Modern analogue architecture OR anyone wanna open their FR777 and take a look for me?

[Paul Maddox]

Andrew,

>
>I have spent a lot of time speculating as to what manner of 

electronics
>are found in modern analogue shit ie FR777, Omega Series, etc.
>was wondering if anyone here was more knowledgable in this area.  Do 

they
>look mostly like FatMan and such ie off the shelf opamps, 

transistors,
>mounted on throughhole board?  Or do they use surfacemount?  What are 

the
>components like?  Off the shelf?  Application specific (Linear 

Devices and
>such)?  Many ICs? Many transistors?  Anyone care to help enlighten 

me?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Drew
>

from my experience of modern synths they tend to be surface mount 
mainly... use micro-processors and/or DSP's... there is very little 
inside them...

Classic example of this was when I opened my Tx81z, one damn chip!!!
my SY85 had more chips in but again, micros and DSP's and all surface 
mount...

Don't get me wrong these things sound great, but how the hell is the 
amater diy nut supposed to learn from these? play with the them and 
modify them? and therefore become the next breed of synth designers?

It seems to me that more and more manufacturers are content with 
simply shifting boxs and not putting effort into it... IBM went the 
same way with PC's a while back, it nearly cost them the whole 
company. 
There are so few left trying to innovate... waldorf, novation, access 
and doepfer, these are all small companies with a passion for synths, 
not a marketing manager and accountant with a profit to fill!

<steps of soap box, takes cold shower and cools down>
sorry...

  in my email with wolfram franke (waldorf) he is under the impression 
that I just want a box that does a PPG sound.. I dont think he can 
grasp that this more than just a noise/tone for me..... I want to 
build a modular, I dont have a good reason why, I have reasons why i 
shouldn't, expensive (per voice), big, awkward and unrreliable, but 
for me this is part of the attraction, makeing things that people 
couldn't do or hadn't thought of.... 

  I still intend to make my wave scriber, 32 sliders which you draw 
the waveform on, each been able to modulated from one 3 modulation 
busses by varying amounts and each also haveing a seperate insert 
aswell... ok, Im mad, it could be done with a dsp with 
polyphonic/filters/vca/ringmod/etc/etc, but wheres the fun? wheres the 
chip that smokes, the thrill of getting a noise from it?

<gets of soap box again>

sorry, I shall retire and find those nice men in their clean white 
coats..

  Paul MADdox


anyway, now you know my opion!

Paul Maddox


 
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