[sdiy] Buchla's back

[Peter Grenader]

To heck to SSM - someone remake the UA726!

....and eight track cassettes - oo000OOOOO000ooo

Tim Parkhurst wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rainer Buchty [mailto:rainer at buchty.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:39 AM
>> To: karl dalen
>> Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Buchla's back
>> 
>>> Not wery difficult if only the 3372 where still available wich they are
>>> not.
>> 
>> I guess the following is not completely irrational:
>> 
>> "Hi Doug, this is Tom. We're planning to release a successor to
>> the XPander. We'd need 16 CEM3372 per machine and plan an initial run of
>> 1000 machines."
>> 
>> "Tom, that'll be around 50k setup costs, another 50k
>> fabrication, plus other stuff. That means a single 3372 would come down
>> to $10."
>> 
>> "I'm fine with that, Doug."
>> 
>> The price per chip is probably way too high in this example :)
>> 
>> Rainer
>> 
> 
> True, pretty much any of the Curtis or even SSM chips could be brought back
> to life as long as someone was willing to pop for (at least) ten or twenty
> thousand pieces. That's why one of us needs to win the lottery. I nominate
> ME! 
> 
> Anyway, Dave Smith uses a Curtis chip in the Evolver, and is going to have
> to do another run at some point (when he first introduced it, he said he had
> enough for about a year and a half of production). By the way, does anybody
> know which Curtis chip DSI uses?
> 
> My picks for Curtis chips to resurrect would be (in order of potential
> usefulness): 3396 (waveshaper/VCF/VCA), 3372 (VCF/VCA) and 3374 (dual VCO).
> Just in case anybody cares.
> 
> 
> Tim (pricey chips) Servo
> 
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