Re: Lexicon Jamman-Akai midi sequence arpeggiator

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

>At 8:40 PM -0800 11/22/99, Madoud@aol.com wrote:
>>I'm curious about a couple of things.
>>    Why was the Jam man discontinued and not brought back.....I 
>understand
>>there is some Lexicon  product with JamMan features.  Did it not make the
>>company money or have enough sales.

Kim:
>Lexicon lost a shitload of money on the jamman. It only became a desirable
>device well after they discontinued it. Before that time they had a
>warehouse full of them collecting dust, unsellable. They killed it off and
>blew out the inventory cheap, and only then did people start wanting it.
>"looping" was a the butt of many jokes in Lexicon management meetings for
>quite some time, as I understand.
>
>They just didn't realize how much time it takes for ever-conservative
>musicians to really get interested in new ideas. You need a bit more
>patience for this sort of thing.
>
>With Harman in control there, I really doubt that you will see a lexicon
>looper anytime soon. Public company: gotta keep the stockholders happy 
>with
>those nice quarterly earnings reports.....no chance-taking allowed.

Thats a point to remember, thinking of "bad" Gibson and problems at
Oberheims manufacturing:
At least they took the risk and did not give up. A merit of Keith McMillen
and Kim Flint and Henry Juszkiewicz and some other enthusiast at Oberheim.

For example: I had visited t.c. to explain the loop functions long before
Gibson found me.
While the EDPs future was unsecure, I contacted them again, offering help
to include looping in one of their brilliant stereo units.
And now they launch another delay unit without looping functions!

Then again, if Gibson had to pay our salaries for the developpment, they
may have given up, too, right, Kim?



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