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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
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The History of the Synthesizer and the Robots
Sound designer Ben Burt borrowed Francis Ford Coppola's ARP 2600 synthesizer for Star Wars' R2D2. "I went ahead and actually tried to design R2 myself," said Burt in an archival interview about making the robot voice. If you practice that a lot, you can kind of make a synthesizer talk like R2D1 or Rosie from the Jetsons.
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