[sdiy] Re: designers timeline

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "JH." <jhaible at debitel.net>
Subject: designers timeline (was: Re: [sdiy] An interesting 4 voice SCI pro one...)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 01:11:53 +0100
Message-ID: <004401c7305e$1bec2b70$0200a8c0 at jhsilent>

> >Go right ahead and advertise all you want, Juergen.  The OB-8 is
> >still one of the finest synthesizers ever made.  They pretty much got
> >everything right.  It was designed (mostly) by Marcus Ryle and Michel
> >Diodic, who were very young engineers at the time.  They later went
> >on to design the Alesis ADAT and many other groundbreaking products,
> >then later started the Line6 company.
> 
> Interesting!

Indeed. Michel Diodic went on to the Xpander design, I don't recall from the
top of my head who he shared the design with, but they where 5 in total as I
recall it. There is a magic keypress on the Xpander to display their names. :)

> Just got me thinking:
> 
> Wouldn't it be great to have a timeline, or a tree, about synth designers, 
> and what products they were working on, in different companies?
> (Like those graphics you find on some musicians, and in what groups they 
> played.)
> 
> I guess there will be a lot af contributions from list members about their 
> personal heroes ...

Indeed. I think it may be usefull to go over various periods in a certain
vendors life to help get some order into things.

Another interesting view would be to see how various features and solutions
spread through designs. Such as bulk resistance compensation, temperature
stabilization, reset-time compensation, etc. etc.

> We just need somebody who collects the data and makes some nice pictures ...
> Anybody volunteering?

Well, I have a nice tool to toss the data into and it will make map of the
whole thing. The question is how you describe the "cross-polinations" when
different designers meet up for a project? Multiple designers in one project?
The interesting thing would not to have a series of blobs in time order, the
interesting things would be lines to connect various designers work, much like
the family tree of UNIX or something.

Cheers,
Magnus