[sdiy] Holy onslaught of VCS diy...

[Glen]

At 11:35 PM 9/17/03 , harrybissell wrote:

>Personally I have a sort of 'yeah... so' attitude to most of the features of 
>the VCS synths.  Maybe because I was exposed more to ARP and MOOG on the 
>east coast of the USA at that time...
>
>Now I can join you in the flaming, as everyone yells about the special 
>'features' of the VCS line....
>
><flamesuit on>

I guess this makes three of us in the line of fire.  :)

Once upon a time, I was familiar with the names of Akai, Arp, Buchla, Casio
(I'm afraid), Emu, Ensoniq, Fairlight, "Fender's" Chroma Polaris, Gleeman,
Korg, Kurzweil, Moog,  Oberheim, Roland, Serge, Sequential, Synclavier,
Voyetra, and Yamaha. I had even heard of (and lusted after) Kinetic Sound's
PRisM, of which only two units were ever made, and only one of which was
ever sold. I believe it had a retail price well over $100,000--might
explain the low sales.  :)

Anyway, I was aware of all these brands, and had even professionally
repaired products from several of them. It wasn't till much later, that I
looked at the credits on a Pink Floyd album and it mentioned a VCS. I
wondered "What the heck is that?" It seems that they were probably the last
synth company that I learned about from that era. Why did it take so long
for me to hear anything about them? 

To this day, I still don't properly know what is so special about them.
Maybe someone can "enlighten" me?  :)


later,
Glen Berry