{"id":72,"date":"2006-07-06T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T17:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/06\/bad-news-good-news-for-the-synthesizer-building-community\/"},"modified":"2006-07-06T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T17:18:55","slug":"bad-news-good-news-for-the-synthesizer-building-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/06\/bad-news-good-news-for-the-synthesizer-building-community","title":{"rendered":"Bad News, Good News for the Synthesizer-Building Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is that Synthesis Technology will stop selling kits by the end of the year, and is discontinuing several modules altogether. The official announcement is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.synthtech.com\/motm_plan.html\">here<\/a>. (It&#8217;s worth noting that Paul&#8217;s having a 15% off sale soon.) While this is obviously a bummer for those of us who buy module kits from Paul, I&#8217;m glad that he&#8217;s staying in business in some manner. The related electronics industry sea-changes brought about by RoHS and the shift to SMT mean that small operations like Synth Tech have to either change or perish.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Oakley Sound is getting back into the quasi-kit business (&#8220;quasi&#8221; in the sense that he sells PCBs and a few hard-to-obtain parts rather than complete kits). The announcement is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/oakleysound.com\/news.htm\">here<\/a>. I&#8217;ve built a couple of modules from Tony&#8217;s PCBs (the Equinoxe phase shifter and the sample &#038; hold) and I&#8217;ve been entirely pleased with the quality of the boards and circuits and the accompanying documentation, and I imagine that I&#8217;ll be buying more from him in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is that Synthesis Technology will stop selling kits by the end of the year, and is discontinuing several modules altogether. The official announcement is here. (It&#8217;s worth noting that Paul&#8217;s having a 15% off sale soon.) While this is obviously a bummer for those of us who buy module kits from Paul,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/06\/bad-news-good-news-for-the-synthesizer-building-community\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad News, Good News for the Synthesizer-Building Community<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-nebula","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}