Re: The world according to Opcode....

[James Keepnews <keepnews@node.net>]

Gang:

Muchas apologias. It is big news re: Oberheim for us newbies; no big news 
to anyone
else. None too surpirising, given the level of support (read: 
non-existent) the
brand has had since Gibson made it their own.

Sorry to take up so much space on this -- don't flame me mercilessly. Or 
mercifully,
even...

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Mike Biffle wrote:

>      Please... just call Michael Ayers @ Gibson... he's the Oberheim
>      support person. 1-800-444-2766, extension 382. None of us here knows
>      more about the EDP situation than him.
>
>      -Biffoz
>
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> Subject: Re: The world according to Opcode....
> Author:  James Keepnews <keepnews@node.net> at INTERNET
> Date:    6/17/99 10:08 AM
>
> Kim:
>
> Not to be truculent, but this _is_ a looper's mailing list, so one
> imagines I'm within my right to be repetitive...shouldn't interested
> parties contact Oberheim if they be wanting an Echoplex, _not_ Opcode?
> Take "Bret <echoplex@yahoo.com>"'s experience as a further example,
> where he receives the reply:
>
> > I wrote to opcode about EDP availability, and they
> > wrote me:
> > --- infoone  wrote:
> > > Check with www.gibson.com.  We dont handle those
> > > products.
> >
>
> Opcode makes MIDI software and certain MIDI/digital audio hardware
> products but hasn't exactly jumped onto the hardware signal processing
> bandwagon, to my knowledge (thus, the prior interest on the part of my
> team of financial planners, who have suddenly, not to say mysteriously,
> transformed into a byzantine assortment of MIDI-merge boxes and A/D mini
> 1/8"-to-S/PDIF ports). Both Opcode and Oberheim are, as we know,
> wholly-owned subsidiaries of Gibson and, it is very likely, at least one
> staff member in each "division" doesn't know what happened to his/her
> beloved Fonzie iron-on applique t-shirt from 1978; it is at this point,
> I'd wager, that all similarities between the two divisions cease.
> Perhaps "no" really does mean "no" -- if we want to hold certain feet to
> a certain fire, it'd help to know which body said feet are attached to.
> Please to advise. Thank you.
>
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> >  Subject:
> >         Re: The world according to Opcode....
> >    Date:
> >         Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:46:35 -0700
> >    From:
> >         Kim Flint
> >      To:
> >         Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
> >
> >
> >
> > At 10:09 AM -0700 6/16/99, L. Stafford wrote:
> > >After posting a message regarding production of the EDP to their web 
>page
> > >form, I got back the following response:
> > >"There are no plans for Opcode to handle this product"
> > >
> > >Perhaps they are resorting to form letter responses for any email
> > >containing the word EDP. ;)
> > >
> >
> > Like I said, Don't take no for an answer. :-)
> >
> > kim
> >