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Palm's interest in synthesis technology began as a keyboardist in various local bands in his hometown of Hamburg, Germany. His namesake corporation began operating as early as 1975, manufacturing modular synthesizers in small amounts for electronica act Tangerine Dream.

Palm is arguably most famous for the invention of wavetable synthesis, a concept which he developed in the late 1970's when he created his Minimoog-like synthesizer - the 1020 - featuring DCO's instead of the VCO's his 1002 and all other analog synthesizers of that time were using - and the 360 Wavecomputer that would later become the renowned PPG Wave series.

Palm's design was the impetus for the creation of the highly successful PPG Wave synthesizer, which was used by numerous bands throughout the 1980's and beyond.

Today, nearly every digital synthesizer is in some way based on the concept of wavetable synthesis.

In the last few years, after I had let off some steam on the area of synthesis, the thought of writing down my story had already come to my mind once or twice.

The last step for this to happen came from my stepson Bjørn Eilertson, who wanted to make me a digital presence for getting in touch with old acquaintances as a surprise. So he had started to build me this myspace page.