Library Instrument

Synclavier II

New England Digital's digital synthesis and sampling system, first shipped 1978.

Type
Instrument
Creators
Cameron Jones, Sydney Alonso, New England Digital
Subjects
Instruments Technology

First shipped in 1978, the Synclavier was the first commercially available real-time digital synthesis instrument, evolving through the Synclavier II into a full “tapeless studio” combining FM synthesis, sampling, and hard-disk recording well ahead of its contemporaries.