How y’all doing. Found an odd lil bit from 1980’s synth-land: the Resynator, from “Musico.” Yup that was the name of the company that created this $2000 device ($5,700 at the pump today, buddy). Anyhow, the Resynator is a fascinating pitch-and-envelope-tracking synthesizer (monophonic, I am sure) that used digital signal processing (unlike, say, the Korg MS20 of the same era, which could also track pitch and envelope, but was completely analog -and much cheaper). So, yeah, you could patch any monophonic audio signal into the Resynator and get a synth-sound on the output. But oh it’s so much more complicated than that. Read on, in this 1980 review by one John Amaral…
