Synclavier Digital Music System sampling + synthesis complete 1984-1986 manual set


This is the absolute latest revision of this book set, made just prior to the switch to the 1987-1992 style small black/blue manual sets:







This set consists of three huge books in three original NED fabric-covered library boxes:





These are HUGE books, over 600 pages!


The book with many huge sections is book 1, Real-Time Performance Options, which has even more pages than can comfortably fit in it, as you can see in the photo above where book 1 is on the bottom of the stack.

This set is unlike any other I have seen. These silver book sets were sold from 1984 to 1986, and are always populated with different sections, but all the other ones I have seen had the older style where the pages look typed and there is very little typesetting. For example, the title page of each section will be typed with a typewriter, like this, instead of typeset like these below.

Each section is the latest known revision of that section.

The first section is a THE MEMORY RECORDER, October 23, 1986. This is the manual for the V/PK velocity keyboard and instructions for all 160 buttons on it. This one replaced the older New England Digital Synclavier KEYBOARD TUTORIAL Revised Version September 6, 1985, which was approximately 98 pages. This later, expanded volume incorporates all the information from that and expands it to hundreds of pages, also explaining the Memory Recorder, the Music Notation Display, etc..





This is how thick it is, it is on top and the darker section placed under it is the older version it replaced, it is about 3-4 times the size:





More sections below, with the title pages shown and a second photo to show how thick that section is:



This section explains synthesizer programming and all the timbre and harmonic displays.




This book set is really two complete system sets in one, because book 3 is the complete guide to the Synclavier II Sample-to-Disk (aka mono sampling) system and Resynthesis and timbre frame synthesis, but book 1 also has the complete guide to polyphonic sampling with the big Synclavier systems in the section below:








This section explains great stuff the Synclavier can do, like read SMPTE and do drum replacement from tape using Synclavier library sounds:







The Multichannel Distributor, though unglamorous, is the best option on the Synclavier, because it isn't replaced by anything else on any other music system, ever:



The final section explains the MIDI Option, which, although it is the option most sought by newbies, is really the least useful to most Synclavier users who know how to program the Synclavier voices, which have sound and function that nothing else does:









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