MOTM

John,

Simple question; are you a keyboard player or a "synthesist"?  If you are a keyboard
player, you will miss the ability to play chords.  If you don't really play
keyboards (it sounds like you don't by the use of the D-Beams as MIDI controllers),
you might be ready for some fun!  However, be prepared to "think laterally" and push
yourself to be creative with what will, at times, seem like a very limited set of
tools. 

Eric

--- blacklotus@... wrote:
> Folks, I am on the verge of purchasing a modular system from our own
> beloved Paul. I just wanted some user perspective 
> on this decision with respect to giving up my digital VA's with their
> kerjillions of pre-sets (which is what I'd have to do to 
> buy a modular before I turn 90!  =:-0) Pardon my ignorance in what
> follows.
> 
> I do like the variety of sounds in my Jp8080 and Audity 2000 (which
> is a software modular set-up--like it A LOT) ; the sound 
> designers have done a fab job but.....its still "someone else's
> sound, when I really want to make my own. My work is 
> ambient/experimental/deep space/sound design. I do have hard-disk
> recording (to a Mac / Pro Tools )  and a Boomerang 
> Phrase sampling (with 4-minutes recording time ! So I can layer,
> edit, and build as dense as I like (I like!). I'm confident I 
> could get sounds I'd love out of a MOTM rig, and I love keeping patch
> charts from my days with a Micro Moog and a Sonic Six, 
> but still wonder if I'd be jones-ing for those "astoundingly lush
> pads" that somebody else designed on my digital machines.  
> Realizing this is all dependent on the MOTM modules that I'd have to
> begin with, and after talking with Paul, I'm thinking:
> 
> 180 	Sub Oct Mux
> 300 	VCO (x 2)
> 420    Filter
> 440   Filter
> 110   Ring Mod/VCA
> 800  Env Gen (x2)
> 
> PSU, Rails, Kenton Pro 2000, etc. 
> 
> All to be interfaced with a Lexicon Vortex, Korg AM8000R, Boss SX-700
> (With Surround) and midi-driven by 2 Intercative Light 
> Dimension Beams (infrared controllers).
> 
> Now, I could sample the patches I have created of course, and use
> them from the Mac so I wouldn't lose "everything"  I like 
> about the VA's.  I guess I'm asking, is the process of working on a
> true modular "too" minimal for me (miss my lush pads?), 
> or can I arrive at the same fullness and beauty with simply, more
> elbow grease (gallons??) and creativity
> on a mod. 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> John Hunter
> Black Lotus Sound
> 
> 
> 

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-----Original Message-----

From: ivancu@... <ivancu@...>
To: motm@egroups.com <motm@egroups.com>
Date: 10 April 2000 23:19
Subject: Re: [motm] Moving into Modulars


><< midi-driven by 2 Intercative Light Dimension Beams (infrared
controllers).
>>>
>
>Any idea where to buy these?  After Roland licensed the technology I never
>saw the stand-alone units.


hello all,
writing from the UK, i've no idea where to get them, although for the brave
at heart i did drag some schematics off the internet. unfortunately they've
no url attached to them, but they were copied by Marjan Urekar (if that
helps) over in Eastern Europe. the schematics are incomplete, and i've no
way of telling - without building one - whether the output described is in
fact a "CV"
if anyone is interested i'll try and track down the url (it may be at work)

cheers
paul b