i certainly take your point, but as James said you should never underestimate your true impact on the synthesizer world. and besides, in a sense Bob Moog also did a kind of "copy job" - he repurposed laboratory test gear circuits for a musical application. and as James pointed out about the openess of the Eurorack standard, that's why i equate you with Dave Smith - he invented MIDI, then made it an open system and let everyone have it for free, thus opening up a whole new world of musical possibilities nobody had ever considered before. true, our little modular bubble is a tiny obscure enclave in the music world at large, but it keeps alive a kind of approach to electronic music that is essential to understanding the limitless musical possibilities of electronics, and if it weren't for you modular would still be stuck in a *really* insignificant world of pretentious academia and a couple nostalgic anoraks fetishizing the '70s.

those who TRY to change the world never succeed. those who don't try and are just doing their own thing are the ones who end up genuinely changing it.


in any case, you are a True Decent Human Being, and i thank you for existing!  :-)

-chris

(ps- i also enjoyed seeing both you and Andreas in that "Totally Wired" documentary from a couple years back)



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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




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