[sdiy] CEM3340's have been reissued

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 5 Jun 2016, at 12:23, Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 5 Jun 2016 11:14, "jarno.verhoeven at ziggo.nl" <jarno.verhoeven at ziggo.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Wow indeed, they need to fire their product management and sales department. Reissued last year and nobody heard of it?
> 
> According to oldcrow on MW the two companies that bankrolled this - Doepfer and Dave Smith - to the tune of $40k each. No doubt they were fully aware of this new supply of these chips and not making them available to others would have given them a competitive advantage.  This is actually quite normal - there are many custom ICs designed for specific requirements for customers that are not available on the open market.


These are interesting times, for sure. Moog claim to have got manufacturers to do a specially-produced old semiconductor for them too for their Minimoog recreation. Now we've got CEM VCOs again. Next you'll be telling me Arp have started building the Odyssey again…oh, wait. ;)

T.