PPG Realizer
The Realizer was the last machine PPG (Palm Products GmbH) produced. In fact very few were finished or released so it's pretty rare. The Realizer was very unique in its effort to combine sound production, emulation, processing, recording, sequencing, and mixing into one all-digital system. A concept that was very much ahead of its time considering that we're only now seeing affordable software-based devices that can offer this type of environment.
As for synthesizing sounds, the Realizer features an analog model, an FM model, wavetable synthesis, and a sampler. They were designed to show an image of a Minimoog, or other synth on their built-in monitor. Then you could control the Minimoog knobs with the controls around the screen of the Realizer. Pretty space-age stuff for 1986! Unfortunately, the price tag of $65,000 didn't exactly make it a marketer's dream. It was the last thing that PPG made, and they went out of business a short time later.
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- Specifications
- Features - an analog model, an FM model, wavetable synthesis, and a sampler
- Keyboard - None
- Control - Midi
- Date Produced - 1986
- Resources & Credits
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Thanks to Roger Cordell at Big City Music for providing some information and the original image.
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Look how long it's taken to get there!
Palm was clearly years ahead of the time.
Wolfgang's Palm's blogs on MySpace talks about the death of PPG being more to do with contractual arrangements with US distributors, stating that the wholesale payment of products would not occur until hundreds of stock items were completely sold. That spells death for any medium sized manufacturer...