bakis, could you include in the poll a smaller version, maybe similar
to my first post

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Doepfer_a100/message/16860

florian's two suggestions are both very interesting but both very
expensive, if indeed the modular approach is at all commercially
viable. it would be a shame to cut ourselves off from a relatively
cheap and quickly designed.

maybe dieter you could give a few ballpark price estimates for the
various suggestions

stu