> if you really want to exactly recreate the dark energy sound and
> feel.... go for the A111-5....
>
>
> Bakis

Exactly. Especially because of the linear filter FM. There is no A-100 VCF available that offers this feature. And even the VCO and VCA are unique. The VCO is close to the A-111-1, but there is no A-100 VCA module available with the combined linear/exponential response of the Dark Energy/A-111-5 VCA.

Though it has strictly speaking nothing to do with the A-100: The Dark Energy will be discontinued as the CEM3394 is no longer available and the negotiations with the manufacturer (OnChip, the Curtis Electromusic successor) concerning a new productions series of the CEM3394 were not successful so far. We think about a redesign of the unit (Dark Energy II) but it will be another instrument with a different sound and features (e.g. probably a 12 dB multimode filter with lowpass, highpass, bandpass and notch instead of the 24 dB lowpass).

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer