Doepfer

Hello Dieter,
      I guess this means you're back from your vacation.  Hope it was  
a good one.  I just wanted to post some thoughts on why, for me, the  
mono keyboard seems a better route at this point in time.  It's not  
only the money that I would have to spend to get a good poly setup.   
But boy, it must cost, say, minimum 10000 US to get something viable  
going at, say, the five-voice level.  It's also the sheer complexity  
of all the patchworking.  I like to keep my setup relatively simple.   
They say you can never have too many modules.  But I like to work  
relatively small for the "old-fashioned" modular-type setup.  I'm  
thinking a double G6 setup is about as complex as I would like to  
get.  But I am not very "live" oriented.  I like to let multitracking  
do the work of the poly mode; no need to provide one module of each  
of the main types for every voice.   I had a smallish modular Emu  
back in the day.  They came out with a poly keyboard around the time  
I bought my system in 1978.  I lusted after this machine, sure, but  
how did they tame that beast over at the Chicago School of the Art  
Institute, one that I saw but never played, with its dimensions of  
about 44 by 60 inches?  A colleague of mine lamented the amount of  
time it took to set up one patch on that thing.  I do find thd the  
modular mode the best for my needs, which tend in the direction of  
atonal nonmelodic with a lot of "nonstandard" rhythmic patterning.   
But it does tend to be cumbersome in the time department.

David Westling
Chciago IL