SergeModular

> > It seems that Mr Duncan took some
> > Serge things from late 70's vintage and did mixed liberally

with his own

> > ideas.
>
> A little harsh again IMO. He's taken ideas from several different

systems,

> Digisound and Polyfusion for example. And why not if they

sound good.

err IMHO you aren't being harsh yourself. There is one Digisound
Module and 2 Polyfusion filters (not counting the actual
Polyfusion LFO boards which were a spinoff from a custom job)

I'd say about half his modules are very close to old Serge
designs without many of his own ideas on those modules.
(PCO, multimode, LFO, VCA, ADSR, there's a whole basic serge
there, 2 of the multipliers, the morphed waveform, peak trough).
This isn't to say he has no ideas of his own or that they are badly
constructed, quite the opposite.

> On the other hand there has barely been any development to

the Serge modules

> in recent years apart from a couple of control modules

(Boolean Logic etc).

very true, he did the a new divider too I think

> I guess the bottom line is we have to be thankful that Rex

resurrected the

> Serge name and has kept the thing going all this time.

and whats perhaps more interesting is that the modules simply
haven't been across the board surpassed by the new
competition in any serious technical ways. Sure a few things out
there do something new, but you'd think someone would
manage to make a (probably very expensive) system that
decidedly outdoes Serge in a bunch of ways

Like Bruce Duncan, for all his skills isn't pushing the old Serge
stuff further than the present day Serge stuff.

Many are making fine units and the Encore built MOTM module
and Wiard do seem to be pushing the envalope :-)

But I keep seeing these new standard complemented medium
sized systems with nothing terribly original going on inside them
over and over again, not exactly close competition.