Doepfer

these machines were planned and built a few years ago, with the 
current state of memory and cpu prices, things were a little 
different back then.

 the fact of the matter is that Doepfer chose to install the minimum 
required to do the functions they planned out in the development 
process or simply ran out due to the complexity of the os. adding a 
few more bytes to the memory and a few more cycles to the cpu would 
have avoided the mess these machines are in right now. i have a 
feeling they did not want to spend the $2.00 to $10.00 extra that 
would have given them the extra cushion needed to expand these 
machines. seems to me, that the machines got shorted, right from the 
beginning. will they ever admit to this error? probably not.if they 
would have planned for it a little better, a few tweaks here and 
there in the code would solve any of these issues.  

about the upgrade, seems to me that they are not interested, because 
they will not be able to sell an upgrade at the cost of parts and 
labor and a small mark up of say 10% for their effort to sastisfy 
their customers. i will use the car industry  model to basically 
describe what happened to these machines. when Ford or GM release a 
car on the market. they are planned, designed, prototyped, tested and 
released into the market place.if something wrong happens, a 
goverment agency steps in and investigates. if the company is found 
to be at fault, it issues a RECALL and fixes the problem pronto and 
at no charge. in Doepfer's case, it was planned, designed, 
prototyped, built and released. the problem is there was a problem 
the planning stage.the memory and cpu were poorly thoughtout and 
implemented.the function set was poorly thought out. the software has 
bugs. the hardware on the outside is functional and skilfully 
produced. in the synth world there is no agency to complain to. 
sounds to me like there should be a recall or an effort to correct 
the mistakes and mishaps, not just for the customers who paid for 
these products and deserve better, but for the pride and image of 
Doepfer Musikelektronik.

 regards,
rm


the --- In Doepfer_a100@y..., "Andreas Lindholm" 
<andreas.k.lindholm@t...> wrote:
> I am no hardware man, but it seems strange to me in these days when 
you can
> my a 256Mb of ram for vitually nothing that it should be so hard to 
upgrade
> the Doepfer memory. I know it is some kind of ROM, but none the 
less...
> really how expensive could it be to just upgrade that to a 
reasonable level
> (even adding a little extra for the future)? If adding 
patternchaining,
> midi-cv functions and such could be done by just increasing memory 
I would
> for sure send mine back to have it upgraded and altered.
> 
> Has Chris or anybody named an approximate sum for such an upgrade?
> 
> 
> > Chris Assall
> > ezOP
> > (7/13/00 8:40:31 am)
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> >   Re: update? even possible?
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> >
> > I've never said, that the program memory of Schaltwerk is 100% 
full.
> > What you mean is the memory of Regelwerk.
> > Schaltwerks memory is 85% full.
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