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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

dataton03

"Dataton modular synthesizer. Made in Sweden, from the late 70's. Spotted in the Synthorama, Switzerland."

Flickr via hugo_33_im_toaster, via the synthesizerforum flickr set. Title link takes you to more Dataton modular pics in the set.




Update via M. Aftermark in the comments:
"Dataton means "computer tone" in swedish. some more pictures in this sales thread on 99musik.se.

less than 40 made

Apparently, dataton nowadays produce watchout a software which controls visual projectors to create huge video screens. used in bond movies. link

info from AH list:
"My info sheet came from Bjorn sandlund in the fall of 1977. Dataon AB was in Linkoping Sweden (sorry about the umlauts etc). About half the units were available in October 1977 with several units expected in2nd quarter 1978, such as the Quad bus tranceiver and the force sensitive keyboard. Lots of QUAD modules, tactile controllers and a light sensitive element, a module with 2 quad-axis joysticks, and quad universal filter, each with 4 modes per filter), a power amp unit, a digital sequencer unit, lots of links to lighting voltages, ring mod unit, analog electronic cross-coupled reverb unit (3102), octave based graphic equalizer unit, quad enevelope generator that can be patched for use as a tremelo unit or vocoding. The module brochure is 33" x 23" so it wont scan on my scanner, sorry, and it is an odd colour. The modules were in 5x7" aluminum boxes that plug (din) or cable together with connectors on all four sides for most of them. Lots of mixer slide units, so it was sold as an EM studio item, mixer console for film and theatre, and multimedia installations. The unit sat flat on a table, the more modules the bigger the table in the brocure, but stage racks were available, never seen., also XLR rack adapters. The sequencer was $1375CDN or 5.455 Swedish Crowns in Oct. 1977. There were pedal controllers, dissolvers and printer units planned. Datatron AB was copyright 1975 according to the fine print. Sweden's answer to the Synthi and the Wavemaker. Known recordings: ? "

2 comments:

  1. Dataton means "computer tone" in swedish. some more pictures in this sales thread on 99musik.se

    http://99musik.se/forum/showthread.php?t=7184

    less than 40 made

    Apparently, dataton nowadays produce watchout a software which controls visual projectors to create huge video screens. used in bond movies

    http://www.synrise.de/docs/types/d/dataton.htm

    info from AH list:


    "My info sheet came from Bjorn sandlund in the fall of 1977. Dataon AB was
    in Linkoping Sweden (sorry about the umlauts etc). About half the units
    were available in October 1977 with several units expected in2nd quarter
    1978, such as the Quad bus tranceiver and the force sensitive keyboard.
    Lots of QUAD modules, tactile controllers and a light sensitive element, a
    module with 2 quad-axis joysticks, and quad universal filter, each with 4
    modes per filter), a power amp unit, a digital sequencer unit, lots of links
    to lighting voltages, ring mod unit, analog electronic cross-coupled reverb
    unit (3102), octave based graphic equalizer unit, quad enevelope generator
    that can be patched for use as a tremelo unit or vocoding. The module
    brochure is 33" x 23" so it wont scan on my scanner, sorry, and it is an odd
    colour. The modules were in 5x7" aluminum boxes that plug (din) or cable
    together with connectors on all four sides for most of them. Lots of mixer
    slide units, so it was sold as an EM studio item, mixer console for film and
    theatre, and multimedia installations. The unit sat flat on a table, the
    more modules the bigger the table in the brocure, but stage racks were
    available, never seen., also XLR rack adapters. The sequencer was $1375CDN
    or 5.455 Swedish Crowns in Oct. 1977. There were pedal controllers,
    dissolvers and printer units planned. Datatron AB was copyright 1975
    according to the fine print. Sweden's answer to the Synthi and the
    Wavemaker. Known recordings: ?

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  2. Thanks for taking the time to post this. Post updated.

    ReplyDelete

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