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Great subject, interesting and informative, I participate by quoting a great one that everyone knows: Klauss Schulze

 

You jest, but kind of he did. Though I'd say it would be in the field of business like Michael Dell, not music or sound.

 

Korg Synthesizers History by Vanderson

Korg Inc. (株式会社コルグ, Kabushiki-gaisha Korugu), founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories, is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners.

 

Isao Tomita

 

this topic is way to big for compressing all into one thread.

history,theory,genres,musicians, composers, instruments inventors , analog , digital , computer,live music - soundsystems ,companys, synthesis even politix and what else not .

 

E-mu Emulator II Sampler - sound library (1984)

E-MU Systems was a software synthesizer, audio interface, MIDI interface, and MIDI keyboard manufacturer. Founded in 1971 as a synthesizer maker, E-mu was a pioneer in samplers, sample-based drum machines and low-cost digital sampling music workstations.

 

I agree. Too open ended. At first I thought that according to my reading of the title, it was about companies and associated artists specifically. ie. My Moog and Rick Wakeman example, just as I could say Paul McCartney and Hofner basses. At least that is a topic with boundaries.

 

LPCM 16Bit @ 44.1?
Anybody? At all?
I thought you may have heard of it.
Because it's the same format as Microsoft's WAVE, that we all use everyday!
And Apple Mackintosh's AIFF is the equivalent PCM based type.

 

also, Phil Collins and The 80's Snare..

long story short: How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music..

 

First of all, a thank you to the inventors of the power supply, the cables, the sockets, capacitors and so on. Thanks also go to the inventors of the World Wide Web.

Timothy John Berners-Lee (British physicist and computer scientist) He is the inventor of HTML and the founder of the World Wide Web. The official start is April 30, 1993.

 

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You forgot to thank the first caveman to bang a stick on a hollow log.

 

Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990

Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970

 

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The oldest flute found is approximately 60,000 years old.
https://www.nms.si/en/collections/highlights/343-Neanderthal-flute.

 

The theremin, invented in 1920, is now considered the first electronic instrument.

Leon Theremin playing his own instrument

Pink Floyd - "The Great Gig in the Sky" - Theremin

 

Exactly!
Because prior to that we had been using bone to beat the hollow log.
The attack transient of said beater was off-putting, the tone of the log a bit gnarly to be honest, and the instruments didn't last very long.
But wood on wood? The birth of cool. Smoove Grooves able to manifest within the harmonics of those vibrations.

I remember one lifetime when I accidentally dropped a hand utensil for weaving wool on my rack of finely entwined strings of cat gut.
I simultaneously gave rise to many instruments. probably.
Whilst I still carried on refining it because I like cats. I just had a good deal on the cat gut at the time.
And since I ate a lot of chicken back then, I went for chicken tendons. Small instrument, that one.
And being a chicken was hell due to the ridiculously small brain of the vehicle.
So believe me, we're doing them a favour.
The fact we have so many of them means that somebody must be selling cheap trips to planet earth without showing the vehicle they could have had. possibly.
Or it's just all they could afford.

 

Allen Strange (1943 - 2008)
He authored two books, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls (first published in the 1970s) and Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism.

- Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls (1972)
- Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism (1974)

Strange Multiplication: Sequence Contraction and Sequence Sequencing

 

That's no flute that's the racoon mask my dog keeps chewing because he thinks it's his dog bone.
Jokes aside, that's actually pretty cool.

I wonder if the Flintstones had "this one time at bandcamp..." stories in the form of grunts, too. I bet they still cooter tooted better flute lines than most of todays trap music doe.

 

Does not the Bible state that "God made Adam a woman, so that she might play his meat flute and thus give him pleasure?"