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I want to address your questions fully, but we are rushed to get the
first lot of M15's made in the new facility (yeah!) completed.  I will
go into this in further detail tonight.  Briefly however:

"glistening metallic madness"

You're thinking sine tones, you're thinking DX.  You can't do that. 
WIthin the the M30 1) every VCO has eight parent waveforms in which
countless individual timbres can be had 2) the VCOs can be placed in
and out of phase relation depending on where they are routed (quadrature).

Imagine a DX where each of the six VCOs had multiple waveform
possibilities.  Stop imagining - you can't.  You think you can, I did,
but all of my preconceived notions went out the window the moment I
experienced what this actually sounded like.

(Somebody mention FM-8)

Yes, you can do multi waveforms per operator there...but you don't
have SYNC (all we all know how beautiful digital sync sounds), you
don't have quadrature, you don't have selectable thru zero or
accessibility to external FM of the modulating VCOs.   

Yes, it will do metal as you mention.  It will also do heavy metal.

Sound samples are coming.

Let me address this other stuff when I get home.

- P




--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Landman"
<mlandman@...> wrote:
>
> Very interesting description, it sounds like the Model 30 will
generate tons of glistening 
> metallic madness, I can hardly wait to hear it. After seeing (and
lusting for) that Buchla 700 
> on Ebay and reading about it's frequency mod and waveshaping sound
sources, this was the 
> perfect time to see the M30 introduced.
> 
> 2 general questions-
> 
> First the waveshape control. I see a waveshape knob, one modulation
input and 3 select 
> buttons for the  oscillators, how does this work in practice? I can
see using this system to 
> individually change the waveshapes of the oscillators, but do all 3
oscillators receive the 
> same amount of waveform modulation from the lone waveshape mod input?
> 
> Second, this oscillator will certainly be generating some crazy high
harmonics, being a digital 
> system, how present is aliasing?
> 
> The M30 seems to me to be a perfect example of the benefits of
adding digital design to a 
> modular system, congrats!
>