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> MOST Aries modules were designed by Dennis Colin...
> who designed similar modules for the ARP 2500... so
> I'd describe Aries as an ARP spinoff, rather than
> MIT.
> 
> The Aries Filter is a clone of the ARP odyssey.

Interesting that it is almost identical to the Electronotes design 
for a state variable. I wonder which way it went. I assume you are 
refering to the White face Odyssey which is the only one to have 
a 12 dB filter. I don't have the schematic for the ARP version, any 
chance you can send me one?

The VCA design is directly from Electronotes and Terry.

> IMHO... the black on black of the Aries is dead SEXY.
> I'd take one over any artsy-farsty synth (think Alesis
> Andromeda...) anyday.

I guess that must be why most of the bondage clothing is black 
huh? ;^) Specially the leathered covered ping-pong paddles with 
the biker snaps, which are another Milwaukee product. As the 
Romans said "De gustibus non desputandum est" which can be 
translated "Dispute not the appetites" or "There's no accounting 
for taste".

Also, consider that many non-musicians think music making 
itself to be "artsy farsty".

It is simply that there is SO much black monolithic equipment out 
there today. Like every technical designer saw "2001" one 
hundred times. Walter Gropius and the Bauhau design groups 
maxim that "form is function" has gotten somewhat tedious.

It was only inevitable that designers would return to the only 
other available technical asthetic, Victorian embellishment. 
Which at least has the virtue of "seeming" new, after 60 years of 
Bauhaus dominated design.