Library Person

Wolfgang Palm

German inventor of wavetable synthesis, founder of PPG.

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Person
Subjects
Instruments Technology

Wolfgang Palm (b. 1950) founded Palm Products GmbH (PPG) in Hamburg, building modular synthesizers for Tangerine Dream from the mid-1970s before pioneering wavetable synthesis — storing successive single-cycle waveforms in adjacent memory slots — most fully realized in the 1981 PPG Wave 2.

Works in the Library

  • Wolfgang Palm, PPG INSTRUMENT

    PPG Wave 2

    PPG's 1981 wavetable synthesizer, combining analog signal paths with digital oscillators.

    INSTRUMENTS TECHNOLOGY