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Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd. (usually abbreviated to EMS) is a synthesizer company formed in 1969 by Dr. Peter Zinovieff. This same year the company created the VCS 3. The synthesizer owned and developed by Peter Zinovieff was kept used and perfected in the basement of his London house. It was This synthesizer that was used by artists such as Pink floyd. A synthesizer (spelling var. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The VCS 3 (from Voltage Control for Studio with 3 components) is an oscillation effects musical analog synthesiser, initially made in 1969 by EMS. The VCS 3 was smaller and less cumbersome than the Moog Taurus and similar early synthesizers. ...
Rather than using patch cords to route audio and control signals among modules, EMS synthesizers used a matrix plugboard into which the user stuck special pins that connected an input (listed on the Y-axis of the matrix) to an output (on the X-axis). This was much easier to examine than the myriad of patch chords used to connect modules on systems such as a Moog modular synthesizer. Moog modular synthesizer refers to any of a number of monophonic analog modular synthesizers designed by the late electronic instrument pioneer Dr. Robert Moog and manufactured by R.A Moog Co. ...
1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The VCS 3 (from Voltage Control for Studio with 3 components) is an oscillation effects musical analog synthesiser, initially made in 1969 by EMS. The VCS 3 was smaller and less cumbersome than the Moog Taurus and similar early synthesizers. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... The EMS Synthi A was a portable analog synthesizer (electronic musical instrument) made by Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd (EMS) in 1971. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... The Synthi A, and a version of it with a built-in keyboard/sequencer, the Synthi AKS, is a portable modular analog synthesizer made by EMS in England from on 1971. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... The EMS Synthi 100 was a large synthesizer made by Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd. ...
This was a "music structure generator", where an artist could enter a polyphonic piece and then parametrically adjust many of its parameters in real-time using various controls.
Scott conceived it as a musical idea generator; after setting it in operation, one could rapidly explore a vast array of multidimensional musical and sonic variation, all of this without a computer.
All of the digital academic studios of that time ran this way well into the 1980's, since the complicated sonic textures that they were experimenting with couldn't be efficiently rendered in realtime.
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