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

[karl dalen]

--- Barry Klein <Barry.L.Klein at wdc.com> wrote:
> Your answer sounds more realistic.  But what I wrote is what he told me
> there....   This brings out something I always hate about the business
> world.  It seems to do well and make a name for yourself you have to have a
> story, a marketing twist on everything that goes on or went on in your life
> (or business).
> At Music Man I remember some of these - the guys making effects units,
> guitars, or customizing amps...  Kind of like the guys that try and market
> exotic miscellanea for the audio purists.
> 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...
> 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.

Maybe , or just maybe he have seen Beheringer and concluded
from that on how you have to behave these days to be successful.
But in the end Berhinger is just about money to lowest possible
prices. And that isnt very fun!

What is Tom doing today as a living?

Reg
KD


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> Barry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Arnold [mailto:xyzzy at sysabend.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:29 PM
> To: Barry Klein
> Cc: Synth diy list
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Polyevolver, AudioMidi Synth Guru talk last nite.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:38:02AM -0700, Barry Klein wrote:
> > Saw the AudioMidi event last nite and asked Dave.  The chip is an improved
> > Curtis chip that Doug Curtis did as a favor to Dave.  Doug is now employed
> > in a different non-music-related field so I doubt more chips will
> follow...
> 
> It was actually designed for Tom Oberheim's Marion Synth and the initial
> batch Dave got from Overheim directly.  Back when the Evolver was still new,
> got to see Dave give a talk at the local AES meeting.  As I think has been
> mentioned, was facinating to hear how he basically designed, build, and
> shipped a synth without ever leaving the house.  I've had the lid off a Poly
> Evolver Rack and sure enough it still has the Marion chips in it...
> 
> Wonder if there is some way to hack the two unused VCO's to life ( he used
> two chips in the original evolver to get 4 filters, but only used two of the
> VCOs... )
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