[sdiy] Professional magazine for EMI manuf. ?

[Simon Gatrall]

At 4:23 PM +0100 1/5/05, Bert Schiettecatte wrote:
>Hi list!
>
>I wanted to wish you all a happy and healthy 2005 first of all!
>
>I have a question : does anyone know of a professional magazine for
>companies in the electronic musical instruments manufacturing business?
>Of course there are many consumer oriented magazines, but what if you
>are a company and want to be up to date on all the stuff that is going
>on at a higher level?
>
>Thanks,
>bert

There are magazines for electronics (EETimes) and there are things 
like Appliance Manufacturer or Medical Device Manufacturer, or 
various design (as in industrial design) magazines, but there aren't 
really any that focus on what you're asking for.  You have to 
remember that the magazines for electronic musicians can barely 
survive.  If you look at the people that design, manufacture and sell 
equipment to those people you are talking about a very very small 
number.  It would be really hard to make a serious professional 
magazine and make money.

I do product engineering for a living, and I'd love to see a magazine 
that covered that in a reasonable way.  Products in general are a 
large superset of electronic music equipment, and I with the 
exceptions that I noted above, I haven't seen anything that really 
comes close.

I have a (free) subscription to EETimes, and I've often wished for a 
magazine that just covered electronic components that product 
designers specify (connectors, pots, switches, displays, etc).  I 
don't really want to wade through all the ads and articles on 
buck-converters to find a really cool new jog-shuttle control.
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Simon Gatrall
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