Re: Whither Echoplex?

["cameron" <c.ja.s@adlink.com.au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: David Kirkdorffer <DKirkdorffer@exapps.com>
To: 'James Keepnews' <keepnews@node.net>; <relations@gibson.com>;
<Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Cc: <prod@trace-elliot.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 7:17 AM
Subject: RE: Whither Echoplex?


> Additional EDP Greetings.
>
> I too am ever-hopeful to hear about the fate of the much missed Echoplex
> Digital Pro (EDP).
>
> Indeed, with only a page on the little Loopers-Delight web-site 
>maintained
> by Kim Flint, one of the EDP's software developers at Aurisis Research, I
> have gathered a list of over 150 people who are awaiting to purchase over
> 200 units of this cool tool!
>
> Previous "rumors" of August, September, and November production re-start
> dates have all sadly passed and proven to be false.
>
> In that time, companies like AKAI, LINE6, and tc.electronics each have
added
> new looping devices to the market.  And other companies like Boomerang
have
> updated their offerings.
>
> Further, there is talk of creating EDP "Kits" rather than waiting for
Gibson
> to get it together, which would very much undercut the likely pricing 
>from
> Trace Elliot.
>
> So, dear readers, please know that the EDP is a well-loved, product that
> offers musicians the potential to boldly go where no looper has gone
before.
>
> David Kirkdorffer
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Keepnews [mailto:keepnews@node.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 3:14 PM
> To: relations@gibson.com; Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
> Cc: prod@trace-elliot.com; relations@gibson.com; prod@trace-elliot.com
> Subject: Whither Echoplex?
>
>
> Greetings.
>
> In and among my new year's resolutions for this Y2G is to absolutely,
> mercilessly and without surcease pester Gibson brands with questions
> regarding the long-promised, increasingly deferred and ultimately
> unavilable (former) Oberheim Echoplex. In my last post to the Gibson
> on-line forum, it was suggested that Gibson's Trace Elliot division
> would be releasing this premier looping device sometime at the beginning
> of this year; I now understand that this release has been (once more!)
> pushed back to the spring.
>
> It's a shame that this product -- a profitable one for Gibson, from my
> understanding -- continually experiences production setbacks and delays
> on its new release. A cynic might believe that it might never see the
> light of a commercial day again. I am not that cynic, but I am cynical
> enough to believe that nothing at all will occur on Gibson's end without
> a regular reminder of interest in this product. Accordingly, I am
> forwarding this note to Gibson Corporate, Trace Elliot product
> development (from whom I am still awaiting a reply from my last e-mail)
> and the Looper's Delight mailing list. Sunlight is the best
> disinfectant, of practices as much as product development.
>
> I invite you to look forward to my next note to you all, and a regular
> stream of similarly inquisitive notes, until either the Echoplex is
> brought back into production or a statement is issued to the effect that
> the unit will never be issued again. Au revoir!
>
> Very truly yours,
> James Keepnews
>
>