[sdiy] Re: SDIY Withdrawal Symptoms

[JH.]

This isn't going to the whole list, is it?
I'm aware that this started as a joke, but once you talk real diy topics
here, the others
are somehow excluded. Doesn't feel right, IMO.

JH.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Lightner" <synthfool at synthfool.com>
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: SDIY Withdrawal Symptoms


>
> >
> >>  No...SDIY... getting... weak...
> >>
> >>  Vision... blurry... aaaak, aaaaa
> >>
> >  > Hope...server...is back...up...soon...
>
>
> Sissy. I went for 8 years without the DIY list :)
>
> J/k ;-)
>
>
> But to be completely on topic, I had an idea.
> Recently brought up on the Moog Music forum was the age old, "why
> don't they make CEMs and SSM's again?" question.
> Same answers as usual, were offered.
>
> But it got me to thinking.
> What if a new new standard of small 1" or so square SMD "modules" was
offered?
> The modules could possibly even pacify some people on the whole
> "discrete" issue vs what a CEM type IC would be seen as.
>
> Arp, Moog, Oberheim, S-P filters made tiny and adhering to an agreed
> or defined pin base. Maybe headers that could even mount the boards
> in place of actual CEM or SSM chips.
>
> Then, all the SMD savvy designers can make something for all the
> other cool DIY module designers.
>
> I mean, you could fit 4 to 8 LFOs in a space like that for pretty cheap.
> Some of the synths or modules that stem from pcbs like this could be
> very entertaining.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Kevin Lightner
>
> http://www.synthfool.com