The PPG Waveterm |
 |
|
 |
| The PPG Wave system, comprising of Wave 2.2/3 EVU and
PRK formed the hub of a powerful music production
system. It was sometimes considered as a more affordable
version of the Fairlight CMI, but this is rather
symplistic and they occupied different spaces on the
whole. The Waveterm (later dubbed Waveterm A when the
Waveterm B was released) featured a pair of 8" floppy
drives, unique "keyboard" and monochrome green CRT
display. The unit allowed for user 8 bit sampling,
wavetable creation, sound manipulation and sequencing
functions. The heart of the Waveterm is a 6809 based
computer card (Eurocom II) from the German Eltec
company. Some Waveterm As were upgraded to 5.25" floppy
drives, while a few had them as made from my
understanding. Communication in this pre-MIDI era was via PPG's fast proprietary bus system similar to SCSI. |
 |