hello pierre,
i totaly agree with you about your comments on the
possible new doepfer 259-style super vco! the a100
system really needs a super vco module! this module
will only be based on the buchla 259, it will not be a
direct clone!
bakis.




--- Pierre Zeeman < pierrezee@... > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Any new VCO would probably only go into my next
> system which might only come
> about in the distant future (:O) , but I am also
> disappointed about Dieter's
> (potential) decision and hope to add my voice to the
> chorus urging him
> against this. As far as scruples or ethics go, I
> think Brandon hit the nail
> on the head:
>
> >Anyone who can afford 200e modules will buy the
> real buchla over the
> >doepfer-buchla, and anyone who can't afford the
> 200e modules is not a
> >potential buchla customer.
>
> However, I have never seen or heard a Buchla
> anything (much less had my
> hands on one) and the few recordings I have been
> pointed to certainly didn't
> make me think 'hmmm I have to have one of those' in
> the way that some moog
> modular recordings have done. What I would like
> more than a Buchla clone is
> Dieter's take on an uber-VCO like the Buchla, but
> with its own unique
> spicing, kind of like his interpretation of an ms20
> filter (which, even on
> the few samples I have heard, knocks the original
> into a cocked hat, IMHO).
> I would therefore argue against a slavish copy (and
> the necessity of getting
> the exact specs) and rather in favour of a module
> that would enable us to
> explore similar sonic territories but in its own
> way. I would like to see
> Dieter add to the legacy rather than simply
> perpetuating it. The past is
> passed.
>
> just my $0.02
>
> Pierre
>
>

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