
Bob James
Questlove Supreme
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The Early Stages of the Polyphonic Synthesizer
I know like a lot of those early synthesizers that were available in the 70s were monophonic, which kind of makes it limiting for you to play chords or anything. I don't remember exactly when I got endorsement from Yamaha, but I've been affiliated with them for many, many years now. The Oberheim 8 voice was the one I used a lot that you could play polyphonically on and manipulated very differently than the more recent Polyphonic synthesizers are. If you try to do anything too fancy or too fast, changing, it didn't behave like a... You know what? Okay. That's my shit. Manny, Manny, Manny,. great memories from
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