Make synth building your career.

[Curtin, Steven D (Steven)]

As someone who did this for ten years, I can say that it's a mixed bag.  On
the one hand yes you get to think about music software and hardware all day.
On the other hand it's usually something you didn't design, and whose basic
constraints are determined by what the marketing department thinks will sell
this week.  I've also got a lot more music done since leaving the music
industry almost four years ago, maybe because it feels less like work.  

The folks at Young Chang sounded like they were having a lot of fun when I
talked to them eight years ago, and I believe this has been Hal
Chamberlain's gig for a long time now.  I even bought a prototype K2000 from
them that we were using at Passport to test the SMDI interface to Alchemy.

Steve C

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Steven Curtin  
Lucent Technologies Microelectronics
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sdcurtin at lucent.com
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> From: 	Haible Juergen[SMTP:Juergen.Haible at nbgm.siemens.de]
> Sent: 	Monday, September 18, 2000 6:31 AM
> To: 	patchell
> Cc: 	synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
> Subject: 	RE: Make synth building your career.
> 
> 	>    Interesting looking jobs.  From some of the job descriptions,
> it also
> 	>sounds like you don't qualify if you have a life. :-)  If I lived a
> lot closer
> 	>to Ma., it would be something I would look into for sure.
> 
> Is synth building still fun when you do it full time / overtime ??
> 
> JH.
> 
> 
>