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A pity roland wouldn't reissue a digital updated version of their old space echo or chorus echo tape delays. My first sound on sound soundscaping experience (I was 13). I look back on those machines with great fondness. >From: Kim Flint <kflint@annihilist.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >Subject: Re: Lexicon & JAMMAN >Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 02:04:17 -0700 > > >David Kirkdorffer <DKirkdorffer@exapps.com> wrote: > > > >>My guess is the best one can hope for from Lexicon re:JAMMAN is what >they > >>are doing now -- that is, building some/many JAMMAN like capabilities >into > >>other effects devices they produce. > > > >Hey, the Echoplex got reissued, now didn't it? It did take a little > >time, mind you, and it was somewhat different. > >Actually, the Echoplex is not a "reissue" of anything. There is the >ancient >tape delay from decades ago called "Echoplex". It happens that Gibson owns >this name. When Gibson decided to license this fascinating looping machine >from Matthias Grob decades later, somebody thought, "hey, we have this >Echoplex name, let's call it that!" And it was deliciously subversive and >so it was done. > >But the two device have nothing to do with each other at all, really. > >and the current Echoplex Digital Pro (as we brilliantly named it...) has >never been discontinued, so it's not yet in a position to be >"reissued"....at least not yet. it's just on one of its yearly >"sabbaticals"...;-) > > >I'm sure Lexicon would love to have more of a presence in the > >lower-priced effects market as there is a great deal of volume > >in that area, even though the margins are smaller. > > > >I can imagine that they'd release an improved version, though... > >a "son of JamMan" which had better MIDI and that sort of thing. > >Lexicon lost a boatload of money on the jamman. (largely because they >didn't have a very solid grasp on "low cost" markets at the time.) When >they killed it, they had a warehouse full of unsellable jammans! it was a >running internal joke there for quite a few years. The prospects for >future >jammans have never been very good.... > >And now, Lex has largely lost the autonomy they once enjoyed within the >Harmon organization, which is probably a bit sad. I wouldn't place my >chips >on that square, but you never know.... > > >kim > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Kim Flint | Looper's Delight >kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html >http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com