PLAN B analog blog

All,

The Sonic State vid has not yet been posted, but in regards to the
teaser of the appending announcement made on the Analog Suicide video,
after a long discussion with my continuant Phil Gallo Saturday evening
we both agreed it would be best to hold off just a bit longer. The
Model 30 preview was omitted.  

The reasons behind this are simple. The unit's functionality is not
yet   finalized.  Although a sample faceplate/control electronics
assembly has been made which Phil is currently working with (and I had
in my bag at the show), we've already determined a couple of better
ways to integrate some of it's features and have been discussing
others not on that prototype.  So we thought it better to wait until
that was done. We've made arrangements for Analog Suicide to come over
to Plan B Ops and film it when these changes have been made and a new
faceplate is ordered.  It shouldn't be too far off.  

We made a commitment when we began the Model 30 three months ago not
to let Namm force an early completion.  As the show began and because
it's further along than we thought we were both tempted, yet in the
end wisely decided to hold to our original plan. You'll all know more
about it in a few weeks.

This is what I can tell you now:

Many of the new modular synthesizer manufacturers have built upon and
expanded basic concepts which were introduced into modulars some 40
years ago.  However, some of the basic operational tools have not seen
this sort of development and although improvements have been made in
recent years, they remain conceptually identical to what was state of
the art in 1968. The Model 30 focuses on one of these, and through the
use of  21st Century technology and methodology introduces an entirely
new way of approaching timbral design in modular synthesis.