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by Eric0
Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:53 am
Forum: Little Phatty & Slim Phatty Forum
Topic: Ideas for the Little Phatty Stage III?
Replies: 210
Views: 125772

Re: Ideas for the Little Phatty Stage III?

Yeah, but My dad had a Texas Instruments calculator that cost like $250 in 1980. It weighed as much as a pint of ice cream, and It could add, subtract, multiply, and...divide. A big part of the cost of the original memorymoog would have been the digital components, which are trivial now.

Also, I ...
by Eric0
Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:21 pm
Forum: Little Phatty & Slim Phatty Forum
Topic: Ideas for the Little Phatty Stage III?
Replies: 210
Views: 125772

Re: Ideas for the Little Phatty Stage III?

I think they might have gone under anyway. The memorymoog is actually an awesome instrument, but like the very first versions of any new technology, there were technical issues that made them unreliable. In fact all analog gear was always a little glitchy. I suspect that's part of the reason it was ...
by Eric0
Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:04 pm
Forum: Little Phatty & Slim Phatty Forum
Topic: Ideas for the Little Phatty Stage III?
Replies: 210
Views: 125772

Re: Ideas for the Little Phatty Stage III?

Well, it would be about the size of a memorymoog, just a little shallower, and all that stuff fit in there 25 years ago. There is a lot of room inside a little phatty. I think this would be a big synth. But I am a product designer by trade, and the LP case design is very economical, compared to ...
by Eric0
Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:57 am
Forum: Little Phatty & Slim Phatty Forum
Topic: Ideas for the Little Phatty Stage III?
Replies: 210
Views: 125772

Re: Ideas for the Little Phatty Stage III?

The thing I would love, and other people have mentioned it, would be a Poly Phatty. Basically an updated memorymoog, with 6 or 8 voices This would actually be pretty easy for them to do:

Little Phatty architecture - Same aluminum extrusion, but longer, same end caps. 61 note keyboard. Maybe put the ...