MOTM

I got to thinking about Old Crow's observation a while back about
Synthesizers.Com not being an obvious domain name since nobody here had
bothered to look until recently. And since this is a Census year, I
would be interested in hearing how some of the list members first came
across Synthtech.Com. That means you too, Kenny @ Kollege...welcome, I'm
a newbie too! Anyway, I'll go first;

Around the begining of the year, I finally got my 25 year old Aries
modular (kit-built) working again, and started searching the net for
user groups, spare parts, ect. Slim pickings, Synthmuseum.com didn't
know any more than I, and a fellow with an aol.com address who was NOT
selling, but buying old Aries (working or not). I don't recall seeing
Synthtech on either Hotbot or Yahoo when I searched on "analog
synthesizers" (or Synthesizers.Com, for that matter, but that was quite
a while back).

Well, the aol guy said I should check out a couple of places, the first
was synth-tech (he wasn't sure of the spelling) and I can't remember the
other one. Once I got a look at the PDF catalog, I emailed Paul. Within
the hour, I got a reply and a photo of HIS old Aries! I'm thinking,
either this guy's a kindred spirit, or a good salesman. Well, he's both!
So far, I have 2 '800s, a '320 and '410 (love it!) and they talk nicely
to the Aries, but it's becoming apparent which is the better system (you
get one guess...). The only reason I don't have more MOTM is because you
other guys keep ordering stuff...knock it off, give the man a break <G>

And the rest is history. Impressed?

<snoring noises>

I love to keep my audience riveted! (from Blazing Saddles)

Chuck (Bart) McQ

I bought motm in an attemt to make biv stop bugging me about buying motm  ;)
-paul w

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Hunsicker [mailto:nate@...]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 5:40 AM
To: motm@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [motm] I'm taking a poll...


I found Paul by accident while seaching the internet for CEM chips. -Nate
Customer since 12/99

>
>I got to thinking about Old Crow's observation a while back about
>
>Synthesizers.Com not being an obvious domain name since nobody here had
>
>bothered to look until recently. And since this is a Census year, I
>
>would be interested in hearing how some of the list members first came
>
>across Synthtech.Com. That means you too, Kenny @ Kollege...welcome, I'm
>
>a newbie too! Anyway, I'll go first;
>
>
>
>Around the begining of the year, I finally got my 25 year old Aries
>
>modular (kit-built) working again, and started searching the net for
>
>user groups, spare parts, ect. Slim pickings, Synthmuseum.com didn't
>
>know any more than I, and a fellow with an aol.com address who was NOT
>
>selling, but buying old Aries (working or not). I don't recall seeing
>
>Synthtech on either Hotbot or Yahoo when I searched on "analog
>
>synthesizers" (or Synthesizers.Com, for that matter, but that was quite
>
>a while back).
>
>
>
>Well, the aol guy said I should check out a couple of places, the first
>
>was synth-tech (he wasn't sure of the spelling) and I can't remember the
>
>other one. Once I got a look at the PDF catalog, I emailed Paul. Within
>
>the hour, I got a reply and a photo of HIS old Aries! I'm thinking,
>
>either this guy's a kindred spirit, or a good salesman. Well, he's both!
>
>So far, I have 2 '800s, a '320 and '410 (love it!) and they talk nicely
>
>to the Aries, but it's becoming apparent which is the better system (you
>
>get one guess...). The only reason I don't have more MOTM is because you
>
>other guys keep ordering stuff...knock it off, give the man a break <G>
>
>
>
>And the rest is history. Impressed?
>
>
>
><snoring noises>
>
>
>
>I love to keep my audience riveted! (from Blazing Saddles)
>
>
>
>Chuck (Bart) McQ
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>




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I found Paul by accident while seaching the internet for CEM chips. -Nate
Customer since 12/99

