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

[Troy Sheets]

I had the third Q shipped to the US, and I was making music with it just
fine using the very first OS.  Never had a crashing problem...

Must have been a hardware issue.

-troy

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:10:24PM -0800, Jay Schwichtenberg wrote:
> 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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> 

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