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Hey Cynthia.  How 'bout you post an update.  Let us know how you and
Cyndustries are doing and what you're up to.

John

John wrote:
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> Hey Cynthia. How 'bout you post an update. Let us know how you and
> Cyndustries are doing and what you're up to.
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Update is a fine idea yes thanks,

I've spent the past three days working on a long overdue custom project 
that
has been on the shelf for the past two-years.  It is perhaps the oldest 
back-order
I think that we have, a conversion of a set of Moog Taurus one Synthesizer
Pedals -into- a custom four unit wide Modcan A-series Module.

The original Moog Taurus circuit board is wider than a 19" rack unit so we
had to build a custom 10-unit wide WoodWork oak cabinet to house the extra
wide circuit board and the new Cynthiafied front panel (which duplicates 
all
of the Taurus hand and foot controls) along with a brand new power supply
and distro cards for powering six additional modules. In the process our
230VAC test bench transformer got a handy upgrade as well.

I was truly unaware of just how involved this whole thing would become
but I had committed to it and now it must go to it's new home. There is also
a Moog cabinet here that it 99% done and just needs the final four wires
 connected and the custom enclosure buttoned up. 

I have eight tablas going into the machine shop to have their keypads 
delicately
extricated from their steel chassis boxes.  A flock of our regular 
Cynthia front
panels for Medium Power Supplies, Dual Blanks, more Zeroscillators, and
more Dual ADSR modules are also going from anodizing into the machine
shop.  Picking-up at the machine shop will be a huge stack of Euro format
Zeroscillator front panels and ARP 2500 19" rack panel frames. 

I've assembled a huge lot of Dual Wasp Filters that are 99% complete and
need to get them all shipped very soon.  I know that many customers have
been waiting for Low Pass Gates and Synthacons as well as UEGs, and
I hope to have those all shipped before Thanksgiving.

A large batch of assorted flavors of Zeroscillators are in mid-assembly and
simply waiting for parts so I'll have a super calibrating Zeroscillator week
coming up shortly. 

We have fleets of two new products that are close to completion. 
I've got about four repairs that I must seriously focus on because they have
been on the bench far too long.  One of those repairs is a Milton and 
there's
also one last Milton a custom silver colored one that is clocking wildly
erratically.  I'm making a whole lot of progress on this Taurus and should
switch directly to these repairs as soon as the Taurus reaches an impasse.

I have shipped a lot of Zeroscillators lately and had to learn how to take
our highly precise four-layer circuit board assemblies and feed the whole
package  into the face of a 12 inch industrial disc sander in order to 
grind
them, down just enough make them fit properly (at last) into a Blacet rack
chassis.  I cross my fingers every time I power them back up and they work!

Also shipped lately are SixPacs with Combo-Distro Cards, Staircase
Comparators, Logipacs, MixSix Mixers, Twin Wasp Filters, Dual ADSRs,
Triple Resonant Filters, and the very last  Dark Star Chaos!  We are now
shipping to many countries something like 18 or 20 countries world wide
and there is a whole lot of paperwork associated with doing that. We got
our first order ever from Japan yesterday and that's pretty cool.

Finally after locating our original source of 600 volt wire again we had a
huge backlog of Power Supplies, WoodWork Cabinets, SixPacs, and
Wiring Harnesses that had to be completed.  I just finished building and
shipping tons of them and only have a few Medium Power Supplies now
on hold awaiting front panels.

We're doing many circuit board runs this fall and there is a literally
endless list of small parts that need to be re-ordered, and answering
customer inquiries.  I'm doing some front panel layouts for a customer,
and am in the process of assembling a new single-height one-unit rack
mount version Zeroscillator called the ZO1U for someone. It may
become a new product for the fall we shall see if there is any interest.

This fall we will probably consolidate our product line by
discontinuing more modules and shipping fewer products much more
efficiently.  we've got some truly fantastic new designs and we're
working to bring them to market.  the older designs are getting done
and we will basically take it easy on new projects until all the old
ones are finally done.  Cyndustries just cannot do any more custom
projects for people, it slows everything else down. 

My Mother needed my support a great deal during August as she had
successful spinal surgery and help with her stay at the hospital and then
the aftercare, so that was a big family issue that I'm happy to have been
able to help her with.  She is almost 84 years old and I'm around a lot
to help her.  We still have a kinds of paperwork relating to my Father's
estate and income taxes and lawyers and such.  That's not much fun but
there is light at the end of the tunnel.  Between the business and
taking care of my Mother that's basically my life, so I am always
working here in the background.

It has been one year now since my Father died and I moved the company
to Pacific Palisades. The shop and thousands of tiny parts are all
re-organized in labeled mini-bins and we have zillions of electronic parts
and half completed modules.  In that year we shipped over a hundred
more Zeroscillators and a few hundred other modules, so although
we're been kind of quiet lately, we have been working away very
positively in the background.  We did a the big NAMM / and Awards
show too!

 Now I leaf through pages of plans and designs that were put
into a state of suspended animation when Dad died.  Here it is a year
later and these drawings are getting dusted off and back into motion
which feels good and we're kinda back to normal now and looking
forward to some colder weather and keeping busy shipping lots of
goodies this fall. 

So, more circuit boards, more panels, lots more Zeroscillators and other
modules that have been on the back burner are staring to ship again.
A few new items are in the works, they're long term items that have been
inching along towards completion little by little over the years and
happily it looks like their time has come.  We have not announced
anything new in a very long time, and that is because we will no longer
announce anything new until it is totally assembled and tested and a
fleet of working units is ready to ship.  In this small industry that can
be very expensive and now we are doing it right.

I'm very happy with all of the back orders that have been shipping
but there are still several oldies that must get shipped out the door!
We're almost out of the little three and four-pin power jumper cables
and the little bag of screws that ship with each module, horrors, can't
ship without those, and need more jumbo bubble bags, also ordering
parts so that Brent  can get working on another big batch of the jumper
cables.  Every day we get closer to zero backlog which is our goal.  

Always something, but life goes on!

Cynthia

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> John
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Shhh . . . She's repairing my Milton sequencer. Back away quietly and 
let her work.

On Sep 11, 2007, at 12:42 PM, John wrote:

> Hey Cynthia. How 'bout you post an update. Let us know how you and
>  Cyndustries are doing and what you're up to.
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>  John
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wow what an update!

thanks for filling us in.  maybe i glossed over it... but i didn't see
any mention of the prime and rhythmic dividers.  whats the status with
them?

john