Technical Editor, Sound On Sound...
(But generally posting my own personal views and not necessarily those of SOS, the company or the magazine!)
In my world, things get less strange when I read the manual...
Very sad news. But due to the renewed interest in analogue synthesis and the rise of Eurorack his contribution to synthesis was appreciated by a whole new generation towards the end of his life.
zenguitar wrote:Very sad news. But due to the renewed interest in analogue synthesis and the rise of Eurorack his contribution to synthesis was appreciated by a whole new generation towards the end of his life.
Andy
Totally. What a legacy he's leaving behind! Sad news, though.
I met Chris just once, a few months after he launched the OSCar.
I was over-nighting in Oxford with a TV crew (I was a sound recordist on a documentary programme at the time), and it just so happened that the assistant producer on the shoot was his then-girlfriend. So he came to the pub we were all staying in and we got chatting. As an electronics engineer and synth nerd I found him completely enthralling and a lovely, witty chap to talk to.
It was only a couple of hours, but I'll never forget him. Great loss. Very talented bloke.
The trouble is, I can't for the life of me remember the AP's name, although I can still imagine her face. Nurse... is it time for my pills?
Technical Editor, Sound On Sound...
(But generally posting my own personal views and not necessarily those of SOS, the company or the magazine!)
In my world, things get less strange when I read the manual...
Hugh Robjohns wrote:The trouble is, I can't for the life of me remember the AP's name, although I can still imagine her face. Nurse... is it time for my pills?
His wife's name is Melanie, but whether that is the same person you mention I don't know...
In a strange quirk of timing, I have another OSCar review going up on the site shortly (I was actually proofing it when SonicState was streaming Dave's tribute.)
Sad loss.
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Technical Editor, Sound On Sound...
(But generally posting my own personal views and not necessarily those of SOS, the company or the magazine!)
In my world, things get less strange when I read the manual...
Bought the Wasp and Spider and then went on to buy an OSCar in the mid 80s which impressed me so much I wrote a letter of appreciation to Chris Huggett. To my surprise, as a complete nobody, I got a quite lengthy hand written letter back from him which I'll always treasure.
The modest tones of contentment, as a designer, in that letter are very much in keeping with the warm tribute in the news section on this site.
Coincidentally, out of curiosity for Novation's current line, I've just received a Circuit Mono Station from a poster on this forum and now seriously investigating the Summit as a next major purchase knowing that Chris Huggett had a hand in the development of these instruments.
RIP.
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I have to say that being as useless as I am with names, the name didn't mean that much until his legacy was mentioned. Just wow - what an amazing list of classics! A sad loss.
I liked the anecdote that for the later revisions of the OSCar firmware, there was apparently no space left in the memory for the code to generate the "random" waveform, so instead, Chris made the waveform memory read 256 bytes from the actual firmware - the OS code - on the chip to use as the waveform data - and he must have swept through the code to find a bit that sounded good - and that became the last waveform (renamed "Gritty" in impOSCar).
