Remember the EU Ban of Leaded Solder? Apparently this may have a greater impact than we anticipated. Not only will it impact vinatage gear, but new botique manufactures may find it too expensive to continue with planned projects. Case in point, the Sequentix P3 being phased out. Title link takes you to a post on sequencer.de, with comments from Sequentix. The following are excerpts. The good news? There will be a new sequencer from Sequentix as alluded to in my previous post.
"The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive becomes law in the UK next year. This directive makes manufacturers responsible for ensuring electronic equipment is recycled at the end of its life. While that is not a bad idea, the proposed UK implementation will require manufacturers to join a ‘disposal scheme’. They will pay into the scheme some amount related to the amount of product they sell. Where this may become a problem is if there is a high minimum level of payment required. That could make low-volume production uneconomical."
"One thing that won't feature on the next sequencer will be the name "P4". Google on P3 and you get 60 million irrelevant pages. For P4 that rises to nearer 90 million. Whereas if you Google on Sequentix, the vast majority of hits refer to the P3 Sequencer. We'll need to come up with a more distinctive name..."
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
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electrix has pushed back the release of it's 2.0 line until jan-feb next year citing the same reason. that would make it two years late. yikes!!!
ReplyDeletethere goes Europe, unneccesarily sacrificing more elements of its rich cultural heritage in the name of globalism.
ReplyDeletethis time it's the small music instrument manufacturer, a few years ago it was national currencies and country-specific alphebetical characters.
maybe soon they'll outlaw certain cooking methods for being unhealthy and detrimental to global competition and environmental harmony.
eventually the entire world could be one country, with all of our needs supplied by megacorporations, megafarms, and megapolice technologies. it could be a utopia.
i like my electrix stuff. for some reason, i have never sold it. it's always a hoot to play with.
ReplyDeletein the future, you'll have a guitar that will be able to select other people around the world who are playing guitar in a compatible style, and mega-link you in with them.
This is nasty.
ReplyDeleteThere's government page on WEEE with this sentence"By 31 December 2006, Member States must achieve a collection rate of at least 4 kilograms on average per inhabitant per year of waste electrical and electronic equipment from private households"
Here's an idea: Just make the synths highly radioactive, so they require huge lead shielding.
ReplyDeleteProblem solved.
Since the equipment is highly radioactive, we wouldn't be dumping it in land-fills.
Solves two problems in one blow.
God I'm good.
Oh. Deathray:
http://www.paulsop.com/gallery/deathray
What happened to the "elegance & decadence" of Kraftwerk's "Europe Endless?"
ReplyDeleteP.S. Love the death ray pics.
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me European synthesizers are already radioactive, based on documented hair loss in Florian Schneider, Thomas Dolby, Jan Hammer, Vince Clarke and (3 transplants ago) Gary Numan.