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Zappa even took his Synclavier on the road in 1988. You can hear it all over the albums from that tour. It was almost certainly the most expanded (and expensive

• piltdownman 2y ago
  Synclavier was a serious powerhouse that straddled the analog/digital era - additive, digital, and FM synthesis with unique sampling features. They were lucky with the cross-pollination in the US University scene at the time. It was originally envisaged to be the 'Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer', borrowing the then innovative FM synthesis technology from Stanford which was eventually the basis for the Yamaha DX line of synths, with the DX7 being the indisputable king of late 80s popular music. That 24-bit, 50kHz sample rate and the AD/DA converters were glorious, but even the workflow and palette editing functionality were so unique and revolutionary that there's value in a full 1:1 software emulation. I've had a lot of fun playing 'guess the hit single' with the Synclavier and Fairlight emulations in the Arturia Collection https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/synclavier-v/overview https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/syncla...