<div dir="ltr">Lowgain is Logan Erickson. I don't think he's on the list, but he's done a bunch of different SDIY work, sells his own commercial modules, did a lot of TTSH builds for people, currently affiliated with Modular Addict, etc. I'm friends with him IRL and on FB and he's really excited to see these AS* chips as you can tell from that instagram. :)<div><br></div><div>Pete</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Ben Bradley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben.pi.bradley@gmail.com" target="_blank">ben.pi.bradley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Last night I saw this posted on the local synth club Facebook page -<br>
classic monosynths such as the Pro-One to be reborn too! I wonder what<br>
five of these modules will cost.<br>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BarxtY9nV1k/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/p/<wbr>BarxtY9nV1k/</a><br>
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Is "lowgain" here? More Instagram pics:<br>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/lowgain/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/<wbr>lowgain/</a><br>
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:42 AM, <<a href="mailto:paula@synth.net">paula@synth.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> What Tom said.<br>
><br>
> The world is wide open now, we have powerful 32bit 200+Mhz CPUs with amazing<br>
> peripherals included for only a few $10s, there's a wealth of knowledge<br>
> available at your finger tips (internet) and now these chips resurfacing.<br>
> It'll be fantastic to see what new stuff people come up with.<br>
><br>
> Paula<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 2017-10-26 13:47, Tom Wiltshire wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 26 Oct 2017, at 11:09, Matthias Herrmann <<a href="mailto:matthias.herrmann@fonik.de">matthias.herrmann@fonik.de</a>><br>
>>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Everyone?<br>
>>>> How about competition "who makes an AS33 polysynth first", or let's bet<br>
>>>> on the number of new polysynths made until, say November 2018?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Roman<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> that's what i was thinking. now that these chips are available again<br>
>>> there will be some new (old) things coming.<br>
>>><br>
>>> matthias<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> It’s going to be interesting, for sure.<br>
>><br>
>> The advent of 3310 envelopes is an interesting one. That allows full<br>
>> clones of serious analog polysynths, something like the Prophet 5 or<br>
>> the MemoryMoog.<br>
>><br>
>> That said, if you look at synth history, most of the later synths<br>
>> moved all the non-audio stuff into the digital domain, since this<br>
>> offers a lot more in the way of modulation possibilities (the<br>
>> modulation options can easily be half the circuit in a fully analog<br>
>> voice). So if you look at synths like the Prophet T8 or Oberheim<br>
>> Xpander, there’s just VCOs, filter and VCA, and generally only a<br>
>> handful of CVs to control it (Freq, PW, Cutoff, Res, Vol, for<br>
>> example). Compared to the number of CVs in the Prophet 5, that’s a<br>
>> major simplification. Given the powerful processors we have now, the<br>
>> limitations of this method at the time (slow update rate, primarily)<br>
>> aren’t really an issue any more.<br>
>><br>
>> The next step after this was when the analog oscillators disappeared<br>
>> and the integrated filter/VCA chips appeared and we got instruments<br>
>> like the Prophet VS or Ensoniq ESQ-1 or SQ-80.<br>
>><br>
>> Any of these approaches are possible these days, and it’ll be<br>
>> interesting to see where people take it.<br>
>><br>
>> Tom<br>
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