[sdiy] Re: designers timeline

[Bob Weigel]

I started at least a timeline of significant developments  on my 
www.imt.net/~sounddoctorin/synthtec site.  Mostly tailored to 
manufacturer names and not individual engineers save companies named 
after such and Dave Smith.  Anyway it would be great to have a more 
detailed history.  Peter at Double Take Studio has the inside scoop on 
the Octave/Plateu group and there are lots of others around who would 
probably submit historical summaries and specific contributions.  The 
Japanese.... it might be hard to get information on a lot of the 
products.  Years ago I tried to consult with anyone involved in the 
design of the Kawai K5 and nobody even had a clue at Kawai right after 
they'd sold the last rack to me :-).  -Bob

JH. wrote:

>>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.
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>Interesting!
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>Just got me thinking:
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>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.)
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>I guess there will be a lot af contributions from list members about their 
>personal heroes ...
>We just need somebody who collects the data and makes some nice pictures ...
>Anybody volunteering?
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>JH.
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