2026-09-15 20:51 UTC
Fuck. As I don't follow the hometown news that closely anymore, I didn't even know:
Vladimir Kuzmin, the Polyvox synth chief designer (yes, *that* Polyvox, the all-discrete Soviet duophonic 2-VCO analog monster with that signature VCF, often approximated but never reproduced), passed away on June 12.
Fuck.
https://www.matrixsynth.com/2026/06/vladimir-kuzmin-creator-of-legendary.html
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@g808@ieji.de 2026-09-15 21:40
The fact that the blueprints for this machine had been laid out at a military-industrial design bureau a block down the street from my university still blows my mind (side note: if only they made just synths) Of course I have (if having it in the hometown counts) one too but I rarely got to use it at studio: the jobs that paid usually required not much more than firing up the XP-50 or TS10 and quickly finding the "yeah that's the tone" tone with minimal tweaks. Polyvox was the polar opposite.