[sdiy] ot: is it true that Waldorf crashed?

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

So did get the Q to work?

A friend bought one early on and after almost a year he took it back. He
could get the thing to crash consistently within a minute of turning it on.
After weekly updates of firmware, don't know how many promises of this will
fix it and an increadable phone bill to Germany he took it back and got his
money back.

After that I lost interest in buying anything from them.
Jay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of Troy Sheets
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:52 PM
> To: Grant Richter
> Cc: Peter Grenader; Paul Maddox; Sdiy (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] ot: is it true that Waldorf crashed?
>
>
>
> > In the millions of US$. It was the Q that killed them.
>
> What? The Q probably is what kept them afloat for as long as they were.
> The basic Q technology was spun into the Q rack and the micro-Q... both
> very successful products.
>
> And I am very happy with my Q, and I do consider it a "finished" product.
> In fact, I got bonus features I never expected.
>
> The Q is still a great synth.  The step sequencer is unique,
> and makes the Q a very live-performance oriented machine.  Armed with
> a Q, and a sampler with a sequencer on it, you have a very powerful live
> setup, no lapbook required.  I always see talk of step sequencers, and
> the Q never gets mentioned.  You can have 16 independent step sequencers
> firing at once, each on a different voice.  All tweakable real-time.
> If you take the time to dig into it, its some incredible technology.
>
> I am confident Q's will rise in value over time... they fit a
> unique market
> niche that is difficult to replace.
>
> As for the AFB, if only it had highpass and multimode filters too... that
> would have made it viable.
>
> -troy
>
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