motm or doepfer

[Paul Schreiber]

Here is the MOTM pitch (from the designer!).

1) It's in the quality. NO COMPROMISES at all in the design or parts. I use Spectrol pots: cermet elements
(lowest noise, lowest temperature coefficients), die-cast aluminum bushings, stainless steel shafts. These
pots will be quiet 15 years from now. The D. pots are carbon film, the typical 'cheap noisy pot'.

I DID NOT look in the catalogs for the lowest cost 100K pot I could find. I will let other people go down that path.

2) PC board. MOTM uses SMOBC (solder mask over bare copper) with a special solder mask called DuPont LPI.
The boards are easer to solder, which means more reliable solder joints. One look at these boards unstuffed
and you will instantly see the difference. Most of you have never seen an LPI board: you are in for quite
a treat.

3) Design. The MOTM designs are 'the best parts of the best circuits'. I myself have 25 years experience in analog
synthesizer design. The MOTM modules take the best ideas from all the past circuits. Plus some very interesting
new ones!

4) Choice of components. Here is where MOTM has ZERO COMPETITION. I use OP275GP op amps: they are
used in $4000 CD players. The capacitors are all metal film (polycarbonate or polypropylene). The front panels are 0.125 thich 3003-H14 aircraft aluminum. The mounting rails are 11ga (0.110 inch) steel.

The word 'flimsy' will NOT come up in MOTM conversations.

All jacks are Switchcraft 112A, new (not bought from some surplus place).

5) MOTM is not a 'mainstream' modular that my entire living (unlike Dieter!) is based on. Right now, this is me
sharing my designs with a limited audience. Hopefully, you will also LEARN SOMETHING putting the kits
together. Sure, I can offer then assembled. But nothing beats building it, holding your breath, and flipping the
power switch for the first time.

Believe me, this is NOT a 'money making venture'. Far from it. Hopefully, as I do more modules I can BREAK EVEN.
That's all I hope for.

Please feel free to ask such questions: a proud pappa likes to brag on the kids!

Paul Schreiber
Synthesis Technology


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From: 	gur milstein[SMTP:gur-m at internet-zahav.net]
Sent: 	Thursday, April 02, 1998 5:02 AM
To: 	synth-diy
Subject: 	motm or doepfer

helo every body.
i read the motm catalog and price list and i'm a litele bit confused,
how come the price's of the motm are higher then asembeld modules
frome doepfer.
for exemple the ring modulator frome doepfer cost 100DM which is about
80$us <1996 price about the same today>and the motm ring modulator kit is
about 130$us,
are the deferent is because of sound quality cv inputs or what ?

thanx
Gur Milstein