Music Tech Timeline By VinceVilar06 1878 Telegraphone 1898 Triode Vaccum Tube 1922 Optical Sound Recording 1924 Electrical Loudspeaker 1928 Formulation of Sampling 1930 Light-Tone Organ 1935 Magnetophone 1936 Singing Keyboard 1938 Pulse Code Modulation 1950 Musique Concrete 1955 Special Purpose Tape Recorder 1957 Digital Synthesis 1970 Algorithmic Microprocessor Synthesis 1971 Formalized Music 1977 Digital Audio Recording System 1979 Fairlight Computer Music Instrument 1980 DAW 1981 E-Mu Emulator 1982 Compact Disc 1983 MIDI 1984 Cmix 1986 Csound 1988 Max 1990 Digital Multi-track Systems