MOTM

I'll attempt to answer the parts of this I can.

The brackets Larry was selling are still available.  I have 
purchased Larry's bracket inventory as part of my initiation into 
stoogehood.
We will continue to provide these in the future.

It may take a little while for us to be set up to sell them.  We 
will be creating an e-store type website for all the stooge products 
in the near future.  I will also be discussing a possible 
arrangement for Paul S. to sell these on the Synth Tech site when I 
meet with Paul S. next week.

I cannot answer the question about mounting depth.  I personally 
have about 10 Blacet modules mounted on Stooge Panels and Stooge 
Brackets.  They are deeper than the stock MOTM modules.  I do not 
know the depth of the SKB case though and others may have mounted 
their Blacet PCBs differently than I did.

I also own an Encore Expressionist and I have 2 of the new 650s on 
order.  My personal complaint with the Expressionist is that it only 
keeps a 2 note history, so in some instances, and with some playing 
techniques it will lose notes.  It is my understanding that the 650 
will also support micro-tunings and alternative scales.  I can't 
wait to try that.  The 650 will be released soon.  My advise would 
be to wait and get that rather than the Expressionist.

Welcome to MOTM!

Paul Haneberg

> I also own an Encore Expressionist and I have 2 of the new 650s on
> order.  My personal complaint with the Expressionist is that it only
> keeps a 2 note history, so in some instances, and with some playing
> techniques it will lose notes.  It is my understanding that the 650
> will also support micro-tunings and alternative scales.  I can't
> wait to try that.  The 650 will be released soon.

A few things:

* True 16 usable bits of DAC for the CVs (all the way to the jack)

* The 650 supports 8 different voice allocation modes in either 1, 2, or 3 
group configurations

* Two arpeggiators with 4 modes of operation on top of 4 orders of play

* Constant rate and constant time portamento (adjustable from 1ms to 
65.535 seconds) - per voice group configurable

* Microtuning support, in addition to inverted scales

* Sync to internal, external or MIDI clock, including MIDI clock 
generation

* Arpeggiator clocking can divide *AND* multiply regardless of clock 
source

-->Neil

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Neil Bradley            "If you owe the bank $100, it's your problem. If you
Synthcom Systems, Inc.   owe them $100mil, it's the bank's problem." - JP Getty

> I use 10U SKB 19" rack mount cases and my MOTMized Blacet Klangwerk  
> and Time Machine fit with plenty of room to spare.  The only possible  
> mounting issue is the reverb tanks from the Tellun Neural Agonizer  
> but this is not unique to SKB.

Sorry, I meant the 12U SKB pop-up mixer racks. I'm sure it'll all fit
in the regular vertical racks.

> Welcome, have fun, and build a web site so we can see what your up  
> to.  Oh, and give your synth a sexy name like Darmok or Nostromo.

Thank you, don't mind if I do, and I'll work on it as soon as I
actually own any modules.

Heh.

jfm3