Analogue-sequencer

<< I   just got my hands on a nice   memorymoog + with a dbm mod.
A nice   synth indeed   in honor of   Moog even though the late great Bob 
Moog   wasnt   the designer . .   that filter   *sigh* sounds nice.
Now   i am looking forward to the drive to Pomona   and snatching a P3.

what ive noticed about   the Memrymoog. .   the midi   timing is   pretty 
sloppy.
is   this due   to the z80   cpu?
even the internal arpeggiator   is very loose when   using the sync input ,   
sync'd   w/ the 909 rimshot. It appears to be way behind   & stumbly.   hmm   
old   midi? >>

this week I hooked up one of my p3's to my memorymoog. 
long story.... but I'd intended to be doing something moog-related, & all 
sorts of things went wrong. 
an old groove midi-cv box I use for two prodigies mysteriously packed up 
early in the session. 
the midi-jack on one of my sources was next, stuck on some supersonic note. 
so I jammed the midi cable into the memorymoog to see how it would handle a bit 
of polyphonic sequencing. 
for the first time ever, it was out of tune, & the autotune was returning 
"4-tuned" which is bad.

after quite a bit of poking around in the diagnostics pages, I got the beast 
behaving again ("6-tuned"- hooray)
 
then I went for a cup of tea & discovered that one of my moog mugs has a 
broken handle.
[sigh]

but the point is, my memorymoog responds to midi just like it was a 
supernova. it's a LAMM, is why. I think rudi linhard replaces the whole cpu board, or 
at least upgrades it. the code running in there is all different too. the 
arpeggiator works fine even when externally clocked, & rudi's provided a way to 
stop the moog scanning it's own pots in case an original m/m user needs even more 
reassurance that the cpu is paying attention.

the polyphonic sequencing was excellent fun, btw.

mine originally had a kenton retrofit onto the standard cpu; rudi replaced 
all this with his own design, which took six years of working out.
the m/m is a high-maintenance synth even with the LAMM mods, but it's worth 
it.

next weekend I hope to be fixing up my two cheetah ms6's with kris maad's 
upgrades.

duncan/r.m.i.