[sdiy] *Legacy* chips available now (saving for the future?)

[Pete Hartman]

Maintenance is exactly it.

If my guitar or violin or what have you has some kind of problem, a good
luthier and some quality wood are essentially all you need.  Neither is
going away any time soon.

Whereas I can't just take some silicon and conjure up a missing chip.
Obviously *some* folks can, Or we couldn't have Alfa or SSI or XVive, but
it's far beyond the means and ability of most of us who repair synths.

I think one of the issues here is that people want to treat their
instruments *like instruments*, whereas the creators of many of them (at
the corporate level, no disrespect to any of the electronics wizards who've
made these things possible) really were creating "products" instead.  You
can see serviceability designed into some of the older gear, but once the
digital revolution took hold in the 80's it's increasingly difficult, and I
don't think any of them have had the idea of instruments lasting for
decades or longer (possibly due to other reasons than simply not caring,
but the effect is the same).

Pete




On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 4:23 PM Frédéric (Opensource) <marzacdev at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But why storing random "soon to be deprecated" components
> other than for maintenance and finishing an ongoing production?
> I do not get it...
>
> Fred.
>
> Le 29/11/2020 à 05:06, Greg James a écrit :
> >
> > So I’m looking at the current THAT2180A thread and a lot of past
> > threads about various contemporary chips and alternatives, and the
> > thought came to me:
> >
> > A lot of people (myself included) have been in the position of wishing
> > they had bought a few “survival kit” spares of various electronic
> > components before they went “unobtanium”. So I have a proposal: can
> > the members of this forum, who are very well informed, come up with a
> > list of currently available chips that we collectively believe
> > sometime in the future we would have wished we had bought a few of
> > when they were readily available (like right now 😊)!
> >
> > This suggestions could lead to a group buy, which I would be willing
> > to help out with.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
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