Guest Speaker: Roger Linn

Roger Linn, designer of electronic music products, accepted our invitation as a guest speaker at the Sound Synthesis Club. He presented his forthcoming LinnStrument, a grid-oriented MIDI control surface for expressive musical performance that captures the independent X, Y and Z movements of all simultaneous touches.


Guest Speaker: Dr. John Chowing

Dr. John Chowning from Stanford University was our first external Guest Speaker taking the Sound Synthesis Club to a whole new level.


  • Moog's Legacy and Analog Synthesis presented by Oscar Caraballo.

  • Spectral Synthesis I presented by Oscar Caraballo.

  • Emu Systems' Beat Mungler presented by Jean Laroche.

  • Frequency Modulation Synthesis presented by Oscar Caraballo.

  • Speech Synthesis presented by Carlos Avendano.

  • MIDI Notation presented by Chris Wolf.

  • Max Mathews presented by Oscar Caraballo.

  • Digital FX(s) presented by Brian Clark.

  • Wolfgang Palm and PPG presented by Oscar Caraballo.

  • DigiDesign's ProTools presented by Julio Ortiz.

  • Frequency Modulation Synthesis presented by Dr. John Chowning.

  • MIDI Specification presented by Dave Sparks.

  • Muse Research - Receptor 2 presented by Bryan Lanser.

  • Internal Mixing presented by Oscar Caraballo.

  • Prism Synthesis presented by Mark Phillips.