Hi Joe, Bakis,

> Timothy, I'm nitpicking, but you forgot to include the price of a
> pair of A138s to mix down the 8 VCA outputs.

Yeah I know - I thought that was being just a little _too_ prissy!
Besides as I was adding it all up...

> > they are STILL TOO expensive,(the buchla modules), as,
> > for $1130 ,you get a doepfer a191(midi-cv plus shepard
> > gen.)and 8 vca's and 8 a110's with a million more
> > inputs, outputs and knobs!

... I couldn't help but think the same as Bakis here! Still
it's 'horses for courses', and 'you pays yer money and you takes yer
choice'!

doepfer told me that the 80%

> > of a module's price goes to the knobs and jacks and
> > potentiometers.

If I'm to believe this, it must be 80% of the components - the boards
and faceplates must be a fair proportion of the final price, but the
bulk of the cost of a module must surely be down to the labour for
soldering/screwing it together

so,for a doepfer "barberpole effect",

> > you pay 1130$ for all these circuits
> > AND,mainly,physical components.for the buchla
> > barberpole,where do your $1500 go to the circuits,that
> > are the cheapest parts of a module

Well the 260 obviously has a microcontroller in it; for what the 297
does, perhaps it does too, and so maybe they are trying to recoup
software development costs. Who knows. But it _would_ be nice to have
enough money to be able to justify spending $1500 on a single unit!
(Yasi, we envy you!)

Tim