[sdiy] where to start ?...

[Frank R. de Ruiter]

I'm very sorry to hear that it turns out so nasty for them, since it's such
a nice projekt. Expecially because it was also a nonprofit projekt.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Zacherl" <sdiy-mz01 at arsprototo.at>
To: "Frank R. de Ruiter" <frank.r.deruiter at wanadoo.nl>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] where to start ?...


>
>
> Frank R. de Ruiter schrieb:
> > The guy who's designed/delivered the PCB's is Thomas from
> > http://www.anyware-instruments.de/ (also in english) but don't
> > bother him to ask for ready made PCB's, 'cause after 2 rounds he isn't
> > planning to do another one.
>
> Since Thomas Welsch has lots of other business to do for his living and
> the demand of the PCBs was rather unexpectedly high it took quite a
> while to get the second run out (which is about to be shipped these days).
> The design has about 400 drillings and they all do it by hand - so go
> figure.
> The third guy in play - Mathias Maerker (www.acidcode.com) - helps with
> doing the financial stuff (collecting money etc.) and is pretty much fed
> up of being confronted with unpolite and upset youngsters which want
> their money back and offending Mathias and his family while he's got
> nothing but lots of extra work. To stop that ugly complaints he started
> to pay back the money for some PCBs (which are allready in production!)
> from his very own pocket.
> What started as a real fun project within the Elektro-Kartell
> (www.elektro-kartell.de) community ended up being a very unpleasant
> situation for some of the contributors. Not nice.
>
> Besides that the Simplesizer seems to offer a lot of fun.
> It may happen that someone wants more functionality when familiar with
> the box but since the design is meant as "simple" that's the nature of
> the project.
>
> Another gentleman (http://www.narcotx-art.de/) allready did some sound
> demos with this synth - visit his site, listen and get your own
impression.
>
>     Michael.
>
>