Doepfer

--- In Doepfer_a100@y..., Florian Anwander <Florian.Anwander@c...> 
wrote:
> Sorry guys, 
> 
> but this is an ugly reply to the demands of many people here:
> 
> 
> 
> Doepfer offers and sells modules with dedicated features announced. 
These 
> features are forfilled. There were only very very few real 
technical bugs,
> which reduced the announced features;

have you actually read the reports and comments from the doepfer ez 
board forum? if so,how can you say that.


 as far as I know the owners of the
> corresponing modules were informed personally and the repair was 
initiated
> by Doepfer. This is more than the usual of the standard behaviour 
of other
> producers.

try reading other synth groups and see how others praise the gear and 
service they recieved from said companies.


> 
> 
>        What you all expect is the fix of (to your opinion 
>                   annoying) lack of features.
>
 
practically every other sequencer out there does long notes or ties 
them together. is it too much to ask for? doepfer has 3 hardware 
sequencers that send nothing but 16th notes lengths. the gate time 
for extending note length doesn't do the trick. basically what have 
here is 3 different boxes which do the same thing. reminds me of 4 
fader boxes.at least one of them, especially the schaltwerk, it 
should have such a feature, considering all the features it has. not  
being able to tie notes together is a gross omission!

are telling me, that you would not want to have that function 
included on your machine. music is made up whole, half, and quarter 
notes and so on, not limited to 16th notes only.

> 
> To stay in the car comparison: You bought a Volkswagen, now you 
find, that
> it does not include air conditioning and its instruments panel is 
made from
> simple plastic instead of maple wood. So you expect Volkswagen AG 
to make a
> Mercedes out of your beetle.

in the case of the schaltwerk, i paid Mercedes money and received a 
Volkswagen beetle engine. do not confuse the issue  with A100 modules 
as you seem to be doing below. 

> Now you want Doepfer to make a MOTM-Standard out of the A-100 
modules. What
> do you think Doepfer is? A social station?  A Doepfer module 
usually costs
> less than the half of a MOTM module (I just compared the MOTM price 
list
> with Doepfers prices: often only 25% to 35% of MOTM !!!). So i 
think you
> can be DAMNED LUCKY that it provides 90 percent of the technical 
features
> and three quarter of the mechanical quality.


hence , the reason i bought Doepfer A100 modular in the first place 
and not a Serge. every system offers different features at different 
prices.
> 
> 
> 
> A Mercedes is a nice car. Nothing to say against it, but please stop
> complaining about the fact that you were so stingy to afford only a
> Volkswagen. IF YOU WANT A MERCEDES, THEN PAY FOR IT.

 just curious? What leads you to believe that I am stingy. i have 
spent , i would say quite a bit money, that could have gone to 
another manufacturer. so maybe i have the right ask for a few lines 
of code to have a function that should not have been such an oversite.

> 
> If you don't have the money, then shut up!

 i did and i want it to at least make sense musically speaking.
by the way, it does not bode well on you to write a statement like 
the one above.

RM

> 
> Florian