Home / Music / The TONTO synthesizer defined Talking Book's soundMusic linernotes album music stevie-wonderThe TONTO synthesizer defined Talking Book's soundRobert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil served as associate producers and engineers, programming the TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) synthesizer. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesTalking Book reached No. 3 while spawning two No. 1 singles — Superstition and You Are the Sunshine of My LifeSongs in the Key of Life took Stevie Wonder two and a half years and four studiosInnervisions won Stevie Wonder Album of the Year and moreStevie Wonder spent ten days in a coma after InnervisionsStevie Wonder met Bob Marley and wrote 'Master Blaster'ExploreDavid Gahr shot the cover of New York Tendaberry.Robert Mapplethorpe shot Patti Smith's famous album cover.Allen Toussaint wrote and produced early Irma Thomas hits.Anna Jantar's husband Jarosław Kukulski wrote her hits.Bettye Swann hit No. 1 with 'Make Me Yours'.Previous Young Mountain started as a self-released demo on CD-RNext The Kursk submarine disaster inspired the darkest track on The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place