[sdiy] Thoughts on a Polyphonic Synth

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, jure zitnik wrote:

> imagine that. first you build the PSU, the digital board (uP and
> DAC/ADC), the motherboard (global modulation sources, final mixer,
> effects, ...) and one voiceboard. and you have a nice monosynth. from
> then on you're just adding the (cheap) voice boards >:)

Do it right, and you'd have what the OB-Mx should have been.

The OB-Mx gets slammed a lot, but the overall structure really is an 
interesting design. Buchla & Crowe & etc. got _so close_ but Gibson 
politics screwed everything up (as Gibson screws everything up.)

I have heard that there's OB-Mxes that are absolutely awesome, and tune up 
with no problems. I suspect the design is really fragile to specific part 
choices, and Gibson's quality control seemed to have been run by trained 
ferrets.

- Aaron

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