Design Masters?

[jhaible]

> For that matter, Jim Cooper is really most deserving of any praise one
might
> rush to bestow upon Tom Oberheim, since Cooper was the engineer who
actually
> designed almost everything they made, from their first phase shifter (the
> Maestro Phaser), to the SEM, up to the OBxa.  After he left the company
> (around 1982), Marcus Ryle and Michel Diodic designed evrything else they
> brought out (OB8, Xpander, etc). Tom was always more of a project manager
> than a designer.  For some reason, though, Tom has never publically given
> Cooper the credit he really deserves, and Cooper is too much of a
gentleman
> to publicly dispute any of Oberheim's claims.

This is interesting. I was not aware of that !
Now what is Jim Cooper doing nowadays ?

JH.