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[lodger]

 

Interview with electronic musician Suzanne Ciani, composer and voice of Xenon pinball machine. Super Cool

 

lodger

[Ben Logan]

Nice find, Lodger. Susan is also featured in the latest Moog Model 15 app advertisement. Super brilliant sound designer. Xenon sounds are other worldly.  

[xenonph]

One of my favorite Tables!!! Thanks for sharing this!!!

[toxie]

Insane.. Still wondering how they 'converted' the speech though.. Must have been a huge pain..

[lodger]

I'm guessing early PCM playback was the sound generation method. I'd guess the samples recorded from her voice and the synthesizer processing it were recorded to tape and encoded at 8 bit which was loaded onto a ROM chip.

Back in the day that would have been a pretty hardcore computer, indeed.  

[toxie]

Oh, indeed.. I always thought that it also uses Squalk N Talk like most of the other Bally machines, but in fact it really used something similar to PCM..

Interesting!