Doepfer

> hi Dieter,     :-)
>  
> what? no VCO with linear FM??
>  
> the A111 is one of my favourite vco's....
>  
> :-(
>  
> i hope that, in time, you'll develope and build the a111-2...(or,
> any substritie of the A111, a vco with triangle core and linear
> FM with extensive octave range and both hard and soft sync, as
> the a111 was...)
>  
> a vco with extensive features and Lineaf FM is essential for an
> advanced modular system like the A100. otherwise the vco will be
> its 'weak link'... you cannot have all these great and advanced
> module and only a basic vco like the A110...
>  
> i hope you'll change your mind on this Dieter.
>  
> thanks,
> best regards,     :-)
> Bakis.

Hi Bakis,

I can't see the problems at the moment. The A-111(-1) is still available and
everybody who needs the features of the A-111 is able to order one or more
A-111. Even the A-110 has an internal linear FM input available and maybe we
could offer a breakout  panel for the soft-sync and linear FM input of the
A-110.

The A-111-2 would have a linear FM input that can be switched between DC and
AC coupling but the inquirires for the A-111-2 are very poor and this is why
we did not carry on with this module so far. I was really surprised that
there are not more inquiries because the announced approximate price of this
module was specified with Euro 250 only compared to the A-111-1 which is
only Euro 10 less (Euro 240). Maybe things will change if the A-111-1 is no
longer available.

In addition I'm in contact with Onchip as they got back the CEM3340 from
Paul Schreiber. Paul told me that he sold the circuits on commision for
Onchip but now they claimed back all remaining CEM circuits from him. I
don't know why they did that. It has to do probably with Doug Curtis'
passing away. Maybe they are willing to sell me the CEM3340 in the future
and then the A-111 problems would be solved. But this is uncertain and
consequently we have to inform the A-100 customers that the A-111 will be
probably/possibly discontinued.

In addition we have some other VCOs in the development state, e.g. the
tru-zero quadrature VCO which will have also linear FM (that's essential for
thru-zero).

And when I look at our sales things are different: we sell more than 10
times more A-110 than A-111 (i.e. only about 7 or 8 A-111 for 100 A-110)!

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

P.S. I'm leaving for a few days. I'll be back on Tuesday.