Re: Looper development and production costs?

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Now that's funny.  How about an old Atari 2600esque look?  I think 
retrotech
could be a good way to go for the EDP.

Kim Flint wrote:

> At 04:09 PM 10/16/2001, Gilmore wrote:
> >you guys have got to be kidding me.  I usually scuff up my gear to make 
>it
> >look MORE ghetto!  i like that the Echoplex looks like a specialty 
>product
> >made in someone's garage.  in fact i'd prefer that the lettering was
> >hand-written, preferably with knobs that don't match each other.
>
> you would probably like the early prototype faceplates. We hadn't decided
> yet what some of the buttons and parameters would be called, so I filled 
>in
> the spots with words from old video games. So we had functions like
> HyperSpace, Shields, Torpedoes, etc. Unfortunately the design changed 
>from
> there, so those don't fit on the real production design. I rescued a 
>bunch
> of them out of a trash bin when Oberheim was shut down years ago and 
>still
> have them somewhere in my garage. I'll have to put some pics of them up 
>on LD.
>
> funny story, one of those prototypes was stolen out of a hotel room at 
>the
> Summer NAMM in 1994, a few months before we shipped. Sure enough, shortly
> after shipping somebody called up Oberheim wondering if they could get a
> manual. The clever guy answering figured out it was the thief and asked
> them if they had figured out what the hyperspace button did. -click-  :-)
>
> kim
>
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