To the best of my knowledge, Visual Sound did not “recommission” the Panasonic/Matsushita chips. There are currently two manufacturers of several of the chips (MN3205, MN3207, MN3102): Beiling and Coolaudio, the latter providing chips to Behringer.

Sure…if you’re willing to wait another 20 years until they have that capability.

But seriously, it would take one helluva big demand for the chip to financially justify its resurrection. There IS a big demand…WITHIN A CERTAIN SMALL COMMUNITY…but outside of that community, there ain’t much going on.

As well, the only thing that an SAD1024 does significantly better than its competitors do is flanging, simply because it tolerates faster clocking better than the Panasonic chips. Even there, the Panasonic chips can be made to tolerate faster clocking, with some outside buffering help. As for delays longer than what is needed for flanging, we have the good old MN3207 and MN3205 clones. There is no real advantage to using SAD1024s for chorus and analog delays.

So when one considers just how large (read: “small”) the flanger-user market is, and what share of them use it for its shortest possible delay times, there is simply very little financial return for whomever got it in their head that fabricating a new batch would be a good idea….which is as big a disappointment to me as it is to you.

Because you can’t just start making someone else’s chip, you either have to own the patent or be willing to pay the appropriate licensing fees. That’s before you even get to the actual tooling to do it. There is no demand for this chip (yes I need one too). As a matter of fact they are still in stock with a few different bulk electronics suppliers — one place I looked at has 5000+ of them, brand new—but they require minimum orders of 1000 pcs. So if no one is willing to do that, it’s not considered high in demand. An electronics manufacturer has to demand it, i.e. cranking out hundreds if not thousands of units a day that use the part, not a few dozen, or even a couple hundred pedal geeks like us.

I know this old, Anyways which suppliers could have 5000+ units in stock? Please

We need the new chip manufacturing plant in the US!

I googled “new chip plant in the US” and apparently there are eight being built, with a couple projected to open in 2025. Now we just hold our breath until they open and….