The Coupland is on Display at Musical Instument Musuem https://mim.org/ . I would enjoy the display more it it was turned on for more indepth study. ;>)

If you uploaded this to YT it would become viral for the lowfi crowd and Production music guys would swoon over this and pay to use as ambient track behind whatever they were doing

Remarkable in every way, concept, construction, resurrection, memory, composition, delivery, record, history, extinction, rarity, sound construction, timelessness.

"Now keep in mind that in 1979 no one had even considered a digital synthesizer..." Sorry to break it you, but that is simply untrue. The most notable example is the Bell Labs "Alice", dating to the early 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Digital_Synthesizer. Still, your recording and story are great. :)

Score written for Crash! Crash! Crash!,  a What Was I Thinking VidLIt featuring Teri Garr.

Crash! Crash! Crash!

End of the line for this version. I naively thought that I could record all the tracks at constant volume, then add all the dynamics in the mixing process. But that just didn't work. I lost the nuances of how the performer's playing style changes between pp and ff passages, and the end result is that the forte phrases do not stand out at all. 
I have now added modules to my setup that will allow me to insert the dynamics at the beginning of the process, changing the attack and timbre as well as volume. However, since this was recorded on a modular hardware synth, this means redoing the patch with the new capabilities and re-recording all 10 tracks from scratch. Stay tuned for version 2

Brandenburg Concerto Version 1

Demo of my FB-3300 VST/AU synth, a Korg PS-3300 simulation.
Done in Reaper 64 with 16 FB-3300s.
Plug-in download: www.fullbucket.de/music/fb3300.html.
MP3 download: www.fullbucket.de/music/index.html#fr33ze.

FR33ZE

Night Owl

I found an old box of cassettes with a couple of gems in it. One actually has my final project from an electronic music composition class I took in 1979. I was poking my nose into dusty corners in the basement of the music building at the University of Arizona, and found a rack of wire wrapped circuit boards with a terminal, a couple of 8" floppy drives, and an 88 key keyboard attached! I started asking around, and learned that it was one of the 5 prototypes of the Micor Coupland digital synthesizer. It had been left by a professor who had retired, and no one knew anything about it. So being me, I asked if I could play around with it. They made me take the 400 level class (as a sophomore) to get access to it, and I happily obliged, and got a couple of friends to help me haul it out of the basement and set it up in the 8-track studio. Now keep in mind that in 1979 no one had even considered a digital synthesizer, and you could count the polyphonic synths in the WORLD on one hand. Here was a FULLY (88-note) polyphonic DIGITAL synth! So I set about putting it all back together, started sticking floppies in until I found one that actually booted up, and I was off and running.
It was based on the TI-9900 microprocessor. Sounds were created by entering an equation that gave voltage as a function of time. It had 2 oscillators, the main oscillator and a modulation oscillator, and an ADSR that controlled the amplitude. The keyboard was the only "performance" control - all other real-time changes to the sound had to be commanded on the terminal. I learned to type with one hand while playing with the other.
Anyway, this is what came out of a fun-filled semester playing with this beast. I am putting it up here strictly for its historical significance; to showcase what this synth could have become if Micor hadn't pulled the funding.
There is a little bit of info on it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupland_Digital_Music_Synthesizer - but the story I heard (from a girl I was dating, who's father was a friend of Rick Coupland) was that Rick was so mad when Micor pulled the funding that he destroyed all of the documentation, and wouldn't even talk about the project to anyone after that. This MAY be the only surviving recording of this magnificent instrument.

Micor Coupland (first digital synthesizer)

Synth Dreams 2

this is the first piece of music I wrote that I thought to myself, "this aint bad at all". I wrote it when I was still in school all those years ago. My equipment was primitive to say the least, but I had found a sound that I thought was, for the stuff I had, was mine. i hope you enjoy

Crusade

Popcorn Remake

Visage - Fade To Grey (McV Adsr - Bárbara Banu & Rafael Sáez Remix)

From a Rock Opera called "Fallen". The protagonist; Ronny, in adrug fueled state has come to believe that he is a God, and enters Heaven to confront 'the' God....

Fallen

A God Before God (1999)

I did a lot of electronic music work back in the 70s and 80s, but then took a 30 year break to do the whole family / rocket scientist career thing. In the spring of 2012, I attended a reunion with a bunch of my musician friends from the old days, and decided it was time to get back into the game. My, oh my - how the technology has changed. I am now using just a single synthesizer - the ZynAddSubFx open source softsynth originally designed by Paul Nasca. I am using the VST version by VDX, running inside the Podium and Reaper  DAWs. I borrowed my wife's Yamaha PSR-E403 keyboard as a MIDI input device ("You aren't going to take it apart, are you?", she said with a worried look), and picked up a Novation Remote 61SL, an Alesis PercPad for drum inputs and a TASCAM US-600 audio system to round out my system. I also dug my old guitar pickup out of the shed and installed it in a cheap 12-string I picked up a couple years ago.

I hope you enjoy listening to my various musical creations.
If you like what you hear, stop by and "like" my Facebook page. - http://www.facebook.com/DaveHamaraMusic
And if you REALLY enjoy them, there are high quality downloads available on my BandCamp page. - https://davehamara.bandcamp.com/

Micor Coupland (first digital synthesizer)

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