Personally i dont mind to do the unthinkable and scavenge my 2nd spare AX-73, these akai synths sound awesome but the control design around the cem chips is inflexible in many ways, for instance the only available lfo is also not midi/external trigger-able. I do agree its not the best way but i cant think of what other options there are for obtaining these really obsolete CEM3394's nowadays. They seem to be all bought up, found out that some old arcade games consoles used them too but if you could find these cems, they were soldered directly to the circuit boards and (working) boards are probably collectors items anyway. http://www.system16.com/hardware.php id=607
Unless curtis is going to do a new batch of them or unless somebody is going to open up a box of nos cems its going to be rather unlikely to appear for a useable quantity of CEM3394's.

---In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , <yahoo@...> wrote :

If the AX-73 is still working I think it's not a good idea to remove the
chips for building A-111-5. I'm against the cannibalization of working
devices for chip harvesting. If the AX-73 is defective I'll be happy to buy
the CEM3394 from you and to collect them until a noteworthy quantity is
reached (min. 200, otherwise the price would be much higher than before, but
we could also manufacture e.g. 50 units at a higher price).

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

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> I would be interested in 2 more greyscale (not vintage look)
> A-111-5 modules and i would be happy to supply 6 used 3394 Cems
> from my Akai AX-73 :)