nobody can call MY products crap, not after this:

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Eric <synth at metasonix.com>
Subject: nobody can call MY products crap, not after this:
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 01:35:40 -0800 (PST)

Hi Eric, list,

> 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.

Right. What makes this interesting is that these products also depend
on preferably the first version and its characteristics.

>From what I can see you use basically standard tubes which, according
to what I have understood, still is in production. This certainly puts
you in a better position.

I have not yeat had an physical encounter with your gear, but be sure,
I'd love to get to test it. NAMM is not feasable, not this time at
least.

So, Eric, please continue to do tube products and improve their
performance.

I'm not going to (or let anybody else) disect my C64 just to make one
of these boxes....

Cheers,
Magnus