MOTM

does this mean no more annual december sale? -nate

Paul Schreiber wrote:

> Just a quick update & schedule over the holiday season.
>
> We will be closed from Friday, Dec. 15th until Monday, Jan. 8th. Very
> little, if anything, will
> be shipped during this time. I can *assure you* I'm not going NEAR the post
> office after the 15th!!!!
>
> I plan to spend these hours & hours breadboarding and CADing MOTM modules.
> There may be some
> kitting as the Feb. NAMM issue of Electronic Musician street-date gets
> closer (NAMM is early,
> so they are telling me around Jan. 14th). There is a nice MOTM review in
> there :)
>
> Currently, the focus is on backlog reduction. Excluding the '101, there are
> 93 kits in current backlog
> along with 14 assembled modules. Right this very minute, it looks like the
> '300 won't make it out
> before Thanksgiving, but right after. Since there are more requests for
> '320s and '820s, these will go out
> ahead of the '300s.
>
> I will be able to get an official 1U mult price quote right after
> Thansgiving as well. I am having 100
> built up. I'm not even bagging the screws, this is full turnkey. So, the
> price I am expecting is $89, same
> as the '940. The timetable depends on when Switchcraft ships my jacks. The
> assembly house will take
> about 10 days. Dec. shipment probably won't happen (they are closed the same
> as I am).
>
> Speaking of the lovely machine/paint shop, the 1U/2U blanks I will pick up
> Monday. Seems everyone is at
> a trade show all week.
>
> If case everyone has forgotten, the modules planned (in no particular order)
> are:
>
> microVCO
> AC/DC Mixer
> SEM filter
> dual VCA/Pan/Fade
> Triple preamp (1U)
> Envelope Follower/Compressor
> VC'd Pulse Divider
> some 1U utility modules (need a RM)
> VC'd Phase Shifter (pretty complicated!)
> delayed Vibrato
>
> Suggestions for others are welcome! This list should keep me busy until
> April-May. I want to do some more
> vocal processing stuff as well.
>
> Thanks for choosing MOTM, and being patient while I juggle all these balls
> in the air! Onward to module
> #2500!
>
> Paul S.
>

Just a quick update & schedule over the holiday season.

We will be closed from Friday, Dec. 15th until Monday, Jan. 8th. Very
little, if anything, will
be shipped during this time. I can *assure you* I'm not going NEAR the post
office after the 15th!!!!

I plan to spend these hours & hours breadboarding and CADing MOTM modules.
There may be some
kitting as the Feb. NAMM issue of Electronic Musician street-date gets
closer (NAMM is early,
so they are telling me around Jan. 14th). There is a nice MOTM review in
there :)

Currently, the focus is on backlog reduction. Excluding the '101, there are
93 kits in current backlog
along with 14 assembled modules. Right this very minute, it looks like the
'300 won't make it out
before Thanksgiving, but right after. Since there are more requests for
'320s and '820s, these will go out
ahead of the '300s.

I will be able to get an official 1U mult price quote right after
Thansgiving as well. I am having 100
built up. I'm not even bagging the screws, this is full turnkey. So, the
price I am expecting is $89, same
as the '940. The timetable depends on when Switchcraft ships my jacks. The
assembly house will take
about 10 days. Dec. shipment probably won't happen (they are closed the same
as I am).

Speaking of the lovely machine/paint shop, the 1U/2U blanks I will pick up
Monday. Seems everyone is at
a trade show all week.

If case everyone has forgotten, the modules planned (in no particular order)
are:

microVCO
AC/DC Mixer
SEM filter
dual VCA/Pan/Fade
Triple preamp (1U)
Envelope Follower/Compressor
VC'd Pulse Divider
some 1U utility modules (need a RM)
VC'd Phase Shifter (pretty complicated!)
delayed Vibrato

Suggestions for others are welcome! This list should keep me busy until
April-May. I want to do some more
vocal processing stuff as well.

Thanks for choosing MOTM, and being patient while I juggle all these balls
in the air! Onward to module
#2500!

Paul S.

> does this mean no more annual december sale? -nate
> 
Shhhhhh.........

Paul S.