>
>I got to thinking about Old Crow's observation a while back about
>
>Synthesizers.Com not being an obvious domain name since nobody here had
>
>bothered to look until recently. And since this is a Census year, I
>
>would be interested in hearing how some of the list members first came
>
>across Synthtech.Com. That means you too, Kenny @ Kollege...welcome, I'm
>
>a newbie too! Anyway, I'll go first;
>
>
>
>Around the begining of the year, I finally got my 25 year old Aries
>
>modular (kit-built) working again, and started searching the net for
>
>user groups, spare parts, ect. Slim pickings, Synthmuseum.com didn't
>
>know any more than I, and a fellow with an aol.com address who was NOT
>
>selling, but buying old Aries (working or not). I don't recall seeing
>
>Synthtech on either Hotbot or Yahoo when I searched on "analog
>
>synthesizers" (or Synthesizers.Com, for that matter, but that was quite
>
>a while back).
>
>
>
>Well, the aol guy said I should check out a couple of places, the first
>
>was synth-tech (he wasn't sure of the spelling) and I can't remember the
>
>other one. Once I got a look at the PDF catalog, I emailed Paul. Within
>
>the hour, I got a reply and a photo of HIS old Aries! I'm thinking,
>
>either this guy's a kindred spirit, or a good salesman. Well, he's both!
>
>So far, I have 2 '800s, a '320 and '410 (love it!) and they talk nicely
>
>to the Aries, but it's becoming apparent which is the better system (you
>
>get one guess...). The only reason I don't have more MOTM is because you
>
>other guys keep ordering stuff...knock it off, give the man a break <G>
>
>
>
>And the rest is history. Impressed?
>
>
>
><snoring noises>
>
>
>
>I love to keep my audience riveted! (from Blazing Saddles)
>
>
>
>Chuck (Bart) McQ
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Charles McQuillan Jr. wrote:

> would be interested in hearing how some of the list members first came
> across Synthtech.Com.

  I found Synthtech while searching for datasheets on the SSM2044 (used in
early-80s Korg gear that I end up fixing for folks).  I decided to look at
the rest of the site...

  If I recall, my initial email to Paul said something like "this is the
best-looking stuff I've ever seen, and (referring to industrial
control equipment, actually) I've seen a LOT of stuff" by way of
introduction. Somehow between then and now I found myself working on some
stuff for him, and I couldn't be happier.

  At last count, I had a 110, 120 (a 100 now 101 backordered since
OCTOBER ;) a 300, a pair of 320s (2nd-favorite) , a 410 (my favorite
module that I may build into one or more of my Korg Polysixes), a pair of
420s, backordered 440s, and the 900.  I'll be adding to these of course,
when I find the time to build some more.

Crow

p.s. in reference to the SF MOTM meeting, I have one of Chris MacDonald's
Minis about 90% built.  Should be a nice little machine.  Takes forever to
assemble that PCB, though.

/**/

I found synthtech.com before MOTM got started, when I was doing a search on 
Synergy synthesizers.

Fred

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, David Bivins wrote:

> Wow. Now *that's* a cool idea. I miss my PolySix <sniff>. 

  The only trick is finding space on the panel to install the controls.  I
thought of perhaps placing the controls where the pitch/mod wheels are,
then having the pitch/mod wheels in a little side-box.

  I could probably place the controls in a single row above the P6 osc.
controls, but the space is rather tight due to the circuit boards
underneath.  I'll figure out something eventually...

Crow

p.s. People sell "broken" Polysix keyboards on ebay all the time for ~$100
typical. You can fix them (they all suffer from the leaky NiCad battery
problem) for about $5 in parts and a few hours of circuit-board fixups.

/**/

Old Crow wrote

> 410 (my favorite
> module that I may build into one or more of my Korg Polysixes), a pair of

Wow. Now *that's* a cool idea. I miss my PolySix <sniff>.

At 10:50 PM 06/06/2000 -0400, "Charles McQuillan Jr." <doctorq@...>
wrote:
>I would be interested in hearing how some of the list members first came
>across Synthtech.Com.

I can't quite remember, but it was May '98 (and I got a -110 within a
couple months, so it's almost my 2-year MOTM anniversary - hooray!).  I'm
pretty sure it came from following semi-random links on the web - probably
from the Blacet Research website (I had bought a Dark Star Chaos a month or
two previously).  So I guess Paul has John Blacet to thank for inflicting
me on him!

	-Doug
	 ceres@...