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Re: [yamahacs80] Re: Ribbon Controller

2007-11-19 by Richard Atkinson

Kent, does Yamaha really still have the facilities to make IG chips? These
were made on very, very old machines using very old fashioned process
techniques.

Possibly they have a stock of unbonded dies / wafers they simply need to
package up.


On Nov 19 2007, kent_spong wrote:

>Yes, £40 GBP
>yes, I can ship to the states
>yes, they are easy to fit.
>yes, they are a direct replacment.
>yes, they still have the same functionality and you do not have to
>reajust anything on the BA board.
>
>As for VCO's
>
>Yamaha Japan are listening at last. I am putting together a list of
>people who want to buy full sets of the final rock steady issue
>IG00153. Once I get enough people signed up they will do a run of
>them. I got Yamaha UK as go between, but I need more guy's on the
>list.
>
>--- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "billwolfer" <bill.wolfer@...>
>wrote:
>>
>> Kent, in my browser that came out as ?40. Are we talking pounds,
>> dollars or euros? Can you ship to the states? How hard are they to
>put
>> into place? Do they still have the same functionality in that you
>can
>> start anywhere on the ribbon, moving left is exponential, right is
>> linear? lots of questions. one more: how are you fixed for
>oscillator
>> chips?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> --- In yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com, "kent_spong" <kent_spong@>
>wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm sorry guy's. I thought I already posted this message before.
>> >
>> > I have a batch of brand new ribbon controller springs that me
>and
>> > RLMusic had specially made that I fit into all the KSR80 Level
>3's.
>> > They are not cheap I'm afraid as the manufacturing costs was
>really
>> > high.
>> > They work out at about �40 each.
>> >
>>
>
>
>

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