MOTM

The 1978 Emu catalog including sequencer modules is located at Emu's web
site, url is http://www.emu.com/products/archives/archives.html .  Look for
"Emu Modular in English."  The file converts to a pdf format.

John Loffink
microtonal@...

----- Original Message -----
From: <mate_stubb@...>
To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:04 PM
Subject: [motm] Re: Great Emu link ...


> --- In motm@y..., revtor@a... wrote:
> > Guys, here's a great Emu modular link..lots of info and nice pics.
> > Some neat module features and some surprising similarities with
> > MOTM.  (Surprise or coincidence Paul..?? : )
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> I found this site a year or more ago. I'm disappointed to see that he
> hasn't added any of the pics he's missing since then. I still have my
> Dec. '78 Emu technical catalog, which is the source for all that
> site's pics and text.
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> Emu was a class outfit all the way. They had the finest user
> interface I've ever seen, bar none. Their component selection, the
> mechanical construction, and the designs were top notch - head and
> shoulders above anything else available at the time. It was expensive
> as hell, but Dave and Scott would sell you the essential circuits as
> potted submodules for WAY cheaper, which allowed me to build my first
> synth in '73. The only electronics experience I previously had was
> working on Hammonds, but Dave introduced me to the mysteries of
> summing node opamps over the phone - talk about tech support!
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> Hmmm - finest parts, great design and tech support - yep, that sounds
> like the MOTM philosophy all right.
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> The only complaints I've ever heard leveled against the Emu modular
> was that the sound was "too clean", and that it was so damn big.
> Well, it didn't sound like a Moog, but I always loved the sound of
> mine. The size resulted from their philosophy of input and output
> mixers on each module, and you sure didn't care about the large size
> when you found that patching it was a dream.
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> Are there echos of Emu modules in MOTM design? Well, I hope so. In
> the early days of this list, we debated user interface design of
> various modules much more avidly than we tend to now. I'm sure I made
> people weary extolling the features on the Emu version of this module
> or that. The lag processor is an example of an Emu influenced module
> (features not design), but with an extra MOTM twist. If you look at
> my SuperMoe sequencer designs, they are heavily influenced by the
> modular Emu sequencer approach. It's unfortunate that the site
> doesn't have pics of the sequencer modules up.
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