[sdiy] Polyevolver, AudioMidi Synth Guru talk last nite.

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In a message dated 04/20/2005 4:12:34 PM Central Daylight Time,  
Barry.L.Klein at wdc.com writes:

Why  didn't Dave just tell me they are from Tom?  Tom was THERE.  I  could
have then asked how available these chips are etc.  Maybe more  products
could be designed with them...
 
 Actually, IIRC he didn't get them from Tom, I believe  Doug Curtis had them 
left over from when Tom was building MSR-2s and  ProSynths. Whenever Tom 
needed them, he got them from Doug. Then Marion went  bust and Doug had a number of 
these chips left over. Dave Smith was able to  utilize them in Evolver so 
Doug supplied him with them. 


Tom  was being pressured to re-enter the music busines world with a synth
remake  of SEM's or whatever.  But he is pretty down on the music biz.   Says
it isn't fun and it is really hard to be successful.  Kind of a  bummer to
hear.  To him, the business climate is much more of a  problem than the
declining availability of analog  components.
 Considering what happened through his career, it's no wonder he  really 
doesn't want to get back into the synth biz. What with losing Oberheim  
Electronics name and all, then Marion Systems going out, which is too bad he  couldn't 
get different modules made for the MSR-2. The concept was cool and  I was 
looking forward to seeing a sampler module and a Wavestation module, but I  guess 
nobody wanted to make them for it unless it sold in high numbers.  After Marion 
there was Seasound but that didn't do well either.  
 It's too bad, I would have loved to seen a SEM remake. Maybe he  could have 
Moog do it. Moog builds Buchla's Piano Bars...
 
DW




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