Paul,
Thanks for the updates - it's nice to be able to have some ideas about the
near future in shipping times, modules, ..., and some input for future
modules.
> 
> If case everyone has forgotten, the modules planned (in no particular order)
> are:
> 
> microVCO
This unit has my interest.  Would this be a 1U with, say, coarse, fine,
pulse width, pwm controls and 1v/oct in, pwm in, saw out, pulse out?  Or
maybe with a switch (squeezed in somewhere) to select different waveform
outputs? I for one would snatch at least 2 of these right off the
production line.

I'm not familiar with the SEM filter, but how about a lp/band/hp filter?
They are just good basic units to have in a system.

Just more $.02 thrown your way, Jeff

--- In motm@egroups.com, Jeffrey Pontius <jpont@k...> wrote:
> 
> I'm not familiar with the SEM filter, but how about a lp/band/hp 
filter?
> They are just good basic units to have in a system.
> 

For anyone who doesn't know, SEM is the Oberheim Synthesizer Expander 
Module, the earliest Oberheim product. You remember - those little 
white boxes that were designed to hook up to a MiniMoog to expand its
sounds, and later were mounted 4 to a box with a keyboard to become 
the Oberheim 4 Voice.

The filter in the SEM is exactly what you are asking for - a LP/BP/HP 
+ Notch filter, with a 2 pole (12db/oct slope) response. You can
smoothly change from one mode to another by turning a single knob. 
For a MOTM version, it sure would be cool to have voltage control of 
that knob ;>)

Moe

Thanks again, Dave.  You are a fountain of knowledge.
> 
> For anyone who doesn't know, SEM is the Oberheim Synthesizer Expander 
> Module, the earliest Oberheim product. You remember - those little 
> white boxes that were designed to hook up to a MiniMoog to expand its
> sounds, and later were mounted 4 to a box with a keyboard to become 
> the Oberheim 4 Voice.
Ok, yes. The first time I recall this unit was on Larry Fast's "Electronic
Realizations..." (just in awe when I first heard this album - still am).

> 
> The filter in the SEM is exactly what you are asking for - a LP/BP/HP 
> + Notch filter, with a 2 pole (12db/oct slope) response. You can
> smoothly change from one mode to another by turning a single knob. 
> For a MOTM version, it sure would be cool to have voltage control of 
> that knob ;>)
> 
I would think that smooth vc change of mode would be a good "motm
exclusive" and make this already useful module much more interesting.
Well, another 2U sucked up in my dwindling vacant motm spaces.

Thanks again for the clarification, Jeff

In a message dated 11/14/2000 9:40:19 PM, synth1@... writes:

>Envelope Follower/Compressor

Hmmm, strange choice for a dual module. I hope the EF will have a gate 
detector out too.

JB

Gate & Trig out.

Paul S.

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

From: <jwbarlow@...>
To: <motm@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] Update and Holiday Schedule


> 
> In a message dated 11/14/2000 9:40:19 PM, synth1@... writes:
> 
> >Envelope Follower/Compressor
> 
> Hmmm, strange choice for a dual module. I hope the EF will have a gate 
> detector out too.
> 
> JB
> 
> 
> 
>

You think so?  It seems to me that they go well hand in hand; a compressor
is basically a VCA + EF, right?

--PBr

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jwbarlow@... [SMTP:jwbarlow@...]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 16, 2000 6:48 PM
> To:	motm@egroups.com
> Subject:	Re: [motm] Update and Holiday Schedule
> 
> 
> In a message dated 11/14/2000 9:40:19 PM, synth1@... writes:
> 
> >Envelope Follower/Compressor
> 
> Hmmm, strange choice for a dual module. I hope the EF will have a gate 
> detector out too.
>

>You think so?  It seems to me that they go well hand in hand; a compressor
>is basically a VCA + EF, right?

And on a practical level, I find a touch of compression before an envelope
follower tends to smooth out anomalies in the envelope and make the EF more
useful. Is the MOTM capable of being patched this way? (I suspect yes)
>
>--PBr
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jwbarlow@... [SMTP:jwbarlow@...]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 6:48 PM
>> To:   motm@egroups.com
>> Subject:      Re: [motm] Update and Holiday Schedule
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 11/14/2000 9:40:19 PM, synth1@... writes:
>>
>> >Envelope Follower/Compressor
>>
>> Hmmm, strange choice for a dual module. I hope the EF will have a gate
>> detector out too.
>>
>

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