[sdiy] Chris Franke's modular

[Richard Wentk]

At 14:36 26/03/2005, Kevin Lightner wrote:

>Yes and no. :)
>An interview once stated that "Chris gave Hans his Moog" and many have 
>concluded that all of Hans' Moog came from Chris. In fact, only a few PPG, 
>PE and possibly Moog modules are in Hans' system that definitely came from 
>Chris.
>One IIIp system did come from England and this may have originally come 
>from Chris.

That sounds about right. The system I saw looked like a Moog IIIP with a 
custom PE sequencer or two, and a decent selection of Roland System 700 
modules. There were also a few oddities like a Bode Freq Shifter and a 
custom voltage programmer (that ran off a car battery...)

According to Mr Z Projekt Electronik mainly did medical electronics and 
then these weird long haired musicians turned up and started asking them to 
design custom stuff...

>I can't say, but it certainly wasn't much compared to what the system became.

 From the photo I'd say the current system is maybe a bit more than twice 
the size of what I saw. Not that the version I worked on was small. It was 
built into a custom steel frame and took up the entire back wall of the 
studio.

>If they were some of the temp compensation chips added, I removed 'em ;-)

If I ever see Roy Gwynn again I'll be sure to tell him. :)

Last time I met him he was working on the early mobile phone systems for 
one of the big networks. This was early 89, when that was still a big deal.

Richard