[sdiy] Korg 35 chip

[cheater cheater]

Think you could pull off a pick n place manufacture on one of those? I
wonder what the costs are for a small company like you.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 18:51, JH. <jhaible at debitel.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.
>
> OTOH, it would still be quite unexpensive to make 48x the (simple) analogue
> signal path of a 3100, but without any trimpots or component selection, and
> adjust everything with a huge multiplexer and clever stimuli all in the
> digital domain.
> Thinking of it, that way a dream-polyphonic of mine could be realized: a
> 3100 VCF/VCA/EG bank married with individual oscillators a la PE1000.
>
> JH.
>