Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Modular Synth Panels

(sorry - long mess. probably OT - but what the hey - its pretty slow
around here anyways)

From Ken:
The main problem is format.
...Serge - now how useless would that be to 90% of builders?

Thanks for responding Ken! Yeah, I would imagine that this would be
the primary nightmare in trying to get a handle on the
possible 'market' out there. And perhaps I have tunnel vision from
being primarily MOTM-based, yet it does SEEM, at least, that gravity
is swaying that way...?!?! At least in the Western hemisphere....

You would definitely know better than I - and this may be more of a
USA trend - don't know - I'd ask Paul (and may sometime) but he seems
way too busy these days to even be bothered with this issue at this
point, which I totally understand. Yet he IS doing his 'own' panels,
and Larry is filling the other 'niche' quite adequately too. But
these efforts do seem to be what is driving MOTM to be a leader in
this DIY thing - don't you think? Along with some other things too,
without doubt.

And honestly - my thoughts along this line are based in part due to
my stubborn creative side (I am a composer/artist too)and I really
don't want to see MOTM become a "standard" - and I say this with huge
respect for Paul. But the MOTM legacy is quite obviously that of, or
at least was started by, Mr. Moog...?!?! right? And I guess no one
can knock that or would even try...

Maybe I'm just reading too much into what is, and should remain, a
strictly DIY thing. And perhaps panels are just a necessary evil
factor, or 'game' we have to play, in this synthDIY construction
world. I can live with that.

But Ken - and I really mean this as I do airbrush/graphics art stuff
too time permitting (and there ain't none of that these days...)- I
LOVE your panels with the hot little babes on them - that is really
creative one-of-a-kind work - and really a great marketing device too
perhaps..?

Plus I just love hot little babes! But thats the musician in me - I
think we can all excuse me for that, I pray - it's in the DNA at this
point...Obviously those designs would probably not be a thing for the
masses, etc...but...again, I always push towards the creative aspect
of things.

Who knows - maybe Shaeffer will drop their prices after another
100,000 of us get into building our synths...it could
happen...right?!?!?!? OK - now I'm just rambling here...

Lastly - I will send along some pictures to you privately that I've
been drawing (in CGS-land i.e.Computer Graphics Software, not the
esteemed CGS synth stuff!) of your boards and wiring them up, etc.
It's been helping me to learn the software primarily, and has also
made it WAY easier to comprehend and then assemble your circuits from
the 'barebones' approach of them...at least for this old dummy. And
my recent delving into stuffing all the pcbs I got from you awhile
ago, has lined-up with all this nicely now. You might be really
interested in them...maybe not. But at least check them out for
me....

I can only imagine that you would prefer NOT to be on the internet
answering questions like: "why is there only 1 IC in the schematic
and yet 3 on the pcb?", etc...as your style is obviously for the
slightly beyond beginner kind of person. Although this does go with
the territory, understood, I'm always looking to make this stuff more
comprehendable by "the masses" - so that more folks get into it!
This is good right?

Ok - I'll shut-up now - Thanks again!

Rog