Hi Thomas,
Well if someone is going to speak for me, you do a pretty good job with
an unusual level of insight.
This Tactex based product has been one of bigger challenges of my
career, and is complicated on many levels. (Give me an Oasys style pack
of DSPs any day!)
I have read many books on engineering embedded systems, and this project
seems to highlight many areas of what can go wrong, will go wrong. I've
learned a lot about the product, and it's those 'kinks' (not only from
the surface technology, but in several areas of the design and the
components used, AND the development tools) that have caused such gross
delays.
Yeah you're right, Bob did pull away from it because it was too extreme
of a challenge for his requirements/manpower/etc. I'm not saying he has
bad engineers, but more like he couldn't allocate his resources to that
problem. (I'm just guessing because I don't know that first hand)
Regarding NAMM, I haven't determined if I'll be there or not. I'll be
working my tail off until the 11th hour, and after that I might just go
into a coma for a week or so. ;)
Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thomas white [mailto:djthomaswhite@...]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:08 AM
> To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] Frequency Shifter?
>
>
> Not to speak for Tony,
>
> but it is his "Design" skills that keep him away from the
> Encore products. I
> saw a few Surface Ones at NAMM last year and they looked fine
> and running,
> but are they released yet? No. This thing is so filled with
> bugs from the
> Tactex (my impression only) that it has taken far longer than
> expected to
> work the kinks out. The new Moog Voyager has ditched the
> tactex and used and
> old method of Bob's due to all the problems they had (hence
> the year delay
> in release similiar to the surface one). I'm sure Tony is
> more than on top
> of things and you should maybe have a little bit of faith in
> such a talented
> designer and his obviously established products. (especially
> after how long
> the OMS-410 kits took my friend). Tony, see you at NAMM?
>
> Thomas White
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Tentochi <tentochi2003@...>
> >To: motm@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: [motm] Frequency Shifter?
> >Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:53:30 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >Well, if we are never going to see a 3rd party
> >frequency shifter, I hope it is in the queue for Paul.
> >
> >Well, Tony K. told us we would have to wait for the
> >Surface One to be finished. I just saw the president
> >of M Audio (Formerly MIDIMan?), Tim Ryan, with a
> >Surface One on page 116 of the December 2002 issue of
> >Sound on Sound. It sure looks like it is finished.
> >Does anyone know if Tony still even plans on doing a
> >frequency shifter???
> >
> >Is this the death of Encore Electronics? Tony has not
> >done (to my knowledge) a second run of the popular
> >UEG. He has not done the promised revised firmware
> >foe the Expressionist. And as Paul said earlier, he
> >doesn't have any plans currently of doing the
> >Expressionist II.
> >
> >It would be GREAT if Tony could step up to the plate
> >and knock some of this out. He has lots of people out
> >here (including myself) that want to send him their
> hard-earned money.
> >
> >If not Tony or Paul, is there someone else that can
> >step up to the task?
> >
> >Cheers!
> >Shemp
> >
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