[sdiy] Korg 35 chip

[cheater cheater]

I think you can be pleasantly disappointed with your predictions.
There are reasons the Monotron is so cheap! CS80 didn't have SMT, IC
silicon chips, pick-n-place, wave soldering, and I think multilayer
wasn't used either, was it? The parts themselves are ridiculously
cheap now, too. The most expensive parts now are the mechanical ones,
but given the huge, huge market for synths (as compared to the market
for similar ones in the 70s), and given that now user interfaces can
be laid out more sparingly with multipurpose controls, touch screens,
and other microcontroller based techniques, as well as the 40 years of
research into plastics, setting up manufacture of the mechanical parts
is much easier (both technologically as well as business-wise) than
those 40 years ago. That and the parts will be more mechanically and
chemically resistant so you get less warranty claims - therefore it's
even easier to set up a business.

..Harry, didn't you have a story on how expensive the first
transistors could get? :^)

Cheers,
D.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 17:42, Richard Atkinson <rga24 at cantab.net> wrote:
> I'm not holding my breath for anything interesting and analogue from the big
> companies, even Korg. To build what we like in analogue synthesizers, namely
> lots of discrete electronics and sturdy, knobby user interfaces, takes
> money. Even CS-80s cost far less on the secondhand market than they would
> cost to make today, nevermind profit margin. PS-3100s and PS-3300s too.
>
>
> On Jun 19 2010, cheater cheater wrote:
>
>> David,
>> you do realize 'next' means 'in the future', right? :^)
>>
>> D.
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 04:00, David G. Dixon <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can't wait to see what Korg comes out with next. Hopefully a
>>>> polyphonic analog is in store down the line. This really could be an
>>>> analog reneissance.
>>>
>>> They had the P-3100, 3200 and 3300, but you'd have to mortgage your
>>> first-born and use your second-born as collateral to get one now.
>>>
>>>
>>
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