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	Synthony's Synth & Midi Museum
		Synclavier ll offers the most extensive array of live performance controllers ever assembled in one system: two foot pedals, six foot switches, a ribbon controller, and an optional velocity sens ing keyboard!
		Synclavier ll is equipped with the largest and most versatile 16 track digital memory recorder available today.
		Synclavier ll is de signed so you need no access to the computer during live performance.
	www.synthony.com /vintage/synclavierII.html (604 words)

	Forum
		What an evil machine that is, I havn't heard any music that was done on a Synclavier that was any good, by anybody,it was just a rich pop-stars play thing at the end of the day.
		The Synclavier sounds so clinicle, especially all that awfull synthetic orchestral stuff he did on it, iit sounds like a fruit machine.
		A good use of his synclavier is the intro to Rocket Love which is a hella dark song.
	www.soundonsound.com /forum/printthread.php?print&Cat=&Board=MRT&main=136985&type=thread (1104 words)

	SynclavierX By Synclavier Digital
		While the Synclavier®'s central processor was obsoleted by advances in computer technology in the early 1990's, its voice cards produce a unique sound that has not yet been replaced.
		Note that Synclavier® PowerPC™ for OS 9 does not support Synclavier® disk image files larger than 2 GB in size, so limit your disk image files to that size if you wish to interoperate with OS 9.
		Synclavier® PowerPC™ for OS 9 does not work in OS X's "Classic" mode; you will need to reboot in OS 9 to use Synclavier® PowerPC™.
	www.synclavier.com /SynclavierX.html (1059 words)

	Interview and Soundpage with Henry Kaiser & Bill Frisell
		This piece was basically done in four sections directly into the Synclavier’s memory recorder, and they were dumped to multi-track tape, mixed, re-EQed, balanced, reverbed, and edited together." The two are scheduled to record an album for ECM this summer, which will also utilize the Synclavier.
		One of the nice things about the Synclavier or any of these computer music systems is that you can record something with one timbre, alto saxophone, and change the sound to frog croaks or violins without having to re-record it.
		With the Synclavier, you really have to be "Mc Laughlin articulate"; you can’t be, say, "Coryell articulate." And you can’t be hammering on like Allan Holdsworth; you have to be picking those notes.
	www.joness.com /gr300/sndpage.htm (3570 words)

	The synclavier
		The synclavier provides means to execute high tempos and the constant repetition of accompanying figures, that would become fatiguing to impossible for human players.
		The synclavier was first used for accompanying the spoken parts of "Thingfish".
		Despite of all the new possibilities the instrument was giving him, the coming years saw a decrease in the flow of new compositions and the accent shifted to the compiling of already recorded material.
	www.zappa-analysis.com /synclavier-f.htm (811 words)

	Pages of Fire: Articles: From The Symphonic Stage To The Frontiers Of Technology
		Although McLaughlin looks forward to 1986, when he'll use the Synclavier to record with the same personnel, he is currently concentrating on putting the finishing touches on his score for Concerto For Guitar And Orchestra, which he'll debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic this November.
		The Synclavier has a great deal of potential, but the next protect I have in mind for it will be with my latest group, which I can see going on for a long time.
		The Synclavier allows me to play in a way that is very difficult to do on a guitar.
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /Dave/mclaughlin/art/tech.html (4810 words)

	Audio NED
		The mature Synclavier was a modular, component-based system that included facilities for FM-based synthesis, digital sampling, hard-disk recording, and sophisticated computer-based sound editing.
		By the late 1980s, complete Synclavier systems were selling for upwards of $100,000, to famous musicians such as Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder (who played his on an episode of The Cosby Show), and to major studios the world over.
		The Synclavier was also employed by experimental musicians, such as Laurie Anderson, who used it extensively in her music.
	www.tech.plym.ac.uk /spmc/links/audio/audio_ned.html (321 words)

	THE SIN IN SYNCLAVIER
		I've only tried the early Roland model they had with the Synclavier, and it just wasn't right for me. If it were, I'd have the thing up and running right now.
		The main advantage for me with the Synclavier is that I can imagine rhythms that human beings have difficulty contemplating, let alone executing.
		Most of the editing I do after the basic composition is entered is done on what Synclavier calls the "G Page," which shows you three tracks, each with three columns of information.
	www.zentao.com /NonFoods/Interviews/sin.htm (2705 words)

	Jazz From Hell - Keyboard Magazine: February 1987
		The Synclavier has direct-to-hard-disk recording options that would let you, for example, have somebody come in and actually play saxophone, and it would still be recorded on Synclavier.
		In the abstract, an instrument like the Synclavier is capable of doing so much, it must be tough for them to figure out what to make their top priority.
		To aid in their performance, since it was already typed into the Synclavier, I produced a little practice cassette for them to play the piece by.
	home.online.no /~corneliu/keyboard87.htm (7940 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		First developed at Dartmouth College, the Synclavier was one of the first synthesizers to completely integrate digital technology.
		Synclavier Systems were exorbantly expensive - the highest price ever paid for one was about $500,000, although average systems were closer to about $200,000 - $300,000.
		Synclavier II boasted upgraded sampling capacity and memory, as well as a velocity- and pressure-sensitive keyboard.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Synclavier (498 words)

