[sdiy] Buchla's back

[karl dalen]

 --- Jonathan Lippard <jblippard at comcast.net> skrev: 
> 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).

Not by Gibson, but by his company lavyer who foled the investment bankers
(banks) to believe that Oberheim Inc was on the edge of insolvence wich
in reality was the opposite. These acts are called agressive take over,
lavyers are experts on this! :-)

Tom however have at least two other company failures after Marion systems
went down , he was if i can remember right into some digital audio and video
streaming bussiness!

Tom can be seen flying his areoplane somthimes over Los Angeles when the
wheter is right!! 

KD ( knows nothing, just listens to the grape whine) 
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> END OF LINE.  

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