From:  "tantoswaistband" <tantoswaistband@yahoo.com>
Date:  Sun Feb 13, 2005  9:14 am
Subject:  About to make the jump

Hello all. I'm an old analogue (yep) head from the 70's (PAiA, Mini,
etc.) that has been creeping back into the electronic music area.
The modern ambient/HOS stuff did it. I started a few months ago by
snarfing up some of the smaller vintage gear on ebay (Korg MS-20,
Moog Rogue). Then stumbled across Roger's web-page. Holly-Cow...you
know how that went. First the emails as to whether this was a joke,
then the moaning about not having the funds, can the MS-20 drive your
VCO's (v/hz)?, blah, blah...ad nausium. The funds part is partially
correct (I have come back to school for the doc in engineering - what
the heck was I thinking?).

Anyway, Roger (God bless him) kindly put up with my probings. That
put me on the activity of trying to see which modules would get me up
and running with the MS-20. I used the QSP22 as a starting point and
worked backwards. However, every time I deleted a module it occurred
to me that the power of the true modular is not apparent at first
glance. Even ubiquitous modules like the little Processesor combined
with some unknown (to me) routing could be very interesting. Hmmmm.

Finally, I started digging through my old synth literature. There I
found a couple of old Moog brochures for the little systems 12 and
15. I recall how much I really wanted one of those things back in
the dee-aye-yie. My Mini used to drive me nuts for its lack of
flexibility (one gets tired of the "fat-Moog-bass" after a while).

OK, that did it. After watching a tattered old 2600 go for $2,500 on
ebay I thought, compare that to Roger's stuff. The QSP22 is a modern
incarnation of the old Moog 12/15 only much better. Roger seems to
love his work and it shows. The design of everything is extremely
well though out. It is as if Bob Moog had sat back for 30 years and
said "Now lets build a modular given what we know". Actually, Roger
stands on his own with this stuff (ahhh - forgive me Moog spirits).

So, the toys go on ebay today. With any luck, Roger should get an
order within the month. Well, no one asked to listen this horribly
long story but I have a ton of work to do and this seemed like a good
way to avoid that a bit longer (bring in the Entropy!!). Take care
space fans, where ever you are.

Scott