A few days ago I started a discussion about FFB and I'm afraid the
talk went too far beyond what I had expected, lots of interesting
considerations led us to talk about huge and highly expensive
vocoders, I was simply talking about FFB a la Moog and my simple
question in the end was: Is Paul planning a MOTM FFB? If yes I'll
wait patiently... if he is not I'll probably buy a .com when it comes
out. From a more technical point of view I think J. H.'s contributes
were absolutely appropriate and clarifying, I learnt a lot from his
couple of messages on this argument (thank you Jurgens!) Of course
I'm pointing out what I was expecting from this discussion just
because I was convinced that my couriousity was shared by other
people and my question posted to the list and to Paul might be
somehow useful to others as well. I do agree with the urgency of
releasing the dual VCA mostly because it was announced long ago and
also because many people are eagerly waiting for it, but it will get
dramatically urgent when the 110 won't be available any more and it
seems it should become unavail. from day to day but it never does.
All the best Enrico (Sicily)
--- In motm@y..., "Vehorn, Benjamin" <ben@a...> wrote:
> You would probably sell one or two but the fact there there are so
many vocoders on the market, new and old, analog and DSP, means you'd
have a lot of competition. IMO, this market is completely played out.
> I would definitely vote against it, considering the amount of time
Paul would have to spend on developing this. He could probably
develop and manufacture 8 or 10 new modules, soup to nuts, in the
timeframe it would take to get the vocoder into assembly. This is
just a guess, though, I'm sure Paul would have a better perspective.
While it's nice to talk about what is possible, I think Paul is
capable of designing a kick-ass version of anything he wants and
clamoring for more stuff just gets in the way of items already on the
drawing board. I'm still waiting on the dual VCA/pan/fade but it
seems to keep getting pushed back due to people making more noise
about other modules. This was supposed to be the next module a year
ago. And whatever happened to the preamp/envelope follower? I think
these would be far more useful than a vocoder, or even another filter
for that matter.
> If anyone is ∗really∗ jonesing for a super-high end vocoder, I've
got a Sennheiser I might consider selling for considerably less than
$15K.
> ---Ben
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@a...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:33 PM
> To: motm@y...; Simon
> Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Fixed Filter Bank
>
>
> Well, the Sennheiser goes for ~$15K. Mine would be about $6K. Is
that "affordable"??!?
>
> <Paul S>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon" <simon@a...>
> To: <motm@y...>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:58 PM
> Subject: [motm] Re: Fixed Filter Bank
>
>
> > > > The first time I talked to Paul when I placed my order for
my kits he
> > >> happened to mention plans for a vocoder modeled after the
famous and
> > >> rare sennheiser 20 band vocoder. What ever happened to this
great (yet
> > >> expensive) idea?
> >
> > >Couple days ago I was wondering which vocoder Les Rockets used
to get their
> > >warm but highly intelligible vocoder sounds.... Yeah, Senheiser
as it turns
> > >out.
> > >
> > >DO IT, PAUL! ...If only because I'm using a Nord Modular for a
vocoder at
> > >the moment, so I know you really want to give me a Synthtech
alternative!!!
> >
> >
> > Yes, please give us a 'real-man's' alternative to fake(dsp) and
small
> > keyboard based analog vocoders.
> >
> > I want lots of knobs, and control, with a great sound.
> >
> > The Sennheiser is just way too expensive, and there doesn't seem
to
> > be much else in that league, please give us an affordable
(compared
> > to the Sennheiser) alternative.
> >
> >
> > Simon
> > Canberra
> > AUSTRALIA
> >
> >
> >
> >
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