Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970

From the BBC archives.
vilsays...

Wikipedia says no one noticed the sideburns until 1979.

Nice to see a face to attach to music from Tron and A Clockwork Orange.

Also the Moog synthesiser is pretty interesting, not least for the difficulty in finding out the correct pronunciation of the name.

KrazyKat42says...

Wendy was Walter back then. My college roommate had some early albums and hoped the she got really famous in hopes of selling them for big bucks.

And he loved Moogs.

newtboysays...

My Pops had a prophet 2000 the mid 80's. The first home digital sampling synth. It had all these options and more to apply to either the basic hum or to any sample. It had reverb, attack, sustain, decay, multiple preset wave forms, speed (of the sample), pitch and tone, and probably 1/2 dozen more I can't recall, all in a keyboard size unit, not a full pipe organ size. The samples came or could be recorded on 3 1/2" floppies, and you could store a huge number of presets to modify them as you wished at the push of one button, not a complete retuning with multiple dials. I had fun remixing James Brown and Prince, but never learned to play well.
Amazing the advancements they made in just 15 years.

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