Doepfer

I off course meant Sonology does not have capacity to produce modules
in significant quantities.



On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:25 PM,  <yahoo@doepfer.de> wrote:
> Yes, I'd be interested to cooperate with the sonology people. And we would
> have the capacity to produce such staff. But after all it's not the question
> if we could manage to manufacture a module but if there are sufficient
> inquiries. It does not make sense to start a production if one has only a
> couple of orders. To keep our price range the minimum quantity of a
> production series is 100 pcs. We have a lot of ready designed modules but do
> not release them because of the uncertain sales. Remember one has to
> pre-finance the complete series incl. front panels, pc boards, electronic
> parts, working time for assembly and so on. If one manufactures 100 units
> but has only 30 orders it will be a loss (and we had indeed some such losses
> in the past, e.g. the A-100CGK, A-138x, A-164-1 or A-186).
>
> Please let me know how we could cooperate (please directly off list). Maybe
> there is sufficient interest for one of the designs. For the time being we
> will develop the tendency processor and see how many users are interested as
> soon as the prototype is working.
>
> Best wishes
> Dieter Doepfer
>
>> Hi there!
>>
>> Since I'm working at the conservatory, in the
>> sonology department (soldering 2 daysa week,
>> to pay for college) i'd like to say that if there
>> will be modules produced, it will probably be in
>> a very limited amount...
>> (think in amounts for students who own a modular
>> and some extra.........for my baby :)).
>>
>> There are really cool things in the studios down there,
>> some which are really worth investigating for use in
>> eurorack (or any other modular for that matter).
>> Will this stuff ever be produced or made available
>> to anyone? I actually don't think so...
>> Most of it is actually available already from one
>> or another. The things that are not, are things like
>> Vosim osc's, TMG's and probably some other stuff,
>> like a really accurate 5 minute (or something) LFO.
>> Everything's there (designs including all the code
>> and stuff for some PICs) but I don't get the feeling
>> they really want to get in this market...
>>
>> I'd love see them produce a lot of those things
>> (make my modular grow! GROW!!!!) but I don't
>> expect them to end up all over the place (if they
>> get produced at all).
>> Just my 2 cents...
>>
>> Gr.daan
>>
>> (PS. just a random thought: maybe doepfer could
>> team up with the sonology people...? Since they
>> seem to have the capacity to actually produce stuff
>> and the sonology department has some pretty cool
>> designs. Don't know if they'd be interested, though...)
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