[sdiy] NAMM Synth meetup 7pm tonight

[thx1138]

On 1/17/10 9:48 AM, "Tom Wiltshire" <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:

> Terry,
> 
> Yes, I'm interested, and I bet others on the list are too. What did
> they say? Previously Fatar have been pretty unresponsive, and the
> only way to get their keybeds was to order via Doepfer in Germany.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> On 17 Jan 2010, at 17:29, thx1138 wrote:
> 
>>  I did meet the
>> director of Marketing with Fatar and asked about small purchases of
>> OEM
>> keyboards etc. More on that topic if anyone is interested.
> 
Hi Tom,

I explained my position at Freescale as an opener and mentioned that I work
with many of Fatar's customers, i.e. M-Audio, Save Smith Instruments, etc.

I further explained that several of us are building small volume of
controllers and do R&D for new product design. I indicated that we would
like to have the ability to buy small volume OEM keyboards from time to time
and could he support this effort?

He indicated that he could work something out and that he would be
interested in my contacting him directly in Italy to discuss schematics,
Mechanical parameters and models currently available for OEM.

He left me his business card and a catalog of products to review.

I can scan this catalog and post it somewhere if you guys are interested.

Next, I would like to host a S. Calif. Synth DIY meeting soon and again I am
sorry we could not meet up at NAMM.

I did have meetings with Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim and got some good
feedback from Tom and David on parts that still viable for synth building in
both Analog and Curtis devices.

Perhaps we can do some purchases from Dave Smith?

Best regards,

Terry