Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

Several have asked "Why is the 500 series not subscription?"

Well, the though was these are not 'mainstream' modules. These are designed
for specific types of sound.
Maybe the "subbers" will want them anyway :)

Since I'm tired of getting blasted for not being "weird enough" I thought
I'd do something about it. Wiard
has it's Wogglebug (I listened to the demos, laughed my ∗∗∗ off. This is
desired??!?). So I'm cooking up
COMPLETELY NEW, NEVER SEEN BEFORE modules. I don't even know if they are
"musically useful".
As most of you know, this has been my #1 goal with MOTM: to make modules
that are USEFUL.

R&D takes a LONG time. R&D time is 'taken away' from filling orders. This is
why I put in 18 hour days, 7 days
a week for the last 3 years. With NAMM coming up, my goal is to first
DEVELOP the new modules, not to pressure
myself to offer them for sale. It's a vicious cycle: I offer module X, which
then I get 60 orders to fill, which means
I can't them work on Y and Z because I have to ship Xs. I am lucky to have
talented folks as customers (I screen
my customers carefully! HA!) that I can 'farm out' some of the R&D.

So, in a way I am a victim of my own success. If sales were 2 to 3X, I could
have a 'real' business with fancy offices
and labs and a real copy machine. The reality is that the profit margin is
low (contrary to popular belief) and so
I must limp along. I am trying to increase the speed of the limp.

So relax, patch up some stuff, and wait for your CD to get there (sent 45
yesterday, 45 more today).

Paul S.