> just finished watching it. enthusiastically agreed!
>
> and it's not just congratulations to Dieter for his own success.
> by creating the Eurorack format that became a de facto standard
> for modular gear, he helped usher in this whole new renaissance
> of modular synthesis for new generations, allowing so many
> wonderful crazy people in their garages with a soldering iron and
> a dream to make all sorts of gloriously warped modules for us
> even more warped musicians to play with!
>
> maybe it's silly of me, but i consider Dieter to be right up
> there with people like Bob Moog & Dave Smith in the history of
> synthesizers.
>
> seriously, my sincere heartfelt thanks to you Dieter for
> everything you've done, and continue to do!
>
> -chris

Hi Chris,

thank you for your kind words. But I would really not place me on the same
level with Bob Moog or Don Buchla. The start of the A-100 was more a "copy
job" than a new technology. The first modules were nothing but copies of the
MS-404 sub-circuits and the MS-404 had its roots in the famous Moog
transistor ladder filter and a common VCO circuit. I think my main idea was
to make an analog modular system affordable and to use a mechanical format
(now called Eurorack) and a bus concept that was not too expensive (ribbon
cables instead of fixed pcb dimensions as used in the industry standard).
This mechanical format was already an industry standard at this time in
Germany. But I really never imagined that such a huge range of A-100
compatible modules would be ever on the market (Andreas Schneider of
Schneiders Laden in Berlin mentioned recently that in the meantime more than
50 manufacturers and more than 800 modules are on the market and that they
have a bit lost the track).

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer