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I wonder if Bernie would let me sell copies as his "agent": You pay me $30
over,
I send it out, mail Bernie $$$. He gets $$$, but now everyone's happy.

Sadly, Bernie is anti-computer, anti-Internet. Very reclusive. All he needs
to
do is sell a hard-bound "Best of Electronotes" for $80 (with updated info,
like
now available parts) and he would make $100,000 easy.

Of course, *I* always thought I could write a better book than Bernie......
:)

Paul S.

My apologies if this is nothing new to you.  But the list sees new members
and I want to repeat this again.

You that are interested in the electronics aspect of modular synthesis owe
it to yourselves to check out Electronotes.  I know many of you are already
familiar with the publication, which saw its heydey in the late seventies.
At this website Bernie Hutchins still offers a complete paper copy of the
Electronotes.

http://electronotes.netfirms.com/

Having given away my original Electonotes collection years ago, last year I
bought the "Discounted Everything Package".  I it is up to $300 now.  I
recommend getting at least Volumes 1-13, 1972 to 1981, plus the Musical
Engineer's Handbook and the Builder's Guide and Preferred Circuits
Collection.  That already comes to $210.  But then you'll only need to buy
five 3-inch, 3-ring binders for it instead of ten!  (I spent hours sorting
it all and going to the copy store to get it 3-hole punched.)  This is a
great reference that includes many interesting articles on the musical
aspects of electronic music, too.  It has source bibliographies galore, like
an academic tome, which in a way it is.

I've no connection with Bernie Hutchins, other than being a happy reader.

-Richard Brewster

Because Bernie knows that:

a) the CD would get copied
b) they would be up on a website in < 10min

Paul S.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "mbedtom" <tom@...>
To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: [motm] Electronotes


> I too highly recommend Electronotes.  I have only selected issues but 
> what I have is impressive.  (I actually got them when they were first 
> issued.  That makes me a real old guy!)  I've never posed the 
> question, but why on earth hasn't Electronotes been turned into a PDF 
> document and distributed on a $0.22 CD instead of killing a small 
> tree for the whole lot?  I would love to have the entire set but I 
> would have to scan them into PDFs and then recycle the paper.  Since 
> that is such an obvious question I must have missed something along 
> the way... feel free to flame me for not knowing about the obvious 
> <insert whatever it is that I don't know that is obvious to everyone 
> but me>
> 
> Cheers!
> Tom Farrand
> 
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You need up to Issue number #120. After that, he starts 'wandering' a bit. The
"meat" of the info is in issues #30-90 and GET THE APP NOTES.

Paul S.

You need up to Issue number #120. After that, he starts 'wandering' a bit. The
"meat" of the info is in issues #30-90 and GET THE APP NOTES.

Paul S.

He says on his website that he's willing to have someone do a CD, if 
they will agree to his terms. Apparently he's had a couple of deals in 
the works, but they've never come through.

nathan d

On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 12:08  PM, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> Because Bernie knows that:
>
> a) the CD would get copied
> b) they would be up on a website in < 10min
>
> Paul S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mbedtom" <tom@...>
> To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:07 AM
> Subject: [motm] Electronotes
>
>
>> I too highly recommend Electronotes.  I have only selected issues but
>> what I have is impressive.  (I actually got them when they were first
>> issued.  That makes me a real old guy!)  I've never posed the
>> question, but why on earth hasn't Electronotes been turned into a PDF
>> document and distributed on a $0.22 CD instead of killing a small
>> tree for the whole lot?  I would love to have the entire set but I
>> would have to scan them into PDFs and then recycle the paper.  Since
>> that is such an obvious question I must have missed something along
>> the way... feel free to flame me for not knowing about the obvious
>> <insert whatever it is that I don't know that is obvious to everyone
>> but me>
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Tom Farrand
>>
>>
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Did peek at Bernie's site and saw the "so ya wanna CD" text.  Thanks 
for the tip!  Still, there should be a way to do it.  Am looking at 
Distiller documentation to see if there is an easy way to add a 
header or footer that contains a serial number.  If the documents 
were serialized or contained a "Specially prepared for the exclusive 
use of" statement, might make someone think twice about giving it all 
away (each copy made would still have THEIR name on it).  I have e-
mailed "sensitive" information via PDF before and just added 
the 'specialty' footer to each page prior to Distilling.  Seems to me 
there should be a way for Distiller to do that automagically.  My 
printer driver can append a 'watermark' to each page so why not 
something else?  Anyway, if that process could be automated, Bernie 
could burn a personalized/serialized CD instead of killing trees.

Guess I am just more trusting than I should be.  I'll look into the 
Distiller thing a bit more.  That might be a good reason to upgrade 
to version 6 if such a feature exists there.  I really don't want to 
be "the guy" to turn Electronotes into a CD but this security thing 
shouldn't be insurmountable.  I agree (with Bernie) that holding a 
paper copy is best, especially if one wants to scratch notes on the 
side, but I'd rather just print the couple of pages I'm interested in 
at the moment and not have to worry about paper being the sole copy.  
I wonder just how many copies of Electronotes (the early years) is 
sold annually?

In any case, I will probably buy the whole shebang and scan the 
issues of interest to me, over time.  The thought of having all the 
Electronotes issues (the old ones anyway) on my PDA is enticing.  
Whenever I get bored (like when I'm visiting the in-laws) having such 
interesting reading material in my shirt pocket would be way cool.  
And having a footer on each page that has my name on it is fine by me.

Back in 1987 we had a flood here that destroyed many one-of-a-kind 
papers I had collected over the years.  About half of my Electronotes 
collection was submerged.  That painful experience is what motivates 
my wanting printed matter on CD and not paper.

Cheers!
Tom Farrand