MOTM

Ken,

 

I wasn't referring to all of the DIY and MOTM-conforming folks (Stooges,
Oakley, Scott, yourself, etc.) who HAVE made and offered these conversions.
I was directing the question to Paul who made the claim that HE's spent
thousands doing the same. If he's referring to what's officially available
in MOTM format, then I don't have sympathy his outlay claims. If he's
converted Paia/Blacet or CGS or some other module to MOTM format like the
aforementioned folks, then I'd like to know how I missed that.

 

Official MOTM is ~44.3% of my panel space and 52.9% of my total module
count. OMS is in second place with 12% and 12.5% respectively. CGS is third
with 9.9% and 8.7%. And Cyndustries, Tellun, Blacet, Haible, Encore, and
various other DIY modules make up the remainder: 33.9% and 26%. Power
supplies are not mounted in front and therefore are not counted.

 

I have all three of your Paia/Blacet modules (actually 2 of each). I also
own Jeurgen's Living VCO prototype that's waiting for a front panel. So I am
well into the Non-Synthesis Technologies alternatives. Scott can also vouch
for my support of Bridechamber over the years. I've been negligent about
reviewing all the new Oakley stuff and that's something I will rectify over
the coming Winter. Tony makes some top notch stuff - to the point that I
wouldn't blush at all having a core OMS system at all. He and Krisp are like
the little engine that could. They keep cranking out new and improved
modules which Paul claims is not practical.

 

And lastly I have to one again commend Scott Deyo at Bridechamber who has,
in my opinion, done more to keep my MOTM system alive than anyone else. For
me he has become the custodian of the format. I owe him an order just
because.

 

-Greg

 

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From: motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ken
Tkacs
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:59 PM
To: 'MOTM'
Subject: FW: [motm] 5xx series in a MOTM format

 






 

>>>Could you enlighten us as to what modules you converted over from these
other formats to MOTM? This is news to me.--Greg

 

Converting other modules to MOTM format was all the rage a decade ago. For
me it started with finding old Moog, Roland &c schematics on the web and
trying to build MOTM-style versions of them. This led to a long series of
emails between J. Larry Hendry and me about converting a couple of PAIA and
three Blacet Research modules in particular - the Klangwerk, Dark Star, and
the divider. Larry and I worked out a few little extras for these (a switch
here, an LED or extra output there), and worked out different ways of making
our own front panels. Sometime later, Larry & "The Stooges" turned this into
a cottage industry, and now of course you can get much better panels from
Bridechamber than we were making by spray-gluing paper to metal back in the
day. I used to have a tutorial of how to do this on my old website, but once
people started 'organizing' and having panels professionally silk-screened,
I dropped that method and of jumped on board with the better panels for
sure.

There are still lots of folks on this list who have fantastic stuff on their
websites showing how they expanded their MOTM systems way beyond the
official offerings. This is not a complete list and is in no particular
order, but if you're interested:

http://pugix.com/synth/category/modules/

http://www.hotrodmotm.com/

http://www.dragonflyalley.com/billAndWillMOTMSynth.htm

http://www.tellun.com/motm/darmok/darmok.html