MOTM

> From: JWBarlow@...
>  For those interested in a good temporary scribble 
> strip solution, let me recommend getting some 3M Drafting Tape, which is
very 
> much like masking tape except the adhesive will not leave a residue (even

> after many years) when stuck to a mixer or other audio equipment -- I
love 
> the stuff.

Thanks for the tip Curley
 
> What I've been thinking is having a 1U 9X0 patching module at the extreme

> left of each MOTM row as well as a bus strip below each MOTM row. Given 8

> colors (white plus the rainbow) on the 16 jack 1U panel, the 1U 9X0 would

> have separate top patching and bottom patching sections. The bottom
section 
> (of 8 jacks) would patch (exclusively) to the bus strip below that MOTM
row, 
> while the upper section could patch (exclusively) to a bus strip above
that 
> MOTM row, if one was present. 
> 
> So it differs from your idea Larry, in that not all blue jacks would have
the 
> same signal on them, only those in the same "area." This would also allow

> signals to be distributed "upwards" through the system on the very
left-hand 
> side -- eliminating the pesky cord interference problem.

Ok, I am getting your drift.  However, I am missing something.  If you have
9X0 on a 16 IU, you can only have one (9X2=18).  Does each 9 on this panel
connect to the 9 on the other panels or what?  "Splain it to be a little
better please Lucy"

Thanks
Larry (alias stooge name Larry)




> 
> Now, as to the VCF/gutair patch, might I recommend the soon to be
released 
> Fabulous MOTM Envelope Follower/Gate & Trigger Extractor. I think several

> people on this list are waiting for that module, and I can only hope that

> when it becomes available, the envelope follower output will have an 
> amplifier on the output. Why, you ask? I was using my 420 with one of my 
> other envelope followers, and noticed that I liked it more when I had the

> followers output plugged into two CV inputs of the 420; one input
couldn't 
> provide the gain I wanted.
> 
> John "nothing more to say here" Barlow
> 
> >From: "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@...>
> 
> >> From: JWBarlow@...
> >> Color coded washers are a great start, but I still think a patchbay
> >> legending strip would be better.
> 
> >OK, I agree.  BUT (darn, there's always that but), my diy 19" panel
would
> >not dedicate any of the multis to anything.  So, if you had the colors
> >distributed on all the 19" I U panels, then you could just pick one and
> >make it whatever you wanted.  For example, blue might be connected as
the
> >gate today.  Anyplace on the system you needed that gate, you just plug
> >into blue.  Next week, that same blue distributed multiple might be used
> >for CV that is connected to 4 oscillators (if I was as fortunate as Dave
> >to
> >have 4).  This would be easy even if 2 oscillators were on one row and
> >two
> >were on another row at a differnet level.
> 
> >> So Larry, now that you've been doing the modular thing for a while,
> >>what's 
> >> your general take on it?
> 
> >Well, after spending 1 hour standing in front of mine tonight trying to
> >get
> >the audio of my guitar to make a decent gate so I could drive an EG, so
> >I
> >could use that EG to CV control the VCF that my guitar audio was running
> >through, I have to say. DAMN, this is fun and frustrating.  Fun because
> >of all you can do.  Frustrating, 'cause I wanted that little module that
I
> >don't have to do that one thing I wanted to do.  I NEED MORE STUFF.  I
> >did
> >get some success using the MOTM-700 as my audio to gate converter by
> >putting DC on one of the inputs.  However, I needed something to mix the
> >guitar audio with DC so I could bias the signal so it was always on one
> >side of zero so I could gate the 700 with the two added together.  That
> >would have made my MOTM-auto-wah guitar sound complete.  Now, what was
> >your
> >question?
> 
> 
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