https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:45:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.preservationsound.com/the-resynator-pitch-tracking-synth-c-1980/ https://www.preservationsound.com/the-resynator-pitch-tracking-synth-c-1980/#comments Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:45:08 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7670 How y’all doing.  Found an odd lil bit from 1980’s synth-land: the Resynator, from “Musico.”  Yup that was the name of the company that created this $2000 device ($5,700 at the pump today, buddy).  Anyhow, the Resynator is a fascinating pitch-and-envelope-tracking synthesizer (monophonic, I am sure) that used digital signal processing (unlike, say, the Korg MS20 of the same era, which could also track pitch and envelope, but was completely analog -and much cheaper).  So, yeah, you could patch any monophonic audio signal into the Resynator and get a synth-sound on the output.  But oh it’s so much more complicated than that.  Read on, in this 1980 review by one John Amaral…

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