[sdiy] synthi A webpage update

[steve thomas]

 Hi Juergen..thanks very much for your nice  comments. Indeed you raise
questions  and concerns about building such clones that I had already
 thought about to some extent..and infact I was thinking of raising it with
 other members of the list. I guess as you say its one thing to make clones
 of  synths where the company has long since folded (like Arp for example),
 but another when the company still trades and makes
 equipment. As far as I know EMS stopped making synthi A's because the
supply
 of cases has run out.
 But even so I think  there is still the moral question of whether we should
 make clones even in this situation.
 I wonder what people on the list think?
 Certainly I admit that at some stage I felt a bit uncomfortable with the
 fact that my clone looks quite like ..well,  a synthi A. Even this aside
 there is the more delicate issue of  use of schemos etc.
 Anyway I certainly dont want to put you on the 'spot' ..but  your synthi
 clone has been influential to me. I defintely have NO intention of  putting
 any EMS schemos on the web that aren't there already!
 But I guess these are all serious issues. Perhaps ultimately we need Robin
 Wood to tell us what he thinks on this subject?  I did ask him some time
ago
 what he thought about me making some of the circuits from the
 service manual. He said he wasnt that happy ..but that if it was for
 personal use ..it was ok. I am not sure what he would think of my clone.

 best regards, steve
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jh. <jhaible at t-online.de>
> To: S.Thomas <S.Thomas at qmw.ac.uk>; <synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] synthi A webpage update
>
>
> > > It goes without saying that my original motivation
> > > to build this was in no small measure down to Juergen Haibles
> > > remarkable efforts in building his synthi A clone,  as well as
> > > all the great help from colleagues  on the  synth-diy list!
> >
> > Hey, your front panel graphics look awesome ! Congrats !
> > I just read about your matrix - so you really made your own from
> > tiny jacks at last (;->).
> >
> > I saw your mention of my name on your page, which is more than I
deserve,
> > as reluctant as I have been in encouraging others to build a clone.
> >
> > Seriously: Let's not spread out all the information from EMS, please.
> > You have a clone now, you can be proud of it, but *please* do not
> > make circuits available for the masses. This is not like publishing Korg
> > or Roland analog circuits (who have long lost interest in analog
synths).
> > I would be very sad if my building a clone would be the beginning of
> > an chain that leads to serious trouble for EMS in the end.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > JH.
> >
> >
> >
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