SergeModular

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "lars_arnwald" <lars.arnwald@...>
wrote:

>
> Hello,
> Back in older days when one could save some money by ordering Serge
> modules or panels as kits, one would then get a Kit Description
> listing the actual components and how to connect different points on
> the circuit board with connectors, pots, switches, etc. With little
> knowledge of electronics, I went through this several times and it
> never failed.
> It now so happens that FATE has provided me with circuit boards of a
> VCF2, Variable Bandwidth Filter, and a DSG, Dual Slope Generator.
> These are left-overs from the Haight St. factory, there's a small tag
> saying 83 which must have been the year operations closed down. Thus
> they've been laying around unused ever since, but I see no reason why
> they shouldn't work right away. Needless to say, this gift from one
> the old Serge genial co-workers has filled me with great joy.
> Essentially having concentrated solely on the clarinet for several
> years, I've decided to revive my old combination of EWI and various
> analog modules. The latter category includes a small Serge system for
> processing external sounds (PRNV, REQ, VCFX, UAP), and an Oberheim
> SEM. Being a musician with the focus entirely on live performance, I'm
> light years from the world of multi-panel systems. Computers on stage?
> Forget it, a few pedals is just fine. Still I will expand my tiny
> setup with two oscillators, a formant filter. Except for some possible
> effects, I'll leave the digital stuff out.
> My question: Anyone has Kit Descriptions for VCF2, DSG? Also are there
> any loose faceplates for these laying around, or anybody knows hot to
> easily get or make them? If so get back to me privately. Please keep
> in mind that I'm not asking this to discredit or disavow Rex in any
> way. It just seems such a tiny project, that it's easier not to
> involve him at this point. I'm sure he's got his hands full already.
> BTW, speaking about the history of multipanel systems being used live.
> Does anybody share my experience of having witnessed Patrick
> Gleeson's Bay Area performances in 1980. Using a humonguous Emu
> Modular, must have cost him millions, he had to program it with a
> cassette tape deck! Of course, some bit skipped and the whole thing
> went deadly mute. Luckily, his excellent cohort Lenny Pickett, of
> earlier Tower Power and later Saturday Night Live fame, saved the day
> with his Lyricon, much smaller Emu, and little snippets of TV

signatures.

> 'Nuff of bandwidth now.
> Regards, Lars
> lars.arnwald@...
>

I'd love to find faceplate layouts for my Serge. It's one of the early
ones (6 panel in a wooden suitcase) with just logos and just things
like "oscillator" and "Filter", but I'd like to rebuild it with with
new panels.
Anyone?