Welcome to Xenon

Synthesist Suzanne Ciani uses the vocoder to create human voice sounds for the new pinball machine "Xenon". From the TV Series "OMNI: The New Frontier."

Produced, directed and edited by Riva Freifeld.

Camera: Tom Hurwitz.
Writer: Sybil Rosen
Host: Peter Ustinov

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• electronic
• music
• ciani
• xenon
• pinball
• riva
• freifeld
• synthesizer
• vocoder
• bally
• OMNI

[porcorosso81]

Cool article! The voice compression scheme used in Xenon is called CVSD (Continuous Variable Slope Delta Modulation) and yields a 8:1 compression rate with fairly intelligible speech. Bally used it from 1978-1990 in their pinball and arcade machines.

[zenmachinefilms]

I was about 20 when Xenon and Seventh Wave came out and had a serious crush on Suzanne. Smart, attractive, fun, sexy, and into synths. What more could a guy possibly want?!

[MrBallyTechnologies]

Bally Manufacturing Corporation was firing on all cylinders during this time.

[VoiceEncoder]

Check-out 'intromix's' Bode 7702 Vocoder videos!!!

[bluenote71]

This the first game in the arcade I ever played that had a feel/atmosphere to it.

[gynandroidhead]

I was 13 years old when this machine came out. I first played it at the Woodbridge Mall arcade in New Jersey. All of the adolescent boys were drawn to this came for obvious reasons. That notwithstanding, it's a great, great game.

[HB6000]

goin to vegas soon. will be playing this and am very, very excited.

[bobbyXcore04]

i love this thing, i think im going to go play it right now in my basement.

[dickrammer69]

Played Xenon at Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas last week. Why play a slot machine when you can "try a tube shot".

[GottaBKD]

Is it just me or does she sound like she's climaxing when she uses the grunts? I laughed when the girl smirked at her. hehe

[myturbnzdirty]

Tube me...OH TUBE ME!! LMMFAO!!!