News of "it" (back OT, believe it or not)

[RFAHL]

Oh.... that was Arp and EMU.  That was in the Rossum interview that Anders
Sponton posted on his site.  Emu was trying to match the specs of the Arp
2500 multimode filter... heh... and with a lot of effort succeeded only to
find out later that Arp's real world product didn't meet their own spec!



on 1/12/01 5:51 PM, Paul Perry at pfperry at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> At 01:26 PM 12/01/01 -0800, Barry L Klein  wrote:
>> I think this is a really interesting phenomenon. Take
>> a concept that initially seems science fiction and make
>> it a given truth.  Then we all erupt with this mental energy
>> to figure out how it is done.
> 
> This happened with one of the early synth manufacturers..
> one company rannounced the specs for their filters etc
> (which were overstated by a couple of orders of magnitude)
> and then another company tried to match them, in the meantime
> far exceeding the specs of the REAL synth.
> Tragically I cant remember the companies concerned
> (Arp and Aries I THINK) but someone here will know.
> 
> paul perry melbouren australia
>