	EQ Magazine, March 1994
		To someone who always strived to render his musical ideas with precision, the Synclavier opened up a whole new world of possibilities for handling the frequently highly complex arrangements that often defied human fingers.
		Zappa not only used the Synclavier as another instrument, he took advantage of it's vast digital sampling and recording capabilities.
		In fact, his 1988 album, JAZZ FROM HELL, which was composed on the Synclavier, won Zappa his only Grammy for best rock instrumental performance.
	home.online.no /~corneliu/eq.htm (1636 words)

	Welcome to Synclavier!
		Synclavier Digital is not able to provide any support relating to original Synclavier® hardware.
		Limited email support for any Synclavier Digital software product is available for licensed users by purchasing an email technical support incident appropriate to the product from our Kagi on-line store.
		Synclavier® is a Registered Trademark of Cameron W. Jones.
	www.synclavier.com (469 words)

	Vintage Synth Explorer - NED Synclavier
		Although there have been three models, (the second called the Synclavier II pictured above) they are most often referred to as just a Synclavier.
		The first version appeared in 1979 but was soon replaced by the Synclavier II with a new 'partial timbre' sound editing feature (it tweaks the harmonics), built-in FM synthesis and an external Hard Disk storage option.
		From its specs alone it can be seen that the Synclavier is a masterpiece digital sampler / synthesizer workstation which was the first of its kind and way ahead of its time.
	www.vintagesynth.com /misc/synclav.shtml (519 words)

	Synclavier II Restoration
		No other company restores Synclavier II's as fully as Synclavier Europe, (despite what they may claim), We restore with pride and care using genuine parts and offering a Synclavier warranty.
		Synclavier Europe was commissioned to provide a custom portable Synclavier to provide specialist sound for the newly released 2005 film Batman Begins
		Synclavier Europe performed a similar upgrade to this one for the supergroup Coldplay.
	www.500sound.com /workshop/synclavier_restore.html (392 words)

	Kopperhead Synclavier Digital Music System
		The Synclavier Digital Music System is a powerful, integrated system for music synthesis and recording, first developed at Dartmouth College by Jon Appleton and colleagues.
		Synclaviers were purchased by hundreds of artists and recording studios, often at prices in excess of $200,000.
		The Synclavier is no longer manufactured, but many systems are still in use in the recording industry, particularly in music composition and performance, and in sound design for major movies.
	www.kopperhead.com /synclavier3.html (987 words)

	Encore: The Ultimate Mark Snow Site - The Mix: Mark Snow
		After several years spent traditionally scoring by piano, music paper and pencil at hand, it transpires that Snow's accountant, of all people, was responsible for finally setting the music technology ball rolling - for Snow - big-style back in the mid-'80s, arguably a time of style over content.
		Miami Vice topped the TV ratings, and New England Digital Corp.'s second-mortgage-inducing, all-singing, all-dancing Synclavier 'übersynth'-cum-sampler/sequencer was king of electronica's hill.
		Despite owning four Roland S760s, Snow's trusty Synclavier remains at the heart of his current project studio set-up, doubling up as master keyboard, sequencer, and main sound source.
	www.geocities.com /ngxfiles/articles_themix.html (1460 words)

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		Apparently a group of Synclavier owners managed to revive parts of the company so there is still support for the instruments around, and maybe even a few new developments.
		The thing about the Synclavier is that you can do all midi/dsp and D to D functions within the one project.
		What has been related to me is that Zappa used the Synclavier for lots of reasons, one of which was that he could input music into it that human beings simply cannot play.
	www.eecg.toronto.edu /~bach/HOME/News/synclavier (1718 words)

	Moon's Pat Metheny Page - Articles: Downbeat, Vol 52
		Since purchasing a Synclavier digital music system just a few years ago, Pat Metheny has become an enthusiastic convert to the digital age.
		He now tours the country conducting Synclavier seminars for the New England Digital Corporation, giving fans and fellow musicians a peek at the future.
		And there's going to be virtuoso musicians producing some incredible music who can't "play" at all, at least not in the sense of someone like me or Wynton Marsalis or somebody who can actually get up there on the bandstand and pick up an instrument and "play" it.
	user.chollian.net /~silvmoon/patm/article/db52.html (3814 words)

	Frank Zappa and His Digital Orchestra
		A similar refrain may soon be heard, not because Zappa's talking too much, but because he recently put down his guitar in favor of the Synclavier II computer music system.
		He calls his Synclavier the Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort, replacing the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Lumpy Gravy, and as you'll read, Zappa believes he's found the answer to his deepest desires--recording orchestral music--even if the orchestra is digital.
		The problem with making a guitar trigger a synthesizer is that it can't start doing the calculation to determine what the pitch of the string is until after the burst of white noise that the pick produces has died off.
	emusician.com /news/emusic_frank_zappa_digital/index.html (4485 words)

