nobody can call MY products crap, not after this:

[The Proteus]

You tell 'em Eric.

One little secret we're holding (not really secret - but not advertised
nonetheless) is that we still have some chips fabricated on 1.5um. Yes,
that's 1.5 micron - not 0.15, not 0.25, not 0.5 - one and a half microns
folks. :-) In the IC biz, that's ancient history. :-)

The thing is, I'd like to see Dave Rossum work with the SSM chips again -
rebuild them, and maybe do something like the Andromeda synth that Alesis
is doing. Alas, I doubt this will happen.

BTW - I'll be at NAMM, and I'll definately stop by the SynthTech/Metasonix
booth. :-)

Prot

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On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Eric wrote:

> There are announcements all over the place for
> a PC audio card called a "HardSID".
> 
> It uses up to FOUR SID chips......yes, I said SID chips.
> 
> Thus:
> http://www.dancetech.com/users/NEWS/DT-NEWSPAGE.CFM
> 
> Lessee...SIDs have been out of production for, oh,
> at least 10 years. You can't even get them NOS.
> 
> Yet there are now TWO products on the
> market today that use SIDs.
> 
> If those guys can sell a product based on a not-very-good
> sound IC that isn't available anymore (except by digging it out 
> of old Commodore 64s), then I can sell tube synths!!
> This makes me feel much better.
> 
> Eric Barbour
> METASONIX
> 
>