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I have rackmount frames again. They cost enough to make a grown man cry and took 12 
weeks to get. But they are essential to some customers. I only sell them with new module 
sales. They are too expensive and hard to get to support people buying second hand 
modules.

I am sorry about that. I don't penalize customers who purchase second hand modules, but 
in this specific instance, there is nothing I can do.


--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Verschoor" <modular@...> wrote:
>
> Oow i got another great requuest.
> Get the rackmount back to!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dennis
> 
> On 3/12/07, waveform100 <googol@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Wow! Very good news! I always thought that the Wiard 300 form-factor
> > is the best and most ergonomic. I have both 1200 and 300 and some
> > others, but on the Wiard 300 System I am much faster than an all others.
> >
> > My suggestion for a new Module: something like serge multipliers with
> > some Wiard magic.....
> >
> > Olivier
> >
> > --- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com <wiardgroup%40yahoogroups.com>, "Grant
> > Richter" <grichter@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm have put the 300 series back in full production.
> > >
> > > The 1200 series is still available until I use up the existing
> > parts. I plan to port the 1200
> > > series design into 300 series packaging eventually. The Joystick and
> > JAG will stay just as
> > > they are. It would make no sense to have those in 300 series cases.
> > >
> > > The 300 series was never completely out of production, but I had
> > switched my main
> > > efforts to the Frac-Rac format. I now think that was a mistake. I
> > didn't want to go head to
> > > head with Don over the 200e, but now the Buchla product is mature
> > enough that I feel OK
> > > placing my emphasis on the 300 series again. I wanted Don to succeed
> > with the 200e.
> > > Musical instruments is a field where if one company "defeats"
> > another company, the whole
> > > culture loses out.
> > >
> > > John Simonton intended the Frac-Rac format to be economical. John
> > Blacet has done a
> > > absolutely brilliant job of executing designs in that format. But
> > the Frac-Rac doesn't have
> > > the inherent infrastructure for the highest grade professional
> > instruments. That is not to
> > > take away from the great modules already designed, or question the
> > quality of theose
> > > instruments. A Blacet instrument is a superb economical instrument.
> > >
> > > In my opinion the Frac-Rac aluminum is too light weight and the lack
> > of fully shielded
> > > enclosures keeps them from achieving extremely low electrical noise.
> > Because of that, I
> > > don't feel Frac-Rac modules should cost over $300 tops. That price
> > point places a limit on
> > > the complexity of designs. To summerize, I like the Frac-Rac format
> > a lot, and I admire the
> > > instruments already in that format. But it has become a limitation
> > for new Wiard designs.
> > >
> > > I am hoping for some customer feedback. The goal of the 300 series
> > is to have 12 unique
> > > module designs, there are currently 8. These 8 modules already do
> > almost every kind of
> > > synthesis known to mankind, so designing 4 new modules is no easy
> > task. The Envelooper
> > > is one new design for certain.
> > >
> > > What additional features would you like to see in the 300 series?
> > Feel free to speculate,
> > > there are no stupid ideas. (Well, adding a Moog style transistor
> > ladder filter is a stupid
> > > idea, the Boogie filter already blows that thin sounding design away).
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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