[sdiy] Buchla's back

[Jonathan Lippard]

At 05:26 PM 8/31/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>True. From what I've read, none of the head honchos at ARP did very well 
>after the company self-destructed.

Alan R. Pearlman lost a few hundred thousand dollars if I recall 
correctly.  The "Vintage Synthesizers" book only mentions $168,000 he 
loaned to the company but throws out a figure somewhat larger at the end of 
the ARP chapter.  Not to mention that he got treated pretty poorly towards 
the end.

>  I wonder if they at least recovered some of the losses by selling the 
> Chroma to Fender.

They got $350,000 for the rights to the Chroma, the 4-voice electric piano, 
and all remaining inventory.

As said, the patents are long expired, but I'd only like to see a new ARP 
synth (or an updated old one) if Mr. Pearlman was directly behind it.

>I think Tom Oberheim was just a little too early in his 'comeback.' From 
>what I've read, the Marion rack box (MS-2?) was an improvement even over 
>the capabilities of the Matrix line. Perhaps that with a third wavetable 
>DCO and/or some nifty waveshaping could be a hot item now. Maybe.

Maybe we'll see that, I'd like to see something like that.  Although Tom 
Oberheim also got screwed (by Gibson).

-Jonathan

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