Manfred Veber, the guy who...

Have you seen the announcement on Facebook recently about the recreation of the specific buttons for drum machine like Drumulator, SP12, DMX, LinnDrum and others?

Hmm, and the one who did this is not unknown to me: Manfred Veber.

In fact I already had a contact with Manfred a few years ago by providing him with two copies of ELD5530, the replacement circuits I had created to replace the original CEM5530. Since then he opened his repair shop in Paris.

While passing through the capital of the kingdom of france, I took the opportunity to go and see him, in order to buy a few copies of these famous switches.

"I love smelling napalm in the morning." as he said. 

How to explain this? This smell of old electronics, very warm, which recalls the wonderful moments of my discovery of electronics at the end of the 70s, beginning of the 80s. Ah, what happiness : To each his own!

What beautiful machines!

My first real encounter with a DX1 or a Prophet 5. And there, there were some beautiful specimens of Prophet 5. A magnificent T8, Oberheims, Moogs and other beauties!

And meet her, also for real, with a passionate guy. An interview that was supposed to last an hour, like, finally lasted more than two and a half hours. We discussed technology, repairs and strange objects.

Have you ever seen these CEM5512 ?

Thanks to Manfred for this moment of sharing around these superb machines. And thanks for the twenty or so switches that I was able to buy.

The EMU 1 is taking up a lot of my time. It's bothering me a bit because I have the Drumulator subject to move forward: complicated :-(