--- Dieter Doepfer < hardware@... > wrote:

> From: "Dieter Doepfer" < hardware@... >
> To: "Bakis Sirros" < synth_freak_2000@... >
> Subject: AW: 1 Re: Fwd:dieter's comment
> on vu-meter module!
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:21:24 +0200
>
> Bakis, please forward ...
>
> > > A VU with LED display would be no problem as
> > > suitable integrated LED display
> > > driver circuits are available on the market. But
> we
> > > have to find a
> > > manufacturer of suitable moving coil VU meters -
> > > maybe with backlight. So
> > > far we did not find a supplier but we have not
> yet
> > > searched very
> > > intensively.
> >
> > This seems like a polite way of saying that
> Doepfer just isn't
> > interested in producing a moving coil meter
> module. I'm very
> > disappointed. I think I'll reassess my plans for
> another 4 rows of
> > modules.
> >
> > Joe
>
> You are probably a psychiatrist as you know more
> about our intentions than
> we do ourself.
>
> I definitely did not want to say that we are not
> interested in manufacturing
> a moving coil VU meter but it does not make sense to
> promise anything if we
> have no supplier for a suitable meter so far. We
> have a lot of tasks in the
> waiting loop (e.g. A-107, A-154, A-149-x, A-133,
> A-172, TKB and some other
> non-A-100 designs like MIDI version of A-198,
> Hammond keyboard) that the
> moving coil VU meter - and this is all what I wanted
> to say - has no
> priority over the other projects in the list. I
> think we have to pay
> attention not to fritter away with too many projects
> (as already mentioned
> by some members of the group).
>
> Best wishes
> Dieter
>

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