[sdiy] Buchla's back

[Rainer Buchty]

>It's a shame that the American and European synth industry basically
>got beat up and thrown in the dumpster by the flood of DX-7s

Uhm, really?

Sequential Circuits IIRC died because of the Prophet 3000's development
costs (which quite amazed me, cause I thought the Prophet 2000 and 2002
were doing well; same with the Prophet VS).

E-mu was around long after but got effectively killed by Creative Labs,
same is true for Ensoniq who even entered the market after the DX7 with
their low-budget sampler Mirage and later the ESQ1 synth using the same
oscillator chip.

As for Europe, I guess PPG also died because of high development costs
(for the PPG Realizer).

I would more like to think about "the ROMpler" -- especially Korg's M1
-- being the death of "real" synthesizers.

Out of the sudden it didn't count anymore how many oscillators you had
per voice and how good the filter was, but how much "waveform" memory
the machine got.

Rainer