Music synthesizers Music synthesiz

Music synthesizers Music synthesizers were the first product of these efforts. They cannot, however, be regarded as more than an intermediate technological development because of later computer technology In contrast to Cahill’s period, by the 1950s the means finally existed to construct full-scale music synthesizers, starting with the RCA Electronic Music Synthesizers, designed by Harry Olson and Herbert Belar, research scientists working at the RCA Laboratories at Princeton, New Jersey. The first machine was introduced in 1955; a second, improved model was turned over to the Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1959.The basic advance of the RCA synthesizer was an information input mechanism, a device for punching sets of instructions into a wide roll of punched paper tape.