via Das Subharchord
"The Subharchord is a unique electronic instrument which is somewhat comparable to the Mixturtrautonium from Oskar Sala. This site is dedicated to the Subharmonic Sound Generator, which was developed during the 1960s in East Berlin (GDR) at the Radio and Television Technical-Centre (RFZ) of the German post office."
The Mixturtrautonium.
You can find a VST emulation and more info on Rick Jelliffe's site.
More on 120 Years and wikipedia.
Via this this electro-music thread.
This is one cool looking synth. I've been frustrated, looking at this site in the past, by the illegible block diagrams of the Subharchord's architecture. I get the feeling this would be reasonably easy to recreate with modern CMOS chips, but can't get past the lack of detailed info. There doesn't seem to be much more on other sites - anyone know of any outher sources?
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ReplyDeletethought you might like to see my photos of the Mixtur Trautonium that I took in Berlin last year