[sdiy] Wondering as to the history of an unusual edp wasp?

[Richard Wentk]

At 02:21 01/02/2006, Julian wrote:
>Does anyone recognise this wasp?
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><http://www.numberofthebeast.org/strangedeluxe/>http://www.numberofthebeast.org/strangedeluxe/
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>Its an odd beast.  Its definatly a deluxe, but its also definatly 
>non-standard.

I'm just guessing, but this might be a prototype for the Deluxe.

It reminds me a *lot* of the panel layout and graphics on the Transcendent 
2000, which was designed by Tim Orr - who was well acquainted with Chris 
Huggett, who designed the Wasp - and looked a lot like a squatter and 
fatter deluxe with a slightly less extrovert layout and colour scheme.

Both synths appeared around 1978. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see 
quite a bit of similarity between the circuitry, although it's difficult to 
say who borrowed the look from whom.

Richard