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I'm gonna barf

2000-06-15 by Paul Schreiber

Somebody just sold a PAiA construction manual on eBay for $202! I have an original Moog Modular User s Manual (about 350 pages)...hmmm...maybe I ll get $800

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Re: [motm] daft ideas..?

2000-06-14 by J. Larry Hendry

From: Paul Schreiber Paul B. has wandered home from the pub, it seems. 1) anyone ever mounted a cheap multimeter in a MOTM panel, is this

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Re: [motm] daft ideas..?

2000-06-14 by mr sikorsky

hello all, ... nope not this time, just waiting for my fresh pasta to dry - idle minds and all that... cheers paul b

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Re: [motm] daft ideas..?

2000-06-14 by Paul Schreiber

Paul B. has wandered home from the pub, it seems. 1) anyone ever mounted a cheap multimeter in a MOTM panel, is this a good idea..? (for someone with a spare

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daft ideas..?

2000-06-14 by mr sikorsky

hello again a couple of ideas to toss into the forum: 1) anyone ever mounted a cheap multimeter in a MOTM panel, is this a good idea..? (for someone with a

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Re: [motm] update?

2000-06-14 by Paul Schreiber

While it is true new module development slowed from Feb - May, the reality is that record shipments occured! So,

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update?

2000-06-14 by jimh54

Paul, How about an update on upcomming modules, Shipping dates. This excerpt came from an old message, Still true? After that, probably a rash of 1U modules:

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sf motm group

2000-06-14 by Elliott

hi, i know this is about 100 emails old, but i was wondering if someone from the bay area group could tell me where your meetings are? also is anyone on this

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Re: [motm] [OT] Vocoders

2000-06-14 by J. Larry Hendry

... I have seen this (rumor) too. However, there was a modification to the original PAiA design that did more to reduce noise and even out the bands so that

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RE: [motm] 110?

2000-06-14 by David Bivins

In simple terms, you can think of the VCA as a volume control that can be controlled by other things (like the 800 ADSR contour generator or the 320 LFO). Take

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Re: [motm] [OT] Vocoders

2000-06-13 by Nathan Alan Hunsicker

Just for the record, I picked 8 bands out of the blue, I wasn t referring to the PAIA vocoder per se. Although didn t someone write that when put to the test

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Re: [motm] Tibits from the closet

2000-06-13 by jhaible

... The EMS 2000 is EMS cheap, low-end model. It doesn t even have channel attenuators, number of channels is 16, and filters are just 4-pole. (As far as I

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Re: [motm] [OT] Vocoders

2000-06-13 by jhaible

... No, *this* does not work at all, for obvious reasons. But even when you double the number of bands and adjust the filter frequencies accordingly, your

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Re: [motm] Tibits from the closet

2000-06-13 by Paul Schreiber

JH may correct, but I think the list price of the Sennheiser was $40,000! They go for $11K - $14K on Vemia auction. Paul S. ... From: To:

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Re: [motm] [OT] Vocoders

2000-06-13 by Nathan Alan Hunsicker

just a stupid question, is there some internal link between bands on a vocoder? i m asking because i m wondering if 2 8 band vocoders = a 16 band vocoder or if

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Re: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by mr sikorsky

hello all, just a minor thing to bring up in terms of the vocoder... at such an early stage in the design (ish), if there are to be CV inputs to the vocoder is

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110?

2000-06-13 by carlg23

hello my name is carl , i am new to thje motm list i have been buying modules for acouple months now. i now have the 420 320 110and the mux. i am having a

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Re: [motm] [OT] Vocoders

2000-06-13 by jhaible

... I think so. I heard a rumor that it were two modified fixed fiter banks. But think of it, with 20 band pass filters (and garden variety 2-pole state

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RE: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by David Bivins

I disagree with the reasonable part--let this be a flagship module. The design doesn t preclude using this as a stand-alone unit, so there are other markets

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Re: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by Thomas Hudson

... I have an SE-50 and the vocoder is pretty disappointing. The one in the SE-70 is much improved, with more bands and more control. Tomy

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RE: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by Doug Pearson

... And I hear that the Boss SE-50 & SE-70 are other good alternatives (if you don t mind cheest multieffect units like these and Zooms) for a cheap vocoder

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RE: [motm] [OT] Vocoders

2000-06-13 by Dave Bradley

Wouldn t she have needed 2 sets of 10 bandpass filters, a set for the analyzer and a set to feed the output VCAs? Dave Bradley Principal Software Engineer

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RE: [motm] [OT] Vocoders

2000-06-13 by Tkacs, Ken

She had two modified Moog 914 Fixed Filter Banks, one acting as the spectrum decoder and the other as the spectrum encoder, plus ten each VCAs & Envelope

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RE: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by David Bivins

Let s just make sure we make it worth your while and make it the best damn vocoder out there. Even if you have to take deposits at some point... I d hate to

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Re: [motm] [OT] Vocoders

2000-06-13 by Paul Schreiber

The vocoder used by Wendy Carlos in A Clockwork Orange is in Figures 28 and 29 of the boxed set booklet. It used 10 bandpass filters, 10 envelope followers,

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[OT] Vocoders

2000-06-13 by skinny bastard

Forgive my ignorance, but in vocoders, what would be a general equivelant, in terms of modules used, and what special features are generally available on these

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Vocoder pricing

2000-06-13 by Paul Schreiber

Although I d be tickled pink if MOTM users bought these, please understand that this is *not* the intended market. Rather, professional recording studios. The

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RE: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by Nathan Hunsicker

I d be willing to put a deposit towards r&d on this project, however what is the final price goal? Last I heard was around $1200? (my memory is not very good)

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RE: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by Dave Bradley

How about the possibility of adding headers with jumpers, so you could customize your vocoder with external patch points by replacing the jumpered headers with

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Re: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by Paul Schreiber

I depends if there is room, and then not having nice Switchcraft jacks since you would want these pcb mounted. I figure having this adds $500 to the retail

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RE: [motm] Prepare to be amazed

2000-06-13 by Dave Bradley

You can do tricks like this if the detector section outputs are brought out to patch points, so you can swap control of bands around, run them through

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Re: [motm] Tibits from the closet

2000-06-13 by Paul Schreiber

Labor. These were all hand built. The Sennheiser used hand-matched filter sections. Back then, it was almost impossible to get 1% caps except in a few values.

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Re: [motm] Tibits from the closet

2000-06-13 by Nathan Hunsicker

... What exactly make a vocoder so expensive? I mean $20,000+ in 1977, Even if all the components were made of gold, how could you justify a cost like that?

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