[sdiy] Synthesizer by Committee

[Tom Wiltshire]

Possibly more interesting than the final page is the survey anaylsis:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.amazona.de/index.php%3Fpage%3D26%26file%3D3%26article_id%3D3122&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhjnb-WWRbp7Atr7Z5ubwfRLKvRkGw

There's quite an interesting table of which features people most wanted.

On 10 Dec 2010, at 02:11, karl dalen wrote:
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> Does anyone believe the pricing idea? I don't! 

Neil's comment about it being the Andromeda A6 comes in here. I remember being staggered at how cheap that was for what it could do, and compared to an old Jupiter, a 16-voice synth with features like Andromeda looks like a bargain. And don't start flaming me about how it doesn't sound anything like as good as a jupiter - this is an 'on paper' exercise, right?

They claim on the page linked above that Andromeda cost >€4000 on release, which came down to €2200 and nearly bankrupted Alesis in the process.
Even at the low end of those prices, and even taking into account that it's an eight-voice version, €1500 is going to be very difficult to achieve.
The Prophet 08 is about the closest current relative to what they're talking about, and it costs more, uses DCOs, and doesn't have as many features as they have on their list. So I agree, Karl - It can't be done*

T.

*disclaimer: unless Yamaha use their chip-fab to put it all on one IC, and that's never going to happen for the few thousand units they'd shift.