Mini mooog

[Mark Pulver]

>Thanks for the wery informatively information about the SEI..
>But showing a piece of equipment at NAMM only as a dummy box
>must be a big failure to the serious musican/market
>but eventually a good rippof money move thing to do..

It is unfortunately all too common.

At the same show there were a number of synths that had knobs glued on to a
case. The one that stands out in my mind the most is the polyphonic version
of Yamaha's VL-1 (this was the year that the VL-1 came out, and there were
at least two live ones at the show). At the time, Mackie was starting to
show pieces of the 8 buss, and sure enough they had a case mockup with the
knobs glued on. Oh, and then there was the infamous 2 year old mockup of
the Alesis synth that *still* wasn't out. We all now know about the
QuadraSynth.

All of these mockups were under plexiglass...

A lot of companies do this to gauge potential interest in the product and
see if they can snag any investors for covering development costs.


Mark

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