• Much bigger version of above photo - GIF (713K) or JPEG (988K)
• Photo of the synth running recently in the basement studio; Day or night
• Most recent synth photo, with fuller description
• A shot of one of the cabinets watched by our old Himalayan cat "Gingerbread"
• The synth at a lunch installation I did at the Media Lab in January of 1999
• A closeup of some patched modules
• Very early shot of the first synth cabinet from when I was an undergraduate in 1976 (and couldn't afford knobs)
• A shot of the modules that I built while in Zurich, stacked up in my old apartment waiting to ship back to the USA
• A closeup of the assimilated Casio SK-1 Keyboard
• A closeup of the assimilated Casio VL-Tone Keyboard
• Me and the synth rig at MIT in July of 2004 as it was being readied for transport to Linz

• Full list of all synth modules and functions
• Audio Examples
• Short MPEG video of synth in action (1.8 Meg)
• An interview with me (incl. more photos) that the Virtual Synth Museum did a few years back and posted on their site. My comments are choppy in places, but again, I tend to talk quickly...
• A few pages that I wrote for Ben Kettlewell's book "Electronic Music Pioneers" that describes what it was like to grow up as a synth hacker.
• A detailed report that I wrote back in May of 1977 that describes the design of all the devices in the original 37-module synthesizer cabinet.

• A website describing the MIDI Processor and deluxe Oberheim 4-Voice Interface that I designed and built for Lyle Mays.
• A website describing a digitially-controlled analog synthesizer that I built into a CAMAC module while a graduate student at CERN.
• A website describing a radio station that I redesigned and rebuilt during the mid 80's.
• Yet another website detailing a avant-progrock seminar that I ran (informally) at the MIT Media Lab in the spring of 2011.

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