video 1.0 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/ RED MARTIAN http://vimeo.com/user677403 0 <object width="504" height="380"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1530962&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1530962&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="504" height="380"></embed></object> 504 380 121 The Syntar was designed in the late 70s by George Mattson. George's company, P.M.S. (Performance Music Systems) manufactured these units with some work done by EML. There are roughly 8 units built and sold with a handful of prototypes, but by 1980 Moog Music had the Syntar beat marketing wise with its lesser Liberation. Mark Mothersbaugh once optically scanned a Syntar at NAMM, but it seems the Liberation ended up in their rig. I wanted to post a simple piece first and then later go into much further detail about what the Syntar can do that most mono-synths cannot and why it blows all other 'keytars' away. (I hope I beat Jean Michel Jarre by posting the first Syntar video anywhere) http://images.vimeo.com/11/70/15/117015689/117015689_200x150.jpg 200 150 1530962