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David Cockerell AKAI professional R&D, London, UK
1967 - 69 Chief engineer, Peter Zinovieff's Computer Music Studio
1969 - 74 Chief engineer, EMS (London), Synthesizer Manufacturer
1974 - 75 Engineer, Electro-Harmonix, New York City
1975 - 76 Engineer, IRCAM, Paris, France
1976 - 85 Chief engineer, Electro-Harmonix, New York City
1986 - Technical supervisor and engineer, AKAI professional, London
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At EMS, David designed the legendary VCS3 and Synthi A - highly sought-after analogue synthesisers even today. He also designed the enormous Synth 100 modular synthesiser as used by the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop. He was also behind the design of some of the world's first multi-channel digital sequencers, an off-shoot of which was the digital sequencer included with the EMS Synthi AKS.
At Electro-Harmonix, he designed many of their classic effects pedals including the Electric Mistress flanger, Small/Bad Stone phasers and more. He also designed their Vocoder, Mini-Synth, etc..
With Akai, David has designed the hardware and LSIs for many of our major products including the S612, S900, S1000, MPC60, S3000, MPC3000, DD1000, DD1500, S5/6000, DPS24 and more.