Dieter-
when I started making Eurorack modules (www.synthwerks.com) there were only a handful of makers. There are much more than 50 now. Some local makers here in Seattle (The Harvestman, Flight of Harmony, Division 6 and others) started an advocacy group called The Mostly Modular Trade Association (MMTA) to help with parts buys and vendor vetting. We just passed over 100 companies as members and that is by far not everyone out there. I have given talks at local collages and a couple of time for the AES and always tell of this surge and that I believe it totally due to the Eurorack format. Back in the day, as I am sure you remember, different modulars would connect with each other fine (except for some small snages lik Moog s-triger and Asian Hz/oct) but you could never put a module from one companies cabinet into another's. This meant that after the expense of a cabinet you probably stayed with that maker till it was full. ALL that changed with Eurorack. Though you may play down it's importance to the current synthesizer world, to me it cannot we underestimated - it was pure genius. The fact that you didn't try some copyright or trademark nonsense is unbelievably gracious. The rack format was around of course and used by Schroff and others but you could have done so with the power bus or other aspect.

All I can say is thank you for gambling and opening the doors for me and many others to follow our dreams.
-James

James Husted
Designer, Synthwerks LLC
www.synthwerks.com
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On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:34 AM, yahoo@... wrote:

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> Hi Chris,
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> 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
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