[sdiy] Sad News about Paul Schreiber.

[Roman Sowa]

That was first thing I saw today when checking facebook in the morning.
I could not believe it, even checked if it's April 1st, but it would be 
sick joke anyway.

Although we never met in person, he was realy someone I could call a 
friend. I've known him for 25 or more years, and it's like I lost 
someone very close. I like to think we were competing in the area of 
sarcasm, and facebook turned out to be joyfull platform to do that, but 
he was unbeatable master in this art. For many he was an engineering 
inspiration and a synth design legend, yet many times he had to explain 
again and again where his opinions (that's how non-educated people call 
knowledge) come from. That was maybe the reason he seemed so socially 
harsch, or as to put it in his own words: "no one has ever use 'Paul 
Schreiber' and "subtile" in the same breath".

We haven't talked much about electronics or designing in private 
conversations, more like parts themselves, and general business stuff, 
or when buying stuff from each other, and when he was winding down his 
business few years ago. Being both old boys we exchanged photos of our 
cars and obviously he made sarcastic comment about mine. I will miss that.

But he had a good life. When he talked about all his career in R&D, and 
most of all his personal life achievements that he was so proud of, it 
all sounded like definition of "the meaning of life".

Roman

W dniu 2025-03-23 o 23:02, Eric Brombaugh via Synth-diy pisze:
> Hey SDIY -
> 
> I just got off a call with Paul Schreiber's wife Tammy who let me know 
> that he passed away in the hospital this morning while waiting for heart 
> surgery. I've been chatting with him almost daily over the last few 
> weeks and he was in good spirits, hopeful for his upcoming procedure and 
> a quick recovery. We'd been working on some new ideas that he was 
> planning to release for production later this year.
> 
> Paul was a consummate engineer with deep roots in music and technology 
> and had worked on portions of the TRS-80 ecosystem, the Realistic 
> Concert-Mate MG-1 synth, the MOTM modular system and many Eurorack 
> modules. He had been an active participant in the early days of this 
> mailing list and was well known for strong opinions although in recent 
> years he spent more of his online time on other forums.
> 
> Paul and I began working together in 2007 after I'd posted a little 
> digital oscillator project to this list. Our collaboration resulted in 
> many of the Synthesis Technology Eurorack modules from the first E350 
> Morphing Terrarium oscillator to the final E520 Hyperion processor. He 
> was fun to work with and a great friend. I will miss him.
> 
> Eric
> 
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