SergeModular

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> Add to this the 8x2 sequencer with A,B,A-B (aka Sequencer 17A)
> this is the EXACT same layout except the stepselect buttons
> are on the right not left side. Almost every designer has
> some radically different step sequencer design.
>
> It's really a shame because it seems otherwise modcan has some
> really good ideas, like the oscillator design and especially
> the wavetable module.

This is a copy too b.t.l.o.i. I believe Digisound offered this in
the '80's ?
Seems Mr.Modcan is a Me-Too Maker........shame on his name....
p.k

>
> Look, I usually take a quite different position when it
> comes to "intellectual property" debates, especially because it
> is well known to me, in the audio industry (rather in digital

audio),

> that certain companies exist just to patent fundamental concepts

they

> did not invent & make money off of royalties and licensing backed
> by legal threats. The issue with
> Modcan is not that it's core theoretical concepts, but *very

specific

> design decisions* that are being copied without attribution. I have

no

> idea about the legal matters but as a matter of personal ethics I
> continue to stay away.

Any theft of intellectual copyright is surely just that in any event ?
p.k.

>
> > I don't think that that the Serge is going to loose its (often
> mystified)
> > uniqueness - which it took it near two decades, a long evolution
> process of
> > the underlying philosophy and manufacturing principles, and a

broad

> revival
> > of Analog to acquire.
>
> well you're quite the utilitarian :) yeah "Maybe it doesn't affect
> serge at all, and so forth..." That's not the point, copying
> the minutiae of design decisions w/o attribution is just wrong. why

is

> that difficult to understand?
>
> --Harvey