200e

well, i mention it because some of the more memorable buchla manuals
in the past have come from interested users (e.g. david rosenboom on
the easel, keith mcmillan on the thunder).

and hey, it's the 2000's now... it's a lot easier for any *informed*
person to produce and share documentation if they feel like it. and
there are now quite a few 200e users out there...


On 4/20/08, zaum <zaum@optonline.net> wrote:
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> I received the Gold book when I bought my Serge and no, the Buchla
>  doc I've read belonging to a 200e owner is nothing like it.
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>  For those unfamiliar, "An Introduction to the Serge Modular Music
>  System" by Rich Gold et al is about 110 pages of illustrated concepts
>  and tutorials written in the early 1980s so it does not cover quite a
>  number of the more esoteric modules and does cover some discontinued
>  modules, though of course now STS is curently just building the, as
>  far as I know only semi-documented M-Series. Anyway with Serge there
>  is info that as far as I know is only contained in the product
>  catalog (what you'd get if you asked for a free catalog before the M-
>  Series). The "Gold Book" is of that era with no attempt to update it
>  though it is extremely useful educational and useful as well as fun,
>  hence it's reputation alongside the Arp 2600 manual.
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>  With the 200e -correct me if I'm wrong as I don't actually own any.
>  When you buy one you get I guess around an average of 2 or 3 pages on
>  each module you've bought. It's certainly better than nothing as some
>  module makers give you, then again I wouldn't say the 200e modules
>  are intuitive enough to mostly grasp starting cold, though obviously
>  some people grasp things faster than others. It's not quite up to the
>  feature by feature thoroughness that say Doepfer lets you download.
>  What they do tell you is useful and I guess with this yahoogroup as a
>  resource one can get by.
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>  Maybe saying this is not all that diplomatic but when I saw the
>  Buchla doc I definitely got the feeling that they might get
>  criticized for shortness and "rough edges" by the curious if it was
>  freely available.
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>  > although we are not distributing digital copies of "our" manual, there
>  > is nothing to stop anyone from making a "better" one...
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>  mmm... well not exactly anyone, someone already owning the modules
>  already would have to do that and in that case you'd probably want to
>  be exploring them rather than documenting them.
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>  nick
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