Lovely fake doc that excites the imagination. There are plenty of actual and real unknown synths out there - my personal favorite is one I have had the pleasure to play personally and that moment is one of my favorite life memories: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer</a>. Analogue synths are amazing beasts.
I've been building synths lately and the hardest part is getting them in tune, and to have multi-octave tracking. It's still hard these days, amazing that they were able to get it working without all the tooling and collective knowledge we have now.
Cute. The dead giveaway in the documentary is that nobody bothered to pick up a screwdriver and open the thing. In 1968 the only way to build such a device would have been with individual transistors, and quite a large number of them given that it had a sequencer. The box would have been jam-packed, and the linear power supply alone would have made it quite heavy.<p>Today you could probably build the thing with an arduino.
via Hainbach, some arguments for why it might be fake: <a href="https://twitter.com/Hainbach101/status/1471798144698658821" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Hainbach101/status/1471798144698658821</a> (mentioned domain doesnt exist, knobs look 3d-printed, ...)