MOTM

thebass said:
>
> Trust me.  As a former E-Mu Modular owner.  The MOTM modules are
> far superior
> to the E-Mu modules in construction and in sound.

in response to my having said:

> I consider the feature set and the panel
> layouts to be
> among the most elegant ever designed.

No basic disagreement here, except as to degree. I also owned a small Emu
modular, and was the tech for a huge one for 7 years in a Cincinnati
electronic music studio. You'll notice I was touting the ergonomics and
feature set, not the construction and sound.

Personally, I think the construction was better than anyone else was doing
at the time - nice cermet pots, almost all panel controls pcb mounted, a
useful normalling system, keyboard and sync signals distributed on the bus,
gorgeous brushed aluminum panels and solid aluminum Alco knobs. However, the
state of the art has advanced, and the MOTM pcbs and modern ICs are
certainly way ahead of what Emu could do.

As far as sound, we don't have any MOTM filters yet to compare, but we can
compare VCOs. I'm going by memory, since I haven't heard the Emu in a long
time. Nevertheless, I remember the Emu oscillators and filters as being very
clean sounding, kind of polite. I think the sound of the MOTM-300 is a lot
warmer and punchier, and the sawtooth sounds especially musical to me even
without filters. Add some aggressive Korg, Moog, and SEM filters and it will
be untouchable soundwise.

That's why the MOTM system rocks! We can grab all the coolest features from
synths of yore, add new features nobody has ever had, and have killer sound
to boot.

Looking forward to knocking out squirrels with a high-resonance 420,

Dave