[sdiy] year 2016 speculations!

[Tim Parkhurst]

On 6/2/06, karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se> wrote:
> The year is 2016, superfast polymer based computers
> in the size of a matchbox is everyone's property.
> A complete DAW and every imagineable soft synth
> is included in the OS by default, as is a complete
> video editing software.
>
> So, is this list still on at 2016?
> Or has it become obsolete?
>
>
> KD (just speculating)
>

In 2016, you'll be able to order any rare or extinct chip that ever
existed. New, cheaper processes will allow a machine that scans the
internal structure of a "donor" chip and recreate it, layer by layer.
Of course, the donor chip is destroyed in the process, but who cares
since you can make as many new ones as you want. Chips like the CEM
and SSM families, along with every OTA, BBD, and TOG ever made, will
have been scanned and be readily available in chip libraries. The
first 'cloned' chip will cost you about $200, but since subsequent
copies will be literally dirt (silicon) cheap, a hundred chips will
only be about $300.

Of course, SDIY will be going strong, until a flame war starts in 2017
over whether the cloned CEM3340 sounds as
rich/warm/fat/thick/smooth/chocolately as the original chips. The
flame war soon escalates into a global military conflict. The "Synth
Wars" will be fought by battalions of young men and women, marching
across fields in a twisted "Battle of the Bands" that will be won by
the army with the thickest sounding filters, the smoothest distortion,
and the highest decibel levels (and the most blinky lights to blind
the enemy). The United States, despite possession of the "Ultimate
Weapon," a Moog Low Pass VCF with blue LEDs, will loose several key
battles and become a colony of Denmark. It will be later revealed the
America's battle synths were crippled by a bad batch of "matched,
mil-spec" transistors that turned out to actually be a bunch of metal
can 2N2222s bought off of eBay (it is common practice for the military
to buy parts on eBay by 2010, and they WERE marked "Rare Moog ARP
Oberheim Death-Dealing Ultra-Matched transistors").


Tim (in 2018, Denmark sells the U.S. on eBay) Servo
-- 
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