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[[File:Solid State Micro Technology for Music logo.png|right|150px]]Usually referred to by the the acronym '''SSM''' which can mean '''Solid State Micro Technolgy''', '''Solid State Micro Technolgy for Music''', '''Solid State Music Technology''' or '''Solid State Microelectronics''' depending on which documentation one looks at.<ref name="emwssm">Electronic Music wiki:[http://electronicmusic.wikia.com/wiki/SSM SSM]</ref>
== The company ==
Founded in 1975<ref name="ss">[http://gyraf.dk/schematics/VCAs_Ben_Duncan.pdf ''VCAs Invesigated part two''] by Ben Duncan, Studio Sound, p.60, Jul. 1989</ref> by John Robert Burgoon,<ref name="hae">{{Cite web |url=http://www.anchor-electronics.com/about_us/about_us.html |title=History of Anchor-Electronics |accessdate=2012-12-18 |archiveurl=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130103111420/http://www.anchor-electronics.com/about_us/about_us.html |archivedate=2013-01-03History |deadurl=yesof |df=Anchor-Electronics] }}(archived)</ref> Solid State Music Technology (SSM) originated out the [[Wikipedia:Homebrew Computer Club|Homebrew Computer Club]], an early 1970s Silicon Valley computer hobbyist group.<ref name="emwssm" /> It was one of two companies that in the mid-1970s designed and sold [[analog]] [[integrated circuit]]s used in [[synthesizer]]s, the other was [[OnChip Systems|Curtis Electromusic Specialties]].
SSMs first products were computer boards for the now-obsolete [[S-100 bus]] standard, including some boards intended for music applications. As [[Dave Rossum]] told the story in a 1981 interview with [[Polyphony (magazine)|Polyphony magazine]], an engineer named [[Ron Dow]] had come to [[E-mu Systems]] looking for funding to develop a [[voltage controlled amplifier]] on a chip. However, the proposed design would not have been compatible with the [[modular synthesizer]]s that E-mu was selling at the time, so they turned Dow down. Dow then went to SSM and they agreed to fund the project and market it. The result was the first synthesizer-specific integrated circuit, the SSM2000 VCA. The following year, Dow came back with an idea for an improved design that was compatible with E-mu's systems and E-mu became involved with SSM in the design, the result was the SSM2010.<ref name="emwssm" /><ref name="dri">[http://www.siliconbreakdown.com/rossum_interview.htm Interview of Dave Rossum] by Jay Lee in Polyphony Magazine Nov/Dec 1981</ref>
* [[SSM2164]] – Low Cost Quad Voltage Controlled Amplifier
* [[SSM2300]] – 8 channel [[Multiplex|multiplexed]] [[sample and hold]]
<ref name="cem">{{Cite web |url=http://curtiselectromusic.com/Customers_and_Instruments.html |title=Curtis Electromusic |accessdate=2012-12-18 |archiveurl=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130502132536/http://curtiselectromusic.com/Customers_and_Instruments.html |archivedate=2013-05-02Customers |deadurl=yesand |df=Instruments], Curtis Electromusic }}(archived)</ref><ref name="sd">[http://www.sequencer.de/specials/synthesizer_chip.html Synthesizer Database] by Moogulator</ref><ref name="ssmds">SSM data sheets</ref>
== Synthesizers using x SSM ICs ==
* Thomas Henry one-chip ADSR – x SSM2056<ref name="th" />
* Timo Rozendal 2044 VCF
<ref name="cem">{{Cite web |url=http://curtiselectromusic.com/Customers_and_Instruments.html |title=Curtis Electromusic |accessdate=2012-12-18 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502132536/http://curtiselectromusic.com/Customers_and_Instruments.html |archivedate=2013-05-02 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref><ref name="sd">[http://www.sequencer.de/specials/synthesizer_chip.html Synthesizer Database] by Moogulator</ref><ref name="sch">Various schematics</ref>
== See also ==
* [http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/SSM/History/History.htm Solid State Music history]
* [http://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/solid_state_music_system.php Solid State Music System]
* [http://ssmcurtis.com/ SSM & Curtis Chips –Synth's Inside outOut]
* [http://www.soundsemiconductor.com/ Sound Semiconductor Inc], reissuing SSM ICs
=== Data sheets ===
* [https://archive.org/details/solid-state-micro-technology-for-music-databook-1979 Solid State Micro Technology For Music Databook 1979]
* [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM_Catalog.pdf SSM Catalog, 1986/87]
* [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2000_datasheet.pdf SSM2000], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2010_datasheet.pdf SSM2010], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2012_datasheet.pdf SSM2012], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2013_datasheet.pdf SSM2013], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2014_datasheet.pdf SSM2014], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2015_datasheet.pdf SSM2015], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2020_datasheet.pdf SSM2020], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2022_datasheet.pdf SSM2022], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2024_datasheet.pdf SSM2024], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2030_datasheet.pdf SSM2030], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2031_datasheet.pdf SSM2031], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2033_datasheet.pdf SSM2033], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2038_datasheet.pdf SSM2038], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2040_datasheet.pdf SSM2040], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2044_datasheet.pdf SSM2044], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2045_datasheet.pdf SSM2045], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2047_datasheet.pdf SSM2047], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2050_datasheet.pdf SSM2050], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2056_datasheet.pdf SSM2056], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2100_datasheet.pdf SSM2100], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2120_datasheet.pdf SSM2120], [httphttps://www.sdiy.info/wiki/File:SSM2164_datasheet.pdf SSM2164]
Some are also freely available from:
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