It was probably built by CalArts university students in the 1970s.
They were most likely supervised by Serge Tcherepnin himself.
(Correction: recent info has come to light that this was built by Peter Davidson in the 1970s)
http://peterdavison.com/
Ken Stone has more pictures of this synth in his CGS Gallery
In this video David Morley talks about it around 3.50 mins.
I purchased this synthesizer from David Morley in mid 2013 & have placed its' restoration
in the very capable hands of Ken Stone.
The wooden case has 8 compartments.
The top two house the reverb & power supply.
The lower six house the 6 paperface panels:
The top left panel contains the filters, reverb, phasers & a mixer.
The next panel on the left contains a heap of ring modulators, gates, a negative slew, an ASR, and a bi-directional router.
The bottom left panel is the famous Sherman Chaos bank. Ken and I are debating whether to leave the bare metal alone or to add new artwork.
The top right panel consists of a noise source, a random voltage generator, triple wave shaper, +ve & -ve slews and a envelope generator.
The middle right panel consists of 4 oscillators, comparator, a send/receive & a mixer.
The bottom right last panel contains two programmers & a sequencer.
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