SergeModular

> I have had offers for quite a number of vintage Serge systems; they were

mostly

> quite big ones. It's obvious how they must have been the "bohemien"

instruments

> then (the "speed" part perhaps responsible for the low standard of the kit
> systems...) ;)

I think there were around twenty to thirty of the originals. I don't
know what modules they contained, but there were four panels
per system and two Programmers to control them.

> Sometimes I regret not having bought one of these. A *basic* Buchla 100

system

> I played would have cost me thrice the money with much less features. The

in

> all respects higher sophistication of the successive 200 series stuff

makes the

> 100 shine in a more attractive light than it deserves.

Don't forget that the Buchla 100 modules were 5 - 10 years older
than the Serges, and were designed before there was anything
else to copy or inspire. The early Serge stuff seems to have been
much cruder than the Buchla 200s, which appeared from 1971, just
before the Serges


Steve Ridley

(wearing out his PC keyboard)