RE: oberheim echoplex for sale

["Jeff Larson" <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com>]

> "Ultimate looper".  My term for something that has all the features 
> someone would want in a dedicated hardware box currently.  Somebody 
> seems to have  a permanent attitude against me for dreaming of such a 
> thing and considering making one.  Does this person have some
FINANCIAL 
> INTEREST for seeing that such a product NOT be done?  Who is this "CV"

> and why are they bearing some kind of grudge agaisnt me?  I totally 
> don't get it.

I won't speak for this mysterious "CV" but please try to understand
that there are people on this list with many years of experience
actually building looping hardware and software, some of them over a
decade.

When someone comes along saying they're going to build the "ultimate
looper" with "all the features" this is sort of like walking into the
M.I.T physics department and claiming you're going to solve the cold
fusion problem.  

You seem like a nice guy with a low tolerance for sarcasm, so I'm
trying my best to put this gently.  If you can't describe the
architecture and functions of the EDP, Repeater, and Looperlative, to a
reasonably thorough degree you really aren't in a position to toss out
phrases like "ultimate" and "all the features" because you don't know
what those mean.

If you have never written a computer program in C or C++ of over 100,000

lines then some people are going to have difficulty taking you seriously
because building a looper is more about the software than the hardware.

I don't think anyone is trying to crush your dream, but we may be
surprised and a little incredulous that someone else is crazy enough to
dream it.

Jeff