MOTM

At 8:56 AM -0500 9/6/2001, Paul Schreiber wrote:
>Several have asked "Why is the 500 series not subscription?"
>
>Well, the though was these are not 'mainstream' modules. These are designed
>for specific types of sound.
>Maybe the "subbers" will want them anyway :)

I'd be willing to bet that most subscribers would want the 500's as 
well. I mean, if this list is any representation of the whole 
subscriber community, we're not a particularly mainstream bunch...

>
>Since I'm tired of getting blasted for not being "weird enough" I thought
>I'd do something about it. Wiard
>has it's Wogglebug (I listened to the demos, laughed my *** off. This is
>desired??!?). So I'm cooking up
>COMPLETELY NEW, NEVER SEEN BEFORE modules. I don't even know if they are
>"musically useful".
>As most of you know, this has been my #1 goal with MOTM: to make modules
>that are USEFUL.

I think that a lot of us use the MOTM specifically for the more 
bizarroworld end of synthesis. Not that MOTM doesn't make a terrific 
conventional synth by any means, I've been patching some really nice 
bass sounds using the 440 lately. In fact, you could probably make a 
really kickass monosynth from boards you've already designed, and not 
having heard the Moog unit, I'd still bet yours would be the better 
unit (and probably cheaper).

So don't worry about being musically useful. We'll make some music 
with whatever you put out (perhaps with a pretty liberal definition 
of the word "music"). I like being challenged to figure out how to 
use a new module. For instance, I had no idea how I'd use a MiniWave 
based on the descriptions from Wiard and Blacet. But I knew Grant and 
John well enough to trust that it would be something cool, and got 
one. Same with the Dark Star. And I trust your designs enough to know 
that if you think a module's interesting, I will too! I know that 
when I heard the 6-way ringmod demo, I was hearing sounds that I 
wanted to make!

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