	Retro Thing: Synclavier: the ultimate 1980s music production system
		The integrated system featured "total recall" of each project, but the Synclavier was most remarkable because of its stunning sound libraries.
		In addition to the control rack, the system featured a 76 key weighted musical keyboard (based on the Sequential Circuits Prophet T8 mechanism) that was slathered with dozens of backlit buttons.
		I have a sample CD of "Synclavier FM" which recreates the original factory sounds from 1980 in all their glorious 8 bit noisey mono sound.
	www.retrothing.com /2006/09/synclavier_the_.html (821 words)

	FZ Videography
		This film is 60 minutes long and features a very unique look at FZ and his work, including footage in and around Frank's studio enviornment and his synclavier work.
		It has some great bits of dialogue, and there are wonderful intercut remarks by several composers such as Boulez, Xenakis, and Stockhausen (and some footage of FZ with the first two).
		Well, to hear FZ talking about his music and demonstrating what he can do at his Synclavier is great fun.
	globalia.net /donlope/fz/videography/Peefeeyatko.html (420 words)

	Pages of Fire: Articles: McLaughlin's Synclavier "It's A Revolution"
		The Synclavier Digital Music System combines the features of a multi-track recording studio with those of a powerful computer-based digital synthesizer; the computer is NED's ABLE 60.
		Sounds are created with the Synclavier through the partial timbre [tone color] method of synthesis, which allows exacting control over a sound's harmonic content.
		The Synclavier has many possibilities for guitarists, and the following outline is but a brief description.
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /Dave/mclaughlin/art/revolution.html (687 words)

	todd yvega
		Todd Yvega transcribed Zappa synclavier compositions for the Ensemble Modern.
		Yvega creates utilities in XPL {the Synclavier language similar to Pascal} on his expanding menu dubbed "N.E.D. Buster Power Tools." His creations overcome shortcomings in the system software To date, his tally nears 100, and he writes if more time is wasted by his not writing.
		There are lots of users of Synclavier in video post-production, but that's like using a battleship to cross a river- they're barely using the machine.
	www.united-mutations.com /y/todd_yvega.htm (2104 words)

	The Electronic Century Part IV: The Seeds of the Future
		The Synclavier was a computer-and-digital-synthesizer system with an elegantly designed keyboard and control panel.
		In 1983, Appleton composed Brush Canyon for a Synclavier with both the keyboard and the control panel.
		By the late '70s, digital synthesizers were under development at research institutions such as Bell Labs and the Paris-based organizations Groupe de Recherches Musicales and Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music (IRCAM).
	www.csun.edu /~dwh50750/Classes/MUS191/Emusic_readings/ECenturyPartIV.html (3100 words)

	1978 New England Digital Synclavier
		But the story of the Synclavier began years before when a group of engineering students (Sydney Alonzo, Cameron Jones and Judd Burnham) in the Digital Hardware Lab at Dartmouth College created a small digital synthesizer to give computer-aided instruction in music with some composition language software and ear-training exercises.
		Based on the response to their simple prototype, the group applied for a grant to create a larger, multi-user system, and was able to license FM synthesis from Yamaha.
		The early units were fairly crude, but with the later debut of the Synclavier II, which offered polyphonic sampling and powerful synthesis capability (still favored by many top sound designers worldwide), NED was on the way.
	mixonline.com /TECnology-Hall-of-Fame/new-england-synclavier-090106 (627 words)

	Synclavier II Restoration - page 3
		The mains switch will be in a panel of it's own with the infamous Synclavier logo in big white unmistakable letters.
		A new genuine Synclavier power switch complete with original loom (unshielded connectors, we will have to cover the exposed mains later.
		A Solid State Relay (not present in the standard Sync II) is now fitted to take the strain away from the main switch, and the output is fed to the distribution blocks that are standard Synclavier items.
	www.500sound.com /workshop/synclavier_restore3.html (308 words)

	Synclavier History
		This Synclavier history is more about what the machine is capable of doing.
		The audio/specification/power standard the Synclavier set back in 1985-1987 still mops the floor with a lot of today's sample systems.
		The prices on Synclaviers were based on two primary factors.
	home.earthlink.net /~yaking/html/wsnHIST.html (871 words)

	ProSoundWeb \| Digital Audio Workstation Milestones
		Eventually, The Synclavier migrated from being a musical instrument into a full-on digital production environment; its combination of sampling/digital synthesis and disk-based recoding and playback was a remarkable success.
		NED Synclavier II Fairlight emerged in 1979 and introduced the Series I Computer Musical Instrument (CMI).
		Unlike PC-based systems, both the Synclavier and CMI were based on minicomputers running proprietary operating systems.
	www.prosoundweb.com /recording/articles/mel/daw_milestones2.shtml (442 words)

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