MATRIXSYNTH: The MacBeth Green Hornet


Monday, November 07, 2011

The MacBeth Green Hornet

via Ken MacBeth on Facebook

"Back in 2002/2003 I worked hard on 2 prototypes of what back then I wanted to call the 'Green Hornet'- both were disasterous EDP Wasp copies with added features, neither would work properly- so that got binned! I came across the prototype in my stores cupboard- in my prototype graveyard! See the othe pic for the logos that got drawn in copper on the back!..

I realised after proto #2 that Chris Huggate was a *feindish* designer! And I also began to realise that *historically* broken Wasps sent back for repair hit the EDP graveyard!..

the keyboard logic was pretty impossible to fire up correctly- I spent at least a couple of months trying to make proto # 1 work- then I hit the second. I won't be going back to these designs- the touch keyboard that I developed myself is a pure analogue design that appears very reliable but uses expensive relay switches. The wasp is digital and works in a very different way..!"

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