915_0481
>
>  It was definitely shown at at least one show in 1977 (same show had an apple
> computer booth)
>
> There was an ad produced for it - see above
>
> Not sure if it ever saw release or sold very many
>
> "People's computers" magazine vol 5 no 6 (May-June 1977) has pictures from
> the trade show as well (the magazine is scanned from Stanford's collection)
>
> Let me know, Joan
>