[sdiy] Yamaha CS-60 issues

[Mattias Rickardsson]

Michael E Caloroso <mec.forumreader at gmail.com> skrev:

> Can you say "planned obsolescence"?  I knew you could.
>
> Yamaha is hardly alone.  Korg and Roland used proprietary chips too.
>

They were at the forefront, commercial chips didn't provide the needed
functionality, proprietary chips solved it and could also keep the
intellectual property safer.

Why would their plan be that it would go obsolete 50 years later?

Nice to see reissue CEMs and SSM2x40s.
>

So that even today's circuits can go obsolete? ;-)

Btw, the digital synths and softwares that followed use proprietary code.
Also unresponsible and selfish? :-)

/mr
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