SergeModular

>> It's no longer listed in the catalog now, but it seems to have been manufactured until
>> sometime in the early eighties.

It's in my 1979 catalogue, but not in the 1982.

> I believe the Triple Router was discontinued between 1979 and 1982.

Serge dropped most of the early modules around 1980. Some of these
modules required a +6v as well as the +/-12v, but I don't think the
ROU was one of them. It looks like an easy module to damage by
accidental mis-plugging, but no more so than the more recent
Boolean logic module.

Ken Stone has one:

http://www.cgs.synth.net/synth/serge/

Bottom row, second from the right. Click in it for more details
of the panel, then click the module to see inside.

If Rex can't help, you could ask Ken if he's planning a Bananalogue
version (c:

There was an article in Synapse, "Little helpers", which discussed
this module (and the programmer). I think it said the schematic would
be published in a later issue, but I couldn't find it. The programmer
did appear the following month - sorry can't remember which issue.
You can find Synapse on the Cyndustries site under goodies.

> FYI, I had dinner with composer Warren Burt a few months ago, and he said
> the triple router and analog shift register were his proposals to Serge when
> they worked together in the mid-late 1970s.

The ROU was one of the first Serge modules, so it will have been
appeared late 1972 or early 1973.

I thought the ASR was from a little later - maybe 1975? I thought it came
out of the arabesque generators he did for Malcolm Cecil/TONTO, but maybe I
got it wrong way around. There's truff about it in a couple of Synapse
articles.

EGRES states (under discontinued modules) that:

"Depending on when the module was built, I think this was one of two things:
either a bi-directional electronic A-B switch, or a passive set of audio jacks
of different kinds."

I believe this is a misunderstanding. The Bidirection router was an electronic
A-B switch. But I've found an old photo where someone has stripped out the router
and used the panel space as banana-jack adaptors instead - but they didn't change
the panel labelling.

Steve