The ANS Synthesizer (Синтезатор АНС)

[Keijz74]

How Dr. Who of you!

[ifriar]

Haunting.

[SR3Normandy]

звуки странные издает

[Photosounder]

A shame they just drew random squiggly lines. You can get much better sounds (i.e. actual music) if you know what you're doing and most importantly if the things you draw have a meaningful relationship between each other (e.g. drawing lines that are vertically separated by distances that make them have a harmonic relationship). Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Photosounder, a program that basically does what the ANS synth did and more (it opens sounds as images too).

[Carmela1881]

@Photosounder

You can get an example of actual music performed by this macine from Tarkovsky's Solaris

[MuzikJunkyAES]

This synth has such a rich sound! Peace.

[theINSIDEout001]

Skip to 4:14 to hear it.

[Ghoopty]

Alright, enough lady, I just wanna hear the weird synth.......

[rushnerd]

@Ghoopty

I know right

[gridsleep]

This synth was made in the 1930's, and of course the commissars called it an example of Soviet superiority. Look at that panel. it looks like it's made with surplus aircraft control parts. There is only one of these. Amazing. It looks like they have it in St. Basil's cathedral, which has been a museum since the revolution. I think, though, they may have opened it up as a church again, now that they are democratic.

[toborexperiment]

metasynth ante litteram

[jackal59]

What an oddly beautiful instrument.

[youtubkit]

хрень, если честно =)

[LarisaShelest]

wow

[BlackThornyRose666]

надо рисунки кругов на полях так сделать О_о

[octopusvision]

@BlackThornyRose666 - интересно было бы_

[PokrovskyKonstantin]

@BlackThornyRose666 проведём рисунки кругов на полях через этот синтезатор, и получим голосовую расшифровку!!

[cullyvan]

Wow. I need one of these. Okay I need the only one.

[buchla300]

Someone should re-make one! The soundtracks i was used on are amazing.

[albedoshader]

You should definitely check these programs:

-Coagula

-Sound 2D Warper

-AudioPaint

These work based on the same principle, interpreting digital images as sound data.

[totalentropy]

@albedoshader it was 1958.

[gridsleep]

@albedoshader Also Native Instruments' free Newscool plugin for Reaktor.

[albedoshader]

Remaking this in hardware would be an amazing DIY project.

[vrulj1986]

4to to neponjatnoe... eto ne sintezater---eto ne4jto...

[ZombieDoggie]

This is really cool. I'm guess the images sort of create the sound (I don't know any Russian, wondering if I could get a English translation, or at least summary)

[albedoshader]

Exactly. The black glass plate is like a spectrogram. You "paint" the "spectrum" on it and then it's analyzed by photodiodes or suchlike. 720 sine wave generators produce a sound whenever the appropriate portion on the glass plate is transparent. An amazing instrument.

[jxoxy]

Удивительнейший звук у инструмента, конечно.