MOTM

A few days ago I started a discussion about FFB and I'm afraid the 
talk went too far beyond what I had expected, lots of interesting 
considerations led us to talk about huge and highly expensive 
vocoders, I was simply talking about FFB a la Moog and my simple 
question in the end was: Is Paul planning a MOTM FFB? If yes I'll 
wait patiently... if he is not I'll probably buy a .com when it comes 
out. From a more technical point of view I think J. H.'s contributes 
were absolutely appropriate and clarifying, I learnt a lot from his 
couple of messages on this argument (thank you Jurgens!) Of course 
I'm pointing out what I was expecting from this discussion just 
because I was convinced that my couriousity was shared by other 
people and my question posted to the list and to Paul might be 
somehow useful to others as well. I do agree with the urgency of 
releasing the dual VCA mostly because it was announced long ago and 
also because many people are eagerly waiting for it, but it will get 
dramatically urgent when the 110 won't be available any more and it 
seems it should become unavail. from day to day but it never does.
All the best Enrico (Sicily) 

--- In motm@y..., "Vehorn, Benjamin" <ben@a...> wrote:
> You would probably sell one or two but the fact there there are so 
many vocoders on the market, new and old, analog and DSP, means you'd 
have a lot of competition. IMO, this market is completely played out.
> I would definitely vote against it, considering the amount of time 
Paul would have to spend on developing this. He could probably 
develop and manufacture 8 or 10 new modules, soup to nuts, in the 
timeframe it would take to get the vocoder into assembly. This is 
just a guess, though, I'm sure Paul would have a better perspective. 
While it's nice to talk about what is possible, I think Paul is 
capable of designing a kick-ass version of anything he wants and 
clamoring for more stuff just gets in the way of items already on the 
drawing board. I'm still waiting on the dual VCA/pan/fade but it 
seems to keep getting pushed back due to people making more noise 
about other modules. This was supposed to be the next module a year 
ago. And whatever happened to the preamp/envelope follower? I think 
these would be far more useful than a vocoder, or even another filter 
for that matter.
> If anyone is *really* jonesing for a super-high end vocoder, I've 
got a Sennheiser I might consider selling for considerably less than 
$15K.
> ---Ben
>  
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@a...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:33 PM
> To: motm@y...; Simon
> Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Fixed Filter Bank
> 
> 
> Well, the Sennheiser goes for ~$15K. Mine would be about $6K. Is 
that "affordable"??!?
> 
> <Paul S>
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Simon" <simon@a...>
> To: <motm@y...>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:58 PM
> Subject: [motm] Re: Fixed Filter Bank
> 
> 
> > >  > The first time I talked to Paul when I placed my order for 
my kits he
> > >>  happened to mention plans for a vocoder modeled after the 
famous and
> > >>  rare sennheiser 20 band vocoder. What ever happened to this 
great (yet
> > >>  expensive) idea?
> > 
> > >Couple days ago I was wondering which vocoder Les Rockets used 
to get their
> > >warm but highly intelligible vocoder sounds.... Yeah, Senheiser 
as it turns
> > >out.
> > >
> > >DO IT, PAUL! ...If only because I'm using a Nord Modular for a 
vocoder at
> > >the moment, so I know you really want to give me a Synthtech 
alternative!!!
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, please give us a 'real-man's' alternative to fake(dsp) and 
small 
> > keyboard based analog vocoders.
> > 
> > I want lots of knobs, and control, with a great sound.
> > 
> > The Sennheiser is just way too expensive, and there doesn't seem 
to 
> > be much else in that league, please give us an affordable 
(compared 
> > to the Sennheiser) alternative.
> > 
> > 
> > Simon
> > Canberra
> > AUSTRALIA
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
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